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A RAGING BLIZZARD. Many States Experience the Worst Storm in Years. fi-rant Tloe+.rnnt.'nTi t.r? Tilffl and Property Reported. A dispatch from St Paul, Minn., 3ays: The late storm was one of the most severe experienced in the Northwest for many year-. Advices from Northern Wisconsin the Dakota?, Minnesota and Iowa,show that it was far reaching and of the same degree of severity in all localities. A ter razing with terrific fury for thirty . hours the blizzard passed on to the Northwest. leaving: in its wake intense cold, the mercury early in the morning reaching ten below, and at nine o'clock being one below. Damace to property from the severity of the gale is reported at Fargo, Crookston and other places in South Dakota. Crookston's buildings suffered greatly from the breaking of plate glass, as well as being nearly blown down by the force of the storm, and many small buildings were demolished. Many buildings at Fergus Falls were unroofed and other damage done. Ellendale, North Dakota, reports the county buildings damaged, ana tne xarmers in that neighborhood have been compelled to postpone their seeding wheat, whicn was Underway. Similar reports of damage to building: are coming in from all over Minnesota am the Dakotas. So far as the railroads were concerned the gale and blizzarl got in their deadly work when it blew and drifted badly. Snow plows were out on every division. One of the more serious results of the blizearu was a wreck on the Northern Pacific at La^ePaik. A snow plow carrying two engines and running as the first section of the regular train haa a head end collision at that point at half-past four a. m. with the first "section of the passenger train. George Carr, engineer of the passenger train, was thrown with terrible force against the air brake valve in his caboose, one leg being frightfully torn and boti badly scalded, while his head suffered severe contusions. Several other trainman were badly sbaken u.. + The storm in Duluth was the worst known in Minnesota for years. JJaiutn was tae storm centre of the Northwest. The wind blew sixty miles an hour. The thermometer was six degrees below zero, and nearly fifteen inches of snow fell. Business was entirely prostrated, the street car lines were abandoned, and the suburban trains made no effort to complete their trips after three o'clock in the afternoon. The damage done was great at West Duluth. The smokestack of the Merrill & Ring sawmill was biown down. F. Cullen, an employe, was instantly killed and the two other men were injured. In nearly all the Superior street buildings plate glass was broken and several roofs were stripped of their tin, while on the Metropolitan block the cornice was blown into the street. An elevator on the roof was blown off and the false work badly damaged. ^ An elderly gentleman named Nugent perished in the storm that night three miles from Man 20, North Dakota. William M. Griffin, a farmer, was found frozen to death the other day half a mile from Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Griffin was returning from his farm and was caught in the blizzard. When a mile from town he / abandoned his team and started to walk to the city. One ox was found dead near the wagon. The decease! man leaves a wife nH itipoa email children. Other abandoned teams are reported. A man and his team was frozen between Grafton, North Dakota, and the depot. They were found by the stationman. The man was lying in the wagon-box. A couple married there came near suffering the same fate. They were overtaken by the storm two miles south of the town. Their team fortunately wandered into ? warm corner. In the city considerable damage was done. During the blizzard in Chicago, a threestory building in course of erection on North avenue and Mead street was blown down, and two workmen, N. Nobes and Willis Vallierre, were fatally injured. A severe rainstorm, accompanied by a cold wind that attained tremendous velocity, passed over Washington shortly after noon. Itfauy people were taken off their feet by the wind and some of them sustained injuries. The wife of Senator Palmer of Illinois was approaching the Capitol on foot when ?the storm broke. She was taken off her feet ?dj tnrown against some ikjpe, buuciuik ?deep cat in her head. CALAMITY AT SEA, Seven Sailors Asphyxiated on a Cattle Steamer, Seven men ont of fourteen who slept in the forecastle on the steamer Navarro, which bad sailed from Boston, Mass., for London, England, were found dead in their bunks the second morning out. These men are P Mo Cabe, J. McDonald, J. Gourlce, William Smith, E. Gadistein, E. Perquin and A. Ford. The men were buried at. sea. Their seven companions had a narrow escape from the same fate. The Navarro was comparatively a new steamer of 2515 tons register, ?ouicnaaded by Captain Goicoachea. She loaded 404 head of cattle and a general carso. In addition to the crew she carried fourteen cattle men, one boss foreman and two refrigerator men. The fourteen cattlemen slept in the forecastle in rather close cuarters. Cattle men do not go aboard a 'ship, as a rule, is the soberest ooadition, and the first day at sea has generally a disquieting effect physically. The Navarro's cattle men were of the ordinary variety. i The first night at sea came, the cattle were fed and bedded, and the cattle men then sought the forecastle. The weather was cold and stormy, the men tired and sleepy, and some one suggested that a fire be piled high with coal. i This was done, and some one else closed the portholes. None of the men noticed the lack of ventilation until too late. The quality of the coal on the Navarro was unutterably bad. One by one tne men dropped to sleep, aided, doubtless, by the gaseous atmosphere. As the hours rolled on the gas became denser, and the men in the upper bunks were enveloped in its deadly embrace. In the morning, as the men did not appear at the usual hour to attend to tbe wants of the cattle, th?Captain ordered them routed out. The boss cattleman and some ol the crew entered the forecastle and were almost overcome by the deadly atmosphere. They found seven men dead and seven almost dead. THE WOOLEN TRADE. Official Statistics Showing the Number of Factories. Official woolen statistics for the United States have just been given out from Washington. The numb?r of establishments reported for 1830 as engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods proper, wnen compared with toe nuTibir reported for 1830, shows a decrease of t>78. Th9 nu nb9r reported in 1880 for this branca o; tne industry showed adecreass ol win estaoiuaments xrom iaa number reports 1 in 1370. A comparative state nsnt of all branches of wool uianulac.ur-.except shoddy.ia given as follows: Number of establishments reported in 1893, 2503; in 1830. 2M'J. Caoitai invested, 13 K), $314,309,944; 1880, $159,031.(5(59. Nuoiocr o; han Is employsi, 1890, '421,033; 1880, 131,557. Wares pud, la90, #76,741,266; 1880, $47,83?. 087. Miicellaneons f-XT-nc9<, 1890. $19,547,200; 188r), blank; no causus ia.c-?n. Cost o: materials Uoi J, 1393, $203,095,642; 1880, $164,371,551. Value at ta.torv of goods manufactured, 1890, $338,231,109; 1330, $267,252,918. This statement 'ioes not laclude 271 idle ?itablisament< r .-porting invested capital mounting to *6, 133,860. Thk past year has been one of th? worst business years ever known in Saxony. Ov?r 40,000 distress warrants were issued in Dresden alone?an increase of nearlv twenty per cent., and the number of bailiffs had to be considerably increased. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Archbishop Corrigan received a letter from Rome announcing the appointment of Mgr. McDonnell, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York, as Bishop of Brooklyn, to succeed the late Bishop Loughlin. The New Jersey Legislature adjourned sine die, after passing the bill legalizing the Reading railroad deal. Nearly the entire northern portion of New York State had a taste of the great bl:zzard that developed in the Northwest a few days before. The snow in some places was two feet on the level and piled by the gale into drifts ten feet deep. All the railroads suffered more or less, many trains having been abandoned, while others that ventured out were stalled in tho snow. The storm was especially severe at Oneida, Wo^r^wn Auburn. Eimira and Albany. Frank and Lewis Moore, of Crozers Mill, Chester, Penn., died a few days sines from poisoning. It was supposed that the lads stole and ate the lunch of some other boy that was dosed with arsenic. Ex-President Cleveland has written from his winter homo in Lakewood, N. J. to General Bragg, of Wisconsin, touching his position in regard to the Democratic Presidential nominat-'on. He expresses a willingness, if called upon by his party ,to become a candidate. The new twin-screw steamer General Meigs, butlt for the Quartermaster's Department, United States Navy, was launched at Dialogue's shipyard, Camden, N. J. The Attorney General of Pennsylvania has tiled at Hamsburg a bill to test the legality of the Reading leases. Laceyville, Wyoming County, Penn., io ilmiwt whnllv wirvH out hv Are. The Rhode island Republicans met in State Convention at Providence and nominated a ticket headed by L). Russell Brown for Governor. The steamship Missouri sailed from New York for Russia. Stowed away under her hatches were 5,600,000 pounds ot breadstuffs, the voluntary offerings of the American people to the starving peasants of Russia. This, it is estimated, will be sufficient to save and preserve 20,000 people for one year. South and West. It is reported that thousands of acres of winter wheat in Kansas have been damaged by the recent blizzard. In many caaes it is stated that the wheat has been blackened and wilted. John EL Bright, who shot and killed his wife in Laney County, Mo., a day or two ago, has been captured, had a trial, was convicced and executed, Judge Lynch presiding. Lindsay A. Bennett shot his wife three times with a revolver at Atlantic, Iowa. The last shot entered her head, killing her instantly. He then rushed to the house of a am/4 aliAf mmoalf ftitiVq in tVia hoAf). He lived about an hour. He was crazy. J. Missiolia and his seventeen-year-old son were murdered at Yazoo City, Miss., the other night, the murderer being unknown. The Texas Legislature met in special session at Austin to choose a United States Senator to fill out Reagan's unexpired term. S. Camilla, an Italian fisherman at Roe Island, CoL, ?ad a quarrel with a fellowfisherman named Cicarelli, 9hot him dead, and then, towing the body to Benicia, collected $5 from the Coroner for it. In the boiler making establishment of Rohan Brothers, St. Louis, Mo., two boys were on the elevator, with half a ton of iron plates, when the rope broke. Three workmen, standing under it, were instantly killed. The boys were severely hurt. _ Walter A. Snyder, an insane clerk in Tiffin, Ohio, shot and seriously wounded two of his employers and a fellow-olerk, and then killed himself. Senator David B. Hill, of New York, made an address before the Mississippi Legislature. at Jackson, in which he advocated the repeal of tbe McKinley tariff and Sherman silver laws Washington. The Postmaster-General has concluded a money order convention between the United States and Austro-Hungary, which will go into effect on April L The President sent to the Senate the nomination of George P. McLean, of Connecticut, to be Attorney of the United States for the District of Connecticut, vice Gtorge Gk Sille, term expired.* President Harrison issued his proclamation announcing the establishment of a reciprocal treaty with Nicaragua under the reciprocity section of the McKinley bill. The decendants of General John Patterson, of Revolutionary fame, have asked the United States Government's permission to place a statue of the soldier in the Capicol at t mwir uwu wi-prouac. The President has nominated William H. Lawrence, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil President Harrison issued a proclamation declaring the higher rate of duties under the reciprocity clause of the tariff act in foroe on products from Colombia, Hayti and Venezuela. The fifth birthday of Benjamin Harrison McKee, the President's grandson, was celebrated in the White House. The full Marine Band was stationed in the corridors playing selections for his thirty boy and girl guests. They came laden with presents. Representative Chapin, of Brooklyn. N. Y., has been appointed State Railroad Commissioner of New York by Governor Flower at a salary of 18000 per year. Secretary Elkins issued an order creating for the War Department a Bureau of Intormation such as the Navy Department has long found of the greatest usefulness and prone. Foreign. A series of explosions in a colliery at Anderluas, Belgium, destroyed the shafting and ventilating appliances, and cut off the exit of the 200 or more miners who were in the pit. Rescuers on the day after the accident bad taken out fifty of the miners alive and recovered twenty-nine dead bodies. The Salisbury Government was defeated by a vote of 154 to 149 in the British House of Commons on the question of the .vinAflllftfiAn r\t top fchft fttltvav appropriation for the proposed Mombasa Railwa> in Africa. The miners' movement for stoppage of work began on the part of the Durham (England) miners, 90,000 in number. a collision between police and workingmen occurred in Vienna, Austria. Mail advices from Padilla bring news of the latest Indian uprising in the Arces and Cordillera districts of Bolivia. The Toba tribes are at the h?ad of the outbreak, and with them are many other Indians heretofore lrien<11v toward their Spanish neighbors. Half a dozen towns have been destroyed, several frontier missions hava been wiped out and murder and puiage are common occurrences. The inquest into the circumstances attending the death at Yokohama, Japan, of George Go war Robinson, a prominent broker and society man, shot by Lieutenant J. H. Hetherington, o? the United States steamer Marion, was concluded with a verdict charging Hetherington with wilful murder. Aa she was leaving Yokohama, Japan, the United States steamer Alliance was run on the new breakwater for about forty feet of her length, and it was expecteishe would be a total loss. The British ship Mercury sent a barge and forty marines to her aid. A ssw Chilean Cabinet has been formed. Two men were arrested in Constantinople, Turkey, charged with the intention of a3sassinating the Sultan. Typhoid fever is raging at Villa Lerdo, Mexico, 220 deaths having occurred within ten days. Sir Henry Bouvzrie William Brand, Viscount Hampden, for thirty-two years CJ i a i-L _ h TT? optjaser 01 tuo Driusu xiuueo ui oummuiu, is dead. Four of the crew of a pilot boat whioh foundered near Atherfleld, England, were drowned. Adolph Guenzbcrg, of 8t. Petersburg, the leading Hebrew banker in Russia, suspended payment. There was an explosion in Paris, Franca, attributed to Anarchists, in barracks In which several hundred soldiers were sleeping; the building was badly damaged, but nobody was hurt. A COLLIERY HORROR ' Scores of Men and Women Per- J isli in a Belgian Mine. v t\ ? Fire Follows an Exolo3ion ano J Cuts Off All EscaDe. 11 c< u An accident occurred a few days ago in the ^ Anderluis Colliery, rear Charleroi, Belgium, ^ which resulted in a great loss of life. Two U hundred and thirty-four men were working ^ in a gallery 400 feet below the surface, when ^ there was a terrific exolosion of flre-damp. ci Forty of the miners escaped by means of the tc second shaft and sixteen others were rescued, ^ having received probably fatal injuries. The cage and the ventilator at the mouth ot the bi pit were shattered by the explosion. The de- a< struction of the ventilator added an element di of great danger to the situation. 111 Ti e explo-ion occurred at 8 o'clock in the ol morning, 'I he shock caused by it resembled p< an earthquake, and the ground for a largo vi area in the region of the colliery rocked and A trembled for several seconds. Houses were te shaken to their foundations, windows werfe ic smashed, and crockery and ot er arti- tt cies of household ware thrown about m and broken Almost before the C tremblings caused by the mighty explosion C had entirely died away the people began to w rush from their dwellings, and crowds of excited men, women and children flocked to M the mouth of the oit Almost every family p: in the place had a relative or friend among tl the men employed in the mine. in As soon as the deadly fumes which had in been rushing up the shaft in stifling volumes fe had been dissipated, and it was thought that in the pit could be entered with some decree of pi safety, a willing band of hundreds of brave fo men volunteered to descend into the abyss and begiu the work of rescue. a< The shock of the explosion detached hug6 in masses of rock and earth and the galleries tb are so blocked with the debris that it was im- 1 possible to approach nearer than one hun- tr dred yards to the place where the great body cc of the miners were working. Besides the dirt ei and rock the carcasses of forty horses blocked in the approach to the lower gallery, and these ai had to be cut up and removed before the la rescuers could proceed. The cries and prayers of the crowd were redoubled as the men at the windlasses in response to the signals of the rescuers began to Haul up the limp and blackened forms of " from thirty to forty of the miners. The vie* fe tims were either dead or badly injured and V] the face of each was fearfully disfigured. A ^ great sheet of flame must have swept through the mine, as the hair, beards and P< eyelashes of all the unfortunate men had h<??n btirned off. and their bodies w were badly burned. tc Among the bodies recovered is that of a ttf fourteen-year-old girl. That she suffered P< Indescribable agony is shown by the young face, which is so horribly distorted that It cannot be recognized. The blackened fea- bi tures are swollen altfiost beyond all sem- P< blance to humanity. A Alter it was found that the lire was gaining in strength a consultation was held between the mine owners and the engineers, J" and it was decided that as there was not the ic slightest doubt that everybody in the mine was dead the only course w left open for them to follow if they hoped to recover the bodies was to flood the mine. Preparations were being made to carry out this plan, but before any a water could be pumped in cries of "Firs I" C were heard on ail sides, and at thr&e P< o'clock the flames aacanded to the pit's HI mouth and sparks were scattered in every V direction. A few minutes later an immense P1 oolumn of flame shot through the ventilating shaft, piercing the thick clouds of smoke b that were overhanging the shaft. The sight was grandly magnificent as the mass ? of fire shot upward, but it meant certain death for every person in the mine. This rc fact was fully recognized by the onlookers, a and the wailing and shrieks of those near ? the pit's mouth increased in violence as the ? lurid flame tore their last faint hope from them. In the meantime water had been commenced to be thrown into the burning pit. Betore it had descended any distance it was converted into steam and escaped with a In tremendous roaring noise, which added to the horror of the gitu&tion. a The scene has seldom if ever been equalled in the mining disasters of Belgium. The de- ? struction of the buildings on the surface proceeded without opposition, and by seven o'clock only the walls were standing. *D All the heavy machinery at the mouth of the pit was destroyed and fell crashing down M the shaft. This acted as a damper against the flames ascending the shaft to the sur- j3 face, and thereafter little fire could be seen, fa but it could be heard roaring and seething through the galleries far beiow the efface. . Tbe calamity has crushed the entire r* Charleroi district. Nothing is heard save E lamentations for the dead. Many of the women who have lost their only support si have become hysterical through grief and ol tbe doctors are busy attending to tbem. In some cases all the surviving members of ft families still surround the blackened pit's c mouth, attracted by the very horror that has rendered them without a nead. . Tbe Minister of Public Works has ordered ~j the distribution of relief, and the work is now being carried on. Bv official confutation of the number of victims in the Anderlues tragedy, it appears ol that there were 234 men and females in the ?i shaft, of whom 154 are dead, eighteen in- 8. jured and sixty-two saved. i TEE LABOB WOELD. tl London, England, has 80,000 barmaids. j Our coal industry employs 300,000 men. n There are 20,000 female farmers in England. a Tiie average annual wages of workmen in a Great Britain were f33l last year. ^ There is a woman in Oregon who ha3 worked twenty years at stonecutting. The authorities of Leipsic, Germany, will ? provide work for the unemployed in that c city. e. The striko of the Wellington (British J pAlumKiat minorc nvai* ff fnrA a In Chicago, 111., there are some twenty si thou-and men idie, drawn there by the 8 Worla's Fail*. a The National Miners' Federation of Great * Britain has 178,513 members on its books, y and its defense fund contains over $2,500,000. Fob the silk blouse waists which sell in f the cry rc^Is stores of New York City for *1 5b and $8 the machine girls get thirty cents d for making. C The Union Pacific Railroad Company, in ? a statement recently issued, reports that its 24,000 employes receive $1,600,000 pel' month, * or an average of $66.65 each. n The fur sewers of St. Paul, Minn., went on strike against a reduction of wages of .a thirty per cent. Their average income per 0 week has been only eight dollars. The prejudice against the wearing of ? whiskers by waiter is reported to be becoming very marked in the leading club3 and restaurants in New York City. About 200 women and girls were recently n thrown out of employment at Ferry's seed di establishment in Detroit, Mich., by the in* nf imnrnved machinery. Unemployid workmen of South Australia j? secured a promise from the Minister of Pub- w lie Works that the Government would expe- j] dite the construction of public works to afford labor lor those out of work. n The manufacturers of Chicago are form- B ing a combination io tight the anti-smoke t< society. They reason that it is tho large P manufacturing interests that have built up \ the city, and that the use of soft coal is a b necessity. tl Five experienced miners from the Com- ? stock mines will leave Virginia City, Nev;, J very shortly for Peru to help develop the ^ mines of that country. Ali their expenses fto Peru are to be paid, and they are to re- h ceive $125 a month each. J The Chinese factories are mostly quite , small establishments, seldom employing ij moro than fifteen or twenty persons. The n usa of machinery is relatively a small one. These factories deliver cinnabar, cut chair ,j cane, glass, silver and amber articles, pre- , Mi'ved lruita, paper. etc. _ ?~ } Frank Melbourne, tto Australian rain* maker now at Senora, Mexico, Is reported to have caused a rain fall of two inches just t kt the beginning of the dry season* t FIFTY-SECOND OONGfi?SS. In the Senate. 50th Dat.?The Agricultural Deficiency ill was passed -Mr. Wasbburne in tranced a bill to regulate immigration, proiding for a Commissioner in Europe and velve inspectors, one to be stationed at ich of twelve European porte The bill > provide for tho erection of public buildigs for postoffices in towns and cities where le postoffice receipts for three years prejding have exceeded 53000 annually was iken up and discussed. 51st Day.?The Senate took up Mr1 tanforci's Sub-Treasury bill, and Mr. Dolph lade it the subject of a tariff speech The rgent Deficiency bill wo3 passed Mr. tiflnm ronnpfarl fchn iVfilitarv Anademv An ropriation bill. The amount of the bill as passed the House was and the in ease recommended is $35, Irti, making the ital amount $436,827 The Postoffioe uilding bill was further discusssed. S2d Day.?Mr. Vest's Postofflce Buildings ill was passed House bill to amend the :t to provide for the performance of tho Jties of the President in the case of the reloval, deatb, resignation o: inability both ! President an t Vice-President, was re>rted and placed on the calendar. It proides for the succession of tho Secretary oj griculture after the Secretary of the Inirior Senate joint resolution authorizig the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at le World's Fair such book.*, papers, doculents and other articles from the library of ongress as may relate to Christopher olumbusand the aarly history of America as passed. 53i> Day.?The Urgent Deficiency anil jlitary Academy appropriation bills were isseii Mr. Berry "introduced a bill for le adjustment of tuo rights of the Indians i the Indian Territory, with a view of bavg that Territory admitte i as a State. RerroH Vfr M.iriraii introdnead a bill to crease the facilities of the Postofflce Deirtment for obtaining the use of buildings if postoffice purposes. 54th Day.?The House bill ratifying the Jt o(the Arizona Legislature, appropriatig ?30,000 in aid of Arizona's exhibition at ie World's Fair, was passed ilr. Hale, sported a bill for the construction (by conact) of three battleships, two armored >ast defence vessels, five gun boats and sht first-class torpedo boats Mr. Peffer troduced a bill to create a pension tund by i income tar on c.illionaires to _giv. idle borers work on public improvemeuts. in tiie bouse. 55th Day.?Mr. Herbert reported the aval Appropriation bill Mr. Pearson ofired ana the House passed a resolution proidingan annual clerk for the Committee on ccounts The lollowing reports were iade: Mr. Outhwaite to establish a military jstatornear Helena, Montana; M:. Cros7 to classify and prercriba salaries of railay postal clerss; Mr. Tillman to protect reign exhibitors at the World's Fair gainst prosecution under United States )stal laws?The debate oa the Free Woo! til was continued. o3th Day.?On motion of Mr. Curtis, a ill was passed increasing to $25 a month tin insiou of George R. Allen, of New York, lien is Mnety-nino years old and served iu te War of 1812 i'he debate on tbio Frea Tool bill was continued by Messrs. Stevens, Montgomery. Ray and Coombs An evenig session for pension bills lacked a quorum. 57th Day.?Senate concurrent resolution as agreed to authorizing tbe joint commit?a on printing to ascertain th-? most suitale site for a new Government Frintiog Of?in Washington The floor was then needed to the Committee on the District of olumbia, and a nuinb?r of local bills were issed??The House then went into Comlittee of tbe Whole {Mr. Wilson, of West irginia, in the chair) on the Army Appro nation bill 58th Day.?Tho debate on the Free Wool ill was continued, speeches being made by [essra Coombs, Walker, Scott, l-'iupaa and ockery. 59th Day.?After the transaction of some >utine business, the Hou^e went into <Jomlittee of the Whole and the discussion of the ree Wool bill was resumed by Messrs. ayres and Bryan. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Senator Vest, of Missouri, suffers from somnia. The Kin* of the Belgians always sleeps on camp bed. It is the alleged intention of the Khedive or [jypt to reconquer the Soudan. coloral North, the Nitrate King, worked a boiler factory when a boy. The King of Greece is a veritable royal iessofanti, for he speaks twelve languages. After the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh the richest member of the British royal imily. John Hogan, who died in St. Lonis, Mo., le other day, laid out the site of ChicagG t 1836. The mental powers of De Lesseps, coniructor of the Suez Canal,show many sign! r failing. The Emperor of Austria's annual incomi om his private estates, independent of hit ivil List, is about $10,000,000. Gladstone even now takes his regulai z-mile walk every day with as rauoh eniusiasm,if not with quite as much vigor, ai t youth. Edward H. Haroravks, whose discovery I gold in Australia started tha rush of gold inters to that country, has just died at yaney, at the age of seventy-five. Senator Staktord, of California, has jntributed $10,(KM) toward the expenses of a ethnological expedition to Colombia is in interact of the Columbian Exposition. Joaquin Miller has written to a frienc iat the story about a bad son of his "hold>g up" a stage coach is a pure fabrication, he man is not related to him in any roan' er whatever. The oldest follower of Garibaldi, Com' lander Guiseppe Martucci, died in Naples short time since, at the age of 105. He hac iken part in every Italian revolt of the cen irv, and had received twenty-six medals, Cornelrus Vanderbilt is having th< lans prepared for a magnificent resident i be erected on the Fifth Avenue, New Yori lity. The new house will occupy almost the ntire block between Fifty-seventh anc 'ifty-eighth streets. Ex-President Cleveland is fifty-five, enator Gorman fifty-three, Senator Allisor ixty-three, Senator Cullom sixty-two anc enator Carlisle fifty-six, while Boies, Graj nd Sherman are past middle life. Grant, tol o was inaugurated at forty-seven, was th< oungest President. This Congress has produced some ven apid speakers, but the fastest of them all ; seems, is Representative Johnson, of In iana, who delivered a long speech in th< Iraig-Stewart contested election case at th< ate of 280 words a minute. The only othei lan ia the House wao can appruauu ? uuu sn in rapidity of utterance is Catchings, ol lississippi, whose usual rate is 230 words t linute. fRAND DUKE LUDWIG- IV, he Kuler of Hesse-Darmstadt and Son-in-Law of Victoria Dead. The Grand Duke Ludwig IV. died a few ights ago at Darmstadt. Three of his lughters and Prince Ernst Ludwig, his air, were at his bedside at the time of his ?atb. The city is in mourning. In the Inglish quarter, where the Grand Duke as especially popular, man? houses are raped. The Grand Duke Ludwig IV. was the ephew of his predecessor on the throne of [esse-Darmstadt. He was bora on Sep?mber 12, 1337, and married in 136J the ? 1 * - - a J Li.. A.tA?n rincess Alice, secona uau^uua m. yucdu 'ictoria. She died six years later after earing him five daughters and one sou, ie present Grand Duke. In the rar of 1866 he commanded a brigade in the [essian contingent, and in 1870-71 the wenty-fifth Infantry division of the Ninth ruiy corps. He distinguished himself y his bravery at Gravelotte and in tie fighting on the Loire. In June, S77, upon the death of his uncle, Grand >uke Ludwig III., he ascended the hrone. In 18S4 he married Frau von Koleline, nee Countess Czapska, but was diorced from her shortly afterward. He was iberal in his political views, and despite his endency toward Englishmen and English rays, was a much more popular ruler than is son ia likely to be. The Iron companies organized to work on heMonaba Range. Minnesota, represent beween 978,000,000 and 977,000,000 capital. THEBIG BRITISH STRIKE. Over 300,000 Stop Work in the English Coal Fields. Railroads and Factories Crippled by Lack of Fuel. A dispatch from London, England, s^v.s: The majority of the coal fields in Great Rrifcivin Am irlla. The eTAtid total of men at play is about 450,000. In Durham the men to the number of 80,000 are on strike against reduction of wages, but in all the other districts the men have simply decided to take a week, fortnight or even three weeks' holiday in order to restrict the output of coal. The collieries of Lancashire. Cheshire, Yorkshire, North Wales and other districts are idle. The miners of Scotland, South Wales and Northumberland are working quietly. The miners of Durham are holding enthusiastic meetings, and have resolved that under no circumstances will they yield to the proposed reduction. This movement on the part of the miners has caused the greatest disturbance in the British labor world, and in the manufacturing centers, that has been known since the American Civil War when so many hundreds of thousand? of the cotton operatives o? Lancashire would have starved Dut for a boundless charitv. The Miners' Federation has led in tha strike movement. It claims the exclusive honor of having forced the miners' wages forty per cent, above the rates of 1883. The advance was wrua? from the masters in successive driblets of ten par cents, and five per cents. The last installment of the forty per cent.?that is to say, the concession of fifteen per cent.?made little more that a year ago, was given in three sub-installments. The miners outside of the Durham district s)y that the present movemsnt isnot against the reduction of wages, but to prevent the reduction of wages at any time in the future. They are afraid from the way that the owners of collieries have been outbid* ding each other for the.custom, especially of large corporations, a general reduction cannot be far off, and they have adopted this method of raising prices The latest cablegram in1 regard to the strike, received just before this side of the paper went to press, stated: Flintshire, in Wales, appears to be the onlv place where the order of the Miners' Federation to leave off work has not been dbeyed by the members of the association. The latest estimates of the numberof miners who are now idle place the figure at 330,000. Owing to the closing down of other industries because of the strike fully 200,000 men in otner employments have been thrown out of work. The full effect of the strike will not be felt immediataly. In many cases manufacturers who have large coal stocks will endeavor to tide over a week's stoppage, but if the strike exceeds a week in duration their supply will soon be exhausted, and they will be compelled to stout dow. - Fiftsmi thousand coal ciiners are idle in North Staffordshire. Unless they resuoie work in a few day3 the potteries will be compelled to close down, throwing 50,000 men out of work. The miners who have stoppea work are observing the "strike" purely as a holiday. Large numbers of them are taking advantage of their idleness to leave the districts in which they work, and to visit friends elsewhere. There is no excitement whatever. The Northeastern Railway will withdraw ISO passenger trains from its lines because it lack of fuel, and will reduce Work in its workshops to four days a week. The London gas companies report that they have coal enough to last a month. The Shipping Federation is preparing to meet the London coal porters' refusal to unload foreign coaL Agents of coal firms are negotiating in France for supplies from fas-de-Calais companies. Cargoes of coal are being shipped from Antwerp. The dock laborers in London and Antwerp are not allowed to know whence the coil came or whither it is going. In the Leeds district the strike is severely felt. Nearly all the large mills and the iron a nd steel works are reducing the nambar of their employes, or suspending worx altogetn er. LATEE NEW?. The boiler of ongiae No. 303 exploded on of MkAiiIht Pann.. I Lib Lrtlttvr iooa i/tauwu m? , ?? ? killing two men and injuring three othere. Frank Jeyrille, of Altoona, Penn., threw alighted lamp at his wife Mollie and she was roasted to death. ' Professor Clarence 0. Dockery, aged twenty-seven, Principal of the Alexandria I (La.) Business College, engaged in a friendly scuffle with P. Gallagher. Dockery's foot i caught in a bracket and he fell to the floor 1 and broke his neck. Senator Hill, of New York, spoke to a big crowd at Birmingham, Ala. At the i conclusion of his address, James W. Ridgwav, District-Attorney of Kings County, New York, made a brief speech. In the . evening Senator Hill and his party were the guests of the Hill Club at a banquet. Senai tor Hill and his friends them left for At lantA, 13-a. I Dr. Mott Smith, the newly accredited 1 Minister from Hawaii, was formally presented to the President at the White Honse. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of Judson C. Clem ents, of Georgia, to be an Interstate Com| missioner, vice Bragg, deceased. General Porter, Minister to Italy, has ' been ordered to return to Rome, and it was 3 announced as probable that Minister Fava c would return to Washington. | The steamer Indiana, from Philadelphia, carrying provisions for tha relief of the famine sufferers in Russia, reacaed Libau. i The correspondence between Secretary j Blaine and the Canadian delegates to the recent conference at Washington was i transmitted to the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa. Ax avalanche occurred at Belluno, Italy, 1 by which eight persons were killed an 1 con" ? siderable property destroyed. J Abraham VVaxola, found frozea neai Winnipeg, Manitoba, was lost in a snovi ' storm four days, during which he carried ? k neighbor, Mrs. Rainase. until she expired. KILLED BY BOBBERS. Mexican Bandits Capture a Sate W it! 10,000 Silver Dollars. One of the heaviest and boldest robberiei ever committed in Mexico took place a fev days ago near Ourango. W. Brittain i manager of the Vacas mine^ left Durangc for the mines with 10,090 silver dollars in an iron safe in a wagon. He was accompanied by J. H..Herndon, a voung American, and three Mexican guards. When within seven i miles of Constancia, fifty-five miles from Durango, about twenty-five men rode up from behind and commenced shooting. Juan i Castanaeda, one of tne guards, was kiljed, i and Herndon was severely wounded rne fire of the bandits was returned by Mr. firittain and bis guard, and one of the robi bers was killed. i The lash was put to the horses, but the i robbers gained rapidly on the wagon, taking it aud the money captive. Mr. Brittam es! caped into the chapparal with Mr. Herndon in nis arms. They made their way to Constancla, where they notified the military authorities. A detachment of troops went i at once to the scene of the robbery,but when they arrived at the spot they fouad that thu afe had been broken open and robbed. - The annual prize of 1892 of 1100, with a 1 gold medal, offered by the United States ' Naval Institute for the best essay on any subject pertaining to the naval profession was secured by William Laird Clowes, ol i Surbiton Hill, Surrey, England, who submit tod an essay on "Torpedo Boats?Their Organisation and Conduct." OUT OF DAMEB. Congressman Springer's Physicians Declare Him Convalescent. WlCAIAK It 8PRI50*B, Congress man Springer, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Housa of Representatives, has been near death's door, but is now considered practically out of danger. A final consultation of the three attending physicians was held a few days since, and at its conclusion Dr. John A. Vincent, hi% Illinois physician, who left Washington for home tne same night, made tne r olio wing statement: "Last Sunday and Sunday night the condition of Mr. Springer was critical in the extreme, so mucn so that we considered him worse than at any time during his illness. Since then the improvement has been steady, till now nis condition is such that we can see no reason why he should not so right along to complete convalescence. Up to this hour he has held everything gained. Pulse and temperature are normal. That distressing cough has left him. The erysipelas has almost entirely disappeared from his fac?. His appetite is fairly good. The delirium and coma have been entirely, overcome. ' "But his prostration is so complete that he can scarcely speak above a whisper. The building-up process must necessarily be slow, but with tne excellent nursing and skillful treatment of Drs. Curtis and Verdi, recovery now seems assured." PEEHAFS JAUJL TMtiJilt'rJtiit. A Startling Discover/ Made In Liver'pool, England. The police of Liverpool, England, acting on clews brought forth by the news that Arthur Williams had been arretted in Australia for the murder of his wife, formerly a Miss Ma her of that city, searched the house occupied by Williams in the Liverpool suburb of Rainhiil last July, previous to his marriage to Miss Mather. The bodies of three children were found beneath the fireplace, two having had their throats cut, and the oldest, a girl of twelve years, having apparently been strangle! to death. The body of a dark woman, identified as a visitor to Williams while he was at the Commercial Hotel in Liverpool, was also found beneath the floor, with a dead babe in her arms. The bodies were supposed to be those of a former wife of Williams and her children. The police of London say that the visits of Williams to England navj corresponded to the murders of "Jack the Ripper," and the alleged description of the London bugaboo corresponds with that of William*, who is said to be one Arthur Curtis, who lived in Sydney, Australia, in 1889, with a woman of a description correspondinz to that of the body found in Rainhiil. . YOUNG GIRL LYNCHED. She Pat ^Poison In the Coffee and Nearly mi lea a famuy. The lifeless form of a colored girl was found dangling from %tree on the road leading to Rayville, La., a few mornings agoIt was identified a3 that of a fifteen-year-old servant of W. R. Helmer, who resides on the Greenville place, twenty miles from there. The girl became offended at the action of a colored man, also employed in the house, and in seeking some mode of revenge she decided to put poison into his coffee. (She put the poison into the coffee intended for the family meal. About nine persons drank the concoction and eleven had a very narrow escape from death. The girl acknowledged that she in* tended to kill the man. and she did not care particularly who els9 suffered. That night some parties started out to bring the girl to the jail at Rayville, but they had not proceeded far before a masked party overtook them anJ strung the girl up to a tree at the first crossing. A CRY FOE FOOD. Twenty Million People Dylnjc of Starvation in Russia. The following piteous appeal has been cabled from St. Petersburg to this country by the committee of American citizens sent to Russia: If the American people knew the extent of the suffering in the famine districts of Russia they would everywhere com? to the rescue. Twenty milli ions of people are affected and in danger of rieath from starvation. Typhus fever is raging in many provinces, and horses and ' cattle are perishing of hunger. Does this not appeal to the hearts of those able to help? Russia ia deeply grateful to the American people for what they have done. The distribution of supplies is under the direction of the American Minister and an excellent committee. Nothing vrill oe wasted. Every particle of food will be properly distributed. Help us! Rudolph Blankenburg, A J. Drexel, Jr., Alexander H". Biddie, Committee. BEOIPBOOITY WITH FRANCE President Carnot Signs the Convention With the United States. p-iuUonf P?mr>t of Franca has sitrned i the commercial reciprocity convention with the United States. In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Roche, Minister of Commerce, introduced the bill confirming the commercial reciprocity convention between France ana the United J States. The American products admitted bj the convention under the French minimum duties are canned meats, fresh and ' dried table fruits, except raisins; rough r hewn, or sawn timber; wood paving blocks, stave wood for casks, hops, pears and com' pressed apples. > In return the United States places bides, sugar and molasses imported from France I and her colonies on the free list. In regard to pork imports, France maintains the right to seize meat proved to be , infected with trichinae?a regulation to I which the American Government assents. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Terrible Revenge ot Indiana on a Supposed Witch. Among the Indiana to the west of Chihuahua, Mexico, the belief in witchcraft ia general, and for a number of years an old woman baa held the Indians of that locality in great fear by her alleged powers over I life and death and was accused at eating young children. When the woman was known to be away from her house a party of men went there t and found horrible evidences that she had i indeed indulged in meals of children's flesh. There were not only the bones to be seen, i but a partly eaten child waa found. ; When she returned she waa burned at the stake and the people ate small particles of her body in order to Keep off any evils that i might befall them for killing her. i WOBLD'S~FAIB NOTEM Frvx acres of space in the Midway Hfl anca have been reserved for a imrseHMB The Custer Mining Compiny, of making a very extensive coliection of for exhibition t the Fair. Fobeight participation in the Fair >cH| as ascertained up to the present, emb^H seventy-two nations and provinces. Canada ha3 been given 68,471 square^H of space in the rarions buildings, excltHH of space yet to be granted in the agricu^HBj and live stock department*. HH The Suffolk Horse Society, England^Hj offered two gold medals, of the value^^f each, for the b*st Suffolk horse and mar^H fillv exhibited at~tne World's Fair in Hfl The Women's Christian Toaiper^H Union wants to pnt np a building, 7(^H| feet, in the Exposition grounds, in wbi^BB exhibit the entire system of its work at^^B conduct a cafe for the sale of teriper^H drinks. HB The city of Cincinnati wants to ere^H building at the Exposition, to be used as a club house and receptacle for a mu^H pal exhibit. It is willing to expend m the undertaking. S9 XjIeutekatf Bakes, of the Marine BH tion of the Departmenc of Trausporcat^M has secured a promise from the Detroit ^Bfl Dock Company for an exhibit of a psrBB model in stocco of ths entire ship-buili^H plant of the company, both at its Dat^H and Wyandotte yards. jfffl The Grecian Government has agreej^H make and send to the Exposition casts of^H principal works of ancient art now^H Greece, together with maps, diagrams photographs. To these will probably HE aided casts, and oer hans some of the orizi^H of specimens of cl&siic Greek art whieh^H now distributed throughout Europe. . H Seven of the World's Fair buiilinjs now so far advanced that they ara fast ^Bj suming the appearance of finished stiflH tures. These buildings are the VTonuMB Horticulture, Transportation, Mines, _H| ministration. Forestry and Fisheries. more?tha (Governments Fine Arts, A^ricHl ture, Dairy and Illinois State?are erac^B to the roof lines. The Electricity, Miuaf^H tures and Machinery buildings are oeing van cod rapidly. |ra A joint bill has been introddeed in C^H gross, earring an appropriation of 918.0^H 'To procure, prepare, compile for publ^B tion and publish statistics of the moral, H| tellectual and industrial progress of colored people of tne United States fr^H January 1, 1803, the date of emaacipat^H proclamation, to January 1, 1993, as a p^B of the Government exhibit, the same to ill^H trate the growth of liberty, morality humanity of the United States." MB English women are active in preparat^B for their participation in the Exposition. H a meeting of the woman's committee^H London, on March 3d, it was announced Queen Victoria had promised specimen^! her own work in spinning and knitting, d^H when she was a girl; also some of her An broidering, fine drawing and water-ocffG painting. Pdncess Louisa will oontribflfl some clay modeling. Princes* Beatrice eral paintings, and Princess Christian so^B embroidery. The Maryland World's Fair Board is plH^ ning to show in the Maryland building ? production of the surrender of his cooanM nou by George WasQinzton. The reportSj the.Board to the Legislature asking forJB appropriation of $100,000 states! "It fl been suggested by His Excellency the Gto^H nor, and the suggestion has met with miH favor, that the old Senate Chamber of State House be reproduced in oar buildi^J and that a group of thirty-two flgareaH made to represent the surrendering H Washington of his commission, which t<S nlnrw in that historia hull. Souh*a tabifl would attract many visitors and servo aH feature of great interest.1' gf BREAD ENOTOH FOBALLI Largest Reserve of Wheat In Faiflj era' Bands Ever Reported. I The March report of the distribution? wheat and corn by the statistician offlB United States Department of AgricufltB makes the stock of wheat In growers' hkfl 171,000,000 bushels, twenty-eight per cenjfcH the crop?63,000,000 of spring wheat, 108,000,000 of winter wheat, much of the ter in States which have practically noafl mercial d is tribu t i on, but entering into kH consumption for bread and seed. This is S lanrest reserve ever reported. W The exports from July 1 to March 1 164,000,000bushels, the fall seed 36,000^H the consumption apparently 200,00(^000 els, but a larger proportion is taken for Ml sumption in the fall ani winter, anc^H actual consumption is proper tionaliy grc^B than in the spring and summer. The assumed consumption from Mart^H 189 L, to March I, 1892, is 300,000,000 bofl| for a population of 64,800,000; the ex^H 206,000,000 bushels; the seea 56,000,000 c^H The estimated quantity of oorninfarn^B hands is 860,000,000 bushels, or 41.8 per of the crop. This is the largest propo^H aver reported, that of 1889 excepted, w^B was 45.9 per oent., or 970,000,000 buslH The seven principal States have a surpli^H 546,000,000 bushels, or 41.5 per cent, of product, against 667,000,000 from the |^H crop of 1889. 'v W BLIZZABD IN THE SOUT? The Fruit Crop Greatly Dama?ejfl| Snow. B A howling norther with a heavy swept over all Texa?. In an hour the mometer fell from seventy to thirty-^B decrees. The clouds were heavy wit^H occasional fall of rain. Fruit and vegetables escaped, but there is no douMH everything being in imminent ddaBH Peaches, plums, apricots and pears wer^B bud or full bloom, while market ffardH I everywhere were far advanced. 7 H At 10 o'clock in the morning the north hurricane culminated in a storm/ of slS snow and ice. Fruit trees, cohered kB full bloom, were coated with i&?, ThH was hardly any hope that anything wcH| be saved. f H It began snowing and sleeting and cH tinued all day. The ground v*as covered H about three inches of rao w and sleet and fruit crop was destroyed arouni Jeffers? Texas. Untold damage will result. H -?1? /ail ;ot r.i>fu DL-L 1UUUC9 ui OJUU?? 4*MW MIVVIO J.?V Ark., the heaviest known for years. Gr damage is reported to the fruit crop eve where. The snow reached such a depth at if phis, Tenn., thai the eiectrio cars on all fines were trnable to run. It was heaviest fall of snow in that part of country for many year?. Peculiarities of the Terrapin. Although he bites at a hook soi times, the terrapin h clearly not a ; lor that reason alone, as the pigeon 2 bites at a hook when deftly concealed a grain of corn, and nobody ever thii of classifying a pigeon as a fish. No the terrapin a shell tish because he c nes a shell on his back and front. Tr he is as much a shellfish as any ot animal that swims and carries a shell his back and front, but as tfteraM no other animal that both swims aa^J equipped as described, he is no neare^B being a shellfish than beforo. Not a fish at all, finally, it would appear flH the terrapin cannot possibly be a shH fisb, and it is straining natural histcO all out of shape to classify him ail saurian. He is a reptile in fact, and! saurian is a reptile, but that does ofl make him a saurian, any more the fact that a horse is an animal anifl cow is an animal makes a horse a cowfl Altogether, we should be inclined decide that the terrapin does not co A under the laws governing shell fish fl South Carolina, if all conditions wel normal. These are record-brehkifl times, however, and we know no reasfl why a reptile should not be guardl as a shell fish with as much propriety a stock food can be regarded as I fertilizer.?Charleston (S. C.) News afl Courier. a