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? FATAL PANIC. . Brntil Stampede in a Gateshead (England) Theatre. Children Crushed to Death by Brawny Mill Hands. A frightful panic occurred a few nights ago in the Royal Theatre, Gatesheid, England, resulting in the loss of a number of liv ?. Oia?sh?ad is a considerable city in Durham, an i as nearly the whole population is enraged iu manufacturing industries, the places, of amusement ara usually crowded. Owiug to the Christmas season, th9 Royal Theatre was thron jed, on this fatal night, xrith working people. The audience, though not unruly, indulged in more licenso than is allowed in most London theatras, and boys smoked in the balcany without any apparent objection on the part of the attendants. Taeperformancs was of a sort familiar in the provincial manufacturing places, including magic, sleight-of-hand and other variety. One of the boys smoking got so in teresced in the play that he accidentally dropped a burning match on the people below him. The match set fire to some of the fhABtri^l fnmitnw Tha slierht blaz9 com municated to a partition. a woman noticed the fire and shrieked that the theatre was burning. At once the audience was aroused, and not comprehending '..Oe exact danger, made a sudden and simultaneous rush to escape. Every aisle and avenue became packed, and the audience, which was numerous eneough to have made exit slow and difficult had there been no panic, became one panting, struggling mass of men and crying, half-suffocated women and children. The strong, hearty men from iron works an I mills snowed no pity for the weaker sex. If a woman or child fell beneath the strain, she or it was at once crushed under the iron shod heels. Men climbed on each other's beads and sought to tread over the squirming mass of humanity to safety. tVoinen pleaded for their little ones, holdinsr them above their heads as far as arms could reach, and the babes, with the breath being squeezed out of them, were saved in several instances by being grasped in the Qtmnir of men able to hold them, with one arm, above the crowd. Down the main staircase the multitude struggled and panted. The janitor, Foster, had rushed to open the door at the foot of the stairs. The solid crowd fell on him like an immense Krupp hummer, crushing the life out of his body, which was flattened to % the door. Down with him went the eight or ten ac the head of the mass, and they, too, had the lives stamped out of them. Behind shrieks and loud cries, with appeal for mercy and ex/ ecration* made a fearful scene; in front,at foot of the stairs, was the rampart of dyin? and dead, over which the escaping multitude had to climb. Meantime those on the stage had not been idle. It was soon apparent to the players that the panic had little or no cause, and they shouted appeals to the people to be still One actor, in the attire ot a magician, climbed into the balcony from the stage and implored the audience to be calm. "Re* turn to yonr seats." he cried; "there is no Are-, the only danger is in your panic." Some of those in the rear turned at his words and stopped their share of the mad struggle to get out; but the large majority heeded not the warning and pressed on. Two men, thinking they had no other way of escape, leaped from the windows into the street and were severely injured Many slid down into the pit by the supports of the balcony. When the theatre was at length emptied and the panic over it was found that ten were dead and that many others had broken limbs and were otherwise seriously injured. The fire itself, which had given occasion ' to the horror, was only a alight affair, hav* in? only burned through a thin partition, and was tasiiy extinguished with two buckets of water The city of Gateshead has been thrown into general mourning by the calamity. Many pathetic incidents occurred in the terrible rush for the doors, but it is also " stated that the display cf brutish selfishness overcame every other feature of the awfu! occurence. Within a few hours all the dead were identified. All ten were between the ages of thirteen and sixteen. The audience numbered 1200 persons. GLADSTONE'S BIBTHDAY. - ? Bis Eighty-second Celebrated in . England and France. Tho eighty-second birthday of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, the English statesman, was celebrated at his residence at Hawarden, in Wales, notwithstanding the absence of himself and Mrs. Gladstone at Biarritz, the French watering place on the Bay of Biscay, where be is seek* lng to recrait his strength in order to perform the Parliamentary duties before him. He is accompanied by 'Mrs. Gladstone and by John Morley, his close personal and political friend. Early in ttie mornin? the church bells were rung in honor of the event, and the day was observed as far as possible in the manner usual when tha family is at home. A number of congratulatory messages wore sent to Mr. Gladstone at Biarritz oy residents of Hawarden, his tenants and per* sonal and political friends in London upon reaching a hale old aze and wishing him a repetition of many birth lay anniversaries. The municipal authorities of Biarritz, France, waited upon Mr. Gladstore and congratulated him upon the occasion of his birthday. Fifteen members of the British Club, to membership in which Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Morley were unanimously a ion uct/a aisu uaiiuu upuu uiiii, presenting him with a floral crown. In the evening Mr. Gladstone paid a visit to tbe dob bouse, where he was heartily congratulated by the members. A DARING- DEED, British Troops Scale a Precipice and Rout Rebels la the Pamir. A dispatch from Calcutta, India, gives a account of another engagement on tit. Pamir frontier in which Lieutenant Mn. nera Smith and a force of 100 Kashmins in the British service displayed great gallantry. The force was divide ! into two corps of fifty men each. One was stationei at the foot of a precipice, opposite Fort Nilt, near the entranoe to a gor*e, which the Herazi-Nagar rebels had fortified with a strong stone breastwork. With tbe other corps the lieutenant dashed forward under cover of a brisk fire from the supporting party, scaled tbe precipice, spranj over the breastworks and with bullet and bayonet routed the rebels rom their stronghold. Seventy of tbe rebel* Wt3I ?7 MUD 4 OUU UI1UJT VT UUU iU-i AUU HC prisoners were taken. Pursuit was kept up relentlessly and eventually tiae British forejs capturel Gulmit, Pisau and Mayun. MURDERERS LYNCHED. They Were Taken Out ot the Sheriff's Hands by a Masked Mob. Word was received at Greeley Centre, Neb., that Joe and Dick Knuth, who murdered P?obert Kuntz, near Spauldin^, and were being taken to that place by the Sueriff, were lynched by a masksd tno i about eighteen miles north of Greeley. The Sheriff and his deouties were overpowered, the report says, and tne nieu hansel to a tre?. Raxuhmks in all parrs o? Southwest Texas report tiia^ rlie entire section is badly in* tested oy wo.ves ani coyotes. The County Scalp law, passed sis months ago, has had no effect to decrease their numbers, and the lST^ drought nas made tham desperate, ? ' r speaking or a poet laureate Tor tne World's Fair, Colonel John A. Joyce and the Sweet Singer of Michigan appear to have been overlooked. V p" V: - ; _ C'*;. ? 9 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Joseph Shadle was killed, and his brother Frank fatally wounded, by O fflcer Krouse, while they were resisting arrest, aided by their friends, in Littlestown, Penn. The three-story brie c dwelling of A. P. Pritchard, in Pittsburg, Penn., was blown to atoms by an explosion of natural gas. Mr. Pritchard, his wife and three childran, a hired boy, David Bennett, and Barbara Reich, a servant, were buried in the ruins. Isaac B. Sawtelle, while in jail at Concord under sentence of death for the murder of his brother Hiram, near Rochester, N. H., died from a stroke of apoplexy. United States soldiers at Fort Maguire N. Y., hava been doing a lucrative business smuggling Chinese over the river from the Canadian side. A boatloa 1 was intercepted and a private arrested. Fire destroyed property worth $530,000 in Boston, Mass. The firms burned out are Hosmer, Codding & Co.. and Parker, Holmes & Co., ooot and shoe jobbers. Four firemen were injure:!. Governor Abbett laid the corner stone of the Trenton (N. J.) battle monument. Since the discovery of the counterfeit $5 Treasury notes, it has been ascertained that Lawrence, Mass., has been flooded with the spurious bills. The notas bear a poor portrait of President Jackson, the engraving is scratched and the seal lightly printed. The people of Mansfield, Conn., are experiencing a reign of terror just now. For nearly five years a band of incendiaries hava burned farcn-housss, barns and factories there with impunity. Fifteen fires have followed each other in rapid succession. The influenza raged to an alarming extent throughout the Eastern and Middle States. In New York City ten deaths were reported in one day and thirteen ware reported od the orevious day. Over 200 policemen were prostrated at one time. Many members of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Police and Fire Departments were incapacitated. There were thousands of cases of grip in New Haven, Conn. The death rate was trreat. The spreadof the grip in Rochester, N. Y., was alarming. Sonth and West. State Treasurer F.J. Po.v3,of Florida, died in Jacksonville from can car of the stomach. He was fifty-eight years of age and of Spanish descent. In Choctaw County. Ala., the Bob Sims gang of outlaws killed four member of a family and wounded two others, and having robbed a store intrenched themselves in Sims's house, where they defied the Sheriff's posse. soke unknown person fired into the house of Lawson Lott, near Carrolton, Miss. Lott was fatally wounded and Mrs. W. Q. Miers, a visitor, was badly hurt. Pierce Miers was suspected of having fired the shot. A posse went to arrest him, and when he resisted he was shot dead. Fire destroyed the leading retail business houses of Chattanooga, Tana. The fire district covers an area 250 feet square. In all nineteen store rooms were destroyed, with the several stores above them. The total loss will reach $950,000. A COLLISION' occurred between two freight trains near Marquette, Jlich. Fireman Ernil Van Oppen and Brakeman John Harlocher were killed outright, and Engineer John Reanydieda few hours later of his injuries. Leu Jones was hanged at Oliver Springs, Tenn., for the murder of his wife ana caild on June 26th, 1890. Governor Fleming, of Florida, appointed Edward J. Tracv 8tate Treasurer, vice Francis J. Pond, deceased. Tracy has been the Governor's privat9 secretary Binca 1839. He is a native of Caba. Two more of the Sims gang were hanged I by the mob in Choctaw County, Ala., male* lng seven In all who have been lynched. The entire San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad system in Texas was tied np by a strike. The paralysis extended over 609 miles of the system and 85J men were thrown out. General Stanley, United States Army, commandant at San Antonio, Texas, ordered the post oommanders along the Mexican border to take the field with detach* ments and scout for the revolutionists. Washington. Christmas Dat was celebrated at th9 White House, Washington, in merry fashion. An elaborate tree was dressed in the upper corridor, on which were gifts for Benjamin Harrison McKee and Mary Lodge McKee, th9 President's grandchildren. On a table near by were Mrs. Harrison's gifts. Three or fonr other tables held presents for the President, Mrs. McKee, Dr. Scott, Mrs. Dimmick, Mr. Halford, Miss Sanger, and all the household retinue. The President presented to each employe an order for a turkey or a pair of gloves. Mrs. Harrison added to this by a personal gift. Uncle Sam's new postal cards ware placed on sale throughout the country. They come m two scyiei, ana in tae rostoffics Department they will be known as ' Class A" and "Class C." "Class B" is the old card that has b9an in use since 1873. By the general public the new cards will doubtless be known as the "ladies1 card" and the "big card." The "ladies' card" is pearl gray in color. Thi Secretary of War telegraphed General David S. Stanley, commander of the military department at San Antonio, Texas, to take decisive and immediate steia. toward purring down tue troubles on the Mexican border. Correspondence between Senator Wash* bum and Secretary Tracy calls attention to the fact that the Minneapolis millers are preparing to ship a cargo of breads tuffs to the starving Russians, the Senator suggesting that a United State; warship transport the cargo to a foreign port. In reply the Secretary says he will do all in his power to further the project. The State Department announces that United States Consul William T. Rice, the oldest consul in the service, died a few days ago at his post at Leghorn from acute pulmonics, after an illness of two days. Mr. VV hartow, the Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, contradicts the statement that the United States has agreed to pay Italy an indemnity for the New Orleans Iynchings. Since Baron Fava was recalled there has been no official correspondence with tne Italian Government. M. Jitles Patenotre, the newly-appointed French Minister, arrived in Washington, accompanies Dy M. jueprat, nis secretary, and A. F. Aula attache. The party have quarters at the Shoreham. Secretary Foster spent a short time at his office in the United States Treasury Department (or the first time sinc.j a month and a hair before, when he was taken ill in New York. Foreign. A collision* occurred near QuerenavacaMexico, in which twelve persons were killed John E. Redmoxd, Parnellite, was elected to the British Parliament froji Waterfori City, Ireiani, defeating Michael Davitt by a majority of 546. ? President Moxtt, of Chill, was inaugurated at Santiago. Minister Egan was absent from the ceremonies. All the other foreign representatives attended. There is much suffering in sb/eral Mexican States because of the lack of fooi. The Governor of Durango telegraphs that in that State people are actually dyinsf of starvation. Corn is being sold at cast to the pour. A wealthy squire named Hambeck, living at Gratz, Austria, shot two of hi* sous, six and ssvan rears of age, ani then com mitted suicide. He bad an idea that bis son?, who sta-nrajreJ, had an hereditary taint of insanity. Three men in the Genims Pas3 in the Bernese Alps, Switzerlnd. were swallowed up by an avalanche. They had tried to cross the pass, not beading the warning of their guides, who refused to accompany them. "he Right Hon. Sir William Arthur White, the British Ambassador to Turkey, died from influenza at the Kauerhof in Berlin, Germany. Mxirr lives have been lost at the Gilbert Islands, in the South Pacific, by a tidal wave. Official advices from Pekin, China, report severe fighting with the rebela,in which *.'000 insurgents were killed and fifty leaders were beheaded. HOUSE COMMITTEES. List of the Principal Appointment! Made by Speaker Crisp. Speaker Crisp has announced his appoint ments of tbe members of the House of Representatives on the various committees. Mr. Mills, who had been Chairman of the "Ways and Means Committee in the Fiftieth Consrass, has been offered the second place on that Committee by the Speaker, but declines to serve. The chairmanships have been divided no 9 I a III UII ? ma OUttlftTS as lUliuns, Aiauaiua V, Arkansas 2, Connecticut 1, Georgia 2, Illinois 3, Indiana 3, Iowa 1. Kentucky 2, Louisana 2, Maryland 3, Massachusetts 1, Michigan 1, Minnesota 1, Mississippi 2, Mis* souri 4, New Jersey 2. New York 4. Nortll Carolina 3, Ohio 3, Pennsylvania 2, Rhoda Island I. South Carolina 2, Tennessee 2, Texas 3. Virginia 2. Wisconsin 1. Total 56. The principal committees of the Housa are made up as follows: Ways ana Means?William M. Springer, Illinois, Chairman; Benton McMilliD. Tennessee; H. G. Turner, Georgia: W. L. Wilson, West Virginia; A. B Montgomery, Kentucky; J. R. Whiting, Michigan; B. P. Shively, Indiana, W. Bourke Cochran. New York; Moses T, Stevens, Massachusetts: W J. Bryan, Nebraska; T. B. Reed, Maine; J. C. Burrows, Michigan, Joseph McKenna, California; S. E. Payne, New York; John Dalzell, Pennsylvania. Appropriations?W. S. Holman, Chairman, Chairman, W. H. Forney, J. D. Sayres, W. C. Breckenridge, Kentuckv; A." M. Dockery, William Mutchler, C. 3B. Breckenridge, Arkansas; Barnes Compton, J. H. O'Neill, Massachusetts; L. H. Livingston. D. B. Henderson, William Cogswell, H. H. Bingham, Nelson Dingley, W. W. Grout. Inter-State and Foreign Commerce?A. Q. Mills, Chairman; G. D. Wise, Andrew Price, Isadore Raynor, G. H. Bickner, T. J. Geary, G. W. Houk, Ohio; S. R. Mallorv, rr? r rr ) TIU?A:A 1. ?J. nenuersuu, luiuuu, Coinage, Weights and Measures?R. P. Bland, Chairman: Charles Tracy, J. R. Williams, C. B. Kiigore,S. M. Robinson, Rice Pierce, J. Epps, 5. F. Williams. Massachusetts; W. F. McKeig'nan, 3. H. Bartine, Abner Taylor, Illinois: T. W. Stone, Pennsylvania; Ml N. Johnson, North Dakota. Rivers and Harbors?N. C. Blanchard,i Chairman; T. C. Catchings, Charles Stewart, R. E. Lester, Georgia; R. H. Clarke, Alabama; W. E. Haynes, T. A. L. Wedlock, W. A. Jones, Charles H. Paige, Samuel Byrnes, T. J. Henderson, Illinois; Binger Herman, S. M. Stevenson, W. R. Stone, Pennsylvania; J. A. Quackenbdsh. Merchant Marine and Fiiheries?Samuel Fowler, Chairman; G. W. Fithian, L. W. Moore, A. G. Caruth, J. A. Buchanan, Virginia; Robert E. De Forest, T. F. Manner, Harraun Stump, H. H. Wheeler, Michigan; Josiah Patterson, J. J. O'Neill, Missouri; Charles O'Neill. Pennsylvania; John Lind, C. S. Randall, Bellamy "Storer, J. H. Ketchum. Elections?Charles T. O'Ferrall. Virginia, Chairman; L. W. Moore, Texas; J. E. Cobb. Alabama; T. H. Paynter. Kentucky; Jason B. Brown. Indians; D. N. Lockwood. New York; T. G. Lawson, Georgia; N. P. Gillespie, Pennsylvania; George Johnstone, South Carolina: Nils Hangen, Wisconsia; A. A. Taylor, Tennessee; R. E. Doan, Ohfry H. U. Johnson, Indiana; John E. Reyburn, Pennsylvania: C. D. Clark, Wyominz. Foreign' Affairs?J. H. Blount" Chairman; J. B. McCreary, C. E. Hooker, K. E. Chipman, A. P. Fitch, J. F. Aadrewp, B. T. Cable, Isador Raynor, T. J. Geary, R. R. ? ri Tntm JtHLX/, \j? XigJl Uiri, uamoo V wuuvu, vvuu Sanford. Military Affaire?J. H. Outhwaite, Chair, man. Joseph Wheel jr, Alabama; W. C. Newberry, D. H". Patten, H. H. Rockwell. J. L. Mitchell, Oscar Lapham, E. P. 'McDonald, J. C. Crosby, H. H. Bingham. C. E. Belknap, W. W. Bowers, J. A. T. Hall Naval Affairs?H. A. Herbert Chairman. William Elliott. A. J. Cramming*, J. A. Geissenheimer, W. F. Daniell, Adolph Meyer, J. W. Lawson, Virginia: William McAleer, Henry Page, Maryland; C. A. Boutelle, H. C. Lodge, P. Dolliver, J. W Wadsworth. Postoffices and Post Roads?John 8. Henderson, N. C.. Chairman: J. H. Blount, B. A. En!ow, R. P. C. Wilson; E. J. Dnnnhy. J. D. Alderson, E. V. Brook'hire. J. C. Kyle. J. M. Pattison, Ohio; J. C. Crosby, A. J. Hopkins; J. A. Caldwell. J.L. Wilson. Washington; C. A. Bergen, E. P. . T T??,n T. Oain. UVUUf vvuw ? * ?? Invalid Pensions?A. N. Martin, Indiana, Chairman; T. F. McKtnney, R. W. Fyan, George Van Horn, H. W. 8now, G. F. Cribbe, A. J. Pierson, W H. Harries, E. F. McDonald, W. H. Batter, J. P. Fiack, A. A. Tavlor, Tennessee*, N. M. Curtis, J. J. Jolley, J. B. Robinson. Pensions?R. P. C. Wilson, Missouri, Chairman: John S. Henderson, J. H Bankhead, R. H. Norton, W. F. Parret, Charles Barwlg, W. A. Jones, C. L. Moses, Louis Stewart, EdwardSchull, Dan Waugh, J. C. Houk, Tennessee; W. W. Bowers. THE LABOB WOBLD. China has one silk mill. New York has 12,000 telegraph boys. Socialists are organizing women Chicaeo. New Tore has 5000 union females hotel hand?. The brakemen want a uniform car coup* > ling; adopted. Oystermkv and fishermen will form a National union. PxDEREWBKr, the Polish virtuoso, says we make the best pianos. Government plate printers at Washington protest against surface presses. The Denver (Col. i clerks are fined fifty cents for smoking non-uniou cigars. Boston grain handlers want fifty cents an hour and sixty cents for night work. Sixteen tons of steel pens arc exported from Birmingham, England, weekly The steel rail makers of this country now have orders on hand for 600,000 tons of rant. The Boston Stone Masons' Union recently rejected applicants who were not skilled workmen. The New York Cement Labor Union has fined a member ?8 for making unfounded statements about fellow members. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen during November paid ?86.000 for death benefits; the receipts amounted to $35,890. The Hungarian Government, which recently fixed eight hours as a day's work for miners, has increased the day to twelve hours. The Knights of Labor of Port Worth, Texas, report that in that city over fifty per cent, of tne working people are out of emi ployment. The Federation of Labor conventions at Birmingham, Ala., adopted resolutions denouncing the Chicago police for breaking up labor meetings. George Taylor, a member of Parliament in Canada, is preparing an alien labor act for the Dominion* with a view to prohibiting 1 fTnifa/4 Afotda frnm WOlKIUgmeu ilUUl tud uuiku viwm - coming over the border to work. It is proposed to hold a convention of railroad employes in New York, on January SI, for the purpose of making one organization of the four orders now existing?the conductor?, brakemen, engineers and firemen. The telegraphers will also be asked to unite. William E. 8. Fales, the well-known journalist, now in the Counsular service of the United States Government, writes from London that the match-box makers in that city ''are about on par with the tea coolies, of Ceylon. Women, by working eighteen hours a cay. canmaue W.57 per week." DROWNED HIS DAUGHTER. Revenge ot a Father For a Marriage Disnleasing Him. A despatch from Arras, France, capital of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, says that at Vitryeu Certrois a man named Le Grand, who was displeased with his daugh- J ter for having married without his consent, met her on the banks of the river Scarpe, and after upbraiding her for what he looked upon as unfilial conduct, he seized her in his arms and sprang into the water. Le Grand then held bis daughter's head under water until shs was dead, and went ' home and confessed his crime. He was sub* sequeutlj a..ested and frankly admitted having committed the crime as detailed above. J . * ' ';* ' i ^, ' ;; ' FRIGHTFUL COLLISION. Fatal Results of a Railroad Accident at Hastings, N. Y.. A Careless Signal Man to Blame for the Horror, Twelve human lives were sacrificed in the ?4-Ua U??4aAn DitfAf* PailmaH naar WrCVfc UU IUD XlUUOUU O.VIV.O* WMV. Mwm Hastings. N. Y. It was the most serious disaster in the annals of that road during the past twenty years, and one man's ignorance and carelessness was responsible for it all. Summed up in a word it amounts to this, fehst Wr a carelessness almost beyond the mind of man to understand, and tor which there is not the remotest shadow of excuse or palliation, seven men and women were slaughtered outright, four more so horribly Ecalaed, burned and mangled chat they died a few hours later, and half a dozen others so fearfully injured that if they survive they will carry to their dyinz day the fearful traces of the ordeal which they went through. And all this because a employe who was sent back to signal a train preferred to sit in a station and smoke a eiear instead of standing at his post on the tracks and attending to hiR duty. The Niasrara Falls express, which left the Grand Central Station,"New York City, at 7:30 o'clock in the evenihg, was stopped three-quarters of a mile south of Doob's Ferry, because of the temporary break down of the engine of a train ahead. Behind theNiarara express was rushing onward the heavy St. Louis express. As soon as the Niagara Falls train stopped Conductor George Wilkini sent his rear brakeman, Herrick, back 1000 yards with a red lantern, with orders to stoo the express. He took his red lantern,' and walked back toward Hastings. For some unknown reason v.a nt.t?rW iomnrwl hi? orders and went back to Hastings, where he ' entered the station and began to talk to Station Agent De Lannoy. On rushed the heavy express, while the safety of the train ahead, hidden by a curve, and. of its passengers, was in the hands of a man who gave no thought to his duty nor to th9 danger his negligence involved. The express dashed past the station, and Herrick realized the tragedy that was inevitable. It was too late. With his red lantern in his hand he stag* gered out upon the platform and listened for the crash. It came like a rumble of distant thunder. Engineer Jame3 Donohue, when too late, had seen the train ahead as his own iron monster, Engine No. 872. one of the mmt nowerful on the line, swept around the curve. He reversed bis engine, applied the air brakes and leaped just in time to savo bis life. The engine struck the sleeping car Gibraltar and tore it to pieces. Clear through the car it went, while from it9 broken pipes poured out volumes of scalding, suffocating steam, that cooked human flesh. Twentytwo people were in that fated car. By as miracle two escaped. The scenes that followed were terrible. Passengers from the other csxa peering into the wreck saw hutnan forms, and ran for the tools provided by the road for just such cases in order to release them. Three axes broke to pieces when put to use, and then tbe dead and dying men and women had to be pulled out as best they could. Many residents of that thickly settled district had heird the crash, and came to the rescue. ""omen cima, bringing mattresses ..nd tedding, and bravely helped the surgeons in their work. A corps of doctors were soon at work from the near villages. Not a wheel of the Cincinnati express left tbe track. Its engine was demolished. Th? train was backed to Hastings, and after the track was cleared all uninjured passengers were transferred to it and continued their journey north. The wounded were taken to Dobb's station, and the dead?twelve in number?to Tarrytown, to Vanderbilt's undertiJring establishment, .OUTLAWS LYNOHED. Six ot the Slim Gang Hanged by A Mob is? Alabama. "Bob" Sims, tbo outlaw, *.fter having been besieged for a day or two, in his home, in Choctaw County, Ala., by Sheriff Gavin and a posse, began a parley with that officer during the second afternoon. He had heard that a cannon had been sent for, and, rather than have the women of his family blown to pieces in their stronghold, he offered to surrender. All he asked for was that the posse should do him no harm, and that they should protect him and chose with him from mob violence. After a long debate of the officers agreed to the terms of surrender, and promised to take Sims and his party under guard to the county jail at Butler. At 4:30 o'clock the Simsites laid down their arms and came out of the house. The posse were astonished to see that instead of seven desperate outlaws there were only three men and a boy, as follows: Bob Sims, Thomas Havage and two young Savages, nephews of Sims, with four women, Bob's wife and three daughters. The men were at ones Ironed and olaced in a wagon. The women were placed in a second wagon, under guard. At 5 o'clock the proeeasion started for Butler, the county seat of Choctaw County. Sheriff Gavin commanded silence,fearing that should any discussion be raised his men might bfcotne angry and kill their prisoners. When the guard moved off with Sims and the three Savage men, for there were three of them, namely, Thomas Savage and two boys, sons of Con Savage, there remained behind the greater part of the posse that the Sheriff had attracted to the scene, and these immediately held a consultation, and after a debate, decided it would not do to permit the desperadoes one. chance of escape. So they set out in pursuit. On the way they met Con Savage, another of the Simites, and without any delay he was strung up to a tree. Later the guard was overhauled, but made no resistance. Sims and the other three were taken back to the tree upon which Con Sr.vage had been hanged, and four ropes were quickly adjusted to the branches thereof. Bob was asked if he had anything to say. He replied: "Take my hand, teel my pulse and see if I'm a coward." He and one of the Savage boys were placed in a buggy, the nooses were adjusted and the horse attached to the buggy was driven forward, leaving the men dangling in the air. The other two, father and son, were likewise speedily hanged. John Savage, who had been arrested the day before on a charge of being a member of the Sims gang, was hanged to a tree at 10 o'clcc!; tha Rame night. McCALLA KESTORED, The President Has Remitted a Portion ot His Sentence. The President has signed at Washington a paper of great interest to the United State* >avy. It was a remission ot the unexecuted portion of the sentence of suspension imposed by court martial upon Commander Bowman H. McCalla, who was tried for cruelty to his subordinates during a cruise of the United States steamer Enterprise, of which he was in command. Tha Court sentenced him to suspension for thre s years and to stand still in hi3 grade in tin 1 -* ' ? !'kio O^n FOIVU I JliettlllsilllU. X UO UlUCl v^ui J4U5 VUWIOVMIW .W. into effect was approved May 15, 1890. Nine officers in Commander McCatla's grade have passed him during this period, and it is thought that this incapacitates him froui retiring with the rank of commodore. It has been known for some months that strenuous efforts were being made by Commander McCalla'a friends to sacure a remission of the seutence. The day beforo Christmas Secretary Tracy sigue i an order restoring McCalla to duty. It is not known what duty he will be assigned to, |s he is in Europe and is not within present reacn, but it is thought that the officer will return t to is "ountry at once and be given an assignment Cit:zeks or Butte, Montana, perambulate about the streets with cloths over their beads on account of the bad fumas from tha ore dumps belonging to the many mines. '' - *' ' ' -' ? . > LATERHEW?. \ ' The Connecticut Senate met at Hartford and after actin? on the appointments "of Bridge and Ferry Commissioners, adjourned. The Clearfield Hotel livery stable, at Ajtoona, Penn., was blown up by dynamite. The debris took fire, and spreading to adjoining property destroyed five other buildings. Eight horses were also consumed. The greatest excitement prevailed, as it was feared by the people that an organized effort to destroy the town was being made. The New York State Board of Canvassers, at Albanv. after decisions favorable to thn Democratic candidates, in the disputed Senate election cases by the Conrt of Appeals, gave certificates of election to Osborne and Nichols, Democrats, and Derby, Republican, and refused a certificate to Sherwood, Republican. This gives the Democrats the control of the Legislature by a majority of one in the Senate and six in the Assembly. Tile Right Rev. John Loughlin, first Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Long Island, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., of an acute attack of gastritis. He was born at Drumbuniff, County Down, Ireland, December 20, 1817, and was therefore seventy-four years old. He had been in the service of the church for more than fifty years and for thirty-seven of Episcopal rank. Andrew Johnson*and John Allore were crushed to death by a derrick which fell upon them while they were at work on thq Electricity Building of the World's Fair grounds in Chicago, 111. A meeting of the Cabinet held at the White House to consider the Chilian situation lasted two hours. Fully one thousand female school teachers and their friends from New York, Brooklyn and New Jersey swarmed in the White House departments and Capitol a few days ago. The school mdrms had a great day and proposed to see everything before they went home. Tee American Historical Society and the Amnrlmn FnrAafcrv Association held their annual meetings in Washington. Reciprocity agreements with the West India islands and other British possessions 'were made pablic at Washington. The terms show material reductions of duty on articles which are imported largely from the United (States. Extensive bush fires have swept over the district of Albany, Wagga-Wagga, Temora and Mudgee, Australia, causing great damage to the crops. A large quantity of live stock was burned to death. The Abstaden coal mine in Altenessen, Rhenish Prussia, was suddenly flooded. AU escaped except four miners, who were either drowned or trampled to death in the panic. The Japanese House of Representatives has been dissolved by Imperial order. ? PROMINENT PEOPLE, Doh Pedro died poor. Russell Sage doit has a body guard. Bret Harte's hair is as white as snow. Speaker Crisp ia reported to possess a phenomenal memory. Tax Emperor of Germany has made his Chancellor, Caprivi, a Count. There are Ave Tavlors in the House ot Representatives, all Republicans. The salary of the Emperor of Austria amounts to n?arly (4,000, 000 yearly. Whittier is two years older than Holmes and Tennyson. He was born in 1807, they in 1809. The newly celebrated Italian composer, Hascagni, is ju?t twenty-seven years old, but looks younger. He is married, and has two children. The lata Duke of Devonshire, owned 193, COD acres of English land, lying in fourteen counties. The rant roll of his estate amounts to $850,000 per year. Sir Edwin Arnold calls Edgar Allen Foe "the Catullus ot American literature," and thinks he should be better appreciated by the reading public than he is. George William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly, lives on Staten Island, preferring the semi-rural quiet there as oettar for literary work than the gaiety of the town. W N. Pzthick, recently appointed man* ?-! r ? aging director or tne i^aiueaa launnjg w Hang Chang, who is running China at present for the young Emperor, was formerly a citizen of New York. Likutkn-ant Fremont, United States Navy, son of the great pathfinder, and Laintenant Lawrence, grandson of "Dont-giveup-the ship'' Lawrence, took lunch together the other day in New York City. A. J. Drexel and other members of the Drexel family, of Philadelphia, have given more than 000,000 for charitable purposes. This does not include Anthony J. Drexel'a numerous smaller gifts, which are compara* | tiveJy unnoticed. Of these he keeps no track himself. FIFTf-SECOND COMRESS. In the Senate. 10th Day.?Mr. Manderson, President pro tern., presided in the absance of the Vice-President. Among other bills presented are the following By Mr. Frye? To authorize the purchas^of the library of Herbert H. Bancroft, a library of information as to Western America. To amend the law providing for the measurement of the tonnage of vessels. To amend tne law relatin? to shipments, payments and discharge of seamen. To increase the safety of life ana property at sea by establishing rules for free board or load marks for deck loads The President pro tem. laid before the Senate two communications from the President. One conveyed information as to the organization of tne Board to regulate geographic names, and transmitted a capy of their findings as to the proper spelling of Bering Sea, which will be so spelled, instead ot Bebrings Sea, Chile, instead of Chili, and other spelling reforms??The Senate at 12:33 WQQD 1UI/U OACUUUVO uu tuvvtuu Uh Senator Sherman, and at 12:49 o'clock adjourned until Wednesday, January 0. In the House. 7th Day.?After the preliminary business the Speaker announced the appointment ot the various committees of the House. The reading of the assignments was listened to attentively Mr. Meredith, ot Virginia, announced the death ot hU predecessor, W. H. F Lee, and as a mark of respect the House adjourned to meet Tuesday, January 3th. FIGHT WITH MOONSHINERS. Two ot Them Killed and a United States Marshal Fatally Wounded. Meagre details have been received of a bloody encouuter near Gadsden, Ala., between United States Commissioner Charl> son and twelve deputies and a gang o! moonshiners. The officers located thi still of the moonshiners in the S--nd Mouutain gor^e and awaited dusk for the attach. As they approched the iliiot still the moonshiners opsned fire on them with Winchesters from behind a barricade ot rocks. The officers returned the lire as they crept closer, but were finally forced to retreat. Moonshiners Kirk and Sprouse were killed, anl United States Marshal Jackson was fatally wounded. A lahge wildcat chased a pretty young school-teacher tor over a mile in the hills near North Yamkill, Washington, Unable to distance her fo?, she turned on him with a parasol and he fled. Tne cat was after* wards killed, and was found to be the largest ever saen in that section. ;v'\v - ; v;v -v-i . ygb*.? >;= REV. DE. TALMAGE. I THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: 'The Nativity." Tbxt: "And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the BabA lying in a mdnger."?Luke ii.t 16. The black window shutters of a December night were thrown ooen, and some of tha best singers of a world where they all sing stood there, and putting back the drapery of cloud, chanted a peace anthem, until all* the echoes of hill and .valley applauded and encored the Hallelujah chorus. Come, let uj go into that Christmas scene as though we had never before worshiped at the manger. Here is a Madonna worth looking at. ] wonder not that the frequent name in all lands and in au Christian centuries is Mary. And there are Marys in paiaces ana Marys m caoin?, j and though German and French and Italian and Spanish and English pronounce it differently, they are all namesakes of the one whom we find on a bed of straw, with her pale lace against the soft cheek of Christ in the night of the Nativity. All the great painters have tried on canvas to nresent Mary and her child and the incidents of that most famous night of the world's history. Yet all of them were copies of St Matthew's Madonna and Luke's Madonna, the inspired Madonna of the Old Book, which we had put into our hands when we were infants, and that we hope to have under our heads when we' die. Behold, In'the first place, that on the first night of Christ's life God honored the brute creation. You cannot get into that Bethlehem barn without going past the camels, the mult?, the dogs, the oxen. The brutei , of that xable heard the first cry of the infant Loin. Some of the old painters represent the Jpen and camels kneeling that night before the newborn babe. And well might they kneed 1 Have you ever thought that Christ came amonr other things to alleviate the sufferings of the brute creation? Was it not appropriate that He should, faring t h? first few days and nights of His life on earth, be surrounded by the dumb beasts? Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a bird's nest, not a wornout horse on a tow* pain, nor a aera ireezmg in. we pwnj uuuu cow pen, not * freight car in summer tima bringing thebeeves to market without water throngh a thousand miles of agony, not a surgeon's room witnessing the struggles of fox and rabbit or pigeon or dog in the horrors of vivisection but has an interest in the fact that Christ was born in a stable surrounded by [brutes. They surely have as much right 4b this world as we have. In the first chapter of Genesis you may see that they w&fe placed on the earth before man was, thdj&sa and fowl created the fifth day, and the luadrupeds the morning of the sixttx *-.y, e,\<4 man not until the' alternoon of tha* oay^^he whale, the eagle, the lion, and all the leSTPr creatures of their kind were predecessors^*? the human family. They have the wo/* by right of possession. They have also patient for the places they occupied. What fiparmy of defense all over the land are the fsthful watchdogs. And who can tell what le world owes to the horse and camel and ox mv transportation? And robin and lark have Ay the cantatas with which they have fillB orchard and forest, more than paid for she few grains they have picked up for Air sustenance. " Standing, thft, as I imagine now I do in that Bethleheakight, with an infant Christ on the one side find the speechless creatures of God on the ?er, 1 cry look out how you strike the rowel into that horses side. Take off that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth. Remove that saddle from that raw back. 8hoot ntft for fun that bird that is too small for food forget not tojput water in the cage of , mat canary. Throw out some crumbs to those birds caught too far north in the winter's inclemency. Arrest that man wno is mamng tut one nurao un* a load heavy enough for three. Bush In upon that scene where boys are torturing a cat of transfixing brartarfly and grasshopper. Drive not off that old robin, for ner nest is a mother's cradle, under her wing there may ba three or four musicians of the sky in training. No moife did Christ show interest in the botanical world when He said "Consider the lilies," than He showed sympathy for the ornithological world when Me said "Behold the fowls|of the air," and the quadrupedal world whea He allowed Himself to be called in one place a lion and in another plane a lamb. Meanwhile may the Christ of the Bethlehem cattle pen have mercy on the suffering stockjjardi that' are preparing meat for our American households. ?ler? in Rihla gcane. how on that Christmas night God honored childhood. Christ might hare made His first visit to our vforld in a cloud, as He will descend on His next vMt in a cloud. In what a chariot of illumlnalj vapor He might hare rolled down the ski iescorted by mounted cavalry, with lighting for drawn sword. Elijah had a carnage! fir* to take Him up; why not Jesus a coinage of'fire to fetch Him down? Or overahe arched bridge of a rainbow the Lord nlht have descended. Or Christ might hai* had His mortality . built ap on earth out (t ithe dust of a garden, as was Adam, In full 0<|nhood at the start, without the introducP*y feebleness of inlancy. No, no! Chu lood was to bs honored by that event. 4 'must have a child's light limbs, and a chilf -, , dimpled hand, and a child's beaming eyerj^nd a child's llaxea hair, and babyhood waflo be honored for all time to come, and a cradle was to mean more than a grave. Mighty jjcfcdl May the reflection of that one child; <4 face be seen in all I infantile faces. hi | Enough have all those? jthers and mothers on nana u tuey nave h c j*iu in uie uuux. a. throne, a crown, a sceptf * a kingdom under charge. Be careful hi % you strike him across the head, jarringliie brain. What you say to him will be ctTkennial and millea ial, and a hundred yeaiuand a thousand years will not stop the eel stand re-echo. Do not say, "It is only a chilli Rather say, "It is only an immortal." ItMonly a masterpiece of Jehovah. H it was a child in NaamM's kitchen that told the great Syrian wHrior where he might go and get cured of tflleprosy, which at his seventh plnnge in th^Hordan was left at the bottom of the riverHlt was to the cradle of loaves, in which aHiild was laid, rocked by the Nile, that GoBpallei the attention of history. It was Sick child that evoked Christ's curative synathies. It was a child that Christ set in tlHmidst of, the squabbling disciples to te&cl^Bhe lesson of humility. We are mformec^B&t wolf and leopard and lion shall be yet domesticated that a little child shall lead ^Ln. A c'aild decided Waterloo, shornoH the army of Bluchar how they ^ftould take a short cut througn flfttio fields, when, if the old road had beeWollowed, the Prussian general would hav^fcnae up too late to save the destinies of iScpe. And to-day the child is to decide the great battles, make all the laws, settBall th9 destinies and usher in the world'sHlvatlon or destruction. Men, women, na^ns, all earth and all heaven, behold the chiH Is there any velvet so soft as a child's c^Rk? Is there any sky so blue as a child's eye^B there any music so sweet as the child's vo^H Is there any plume so wavy as a child's ^Br? Notice also that in this BibleHght scene God honored science. Who ai^Bthe three wise men kneeling before the^Bivine Infant? Not boors, not ignora^Bses, but n ? ?nW XfAlnhinrHman who USSptU, uciuuaoai ouw knew all that was to be known. ^Key were the Isaac Newtons and Herschel^Knd Far* radays of their time. Their al^Kmy was the .orerunner of our sublime JHmistrj, their astrology tbe mother of oBBrmKufficent astronomy. They had stu^Bd stars, studied metals, studied physiolodVstudied everything. And when I see tme3i scientists bowing before the beautiful babe I see the prophecy of tbe time when all the telescopes and microscopes and alfl the Leyden jars and all the electric batteries and all the observatories and all the universities shall bow to Jesus. It is much thai; wav already. Where is the college that i loss not have morning prayers, that bowing at the manger? Who have been the greate 3t physicians? Omitting the names of th9 livinf; le3t wg should be invidiou?, have we not had among them Christian men like our own Jc S9ph (J. Hutchinson and Rush and Valentiiie Mott and Abererombio and AberuethyS Who ? <u>Uniiaf,i) iTnaank 1 have Been our greai>?t> si;kiu?u>?. ~ Henry, who lived aad died ia the faitn-of the Gospels, and Agassiz, who, standing with his students among the hills, took off his hat and said, "Young gentleman, before we study these rocks let usl pray for wisdom to the God who madje the rocks." To-day the greatest doctoral and lawyers of Brooklyn and New l ork ajnd of this land and of all other lands rev?ra the Christian religion, and are not ashamali to aay so before juries and legislatures and sen- MH tea. All geology will yet bow before the B9 Book of Ages. All astronomy will yet ^B worship the Kose of Sharon. All astronomy ??K will yet recognita the Star of Bethlehem. ^B Behold also in th&t first Christmas night .^B that God honored the fields. Come in, shep- ^B herd boys, to Bethlehem and see the child. * ^B ''No," they say, "we are not dressed good enough to come in." "Yes yon are; come H in." So^e enough, the storms and the night ^B dew and the brambles hare made rough ^B work with their apparel, but none have a ' MB better right to come in. They were the first { to hear the music of that Christmas night. 9B The first announcement of a Saviour's birth BB was made to those men in the fields. HB The old shepherds with plaid and crook Tihva tnr t.hn most; nart vanished, but we H have grazing?our tfnited States pasture, fields and prairies, about forty-fire million ' sheep?ana all their keepers ought to follow V^H the shepherds of my text, and ail those who WSm toil in fields, all vine dressers, all orchard- I ista, all . husbandmen. Not only that |H Christmas night, but all .up and down the H| world's history God had been honoring H the fields. Nearly all the messiafas of re* form and literature and eloquence and lair and benevolence have come from the fields. MM Washington from the fields. Jefferson from BB the fielos. The presidential martyrs, Garfield and Lincoln, from the fields. Henry Clay from the fields. Daniel Webster from H| the fields. Martin Luther from the fields. Before this world is rieht the overflowing populations of oar crowded cities frill have to take to the fields. " \ Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to who shall sell that one apple we want at least eight of them to go oat and raise apples. Instead of tan merchants deairing to sell that one bushel of wheat we want at least eight of them to go oat and-raise wheat The world wants now more hard hands, more bronzed cheeks, more muscular arms. To the fields I God honored them when He woke op the shepherds by the midnight anthem, and He will, while the world lasts,, continue to honor the fields. Behold, also, that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Two angels an; their wings might have brought an infant' Sariour to Bethlehem without Mary's being' there at all. Whim the villagers, on the morning of December 20. awoke, by divine arrangement, and m soma unexK lined way, the child Jesus might ve been found in some comfortable cradle of the village. Bat no, nof Motherhood for. - " U. ?.. j /.f fkil ume was lAJ MO BWU, ami vuw VI. , the tenderest relations was to be tfae; maternal relation, and one of the sweetest word*, "Mother." In all age3 God has honored good motherhood. John /Wesley' had a good mother, St. Bernard had a good-, mother, SamuelBudgett a good mother,' Doddridge a good mother, Walter Scott a! good mother, Benjamin Wwt a good mother. In a great audience, most of whom were Christians, I asked that all those who had been blessed of Christian mothers arise, and almost the entire assembly stood op. Don't you see how important it is that all mother* hood be consecrated? When you hear some one, in sermon or oration, speak in the abstract of a good, faithful, honest mother, your eyee flU up with tears while you say to yourself; 4That was .Var mother." The first word a child utters is apt to .be "Mother." and the old than in his drliur dream calls "Mother! mother P. It matters not whether she was brought uo in the surroundings of a city, and in affluent home, ! and was dressed appropriately with refer* ence to the demand* of modern life, or whether she wore the old time cap and great round spectacles, and aprons at her own make, and knit your socks with her own needles, seated by the broad fireplace.' with great black logs, ablaze on a winter night. It matters not how many wrinkles crossed and recreated her fape, or how much her shoulders stooped with the tartan of a ! long life, if you painted a Madonna^ hers I WOQICI06 IDO IAC6? tt xnb a ipuuo unutt QW, had when we were sick; and. what a voice to sooth pain, and was there anyone-who could so fill up a room with peaceand purity and light? And what a saa day that was when we came hokne and she coald greet u not for her lips were forever still. Comeback; mother, this Christmas day, aad take your old place, and as ton or twenty M or fifty years ago come and open the old.' Bible as yon nsad to read and kneel In the same place where you used to pray, and loofc upon ns as of old, when yon wished us ar merry Christmas -or a happy NewYear.. Bat, no! That would not be fair to call you, ' back. You had troubles enough and aches , enough and bereavements enough while yon' were here. ' , Hall, enthroned ancestry! We are com*', insr. Keep a place right beside yon at the banquet " Slow fooMd yean! More nrifdy raa Into the gold of thst ansettlnx ?uc Homesick we are tor tbM, Calm lead beyond the sa The la With the Largest Head. Therels a man in Washington who has. the distinction of having the biggest head in the world. His name is I/>ftus Jones Parker, and his head measures a little more than thirty-six inches around. A twenty-one-inch girth is a pretty fair sized head. Mr. Parker is forty-eight years old and is a respected citizen of the National Capital. He was in business on Louisiana avenue, near Seventh'' street, until about twenty years ago, bati ' *T ? 1? 1?- looHinr* ? rAtiredi since men ue mw i/?u , life. He did not retire upon the accunau- I lations of an active business career, as * I many worthy men do, but upon a bonus I or subsidy given by three prominent jl physicians of Washington, who wanted' fl to secare his remarkable head for an I autopsy when be came to shake off the mortal coil. He was then twenty-eight 1 and the. enterprising medicine men I thought that he would not hold out much M longer. They could not see how a man with as big a head for a little body to feed it could hang on beyond thirtythree years, 'the average of human life, So the endowment was set aside for hi maintenancy, the conditions being thaKM he should not permanently leave the District of Columbia and that they should have his body for scientific purposes when he had no farther use for it. I had a talk'with this great physicial curiosity not long ago. He has a pretty clear head; but there is a striking -i?.* v;. man fill nrnrpsses peculiarity ouuu? uu r. which has led some peopie to think that he has in his prodigious head two distinct sets of brains, which sometimes work in unison and sometimes do not. It is this singular feature of the little man's make-up that has excited the won-i der of the doctors. Dime museum peoJ pie hare been after him for ten years i but family pride ha9 led him to refusi some good offers. He remarked, with < glance of cool shrewdness, that if it was any object for me to know it, two oi the doctors who put up the bonus were dead. Then, after a pause, he added: "In regard to the third, I think my lease of life is about a3 good as his." A good many people about Washington think that it is a simple ease of hydro' cephalus, though this is seemingly nega< tived by the fact that this peculiar ail'' ment has never been known to allow iti virtim to eniov fortv-eisjht years of life, good health and good wit. Loftus Parker is one of the character! of the capital. He is as distinctively an individuality as Beau Hickmaa, the most noted of all Washington characters, and is a figure at all outdoor aoinga of the gay political metropolis. Music is one of his passions. It is singularly like the case of Blind Tom, but of course he has greater intelligence. He is a very religious man, and is a member of the Metropolitan Metho dist Church. He was even aa interesting tigure at Parson Newman's fervid dis. courses, and helped along with the wor> ship by his fine singing. He has a good tenor voice, which has some note3 remarkable for sweetness and vigor.? I Pittsburg Dtipatch. jm