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BEATS IN THE WfliKLMD.
Heavy Damage Done by a Storm
in Washington.
The Gale's Fury in Maryland,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
An electric cyclone swept over W ashington,
District of Columbia, at 12:30 o'clock in
the afternoon, resulting in the loss of one
life and the injury of several parsons. The
only one killed was George White, forty-fiva
years, a ladies' tailor, whose store was
crushed hv the falling walls of an unfinished
music hall near the corner of Twelfth an 1 F
street. Northwest. Tne persons most
aeriousiy injure.! were his daughter Ada,
lee broken; his German apprentice,
Clara Greenoer>r, eighteen, badly bruised,
? and a cler? in the Agricultural Department.
Anna aarkness, twenty, was crossing the
open grounds about the department building
and was hurled by toe wind again3t the iron
fence. A rod of the fence was bent by the
impact and Miss Harkness was so seriously
hurt internallv that she was taken to the |
hospital.
Tne path of the cyclone was le?s than a
quarter of a mile wide, an I it swept clear
from Georgetown to Capitol Hill, whence
it whirled southward across the Potomac.
It lert iu its track scores of unroofod houses,
twisted gas lamps, broken windows and
gpr>.\ torn tree tops, _ but so far as
known the only accidents to persons
are those named. The aggregate loss must
be large, though scattered in small amouuts.
Tfie heaviest loser is George MetzeroLt, proprietor
of the unfinished music hall, which
T7as blown down. His music store adjoining
was also wrecked. Mr. Metzerott is the
man for whom was named the recent
socialistic novel, "Metzerott, Shoemaker."
The storm was so sudden and furious that
it brought terror and confusion. It lasted
only ten minutes, but it left behind most
exaggerated reports and the greatest excitement.
Had the hour been different many
workmen might have been killed, but they
were fortunately at dinner.
The/cyclone was preceded by a murky
atmospmre, so numia ana warm as w uo
?oltry, despite a brisk breez?. Overhead
the skj was covered with dark,
flying masses of yellowish vapor. Sud?
; denly the northern horizon grew black,
and then, with startling swiftness, it
crew so dark that the gas had to be lighted
in the brightest rooms. Another moment
and the streets were filled with rain, driven
with fleroe violence by the howling hurri!cane.
The first damage done was at Georgetown,
where lightning set on fire one of the
gas tan kg.
At the White House a portion of the stone
coping of the southern balcony, just opposite
the Treasury Department, was torn loose
and fell to the courtyard below, smashing
the brick pavement. Private Secretary
Halford was standing at the window of his
office, just above, when the coping fell and
was startled by tne noise. The flagstaff on
top of the White House was snapped by the
wind.
The same storm struck Baltimore, Md.,
forty minutfs after it reached Washington,
demolishing barns, farm outhouses and other
frame buildings on the way. Telegraph
wires were prostrated and in some places the
poles were blown down.
< In the southwestern oart of the city a.
number of houses were unroofed and' the
I: s contents of the houses deluged with water.
A tremendous rain and thunder and lightning
accompanies the gale. In the harboi
several small craft were capsizsd and larger
vessels dragged their anchors.
The most serious damage there was the destruction
of a portion of C. S. Maltby's large
oyster-packing house on Westfall avenuei,
j* , - near the docks. The wind ripped off the
immense roof and blew in the walls of the
X- fourth story.
A severe wind and rain storm struck Bethlehem,
Penn., at 2 :30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The rain, which came from the southf
southeast, blew fences, tr?es, signs, telegraph
and telephone poles and wires to the
ground. Many houses are unroofed in the
country districts along the Lehigh and Lackawanna
Railroad.
A terrific rain, wind and thunder storm
passed over the Carlisle (Penn.) section of
the Cumberlaad Valley, doing considerable
damage to property. Many buildings are
blown down, roofs blown off and trees uprooted
.
While school was in session at tho Graham
schoolhouse the roof was blown a distance of
eighty feet, and the walls fell in. The following
are the injured: Miss Bertha Rudy,
ha tAfl^hnr* Snille Fisher. Lewis Wilson.
James Gill?. Another pupil, unknown, arm
badly injured; and about seven or eight
others slightly injured.
The "Snnnyside" schoolhouse was partially
I blown down, and from what can be learned
a number of the pupils were injured.
The lower deck of the Ocean Pier at Cape
May, N. J., was washed away by the breakera.
The surf is beating heavily against the
be*ch at Cape May Point, and is cutting
SfV. down the bluff.
A terrific rain storm and gale prevailed
along the lower Hudson River ana caused
much damage to property. J. O. Davidton's
steam yacht Princess and manys mailer
craft were sunk off Nyack, N. Y. The
steamer Raleigh, from New York, was unable
to make a landing on the west side of
' the river owing to the strong east wind.
(VV!* i
i TEE NEW APPORTIONMENT.
gjh^? r
How the States Will Coant in tbe
Electoral college.
The following table exhibits the Electoral
votes of the States under both the old aud
the new apportionment. The increase in the
total vote Tince 1888 is accounted for to the
fi extent of twenty votes by the creation of
the new States of Idaho, Montana, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and
y', Wvorainr, and as to the remainder by adi
- ditions of twenty-three votes to the appor^
. tionment ot States, as follows: Alabama, 1;
Arkansas, 1; California, 1; Colorado, 1;
Georgia, 1; Illinois, 2; Kansas, 1; Massachusetts,
1; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 2;
Missouri, 1; Nebraska, S: New Jersey, 1;
Oregon, 1; I'enuaylvania, 2; Texas, 2; Wisconsin,
L
WZ . Stale*. 1833. 1892.
Alabama lit 11
Arkansas 7 8
Calif oruia 8 I)
HtiSfc';: Colorado 3 4
Connecticut ? ?
Delaware 3 ' '>
Florida 4 4
CP?: Georgia 12 13
Idaho ? 3
Illinois 22 24
Indiana 15 , Id
Safe1, Jowa..'. in 13
Kansas 9 11
Kentucky 13 13
Louisiana 8 8
Maine 6 6
Maryland 8 8
Massachusetts 14 15
Michigan 13 14
Minnesota 7 'J
V. Mississippi 9 V
Missouri 16 17
Jin', Montana ? 8
Nebraska 5 S
BJTKV Nevada 3 8
New Hampshire 4 4
l|Ki{r/ New Jersey W !?
New York 3fi 3.;
North Carolina 11 11
North Dakota ? 8
Kftty Ohio 23 ?5
; * Oregon 3
Pennsylvania 3'* Si
sK? v/Rb'xie Island 4 n
Sout i Cnrolini W '
IS&j. South Dakota ? 4
Tennessee 12 1 i
Texas 13 13
I&b Vermont 4 4
?? . Virginia 12 12
Est Washington ? 4
* ; "West Virginia 6 ?J
- Wisconsin 11 l'.1
gU*?r, Wyoming ? U
Total v...401 41-J
A grkat gold find has just been made near
LUano, Texas, on the property of Wiley.
% Confer and Gage, who have been prospectK.-.
tog toe the preatous metal for several months,
ft Th* present discovery is believed to be the
f~: game vein which Spanish history records as
having been worksa about two centuries ago
jfe'- by Spaniards, who ware driven away by the
& Indians,
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Miss Mildred Burden, of Burnside. was
instantly killed, and Miss Katie Williams
fatally injured bv a freight train backing
down over the Main street crossing, East
Hartford, Conn., without a rear light.
Senator Gilbert A. Deane, of the FifteeeDth
District, died at his home in Copake,
Columbia County, N. Y.
The Yale College eleven defeated the Harvard
team in a game of football at Springfield,
Mass. The score was tea to nothing.
Twenty-five thousand spectators were present.
'i he Bay State League, a "shady" endowment
concern of Boston, Miss., has collapsed,
victimizing twenty thousand subscribers,
a majority of whom are poor.
Seventeen-year-old John Hellenger had
a nri-tq 4n o cfnhlo in Voip Vnrl? Plftr
U ?S4 J ttV 111 U OVUWIb 1U A'V '? A Vi A V*VJ
with George J. Altman, a lad of his own
age, and died from the effects of the beating
he received.
Francis McCarry, an iron moulder, of
New York City, thirty-eight years old, attempted
to rival Steve Brodie by jumping
off the Brooklyn Bridge and was drowned.
Half the business portion of Middlebury,
Vt., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
$150,000.
The Old Homestead Hotel at Jamestown,
N. Y., was burned. The flames cut off escape
by way of the stairways,and the guests
lowered themselves from the second story
windows. Three servants and one child
perished in the building. Tbey were:
Buchanan. Mrs., pastry cook, with little
son. Marsh, Mrs., a dishwasher. Wilson.
Maggie, a waitress.
South and West.
At Mentoga, Tenu., a sawmill boiler exploded,
instantly killing two young sons of
the proprietor, T. B. fattens. A sawdust
wheeler had his leg broken, and Mr. Battens
had an arm broken in two places.
The Farmers' Convention, at Indianapolis,
Ind., ended its work without taking any
radical steps; the Alliance divided on the
Sub-Treasury plan.
W illiam H. Frizzle, wife murderer, was
handed in the iail vard at Abilene. Texas.
For some time drizzle has been utterly indifferent
to bis fate. He requested that the
Abilene Cornet Band be permitted to play
at the hanging.
The schooner George C. Finney, grain
laden, was lost with all on board?seven persons?on
Lake Erie.
John C. Hock, a son of the late Congressman
L. C. Houk, defeated J. C. J. Williams,
Democrat, in a specialCongresnonal election
in the Knoxville (Tenn.) District; by about
5900 majority.
The house of David Cooper, colored, on J.
H. Mercer's place, six miles below Sylvanla,
Ga.. was burned, and his four children
perished in the flames.
The Rev. Ezra Marsh Boring, while
temporarily insane, hanged himself at the
home of his son, Charles 0. Boring, in
Evanston, 111. He was seventy-eight years
old and a superannuated minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Columbia (S. C.) Canal was formallv
opened in the presence of a great crowd.
It promises to make that city one of the
greatest manufacturing centres of the South.
It will be navigable and furnish 13,000 horse
power of water power.
Washington.
The annual report of Supervising Special
Agent Tingle. of the Treasury Department,
was made public. Some of the statistics
of the report are as follows: Number of
seizures, 1026; number of arrests for smuggling,
sixty-four; value of seizures, $143,
28G.n* amount recovered on account of
seizures, fines, penalties and duties, $225,690.65.
The final session of the Protestant Episcopal
Conference was held at Washington, the
topic of debate being "Personal Religion."
Much canvassing took place at Washington
for the piace of holding the Republican
National (invention:
The Treasury Department has paid out
I $12,500,000 on account of pensions since
! November 1.
The report of the Lighthouse Board has
gone to the Secretary of the Treasury. It
is again recommended that private lights
[ and buoys in nava&able waters be prohibited.
Commodore Farquhar, Chief of the
Naval Bureau of Yards and Docks, in his
1 annual report to the Secretary of the Navy
sits that the anDronriations for maintenance
and repairs and preservation have been so
limited tor many years past that it has not
[ been possible to provide tor necessary repairs
I or to arrest the deterioration due to time
and neglect.
Foreijrn.
Speculation has brought about a*"crisl?
in Switzerland which is seriously affecting
| the finance* of that country.
Ax Vienna in the presence of the royal
| family, their ministers and the Cardinal
Archbishop, Archduoaess Louise of Tuscany
finally renounced, with Prince Frederick
Augustus o! Saxony, all claims to the
Austrian throne. Tbis step was taken prior
to the marriage of the couple in question.
A ukase from the Czar has been issued
prohibiting the exportation of wheat and
[ wheat products from Russia.
i A new Ministry has been formed in Spain
under the leadership, as before, of Senor
Canovas del Castillo.
Dictator Foxseca, of Brazil,resigned his
office, declaring he did not want to shed
Brazilian bloocL Vice-President Floriano
Peixotto then assumed the Presidency. He
guaranteed to preserve order throughout
the Republic. The news was hailed with
enthusiasm in Rio Janeiro.
'?? "irlraH of n mnrriwroilB raid In
the north of China. Well armed bands have
devastated & whole district, pillaged and
burned the Belgian mission stations at Tavon
and Sanchi ana massacred over one hundred
converts to Christianity. The local Governors
aacribe the raid to Mongolian robbers.
A WATER FAMINE.
An Accident Causes Discomfort in
Brooklyn tor a J)ay.
The big break in the conduit at Ridgewood
by which four men were killed was cleared
of overlying earth on the second evening
after the collapse and soon after
8 o'clock water began to flow again i
toward Brooklyn. The sides of the
conduit had not been so much
injured, but that it was deemed safe to allow
a moderate depth of water to flow through
it, and before 11 o'clock all the pumps at the
stations were at work and the two city
reservoirs were being filled.
This ended ail fears of a real water famine,
although Brooklyn was pinched for
wacer for many uses for a day or two.
Before the damage was repaired Brooklyn
suffered greatly because of an almost total
stoppage of its water supply. Most of its
manufactories stmt down, two lines of elevate
t railroad suspended operation, householders
were in distress and the city was
without protection from fire until late in the
evening.
Brooklyn Bridge cable could not be user'
Locomotives drew trains of two cars. Tho.
tauds walked over the bridge.
DOCTOBS TUBN BUBGLABS.
Arrested While Trying to Blow Up
a Sate in Gardner, 111.
Drs. Eoyes and McAdam, leading physician?,
were arrested early a few mornings
ago in the act of blowing up the safe of the
Gardner (111.) Bank. A livery stable keeper
named Briggs was with them.
Tee trio were trapped by a detective who
took part in the job. when the denouement
came the three culprits attempted to
escape. The detective shot McAdam
through the arm and he dropped. Dr.Boyes
was caught, but Briggs escaped.
The raid on the bank was the culmination
ofaseriesof daring burglarie3 that has extended
over a year.
The price of broomcorn has advanced during
the p;ist six weeks from $70 to 5150 a ton.
The United States uses 35,030 tons of broomcorn
annually, and there is now only 27,000
tons in the country.
The reports from Italy indicate that
j country is to enjoy a -season of prosperity
consequent upon the gathering of good crops.
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"telegraphic ticks.
R'ews of Interest From Domestic
and Foreign Sources.
W. J. Florence, the Actor, Dies
Suddenly at Philadelphia.
William J. Florence, the actor, after being
critically ill for a week died at 8:30 o'clock
at night in his room at the Continental
Hotel, Philadelphia, Penn. He passed a very
restless night, and gradually grew worse all
day, but it was not until 5 o'clock that
evening that the doctors saw that the pneumonia
would kill him. He was very weak,
as little or no nourishment could be given
him, and when his lungs began to All the
physlcans could do absolutely nothing. He
sank rapidly, and when ho died k was
without a struggle.
The first intimation the watchers had of
death was that he had ceased to breathe.
Proprietor Kingsley, of the Continental
Hotel took temporary caarge of the
body. His wife is in Europe.
A week before his death, after having
played bis part of Ezekiel Homespun in tbe
"Heir-at-Law" with the Jefferson-Florence
combination at tbe Arch Street Theatre, he
gave a supper at tbe Continental Hotel in
honor of Mr. and Mrs.Kendal. Soon after the
close of the festivities he was taken ill and
physicians called in. He had congestion of
the lungs, and after danger from that had
practically ceased the patient was too weak
to rally, death being attributed to heart failure.
Ic was at Albany,' N. Y., in 1831, that
William J. Florence first 9aw light. His
right name was Conlin. His earliest propensities
were for the stage, and he joined
the Murdock Dramatic Association
when quite young. Ho made his
debut as Peter in Katzebue's romantic
play of "The Stranger" at the Richmond
Hill Theater, in New York City,
December 6, 1849. He next played Macduff
to Edwin Booth's Macbeth. He attempted
Irish comedy with great success.
In 1856 he sailed for Europe with his wife,
and in the Drury Lane Theater, in London,
[ they played a nine weeks' engagement. Mrs.
Florence, who is a sister to Mrs. Barney
I Williams, was known as Mrs. Joseph LittelJ.
Her maiden name was Malvina Pray. 4
A little more than two years ago Mr. and
I Mrs. Florence announced their retirement
from the stage as joint stars. Mr. Florence
concluded then what had been long talked of,
the Jefferson-Florence combination, and on
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uctooer io, leou, uiojr umuo uuw ju.u>
appearance at the New York Star Theater
in "The Rivals," Jefferson taking Bob
I Acres, Florence 3ir Lucius 0'Trigger and
Mrs. John Drew realizing Mrs. Malaprop.
This was the last season Florence was to re!
main in this organization.
Mr. Florence was most successful as the
Hon. Bardwell iSloat in "The Mighty Dollar,"
as BobBrierly in "The Ticket of Leave
Man" and as Obenreiser in "No Thorough
?are."
Police Inspector Conlin,of New York City,
is a brother to Mr. Florence. Mr. Florenca
leaves five brothers and sisters. He was
author of the "Florence Fables," a brochure
of stories. As a story teller Mr. Florence
probably had no equal. He was of a lovable
: nature and won for friends all whom he met.
To be Senator From Maryland.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland, orally
tendered to ex-Representative Charles H.
| Gibson, in Washington, his appointment to be
United States Senator from Maryland, until
I the Legislature fills the vacancy caused by
I the death of Senator Ephraim K. Wilson.
Colonel Gibson accepted the offer and his
formal appointment is expected in due
course.
Mr. Gibson at once withdrew from the
contest for the clerkship, and ho' will be
sworn in as a Senator at the opening of the
Llld Congress. His service will date back
to March 4, of this year, and he will simply
hold office until a successor is elected. Governor
Jackson is a candidate for the seat
formerly held by Mr. Wilson. It is pre
?a 4.U.4 *! ,?. Gannfnr mill frxr to PTltflP
| Burueu mat iuo uon wcuuwv* ??? ?. j
the House of Representatives again from the
Eastern Shore District. He has been chosen
{ three time3 from the First Maryland District.
The new Senator is a man of agreeable
and attractive manners, and of great personal
popularity; and his appointment will
be well received, where he has been a pleasant
and conspicuous'flgure in social and pub|
lie life. Mr. Gibson lives in Easton, McL is
a lawyer by profession, and before entering
Congress held many important local offices
in Eastern Maryland.
The Debt ot Virginia.
The State Debt Commission and the Olcott
Committee of New York, the latter representing
the holders of Virginia bonds, who
have been in conference at Richmond several
days upon a plan of settlement have come to
an agreement. The commission's proposir
tion was as follows: To issue a maximum
amount of $19,0OO,OGO of bonds to be exchanged
for tbe outstanding obligation of
the State mentioned in tbe Riddleberger act
[ (other than tbose held by schools and colleges)
now in the haDds of the public, but not
( including bonds already funded under this
J act, such new bonds to run for 100 years and
! to bear two per cent, interest for ten years,
and three per cent for ninety years,
it being distinctly understood that the
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to be receivable for taxes. The proposed
new bonds shall be exchangeable for the
outstanding obligations in the proportion of
nineteen of the former for twenty-eight of
the latter.
The Olcott Committee, representing $23,000,000
out of (38,000,000 ot debt outstanding,
state that the proposition would go to
their constituents with their cheerful recommendation,
new bonds to boar interest from
July 1, 1891.
The President's Outing.
A dispatch from Bengiee, Md., says: The
members of the Presidential party arose at
5:30, and after breakfast went to the blind.
Fortune favored them, and they succeeded
in getting twelve ducks, making a total of
twenty-eight killed by the party during thl
three days' visit. This is regarded as fair
sport, when th9 unfavorable conditions are
considered.
The President accompanied by General W.
J. Sewell, of New Jersey. Jeft for Washington
in H. F. Kenney's private car at 1:30
p. m. Before his departure he visited the
telegraph office to answer a telegram received
earlier in the day from Sirs. Harrison,
who is stopping with the family of J.
"V. L. Findlay, of North Charles street,
Baltimore
Though this trip, in point of sport, was not
as 8ucces3iul as previous ones the President
expressed his hearty appreciation of the
trip, and cordially thanked the members of
the club for their hospitality. Standing on
the rear platform of the car as it pulled out,
he looked a picture of perfect health.
A Banker's Defalcation.
It was learned that J. A. Oblinger, owner
of the Bank of Arlington, Minn., and Postmaster
of tbe village, is a defaulter in the
sum of irom $15,003 to $20,000. The money
which hs has misapplied belonged to his depositors,
who will lose everything, as the
bank was a a private one.
His stealings have b?en going on for nearly
two years, but what he has done with the
funds is a mystery. He has always been regarded
as a frugal citizen. A lato rumor
that he is on the wrong side of the wheat
market has gained credence. Th<j oostofflso
is not involved, the books of that office being
straight. ,
Drowned Through a Tidal Wave.
Information has reached Sydney. New
South Wales, ot a disaster ac the Gilbert
Islands in the South Pacific.
A tidal wave has caused great loss of life
and damage to property throughout the
group. Eighty people were drown? upon
one of the islands.
The Gilbert Islands, or Kingsmill group,
are of coral formation, all low. The group is
the southermost in the Mulgrave Archipelago,
and the southernmost in Micronesia.
An Iron Concern Assigns.
The Rockdale (Tenn.) Mining and Manufacturing
Company made an assignment to
the Safe Deposit Trust Company, of NashI
villa. Liabilities, $100,000. The assets consist
of 600 ) acres of ore lands, heavily timbered;
a furnaoa costing $88,400 and wO. 009
worth of pig iron. The property was recently
leased at $9200 per annum. The failure was
caused by tbe low price of iron.
SMOTHERED BY SAND. '
Four Laborers in a Brooklyn
Trench Killed by a Cave-In.
Without Warning; the Conduit
Collapsed and Covered Them,
Loose sand caved in upon a trench at the
eorner of Crescent street and Liberty avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y., a few afternoons ago. Four
men were billed and three injured. It was
thought that the accident might cause a
water famine in Brooklyn.
One of the men lost his life while attempting
to rescue his fellow laborers. The
others were smothered or drowned in
the water which poured into the excavation
from the broken main of the
Lone Island Water Supply Company. The
dead are: Philip Askoni, twenty-flve years
old, an Italian; Joseph Cosine, twenty years
old, an Italian; Hugh Murphy, thirty-one
year?, of Crescent street, near Liberty
avenue; unknown Italian.
The men who were caught were fortysight
feet below the surface of the street.
Valentine & Cranford have the contract for
building the new conduit which is to supply
water to the new reservoir, located alongside
the old one on Ridgewood Heights. Tne
new conduit, consisting of forty-eight inch
pipes, is being; laid beside the old brick
aqueduct, which is eight feet in diameter.
The trench crossed Liberty avenue at an J
acute angle. Through Liberty avenue run [
the pipes of the old New Lots Gas Company j
and the Long {eland Water Supply Com- |
pany. They are eieht-inch pipes, are only i
four feet below tne surface and were |
completely undermined by the laborers. Tha
soil is of a sandy nature. An immense pile
of dirt bad been thrown up oa either side of
the excavation, which was about fifty feet
in length. On the we3t bank was a small
shanty, with a derrick which was used to
lower the iron pipes.
There had been fears for several days that
the bank would cave in and the laborers
worked with reluctance. The contractors,
however, assured them that there was no
danger. Men were bracing the banks of the
excavation when the landslide occurred.
Foreman Hughes was superintending the
strengthening of the ranges and one of the
pipes was being lowered by means of the
derrick when at half-past one o'clock, without
any warning, the east bank caved in.
The majority of the seventy-five laborers
were at work on the top of the bank and
only seven men were at the bottom. They
were buried under the immense pile of sand
and dirt.
Six men were looking after the braces.
The majority of them were near the top of
the trench. They were the victims.
It came in the twinkling of an eye. Few
people saw it. Almost before one could turn
his nead it was over.
Some of the laborers turned and ran. It
looked to them as if the bottom had dropped
nnt of that oart of the earth.
Fred Cranford, the son of the senior
member of the contracting firm, and the
superintendent of the work, was looking towards
the excavation when the cave-in
occurred. With startling suddenness the
shoring seemed to melt away and the sand
rushed together like mad waters. There was
no cry of warning, no scream for help.
Everybody was dazeid. The Italians trembled
and many ran away trembling with fear.
The fall of the east bank weakened the
support on the west side and that also caved
in. The Long Island Y^ater Supply Company's
main was broken and there was a rush
of water which quickly filled the cut. The
gas pipe also parted and the gas escaped in
volumes.
"Word was sent to the office of the water
company and the supply was at once cut off.
The gas company also turned off gas, and
within half an hour the work of digging out
the buried laborers had begun."
The Italian laborers went to work in a
half hearted fashion to rescae their fallow
workmen. They acted as if they were afraid
that there would be another cave in, and
few of them could be induced to descend to
the bottom of the cut. They worked with
difficulty on account of the nature of the
slide, which filled the excavation to the
depth of ten feet in a slanting direction. On
the day after the accident only one body had
been recovered.
Brooklyn was on the verge of a water
famine because of the break in the conduit.
Manufacturers in Brooklyn were warned not
to use the city water, ana householders were
told to use it sparingly.
THE LABOR WOBLD.
New York has 50,000 unemployed.
The London dock strike has collapsed.
There are over 2000 waiters in London.
Colorado miners will hold a drilling contest.
Virginia City, Nev., has a teachers'
union.
New York has a colored hotel waiters'
union.
New York has a Swiss embroiderer/
union.
New York has 500 union female hotel
hand?.
Girl sweaters in Chicago, 111., get $1 to $6
a week.
New York musicians have fixed the initiation
at ?10.
There are 2500 union cigar makers in
Philadelphia.
The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
has !5,000 members.
Eight-year-old girls work in New York
twelve hours a day for $1 a week.
One hundred thousand women and girls
*? a ? ??? +fr%skl?i K?AnA Kw enraof r\f '
in AUiOi lCa OU U VUCil U1COU KJJ VUO owtwvwa.
their brow.
The ofllce clerks, typewriters and bookkeepers
of Denver, Col., have combined in a
strong labor organization.
The Miners' Union of Bedwas, England,
requires every unskilled workman to pay
P100 before he is allowed to work in the
mines.
Hull (England) seamen and fishermen
ire paying sixty-five cents each for a purse
of 85000, to be donated to Mr. Piimsoll for
his labor work.
The San Francisco Brewers' Union has
assessed its members 820 each to fight the
British syndicate, whose managers have
threatened to destroy the union. The latter
have now over ?30,000 in its treasury.
There are 1100 children who can neither
read nor write in the twenty-seven mills of
Fall River, Mass.; 1097 have stated that
their earnings are absolutelv necessary for
their own support and that oi tceir families.
Eighteen labor organizations were formed
in Austria this montn; among them, unions
of optician;, makers of meteorlogicai instruments,
watchmakers, com pass-makers, canemakers,
pipamakers, clerks, messengers,
soapmakers and shop girls
O.v the Ohio Valley Railroad night telegraph
operators are oblighed to lire up the
boilers of their pumping stations, run the
pumps, and at the same time extend to the
trains, and receive and send messages, all
for per month. If an operator is found
sleeping while on duty he is suspended from
fi ve to thirty dm ?
FIGHTING IN PERSIA.
Uevolt, Headed bv the High Priest,
Promptly Put Down.
A dispatch from Teheran, the capital o
Persia, states that the Mujtahid or high
priest of the Shiah sect, which is th? predominant
religious sect of the country, its
followers numbering nearly seven millions,
recently fermented a revolt in Mazanderan,
i province in Northern Pern?..
? he Government took prompt measures to
suppress the revolt, and a body of troops
svas despatched to restore order and to place
the high priest under arrest. The rebels
were prepared, however, and made a
determined resistance against the Shah's
3oldiers. They had entrenched themselves
in a strong position, and when summoned
to surrender refused to do so. Orders
were then given to attack the stronghold of
the rebels, and a long contested and desperate
battle ensued. The rebels fought with
desperation, knowing full well the punish*
ment that would be inflicted upon them by
the Shah should they fall into his hands,
but they were finally defeated, not, however,
until two hundred of their number had been
killed. The loss of the troops was twenty
killed. A large number of the tebels were
taken prisoners. Among the prisoners is the
high priest.
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The Secretary of War Makes
Public His Annual Report.
The Problem of Coast Defenses
Practically settled.
The annual report of the Secretary of
War has been made public at Washington.
It reviews the entire status of each branch
of the army service, together with the sub- J
ject of coast defenses, pensions, promotion?,
war records, national cemeteries and soldiers'
homes.
Hezardine the subject of coast defens9
Secretary Proctor reviews the work of the
board of army officers and civilians provided
for by Congress in 1885. and also the
results of the consideration of the same subject
by both houses of Congress. "This
policy," says the Secretary, "necessarily
contemplates a system of land
defenses as its most important feature.
We have some 4000 miles of seacoast, exclusive
of Alaska. No great naval power
has more than a few hundred miles of coast
to defend, and yet even they protect their
harbors with heavy fortifications and highpower
guns. The cost of land defenses
has not increased as rapidly as the
cost of the means of attacking them.
They are not only the cheapest to
build, but once built the cost of maintain
ing tbem can be reduced to the minimum.
Neither are they an experiment, nor can
they become useless, but they may be built
with a view to further strengthening if reSuired,
and capable of mounting larger guns
! necessary."
The Secretary points out that over half
the entire appropriation has been allotted
and about $350,000 expended. Ho therefore
recommends tbat an appropriation of $500,000
be continued annually until all the necessary
sites are secured.
Desertions from the army have been less
than in any other year of its history. From
January lst,1867, to June 30th, 1891, twentyfour
and one-half years, the number of desertions
from the army was 88,47a. It has
cost the Government a very large sum for
pay, clothing, subsistence, and transportation
of recruits to replace these men.
For the year ending June 30,1889, the rate
was 11.6 per cent.; for the year ending June
30, 1890, nine per cent., for the year ending
June 30, 1891, C.l per cent. "During the
twelve months ending September 30, 1891,
the rate was only 5.8 per cent., and for a
like neriod ending October 31. 6.7 Der cent.
It is recommended that the age limit for
original enlistments in the army be reduced
by offering greater inducements to young
men. This should be done by a reasonable
increase in the pay of non-commissioned
officers, especially that of First Sergeants,
and by giving them a better
oppportuniny to compete upon
examination for commissions. The
Secretary renews his suggestion that the
provision of the statute making the recommendation
of the company commander a
condition percedent to promotion from the
ranks to a Lieutenancy be repealed.
The adoption of th9 three-battalion system
is urged on the ground that, under the
new tactics required by the increase in
range and rapidity of fire, a ten-company
battalion cannot be manoeuvred.
Nothing unfavorable has been brought
to the attention of the department regarding
the utility as military organizations of
the Indian companies of either arm, but so
far there is no reason to believe that mucn
more than was expected of the experiment
will be realized.
Twenty-eight army posts have been
abandoned since June 1, 1889, and the number
of post traders has been reduced from
eighty-five to twenty-two since March 4,
XOOtf.
The number of cases received by the Record
and Pension Division of the department
in the course of the last year was 153,259 in
excess of the previous year, being an increase
in business of fifty-two per cent The work
of transcribing the original records is going
on rapidly, and the work can be completed
within a year and a half, when the department
can dispense with the services of 600 of
its present clerks, at a saving to the Governmant
of at least $1,000,000 yearly. The work
of collecting the Civil War aecords is also
progressing rapidly.
The most gratifying results have attended
the new system of examinations for promotion.
It is urged that the exception re?r*rdinnr
the Dromotion of First Lieutenants
fn commission be repealed, and the law
made to apply uniformly to all. It is also
urged that the department have at its immediate
disposal correct information relative
to tbe capacity, habits and professional
attainments of each officer in the army.
There is no inducement for the maintenance
of a greater number of militia than is
actually required by the law, but rather the
reverse, if economy be consulted. The allotment
as no w made is not based upon
what States do in return for the appropriation,
but what they ought to do.
The report concludes with a memorandum
of expenditures, appropriations and
estimates. The expenditures for the fiscal
year ending JuneaO, 1891,were $51,450,764.t)8,
of which $2,150,648.53 were for salaries
and contingent expanses, ?25,344,199.73 for
the support of the army and Military-Academy,
116,061.478.96 for public works,
Including river and harbor im
provemente, and $7,894,439.46 for miscellaneous
objects. The estimates for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1893, include $2,080,178
for salaries and contingent expenses, $26,299,170.77
for the support of the army and
Military Academy. $13,208,393 for public
works, and $4,351,861.60 for miscellaneous
objects, making a total of $45,975,603.37.
Q-0VEM0B HOVEY DEAD.
Indiana's Chief Magistrate Expired
Suddenly at Indianapolis.
Governor Alvin P. Hovey, of Indiana,
died at 1:20 o'clock a few mornings ago in
his room at th" Pennison Hotel, Indianapolis,
lad. His last moments were peaceful
and conscious, and his last words were an inquiry
for his favorite granddaughter, Mary
Menzlen.
All the immediate members of his familv
were present. The direct cause of his death
was heart trouble.
Alvin P. Hovey was a poor boy, but bv
his own efforts worked his way up until he
became one of the most influential and
prominent men of the West. He was born
in September, 1821, at Mount Vernon. Ind.,
which was his*home. His early education
was limited. At thirteen he was apf>renticed
as a bricknmker, but four yeare
ater became a teacher of the town scnool,
having meantime devowd his spare moments
to study. While teaching be read
law, and when twenty-one was admitted to
the bar.
General Hovey commanded brigades and
divisions of the army in the battles of Shiloh,
Corintb, Fort Gibson, Champion Hill, Big
Black, sie^e of Vicksburg, siege of Jackson,
Rocky-Faced Ridge, Dalton, Resaca and Altoona
Church. After his Kentucky raid he
was placed in command at Indianapolis,
where he was at the close of the war.
In 1865, just before the assassination of
President Ltncoin, uenerai amvey wm unpointed
Minister to Peru, which diplomatic
mission he held for Ave years. He *a<
know to many of bis friends as "the Poet
Governor.'"
There must be something a little
Irregular in public sentiment in
Omaha. The "World-Herald speaking
of the attendance at an exposition in
that city, says: "Round about the
gallows where Ed Neil looked last on
earth the children played last night,
and in the shadow which fell from it
cast by the electric lights, men and
women gatherad to look on. Even
the steps up to the platform were
traversed by hundreds of feet, as
those more curious or more desirous
of being seen than the others, went
aloft to look down. There's no denying
it, the gallows was the strong
card. The World-Herald says nothing
of its being unusual in American
cities to keep a gibbet standing in the
vicinity of an exposition.
A Sponge "Bath?One taken on
credit and never paid for. I
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THODSAIS WW ~mi.
Terrible Features of the Earth
quake in Japan.
Whole Villages Swept Away and
the Inhabitants Killed.
The cable brought the main outlines of the
great earthquake in Japan, but the condensed
reports gave no idea of the terrible
features of the calamity.
The earthquake was strongest in the prefectures
of Gifu and Aichi, where towns
have been overthrown, the country submerged
and mountains in eruption and railroad
communication is interrupted.
Statistics sbows 7524 persons killed and
9458 wounded, while 90,000 houses have been
destroyed. Tb9 greatest destruction
occurred at Gifu. A correspondent there
says that a quarter of a million people were
made homeless in that prefecture. He adds:
"There are twenty-eight places where the
soil sunk more than three feet, the total
area of this subsidence being nearly three
acres. Fissures in the ground are also frequent.
They vary from one to three teet in
width, and some are fifteen feet deep. I have
counted over 100 large fissures, and as for
smaller ones th y cannot be reckoned.
"The banks of the Nagara River are totally
destroyed. In one place near the river
there is a subsidence of over twenty feet.
In some parts of the town, boiling mud
mif rtf fleoiiKoa IA AA
opvuv?u VUV Vi "IWUiW l/V/ WUD UCl^UU Ul VCU
feet. The majority o? them continued
spouting for one or two hours. More thaa
three thousand wells are totally destroyed.
"The condition of Kasaoko-Cho after the
earthquake and the conflagration was appalling.
There were 1050 houses in that district
und over 4000 inhabitants. The shock
overthrew nearly all the houses, and when
the survivors were struggling to rescue the
injured, fire broke out on all sides.
"From the fall of the houses to the outburst
of the conflagration there was an in
terval of only twenty minutes. Only twentynine
houses remained standing when the
flames were extinguished, and 200 people
had been either crushed or burned to death.
In some cases whole families of eight or nine
perished. Starring people may be constantly
seen wandering over the cracked fields in
search of potatoes, turnips or an> other
edibles. It is a terrible state of affairs."
Not a few persona entombed amid the
ruins of houses have been roasted to death.
Out of 200 temples in Gifu, more than on?>
tniru were totauy aestroyea, ana or twentyfive
temples in the town ot Ogalti only three
escaped injury. The banks of tha Shonai
River in the Kasugai district were thrown
down by the earthquake, and numerous
fissures appeared in the ground.
At a distance of about two and a half
miles from the bridge over this river, where
the ground had been conspicuously disturbed,
muddy water and stones had been
ejected from the fissures in such quantities
as to form a kind of small volcano, on top of
which iB a hole from which mud was thrown
out constantly.
From the commencement of the disturbance
up to the time of despatching the
telegrams there had been no leas than 6610
shocks, which means thirty-eight shocks per
hour, or more than one every two minutes.
The telegrams give another and increased
statement of casualties in Aichi prefecture.
The record stands thus at present: Aichi
Erefecture, killed, 2248; wounded, 8310;
ouses totally destroyed, 42,345; houses partially
destroyed, 1818.
The Japan Mail says that of 4434 houses
constituting the town of O^aki 3356 are completely
overthrown and 765 are partially
ruined. Fire has destroyed 1473. The number
of persons killed is 747; the number severely
injured 520 and the number slightly
injured 750.
Appaiung as is toe magnitude or wis
calamity, still more terrible is the report
which comes from Gifu prefecture as a
whole. A late telegram gives the number of
killed iu the whole prefecture as 5000, the
number of wounded at 15,000, and total
number of houses destroyed 15,000 to 16,000.
In addition to the destruction wrought in
the towns of Gifu and Ogaki. the smaller
towns of Ichnomiya, Kyosu, Kesomatsa and
Takegahans aie said to have been wiped out
altogether.
LATER HEWS,
Bttrd S. Patterson, editor of the Minertf
Journal, and a leading lawyer and politician
of Pottsville, Penn., has disappeared,
leaving creditors for an amount estimated
at from $40,000 to $50,000. Frank Carter,
land agent of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company, who has a judgment
for $6000 against the Minerf Journal,
has taken possession of the property and
will temporarily conduct the paper.
The Farmers' and Miners' Deposit Bank,
Hook & Sons proprietors, at Irwin, Penn.,
failed. The depositors swarmed around the
bank and the excitement was intense.
The North Star Boot & Shoe Company
building at Minneapolis, Minn., was totally
destroyed by fire. The loss on building is
1100,000; on stock, $300,000.
The remains of Governor Hovey were
placed in state at the Capitol building in Indianapotis,
Ind., and were viewed by thousands
of people. The Grand Army of the
Republic held memorial exercises, in which
ex-Governors Gray and Porter participated.
The blizzard overwhelmed a company of
emigrants on Chilhowie Mountains, Tenn.
Fifteen were said to have perished.
The President has wired to Indianapolis a
message of condolence over the death ol
Governor Hovey, of Indiana.
The President has rescinded the order
transferring the military reservation of Fort
Marcy, New Mexico, to the Interior Department.
The report of Surgeon-General Browne
of the Navy shows that the number of patients
admitted to the sick list and und;r
treatment during the year 1890 was 12,849.
Of this number 8607 were on vessels afloat
and receiving ships, 1493 in hospitals, and
2746 at navy yards and shore stations. ,
The Right Hon. Edward Robert BalwerLytton,
Earl of Lytton, the British Ambassador
to France, died a few days ago in
Paris. He was the son of the more celebrated
Lord Lytton and blossomed out into
poetry in his youth under the name of Owen
Meredith.
Terrible destruction was wrought by a
cyclone which swept over a portion of Siam,
wrecking thousands of buildings. The towns
of Chai-Ya and Bandon have been practically
destroyed and 300 of the inhabitants
killed.
The tinplate manufacturers of Wales re-1
solved to shut down for two weeks each in
December and January.
The house of John Smith, at Inverhuron,
Ontario, Canada, was undermined by a rise
in the river, and two of his children, both
girls, were carried down with the house and
drowned.
In nearly every case where the
funds held in a fiduciary capacity
have disappeared the method of easy
plunder has been due to two causes:
First, the absence of supervision, leaving
bank officers without external
check when exposed to the temptation
of cupidity or dishonesty; and, second,
the disposition of the officials to use
.ie funds intrusted to their charge in
speculative enterprises generally akiD
to pure gambling. Back of all this,
of course, is the prevalent social
theory that it is |fche duty of every
man to get rich without much regard
to the means by which he does so.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
A lazy man steals from himself.
There is nothing so brave as love.
Talent and genius have many quarrels.
The dress of trutn is always a seamless
robe.
None can know what suffering is except
those who love.
To have to look into the face of truth %
always kills a lie dead. ,
The first test of love is Its willingness
to suffer without compiaint.
There are so many reformers who never
want to do an; work at home.
Distrusting everybody is a good way to
have the friendship of nobody.
Getting the last word with a woman
has been done at last. The phonpgraph
does it. 0
The recording angel never senses a
balance on his books bv what is said of
a man on his gravestone.
No matter what its profession may be,
the love that halts and tarns back when
it sees danger coming is a sham.
The dog that barks at the moon is a
fool, bat he knows more than the one
that nips at the hind legs of a mule.
Before we condemn And despise men
for their conduct, let us be sure that spirits
just as black do not have their
abode in our own hearts.
A horse is never much bothered with
flies when he is on the dead run. You
have seen a mule on the. walk stop to 4
kick his sides, but you have never seen
a running horse do it.?Indianapolis
(Ind.) Item's Born.
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The Autocrat of the Ciar of fiussla.
One of the striking features in ths >
Russian Palace of Gatschina, we are
told, is the great Danish hound that
i.-1 l_I I..I X 1 ? aL . 1 It
Bireicnes uis puwenui irame ia sue nau
leading to the private apartment of the
Czar. This great dog, said to be the
largest pf its species m the world, was *
presented to the Czarina about four yeaw ;;
ago by her father, the King of Denmark.
It is said that the Czar took a ,
liking to the animal from the start, and
never goes on any prolonged journey
without its company. Having bat little* ;
confidence in those about him, he seems
to centre his faith in the dog as a
guardian of unfailing fidelity, and-the 1
dog apparently reciprocates the attachment.
It was reported last summer when
Nihilist rumors were rife and documents
of a threatening native found their'way
to the verv table of the Czar's private
cabinet, that the autocrat of all the Bus- sias
permitted the hotwd to sleep in the
hall adjoining his bedroom. For some
unexplained reason the dog became very
suspicions of one of the guardsmen,
and growled continually when this man *
was placed on duty as' a sentinel in the
palace. ;r.
Nothing could be shown and nothing, ,<h
was suspected against the man, but to %
satisfy the dog he was withdrawn from
sentry duty. In the case of another
sentinel it is reported in St. Petersburg
that the hound leaped upon him and'
nearly tore him to pieces the first time <
he saw him. The Czar, hearing tile
cries for help, went to the door of his r
ona^mant onH hoifilv nallarl thfl Ancr^
which obeyed bis summons. The senti-' \
i nel was found to be badly lacerated.
The Czar directed chat the injured man
should be cared for and compensated,. ;-V|
but also ordered that he never be per- '
mitted to enter the palace again. The
autocrat apparently has faith in the judgment
of the dog, whom he has named
Peter, after the founder of Russia's
greatness.?Forat and Stream.
Care for Ingrowing Toenails.
Few small things can produce more
acute pain and interfere more with the
daily routine of life than an ingrowing
toenail. This trouble sometimes grows
to such dimensions that surgical aid is
needed end the removal of the entire
nail becomes necessary, yet it is the result
of mere carlessness, and even when
well advanced can be easily remedied.
Ill-fitting shoes are the primary cause ol
?* 4-j u ~ MAiu
mis evil, aggravates ujr uuiwug uw uuu
"si a wrong way, or letting them on*
out for too k>ng a time. The>naili
should always be trimmed with an in*
ward curve at the centre of the edge.
This causes them to grow forward in a
straight shape, instead of enlatginging
sideways and thus growing into the flesh.
If they are too long in either direction, ('
front or side, they will be bent downward
and inward to the shoe, and mon
so and more quickly by an ill-fitting shoe
than by anything else. In a severe case
of ingrowing nails a somewhat heroic
remedy is ^necessary. * Surgeons use an
application * to the tender part of 9 small
quanity of perchloride of iron, which ,
which may be obtained at a druggist's, ? ,
either in fluid form or as a powder, but
its application produces quite a sensation
of burnincr oain. sufficient when onc<
experienced to induce the sufferer to fol<
low the plain directions to keep the toenails
straight thereafter. In merely
moderate cases, however, the nail ma;
be cut out, and if cut so as to keep
straight, the injured flesh will readilj
recover its sound normal condition? ,
New York Tribune.
Boots Coming in A;ain.
Mark my words, before another rar
goes by you will see all the swell^Jin
town wearing boots, says a shoemaker in
the St. Louis Globs-Democrat. For yean
there has been scarcely any demand in
the cities for long-legged footwear,
every one except countrymen, who are
obliged to wade through the mud, wearing
shoes. But for the last two months
there has been a most noticeable increase
in the demand for tine grade boots, and
the manufacturers have been obliged to
make thousands of pairs on very short
notice.
The only reason for this that I have
heard is the alleged fact that boot* do
much to prevent trousers bagging at the
knees. But, aside from this, they alford
a great protection in cold and wet
weather, and it is a good thing they are
coming into use again.
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Three Colossal Statues.
Three colossal statues, ten feet ia
height, carved from a rose colored granite,
have been found oa a promontory at
Aboukir, where they must have been
placed facing the sea. One is a standing
figure of Rameses II. dressed as a warrior,
a crown on his head and a sceptre
in his hand. The others form a group,
seated. They are Rameses II. and his
Queen Hentmara, on one and the same
throne, side by side. It is conjectured ?
that these ornaments of tbe ancient v
Zephyrium Cape were overthrown bj
Christians.?iVow York Timet*
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