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% ~mmm~ ticks. > Important Late . Dispatches From Far and Near. William McKinley Inaugurated Governor at Columbus, Ohio. fA WILLI AX M'KINLKY. William McKinley, Jr., was inaugurated fiorernor of Ohio at Colucabus with much wemony. At 11:30 A. m. the Legislature, flapreme Court, State officers and members f the press assembled in the Senate ChamWr, and there, preceded by Governor Campbell and Governor-elect McKinley, arched to the rotunda of the Capitol, where a stand had been erected for the cereaonies. Usually these have taken place on ,#e eastern terrrce of the Capitol, but Major McKinley having just recovered from the crip, it was deemed prudent not to expose at to the wintry blasts without After an introductory speech by Governor Campbell Ci?ief-Ju8tice Marshall J. Williams, of the Supreme Court, administered the oath of ?ffice to Major McKinley, who then delivered Ikis inaugural address. in bis address the Governor, among other filings, recommended that ample provision made for Ohio's exhibit at the World's Dur in Chicago; spoke of the need of good tenantry roads in the State and the desiraflality of legislation to secure better highWays; called attention to the importance of neking every possible provision for the bettor protection of railroad employes, SO,OJO ml whom are employed in the State, and graised the wording of the new Ballot Law. (Ihe advisability of providing but one method teC marking the baliot was suggested, and also dearer definition of the duty of counties tend city boards. Paragraphs of the address Jwero devoted to public institutions. State aoa%cesand taxation, and the subject of Congressional redisricting of the State. Terrible Wreck. a fenrihla wrwck occurred on the Monon Railroad, two miles from Crawfordsville, I Ind. A broken rail threw four of the five ears, composing the north-bound passenger train, down a sixty-foot embankment. The Jolkming-named persons were killed: Benjaaain Hamburg, Cincinnati, commercial traveler; Mme. Ina Van Rokey, City Club '.Burlesque Company. Over forty people were injured. The first car was the baggage, express and tail coacb. It slid down the hill first. All its occupants escaped with bad injuries. The Mcond car was a combination baggage and vaaenger car. This remained on the ties. It contained nothing but the baggage and eenery of the City Club Burlesque Company, the twenty-three members of which were on boar v.. The first passenger coach rolled over three ' (times. It was full of passongers. The stove f is turned and soon the car was ablaze. The Inbeman and a passenger were throftrn jagainst the stove. This car was destroyed bj fire, but the passengers all escaped death. The next car was the ladies' coach. It -was torn to pieces, nothing being left but the trucks. In this car the greater number f persons were injured, and it was here also 'fee killed were found. The parlor car was -the last coach and after rolling over landed , .against some trees and partly on top of the car in front. J -> -~l nf XD0 WUUUUtJU wore W*nou iaj wu<7 uuuto v/a. Vr. Elmore, near by, where they were cared for by the doctors. The engineer reports that when the train approached the spot where the accident occurred two section men :*r?reat work. They have not been seen - face. A Circus Man Hanged. Frederick Thomas Storey, aged forty, formerly out-door manager ot Cook's Cir ens, in Greenock, was hanged for the murder ot Elizabeth Stewart, the widow of a reus periormer. On the night of the crime he followed the deceased, after the performance, and, having caught hold of her, said: "Why do you tre&t me like a dog?" On Mrs. Stewart's attempting to escape, IBtoi ey drew a knife and stabbed her in the 'left breast. She died immediately. W hen arrested, the following curious letiter was tound on the Drisoner: "Dear John: It is the last day I shall lire. Think of me not carelessly; how much lharc thought of you and your interests! A t >-*ia? nati spoiled my prospects in life; by th? ima you receive this she will be *lo? ' T Mnnrtt. h?ln it* nft rlmiHf vnu will tbior: mo vary foolish." Storey slept lightly that night,but dreesed limself with scrupulous care, ate a hearty Ireakfast and died with perfect composure. Fatal Boiler Kxploslon. The boil?r in a pork-packing factory at Brir,jre?ort, near Morristown, Penn., exJlodH." Tue killed were: John Shaw, of bmho'noc':en,and John Myers. The injured are Benjamin Shaw, Thomas Hendren, Walter Wuicuian, Oliver Baker, engineer; William Kenwood, William Hillebrecht, Kurtz Law. The injured were taken to Charity Hospital, where Hendren died. A National Bank Closed. The First National Bank of Muncv, Penn., was closed by United States Bank Examiner E. H. D-ajfler. On the tatter's arrival the vault could not be opened, and an expert was cal.ed in. The bank has not been doing a profitable business for some time, and has met with heavy losses in loaning money. There was $70,00J on deposit at the last statement, and now there is a shortage of J40.000. Captain J. M. Bowman is President: Baker Bowman, Cashier, and James H. .bowman and B. Landcake, Directors. Many of the stockholders are wealthy men. Two Children Burned to Death. David Buckner and wife, who reside at Bmithton, Mo., locked their children in the house when they left home to vUit a neighbor. During the absence the building was destroyed by fire and a boy seven years old and a girl five years old were burned to a crisp. A BONFIRE OF BONDS. Wealth a Dying Miser Tried to Barn Saved and Then Stolen. ^ A miser named Hilton, living near FrankSo, Ky., found himself at death's door some awwit.hu ago. He quarrelled with his wife, wti/1 in order to keep his wife from enjoying his estate he made a servant bring him a aail-keg, which he placed on the fire. Hilton's maiden sister rescued the keg, in which she found *7tJ,(XW in bonds. She took these home with her for safekeeping. "When Hilton 'tied and au administrator was appointed nis sister sjuoiuoiv. ~ package o? bonds, but was surprised to tind that all but $17,030 had bssta stolen. City Marshal S tail ford, oI Franklin, came to Nashville some weexs ago, cashed some coupons irom the missing; bonds, and was arrested on a charge of bringing stolen property into the State, Unknown persons have surrendered to Hilton's administrator <22,000 in bonds, and the case against Stanford will not be prosecuted. Jobs Diktel. a fat man on exhibition at Cincinnati, Ohio, died a few days ago of la grippe. The big man was a native or Baltimore, Md. He followed the trade of butchering. He weighed over 703 pounds, ftnd buffered severely during his illness. I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, ' Eastern nnd Middle StatA Av explosion of gas at the Neilson Co J" err, Shamokin, Penn., killei Philip Desert and Paul Crunzie and injured six others. Charles S. Quackkn'Busfi. son of a former Mayor of Albany, N. V"., fatally shot his wife and killed himself in Newark, N. J. Captain* Robert F. Bradford, United. States Navy., was found dead in bed ? * Portsmouth, N. H. The probable car was heart failure. He was for several yei. Commandant or the Kittery (Me.) Navy Yar.1. Daniel Barnard, Attorney-General of New Hampshire, died at Franklin, N. H. He was born in 1827. Fire which broke out in Charles S. Fuerst's fancy goods store, Jersey City, N. J., con sumed that store and the clothing store o? Mrs. G. W. Clerihew and damaged aljoin ing property. Loss about <300,000. The United States monitor Miantonomoh returned to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy xara rrom uaramei's os> iu?? ful test of her guas and machinery. Ex-Chief of Police Wilson* D. Snyder bled to death at Bethlehem, Penn., by rupturing a bloodvessel while lifting a whole beef on a wagon. He was a powerful man and shouldered 600 pounds easily. The New Jersey Legislature organized at Trenton. James J. Bergen, of Somerset, was elected Speaker The Sibley seed building, and a chapel in Rochester, N. Y., were destroyed by fire?-. loss, $125,000. south and West. A meeting of cotton planters of the South was held in Memphis, lenn. Joseph Clark, representing an English syndicate, has bought twenty-three, or all but six, of the flour mills in Utah. The transaction involves $1,800,000 for the plants and $350,000 for stock now on hand. Charles W atkins, a mulatto, was hanged in Salem, Va., for the murder of his wife, on April 7, 1891. The Democratic members of the Mississippi Legislature met in caucus at Jackson ana adopted a resolution to the effect tbat they will make no nominations for United States Senators to succeed George and Walthall. This means the re-election of these Senators to succeed themselves. Three men were killed and three others seriously, if not fatally, injured bv the explosion of a boiler at Chicago, 111. The building is very large, and is occupied by numerous small manufacturers. Those killed were ail young men. The jail at Reyville, Miss., was broken open by about one hundred lynchers, who took Cal Foster and Horace Disbuson, two colored men, charged with the murder of a Hebrew peddler, aud hanged them to a tree near the jaiL The prisoners acknowledged their guilt. At Challis, Idaho, in a quarrel over 18, L. Kestler stabbed George Jacoby. The latter then shot Kestler dead. Jacoby died after mfi>ana W&rdS. xaej were iiigui/ ic^Dvvuuv....^.. The main building of the State University of Missouri, at Columbia, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $400,000. Later details in regard to the mine disaster at Krebs, Indian Territory, place the number of dead at sixty and wounded at 117. All the street cars in Indianapolis, Ind., were "tied up" by -strikers. Fire wiped out a large part of Clarks* ville, Mo., including the El^in Opera House, the "IP' line depot and the Sentinel office buildings. The damage was $50,000. The heaviest snow Texas has experience! since March 0, 18S0, fell from 3 to 6 o'clock; The thermometer registered twenty degrees. The ground was bara and dry and beld the snow. Sleigh riding was indulged in by many who never before enjoyed such sport in Texas. Washington. Rear-Admiral Christopher Raymond Perry Rodoer3, United States Navy (retired), died a few days since in Washington. He was the son of Commodore George Washington Rodgers and Anna mana, sister or ooujoiuiuio *. ?u j, uo r. >w born in Brooklyn, N. Y? on November 14, 1819. Secretary Blaise recovered from his recent jilness and attended a Cabinet meet* ing at tbe White House. Secretary Noble has received a letter from a man at Boston, Mass., in which he encloses his pension check, and says he voluntarily relinquishes his pension, as he does not wishfurchsr assistance from the Government. The President has remitted the unexpired portion of the court martial sentence in the case of Commander George A. Bycknell,who was tried in May last for the wreck of tbe United States man of war Galena and sentenced to one year's suspension. Mrs. Harrison*, wife of the President, held at the White House her first public reception for the season, and there was a constant stream of callers- She was assisted by the wives of Justice Gray and Justice Brewer. The railroad companies entering Washington have reached an agreement to charge one fare for the round trip from any point to the city during tbe National Grand Army Encampment The revenue cutter Gallatin will be a total loss. The diver found her broken in two in the middle. The United States Treasury Department has directed that an investigation be institute.), with a view of fixing tbe responsibility tor tne accident. Carroll D. Wright's report as United States Commissioner of Labor shows that his department was operated during the last fiscal year within the appropriation. The amount allowed him was $153,870, and he turned back into the Treasury $335. The President gave a reception at the White House to the Diplomatic Corps. ' Representative O'Neil, of Massachusetts, has stirred up the department clerks in Washington by suggesting that they work eight hours a day instead of six and one-half hours as they now do. Foreign. Severs snowstorms, accompanied by intensely cold weather, prevailed in many parts o? the United Kingdom. Railway traffic has been greatly impeded. The farmers have sustained heavy losses through their sheep perishing in the drifts. The snow is so deep at Windsor, England, that it has stopped the royal hunts. The storm at Belfast, Ireland, was the worst known for many years and caused a complete suspension of traffic. Martinez, the condemned murderer, was shot at the City of Mexico, Mexico. Before he was executed he attacked the chief detective and dangerousiy wounded him. He attempted to escape but was recaptured,tied and then shot, He died blaspheming. The sight was sickening. The continued occupation of Egypt by Great Britain is favored in Germany an" opposed in France. The funeral of the Khedive took place in Cairo. A British Cabinet Council, with Lord Salisbury presiding, was held in London. At* 1 his meeting it was decided that Prince Abbas, the eldest son of the late Tewfik Pacha, should be made Kbedive of Egypt without a regency. It is thought certain that France will protest against this order of things. A.v explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Wolfe Bank coal-pit at Essen, Germany. Six lers were killed and seven were terribly .k ?? 1 revolt, said to be allied to the Garza movement, broke out in the Mexican town. Ascencion. The rioters killed the chief magistrate and his secretary and gained possession of the town. Three insurgents were killed and many persons on both sides fatally wounded. By the Dremature explosion o! a blast at Merrili's Mines in Templeton Township, Canada, three men were killed. 'i raffic is impeded by snow in the North of Irelauii. In Tyrone a funeral procession became lost in the storm, an i it was necessary to abandon the hearse. The eig of Commander Evans, of the United States cruiser Yortftown, was stoned at the Valparaiso (Chile) passenger mole by eouajoiA jo sjjjeoi on sja.vi ejaqj, psjuipntn ijqtJJoq Snwq ipoq ei?ji[ sjt 'Aq JBau paap Xti['aejqj paS?'pnqo A*iuo axaqx 'puBf^ua 'uopuo'j 'aesjf) poo paq at psap punoj 9jcm anvsjii sio.MVH^ -shji auv -ayj; ^insnt eq; joj pazjS -o{cddB oqm 'jsoffio jotnas jvabu ubinqo ?qi o) p9niB{dmoo subajj jopabtatuoq -seipmoj ou the parents' bodies, and it is supposed that while temporarily insane they took poison and killed the little one. The French Chamber of Deputies at Paris re-elected M. Floquet as President of that body. LATER NEWS, James A. Bailet, of the Barnum & Bailey show, has purchased the full rights of the Adam Forepaugh show, opened by the estate of James E. Cooper, of Philadelphia, Penn. The failure is announced of W. H. Chaffee & Co., cotton factors, of New Orleans, La.- assets, $700,000; liabilities, $320,000, Frank Brow.v, of Maryland, was inaugurated Governor at Annapolis. Senator Sherman was re-elected at the joint session of the two houses of the Ohio Legislature at Columbus. Dh. Flavius M. Wilder, a well known physician of Chicago, III., was shot and instantly killed at noon by John Redmond, recently discharged from an insane asylum. Captain Schley's final report on the Baltimore affair was received at the United States Navy Department. Senator Dolph gave a dinner at Washington in h<por of Senator David B. Hill, of New York. Covers were laid for eighteen. The guests seated included Senators Walthall, Blackburn, Carlisle, Cockerell, Gordon, Hiscock, Hoar, Piatt, Vilas, Sawyer, Casey, Daniel, Squires, Faulkner, Carey and Vance. A great fire, which cause J a damage of $2,500,000 broke out at Watson's soap works, Leeds, England, and raged all day, destroying the depots of the Northwestern and Midland railways and a large number of other buildings. A fireman was roasted to death beiore the eyes of his associates. Five more refugees from the American Legation at Santiago, Chile, and two from the Spanish Legation were taken aboard the United States cruiser Yorktown. The American, Spanish and Italian Ministers acted as their escort. FIFTY-SECOND CONGEESS. ____? In the Senate. 12th Da.Y.?After the aDproval of the journal Mr. Hill, of New York, was sworn in. He was placed on the Committees oC Immigration, Territories, Executive Departments and Relations with Canada Mr. Dolph reported favorably a bill makinz an appropriation for and authorizing the "construction of elevators on the Pacific coast Other bills were offered: Providing for the erection of a monument to the Revolutionary General, Nathaniel Greene, on the site of the battlefield of Guilford; a joint resolution regarding the improvement of the harbor of Philadelphia; providing for a loan of money to Indiana farmers; to regulate commerce carried on by telegraph Mr. Morgan's resolution for an inquiry into the condition of th9 Nicaragua Canal was passed. 13th Day.?The Brussels treaty to su:> press the African slave trade and a commercial arrangement with th9 Congo Free State was ratified Mr. Teller introduced a joint resolution for an international silver congress A large number of bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar The Senate went into executive session at 1:27 and confirmed a large nuaioer of appointments. 14th Dat.?lhe Vice-President laid be fore the Senate some messages from the President, but they referred exclusively to Indian affairs A bill was passed providing for two new revenue cutters for the Pacific Coast Mr. JDolpli reported favorably on the bill to appropriate $100,030,000 for coast defence and fortifications. 15th .Day.?The committee vacancies left by the death of Mr. PJumb were filled, except that in the Appropriations Committee The resolution of Air. Mitchell for the relief of the Court of Claims was discussed and referred The oath of office was administered to Mr. Jones, of Nevada, upon his re-electiou Mr. Paddock reported favorably his pure food bill of last Congress Mr. Carlisle introduced a bill to provide for the building of military telegraph lines. In the House. 9th Dat.?Speaker pro tem. McJfillin called the House to order promptly at noon, and proceedings were opened with prayer by Chaplain Milburn A number of executive documents and communications were laid before the House, and ra terra J to appropriate committees The call of States for the introduction of bills, etc., was then resumed, and a large number wen presented. 10th Dat.?The Speaker pro tem., Mr. McMillin in the absence of the Speaker, called the assemblage to order-?Mr Breckinridge, of Kentucky, tried unsuccessfully to introduce a resolution looking to the repeal of the reciprocity cause of the Tariff law?-A large number of bills were introduced. 11th Day.?E. B. Taylor, ot Ohio, reported a bill fixing the time and places of holding the Circuit and District Courts in the several divisions of the northern district of Iowa. The bill passed without division, the first of the session?On motion of Mr. O'Ferrali, Chairman, the Committee ou Elections was authorized to sit during the sessions of the House?Mr. Long, of Texas, introduced a bill to encourage and develop silk culture in the United States under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. 12th Day.?Mr. Hoiroan introluced a resolution to limit expenditures A resolution authorizing the Committee on InterState and Foreign Commerce to sit during the sessions of the House was passed Mr. Boatner introduced a resolution directing the Committee on Judiciary to investigate the charges against Aleck Boarman, Judge of the Western District of Louisiana. flATVDTNAL MANNING DEAD. The Aged Catholic Prel ate Expirej in London. Cardinal Manning, who for some time bad been ill with influenza, in London, died suddenly a few days ago. During; the day of his death he received the blessin? of the Pope, which was telegraphed to the badside of the sufferer from Rome. The Cardinal also received the last sacrament when nearly all hope of saving his life had been abandoned. The physicians of Cardinal Manning announced during the evening that they could no longer hold out any hope for th9 recovery of their patient. His Eminence's malady was bronchitis, complicated with congestion of the lungs. The Cardinal was able, in the aft?r- ! noon, to make formal profession of his faith, the impressive and touching ceremony be- | 4 ? ? fka nroconf?fl of the I JUK UVOCl 1U ~ r*. full-robed. canons of' tae diocese, j who were ranged around the bed. Afterward the venerable prelate feebly uttered his blessing upon the canons. Telegrams were sent to the Pope, Cardinal Ixibboos, and others high in the Church, apprising them o? the expec ted demise of the sufferer. iho < dying Cardinal lay in a small badroDtn at tho top of the Archbishop's house, West> ipinster, which he had occupied as his sleeping apartment since 18(35. Death nnaliy oame, and the aged prelats passed peacefully away. HICCOUGHED TO DEATH. The Strange Complaint That Killed a Connecticut Man. The long suffering of Samuel William Hodges, of No. 151 Warren street, Bridgeport, Conn., was ended by death a few nights ago. For years he had been troubled with a stomach ailment which induced long periods of hiccoughing. He tried all sorts of remedies witn little avail. He seemed to be better when, four days before his death, he was seized with a fit of hiccough* ing, which would yield to no treatment. He died soon after he had stopped hiccoughing. He was seventy-seven years old and his constitution had been completely undermined i by this peculiar complaint. ' HUNDREDS DROWNED. The Steamer Namchow Sinks With All on Board. A Terrible Panic and Fight Among Chinese Coolies, A cablegram from London, England, says: A despatch from Hong Kong, China, says the steamship Meifoo has brought the news of the wreck of the steamer Namchow. From the few details it is learned that the propeller shaft of the Namehowsnapped in two while that vessel was plunging in a heavy sea, the regulators not having power enough to control the shaft while the propeller was whirling out of water during a head plunge. When the shaft carried away the sea rushed into the shaft alley, which, with that part of the stern of the vessel from which the shaft protuded, was badly damaged by the accident. The water quickly made its way into the hold; the stean pumps were put to work, but the fires of the engine room beinz extinguished by the rising water, they were soon useless, and the Namchow began to settle down. When the Arse signs of danger became known there was a terrible panic among the' 31)0 01* 400 Chinese passengers on board. The officers did everything possible to allay the fears of the passengers, but the Chinese acted more like a lot of raving maniacs let loose tbau lise human beings in their senses. Tney crowned into the boats, and so hamfjered the officers and ere win taeir efforts to ower tbem tnat it was soon seen tbac escape by that means was an impossibility. The panic-stricKen Chinese were not to be cowed1 to order even by the pistols of tae officers ancl the steamship went down with the Chinese and few Europeans battliug desperately for possession of tae boats, for the lifeboats, for spare spars, or other means of cafnfv Several of the boats, partly io wared, werj overturned, as the vessel was sinking, oy the crowd of Cuinese who had force:! their way into them. Several Chinese and Europeans are reported to have been killed, by Knife 11;rusts and pistol shots during this horrible struggle tor lite. For a short time after the Namchow sank the water around the spot where she descended was fairly alive with human being*, vainly attempting to keep their heads afcove .\ater. Here and thero upon pieces of wreckage Chinese and Europeans were to be se9n for a time, clinging lor life, but tne angry seas soon swept them under, never to rise again. The steamer Meitoo was supposed to have rescued the few survivors who furnished this account of the wreck of the Namchow. The latter vessel is described as an AngloChinese trading steamship engaged in the coasting trade in Chinese waters. Over 400 souls are said to have been lost by the disaster. THE TEMPORARY SPEAKER, Benton McSIlllin, of Tennessee, is Crisp's Substitute. K.YTOX M'HUXIir. Daring Speaker Crisp's illness Benton Mo MtlUn, of the Fourth Tennessee District, has acted as Speaker of the National House of Representatives. Mr. McMillin was born in Monroe County, Ky., September 11, 1845. He was educated at Philomath Academy, Tennessee and Kentucky University, at Lexington. He began to practice law at Celina, in 1871, and was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Tennessee Legislature in November, 1874, and served oat his term; was commissioned by the Governor to treat with the State of Kentucky for the purchase of territory in 1875; was chosen Elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1878; was commissioned by the Governor Special Judge of the Circuit Court in 1877; was elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fif tv-first Congresses, and was reelected to the Fifty-second Congress as a Democrat, reoeiving 14,5 14 votes, against 7630 votes for C. W. GiuTett, Republican, and 523 votes for J. R. Goodpasture, Prohibitionist HIGHEST-PRICED HOESE. The Trotter Ariou Sold, by Senator Stanford for $150,000. Arion, the greatest two-year-old the world has ever seen, has brought at San Francisco, Cah, the highest price ever paid for trotting horse-flesh. Axtell brought $105,000, but J. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston, agreed to pay Senator Leland Stanford 8150,000 for the mighty sou of Electioneer. Two months ago Arion made a record of 3.10% at Stockton, Cal. ? i ii. nat. u.?I. Li.U iinOZl 15 & Dfty COlbf m twu uauua ui^u auu i was foaled March 18, 1889. His sire was the I iliusirious Electioneer and his dam Nanette, sister to Wood nut (2.16>?). FOUND THE PUMAS. Disastrous Termination of a Hunt for Wild Beasts in Ohio. The greatest hunt ever undertaken in Ohio i took place near Leipsic, when 700 men and fifty hounds turned out to run down two pumas which for two weeks had been preying on live stock in the neighborhood.' The beasts were encountered early in the afternoon, much to the sorrow of both hunters J and hounds. The fight was kept up until dark, with the j result that seven of the hunters were dangerously injured, at least two of them fatally, and that nine of the bounds are dead. The pumas are still feeling well THE FIRST ROPE BROKE. I, l'ben the Sheriff Had to Go to Town For a New One. William McCoy was hanged at Homerville, Liberty County, Cfcu, for the murder of John W. Bowie last September. At the first attempt to hang McCoy the rope broke, * " <- l?J inf/i trtwn for ft I and me oneriu. uou u# ? ? ? _ new one. The second attempt was not made until an hour afterward, anci was success!ul. Tne hanzing was private, and was witness?.! only by the court officers and newspaper men. ALL THE FAMILY DEAD. . I Four Adults and Two Children Sue cumb to the Grip. A German family consisting of six mam bers have been found dead in their isolated dwelling near Reihweisen, in the Sudetic Mountains, on the Bohemian froatier. Evidences existed that the four adult members had died of influenza, having been unable to secure medical attendance, and that the two J children perished from starvation. There were 4093 miles of new railway constructed between January 1, 1891, and January 1, 1892, which brings the total mileage of the United States up to 171,106. This is a decrease of 1574 miles from last year's figures, and the smallest mileage built during any year since 1885, during which only 1S31 miles of track were laid, PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR. Death of the Heir Presumptive to tbe British Throne. PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR. Prince Albert Victor, whose marriage engagement to the Princess Victoria of Teck was announced a few weeks ago, is dead, after a short illness. Immense crowds gathered about the gates of Marlborough House, the Prince of Wales's London residence. As soon as the bulletins from Sandriugham Hal), where the Prince was dying, were received bv telegraph they were posted on the gates. Great sympathy was expressed, and many telegrams of inquiry from other countries were received. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, K. 0-., Duke of Clarence and Avondale, was the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, and was therefore in the line of direct succession to the throne of Great Britain. He was born on January 8, 1864. In' 1877 he entered the navy as a midshipman and passed two years on board the Britannia. In 1879, with his brother, Prince George, he went to the West Inline t.ha Rn<v*h*nfc** and in still on the Bacchante, the two Princes traveled around the world to South America, Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Xu October, 1833, Prinze Albert Victor went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied there until the summer, when he went to Heidelberg; in 1884 he went to Aldershot to study "military science," and in 1885 was made Lieutenant in the Tenth Hussars; in 188S he became Captain, ani jn 1889 became Major; in 1899 he was raise! to the peerage by the titles of Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and Earl of Athlone; in 1383 he was '"invested" with the OrJer of the Garter. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Congressmen Mills, Hatch and McMillln hail from Kentucky. "Gold Curs" Keeley's profits have been estimated at $1,175,000 a year. W. D. Howells, the novelist, is to get $17,000 a year for editing the Cosmopolitan. Gladstone is said to be the greatest, as fell 83 the most versatile, talker of the century. Mr. Crisp is the thirty-3econd man who has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Lord Salisbury has been at the head of the Conservative government of Great Britain since July 21, 18S6. The late Senator Plumb, of Kansas, would dictate one letter, read another and carry on two conversations at the same time. Senator C. N. Felton, of California, Is the richest of the new Senators. He has 11,000,000 to every three of Senator Stanford. Lieutenant ZaLinskt, the inventor of the pneumatic dynamite gun, is seriously ill in San Francisco, CaL, with some mental disease. Henry P. Aldkn, who died a few days at Dctxbury, Mass., was a direct descendant in the seventh generation of John Alden, the Puritan. In becoming Bishop of Massachusetts Dr. Phillips Brooks exchanges a salary of $10,000 as the incumbent of Trinity pulpit, Boston, for one of 14000, the salary allowed the Bishop. M. Du Mattrizr, the famous English social caricaturist, has for some time been without the sight of one eye and the other is considerably affected. His work is done on a large scale and reduced by the engraver. M. Jules Patenotre who succeeds M. Theodore Rous tan as French Minister to the United States, Is a tall, distinguished lookins: man about forty years of age. His complexion is dark and he wears a black mustache. Ex-Ma yob Campbell, of Youngstown, Ohio, though blind since he was years old, became musician enough to teach the | study of it, studied law and graduated from the Harvard law school, and successfully edited a paper in Ohio for eight years. Anthony j. Drixel, whose name has been made famous beyond the banking circles of the world by his magnificent endowmentof the Drexel Institute, at Philadelphia, Penn., is a vigorous-looking man of high forehead, fine, bright eye, and straight; powerful nose. So sue idea of the tremendous strain under which the late Senator Plumb, of Kansas, labored can be gathered from the fact that there are now more than six thousand claims for Kansans pending- in the Pension Bureau which had been filed and pushed forward by Senator Plumb. * James Whitcoitb Riley is said to make $5000 a year from his poems, and $15,000 from his readings. When visiting New York he spends a good deal of time in old book stores, or walking up and down Broadway watching the people and looking in shop windows. tie accepts very lew 01 me m? vitations which are showered upon. h.irar but likes the company of a few chosen friends. Prince George, of Greece, who saved the Czarewitz Irom a Japanese assassin several months ago, has recently performed another heroic deed. While on board a vessel in the Bay of Piraeus during a heavy storm he saw a boat capsize, in which was a sailor bound for bis snip. Instantly the Prince sprang overboard, seized the drowning man and swam with him to a point where help was possible. Congressman McMillik, of Tennessee, says that he was a physical wreck at nineteen, though now he is one of the most, robust members of the House. In his youth he was a martyr to dyspepsia and had the additional ailment of weak lungs. By means of dieting tor a tew years and taking a daily walk followed by a cold bath ha cured nimself so completely that nowadays he compares his stomach to that of an ostrich. AT A TIGHT-ROPE WALKING-. Three Men Dead as rhe Result of a Race Row in a Village. A riot occurred at Micanopy, Fin., between the whites and the colored people, in which W. Jefferson Chitty, a well known citizen, and a colored man named John Jones were killed. The mob that evening lynched Henry Hinson. the colored man who murdered Chitty. The riot took place about 10 o'clock in the evening. A tight-rope walker was givin? an exhibition in the public square, and nearly the whole village had turned out to see the exhibition. Tbe whites were on one side and the ramnla nn thaothar. Hinson walked over from the colored side o' the crowd to the other. Chitty stepped up to him and requested him to "go back among bis own people. This aneered the colored man and ten minutes later he returned and walking up to Chitty aime l a revolver at him and shot him twice through the heart. Cuitly died in twenty minute*. Within the next live minutes twenty shota were fired, and in the semi-darkness the murderer escaped. When the smoke cleared away John Jone?, a chum of the murderer, was found dead in the street several blocks away. Marshal Purdy mustered a pos^e of armed men and started in pursuit of Hinsou. They scoured the country and finally found him in a house five miles from town. He was brought back to town just after midnight. He acknowledged his guilt and the Marshal put him in jail with a strong guard about it. At 2 o'clock in the morning a mob appeared I at the jail and dragged the murderer out and I -hanged him in the square. FATAL MINE DISASTER Scores Killed by an Explosion in Indian Territory. Many Bodies Becovered Charred Beyond Eecognition, A dispatch from Sonth McAllister, Texas, says: The lives of about 200 miners working in shaft No. 5 of the Osage Coal and Mining Company, situated at Krebe, Indian Territory, have been lost by an explosion which occurred there about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The day men had just come to the shaft and the night men, with their lamps and kettles, had gone down to take up their ten hours? work. Suddenly a'loud, rumbling report was heard and the earth shook aa though by an earthquake. This was followed a minute latter by the escape of a large puff of smoke from tbe mouth of the main shaft , The day men already up had not yet started for their cottages, and they realized at once that the explosion was in the mine. Their first though was to rescue the 340 poor fellowB who were known to be in the pit A frightful difficulty was met at the outset The lower portion of the shaft had become blocked by a mass of debris hurled from the siding when the shot was fired which ignited the gas and caused the terrible blow-up. As many of the men who had been relieved had congregated near the cage ready to come up they were covered by the debris, and thus jammed up the only availablemeans of exit. After awhile a few of the survivors were able to relieve the pressore from the shaft, forty of them being subsequently brought to the surface in buckets by those who were outside of the shaft. While this was going -S-.X.4 .11 1 J V_ uu auuuL cigubpr umcrs rencuou sateiy ny means of an old tunnel. Thej were terribly disfigured and'some of them were so badly injured that they could scarcely walk or move. As soon as the news of the disaster had reached the adjoining village a big crowd gathered near the mouth of the pit, being mainly composed of the wives ana children and other relatives of the entombed miners. Their cries, moans and prayers were distressing, but no persuasion was equal to forcing them away to their homes. So great was the lamentation that it interfered greatly with the work of the rescuers. By noon next day 143 miners had been res* cued, most of these being unconscious and ; all weak and much exhausted. At daylight, however, ten dead bodies had been sent up, all blackened, disfigured, unrecognizable. As soon as the full extent of the disaster; was known a dispatch was sent to W. Earn-; ham, Vice-President of the company, in St. 1 Louis, Mo., who at once returned word to hurry up the rescue and secure the remains of the killed and not forget to allay as far as possible the misery of the poor women who bad lost their husbands and the poor children who had lost their fathers. Early that 'afternoon a temporary cage was made and started in operation. This expedited the reftcue of the men who had been Imprisoned in the pit The crowd around the month of the pit had by this time reached a thousand, and so great wm the pressure on the workers that a line had to be drawn beyond which the sorrowing and curious were not permitted to go thereafter. Every man rescued was injured and all described their horrible suffering while hemmed in by the debris and compelled to breathe the sickening, choking gas. The names of the injured could not be ascertained with anything like accuracy, owing to their scattering among the village houses. Of the men in the mines about ISO escaped, the remainder being in the mine, unrescued, on the evening of the second day after the explosion. Many of the men effected their escape by climbing up through the airshaffc. One of the men who escaped in this way climbed fully 450 feet with a broken leg. Many of those who climbed to \ the ton were badly burned, in some cases the flesh stripping from their hands as thry grasped the ladder. A NEWSBQY-aoVEBNQB. *'?* > rhlaf ITnmitiva Hoin. inally a Nei York Wait GOVERNOR ANDRHW H. BUM* Andrew H. Burke, the present Governor of North Dakota, is one of the 73,000 waifs of New York for whom the Children's Aid Society of that city has provided homes in the West. Yoong Andrew Burke was seat West many years ago and was adopted by a ??aA Rnflai* tsarara Ha |CUUCUMU uouiou vu?tM . v? -|-i was employed In a wholesale house In Minneapolis and was married there. From Minneapolis he went to & small station named New York Mills, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and took charge of a general store and sawmills. Afterward be removed to Casseiton. N. D., and after six months' residence became Cashier of the First National Bank there. Three rears later be was elected Treasurer of the county and held the position for six years. At the last election he was elected Governor on the Republican ticket. PROTECTING- BEFUQEES, Minister Egan Escorts Three Chilian Itebels Aboard the Yorktown. United States Minister Egan early a few mornings ago left the American Legation at Santiago, Chili, escorting Juan and William McKenna and Jose Carrera, three of the nine refugees who have been under bis protection They took a train for Valparaiso, and upon tbeir arrival there went without delay aboard the United.Statescruiser Yorktown. This action on Minister Egan's part, it is said, was taken with the tacit approval of the present Chilian Government. There seemed to be do doubt that the rest of the relugees would leave the Legation under simitar conditions at an early date. Public opinion relative to these three retugees is that Chili is well rid of them. While President Montt and his Cabinet would not grant them safe conduct nothing was done to prevent their leaving the American Legation. A Mexican Volcano Hurls Stones a Distance of Four Miles. The Volcanode Fuego, known as Colima, in the southern part of Jalisco, Mexico, is a^rain active. Explosions occur frequently. These have not occurred before during the activity of the volcano. Viewed from a distance at night the scene is a grand one, but those in the vicinity of the flery mountain have little regard tor its beauty or its gran deur. The explosions are of such force that large stones have been hurled a distance of four miles. Ashes from tbe mountains have fallen in the streets of Colima and Zapotlan. Persons living near the volcano are frightened, and if the eruptions continue tliere may be a panic among them. ??mlmmmmmmmm?J i TEMPERANCE. PKtnnonnngs mask a, chime. Saxonj has made drunkenness a crime. This has been dona on the advice of the beet physicians in the land, who scout the idea of dipsomania, and declare that mm get drank, not because their are crazy, bat because they are vicious, and sbouJd Oe restrained. Xtiere is a good deal to be aid in rapport of this position. Inebriate asylums are all right for some purposes, but for certain other purposes the whipping-poet would be a valuable adjunct. THE XXnTJkL EFFECTS OT JLLCOHOL. Dr. Norman Kerr, the famous temperance physician of London'testifies as follows to the mental effects of alcohol: "The reason I have insisted so strongly on the physical part of the question is that, in making observations on dead bodies, 1 have constantly fonnd in the sknlls of those who drank certain conditions. Now the brain is a set of thinking cells, set in a tough framework of tissue. All goes well as long as these two kinds of tissue, the outward envelope aad the inward contents, are in proper proportion to each other, and to the size of the skull. Alcohol, however, has the effect of thickening the binding and connecting tissues, thereby diminishing the space allotted to the thinking cells, so that they, shrink and become unable to do their wcrfc. Thus, if you come from a port wine, or champagne, or, still worse, a beer-drinking ancestry, you do not possess the condit&as of brain which God intended von to have, and the remit cannot be modified at once, though in sourse of time it may be done. I do not care in what shape spirits are used, the effect is the same." WHAT DRINK DOCS. The attention of Agent S?reeay, of the Anti-Cruelty Society of Prttaburg, was called one morning recently to a sad'and distressing case of poverty, cruelty and neglect A little tumbledown house located on Jones avenue was occupied by two families and a boarder. Of these there were a man and his wife and two little children, both girls, aged respectively four suid six years. The others were a widow her son and another man. The officers say that .when they en^Via m/ik * at?*kf a# iilaeaJ ioicu uuv uuiivuu| ouwu o> vii uiwwjrv-'' '( they never witnessed. The interior vu literally reeking with vermin and filth, white the stench was such that the officers won sickened. The neighbors state that the occupants spend their whole time in drinking, neglecting, abasing and starving the little children, who were compelled daily to go oat barefooted, bare-headed, in an almost entirely nnde condition, to beg for sufficient food to keep body and soul together. When the mother and her babes were brought to the station bouse she was, with the exception of an old and filthy calico wrapper, entirely devoid of clothing; the children were even in a much sadder plight, the youngest, especially, being in a sorely afflicted con* ditionJ ita little back was one mass of sorai, and scabs, while from sheer neglect and starvation its little body had dwindled down to that of a living skeleton. The younger child is io such a condition that it cannot ! ? . possible live. What a horrible state of affairs! And still it is an everyday occurrence in oar large dties. . ALCOHOLIC CTSAXITT IK PARIS. At thejxilice station the^ quietly disposed chminalH. In the morning' the latter are broaght no for examination by the chief ' medical officer of the Prefecture of Pblioa, who does his best to ascertain whether he has to do with lunatics or malefactors. The eminent man who has filled this post for1 many years is Dr. Paul Gamier, and ha it , was wno kindly consented to suspend, in mr. favor, the rule which excludes from his examing-room all persons who are not members of the staff. This small, low-ceilinged; , room has witnessed many dramas, for . between its narrow walls are conducted nightly;, the malefactors who the Paris police have caught in the meshes of their net They enter, held bv each shoulder, between two warder s. In their eyes one redds the terror of an animal caught in a trap. They are; aware that here are the cross-roads where tMtrnwanM aeciaea; an roe nam w madhouse, on the left the convict prison. And all, whether mad or only feigning mad- I nets, take refuge in incoherent or outrageous ] language, in stupor or oomvnlaiona J Closely observant, taking notes, or draw- fl ing up report* Dr. G&mUr sits behind hk I table. Sad indeed is the conclusion arrived I at by Ms medical experience. His figures 1 prove that daring the last sixteen years I (from 1875 to 188$ lunacy has increased in fl Pari* in proportion of thirty per cent. 1 This increase is due to the net that two f morbid types, general paralysis and alcoholic insanity, are spreading to an alarming extent. The progress of alcoholic insanity has been so rapidthat the evil is now twice as prevalent as it was fifteen years ago. Almost a third of the lunacy cases observed r* 'T.a *.1,4. Aiu at bUtf i/euub iiumim y aic uuv w ivw vw ease, and every day it declares itself more violently and wish a more marked homicidal . tendency. The accomplice of two-thirds of the crimes committed,upon whom the criminals themselves throw the responsibility of their evil deeds, and whom the police never succeed in discovering, exists. That accomplice is alcohol J It visits upon the child the sins of the father, and engenders in the following generation homicidal instincts. During the last ten years the criminal type has entered on a new phase. Before that date the assassin was generally a man in the vigor andstrength of his manhood;.. h< had tasted life in all its forms. Such Wen Tropmann, Prado, Eyraud, Pranzini. Now- t adays it is the youth of barely twenty who I itl.5 1 :!} mureters. io? jurjuieu uowk w him oa account, of his youth, although they are horrified at his cold-blood gfi ferocity,and at the absence of moral sense which be displays. ?Fortnightly R?view. TKMPERAKCI 5ZW8 jun> irons. Of the new Mayors of England thirty* even are total abstainers. i Chicago has now a college to educate A brewers in all branches of their trade. Chicago has 6200 licensed saloons and over 8000 that pay the United States internal revenue tax. j y In proportion to population exactly thre*^';1^' times as much spirits are drunk in Scotland as in England. ?. r i In every community there is a moderate drinker whose real business is to help th? deril to make drunkards. / r A train load of beer, consisting of 1120 bar rels, equaling 206,880 glasses of beer, started recently from Milwaukee to San Francisco. A man in Maine is defending & suit brought by a woman who attributes domestic trouble to the older he sold to her husband. Mr. &Q(1 JITS. ** . Iiwniliiigi uwvimuaK given away 150,000 worth of medals to the young participants in the oratorical oontesta held under the auspices of W. C. T. U. Grand temperance work is being done is the English N&vy through the efforts of Miss Agnes Weston and others. On some ships tea per cent, of the ship's company are enrolled as total abstainers. Remembering the sailors? proverbial fondness for' "grog" this is certainly encouraging. In the London. district, occupied by the Crest of the poor, there are eighty-one sans or public houses as they are called there, to supply 11,000 patrons?or one for every 135 persons. More than 180,000 a year is spent in drink by these 1L.OOO persons whose poverty is of the direst kind. The Deer Park sanitarium, a private asylum for inebriate*, was opened in Toronto, Canada, in November. Ita founders propose to surround a patient with Christian influence, and send him out not only cured of his appetite for alcohol and other narcotics, but a thorough Christian man. As a temperance advooats Lady Henry Somerset has recently been well described <" /an 'RnffUqh rvinnrl in "J """ v~ a I?( ? terms: "Calm, cultured to her flnger-tipa, remorselessly logical and gifted with a very beautiful, yet stately, outward personality, she holds the most critical audience* enthralled as soon as she starts to speak-. But there is something about her more than outward attraction, which one must, tor want of a better term, call her spirituality." It Is discouraging, in the face of the fact that over 3,000,000 antitobacco tracts were distributed in thii country last year, to learn that three/ factories alone turn out 10,000 cornJ cob pipes every day and are preparing to enlarge their output 25 per cenUI in 1892.