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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Important Late Dispatches,Hot From the Wires. Injured American Sailors Demand $1,305,000 of the Chileans. P. Alleyne Orr, an attorney of San Fran cisco, has sent to the State Department at Washington the claims of the sailors of the cruiser Baltimore who were cripplei or Otherwise injured by the Chileans at Valparaiso. The claims are acsompaoied bJ, affidavits which rehearse the stories told by the sailors at their examination at Mare Island. They amount to the total of $1,305,000. John Hamilton leads the list with a demand for $150,000 for stab wounds in the buttock and right groin. He was frequently stabbed by the police, and clains that there is still a portioD of a broken dagger in his body. Jeremiah Anderson, coalheaver, also wants $150,000 for two wounds in the back, and a bayonet wound in the lung. John McBride, and William Lacev claim $100,000 each for bad wounds. Three others demand $75,000 each, and others sums ranging from $60,000 to $30,000. Mr. Orr explains the enormous sums demanded by these men. He says; ''Suppose the Chileans give Mr. Blaine a lump sum of $2,000,000. Then these wounded sailors will come in for something handsome, and we don't want the coin to go back to Chile. There is no use of false modesty when you make a claim on any ixovernment." Thunder Storms to Order. Professor Elihu Thomson, the Lynn (Mass.) electrician, claims to have discovered (be knack of making lightning. The invention is at present of more scientific than practical interest, although there will be plenty of practical uses for it eventually. The Professor has succeeded by very simple means in securing extremely high potential discharges. In an arc electric lamp the carbons are perhaps three-eighths of an inch apart,and in a searchlight a little further. The flame when they are separated acts as a conductor. In Prof. Thomson's new machine, however, the distance is eight inches, and no flame can leap <to far. The result is that torrents of sparks are thrown off without interruption,and with reports like the rattle of a Gatling gun or a ease of crackers. The strength of the discharge seems to be limited only by the siza of the machine. Ic has been suggested to the Professor that he form a partnership with Dryenforth,%and that the firm furnish thunder storms to order. i Death of a t<'ami>as Shaker. 1 Elder Harvey L. Eades. the head of the fihaker Church at South UnioD, Ky., died a lew days ago of old age. He was in his ^eighty-seventh year. The burial took place Un the Shaker burying ground at that place. HSlder Eades was the oldest Shaker in Kenjtocky, and one of the best known. He was reared from childhood to manhood at South (Union, and hts early life was passed with 'the founders of the society, fighting for exist ?oce during the war of 1BV.J. He witnessed the exodus from Busro Prairie to escape the knives and tomahawks of the Indians. Tee people were sheltered and cared far at South Union until the battle of Tippecanoe, when most of them returned to their Indian homes. Harvey Eades rose ia the society from a day laborer to the eldership. He published au elaborate exposition of Shaker theology, which has been widely read. For a while he lived at Union Village, Ohio, but afterward returned to South ? , Union. | Torn to Pieces by Wild Dogs. I 'The wild dogs which have invaded the northwest cornerv of Kansas from Colorado, liave become peculiarly fierce since the recent heavy fall of snow. They have attacked human beings before, but actual death from their attacks were never authenticated until John J. Pratt and his young child were run down by a pack and torn to pieces about a mile from their home near Leonard, Sherman County. Pratt and the girl started to drive out borne about 6o'clock, but never reached there until their mutilated remains were carried in next morning. The overturned wagon, dead and mangled horses, and the bodies of dogs killed by Dullets from Pratt's revolver told the story of the chase and the futile fight tor life. Jealousy Causes Murder and Suicide. A newsboy, when delivering an evening newspaper at the house of John Molloy at Toledo, Ohio, looked through the window and discovered two bodies lying on the floor. jHe informed the police, and investigation nvealed that a murder and suicide bad been committed. Molloy and his "wife were Sfoond dead on the floor, which was covered rwith blood. The woman had a bullet wound Mhind her right ear and Molloy had one in itbe right temple and another below the ear. They had been dead twenty-four hours. Though seventy-two years of age, Molloy ihad been so jealous of his wife, also aged f^ty-two, that he made her life unbear able. A Wolf Drive in Kansas. ? The wolf drive, after being in preparation for two months, took place near Girard, Kan. At 9 o'clock in the morning about 4000 men surrounded a section of country measuring ten miles square. With 1000 men on each side of the aquare there were 100 to the mile, or ont wiin to about every fifty feet. The firing of a cannon was the signal for the final dosing fa. The wolves were not to be killed until they were rounded up in the centre. The chase began at 1 o'clock, and as a result twenty-two wolves were killed. At 5 o'clock the forces left the field feeling jubilant ov?r their success. Horse FncsIi in Demand in Paris. The rise in the pries of beaf and mutton, caused by the new tariff, has lei to an enormous demand for horsa flesh in Paris, Trance. According to a report of the DaKaa Wafoifnna fVin oooaa ar?r1 tniilaa J[ VUUO * wuo m/i joa.tA3jQ.T "?mpj now slaughtered represent over one-third of the whole quantity of meat consumed. Fillet of horse or donkey is retailed at twenty cents a pound, steak at fourteen cents a pound and inferior parts at tour eents a pound. Worn-out animals are rising in value, and are bein? bouzht up everywhere within a radius o? 300 miles of Paris. Lost Eight ot Her Crew. The Norwegian hark Mar^arether Padana;, bound to New York, put into Cape Town, South Africa, with her crew prostrated by malarial fever,of whica the second mate u id even men died on the voyage. SUN SPOTS," A Big Spot Breaks Up Into Twenty Small Spots. Observations made at the Naval Observatory at Washington by Professor Edgar Frisby showed that the large spot hitherto observed on the sun, which covered a space equal to one-sixteenth of the sun's surface, or an area of 140,000 miles long by 100,000 miles wide, has by some great cataclysmic operation been broken into about twenty mall spots. In addition to this, other spots have appeared, which are situated a vast distance from the original spot and are evidently totally independent from it. This new de elopement on the sun's surface has attracted the attention of the astronomers at the observatory and will be closely observed by them. > ? -*-?T.rtTTrn rnrv mtTT? TiV A T*U ?lU\tli 1U 1X1 ij ?s?jn. i i.i, Four Indians and One >qua\v jiilled Oat of a Party of Seven. A courier from White Oiks, ffew ll^ico, ays that the Miscallo Indians on tho re A wration near here obtained a quantity of vhisky and indulged in it to such an extent that they got to fighting among themselves. Revolvers and knives were brought into iJtion, and the result of the battle was the killing ot four men and one woman. The Indians," the only participants in the fight who were not killed, have b?en arrestee! and pJaced in the guard-house on the reservation. The killing was entirely among the Indians themselves and does not involve the white settlers. * I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States John A. McCall, late Comptroller of th? Equitable Life Assurance Society, was elected President of the New York Life Insurance Company at a meeting in New York City of the Board of Trustees, in place of William H. Beers, resigned. The most brilliant aurora borealis that has been seen in the skies of the Eastern and Middle States since 1SS2 lighted up the northern heavens tor nearly an nour a iew nights ago. The electricity that was loose made it possible to telegraph from New York City to Albany without a battery. John* "Dunlap, of Connellsville. Penn.. is dead. He was born in County Galway, Ireland, on February 33, 1787. In the New Jersey Legislature at Trenton a resoiution was passed to investigate the Reading Railroad combination; Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, said he would make no motion in regard to the combination. Charles I. Rathbourne shot and killed Daniel Cheeseboro, whom he found talking with Mrs. Rathbourne in his house near Stoningtoo, Conn. The taking of the census on which legislative reapportionment will be based was begun by one enumerator in each election district of New York State. A train struck a buggy at Paper Mill Crossing, Mass. The buggy contained John , Weatgate and his son, both of whom were : killed. The home of the men was within a j stone's throw of where they were mangled. ( i i South and West. A cold wave swept over most of Florida, the thermometer being down to fifty-five. ] Henry A. Bruns, President of the Mer- ' chants' Bank, Morehead, Minn., is under arrest, charged with defrauding depositors of his bank out of over 183,000. Will Lavender, a colored man who was charged with an assault, was hanged by a mob near Roanoke, Va. The opera house and eight stores at Moamoutb, ILL, were destrovod by Are. Loss, $150,000. Philip Prim, seven; Frank Schell, ten, and Willie Schell, eight years old, broke' through the ioe in one of the ponds in Hum* J boldt Park, Chicago, 111., and were drowned. ' Elvin Pardee and his wife cut their ^ throats at their home, near Gallatin, Tenn. f Their dead bodies were fouud next morning. 1 They had been married only a short time. 1 Cause, unknown. j John Kelly and Gilbert Harris, the col- c ored men who murdered J. T. McAdams, a ? Erominent citizen of Pine Bluff, Ark., were ( an god by a mob in the publis square, in , front of tne Court House. Riley "W ebb, colored, was lynched by a mob of 200 citizens on the outskirts of Montgomery, Ala., for an assault upon a Mrs. Crump. He confessed his guilt. Captain John S. Stout, a famous Mississippi River pilot and hero of the Robert E. Lee disaster in 1882, died in New Orleans, La., a few days ago. An accident occurred in the Mollie Gibson Mine at Aspen, Col., and Miohael Egzers, W. L. Shiroa and M. Caple3 were killed. | The Mollie Gibson is the richest sil7er mine in the world. < A. A. Olive, of Red Bluff, Ark., shot and killed his stepdaughter, who interfered while < he was beating his wife. ] Walter Austin, colored, was lynched near Arcadia, Fla., for the murder of Bert [ Hard, a white man, foreman of the Moorehead Phosphate Works. 1 Sheriff Thomas B. Black, of Franklin , County, Mo., is $ 000 short In his accounts. < The lire at the State Lunatic Asylum, i Jackson, Miss., destroyed two-thirds of the main building. The loss is about $250,000. J. D. Brown, a recaptured lunatic in revenge i set the institution on fire. He perishei in i the flames. j ?? 1 Washington. The Canadian Reciprocity Commissioners had another conference with Secretary 1 Blaine and General Foster at the State Da- j part meat. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the ] British Minister, attended the conference. j Secretary 4 Foster directed that no change be furnished to banks by Sub-Treas- ! uriisorthe Treasury Department in New 1 York unless the banks deposited gold to the 1 amount of the exchange asked for. ! The War, Navy and Treasury Depart- ] meats have got into a controversy over their respective wharfage pritrtteges at the Bat- j tery, New York Harbor, and a commission : composed of one representative^ of each ' Department will be sent to New York to investigate the matter. Secretary Tract cabled Admiral Gherardi at Montevideo, instructing him to return with the Philadelphia and Conoord to the West Indies. Special Agent De Lambert, of the Interior Department, spent four months investigating timber depredations along the Manitoba border. He reports to Secretary Noble that the stealing of timber belonging to the United States Government has grown into a system of vast proportions. Continued heavy expenditures reduced the United States Treasury cash balance to 127,247,500. The amount on deposit in National binks is 112,943,760. The President made the followinc nominations: Robert E. JBowne, of New York, to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise of the Port of New York. Samuel H. Byers, Iowa, to be Consul-General of the United State3 at St Gall. Harrie R. Newberry, of Michigan,to be Secretary of the Legation at Constantinople. Francis Macnutt, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of the Legation at Madrid. President and Mrs. Harrison enter- 1 tained the United States Supreme Court at < - a.%. _ TITL'i.. TT j dinner in me ??mta nuiuo. i ] Foreign. Typhus fever Is mowing down the inhabitants of the famine stricken district in j Russia. There are 200 dea.i around Penza i and 18,000 people are being fed by charity. Secretary Blaine has requested Chile to send home the remains of Riggin, one of the seamen of the United States steamship Baltimore murdered in Valparaiso. I The big strike of coal porters in London, England, is ended. The trouble was caused by a dispute with one Arm in regard to the wageSTto be paid its employes: aad 8000 porters stopped work. The merchants accepted all the terms offered by the strikers, who have obtained a complete victory. ' The dreadful cattle affection, foot and 1 mouth disease, has been discovered in Sit- ( tingbourne, in Kent, England. I Parnellites and McCarthyites engaged j in a furious riot at Limerick, Ireland, in which many heads were broken and bodies ' bruised, though only two people were seriously injured. J Admiral Sir Provo Willis, K. C. B.,the ] Senior Admiral of the British navy, who ( i ought on board h. M. S. Shannon in her j historical battle otr uoston naroor on dune , 1, 1813. with the United States frigate Chesa- ( peake, died a few days ago in Kngland. ] Admiral Wallis was born in April, 179L, and wa3 thus nearly 101 years old. After a week of secret daily sessions the Canadian Reciprocity Commissioners adjourned their conference to return to Otta- < wa. They had no propositions to ofTer which the United States could accept, and besides they had no authority from the home Government to even enter upon the preliminary negotiations. The telegraph lines in Sweden an1 Russia were seriously affected by the aurora boreali8. Earth currents greatly interfered with the working of the lines. Mount Vesuvius, in Italy, is again in a state of eruption. A stream of lava issues from the base of the great cone and flo ws into the Atrio del < avallo. There were heavy snowstorms throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and in France: traffic was seriously impeded. A fishing boat foundered off Newcastle, County Down, Ireland, and five of her crew were drowned. Plots lo kill General Cante and President iuonu. or Llnle, have bean discovered and thwarted. The United States man-of-war Tallapoosa, 1 now at Montevi leo, Arjantine Republic, has been condemned as uufic for further 1 naval servic.% and wift be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. a.11 her officers 1 and crew have sailed for home, leaving the vessel iu charge of the officers of the Yantic. The Tallapoosa is a relic of the r.-ar and has had rather an eventful career. She was last under Commander Jamos M. Forsyth. | A PRICE UPON HIS HEAD. Career of Catrino E. Garza, Leader of tlie Mexican Revolutionists, .. QASBUOX. GARZA. Senor Garza, who is attracting considerable attention from the Government of Mexico and the United States troops stationed in Texas, through his efforts to create a revolution against the Government of President Diaz, and to recruit his small band from among the Mexicans on both sides of the Rio Grande, is a man of more than ordinarily interesting personality. Born in Matamoras. Mexico, he began life there in a printing office. From here he removed to Brownsville, Texas, where he attended the public schools. Later he went to the University of Mexico, and after his graduation from that institution, entered the Mexican irmy, from which he was dismissed for ?ross misconduct, and was compelled to flee the country to escape further punishment, tie is reputed to be a desperate man, and has been involved in several quarrels which mded in assassinations, the most notable of which was the killing of General Martinet it Laredo. Garza is about forty years old, and speaks EjQ?iisa weii. 110 was at one ume cuuuuulbu fvith the Mexican Consulate at St. Lo ais, Mo.. *id is fully as much at home on the rexns side of the Rio Grande as he is on toe Mexican soil. About six months ago he gathered a little band of political refugees ind discontents about him and began his evolutionary operations, which the Mexican officials assert had only robbery and pillage tor their object. The Mexitan Government offered a heavy reward for Garza's capture, ind also had in its possession a list of name3 >f prominent persons who are saiu to be aoive sympathizers of bis movement. FBEE COINAGE. The Minority Report Against the Passage ot tbe Bland Bill. The report just filed in "Washington of the minority members of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures against the passage of the Bland Free Coinage bill is signed by Messrs. Tracy, of New York; Taylor, of Illinois; Stoae, of Pennsylvania; Williams, of Massachusetts, and Johnson. of North Dakota. The minority review the silver question, protest vigorously against the Bland bill, and recommend the passage of a measure authorizing the President to invite an internal monetary conference. The report says that the first eight lines of the Bland bill develop its true purpose. rhey provide for two different dollars and a compulsion upon the citizen to receive either in payment of debts due him. "It does not require any knowledge of monetary or financial views," the report ?ays, "to demonstrate that the compulsion of the legaltender power must force upon the creditor a cheaper and debased dollar. Few debtors will pay 100 cents to discharge their obligations when seventy cents will suffice in law. This bill converts all existing Government paper into paper which may be paid in silver, and leaves no' paper which must be paid in Sold." The minority say that the only escape from a single silver dollar standard under the Bland bill is an immediate and permanent elevation of the price of silver bullion to the price represented by the ratio of sixteen to one between silver ind gold. Tltis price, it is said, is $1.29% per ounce. The minority argues that tne bland bill will bring silver from foreign countries. The United State3, it says, is the inl^r cmirr>a of ennnlv to Enrone and our ?old, by virtue of the bill, becomes available to take the place of unstable silver. Silver coming from abroad would, It is leld. destroy the ?oId standard. After irguing that legislation has failed to raise the price of silver, the minority comment on the effect of a silver standard as follows: "The adoption of a single standard, then, srould place the dollar unit at once at the nercy of the silver bullion market, and obli- i Rations now outstanding, incurred upon the ;old basis, would be payable in a depreciated silver dollar worth only what the world should think it to be worth at a given point >f time. Thus to depreciate our standard of payments is clearly partial repudiation and inqualifledly dishonest and fraudulent." Aa to the effect of the bill, the minority jays that to depreciate by thirty or forty per cent, the value of savings banks securities, which it is claimed the bill will Jo, would rob millions of our industrious :itizens of their hard-earned saving's. Depreciate the standard of the dollar and svery pensioner of the country, every holder >f a policy of insurance, every widow and orphan enjoying tho proceeds of trust funds, will by bo much suffer from this fraudulent reduction of the standard of the country. The revenues of the Government will be depreciated in like manner, and every dollar received in iuties and other taxes will represent about two-thirds of the amount now fixed by law Ann#nd?l to the renort is a bill authoriz nz tha President to invite an international monetary conference. FLOODED AMBEB MINES. Six Miners Drowned by the Unnaunl Tides in the Baltic. A dispatch received from Konigsburg, East Prussia, reports a peculiar and fatal siccident near that place. The Government of Konigsburg is bounded on the north by the Baltic, and along the shores of this sea is obtained a large proportion of the world's supply of amber. This substance is there partly cast ud by the sea, partly obtained by means of nets and partly dug out of a bed of bituminous wooa. A few nights ago an exceedingly heavy ;ea was running in the Baltic ana the high waves swept far inland past their usual bounds. Close to the shore near Palainicken, a small fishing town, is an amber mine in which a number of meti were workins:. They of course had no knowlsdee of the fact that the rising tide was bringing the heavy seas in dangerous proximity to the entrance of the mine. Suddenly the water began to pour into the mine in a perfect torrent, filling the small workings. .The men made a wild rush to escape, but six of them found it impossible to breast the torrent and were drowned. ' SQUAW MEJU UtfttAfliZIL. A Society by tho Indians, for the In(llttng, With the Indiana, The Indians at Pino Ridge Agency, in South Dakota, have organized a society called the "Progressive Oeallalas," to enlighten the' members and teach them the ways of tho whites. Indians, half breeds and squaw men compose the organization. The Indians have recently received their annual supply of blankets and boots, and are feeling amiable, l'tie ghost; aance song is very t>uuular among them now, and the? say the/ can sing if they cannot dance. There are said to be sixty-seven veterans o? the war 1812 now alive in the United States. One of the oldest is Silas Ware, of Waukesha, Wis., who was born at Euosburg, Vt., in 1798, aui enlisted in the company formei by Captain Erwin at French's Mills, N. Y., whara youag Ware's father kept a taverrtThousaxds of cattle and horses haro starved to death in Southern Idaho and thousands of others are starving owing to \he snow, which covers the scant teed. -' i LATER 3SWg, Saxes Hantjow, leader of one of the Democratic factions at Tarrytown, If. Ywas shot dead by Chief of Police Hack^tt at the Democratic primary. Hannon attempted to strike the Chief with a club. Aw Italian who had arrived at New York a few days before on the Massilia died at Carbon, Penn., of what was thought to be typhus fever. Elijah Hoffman, axed sixty-five, living near Red Oak, Iowa, was attacked by eight wolves late at night. He escaped by stabbing one; the others turned npon the wounded wolf. The sawmill boiler of Jacob Kisling, about ten miles from Lima, Ohio, exploded, killing My. Kisling, his soa Frank, and John Schiverdocker, an employe. The men were blown into fragments. The marriage of John Sanford, a member of Congress from the Twentieth District of New York, to Miss Ethel Sanford, third daughter of the late General Henry S. Sanford, formerly United States Minister to Belgium, took place at Sanford, Flo. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota. The Warmoth faction of the Republican party, of Louisiana, met at convention in New Orleans, and nominated a State ticket headed by John C. Breaux, for Governor. The Navy Department has authorized the use of the United States steamer Kearsarge to convey Minister Durham from Port au Prince, Hayti, to San Domingo The President sent to Congress a message calling attention to the Choctaw and Chickasaw claims for the payment of whioh Congress appropriated $2,991,150 in the Indian Appropriation bill passed by the last Congress. He speaks of corrupt contracts between the Choctaws and Chickasawe and their agents. TrrwtTTTe onit Viln/?lr qmnllnmc finidomlea ara spreading across the frontier of AustriaHungary into Galicia. Seven Arabs who has sought shelter in a grotto at Kouba, near Algiers, were killed by the collapsing of the roof of the grotto . William Rhodes, ex-Minister of Agriculture for Canada, is dead. J. Sverdrup, exPrime Minister of Norway, is dead. He was at the head of the Cabinet from 1384 to 1891. PBOMINENT PEOPLE, Cardinal Manning's estate sums up $500. Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer, is a martyr to the gout. George Hanlon, a well known acrobat, Las abandoned the stage for the pulpit. The Czar of Russia is a very busy man, frequently working till 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. H. F. Dickens, son of Charle3 Dickens, has been appointed a Queen's Counsel in London, England. Mrs. Hearst, the widow of the late Senator from California, is sail to carry a life insurance of $400,090. General George W. Jones, of Dubuque, eighty years of age, has just been admitted to practice in Iowa courts. The Patriarch of the Unite i States Senate, Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, is nearing the end of his eighty-second year. Prince Victor Emmanuel, heir to the Italian Crown, is one of the handsomest and most accomplished men of his station in life. Arabi Pacha, the exiled Egyptian mis* chief-maker, lives on the island of Ceylon, amid cocoanut groves, haunted by squirrels and magpie robins. Sis Charles Russell, the famous English advocate, always tries to dissuade ms clients from going to law if their cases can be arranged out of court. The Marquis of Hartington, even while the stormiest scenes are being enacted in the British House of Commons, peacefully sleeps on his bench in a sitting posture. J. T. Trowbridge, writer oc juveauo literature, is again settled at Arlington, Mass., after an absence of tbrea years in France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Gottnod, the French composer, is a finelooking old man, with white hair, fle is an erratic worker, and derives his best inspira* tion when he is in a church or a cathedral. Congressman Lanhah, of Texas, represents the largest district in the House of Representatives. It embraces ninety-eight counties, some of them large enough of themselves to make a respectable State. It would be difficult indead to name a more versatile man or a mora prolific writer than Edward Atkinson, of Boston, Mass., who, in spite of his large business affairs, never tires of instructing his fellows* The parents of ex-3snator Ingalls, of Kansa?, are still living at Haverhill, Mass. The father, now over- eighty years of age, was the inventor of several useful machines employed in manufacturing shoes. Senator Brice, of Ohio, weara his hair in almost the fac-sirnile of a curly auburn wi?, while Senator John Sherman's wig is adjusted with the careless nonchalance supEosed to be characteristic of people who ave so much hair they don't know what to do with is. Andriw Carnegie has donated la the State of Pennsylvania $1,000,000 for the Pittsburg Library, $1,000,000 for the Pittsburg Art Gallery and Museum, $300,000 for the Allegheny City Library, $100,000 for the Carnegie Library at Braddoclc, $40,000 for the Johustown Library, besides $350,000 for the Edinburgh (Scotland) Public Library, and more than that for libraries at Dunfermline, his birthplace, Ayr and other Scotch towns. A FAMILY WIPED OCT. Scarlet fever xaices nosuanu. anu Five Children. Sis members of the family of James Broad, a slate manufacturer, who lives in New Jersey, near the Pennsylvania line, died within ten days of malignant scarlet fever. The only member of the family left is the wife and mother. Her boy Philip died first. He was seven years old. A little son three years old died the next day. The elder son, James, Jr.. aged thirteen, died the day following, and the elder daughter, Anna, aged sixteen, died next. Then the hushand and father, James Broad, died, and next d*y the remaining daughter, Ida, aged fourteen. This series of deaths under one roof created intense excitement in the vicinity of Belvidere, N. J., and stringent measures were adopted to prevent the spread of toe terrible disease. FOUR MINERS KILLED. Crushed to Death by the Roof Timbers Giving Away. Timbers in the roof of the Arnold ore mine at Ferona, N. Y., gave away a few mornings ago while the full force of men was at work. The following men were killed outright: C'onrad Dewey, single man; William Nolan, i a married and father of a *V? ?j -- -f lar.je family; Hfeury Patuow, ngod for?ynine, married. The following were severely woanJod: Patrick Dowd. who subsequently died of his injuries, leavinc a wife and family: Thoma9 Russell, who was badly cut ou the head; Alexander Dupleas and Antonie Laoiarke. That war cloud in Europe has become so dense and threatening that there is no telling what might happen if an American rainmaker with a few bombs should go over there and begin experimenting. f ^ ' ' " ' ' ' HTTY-SEOOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 33d Day.?The Public Printing bill was passed An investigation ot the admission of typhus fever immigrants at New Yoric was ordered Mr. Casey introduced a bill to fix the fees on domestic money orders as follows: For orders not exceeding $5, three cents; *5 and not exceeding $10, eight cents; between 810 and &>, ten cents; between $25 and J40, fifteen cents, and amounts exceed* ing WO in proportion Mr. Hale reported the Urgent Deficiency bill. 34th Day.?Mr. Sherman's credentials on his election to a sixth term were iafd before the Senate by the Vice-President and filed The Urgent Deficiency bill was pasjed The case of Dubois and Claggett was reported favorably to the former Mr. Hiscock introduced bills to provide for the sale of Navy Yard lands in Brooklyn and appropriating $18,000 to complete tne monument commemorating the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, N. Y. 3oTH Day.?The Senate passed the resolution to retorn to Mexico the captured battle flags now in the museum at West Point The Dubois-Claggetc contest was discussed Mr. Morrill reported a bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to admit free of duty the wreckage from the ships Trenton and Vandalia, presantedby the United States Government to the King of Samoa, and to refund the sum of 17128, being the amouDt of duties paid thereon to the Collector at San Francisco, and It was passed. In the House. 34th D at.?The House passed the Military Academy Appropriation bill, with amend* ments reducing the total amount recommended by the Committee on Military Affairs ($486,635.18) to $417,505.18 Mr. White's constitutional amendment to abolish the power of national banks to issue currency was reported adversely and tabled. 35th Day.?The Speaker announced the following special committee to investigate the Pension Bureau; Mr. Wheeler, of Michigan; Little, of New York; Dungan, of Ohio; Lind, of Minnesota, and Brosins, of Pennsylvania The House Committee on Indian Affairs reported that <7,236,287 would be sufficient for the needs of the Indian service for the fiscal year of 1893? Mr. Stahlnecker introduced a bill to levy an internal revenue tax of $10 per thousand on all paper-wrapped cigarettes Mr. Otis introduced a resolution prohibiting the sale of intoxicating iiquors upon toe grounds of the Columbian Exposition, and providing that the Exposition shall be closed one day in seven? On motion a bill was passed allowing the Board of Managers of tne National Soldiers' Home to appoint as its officers soldiers without regard to rank?The bill to amend the international revenue laws,by abolishing the minimum punishment, was passed, and the House adjourned. 36th Day.?The House was called to orJU by Clerk Kerr, who read a commuaicatio from the Speaker designating Mr. McMillm. of Tennessee, as Speaker pro tem. Speaks Crisp's absence was in obedience to his phi slcian's advice An inquiry Into the eifect of the McKinley Tariff act upon agri culture was crdered The minority report on the Bland Free Coinage bill wo nppflpntad The Sorinsrer Free Wool bi> 5as been favorably reported by the who! Committee on Ways and Means. It also re ported a bill to place cotton bagging au cotton ties on the free list, and machinen used in the manufacture of cotton bag gin 2. 37th Day,?Speaker Crisp was at bis pnsi evidently none the worst for his temporary indisposition The House passed a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement showing collections and disbursements, on account of the disbursements regulating immigration at all points in the United States from July, 1889, to December, 1891 Dockery (Mo.), Compton (Md.), Breckinridge (Ark.), Henderson (Iowa), and Coggswell (Mass.) were de-. signated as the special House Committee for the World's Fair inquiry Mr. Wise called up the bill authorizing railroad companies to grant reduced rates to commercial travelers. It went over Mr. Tucker reported a joint resolution, proposing a Constitutional amendment for the election of Senators by the people of the several States. Referred to the calendar. 35th Day.?The Indian Appropriation> bill wsj considered On motion of Mr. Enloe a resolution was adopted calling ou the Postmaster-General for information relative to contracts made under the Mail Sub suujr av;u THE LABOB WOBLD, Th? Bank of England employs 1100. Thi Typographical Union is worth $7000. Thxre are 4500 women printers in England. Last year was a successful one among th? fruit growers of Colorado. Anderson, Ind., is to have an aluminium factory, employing 1000 hands. if v.,;orVito nf Tjihnr r<v I?1 ABSAtttUOaiio w. ______ cently held a State Convention. The Joorneymen Brewers' National Union has fifty unions and 4700 members. An agency is to be established in St. Paul, Minn., to secure work for released convicts. Thibty-two thousand people in Thuringia, Saxony, are employed in making toys. The New York Typographical Union is to establish a sohool to teach type-setting by machines. The London (England) tailors have asked the County Council to fix the same rate for women's work as for men's. The coal industry of the United States fnrnisbes employment to 800,000 persons, to whom 1110,000,000 is paid annually in wages. In Great Britain, the total sum paid in wages for the year 1890 amounted to $215,000,000, or an average of $382.50 per capita for the total number employed. The miners of the Clearfield region of Pennsylvania have demanded an advance in wages for mining "low coal." The operators say that they will refuse the advance and close the mines. The official organ of the mill owners in Germany insists that the eight hour workday is a necessity for horses, as no horse can work more than eight within twenty-four hours without injury to its health. The Trades Council of Glasgow, Scotland, has petitioned the Town Council of that city to establish municipal workshops for the purpose of making all clothing needed for the inmates of public institutions, and uniforms for the police and other officials. The average daily output of glass bowls amounts to about 46,300 gross. Germany, Belgium and Austria-Hungary turn out about 37,000 gross, or about four-fifths of the produce of the world. France so small an output as 100 gross. Britain turns out about 6000 gross daily. Of the other producing countries Sweden makes the hignest with 1516 gross daily. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has now about 30,000 members and 485 lodges; the Firemen's Brotherhood has 25,000 members and 475 lodges; the Order of R&ilwav Conductors counts 19,400 members in 320 divisions, and the Trainmen's Brotherhood has 2C.OOO members in 420 lodges. Counting the switchmen, the carmen, the telegraphers and track-foremen, the total number of organizsd railroad employes will reach over 200,000. Artificial flower-makers in Paris, France, earn from fifty to seventy-five cents a day; Dut there is a long slack season. Fanmakers, in some instances, in Paris, earn as much as $1 per day; and a good dressmaker, working by the day in private houses, earns about the same, if she do?s not have meals. But seamstresses (dressmakers or whiteworkers) earn from forty cents down to twenty-live cents a day, and tuereis a season of least two months in which there is no work at aiL TWO SISTERS KILLED. One Could liave Escaped, But Turned to Save the Ctlier. Essie and Georgiana Cressweli, aged fourteen and sixteen respectively, were walking along th9 Baltimore ami Ohio tracks, at Wheeling, W. Va., and while attempting to cross in front of a west-bound train, Essie fell when the engine was almost upon her. Georgians, seeing her sister's danger, and ignoring the fact that the at. tempt was almost certain death, rushed to 1 her rescue. She, too, stumbled and was struck by the locomotive and killed. - v .V: . ; : .1 ; ; y-j . * SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MARCH 6. Lesson Text: "The Downfall ot Ja,dab,'' Jeremiah xxxix., 1-10? Golden Text: Matthew xxiU.. 38 ? Commentory. 1. "In the ninth year of Zedekiah. king of Judah. in the tenth month, came Nebuchad nezear, king of Babylon, and all his army against Jerusalem, and tbey besieged it.". In chapter lii. and in ll Kings xxv. we have this same story of the downfall and captivity of Judah. When the Holy Spirit causes the came record to be written three different times He certainly asks our special attention to it, and must bave some great reason for doing so. The ten tribes had been in captivity over 100 years, and for that perio", as well as for the more than SjOO additional years since the death of Solomon, God had been bearing with them, pleading with them and warning them that unless they turned to Him sincerely this judgment would come upon them (Hos. it, 11-13; Joel i., 5-7; Amos iii., 1, 2, and the precaptivity prophets everywhere). Sea also Lev. xxvi., 27-35, and consider what a long warning tbey had, and how the false prophets taught the people to laugh at and despise it 2. "In the eleventh year of Zekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, Ihe city was broken up." During a part of three years, or an actual period of eighteen months, Including the short interval of last week's lesson, did the siege continue and then the city fell, as God had said. He may lovingly and patiently show His long suffering, but His Spirit will not always strive. 3. "And all the princes of tbe king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate." The enemy sits in the gate of the holy city? what a contrast to the blessing of Judah, "Thine band shall be in the neck of thine enemies," and the promise to Abraham, "Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemierf' lOfln 8? Txii__ 17). It wa> promised to Israel that one should chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, and that no man should stand before them (Deut: xxxii., 30; Josh. i.. 15), but unbelief and turning away from God brings all this trouble upon them. 4. "When Zedekiah, the king of Judab,saw them and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night." All this was seen in vision by the proohet Ezekiel at fiabylon, and was shown to the people of Israel who were there in an objetft lesson by the prophet (Ezek. xii., 1-15.) 5. "But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho and brought him to Nebuchadnezzar." It being the purpose of God that Zedekiah should be taken, it was therefore impossible for him to escape. Perfectly sate even amiasi iu? gieaieau uuug?a uo all whom God promises to protect, bat there is no hiding place and no safety for any who rebel against Him. They may be sure that their sin will find them oat. (Num. xxxii., 23.) . "Then the kins; of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles 6f Judah." If the children follow the sins of their father and walk in his ways they will suffer punishment with their father; bat who can describe the feelings of a father compelled to witness the sufferings of his chilaren because of sins into which he led them? Let ungodly parents consider this ere it be too late. 7. "Moreover, he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon." Thus was Jer. xxxii.. 4, and Ezek. xii., 13, literally fulfilled, although at first sieht it mizhtseem difficult for them to have a literal fulfillment. Zedekiah went to Babylon, he saw the king of Babylon, but ho never saw Babylon. It is always perfectly safe to take God at His word, and take Him to mean just what He says. As soon as wo begin to give His word gome other meaning than that conveyed by the plain grammatical sense of the words, we are in danger of perverting it (xxiii., 36). 8. "And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem." Thus the Lord swallowed up the habitations of Jacob, and cast down the beauty of Israel; thus He aid what He had devised, and fulfilled His word commanded in the days of old (Lam. ii., 1, 2,17). Although it was apparently the hand of the king of Babylon, it was really the nand of the Lord upon His rebellious people. Nehemiab, speaking of the testimony of the Spirit of God in the propbets against Israel, says that God gave them into the enemy's hands because they would not hear (Neh. ix., SO). 9. "Then Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, carried away captive into Babylon the remnanc of the people." Some had been taken to Babylon for their good, such as Daniel, Ezekiel and others, but these for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places (Jer. xxiv., 5-10). The same event may prove to some a blessing and to others a curse. "Ail things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. viii., 38, 39). 10. "But Nabuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, ?? J ?(,<! and gave toem vine jar us auu uciua at mo same time." Or, as in the margin, "in that day." It is evident, then, that there may be a time when it is blessed to "have nothing." We are reminded ol Zeph. iii., 12, "I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord." Also. Luke vl., 20, "Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God." Thoa?h we may not have this world's goods, if we have Jesus we are rich for time and eternity, and are heirs with Him, and when the unbelievers are cast out we shall inherit all. Even the captain of the guard ("chief executioner"? see margin), cruel to many, can only bring us blessing. May Jesus be all to us; then we will be well content to wait and suffer with Him this little while, proving ourselves pilgrims and strangers here. Like Abraham .-ii *?*. ji- lortrl nf WU WUi WUWUWWiJ WjUUlU *u uu? 1UUV. w promise, owning not a foot of it except perhaps a burial place, while we look for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Or, like Moses, having respect unto the recom[ ease of the reward, we will esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches tban the treasures in Egypt (Heb. xi., 9,10, 26; Acts vii., 5>. There is such a thiDg as laying up treasure in heaven whether we have much or little here, and there is such a thing as being rich here and awfully poor in eternity (Math, vi., 19, 20; Luke xli., 20, 21). The writer earnestly desires for all who read these notes that the spirit and purpose of Jeremiah and of Paul may be in them; or, better still, the spirit of Christ Himself, for that is the fullest measure, that God may be glorified.?Lesson Helper. m? ? a# IIia Qnnromo XHE mUCUU UCUisiUu ui UUQ uupwuju Court in Michigan in respect to the grounds on which a will can be properly contested ought to aid the New York courts materially in determining a knotty case which has come before them. The will in the case is contested on the ground that the testator was in the habit of making execrable puns, especially on the names of friends and acquaintances. Under the spirit of the Michigan decision this habit is not conclusive proof that the capacity to make a will is wanting; and we believe the New York courts will so hold. The relatives of a man so afflicted ought to be contented with the knowledge that he ? ^ 1--. -u;? 1 iias aDanaonea it, <iuu ieo uu nm stand. When men, weary with the world's battle, return to the shelter of their own home, they need the kindness, the refinement, the high cultivation, the usefulness, the gentle piety which woman as she was meant te be knows how to afford him. The cultivation of a woman's mind cannot be a culti- i vation proper to her?to herconstitu tion, her marked gifts, her work in j the world. Chicago sends greeting to the Antl- I Lottery party of Louisiana and is lelping the cause to some extent tself. See court,recorfla. \ . v-'' :.4J lit-, temperance! i flSIWKUi TO TKB BOWL. 9H Farewell, gay companions, part follies, andflH .FareWedl, gay enchanter, the bowl; HH Farewell, ye deceitful and sinful decoys, The light has just dawned on my soul. Ye promised me pleasure, while laughttr^EB went round, ul Till ye led me to ruin's dark brink, mB9 I believed, I partook, I enjoyed, and I found ^^9 The road to misfortune lis drink. My strength had departed, the bloom ere ij^H thought BHH Ha<*.fled unperceived from my faoef H9M My substance was wasted, the pleasure Z WM sought Soon ended in sin and disgrace. Hgfl My friends do not kno^ me, and seldom ^^B they name, ; And if they ones name, with a blush, HH 'Tis to speak of my errors to grieve for my shame; And to tell to what rain I rash. MM Bat now I'm resolved, with the succor of Hs grace, jflft To arise, and do all I can BME My life to reform, my steps to retrace, |H And become quite a temperate man. VH I fear no relapse, though old habits are Hfl strong, |M If for help I but fervently pray; Im I believe in the maxim too old to be wrong; BS9 That ,k Where there's a will there's a way!" H And when I shall die, keep my memory HD green, SB And my epitaph deeply engrave: Bfl "Here lies a true soldier whose motto had Ml been, aflj Who conquers bad habits is brave." ?Rev. J. Casey, in Sacred Heart Review. H GOSPEL TEMPEHJlHC* WAGOX The Rev. O. EI. Flack, of the Street Mission, Chicdgo, has a novel idea for lessening the consumption of beer among the workmen in the lumber district. He has H started what he call) a Gospel Wagon, with a cabinet organ in one end and a coffee tank |H in the other. The wagon makes the rounds IH of the lumber yards at noon. When the moh start oat for beer the music on the organ be gins and a placard is hung over the coffee tank, "Coffee is better than beer, and you can get it here for nothing." The man are BW taking kindly to the Gospel songs. If tha HI movement proves a. success other wagons BE will circulate in the labor districts. 1\ EVIL O? DRINK TS LOXSOft. flj Charles Booth's flgurea'about the poverty ^B of St George's in the Eut, and the figure* lately published by the rector in his *nw??i ! report about the public bouses in his parish, H| ought to be brought side by side. The in- HD habitants of St. George's East are among; * Bfl the poorest in London. Indeed, Charles j^H Booth reckons St. George's to be the poorest B district in East London, oontainlg ?8.8 per fl|| cent, of what he calls "toe poor," comparedV^B with 39.3 per cent, in Wmteeaapel and 4?7 * percent, in Bethnal Green. There art, nevertheless, eighty-one public houses to supply with drink the 11,000 people who occupy die rector's district?sue house, that is, for aboat every 1S5 persons. Fron\ figures it would seem a moderate computation that -1 $1000 a year must be annually paid in over the counter to keep up each of the eighty-one houses; $81,000 is thus spent every year bj 11,000 of the poorest people in London.? Pall Mall Budget DBUNXINNMS DESTBOYS LOT* FOB GOO, Mark the drunkard co _ng out of one. place when he has been filled: he goes into another saloon for more. Well, Isayaujr man who gives drink to oca beams already . under its influence is a soul-murderer; words of condemnation are not strong eooogh on '' him. Behold the drunkard coming oat of ' one of those low places, letting fall from fail, lips oaths the most shocking, blasphemy tha most revolting, that would make the very ' devils in hell snudder. Loo)'Jig around tha ' church Sunday morning, re see a poor Lu J i ? r a ' nuuuui, uiuuou, pcruops, I I guuin camrvt, the church, ashamed to be seen because of |H the poverty of her clothing or some other H such reason. Ask her where is her husband,, |H once as faithful as she to come to church. H What is her answer? He is at home in bed. H sleeping off the effects of a Saturday nighs H drunk, or,-perhaps, risingSunday morning;. goes away again to one of those vile plaoae B to continue tbe debauch of ths previous , day.?Father Nicolt, O. M.I. H A BXATHZN HTTOHT. ; fl A missionary in India writes as follows, ML concerning the effect upon their work oCj.^H drinking ny English and Americans, who are all counted as Christians by the natives, Frequently converts who did not dare touoh< HI liquor "while belonging to their own caste, on becoming Christians feel free to indulge' in the habit. They say: "English Christians ;|^H drink, Christians smoke, why should not BR wef and the missionaries' mouths are:^H closed. The effect of liquor upon these peo- MM pie and the increasing amountnsed by tfaecn, is something fearful. Besides the drinking;: H there are several substances smoked by tbe' natives, which are as pernicious and farj.^H more rapid in results than alcoholics. A! strong plea comes to us for one of our best women to go to Inda and remain several ('^H years to tram workers. "Send a good wo- Jg man who will devote all her time and ener- H| gies to this work for a few years. There are: many here who could help, bat they c&nnof |H lead. Mrs. Leavitt makes a plea in the, same line. Her plan is to hare the womea come here to be trained in oar training. school that is to be.?Union Signal. J BE 1NTXHPKRA5CK 15 BTT8SIA. 1 The Russians are, of all nations, the most addicted to drunkenness. I respect And like |H the Russians, who are the most hospitable V people on the face of the earth?hospitable ^B not because they wish to show it, oat because it is their nature, and they are per- 1 fectly sincere in it-, Jor a Russian will Ml willingly share his iast morsel with you, \ . fl and wiOr be offended if you do not accepy B Bat strong liquor is the weakness of the lower classes, who will giro their last kopeck, , for a drink of wodki (raw brandy). No matter whether he is hungry or thirsty, happy, or miserable, whether be feels cold or hot, if i he goes to a funeral or a wedding; thd flrafc! thing he thinks ol iia glass of wodki; that* being the cheapest drink he can obtain. The wodki the poorer classes drink is not distilled,-it is pure alchol (when I say pore I mean raw.) ; 4 In Russia, beside Sundays, there is a great number of holidays, which if taken together with the Sundays, make from 113 to 120 days in the year, so that tha laborer works only eight months in the year and is drank the resc of the time; lor a Russian peasant will never call Sunday or a holiday by its proper name if he be not brought hooie insensible. The middle classes, although they do not get insensibly drunk, also like to feel tha jolly state. The higher classes and the aria- . tocracy can a/ford to drink the purest, dearest and so-called "bist" drinks, such as old wine, branny and chamoagne, all of which in their effects are as injurious as alcohol. During the past year meetings have been held to discuss tie question of intemperance among the lower classes, but as yet no means have been found to scop it, or in any way to prevent its increase, it has become a general opinion that it is the ousines-* of the Govern meet. A J as, wnct mocicer y The clergy have undertak this difficult task, the Governmenc giving no aid what* ever. The priests are something like the House of Commons in England; they talk, argue and reason, but do nothing. Have they tried anytning? No; ihey keep on talking and wasting timetiiud. and adjourning "nntil another day," and the evii continues. The causes of intemperance in Ruviia are first, ignorance, and second, the indifference of the Government to the liquor traffic. Private institutions may, in some way, prevent intemperance, hut in Russia the Government is the only body that can stop it. The only way to prevent the spread of intemperance in Russia is education. Educate the childi-let him read; let him reason; give s ?- ?-?* ?x 4t~\rAr** lnm a gooa example, a:iu uisi/euu ul muuning the example now set him he mil see the error of his parents' ways. The Russian peasant is a rough, ignorant fellow, but many a noble heart lies hidden under an unpromising exterior, and if he could only be made to understand his social and political value, be taught to work not only with his bands, but also with his head, he would see the riches of his country; and if the Government aided but a little to make him a man instead of a beast, as he is now, Russia would soon become one of the richest couotries ot the world, for there is, so to speak, gold at every step you make.? Demotes t.