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""election echoes. The Battles of the Ballots iii the Various States. Flower Successful in New York and McKinley in Ohio. Fall elections have been held in fourteen States. Of these the chief interest centered in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa and Pennsylvania. In New York, Massachusetts and Iowa the Democrats elected . their candidates for Governor, and in Ohio and Pennsylvania the Republican State tickets were successful. The results, as indicated by dispatches on the day that this side of our paper went to press, were as follows: New York. The latest returns from New York State showed 'the election of the entire Democratic State ticket by pluralities averaging 43,446. Sheeban, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, ran behind his associates at sundry points. His plurality KOSWELL P. FLOWER. was estimated at 110,241. New York City alone failed to ulfil the hopes of the most enthusiastic Democrats, its majority fallinir far h?lnw that (riven for Gov eruor Hill in 1888. New York City gave Flower 68,290 plurality over Fassett. The Democrats in New York City elected their Assemblymen in twenty districts. In the Seventh Assembly District Alfred R. Conkling, Republican, is elected; Fred. 8. GibbF, of the same political faith, is defeated in the Thirteenth District, and James L. Wells, Republican, in the Twenty-fourth. Senator Roesch, Tammany, is re-elected in the Seventh District. The Assembly will be close. The Republicans win Assembly men in Kings, Westchester, Dutchess, Wayne and Delaware Counties; the Democrats in Jefferson and Stenben?one in each county. For Congress Bourke Cockran is elected in the Tenth District to succeed the late Francis B. Spinola. Joseph J. Little to succeed Koswell P. Flower in the Twelfth. Alfred C. Chapin is elected to succeed David A. Boody in the Second District, all Democrats. Nehemiah M. Curtis, Republican, succeeds Congressman Russell in the Twentysecond District, comprising the counties of Jefferson and St. Lawrence. *.t i WILLIAM H'EIN'LEY. The tjpnato will be i ttteen Democrats and . teen Republicans. Tne Assembly was estimated to be sixty-five Democrats and Pormhlipqns TVlA "Now "TVirk del? WA^-WUICV gation will consist or twenty Tammany men, one County Democrat and three Republ.'cans. The Kings County delegation will be composed of nine Democrats and three Republicans. Brooklyn e.ects Boody Mayor by about COO majority. Mayor Cbapin was elected to Congress to succeed Mr. Boody, who feV;'- . resigned to become the Democratic candiadate tor Mayor of Brooklyn. Among trie defeated Republican Senators is Commodore P. Vedder, who for several terms has represented the district formed by Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties. His Victorious competitor is James T. Edward, the head of the Farmers' Alliance in New York State. MassacntMerts. The Democrats carried Massachusetts, reelecting Governor Russell by about 7000 pluralitv. There were three State tickets in the held in addition to the two leading ones, namely, the Prohibition, headed by Charles E. Kimball; the People's, headed by Henry "W inn, and the Socialistic-Labor, headed by H. W. Robinson. The people ballotted for eight Executive Councilors and a full Legis lature, and votea aiso on iwo amendments to the C'onstituton. A dispatch says: Up to 11 o'clock the returns from the country towns show an average gain o? fiiteen for Allen. Governor Russell appeal's to be holding his own in the cities. On this basis his plurality of 9053 a year ago will be reduced to between 7000 and 8000. The returns are coming in much slower than last year, on account of the new law regulating the counting. The Republicans will probably bold the other State offices. Governor Russell ran fully 14,000 votes ahead ot his ticset. The Republicans have carried the Senate and House. The present returns give the Republicans twenty-foui and the Democrats sixteen in the Senate There are sure to be two contests for seat! which are now given to Republicans, and il the Democrats win the standing will be Republicans 22, Democrats 18. The Republi cans have made gains in the House, and wil have a majority of about 60. Ohio. A telegram from Cleveland, Ohio, states The returns at midnight showed the election of William McKinley for Governor bv a majority estimated at anywhere from 15,000 tci 18,000. The new ballot law, applied for the first time operated satisfactorily, but the returns are obtained less promptly than under the old and well understood method. In Cuyahoga County McKinley fell ofF. The Indications from the country precincts in four counties show gains for McKinley in the country. and a majority, on the basis of the gains, of 15,000 to 18,000. The new ballot law worked very satisfactorily, At midnight Governor Campbell conceded McKinley's election by 15,000. Hie return* from about one-tenth of the State, outside Hamilton Couuty, show a net gain for McKinley of 10r?3, with Hamilton County not less than 7000 Reoublimn. T.iis would give McKinley over 1^,000 plurality, The returns 3how that the Republicans have carried both branches of the Legi ature by good working majorities. The People's party has cut no figure in the State ficrht. Chairman iSeal. of the Democratic Executive Committer, concedes the election of both McKinley and a Republican Legislature. The Republicans will have about thirty-six majority on joint ballot in the Ohio Legislature. The Senate will stand: Republican?, eighteen; Democrats, thirteen. Ulie Democrats are claiming the Governor but the Republicans are still confident, that the country townships will help them o uf. The rest of the Republican ticket, it is believed, is elected, as Wheeler is running behind his ticket. The Republicans claim the Legislature. Governor Boies's majority will be about 9000, with the rest of the ticket very close behind him. Later returns leave the Legislature very close. The Lower . > -v.-.- - . ' House?Republicans, sixty-sever.,- Democrats, thirty-six; doubtful, four. * 1 t Iowa A dispatch from Des Moine?, Iowa, received tne day after the election says: the returns show the re-election of Governor Boies, Democrat, by an increased plurality over that received by him two years ago. This result has been obtained by an in creased majority in tne strong i?emocranc counties on the Mississippi and on the Missouri slope, where it was supposed the Democratic high-water mark was reached two years ago. Gains are also reported from the interior.. It is probable the entire Democratic State ticket is elected. No definite returns have been received concerning the complexion of the Legislature. House of the Legislature may be Republican by a small majority and the Senate a tie. Pon;i83'lvatiia. A late dispatch from Philadelphia on the morning after election says: Pennsylvania has reversed her 17,000 majority for a Democratic Governor of a year ago for Robert E. Pattison, and has gone Republican by what looks at this writing like figures rising 60,. 000. Philadelphia is also swept bv the same party with a raaj'ority of 20,000 for the " head of the St=.te ticket and 15,000 for the head of the city ticket. General David McM. Gregg, of Berks County, will be the next Auditor General; Captain John W. Morrison, of Allegheny, State Treasurer: George D. McCreary, CityTreasurer, and William Z. Shield, Register of Wills. Those defeated in the above order are Robert E. Wright and A. L. Tilden, W. Redwood Wright and Theo. F. Jenkins. The proposition for holding a constitutional convention is overwhelmingly defeated. New Jersey. The election in New Jersey was the quiet ?st that has ever been held in that State. The vote was very light, except in a few districts where local issues or factional fights wrought out the full party strength. Sea* ators were elected in Burlington. Cape May, Hudson, Hunterdon. Middlesex, Passaic and Sussex Counties, and in each of the sixty Assembly Districts. The Republicans gain * Senator in Passaic County and the Democrats in Cape May. The returns of the election in Hudson County, ' although incomplete, showed that the Democrats have elected the entire county ticket and carried ten of the eleven Assembly Districts. At midnight, after the election, the indications were that the next Senate would stand sixteen Democrats and five Re* publicans, and the House of Assembly fortythree Democrats and seventeen Republicans. This will give the Democrats a majority on joint ballot of thirty-seven votes. Kausas. Ten District Judges were voted for in Kansas, and in each of the eighteen counties I the following officers: Treasurer, Clerk, Sheriff, Register of Deeds, Surveyor, Cor -> r< i~l micinnAti r?<x_ I oner ttuu UIIO UUUUUJ VUUHUIMIVUW I */%ri spatches from various counties in Kansas snow that the Alliance did not hold its own. The counties show almost invariably Republican victories or Republican gains. In the country the Republicans appear to have regained their foothold, while in the cities the Alliance has made slight gains. In the Judicial Districts tha returns at hand indicate that the Alliance met wholesale defeat. The Republicans and Democrats combined against the Alliance candidates. Of the ten District Judges to be elected, the Repubiij can have probably elected eight. Virginia. The election in Virginia was unexciting, being for members of the lower House and half of the Senate. The Republicans mads nominations in a few counties only. The Farmers' Alliance, as such, made no fight, though about one-third of the lower House wiil be composed of Democrats who are members oi the Alliance. The returns are all favorable to the Democrats. Indeed, not a single county in the State, as far as heard from, shows the election of a Republican or Independent. The Democrats will have thirty-eight members of the Senate, Republicans only two, and the Independents none. In the House of Delegates the Democrats will have far more than two-thirds and may hare seven-eights of the 100 members elected to that body. Mississippi. The election in Mississippi was quiet, a light vote being polled in consequence of the new Constitution and Election law. The only Stats officers chosen were Railroad Commissioners, the Democratic can -- r p o?.uM. diaates, waiter -ncu-auriu, ?. j.-. o??uu9, and J. H. Askew, being elected without opposition. District and county officers and members of the Legislature chosen are nearly unanimously Democratic. But a single Republican member of the Legislature was elooted, and four or five Independents. The vote was but little over half the average. Nebraska. By thp fusion of Republicans and Democrats in Nebraska the Farmers' Alliance has been overwhelmingly defeated. Their vote is said to have disappeared almost entirely. Few returns have been received from over the State, but what are now in would indicate that Po6t, Republican, is running slightly ahead of his ticket for Supreme Court Judge. Post u elected by 6000 majority. The entire ReSublican city and county ticket is elected in maha by majorities ranging from 200 tc 2500.. Maryland. t*? mttt-wlond the Democrats are victorious | by their usual largo majority. Frank Brown is elected Governor over Vannort by nearly 20,000 plurality, and the Democrats have elected twenty of the twenty-six Senators and at least seventy of the ninety-one members of the lower branch of the Legislature. The Legislature is important because it elects two United States Senators. Michigan. Estimates based on returns thus far received give the Republicans a sweeping majority in Michigan. Belknap, Republican candidate in the Vth Congress District, was 1 | returned by from 1300 to 1500 majority. > I I la lr/\? n OUUI U Ayun.u? U. Returns from tlfty precincts in South Dakota show that JohinL. Jolloy, Republican candidate for Congress, leacls both of ; his competitors, J. M. Wood (Democrat) md W. H. Smith (Independent). He will probablv be elected. Late returns show 1 that Jolley, Republican, was elected Con( pressman. Mr. Jollev's plurality was 4000. Colorado. . Partial returns from fifteen precincts in! \ the counties out of 153 give the straight Re| publicans a majority of 10.00J in Colorado, f Reports received from various parts of the . 3tate indicate that the election passed off . quietly, aud in many places a mixed ticket j was chosen. Thomas C. Helm, Republican, was elected Chief Justice of the "SuDrerne Court in Colorado. Out of the fifty-five counties the Republicans elect their county tickets in tortv-eight, the Democrats in four, ind the Alliance in tnree. The city of Denver is Republican by 3000. The Australian ballot, in use for the first time in the State, 1 worked satisfactorily to all parties. TEN THOUSAND KILLED. Over Twenty-three Thousand Houses , Shaken Down In Japan. > A private dispatch received from Japan says that the loss of life by the recent earth[ quake which shook tho Island of Hondo ; and other places :'s estimated to be very 1 great. Over 2000 persons were killed and about 18.000 houses were destroyed in tha Provinca or Nagoya, on the Island of Hondo, the capi' tal of which is Xegoyo, a city ot 130,000 m1 habitant?-. In addition to the foregoing 5009 houses > were destroyed and 5000 persons were killei 1 by the earthquake at (iifu. The towns of Kano and Kasamatsu were ulso reported to have bsea destroj-ed, together with fifty mi.es of railroad. It is presu ued that the lire which starte 1 1 among the wrecked buildings at -Nagoyu may have had a great deal to do with th*j great loss of life. As the loss of life at Kano and Kasamatsu was not mentioned, an l as these towns were said to have been destroyeJ, it was estimated that the total loss cf life might eventually be shown to be over 10,000. XiAFCADIO HBARi?,thb author (5TTTesCTn(I!a romances and a former resident of Cincinnati, is now professor of a college in Japan and the husband of a Japanese damsel. t % mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmaammmmmmmmmmmms conyictTrmsi. ' Tennessee Stockades Burned and 360 Felons Freed. t>ur rtrc tion The Pnson Guards Overwhelmed 9f^ by a Mob of Miners. *go T foU! The Tennessee convicts employed in the Jve mines of the Tennessee Mining Company and city ho Knorville Iron Comnanv. at Briceville T and Coal Creek, were libei ated a few nights ago by the free miners, and the stockades in aar which the convicts were confined were tela burned to the ground. an<^ The guards in charge of the stoclrade3 saw sev< that the free miners were in overwhelmning H force and made no show of resistance, so tsla that the raid was not attende i with lighting at t or bloodshed. He Not the least hint had been received at of Briceville or Coal Creak that the miners c intended any aggressive movement. Af- y., ter the courts had decided that the the lease of the convicts was legal and ey0 the State authorities announced that the law e^g would be upheld at all hazards, the Miners' Da< Committee, which had represented the dis- eau satisfied elements since the July outbreaks and which had pledged their words that there would be no resort to violence, called a meeting of the miners, gave a full account of I what had been done and disbanded. Gei They urged the miners to refrain from Iai violence and accept the decree of the courts, ,the depending oja their power at the polls to cor- j c rect the evil. This advice was taken, ap- reie parently in good part. me. The first intimation that there was anything out of the common going on in tha . nama rehon if nrac . UllUlUg tCgiVU vaiuw ? MVU ? t.Mw . ? -? __ _ that the telegraph wires between Coal Creole g and Offutts station and between Offutts and _ Clinton had been cut Sh Shortly afterward a series of signal fires , were seen in various places among the mountains. Hardly had the signal fires . .. been lighted when the miners began to gather at Briceville. They came in little _ I parties from all the surrounding hamlets ^ and settlements. Every man had his rifle, | I and many were armed with revolvers in ad- Br< dition. q Within an hour fully two thousand men had gathered in Briceville, and the advance " was made on the convict stockade of the jjwj Tennessee Mining Company at that place. rjT When the stockade was reached the lead- ? ers of the mob called for the Warden and in- . formed him that they had come to release the convicts and that if the guard resisted they would do so at their peril. While the leaders were parleying with the j Warden another party of the rioters placed ton a heavy charge of dynamite under a portion 0Q of the stockade and the conference at the gate was terminated by an explosion which t blew a great hole in the outer wall af the ? stockade This was the signal for a volley of rifle 0j . shots, but they were all fired in the air and ^ nobody was hurt. Hundreds of the rioters rushed into the breach, and in a few mnutes the stockade 1 was in their bands. Convicts and guards sur were ordered out at the point of the rifle, to and they came. . J Then followed a scene almost indescribabl ?. his The convicts were wrought up into a state Spi of intense excitement. As they came oat of he the breach in the walls of the stockade they ov< were halted and each man was ordered to era remove the striped convict uniforms. In its 15,' I place he was given a suit of citizen's clothes, pre j of which the miners had brought an im- , , mens* quantity. . i As the convicts made the change of clothes i they were beaded for the North Carolina , ana Kentucky borders and ordered to leave p at once. The guards were not interfered ^ with. Inc After the stockade had been cleared of all K?c its inmates the torch was applied in many W* places and it was soon enveloped in flames. nic A guard was left to see that no attempt was 8^? made to quench tho flames, and the main as i bodv of rioters started tor Coal Creak. ma | The worn at Coal Creek was simply a repetition of that done at Briceville. * The TV nruen was called out and informed that, the convicts were to be released He saw * that there was no chance for a successful ?* resistance and surrendered. The con- 1 ! victs were marched out, their convict strip js nal changed for less conspicuous raiment and S"C they were toid to leave the State as quiclciy i] as possible. They lost no time in doing so. mo Then the stockade was fired and destroyed. ^ After the destruction of the stockade an vo1 ' attack was made by the liberated convicts . on the company store, which is run by Captain Chumlev, formerly superintendent of convicts. There was about $1000 worth of ian goods in the store, consisting of a general stock. The convicts toox as much of this as I | they could and destroyed the balance. yet The total number of convicts released was Ca ' ftp'* ^r 1i41 waha of Pnincvilla onrl 9/lU in i I O0U| Ul VUCCD 111 UCiO uu x/i <vv t tuw mum WW , I at Coal CreeK. Trainmen who passed v i through the coal regions next day say that ^ ; they saw large numbers of convicts making ^ | their way towards the Kentucky line. They . I marched along the roads in Bmall parties openly, and do not appear to be in fear of ~ being arrested Nothing was done looking to the re-arrest ff; of the liberated men beyond notifying the uc Kentucky and North Carolina authorii nes of <|u their escape and requesting them to be on Au the lookout for them Pr{ Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has offered a reward ot $3000 for the arrest and conviction of the Briceville mob. I 31ore Convicts Freed. The Tennessee mountaineers have fulfilled Pei their threats. The last convict is gone from j^a the Waldern's Range region. The stockades are destroyed. After freeing the con victs at Briceville and Coal Creek, the mob len of miners marched to the convict stockade iQs! at the Big Mountain mine, five miles north of . . Oliver Springs. There were 105 convicts confined there, all of whom were liberated. wh Thus all the Tennessee stockades are dis* j mantled or burned, and more than 450 desnornrinna roam the mountains and valleys of Yorthaastern Tennessee and Kentucky. to hai PROMINENT PEOPLE, to Coi Parnell Iert no formal wilL q The Sultan of Turkey la now about fifty years of age. Tennyson has just written a comedy at the age of eighty-two. C The German Emperor gets up at four Stf o'clock in the morning. p0 Lord Salisbury and Mr. Blaine were Ya both newspaper men in their youth. Gladstone delivered his virgin speech on July 3, 1S33. It was a patriotic oration. C. B. Koutze disputes with ex-Senatjoi 1 Tabor the claim of being tho richest man in 111. Colorado. we Siegfried Wagner, the daughter of , Richard Wagner, and granddaughter of k .Liszt, shows no taleutfor music. drc Russell Sage, the Wall street financier, frc was a clerk. He learned frugality in his mi brother's grocery store at Troy, New York. T. P. O'Connor was asked ou a Friday to write a short biography of Parnell, and he handed in his work of 15,000 words on Sat* wa urday. bei Ex-Governor "Bob" Taylor, of Tea- ? nessee, who fiddled his way into the Governor's cbair, is to deliver a hundred lectures sip in Southern cities ou "The Fiddle and the' Bow." J De In the last letter received from Robert Louis Stevenson, that wandering novelist crf said that he was tired of Samoa, and that he 81( intended to return to England a few months hence. The thirty-second anniversary of the birth 1D^ of Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, ] was celebrated a few days a^o. When he ' came to offer his congratulations, the Em- j , | peror, to the surprise and delight of the Em- 31 i press, presented himself to her clean shaven, gr ' except for his mustache. He Governor Boies, of Iowa, is a broad shouldered man of sixty-four years. He has i a ruddy, smooth shaven face, a hearty man- th | ner and a pleasing voice. He is a nat:ve of fif j the State of New Fork, and, li^e the rejiula- i ^ tion poor boy in search of fortune, started W?8t with only a few cents in hie Docket. ac ? ag The death of Lieutenant-Colonel Howlett, is a retired officer of the British Arm}-, is announced. He was over ninety year j of age and one of the very few surviving offi- of cers who fought at the battle of Waterloo, ijt June IS. 18L5. Mexican soldiers are causing a reign of P terror along the Rio Grande by their sum- , ttJ ' mary executions of suspected revolutionists. th Bi CHE NEWS EPITOMIZED, j Eastern and Middle States. [ore than half the business portion of iton, Hunterdon County, N. J., was . ned. In all nineteen buildings were de use stockade burned. A battle has tauen ; ce between guards and miners. lt Cairo, I1L, a raaa named Hoatline havbecome jealous of his sweetheart, Miss rmarvnet her on the road in the evening I taxed her with having other admirers, j remonstrated with him, when he placed fie to her ear and blew off her head. He n turned the rifle to his own head and dead beside his victim. 'raxbik fires are causing serious damage Nebraska, they being beyond control. *ee Hugiie?, colored, has been hanged at mham, Texas, for the murder of his wife. rOLD has been found on the banks of the isouri River at Kansas City, Mo., 117 feet ow the suriace, whil? boring to locate a 1 of rocks, under which to tunnel the er. he water in Lake Michigan has fallen so as to alarm the peopia?o? Chicago, 111. Washington. 'edko Montt, representative at Washing* i, of the Junta de Govierao of Chili, called Secretary Blaine with a despatch from Government assuring: him that an invest!ion was being made of the outrage in lparaiso. The impression created by ite ms were unfavorable. Commodore Walkei the White Squadron held a long consultai with the .President, Secretary Tracy 1 Secretary Blaine. 'he Government has ordered a geologica vey of the State of Washington, in order definitely ascertain its mineral resources. Ldjutant-^ejteral Kelton has made annual report to the Secretory of War. >aking of tfce growth of military colleges, savs the average number of students* ir fifteen yeara-of age attending th9 uev1 universities and colleges named was ri7, or 4000 more than reported in the j ivious year. i. moptms wm rowirpd in Wash i nc+on I ivring the brutal treatment of the Balti- , re's sailors at Valparaiso by the Chilian | ice. I L trial of armor plates was made at I lian Head, the site of the navy proving i mnds, about twenty-five miles below ishington, on the Potomac River. Plain ; kel steel is still ahead; but all the platea ' wed that they could staud at lea3t : I much pounding as could the best that are de abroad. Foreign* Australia is suffering from an epidemic influenza. L French medical officer and eight of the tive soldiers forming his escort were masred by native bandits in Madagascar. ["he French Senate has agreed to the reval of the prohibition upon the importaa of American salt pork. It has also bed in favor of the imposition of a duty of upon that article of food. Jandringham Hall, near London, Engid, a residence or the Prince of Wales, was rtially destroyed by fire. 'our boys, between twelve and flfteeu its old, were drowned at Midland, nada, through the upsetting of a sail boat a squall. 5mall-pox seems to be epidemio in Quei, Canada. Clergymen read a pastoral jing everybody to oe vaccinated. Jotted States Miotsteh Phelps gave a iner in Berlin to a number of German nojilities an i their wives, including Dr. guel, Minister of Finance, aud Dr. Boether, Secretary of the Interior. The banat included bacon and corn bread from erica. All the German guest3 united in use of the corn bread. latee'uews. 'reeholders Mullen and McGinnes, of County Board, were struck by a fast insylvania train while driving across the rketstreet Crossing, in Newark, N. J. 3 carriage was smashed to flinders. Mulwas burled a distance of thirty feet and tantly killed, and McGinnes had a leg en off. He was removed to the hospital, ere he died that night. )estructive forest fires raged in the nnecticut woods, extending from Wilton New Canaan. Several hundred acres re been burned over, doing a great oant of damage. An extensive forest > burned for two days in East Concord, an., doing much damage. 'he failure of the Maverick Bank has ised a run on the Five Cents SaviDgs nk of Boston, Mass. Captain Arthur R. Yates, United ites Navy, died of heart disease at the rtsmouth (N< H.) Navy Yard. Captain ites was commandant of the Portsmouth rd, where he had beau stationed a little n Trnar 'i o uuau a j oiu | iV'illiaii Cox and his son of Wapella, , attempted to deepen an old well. Both t re overcotne by gas and died. Six persons, including the captain,'were 1 >wned when the British ship Strathblanc, J >m Honolulu, went ashore twenty-five j les north of Astoria, Oregon. Sx-Governor Albert S. Marks, of j shville, Tetin., tfied a few days ago. He ; s born in Daviess County, Ky., on Octo 10, 183?. ["he .Republicans won a sweeping munfal victory in Chicago, 111. \ statement prepared at the Treasury partment shows that there was a net itf;ase in circulation during October of $33, ),125, and a net increase of $9,182,403 in 5 money and bullion in the Treasury dur; the same period. Notices of intention to contest ihe right the seats of six members-elect to the House j Representatives in the Fifty-second Cod- j ess have been filed with tha clerk of the j >use. I Advices from Yokohama, Japan, say at by ttie violent storm of September j ty-two lives were lost and thirty-seven j indred bouses damaged. Seven hundred id eighty vessels were sunk. Great datr- j ;e was done to crons. The loss to property j estimated at ?1,000,000. A dispatch from Rio Janerio, the capital Brazil, brings news of what seems to hj tie less than another revolution. Congres.' 3 been dissolved and martial law has been oclaimedat Rio Janeiro and throughout e provinces. The dispatch also announces , at a dictatorship has besn established in axil. yed and fourteen families were maae leless. The total loss will reach f 100,0'JO. ICHOLA.S P. AP0LLONlo,City Registratar Joston, Mass., since 1854, died a few days J , aged seventy-five. he Grand Jury at Philadelphia, Penn., ad three bills of indictment against the suspended mercantile appraisers of that HE British steamer Smeaton Tower, | n Mayaguez, brought to the Port of New k the two survivors of the Swedish 1 lc Mora, which was wrecked on the j nd of Mona on August 22. The captain the remainder of the crew, nu mbering 1 jn, went down with the wreck. . A. P. Carter, Min ster from Hawaiian < nds to Washington, died of heart disease i he EveretJ House in New York City. < was born in Honolulu on August 7, 1837, i American parents. < hief ok Police Dagwell, of Utica, N. J called Special City Judsje Gaffney from ' honoh nnH assaulted him. blackeninz his i \ and inflicting other injuries. The knowl- ! e that the Judge was to serve papers on jwell for criminal assault is saia to nave J sed the attack. * i < South and West. 1 ikputt United States Marshal j 3roe Wise and C. Garcia were killed at -edo, Texas, by Francisco Flores, whom < y were trying to arrest for smuggling. < >ne hundred and fifty convicts were ! >ased at Briceville, Tenn., and the im- ' 30TT0N STEAMER BUM). rhe Olirer Beirne Destroyed on the Mississippi. Nearly a Score of Pjassene;er8 and Deckhands rerun. The steamboat Oliver Beirne, from St. Louis, was burned to the water's edge at MilJiken's Bend, twenty-five miles above 7icksburg, Misc., shortly after 3 o'clock a few days ago, and twelve lives were known to have been lost. The cargo consisted of about 700 bales of :otton and 100 tons of freight. The boat ind cargo are a total loss. She had about jighty deck and twenty cabin passengers. It ivas difficult on the day after the tragedy to iscertain the loss of life, the several reports iiffering as to the exact number. Conservative estimates are that twenty were lost. The following are known to tiave been among those who perished; Mrs. WaddelJ, an elderly lady of New Or-' leans; Sam Entricken, son of the clerk; two laughters of Dr. Worrell, of Baton Rouge; i chambermaid, a daughter of Mrs. Adams, if Omaha; a barber, a second cook, a pantryman, five cabin boys and two white levee laborers. -TVi lost nearlv everything they had in the way of clothing ind baggage, many leaving the burning boat in their night-clothes and bare feet, fhere was quite a number of narrow 63lapes. Captain Thorwegian was the last to leave the boat, having to slide down a guy rod from the upper deck. Pilot Massie made bis escape by passing through tha flames to the stern of the boat and jumping into the river. He was severely burned. The mate iisplayed hi3 bravery by letting himself Jown by a rope, holding a little child by the slotbing. The bodies of the pantryman, tha baker, the chambermaid and Miss Adams lave been recovered. Most of the passengers and crew were jsleep when the alarm of fire was sounded, ind before any one was awake the boat was iflame. 'fhe blaza originated on the lower deck, from what cause is not known, and comma* aicating to the dry cotton was soon horning with great fierceness. The crew of the boat were aroused, and, with the passengers who rrere awake, gave the alarm to those who were asleen. A rush was immediately made for the forward part of the boat and many got off in safety, but that avenue of escape and others were soon cut off and the nnfortuuate pasjengers and crew were forced to plunge into the water. Chief Engineer Ed. Bird launched the pawl of the boat, and he, with other men, succeeded in picking up many of the stru sailing unfortunates in the water. Some, however, were beyond reach and were either burned to death or sank beneath the waters to rise no more. The alarm was communicated to the people of Milliken's Bend, and the bank of the * ? ? nifh fKo villatrupfl river was wuu uvmiou ?i?u ..?a?, who assisted in the work of rescue and Hospitably threw open their homes to the survivors. The lire spread so rapidly that the escaping crew and passengers were unable to save any of their goods, which were completely destroyed, together with the furnishings and effects of the boat. The Beirne burned rapidly from the time the Bre was first discovered, and in less than an hour after the alarm was given nothing remained but a wreck. The cotton fell from the sides of the boat, and, still blazing, floated down the river, much of it being picked up by people liring along the banks of the stream. The steamer Oliver Beirne was a pew and handsome passenger boat and was built at Jeffersonville, Mo., four years aga She has been used in the excursion traffic on the Missouri River for the past two summers, and riurinz the winter she has plied between local points at the lower end of the Mississippi, and was owned by the Planters and Merchants? Packet Company of New Orleans. She was fully insured. The boat coat over 9100,000. At the time she burned she was valued at ?6L66ti. A SCORE KILLED, Horrifying-Accident at the Bf?Ana> conda Mine. Tho worst mining accident of the yeai tools place at the Anaconda mine, Butte City, Montana, a few mornings ago, when nineteen miners were killed on & cage coming up. The cage had just come up full of miners leaving *work, and nineteen others started to descend in it. The rope had been unwound but a couple of times from the slowly revolving windlass when there was a sudden snap, and a cry of horror rose from the shaft in which the ca^e had but a moment before disappeared. 1 he rope had broken and tin cage, with its ninotaan inmates, was precipitated to the bottom of the mine. It was some little time before any assistance could be sent them. The shaft down which they had plunged to death was useless, and other ways of getting at the place where they had fallen were roundabout. Fortunately there was some help for the dead and dying men in the mine Itself. A number of miners were at the bottom of the shaft waiting for the cage to take tbem out. Admist them, narrowly missing some, the cage dashed. It broke, and before their eyes were the mangled bodies of the companions whom they were awaiting. Of the nineteen who made the fearful ride, seventeen were dead, their forms crushed out of all semblance to those of human be in gs, while the two who were yet breathing had no hopes of recovery. The Anaconda mine is the biggest in Montana. It employs 400 men and was reopened, after a lonz closing:. October 23. THE LABOE WORLD. Boston waiters held a banquet. Chicago has 30,000 unemployed. French bakers prefer our flour. English seamen want eight hour*. New York has a drug clerk's union. New York: has an Italian Stone juasonio i Union. Key West, FJa., has 4000 idle cigarmakers Boston has an Anti-Tenement House League. ? New York Citt has twenty-five labor singing societies. \5ienna (Austria) painters run an apprentices' school. Liverpool (England) sailmakers oppos* i sewing machines. In Japan every workman has his employer':! name on his cap. Chief Arthur, of the B. L. E., was an engineer twenty years. Twelve thousand people are engaged In making corks in Spain. Carnegie's mills at Pittsburg, Penn., are dropping natural gas and using coal for fuel Abundance of non-union labor is fast making a failure of the dock laborers' strike in London. The carpenters of London have resumed work after a ?trike lasting six months and costing $250,000. ' The master glass blowers in Paris, France, bave determined not to concede the demands of their striking employe*. Servant girls in California receive on an average $25 per month. Nurse girls are paid from $15 to $20 and good co-iirs from $50 upward. . A COMMITTEE of Tra.le and Labor Assembly reports that girls from eleven years ,old upward are working in the sweat shops of Chicago fourteen and sixteen hours a day, for wages ranging from SI to a week. At a union niei-tiu* of rlr> Brotlierhool of Locomotive Kiigiueeiv, the Order of Railroad Conductors, and the drotherhoo I of Railroad Trainmen held at Sedalia, Mo., a com- j mittee was appointed to arrange for a meeting with a view of federating all employes ' of the Missouri and Pacific systems. The Siberian Exile petition to be swit to the Czar from Philadelphia, urging him to make Russian penal punishment less rigorous, will weigh several hundred pounds, contains 500.000 names, and if the she9ts were pasted together would stretch out two and three-quarter mile3. . " ; .. - . PLANT LIFE, THE INFLUE NOE OF ELECTRICITY UPON VEGETATION. Probabilities That Market Gardeners May Profitably Use the Mysterious Current?The Electric Light Accelerates Maturity. A few months ago we described some of the experiments by which CeU in France, Lem&trom in Finland, and s Spechneff in Southern Russia have shown 8 how great an influence may be exerted upon plant life by electricity, and suggested that eventually it might be possible for market gardeners to use the electric current profitably. In those experiments the electric current was applied to the seeds, the soil in which the plants were growing, and the air immediately above the surface of the soil, but it does not appear that the influence of the electric light upon vegetation was the subject of inquiry. It is now reported fKaf a rrtorlrof rrarrlpnpr in thff fnwn nf Arlington, Mass., named Rawson, has i become convinced that he can use the ( electric light to advantage. The re- ( suits of his experiments are not wholly * in accord with those of similiar experi- 1 uients made at Cornell University, but 1 they certainly deserve to be noticed. In * 1889 the towa began to use electric lights in the streets, and one of these ' lights was set up near his house and in a ' place where its ray3 fell upon several J beds of flowers whose growth had never ' been satisfactory to the gardener. These ' plants soon began to thrive and to grow ; rapidly and vigorously. Believing that ' the electric light was the cause of ' this change, the gardener set up ' lights of the same kind in his 1 large hothouses, where cucumbers acd lettuce were produced in the cold season. 1 In the winter of 1889-90 he proved to ' his own satisfaction, we are told, that he ' could raise a larger crop of lettuce in a ! time with the help of the electric light; ; that the quality was better than before, ] and that his profits were larger by twen ty-five per cent. He found the arc lights more effective than the incandescent 1 burners. Last winter he failed to obtain the necessary lights, and for this reason could not continue his experiment, but he intends to resume the investigation in the coming winter months. The experiments at Cornell University were made in a forcing house jdivided by a board partition, one-half* l>eing subjected to natural conditions of light and darkness and the other receiving sunlight by day and electric light during the whole or a part of the night. The results are described in the Eledncal Ervji neer. The general effect of the electric light applied during the entire night was to hasten maturity, especially in the case of lettuce, spinach, and similar plants, which even ran to seed before edible leaves were formed. Growth so accelerated could scarcely be profitable in a market garden. Plants within five feet of the lamp died soon after they came out of the soil. Radishes within six feet we're nearly dead at the end of six weeks. Our readers may remember that by apylying the electric current to the seeds and afterward to the soil, Spechneff caused radishes to grow seventeen inches long and five and a half inches in diameter. Entire crops in the normal half of the Cornell forcing houso were about twice as great as those in the half exposed to the electrtc light. When the light was inclosed in a globe of white "opal" glass, the effect of it upon the plants was softened, but was still injurious,except with respect to lettuce, the condition of which was improved. Experiments with flowers showed that the colors of tulips were mada deeper and richer for a few days,although afterward this exceptional intensity was lost. Verbena flowers growing near the electric light were uniformly injured; the 1 ? ?-?- ?tii/vsA An fKo Inmnc leaves were suiaii,auu mu? uu >uk parts of the clusters turned brown and died before those on the top opened. The color of scarlet, dark red, blue, and pink flowers was soon turned to a grayish white. The light caused petunia plants to grow tall and slender, while they bloomed earlier and more profusely. But he flowers faded under the light and ^became poor in quality. Experiments similar to those of Lemetrom and others who have applied the current to seeds and to the soil have been made at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and the results will soon be made known. Lemstrom measured the influence of the current upon growiqg wheat as well as upon vegetables, procuring fifty per cent, more wheat from a small tract on which the plants were exposed to electricity diffused by a net work of wires than was grown on an adjoining tract of eimiliar soil where no electricity was used. While it seems to have been proved beyond a doubt that the growth of many plants is greatly accelerated by applying the electric current at first to the seeds and afterward to the soil and the air just ciirfur>r> nf thfi orround. and (IUUTO kUU BU??Mvw v. y that a majority of the plants which have been used in the experiments are not injured by such treatment, it is also shown that the rapid growth of flowering plants induced by the electric light, as it is commonly used, is exhuastive and unhealthy. It does not follow, however, that under modifying conditions, yet to be ascertained by careful tests, this light cannot be used to accelerate the growth of such plants and of some vegetables without causing exhaustion or impairing- quality. ?New York Times. Von Moltke's Motto. Wheu, one day in 1870 Count Von Moltke wa3 told in his office that hostilities between France and Germany were inevitable, he quietly touched an electric button, and taking a speaking tube in his hand, spoke into it one word, "Mobile!" That one word set iumotion a million of men perfectly equipped and armed. An hour later, thq great strategist was taking his usual stroll, when a diplomatist came up to him, and shaking him hurriedly by the band, muttered something ubotu not trespassing on his time at such a crisis. He was about to withdraw, wheu Moltke said, in his quietest manner: 4'I have really nothing to do." It was the simple truth. All ! preparations hud beeu uiado \ears ago iu I accordance with his lavonie uictto: "To { be ready is everything." Here is an il! lustration of how we should prepare at I once for death, which we know to be inI evitable, so that when we actually do [ face it we may have "really nothing to do,"?Aeio York Obf.erocr. Starving Italians protest against a $4,000,000 statue to Victor Immaauel. ' ' ' ? ' A Weight/ Family. Mr. Valentine Hechler, Jr., told Kid tome weeks ago that ho and his Arm )rothere and sisters had a family reunionj ecently, and after dinner they wont tat he scales to compare weights. The ag-l jregate of the six brothers and aistexs vas over 1600 pounds, or something >ver an average of 225 pounds for each; nember of the family. Mr. Hechler atj ;hat time said he wonld challenge any) >ther family of the same number to pro-j luce like figures in avoirdupois, and it; eemed to me that they undoubtedly hadj l clean sweep over the, heavy-weJghtj hampionship of Virginia, if not of the! kmth. But, after all, truth is stranger than ictioo, and yesterday I had occasion to Irop around to see the best and moat and-hearted of fellows, George Mountjastle, or "Baby" Mountcastle, as ho vas known when he went South with * he Howizers and Loe Camp veterans laati February. Now, everybody knows that tfr. Mountcastle is, by no means, a liv<< Jig frailty, and though he ia most cer? ainly and unmistakably fat, lew would juess either his right weight or height correctly. At present he stands sis feet >ne and one-half inches, and tips the icalcs at an even 400 pounds. Tbit s certainly a tremendous weight, ind when I converse with the genial Confederate veteran aud see how hp en joys life I sometimes half suspect that! . 300 pounds of this figure is pure, un-i idulterated jolity. But it is what Hr. yfouutcastle told me of the rest of hit family that surprised me, and will, I ioubt uot, astound Mr. V. Hechler, Jr. He said that his father used to weigh 265 pounds, while his mother frequently " (rent over 300. The following figure*, however, will place the Mountcastles in. the lead on weights, and at thia time l| rerily believe that no one will be "able to surpass them. Hr. George Mount-: castle tips the scales, as I have laid, at> . 100; Mr. John R. Mouhtcastle at 850 or! more; Mr. A. L. Mountcastle at 227a Mr. William A. Mountcastle at 235,1 while Mrs. Annie E. Broaddus and Mrs.) M. A. Motley, the two sisters of oar! worthy citizens, weigh 225 and 144 r?4$ spectively.. This makes the combined! weight of the family1681 pound,*, and the average weight of each member * fraction over 280.?Richmond (Va.) Dm* patch. ??????? , _ Mongolian Detectives. A Frenchman naturally thinks tho, Parisian detectives the best. The English swear by the shrewdness of Scotland? Tard men, and Americans, of course, by;; the New York detectives. After threei > years' residence in China I do not think! either of the three bodies are entitled to, the credit given them. The ChincMi beat them all. They are at one time the) most expert thieves and at another the most skilled detectives in the world,saynv a returned missionary. . A Chinaman can steal your. watch while you are looking at it, and he can catch the man who stole it, if it happened to be some other than himself,,; when a French detective could not. 1 have seen evidences of detective ability! 1 among the Chinese which would staxtHv even Zola. It is impossible for an evil* v doer to long elude the Chinese detec-i tives. They scent A crime and follow it to the last before civilized /detective* 1 would know of it. In a country of so> many people, who all look alike, this is remarkable. I heard of one case whichf will serve to illastrate their shrewdness.* A family in Tonquin was murdered f , and there was no apparent clue to the j -> murderer. The entire detective corps of j thr6e provinces were placed upon the; case, aud in three weeks the murderer-?' \ none other than the chief of the secret police, who handled the case for theL. murderer?was arrested and beheadecLj Think of that. The Chinese detective force is a secret body, and the best organized in the world. They have an eye upon every man, woman and child, for-; v eign or native, in China, and in addition watch over each other. Informers are encouraged, and collusion is impossible: The head of the Chinese police is not known, but there is one, and a very active one, too. I v.om Vioorri that thfl nresent' head was . once an ambassador to a Euiopeaa country, but really do not believe that any one knows who he is. There are said to be over 600,01)0 men under him and his assistants, who control the various districts.?New York Journal. On the Head of tlio Capitol's Liberty. "I am the only man who ever stood erect on the top of the head of thestatua of liberty on the dome of the capitol at Washington," said Captain Charles O. Thomas, of Washington, at the Leland.. . In proof of his assertion Captain Thomas exhibits a faded photograph of the massive dome surrounded by scaffolding up to the base of the statue, on the head : of which stands a man, the Captain himself. "A "I superintended the placing of tho statue in position," said Captain Thorn- j as, "and I have a certificate to that effect signed by President Lincoln. When the workmen began to remove tho . scaffolding I climed to the head of the statue and stood there. I had with me a hammer aad steel letter dyes and on the front of the Liberty cap I cut the names of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas' Hugh Walters, the architect of the dome,. B. B. French, the then Commissioner of Public Buildings, and lastly my own. When I dccended to the base of the " statue I cut my own name, birthplace and the date on Liberty's big toe. I do not think auy one has read these in* ecriptions since," and the old gentleman chuckled over the recollection of his perilous adventure. Captain Thomas said the proposition to gild the statue as recently made was absurd. The statue is of bronze and has turned black, but to gild it would give the oapitol the appearance of a chcap and gaudy structure and destroy the beauty of the whole building.?Chicago Font. Dalio;ut?y State Carriage. The King of Dahomey has hai a mag- nificcnt carriage built in Germany, the , peculiarity of which is that it is not intended to be drawn by hones, but by slaves. Sixteen slaves will be harnessed to silver cross bars fastened to three shafts. The coachtnaa's box is orna? mented with figures of sharks, ostrich eggs and palm trees. The interior is richly padded with blue silk. The frame is painted dark blue and red, and is profusely enriched with silver. The royal arms arc blazoned on tho doors. They consist of sharks on a blue Held, and ostrich eggs surrounded by snakes and elephant's teeth; crest, a palm tree proper.?New Orlea/n Picayunc.