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NEWS FROM ABROAD, j i Late Foreign Happenings as Told by the Cable. IThe French Cabinet Resigns Because of an Adverso Vote. MINISTER DX KBEYCINET. All the members of the French Ministry Wve tendered their resignations to Pre6i tfsot; L'arnot. The cause of this was the action of th? Chamber of Deputies in connection with the Nil dealing with associations. M. Hubbard demanded urgency for the bill as a reply to the attitude of the French Bishops. M. de Cassagnac described the bill as an iniquitous measure. Premier de Freycinet denied that the measure was intended as an act of precaution of the Church, or that it need be regarded as a precursor of the separation o? Church and State. He warmly commended the conciliatory ppirit of the Pope, who, he sb id, often gave evidence of sympathetic sentiments toward France. He continued: -'We shall doubtless be called upon some day to treat with the Vatican on the religious question. A portion of the dei^y may possibly refuse to enter upon the path pointed out to tnem. dug universal i foffirage will judge between the two policies." In conclusion, M. de Freycinet gave his assent to the damand for the urgency, though fee said that would not give the measure the igniticance that M. Hubbard desired. An excited discussion ensued oa M. Hubfcard's motion. Finally M. de Freycinet again demanded that an order of the day be moved, indicating the views of ' ' the Chamber on the subject. in accordance with the Premier's demand, Boisserin moved that the Government be requested to continue its republican policy. M. de Freycinet accepted the motion and intimated that he considered it a Cabinet question. The vote ot the Chamber being taken, H. Boiaserin's motion was rejected by 804 to The Ministers, recosmixincr their de lwt, immediately lett the ftonse in a body. The Chamber then rejected the urgency motion by a vote of 283 to 246. The Baric Tamerlane Wrecked. The bark Tamsrlane, which was wrecked ff the the Rocks of Puna, Hawaii, a few Mornings ago. cleared from San Francisco with a crew of thirty-six men. The voyage down was satisfactory, bat it appears that the vessel lost her reckoning, th9 officers thinking her at the time of the wreck to be ear Kalakeakua Bay, almost two degrees to the westward. No breakers wera lighted when the vessel struck and the sudden shoe* threw the crew into great confusion. Only two mall boats were available, and one ot them, when lowered, floated away, before it se cured an occupant. Captain Howland, the first mat? of the boat, the carpen ter, the cook and two others entered the second boat, but the ship was rolling heavily and it was stove in and the occupants were Washed away. Those of the crew who remained on the bark were picked off by the waves one by one until the vessel broke up. Eighteen men, including Third Officer Pardee, managed to reach the shore with the aid ml a plank. The others, seventeen >in all, , we all drowned. 1 The Tamerlane was built in Wissassette, Me. She tad 115 barrels of oil aboard when task Snow Storms in Europe. A cablegram from Paris, France, says: The weather is colder than at any time durthe present winter. The sufferings of the poor and destitute are intense. The ionow encumbers the streets and causes a uspension of traffic. The tramways have [ceased operations, and nearly all the omni '.bases have stopped running. I. Central France and Germany are covered with snow to a depth that has brought rail" may traffic to a stand. Southwest of this city five trains are buried in the drifts near Ghatres. Railway communication with Mannheim, Augspurg, Metz and other eastern centres ij topped, trains being either stalled on the way or afraid to start ont. In Switzerland travel is altogether sua* vended. The snowfalls have been very aaavy, and with the slightest indications of a thaw the usual routes will be dangerous from avalanches. More Trouble in BrazlL A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, kites that advices have been received there V? r> ? at.i. irurn kjl IUO utauo ui Geara, tbat disturbances have broken oat in that State, and tbat the people of the capital have driven the Governor from the city. Ce&ra is one of the Northern States of Bra D, and has a population which is estimated at over 720.000. The State abounds in medicinal plants, balsams, gums, resins and fruits, and among its minerals are go d, iron, copper and salt. The trade statistics of the State show that a very extensive commerce fc carried on. Five Heroes Perish. Five men lost their lives at Lille, France, Jq a gallant attempt to rescue a person opposed to be within the walls of a burning building. When the whole building was wrapped in flames a report was circulated tnat one unfortunate person had failed to escape, and the five men bravely entered the building and began to feel their way througn the blinding smoke and flame. They had been in the building only a few seconds when the walls fell with terrible crash, and the Ave heroes were buried beneath a huge pile of burning debris. Smallpox in Bombay. Smallpox has been prevalent at Bombay, India, for some little time, and has now be vpiuvuii^, 1/UI tUi^ uuu Toca uuwio were tweDty-three deaths from the disease. BOUNDING UP WOLVES. Vive Thousand People Take Part, and 300 "Wolves Killed. At nine o'clock the other morning an enormous wolf hunt started over Crawford ani Bourbon Counties, in Kansas. As a result bout 300 wo'ves lay d?ad that night. Both eountien and others adjoinin r wore srournd by 50'10 m?n. women and children, armed in ail conceivable ways. Two thousand jack rabbits war? a'so c*Dtur?i in t.h<? len-ral round-up. Owing to an error in signillinx 4Law\ tnnn nnn Knnn 1- in fKa linu wiling TO uct c ?ras uuo ui oarv tu vun iiuu "uiuu ?v i dnced the number of captures. Tlier > was bat one accident. Thomas Perkins, of Far!- j (ngton, being fatally bitten bv a couple of wolves. Ha was torn fearfully by the aninals. Thk number of idle workmen la Chicago, XL, is estimated at 40,000. Taking it tor Cnted that Chicago has 1,000,000 inhabits, there would, at that rate, be 2,400,000 wnamployed people in the United States; bat even reduce this number fifty per cent., od we would hava 1,21X1,000 out of work in fthis country. ' TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED, j Eastern and Middle States. A party of fifteen Senators and Representatives went from Washington to Bethlehem, Penn. They were invited by the Bethlehem Steel Company to witness the process of making forgings for armor and great guns. The anniversary of the birth of George Washington was generally observed hroughout the Eastsrn and Middle States. Many societies gave banquets, at which patriotic speeches were delivered. Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, received letters from T. V. Powderly and A. J. Cassatt denouncing the Reading coal combine. He has ordered the Attoraay-General to investigate and act. One hundred and seventy-seven colored people from the Cherokee country of Indian Territory becamS stranded and penniless in New York City while on their way to Liberia, Africa. They were mostly prosperous farmers who were deluded into selling their land and migrating by the Indians. Next day a second contingent of Liberiau colonists, numbering thirty-four, from McCrory, Ark., stranded in New York City. They came by the Savannah steamer, have no connection with the party from the Cherokee country and report that the migratory movement has taken the colored people in the South by storm. Tub ship Indiana left Philadelphia. Penn., a few days ago, bearing 3300 tons of provisions for famine sufferers in Russia. The wesfc-bound St. Louis express on the X>AnncwlTruniB rrwfl ran down a DleaSUTO 1 CtUUJ tTMMIW ? ? ? party at Hawkins Station, Pann., killing two persons and fatally Injuring another. Sonth and West. A switch engine jumped the track six miles from Houston, Texas, and turned completely over. Six persons were riding on the engine at ths time, three of whom were killed and the other three badly injured. The grip is playing havoc with the Cherokees just east of Osage Agency in Kansas. Within a radius of ten miles of Skiatook twenty-two have died within the last six weeks. In one case an entire family, consisting of father, mother, sister and two children, died. A sensational duel took place near San Diego, Cal., between two druggists named Poole and Sapp, both well known citizens. As a result ot the affair, which grew out of an old quarrel, Poole was instantly killed and Sapp is in jail charged with murder. The store of the F. M. Gillen Dry Goods Company, Cleveland,Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $230,000. Chief Justice Maxwell, of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, has handed down an opinion holding that Governor Thayer had no right to hold the office of Governor, nor had he the right to usurp authority; that Lieutenant-Governor Majors should have held the office pending the test of Boyd's citizenjhio. Ex-Prisident Cleveland addressed the students of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on "Sentiment in Uur national Life." Washington's Birthday vras ge*drally celebrated in the Western and Southern States. Governor McKinley, Senators Perkins and Dolph, J. Sloat Fassett and others spoke at the banquet of the Michigan Club in Detroit, Mich. Ed. Cot, the colored man who feloniously assaulted Mrs. Henry Jewett at her boms about four miles from Texarkana, Ark., was captured and an enraged mob burned him at the stake, on a street corner, in the presence of 5000 people. Mrs. Jewell, his victim, applied the torch. Tux Garza forces in Texas have been utterly dispersed, thanks to the efficient pursuit by United States troops. The National Farmers' Alliance men in convention in St. Louis, Mo., determined upcn running a Presidential ticket. Washington. The President made the following nominations: United States Consuls, Charles W. Erdman, of Keatactcy, at lJreslen; Josapa E. Hayden, District of Columbia, at Stockholm. Major John W. Clous, Judge-Advocate, to be Lieutenant -Colonel and Deputy Advocate-General. The receipts for internal revenue during J the first seven months of the fiscal year , ending June 30, 1892, were 588,700,094, being 11,699,100 greater than the receipts during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. Washington's Birthday is a legal holiday in Washington, and the departments, both national and municipal, were closed. The President directed the removal from office of A. T. Wimberley, Internal Revenue Collector for Mississippi. The resignation of Mr. Wimberley was requested some time ago. but he refused to resign. The President and Mrs. Harrison gave a ?ulfft uaiioa fka recepiauu aw tuo ?? muo Vt*w The President made tlie foil a wing nominations: W. R Gilbert, of Oregon, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial Circuit; H. H. Smith, of Michigan, to be Assistant Register of the Treasury, vice L. W. Reid, resigned; C. F. Roberts, of California, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Humboldt, Cal. Foreign. Presideent Carnot, of France, accepted the resignations of the Ministers. He had a long conference with M. de Freycinet, at which the Premier told him that his action could not be recalled, and that the course of the Chamber ieft no choice but dishonor or resignation. Hkavt storms raged thronghout the United Kingdom of Great Britain; the dis-ku .faimur Sii- WAifcnr Ralflich. with her officers and crew on board, was blown out to sea from an Irish harbor. Hundreds of families are starring in Durango, Mexico, and a number of deaths from famine hare recently occurred. Sixty houses have recently been destroyed by earthquake shocks at Nanefcsu, Japan. Many vessels were wrecked on the British and Irish coasts in a storm a few days ago and several lives were lost General Enriquez and several companions were killed from ambush by a body of Guatemalan soldiers, near the city of Zacapa. Guatemala, close to the Honduras coast". He was bead of a party in Guate* mala. Great damage has been done in Spain by floods. President Carnot entnuted to M. Rouvier the task of forming a new French Cabinet, LA TEH JSEWS. Governor Abbktt. of New Jersev, made a large number of appointments, including those of Henry C. Kelsey for a fifth term as Secretary of State, and John P. Stociton as Attorney-General. (iBORGs D. K.elly, partner in som-i or the largest ironworks in ths Shgaaajtm Valley, shot himself at Sharon, Pann., deaxa resulting instantly. K9II7 wai weilthv, aad leaves a large family. Tha causa of the deed is a mystery. The most severe, powerful and longcontinued earthquake shock ever felt in Southern California occurred at San Diego, a few nights ago. followed by several others of lesser violence early next morning. The firstshock lasted for about twenty seconds. The Industrial Conference at St. Louii, Mo., adjourned after adoption of a platform favoring fluaucial and land reform, Gov ernment ownership of railroads and telegraphs and free silver. Thk Senate in executive session confirmed the following nomination?: Rowland B. Mahany, of New York, Minister to Ecuador; Charles W. Erdman, of Kentucky, Consul at Breslar.; James Leitch, of Louisiana, Consul at Beiiz;; Edward C. O'Brien, of New York, Commissioner of Navigation. Sissenata Jones, the colored prima donna, sang in the White House before President and Mrs. Harrison. Tire Sim3-Edisou torpedo has been tested at Portsmouth, England, before manr Euro* pean powers and it gave great ?tiwantfrm. HELD DP TIE FAST MAIL A Train Robber's Extraordinary Flight and Capture. I 'PliA niinn* XT a T a <3 am a ? iiti .uatsiiix.g uunao xxtj uou uu a Captured Locomotive. A daring and unsuccessful attempt at the robbery of an express car was made on the mail train on the Central-Hudson system, known as the American Express Company's special, and which runs every day in the year between New York and Buffalo. It carries only goo is shippsd by the express company. A man who boarded the train at Syracuse, N. Y.. ascended to the roof of the express car while the train was running between Port Byron and Lyons, and tired flva shots at the express messenger. The car was in charge of Daniel T. Mclaerny, of Rochester. The robber secreted himself on top of the car at Syracuse, and suddenly appeared to Messenger Mclnerny when the train was near Weedsport. f He had a rope with a hook in the end of it, and by this means let himself down from the top of the car. Then resting on his toos on the ledge that runs around the car, he smashed the glass of the side door, with his revolver, covered the messenger, and shouted to him to hold up his hands. Instead of doing this Mclnerny reached for the signal cord with one hand and for his revolver with the other. A bullet struck the hand on the cord, but not before it had given a slight signal. Then Mclnerny fired at the robber and put I a bullet through bis coat. Then the robbar shot the messenger twice, onca in the right jeg uxtu lub uuaer liuio grazing me ibil tempi e. He climbed into the car aad a desperats struggle took place, whicn did uot end until the train was stopped for the first time near Weedsport. It is thought that the robber climbed out n top of the cars and remained there through the stop at Port Byron and until the train reached Lyons, as nothing could be seen of him at the former station, where the cause of that slight air-brake signal having been investigated, Mclnerny had been found wounded and alone in his car. By the time the train reached Lyons the news of the robbery was generally known along the road, an alarm having been sent out from Port Byron. A crowd had collected, and in it the conductor recognized a young man whom he had seen hanging about the train at Syracuse. A trainman also recognized the man, and the two advanced on mm. Then ensued a most exciting chase. The fellow drew a brace of revolvers, kept the crowd at bay, ran across to the express locomotive and tried bO uncouple ic irom cue train, railing, as ran to a freight engine, uncoupled it, covered the engineer and fireman with his pistols and in a moment was gliding rapidly westward. He was pursued with the express locomotive on a parallel track, and as the latter gained on him he reversed and flew down the track, firing into the cab of the express engine as he met ir. One of the pursuing party returned the fire with a shotgun, buc no shots took effect. Twice the chase, the reversal and tue vain shooting took place. Then the robber was left to run away with his engine and other means were adopted to finally catch him. The fellow ran his machine two miles beyond Newark, where he abandoned the engine and forced a switchman to take it back to Lyons. Striking across country, then the robber terrorized a farmer into giving him a horse, which he drove until it was tired out. Then he repeated his bulldozing on another farmer, emphasizing his demand with two revolver shots. Rut tha roads wara noop anrl aesrc^lv five miles south of Newark he became aware that a sheriffs posse and a baud oc aroused and armed farmers were close at his Inola. He deserted his rig and tvok to Benton's Swamp, where he was soon surrounded. He saw the game was up and though heavily armed, surrendered without resisting. He is a man of about twenty-five years, j five feet and a half in height and weighing perhaps 130 pounus. About his person and in a satchel which he left in the engine he had a complete outfit tor all the purposes of the robbery he attempted. Hcfgot nothing from the car. Mclnerny was taken to his home in Rochester for treatment. The robber says he had no intention of killing him. The man who attempted to rob the express car has been identified as Oliver C Perry, who was also connected with the train robbery near Utica last fall. .FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 3fith Day ?Mr. Palmer discussed the DODular election of Senators Mr. Chilton introduced a joint resolution to amend the | Constitution so as to provide for biennial sessions of Congress, and it was laid on the table for the present Mr. Proctor introduced a joint resolution providing for a constitutional amendment so that the President shall hold his office for one term of six years, and shall not be eligible for re-election. Laid on the table for the present Eulogies were given on the late Senator Plumb, of Kansas. 37th DaT.?A. letter from Secretary Foster was received opposing the Revenue Marine transfer An issue of District bonis was discussed Reports were received from committees as follows: To authorize an exploration and survey of the interior of Alaska. Calender, Terminating the reduction in the number of engineers of the Navy. Calendar. To fix the compensation of keepers and crews of life saving staT.oi/i Awnr Tn ^otaKliah a m A p i n A board for the advancement of the interests of the merchant marine. Passed. 38th Day.?The Senate, immediately after the introduction of a flood of petitions and a few bills, went to the calendar. It passed but one impersonal bill, providing for a public building at Newport New^, Va. A number of private bills* were passe 1. 89th Day. ?The Vice-President announced the appointment of Messrs. Cameron and Butler as members of the Board of Visitors to attend the next annual examination of the cadets at the Military Academv?Mr. Sherman reported a bill to protect foreitrn exhibitors at the World's Columbian Exposition from prosecution for exhibiting wares protected by American patents and trademarks, and it was pused Mr. MandersoD, referring to what is known as "the green-goodsn business, said that there was no law on the statute book to r^ach that great evil, or rather critne, and he introrhinarl t.hraa hillo in runnfli tn rArtlAflv it The Dubois-Claggett contest was discussed The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up. In the House. 39th Day.? Speaker Crisp called the House to order, but immediately after the delivery of the prayer resigned the gavel to Mr. Richardson, or Tennessee fhe President's message relative to the Choc caw and Chickasaw claims was laid before the House Secretary Foster sent an explanation of his course in continuing bonds?The Indian Appropriation bill was discussed. 40th Day.?The House was called to order by Mr. Kerr, its Clerk, who read a communication from the Speaker designating Mr. japjaunn, oc ienaessje, as apdatcer pro | A debate took place over silver and protection The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Air. Richardson, of Tennessee, in the chair) on tae private calendar 41st Day.?The House cho;e Mr. McMillin, ot Tennessee, Speauer pro tem., and then adjournel. No business was attemp:ed. 42d Day.?The Housj went into Committee of the Whole (ilr. Bynum, of Indiana, in the chair) on the Indian Appropriation bill. After disposing of forty-3ix of the sixty pages of the bill the cooimittea rose and the House adjourned. Some man is said to have discovered a method of deodorizing whisky. If this genius who has struck such a body blow at the clove industry can now devise a method of eliminating the "drunk" from the juice of the corn and the fermentation of the rye he can make bi-chloride of gold a drug in the market. :v. .v'-ry V;iV". ; l.r A MESSAGE ON THE FAIR The President in Fa?or of Spending More Money. He Advises a Grant of From Five to Eight Millions. The following message from President Harrison accompanied the report of the World's Fair Commission to Congress To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress the annual report of the World's Fair Commission, a supplementary report of tha anma pnmmiooinn Kiihmifctftd Fphraarv 16, the report of the board appointed bv me under Section 16 of the act of April 25, 1890, to have charge of the exhibit to be made by the Executive departments, the Smithsonian Institute, the Fish Commission and the National Museum and the Board of Lady Managers. The information furnished by these reports as to the progress of the work is not only satisfactory, but highly gratifying. The plan and scops adopted, and the site and buildings selected and now being erected are fully commensurate with the national and international character of the enterprise contemplated by the legislation of Congress. The Illinois corporation has fully complied with the condition that $10,000,000 should be provided, and the Government commission reports that "grounds and buildings will be the most extensive, adequate and ornate ever devoted to such purposes." It seems, however, that from five to eight I millions of dollars more will be necassary to prepare the Exposition for complete and successful inauguration. It will be noticed from the reports that it was first proposed by the local commission to ask Congress for a loan of $5,000,000, to be paid from receipts, and that the National Commission appropriated this suggestion. Subsequently the Illinois Exposition Corporation reconsidered its action and determined upon a subscription of $5,000,000. The supplementary report of the National Commission seems to approve this amendment. "I have myself no detailed information of the finances of the enterprise which would enable me to form an independent judgment, and am not therefore prepared to make any specific recommendation to Con 6' The committees of Congress having this matter in charge will undoubtedly obtain accurate information befora action. The exposition, notwithstanding the _ citations which the act contains, is an enterprise to which the United Sfates is so far committed that Congress ought not. I think, withhold just and reasonable further support of the local corporation consents to proper conditions. Liberality on the part of the United States is due to the foreign nations that have responded to the invitation of this Government, and will I am sure, meet tbe approval of our people. The exposition will be one of the most illustrious incidents in our civic history. I transmit, also,certain resolutions adopted by the representatives of National Guards of various States, appointed by the Governor to attend a convention, which was held in Chicago, October 27, 1891, on the subjact of of holaing a military encampment at Chicago during tbe exposition. (Signed.) Benjahin Harrison. Executive Mansion, February 34, 189 The report of the Columbian Commission mentioned in the President's message is signed by President Palmer and dated Chi? WawawiKoh O* 1RQ1 Tho oara ilUTOUlUUl WV, ?wv?. MW ?W^V?? WMJU that most satisfactory advancement has been made in every department of the work, and the substantial results furnish the assurance that the work of preparation will be fully comdeted within the period contemplated by Congress; and that the exposition will be opened and conducted in a manner worthy of its national and international character and with a success which will certainly realize, if they shall not exceed, the expecctatioa and demands of the American people. The exposition site, it is said, is exceptionally eligible and fully adequate to all demands. In no feature is the magnitude of the proposed exposition more clearly emphasized than in the character and capacity of the buildings, which will afford a much larger space for exhibition than any that have ever been hitherto erectei. The fifteen departments, with one or two exceptions, are in active operation. It was determined to have the dedicatory ceremonies on uceooer ilcd, ljcq, ucn ana 14th, 1892, and an official historian of the exposition was also provided for. The National Commission has reduced expenditures so far as possible. Nevertheless it finds it impossible to keep its expenditures within the limits of the appropriation of $59,500, but the aggregate expenses for the present fiscal year will be $80,000, so that there will necessarily be a deficit of no less than $20,000. Under date of February 16. 1892, President Palmer, of the World's Columbian Commission, writes to the President calling attention to a report submitted on November 25, 1891, reciting the action taken by the National Commission upon the proposition of the Illinois corporation to apply to Congress for a loan of $5,000,000. An appeal to Congress for aid in a sum slightly in excess of onefourth of the total cost of the work, he says, would seem to be entitled to special consideration. mammoth' fair 7 halls. Getting Ready tor the Biggest BarnRaising in History. The contractors who are putting up the big steel trussea for the roof of the Manufactures Building of the World's Pair, Chicago, are getting ready for the biggest "barnraising" in history. There are twenty-seven main trusses, with a soan of 380 feet and a height of 211 feet Thev are fourteen feet wide at the floor and ten at the apex. These trusses with the eight smaller gable trusses weisth 10,800,000 pounds. The main trusses weigh about 350,000 pounds each, and they are to be raised in position from the floor. To handle these great iron structures a "traveler" is being constructed on the floor of the building, fifty feet by 260 feet and 12C feet high. On top of this "traveler" will b? raised a central tower 135 feet high, so that the total height of this great lifting arrangemenc is 255. It will weigh 720,000 pounds, and over half a million feet of lumber will be usdi in its construction. The floor of the building will not, of course, bear this grea?- weight and the "traveler" will move ou a tr^ck specially prepared for it. As much as is necessary of the floor will be torn up and three rows of piles will be driven to support the "traveler." When the work of raising the trusses is finished, this piling will be sawed off and the floor relaid. Another big "traveler" is being rigged on the floor of Machinery Hall to erect the iron work in that strucure?a task scarcely less difficult. WORLD'S FAIR EXCURSION, Five Carlodds ot People Lett Washington lor Chicago. The excursion to inspect the preparations for the World's Fair made in Chicago was probably the largest and most magnificently I equipped one that ever left Washing| ton. Five special trains, composed of I I : 1? fiirniahivi OArq rolled out at I 1U.\U11UIUI/ **? ? , i 2:30 in the afternoon, carrying 350 pas| senders, including nearly one-half the j I House of Representatives and a large contingent trom the Senate. Many members were accompanied by the ladies of their families, and a score or so of foreign ministers and fifty newspaper men were of the party. The excursionists were the guests of Chicago. Mr. Durborow, of the House Committee of the World's Columbian Exposition, and Adial T. Ewing, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee of Chicago, had charge of the party. Fred Dehle, a farmer at Germantown. Cal.. was fatally injured by an explosion of a "sheep dip can," which be was using as a boiler to furnish steam to run a miniature engine ot a new design preparatory to applying for a patent on th? engine i.' .- . i."' 1 INSTRUCTED FOB HILL. . Proceedings ot the New Vork Demo cratic State Convention, david b. hill. The New York Democratic State Col. vontion was called to order in Hermann's Bleecker Hall, Albany, by Chairman Edward Murphy, Jr., of the State Committee, at 12:82 p. m. Re J, white and blue bunting formed the only decorations of the hall, incidentally added to by the bright colored attire of a throng of ladies in the boxes. A portrait of Washington hune from the proscenium area in nonor or anniversary or ms birth. Chairman Murpiay named the temporary organization decided on by the State Committee at its morning's meeting. Mayor J. W. Hinckley eocorted Judge Beebe, of the Court of Claims, to the chair. His speech was warmly received throughout. Secretary De Freest called the roll of the Convention, and as the names of prominent Democrats were read they were greeted with wild applause by the partisans and admirers of the men named. The reading of the roll revealed the presence of threa contesting delegations, one from the Fourth Albany District, the second from the Second District of Chautauqua, and the third from the First District of Oswigo. On motion of Assemblyman Gould, of Lewis, the rules of the Assembly were adopted. Resolutions were adopted making provision for the appointment of Committees on Credentials, Permanent Organization, Platform, Delegates and Electors. That providing for the Platform Committee provided for reference of all resolutions, petitions and protests without debate. This insured that no open protest would be made on the floor of the Convention. On motion of Frank Havden, of Rensselaer, the present State (Committee was continued in existence nntil next year. Tbe committees having been announced, at 2:50 o'clock the convention took a recess until 3:30 o'clock. During tbe recess the Committee on Credentials decided in favor of seating the sitting (Hill) delegates in the contests in Albany, Chautauqua and Oswego, as determined by the dtate Committee. The Convention areassembfed just before 4 o'clock. General Daniel ?. Sickles, of New York, was chosen permanent Chairman, and amid great applause he laid one of his crutches on the table and made his speech. James W. Ridgway, of Kings County, presented the report of tbe Committee on Resolutions: "For coinage of a silver dollar intrinsically worth one dollar,'' platforms of 1874 and 1891, eulogizing the records of Governor Hill and Governor Flower. The delegates selected were instructed to pre sent W LUO 11 tt 1,1U11IU JJOUIUCIHUU (JUU vention the name ot David B. Hill as their candidate for President and to vote as a unit for his nomination. The platform was unanimously adopted. A committee was selected to bring Mr. Hill before the Convention. His appearance was greeted with much applause. His speech closed the convention. Protesting Democrats. It was 10 o'clock in the morning of Convention Dav when ex-Mayor William R. Grace, E. Ellery Anderson, Colonel Robert Grier Monroe and James Byrne, the committee representing the Union Hall protestants, demanded admission to the meeting of the State Committee. They were courteously received, but their protests against the early convention were in vain. When the discomfited members of the com mittee emerged from the room they announced to the waiting reporters that they would have a meeting at Union HalL The Cleveland Provisional Democracy, as it is called, met in Union Hall. Franklin D. Locke,of Buffalo, was Chairman. A call,was issued for a convention on May 31 in Syracuse, to nominate a set of delegates to the Chicago Convention. The declaration of the Convention was for tariff reform and honest money. A committee of fifteen, including the Chairman, was appointed, and empowered to add to its number one from each vacant Concessional district. It is to be known as the Provisional Committee; hence the name of the new party. The Provisional Committee has as members Charles E. Fair child, E. Ellerv Anderson, William E. Curtis, Edward B. Whitney, New York; Edward M. Shepard, George Foster Peabody, Kings County; M. N. Kane, Orange; Charles Roe/Monroe; Fletcher Peck Livingston; O. W. Cutler. Niagara: Hudson Ainslie, Cattarangn*; Franklin O.- Locket Erie. Them were thirfy-eight counties represented in the conference. Charles S. Fairchild made a speech when h9 opened the meeting. Chairman Locke, E. Ellerv Anderson, ft. M. Thome, of Buffalo; Will iam A. roticher, of Oswego; William H. Beach, of Syracuse, and G. Hyde Clark, of ^ i-?- ?'I" Plai*1r wonfflH v/oopersiowu, uiauo o^ccvuw. ? ..MUVV. the party to come out boldly for Cleveland, FOSTEBGOES ABBOAD. The Secretary ot the United States Treasury Sails lor Europe. Secretary of the Treasury Foster sailed from New York sailed for Europe on the Spree, accompanied by Dr. J. B. Hamilton, " n 1 - It. A ? nni] W ex-ourgeon ueuenu ui mo muj, ouu . P. McLennon, Chief of the Warrant Division of the Treasury Department. He was to go from New York to Bremen, was to visit London for a couple of days and catch the return steamer at Southampton. The Secretary was accompanied from Washington by W. F. McLennon, Dr. J. B. Hamilton,E. O. Leech, C. M. Hendley and R. J. Wynne, nla private secretary. It is said that Secretary Foster is goinj abroad for his health. Secretary of War Elkins, ex-Governor McCormicfc, of Arizona, and many other friends called at the Fitth Avenue Hotel during the morning to express the hope that his health would be benefited by the voyage, and as the Spree steamed down the harbor she was escorted by the revenue cutter Chandler, on board ot which were many of the Secretary's friends. By order of the Secretary of War the Spree was saluted with seventeen guns from Governor's Island and also by the guns at Fort Wadsworth and Fort Hamilton. Seven teen guns is tho regulation salute for a Cabinet officer. Improved Weed Puller. A machine has been brought our. to pull weeds entirely oul of the ground, or to kill them, in case they are well rooted, by stripping off their seeds and leaves. It is adapted to be drawn by horses, and a sprocket drive on the drive wheel is connected to rotate a forward shaft turning in suitable bearings, this shaft leaving a gear wheel by which a drum is rotated on a shaft turning in bearings on the front end of the main frame. The drum has longitudinal slots in its rim, in euch of which moves a comb, the teeth of which form Y-shaped opening into which the stems of the weeds readily pass, and are firmly gripped. The machine is said to have given great satisfaction In practical work, being well adapted to pull up weeds in cultivated ground in which the grain has appeared, nUv.r.nK ininrv to the (Train.?Courier nibuuuv^ * J J ?- ? q? | Journal. \ .. \ \ \ , \ ^ *v:-" 'i FIGHTING IN BRAZIL The Goveriior of Ceara Deposed by the Insurgents. A Thirteen-honr Battle in Which Fourteen Were Killed. A. dispatch was received from Rio Janeiro, giving the details of another out* break in one of the provinces of Brazil, which revolt, Irom tne account! or ttte auair telegraphed, was of a far graver character than have been the other uprisings which have occurred recently in '.the disaffected portion of that country. This latest manifestation of Che malcontents was made in Ceara, a maritime province in the north of Brazil. The insurgents consisted of a body of students and a force of soldiers. The combined force of students and soldiers, when they had perfected their plans, proceeded to attack the residence,of General Clarinds, the Governor of Ceara. The party had supplied themselves with several cannon, and these were handled with much effect in the assault on the building. When news of the uprising had been learned the police force and a large number of loyal citizens offered their services to the Governor, who gladly accepted the aid. The Governor's party barricaded the residence and made a stubborn resistance to every attempt of the insurgents to capture it. The fight for the possession of the building was determined and bloody. The Governor's forces, however, were inferior in numbers to their opponents, and were also placed at a disadvantage in not having the nse of cannon. After,a hotly contested battle lasting for thirteen hours the Governor was forced to surrender to the insurgents, who took possession of the build lug. Fourteen persons were kujbu during the battle, and a large number of men on both sides were wounded, many of them seriously. When the insurgents had,succeeded in defeating the defenders of the building they at once deposed the Governor and assumed control of affairs in the province. The outbreak has caused great excitement throughout Ceara and adjoining provinces, and has had a disturbing effect on the people. An official dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that order has been restored in Ceara. It appears that the disorder was due to the opposition to the Governor of the State, who was a strong supporter of the ex-Dictator, Da Fonseca. PP0MTWT1NT PEOPLE. Thomas A. Edison fa forty-five years old. The Pope promises his aid to the World's Fair. Lord Tennyson & not very strong in his spelling. # President Depew, of the New York Central, has bnt 2000 namesakes. Mas. Amet.ta E. Barb, the popular novelist, is the mother of fifteen childen. The African explorer Junker, well known as a friend of Gordon and Stanley, is dead. Henry Clay's mother-in-law, Amelia Scott, ia dead at Washington, aged 101 years. Oscar Wilde is to give Chicago the honor of his presence during the World's Fair season. The Emperor of Germany stands twentyfirst in direct line of succession to the British Throne. Ex-Senator Evarts, of New York, has just passed- his seventy-fourth birthday anniversary. Patrick Egan, United States Minister to Chile, never uses tobacco or alcoholic liquors in any form. Baron Albert Rothschild has donated $50,000 toward building a consumption hospital in Vienna, Austria. The death of the late Khedive of Egypt 1 A 1 1 4L. A4mlnisfi?a. was uaawjueu uy tuo uiibiiuoxjr auuuuuunticn of morphine by native doctors. Generax. Booth reviewed in Hyde Park. London, England, a mile-long procession of (Salvation Army soldiers in his honor. , Critics in London, England, make bold to say that the new Lord Mayor of the city has a pronounced tendency to be "fusay." Barnes Gkeeley, the only brother of Horace Greeley, lives a quiet lite on the old Greehy farm in Chautauqua County, near Jamestown, N. Y. It was while preparing applications for patients as a f 15 a week clerk in a lawyer's office that Emil Berliner, the distinguished electrician of Washington, first got the idea of becoming an inventor. The relation of employer and clerk is now reversed. Anthony J. Dbexel, the Philadelphia banker, has had a spider named after him. This is fame of a vicarious sort, but it is somewhat more original than that gained by having one's name perpetuated in a chrysanthemum, a notion that has been very popular during the last few years. Captain W. S. Sohlzy. the redoutable commander of the United States cruiser Baltimore, is a man of about forty-five years. There are streaks of gray in his closely cropped "imperial" beard, but his hair is brown and he wears it combed down low over a broad forehead. His shoulders are broad and he has the commanding presence of a typical naval officer. ON A BUBNINOSHIP, Captain Boyd and His Wile Died With Hflln in Siffht. Further details of the harrowing scenes attendant on the burning at saa of the oil-ship Loodiana have been related by Second Officer William E. Jourian, of the Egytian Monarch, which arrived at the Port of New York a few days ago. Mr. Jourdau says: "Our ship was about 800 miles east of St. Johns, New Foundland. at midnizht. Terrific seat were running, and the Egyptian Monarch was using oil-bags for the first time in her history. "I was on the bridge, and at about 1 o'clock I saw a sudden flare of light ten miles away through the sleet. It was an explosion, and we put on full head toward the burning ship. "In forty-five minutes we rounaea vo uuder theLoodiana's lee. Chief Officer Bingham, Third Officer Kay, myself and three sailors stood by to launch a lifeboat. The Loodiana was a sheet of flame and we could hear voices crying above the sea's din. "I saw Captain Boyd astride the jibboom of the fated ship clinging to his wife with his arm about her waist. "The wind blew the flames all about them, and before we could get the life-boat ouc they were past help. The head-stays had been buruwl off. the jibboom snapped, and man and wife disappeared. "We searched for the Loodiana's boats but found no trace of them. All on board undoubtedly perished. "The Loodiana left New York with a a cargo of petroleum in cases. She hailed from Windsor, Nova Scotia, and was insured therefor MO.000. She measured 1820 tons and was built at Hautsport, Nova Scotia, in 1889. Her crew numbered all told nearly thirty persons, all of whom perished. THIRTEEN KILLED. A. Factory Smokestack Falls, Crashinjf the Female Workers. The fall, a few days ago, of the hundredfoot smokestack of the Thornton Mills, Checkheaton, Yorkshire, England, was attended with serious consequences. Thirteen female operatives working in the mills were killed and twelve injured. The great stack quivered and swayed and then toppled over from the top, at first almost keeping the chimney form and then bursting into an avalanche of brick and mortar and dust, which fell with terrific force upon the mills. All the employes heard the warning sound, and although they did not know what was the matter they stopped work instantly and many made a rush for the 3xits. Then came the vast mass of material, crushing the mills like an eggshell, and everything was hidden by the cloud of i.Ubt that arose, dense and suffocating from whsie the chimney and factory had stood. Many of the injured were trampled on at the doors during a mad effort to escap*. TEMPERANCE. I Wl'Rl 70B TKKFXHA.frCE. jgB We hope that you do not suppos$ dearest Hfl Iri&nda, D| That our verr long silence on temperance, portends MB A lazy or wearisome shirking; M In this great, busy world we're a great deal to do, But we stand as a band, to our pledge, brave and true, HB No cowards among us are lurking. We love our cold water in springtime'ssoft jjj t showers; Rfl We love it, when brightening the summer's sweet flowers; HB In autumn its pleasures are chosen: HQ When winter com3S on with its days cold HB and bright. SB It is water supplies with unbounded delight. Hfl Oh! I tell you it is glorious when frozen. So if we are silent you must never suppoee jO That our juvenile army is lost, drowned, or flM froze, SH in tills tana wnere cnese dangers aoouna; For when swimming, or boating, or coasting we'll steer So Car from the dram-shops you need hare no fear; We're for temperance all the year 'round. ?Mrs. S. Irwin, iu Temperance Banner. DUD ON A BEEB-KKG. One of the recent pathetic incidents connected with intemperance in New York City was the death of an old man in tattered garments, with one of his feet bare, and wearing neither hat nor coat. He was found on a recent cold morning, dead, sitting on a beerkeg. Many had passed him sitting in that position, when a policaman tried to arouse the unconscious figure and discovered that he was dead. What a pitiable end, indeed, for an old nan to come to, brought to it through the defending agency of strong drink. How different, indeed, would hare been his life and death could he have been pledged in early youth to total abstinence Crom intoxicants. TBS KOVEXBNT IN SCOTLAND. in a renew or trie progresi ot toe temperance movement in Scotland the Glasgow Reformer finds cause for gratification to every true-hearced friend of the reform. The activities of temperance work have been felt in every direction, and especially in church organizations. There is a rising tide of public opinion dgainst the liquor dealer, due to persistent prohibitory teaching and a realization of the injury and loas caused by the traffic. The hopes of the great temperance army turn to the new parliament that is almost certain to be elected during the present year. The efforts that have been made to strengthen the temperance party in parliament will then tend to a settlement oC the question of the direct veto at the outset. This is a cheering outlook for the earnest Scottish temperance reformers and one,that sends its reflection cle tr across the water THE BUM CUB8C JIT AFRICA. The United States Consul at Sierra Leone, Hon. B. Bowser, in a recent letter to a citizen of Hartford, Conn., referring to the ravages of the liquor traffic in Africa, writes: I am not a missionary, nor the son of one, but I judge the present from the past The Christian nations of the earth must set .a better example than flooding-this country with rum and gin. and lauding it on the . Sabbath day at tne wharf, within fifty yards of the church. I stood on the wharf last Sabbath, and saw steamers come into the harbor from Germany and England, and they commenoed to land rum and gin. There were over one hundred men employed all day, and the customs officers had to be on duty. The native king* are petitioningthe Government to stop the liquor traffic. It la ruining their people. One king says if they continue it will cause him to leave bit country, and go where the white man's rum can't reach his people. OBNZBAI. SCOTT AKD TKKPKBAVCE. ftanoral k/wt? was in mmfflMlill R/wlr Island when the cholera broke out thext^ and, after various injunctions in this order as to sobriety and cleanliness, he added this curious paragraph, which was recently printed in the Magaziae of American History ^ "In addition to the foregoing, the senior surgeon present recommends the use of flannel underc;?<hinz, and woolen/stock* ings; but the commanding general, who ha* seen much of disease, knows that it is intemperance which, in the present state of the atmosphere, generates and spreads the calamity, and that when once spread, good and temperate men are likely to take die infection. "He, therefore, peremptorily oommands that every soldier or, ranger who shall be found drunk or sensibly intoxicated after the publication of this order be compelled, as soon as his strength will permit, to dig a' grave at a suitable burying-plaoe, large enough for bis own reception, as such grave cannot fail soon to be wanted for the drunken man himself or some drunken companion. m ms oraer is given as weu wj wi ?g im w hh punishment of drunkenness as to spare good AB and temperate men the labor of digging graves for their worthless companions. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. jM The Lord's side is never the whisky side. Beer consumption is on the increase in Paris. fl| The "Whisky Trust" Director* at Chicago fl decided to reduce the prica of whisky. m Saturday night, tradition has it, ths BE sober man in quaint, old Melrose, Scotland, fl is the exception. H The town of Union, Me., boasts of afl citizen who in three days drank twenty-?ix gallons of cider. B New York consumes 80,000,000 barrels of H beer annually. The rate of increase is fl 3,000,000 barrels a year H The value of the food products of oar T1 country for a ainsrle year is about 9300,000,- JI 000. The ooat of alcoholic drinks is about ] I $1,485,000,000. I I Every lawyer in Jackson, Miss., has been T I retained to defend druggists ot that oity / I who have beon indicted for the charge of/ unlawfully selling alcohol. I I In two days of the civil term of court juat I closed at Bangor, Me., sixteen decrees ot ai vorce were entered. Eight of these were wot I cruel treatment and intoxication. t The Iowa Supreme Court has decided/that a firm of wholesale liquor-dealers cj/t St Louis can collect tor liquor sold to an Iowa saloon-keeper in violation of the prohibitory law. ' An official in a Texas town recently wrote to the local Treasurer asidng that,his salary should be sent to his bouse, as he had not been sober enough to leave home for several' weeks. The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the wellknown statistician, is authority for the statement that for every dollar paid in by the saloons for tneir license aboat 131 is paid out by the people. A United States revenue inspector while ? collecting in the western and northern sections of Pennsylvania discovered 3500 "speakeasies." These places are mostly grocery stores, cigar stores an idrug stores. 1 Some of the Scottish temperance societies aie organizing "Burns Temperance Demon- |1 ntrotmno" in th*fc the "name and in- I fluence of Burns may be purged from the drink associations which still misinterpret and obscure them William Shannon, aged thirty-six years, was found dead in his bed reoently, at Mount Holly, Pane. He had been given a quart of whisky by some stranger*, and a coroner's jury rendered a verdict of "death from an overdose of whisky." Suit was begun by M-s. Frederick Wehr, of Porterville, Pena., against A. VV. Marshall, a druggist of that place, for 910,000 da mages. Her husband was recently found frozen to death near his home, and sae claims that be got his whisky from Marshall. Illinois has the unenviable distinction of beinz the stronghold of the whisky power. The internal revenue collections of this iSt&te for the year ending in Juue were more tnan twice Mat of any other State?New York yielding $16,565,522, while Illinois paid $33,464.312. Tne temperance people of Toronto, Ohio, j after trying all legal means to drive a saloonkeeper out of town, warned him to leave or hid nouse would be burned down. No attention was paid to the notice, so on Tuesday of last wee* the saloon was gutted by a lire of incendiary origin. The last day has passod for filing applications for liquor licens?3 in Philadelphia, Penn. The entire number filed is: Retail, 3014, wholesale, 561. Last year 3353 retail license applications were filed and 1258 were granted; while 1613 wholesale licensea were asked for and 538 ware granted. The licenw < ? "!??? ' nnir tlflflO