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"" URIAH'S CAPITAL BURNED. Handalay Destroyed, Leaving 25,000 Families Homeless. Several Hundred Natives Perish in the Flames, Despatohes frou Man .ialay. the Capital ot Barmab, say that a disastrous fire has ragpd, there. Three-fourths .or tne city n ? ashes. Among the buildings gone are the Idpaiac*. the new Government telegraph Wee, and two convents. The whole busi ni portion of the city has been swept way. The loss of life has been between., wveoty-five and a hundred. No search has been made for bodies, as Ike people have been fleeing to the open country all 'lay, trying to save their household goods and escape the intense heat which envelopes the ruins. . They are camping at a distance from ha city without food or shelter, and calls hr help for them have been sent at by the authorities. The Are is aid to have been caused by the coals *w? flr? in a native's hut in the lower quarter of the city. There is no prowon against fire in the city and the people did not wait to fight it but fled panic stricken before it. Phe roads to Amarapura are arowded with fugitives, who will seek help in that city. The suffqdju^will be intense, as about 25,000 families will be homeless. The residence of Sir Alexander Macftaaxie, Chief Commissioner, was burned asri two of his servants were mortally inland. The total number of those severely namedto thdag&t to be about 2500. Latest nporte say the loss of life was underestimated. It may reach 200 and perhaps MOT*. Mandalay fell into the bands of the British when they conquered Upper Burmah a few years ago. It was the Capital of King Thebaw, one of the most inhuman rulers who aver sac on a throne. Before that oonfoest a white man could visit Mandalay only at the peril of his life. Now, however, the great city is connected with the out*<de world by rail. Soon after the British troops marched into the city it was fired by daooits, as the robber bands of Burmah are called, and thou hnm?d Bamboo enters nodi or nousen o ? -? largely'rHto tho construction of the houses. The British have been putting up soma sub tantial buildings, but the rest of the city is ad always has been a tindor box. Ib 1886 this city was inundated br ? treat freshet ib the Irrawady River, though an embankment forty feet high is supposed to famish adequate protection. A tract five ales long by two wide was under water trotn four to twenty-fire feet and 50,000 eople were driven out of their houses. So Caadalay in recent years has had her full ahar? of great misfortunes. Tbe greater part of the natives lived within the walled city. Thi fact that the palace, which was outside of the walled city, was burned dhows that the European buildings put up for official or commercial purpone were also endangered and very likely destroyed, as they were all in the neighbor* stood of the place. Newspapers in English were printei in the city. The population is about 900,000. WORLD'S FAIB NOTES. 'tSSSSJfci%F"w?rm * ,re . A SCOOO monument of Barre granite will obone or me exuoiw irom Vermont. Aconthtuous clam bake will he one of the attractions which epicurean visitors will find mt the Ex portion. Saoixaw, Mich., noted as a salt producing city, is constructing in miniature a compete salt plant for exhibition at the World's Thx Board of Lady Managers is maki^S arrangements for an extensive exhibit lowing woman's share in the illustration of books, in engraving and other forms o' picture production. Pope Leo XIII has written a letter strongly commending the Exposition, which it is believed will hare a most favorable ?4Tect in stimulating interest intjieFair on the part of all Catholic countries and com* sanities. A ybrt complete, and doubtless an eyeapening diamond exhibit, will J>e made by tape uoiony, ooutu ainca. mo cxuiuil will include 10,000 carati of uncut stones, a large quantity of very fine cut and polished ? eots, together with all that is necessary to how the process of mining and washing. A California, ''big tree" has been selactedin Tnlare County, to be snown at the Xzposition. A committee of the Board of Tfcade, after an extended tour of inspection, picked out a tree measuring 87 feet 0 inches Jn circumference at the base, 85 feet Are feet higa above the ground, and 65 feet at bright of sixtaen fee:. The "wooded island" in the Exposition grounds is beginning to assume the character which iu great part it will have during the Jlair?that oJ a gigantic flower garden. Already the Floricaltural Department has revived -7,000 rose bushes and other-plant?, ?ivi'jl thousand of which came from abroad. These are being transplanted on the island. Harper Baos., Scribner & Sons and the Century Company have agreed to exhibit at the Fair illustrations showing the history of transportation in all countries. Chief 8mith experts to secure similar exhibits from for ?^JU WUUWioa auu itvui wan puwtMvuw? >p *? toa country. The exhibit will include reproductions of lithographs, original drawings and photograph*. ! A rsATtTRE of Idaho's Exhibit at the Fair will be a practical illustration of the system and benefits of irrigation. A large section of sage brush sou will be transports to Chicago. Through this ditchss will be run, and traea, fruits and flowers WilH>e grown fa the soil by the irrigation system. Prospective Idaho settlers are expected to ba especially attract? x by this exhibit. The World's Pair Committee of the North American Turner Bund has male a personal application to Director-General Davis for a space for a display of gymnastic apparatus, literature on tne subject of physical exercise and development, and repreeentatans of gymnastic organizations, as well as for outdoor gymnastic exhibitions, which the turn-an desire to give eight days in each montb taring the Exposition. BEBlNCr SEA CRISIS. The President Saya the Question Is One of Honor anil Self-Kespect. The Seaat-i made public the recent corre' ipondeace between England and the United tJtates respecting the Baring Sea controrersy. The reply of President Harrijpn to the Marquis of Salisbury is signed by Acting Secretary of State Wharton. The President insists on the renewal of th? tnorius vivend'. and calls attention to the gravity of the situation, saying that be is not willing to be responsible for the results of the insistence by either Government during thii season on the maintenance of its extrem? rights He adced that the question is not ene of money or gain, but of honor and self*" J *L-' *L- ?*r\ OTBOf, It respect, sdq iqui tuc ^ u^usiuivu w ? frond from the owners o? Canadian vessels fan hardly be made seriously, and declines to uiscus8 it. Lord fc'ahsbury, for considerations that keep the Canadian poachers faithfully in riew, declined to assent to a renewal of last year's modus vivendi, and the President, while making one more appeal to that end, doses his note wit a the assurance that if it , sbouid become necessary this Government wiii protect the rights it claims in the seals *)tu*ali of the power it possesses. CHILDREN IN WAR PAINT. The Messiah Craze Breaks Out Among the Pawnees and Oteos. The Messiah crazj has again broken oul among the Pawnee and Oteo Indians, is Oklahoma, but seemed.in a fair way to beiog brought to an end by the arrest, for inciting insurrection, of W. W. White, a Pawned Indian, and Buffalo Black, aa Oteo. The Indian childreu go to school decked m war paint and feataers. There was some difficulty in making the arrests, and it was posdble that hostilities night follow. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Em tern and Middle States. A bio mass-meeting of all classes of citizens at Cooper Unioo, N9w York City, denounced the Central Park Speedway Act. and demanded its repeal. Air Erie train passing through Great *? ? tr douu, 11. i uear uuo uuwmx i/a v/i uuo wp?tu struck two women, Mrs. Decker and Mrs. Quick. Both were instantly killed The joint debate between the representatives of the Yale and Harvard College took place at the Hyperion Theater, New Haven, Conu. Chauncey M. Depew presided-. The question debated was: "Resolved, That immigration to the United States should be unrestricted." The speakers in the order of tbeir appearance were as follows: E. H. Haven, of Harvard, affirmative; J. I. Chamberlain,of Yale, negative; F. W. Dillinger, of Harvard, affirmative; Thornwell Mullaly, of Yale, negative; , ? J. Stacy Brown, of Harvard, affirmative, and William A. McQuade, of Yale, negative. Each spoke fifteen minutes. Mrs. Mary Larsev, aged eighty years, who lives in Brooklyn, NT Y., in an old frame house, was bound, gagged and robbed of <6000 by two young men. FrRB in Philadelphia, Penn., destroyed Bromley's Mills, causing a loss of fully 1400,000. The cocoa and chooelate manufacturing establishment of H. O. Wilbur & ?< ? !>/. Inao ?)X> (W1 WU3 TTOO QI9V UCOWWJOU, 1U?, f Ario Pardee, of Hazleton, Penn., banker, coal operator and manufacturer, was found dead in his bed in bis Rock Ledge cottage on Indian River, Florida. Mr. Pardee, who spent his eighty years of life in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, was said te be the wealthiest man in the State, his riches being estimated at a boat (50,000,000. Claus Spbjeckels's sugar refinery at Philadelphia, Penn., has been formally turned over to the Bagar Trust, in consia"WBtion of 17,000,000 in trust certificates, thus ending his war against that corpora* tion. Thc wreckers have taken the British ship Windemere off the beach at As bury Park, N.J. Whilk James Galvin and Edward Welsh loitered on the tracks at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., they were struck by a freight train and killed. Thk New York State Legislature held services at Albany in memory of General Sherman; General Slocum presided, and Chauncey M. Depew delivered the oration. Both branches of the Rhode Island Leg* islature have passed the bill providing for ( biennial ejections of State officers. South and West. Tax boiler in a ww mill at Fidelity, Miami County, Ohld,' exploded whan Ave men were la the mill. Four of then were killed outright, and the fifth, Samuel Davlf, was fatally Injured. Henbt Smith, colored, has been hanged at Louisville, Ky., for the unprovoked murder of Saloon-keeper Louis Speoht,by whom he was employed. The Missouri Legislature adjourned sine die. Just before dispersing the House passe 1 a refutation indorsing Grover Cleveland for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Patrick Dotlk, a desperado who has < killed seven men In ten years, was shod and killed by his nine-year-old eon at his ranch near Big Muddy, Montana. The father i was chopping wood when the boy cam2 out 1 of the house with a rifle, and, taking de* 1 liberate aim, fired the fatal shot. ' Thx steamer Benture was wrecked off | Rock port, Cal. Both engineers, the steward* one fireman and one sailor were drowned. | Vioutirr snow" storms occurred in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and Illlnoifl. , Omaha experienced the worst storm in its 1 history, ( Six men stole a boat from the wharf at I San Francisco, Cal., and went across the | bay. When in mid-channel the boat cap* 1 sized by heavy sea and four of the men Were ] drowned. < Mas. C. K. Smith, wife of a white laborer, < living oa a farm at Holly Springs, MUs., hot < given birth to six babies. They are all boys, well developed, and weigh in the aggregate < forty-flve pounds. 1 Two troop# of United States Cavalry left ( Guthrie, Oklahoma, headed for the Cherokee ' Strip, to drive off squatters. Abraham Cooler, a farmer living near Detroit, Mich., killed his wife and then himself. He was insane. A BALI under the Vagrant act took place 1 in Fayette, Mo., when three colored tramps 1 were sold on the block to the highest bidder. s Oho brought $25, another $5 and the third ( il ; A bot of two and a girl of four, children of a man named Swering, living in Brown County, lnd? were burned to death while ; locked up alone in the house. ( Washington. 1 Riar-Admiral L. A. Kimbsrlt has , been detached from duty as President of the Board of Inspection and Survey, and trans- * ferred to the retired list of officers of the . Navy A message from the President in regard \ to the G. A. R. Encampment, to beheld next j September in Washington, was laid before , the Senate. An appeal is made for $100,000, , one half to be paid by the District, for the , expenses of the encampment. ( Lord 'Br asset reached Washington in \ his famous yacht Sunbeam, in which he has i circumnavigated the globe. He went to i Washington to meet Lady Brassey, who had < been in the city for several days. The letter of the Chinese Minister to Secretary Blaine upon the subject of immigration has been received at the State Depart ment. l A bill has been introduced In Cokgress authorizing the purchase bv the Government of Temple Farm, at Yorktown, Vs., where Cornwaliis surrendered. A ?n*>r v T QaKaKwwii ktt anaWAH XX lUbriiX liULU JLMtU UfUHVlU Ji >U HHiTTPt 1 to Acting Secretary Wharton's note regard- ' ing the protection of seal life in Bering Sea, \ was laid before the President Lord Salisbury , offers two alternatives to the United States pending the arbitatlon of the dispute: Her 'j Majesty's Government is willing to renew , last year's modus vlvendi on certain conditions, or it is willing to prohibit sealing i except by vessels which give security for j such losses as arbitrators assess. ( Representative McKknna, of Cali- j fornla, addressed a letter to the Speaker of \ the Hons? informing him that he had for* warded to the Governor of his State his i resignation as a member of the House of i Representatives, to take effect immediately. \ In executive session, it was practically I decided by the Senate to ratify tne Bering < Sea arbitration treaty without condition. The President has made the following nominations: Nioholas Wertheim, a German i subject, to be United States Consul at Moscow, Russia; Carroll H. Parmelee, Register j of the Land Office at Buffalo, Wyoming. Assistant Secretary Nkttleto.v wrote a letter to Secretary Foster charging Mr. Owen, Superintendent of Immigration. w-itb j incompetency. The Speaker "?<d before the House a communication from Roger Q. Mills, stating j that he had sent to the Governor of Texal his resignation as Representative from th? 1 Ninth District of Texas, to take effect im- | mediately. i The nomination of John H. Baker, of In- j diana, to be United States District Judge ' for Indiana in place of Judge Woods, 1 against whose confirmation such a Q?bt waa ' made, has been coo firmed by the Senate. i i Foreign. 1 The new extradition traaty between 1 France and the United States his b*i?n signed I bv M. Ribot, the Foreign Minister, and Vvhitelaw Reid, th3 American Minister. The passage of Russ'an Hebrews through j Germany has been prohibited. Six men, who were recently caught pulling spikes from the trac'-c of the Mexican , Central Riilway, were summarily shot bp : soldiers of the Rural Guard. The poorer j class of Mexicans have bsea in the habit of stealing thesa spikes ani selling them for , four cents apiece. Severe snow storms occurred in the North i of Wales, England and Scotland, with i drifts from two to Hve feet high. Lord Salisbury's reply to Acting Secretary of State Wharton's last note on the 1 Bering Se i controversy was made public in 1 London, England. The Coroner's jury has foun 1 Deeming guilty of the murder of bu wire and four children, at Rainhill, near Liverpool, England, The murderer u now in Ajwtralu*. < whore he has confessed to being "Jaok the Bipper," Th? Russian Primary Education blU, which caused the recent Cabinet crista, has been withdrawn by the Government. A bull-fiohtxb wa* killed at a fight at Tula, Mexico. He was gored and ripped by the infuriated animal in the most terrible fashion. Finally the bull caught him on its horns and tore round the ring with him several times. It was finally lassoed. Prince de C him at, Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, is dead. A severe earthquake occurred at Arioa, Chile, and caused great alarm among its inhabitants. It was accompanied by a heavy tidal wave. The shock was felt atboth Valparaiso and Santiago. There was a dynamite explosion in the building of the Credit Lyonalse, one of the largest Dankine institutions of Paris. The French Caoinet discussed the recent Anarchist explosions, and decided to take measures to prevent their recurrence. Tax Czechs of Prague endeavored to celebrate Comenius's birthday, despiie the Government's prohibition; the police dispersed the crowd, many rioters being injured. The German Government was defeated in the F.iichstag on a vote for a new corvette. Ths North German Llovd steamer Elder was hauled off Atherfleld Ledge, and waa towed to Southampton, England. She will be refitted for transatlantic waffle. FIFTY-SECOND C0N&BE3S. In the .Senate. 60th Dat.?Discussion on the Bering Sea treaty was continued. All the correspondence was. made public Bills to establish fish hatcheries m Montana and Texas and for a fish and oyster culture station ob the Gulf ooast were reported favorably? Mr. Sherman offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a detailed statement of the Baving or the increase in the annual expenditure which would result from a transfer of the revenue marine to the Navy Department. 6 1st Dat.?The consideration of the arbitration treaty was finished in executive session, but the votedmerred??Mr. Proctor tU. r\t fho ("Vim. aUUUUbWU VUD HUTU100 * V)#V? ? v ?v w_? mittee od Military Affaire uoon the bill to placa Captain. Warren C. Beach, of New York City, - on the retired list of the army Mr. Sawyer introduced a bill to encourage postal savings, to invest the same and to divide earnings among the depositors. Roferred?Senate bill appropriating 9400,000 for a public building of Helena, Montana, was passed??Mr. Stanford gave notice that he would address the Senate on the bill to determine the value of the legal-tender sliver dollar Business was suspandei to pay proper tribute to the late Senator Hearst. Mr. Stanford delivered a eulogy on the dead Senator, and others wara made by Messrs. Vest, Stewart, Voorhees, Bate. Dolph, Morgan and Feltoa (Mr. Hearst's successor). 62d Dat.?The usual mass of petitions and memorials from State granges for and against various measures of legislation were presented and referred Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the President for correspondence with tne Argentine Republic on the subject of reciprocity The Senate bill to allow thirty days' leave of absence to employes in the Bureau of Engraving and Printingwas discussed and then recommitted ilr. Hoar a Mil ?a atwailtl^hft IUUI UUUUT7U a uut W Ikuiouvt Miw Hvv>pv...?wnwo the disposition of cases in the United States Supreme Court The Senate at 2:05, on , motion of Mr. Sherman, proceeded to execu:ive business, and at 5:05 adjourned. 63d Day.?The Bering Sea arbitration ireaty was confirmed by a unanimous rote Mr. Stewart announced that he would nove to take up his Free Coinage bill? Sir. Quay reported favorably a bill appropriating #30,000 for the erection in Washington of a statue to Ericsson, and another apiropriatins $20,000 for a statue of Robert t)ale Owen to be placed in the Smithsonian Institution grounds. He also reported ftbill ippropriatiag <15,000 for the purchase of an Ml painting of Lincoln to be hung in the Capitol. 64th Day.?Roger Q. Mills was sworn in u Senator from Texas?Mr..Stanford ad* tressed the Senate at length on his bill to letermine tbe value of a legal tender dollar ?The Indian Appropriation bill was die* sussed. 4 In the Honse. 66th Day.?The debet; on the Silver bill was closed, and filibustering proceedings were continued with great confusion for teven hours. The bill wai disposed of in* leflnltely at 12:33 in the morning by the ad* |ournmeutof the Houte. 67th Day.?The House went into Com uittee of the Whole (Mr. McRae, of Arkan* las, in the chair) on tne private calendar, rhree hours were consumed in the con* iideration of tbe bill for the reliof of the personal representative* of Hinry H. Sibley, the inventor of the "Sibley" tent, but no determination was reached. The committee having arisen, the House adjourned, tbe jvenrtig session being dispensed with. 68th Dax\? Mr. Covert introduced the bill introduced in the Senate to authorize the New York and New Jersey Bridge Company jo construct and maintain a bridge across ? V TT U I the Hudson Jtuver oetween new j. ui a. v^n.j ind New Jersey. The bill is amended so ai to provide for the location of the bridge between Sixty-sixth and Seventy-second streets, and to provide for its completion Id ten years instead of four as provided by the Senate measure Eulogies on the late Mr. Spinola, of New York City, were then deliv ;rad by Messrs. Cockran, Curtis, Cumming*, Wheeler, JBelden, Campbell, Geisenheimer, Hooker, of Mississippi, and Cooper. 69th Day.?The Speaker laid before the Home a communication from Representative Joseph McKenna, of the Sixth District Df California, informing the House that he had sent his resignation as Representative to the Governor of California Mr. Blount, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill. Committee of the Whole? The floor was then claimed by and awarded bo the Committee of the District of Colombia, and several bills were passed. 70th Day.?Discussion of the Free Wool bill was resumed Speaker Crisp presented a communication from Roger Q. Mills, stating that he had sent to the Governor of Texas his resignation as Re resentative from the Ninth District of Texas, to take ?ffect at once The Committee on Banking reported favorably the bill to incorporate the International American Bank ?l8t Day-.?Mr. Crain, of Texas, was appointed to Mr. Mills's late place in the House Jommerci Committee Consideration of the Free Wool bill was continued, speeches - ?Waaore Ruf.lfll* lAVlOP. I LiClUX iuauo %jj 4uvmi? ?, ^ v irady, Laytou and Cro3by. SMOKELESS POWDER TESTS. Successful Trials With Four and Eight-Inch Guns. Some very gratifying results have been obained with u hand-made sample of smokeess powder at the naval ordnance proving ground at Indian Head, near Washington. The test* with the powder made by the Ordlance Bureau's chemist at Newport. R. I., lave hitherto t<?aa confined to small arms, cludin; the one, three, aai six pound guns and the four-inch rapid-fire jun. promising results having been obtained in all cases. With charges about one-half those used with ordinary powders the velocities were increased from 1-50 to 200 foot seconds, with no increase of chamber pressure. The Naval Chief of Ordnance at the time expressed the hope that smokeless powder might come into exclusive use in all juns of six-inch calibre and below it. " The test which has just taken place was with a four-inch gun and with an eijht-lach gun. In the former weapon a thirty-threepound projectile was used, with a powder charge of five and a half pounds. The velocity obtained was 2160 foot seconds, at a pressure of 14.6 tons. In the case of che eight-inch gun an eighty-pound projectile was used, as is done in the foreign service?. The powder charge was sixteen pounds, and there was developed a velocity of 2415 foot seconds aud a pressure 13.6 tons. These results compare favorably with those obtaihed abroad under much better conditions. This seems to settle the question, if any aver existed, of the merit of the naval smokeless powder. ;A Lnri-aiZK oil portrait of "Dolly* Madison, wife of President Madison, by Andrews, has been hung in the green parlor jf the Executive Mansion at Washington. t A THE TRIM . c The Senate Assents to the Bering Sea Arbitration. ? t Method by Which the Difficulty e is to be Settled. * 0 c Th? trMtr or rvinvnnfnnn nrovifHna for \ arbitration in the settlement of the differ- b en cos between Great BritSta and the United b States over the jurisdiction of the Bering ? Sea has been ratified by the Senate, at p Washington, by a unanimous rote. 0 The s:cret session which resulted in the ^ ratification lasted two hours?from two to * four o'clock?and was of the quiet, conserve 4 stive character. y Its detail is of little interest, in view of n the ratification. Shortly after the doors p were closed a call of the Senate was ordered, c and an unusually large number of Senators j, answered to their names, the number being ^ increased to seventy-two when the vote on 1 the treaty was taken. r, There was some general discussion con- n earning the perfection of the treaty, and Mr. ei Sherman announced that the propositions v mad# by some Senators at previous sessions p that the arbitration procedings should be conducted in English had met with a favor- w able response from Lord Salisbury. ? The treaty does not stipulate the language {j in which the proceedings'shall be conducted. w Mr. Sherman said that the suggestion that M they be conducted in Engllnh had been com- j, municated to Sir Julian Paunceforte, the ? British Minister, who replied that he had no j. objection, bakpreferred-'to oommunicate r with his own Government before agreeing ~ to it. h This he did and Lord Salisbury approved. r After Mr. Sherman made this statement the a treaty was amended so thtit English should1 ? be the language used in the conduct of the 1. proceedings. _ There was some discussion over article XI of the treaty, which provides that "the de- m cision of the tribunal shall, if possible, be + made within three months from the close ofi u. the argument on both sides." +1 SUvaimI f.hnnvht: f ho 11 for decision should be longer, and as there was no objection to this the time was extended to four months. i After a discussion over these points and some others of minor importance, the treaty was ratified' (irtthout further change' and without the passage of any resolution) by an ? ave and nay vote, and resolutions informing the President of its ratification and removing the injunction of secrecy from the vote, 88 were adopted. A well-Informed Washington correspond- n ent writes; The unconditional ratification, of the treaty leaves President Harrison free 0-, now to complete arrangements with Lord Salisbury for a new modus vivendl on terms which will doubtless be satisfactory to both * Governments, it is the President's intention to accept substantially the first proposi- el tion of Lord Salisbury's note of March 28th, P stated as follows: We are, however, willing, when the treaty h has been ratified, to agree to an arrangement f, similar to that of last year, if the United States will consent that the arbitrators should, in the event of a decision adverse to a the United States, assess the damages which the prohibition of sealing shall have inflicted on British sealers during the pendency of the arbitration, and. in the event of a decision * ..a - A._ r\ * V> flavor so w urruaii cirnniu, iuuuiu unu luo damages which the limitation of slaughter p shall, during the pendency of arbitration, gi hare inflicted on the United States or its lereeM, 3 The arbitration of damages provided for ifi here covers, will be noticed, only the period from the ratification of the treaty to the t1 time a final decision is announced by the 0 Board of Arbitrators. It contains no re- ? utriction of liability such as Lord Salisbury p maintains as to damage done the United States since 1855, and can be accepted without a renewal of the discussion which threw ? the original article as to the general arbitra- < tioo of damages out of the treaty just rati*1 8ed. i d There was a full Cabinet meeting at the ? White House after the ratification of the h treaty. TheCahlnet practically agreed to accept Lord Salisbury's proposition for a re- v, newal of last year's modus vivendi, with ^ certain limitations as to the cfepracter of Q damage* to be left to the determination of the arbitrators. The trenty provide* that the whole ques- " tion shall be submitted to arbitrators to be appointed by prance, Italy and Sweden, the d main question involved being whether seals are to bo considered as ferae naturae, or S whether the peculiar circumstances attend- le ing seal life in Bering Sea wfll permit of a ? special application in the case. The whole question will be decided into five different points, viz., the question of what j?( exclusive jurisdiction Russia exercised prior to the cession of Alaska; how far such t ripLls were recognised by Great Britain^ wnat rtgacs, 11 any, nasis cwuaou ia the Bering Set after the treaty of " 1825 between that country and Great Britain; whether all the rights of Russia d as to jurisdiction and as to the seal fisheries * in Bering Sea east of the water boundary did not pass unimpaired to the United States c under the treaty of 1867; and, lastly, has tho ( United States any right, and, if so, what t: right of protection over the fur seals when r found in Bering Sea outside the ordinary I three mile limit. FIVE SHOCKS KILLED, , Murderer Cotto Executed by Eleotricity in Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison. _ Jeremiah Cotto. the Italian ragpicker t who murdered Louis Frankeloso, a fellowcountryman, on the morning of July 36th h last in New Utrecht, N. Y., paid the death d penalty in the eleetric chair at the State ? Prison in Sing Sing. At 11 the night before ? Warden Brown went to the condemned J; man's cell and read the death warrant to ? him. Cotto, who has little knowledge of Cl the English language, looked friehtanea.and 6 apparently thought that the War Jen had a come to take him to his death. After the , Warden left him ths murderer seemel more a calm, and was induced by his keepers to lie " down on the cot in his cell. The priests ar- ? rived at the orison at about 8 jl if., and a went to Cotto's cell. ?: At 10:3-5 o'clock everything wai in readi- a ^TKTnM/Inn DoAnrn 1 arl th 1 ufifnAOOOC frt Q nros auu ii ai ucu mvnu ?tu ?,<* j ntvUWoM> ^ . the execution chamber. Mr. Davis, the u. State expert, was at the switchboard testing 8! the voltage o? the current, which was shown si to be 1800. * At 10:43 Cotto entered the death chamber, being supported by Fathers De Raueta ? and Milo. Warden Brown led the little pro- ? cession. As Cotto caught sight or the death r-hair be tottered and would have fallen * had he not been supported by the priests. 11 Cotto was hurriei into the chair and 01 quickly strapped. The electrodes were then v' applied, one at the calf of the right leg and 01 the other at the foreheAd, it being decided not to use the same method as at the exeou- ti tion of McElvaine, when the current was w introduced throuzh the hands. hi At 10:45 Warden Brown nodded to Mr. Davis to turn on the current. Instantly bi there was a convulsive movement of Cotto's body and the straps began to creak. Contact after contact followed in rapid A' succession until five had be?n given ?J to the condemned man. The in- ^ terval between each contact was twelve seconds. After the third contact Drs. Abbott and Irving felt the dyin* man's pulse and al >o listened to the beating of the heart. J? The l?\st contact was given at 10:48:03. Three minutes after this all action of the heart and pulse had ceasei. The doctors ^ present were then invited to examine the re Dody. All those who did so agraed that " Cotta was dead. Immediately after the first contract cot- -p to's face tnrned purple, and then, after each -t successive shock, the feature became distorted and discolored The strap over the A forehead and eves slipped down and exposed the features. Trie body was carried into the autop3j-room adjoining the death chamber, where an autopsy was performed by Drs. te, Irving and Abbott. T} Drs. Abbott and Irving said that Cotto felt absolutely no pain after the first con- *'> tact, and that, in their opinion, three would in have been sufficient. tif After the autopsy Cotto's body was placed tw in a rough pine coffin, which was filled with quicklime. The coffin was conveyed on the th shoulders of four convicts out of the prison th and up the hill to the burying-ground, where th it was lowered in a grave near the graves of w the other murderers who have been executed f0 in Sing Sing Prison since July last, th V( I :--r - -i BiObDY WOBlfty OHIHA, 1 hrer 8000 Rebel* Perish, Many of Whom Were Burnnd. According to advice# just received from lhanghai, the bloody engagements recently let ween Imperial troop* and rebels in North* rn China resulted in the slaughter of several hoosand rebels. The Imperial army lost nly five killed and forty-five wounded. >ver 8300 rebels were put to death with he sword, and 800 actually burned alive. L number of engagements are reported. A ody of Insurgents numbering 800 wu overrun by the Imperialists at a place sixty ai es from Kulun, and over 100 of them rere killed and three leaders mads risoners. In a second engagement ver fifty of the enemy were ? put a the sword, and the .remainder were bilged to retire to pawnshop, the strong rails of which made it an admirable place to efend. The Imperialists closely Invested Ite building and Killed over 150 of the in* lates. Intelligence later reached the Imeriallste' campthat a force of the enemy, 3 m prising 000 cavalry and 800 u> in try, had arrived with the object of com* ig to the rescue of their confederates. - "hev were attacked in the front and the ear by the Imperial forces and lost 400 ten during the battle. Those who escaped a countered another party of Imperialists, 'ho shot fifty of them and made a score of risoners. Another detachment of rebels wu posted t ACeiyaokoutze, to which plaoe the Im* delists continued their march. The rebel etachment numbered about 100, of which xty were killed and twenty made prisoners, moug the latter being the so-called lader of the vanguard, Le Hung Tea, 'ho was instantly decapitated. A still urger force of the enemy was posted ih the ihteo Chang district, where they had an entrapment with guns fitted up In the loop* olse of the wall surrounding the villages, 'lrurobes of the new creed served as outposts f the rebel army. An onslaught was made pon their position, and after an engagement CAA Attf. /\9 a fnfjTl of 1800 LOl&AJg VIVV UVUIO) wvw vvav v* w ' re pat to-the b word. About 800 of the rest were burned alive, ud, including stragglers, it is estimated lat not lets than 1400 of the enemy were illed on this occasion. A great number of le adherents of the new creed were capxred, Including three leaden^ who were mantly beheaded. PROMINENT PEOPLE. There Is great anxiety in Germany atxrat mperor vVilliam'a health. Representative Jerrv Simpson, of Kan15, used to be a log sawyer. General James Long street now devotes .ost of nis time to literary work. The Pope at eighty-two has fairly good re-sight, and uses glasses only in reading. A recent visitor to Bismarck describes him 3 the picture of bodily and mental vigor. Garza, the Mexican Revolutionist, carriae leven policies on his life in different com* anies. The attempt of ''Buffalo Bill" to repeat is European success of two yean ago has oiled dismally. Ex-President Cleveland quietly celerated the flfty-iifth anniversary of his birth t Lake wood, N. J. i " " ' ^ 1 it-- i.V?. T.w/l I .DURING me last iweive uiuuuu uis uu>>* layor of London, England, has partaken of 50 public dinners. Jat Gocld is popular in Texas: ?1 Paso eople serenaded and cheered him as "Che reatest little man." Ex-Gover.vor Nathaniel 8. Behry, of 'ew Hampshire, now ninety-five years oi age, the oldest of all living ex-Governors. Henry M. Staxlky will go to the Congo lis year in the interest of the Congo Free tate, and remain in Africa for a long eriod. Mas. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night," Is living i California, and Is busy on a history of Oregon. Congressman Sprisoer, of Illniois, has Iscovered that his ancestry extends back to igbert, the early English king, and beyond im to Charlemagne. The Duke of Edinburgh has bean offended Lthe criticisms of his voilin playing at the rity concerts. He declares tnat he will ever again play solos in public. Sidney 8. Jackson, said to be the oldest orticulturist in tne United States, died at is Green Trownship, Ohio, home the other ay in the ninetieth year of his age. The oldest graduate now in the United tates Army is Colonel William H. C. Bart* .? -k/. at- Waaf. Pninfc MilitarV icademyln 1826?sixty-six years ago. Max Strakosch, the famous musical im? rebsario, died, a few days ago, at the Home sr Incurables in Ford ham, N. Y., of paralsis. He had been an inmate of the instiution for several months. John' H. Inman, the richest man of tha outh, was a drummer boy in the Confederte Army, and wben the War was over ha id not have a cent or a friend to halp him. le is now a resident of New York. Captain Richara Pike, who will probably ommand the Peary Relief Expedition, was Japtain of the Proteus of the Greely expediion in 1881, of the Proteus of theUarlington esc lie party (in search of GreeJy), and of the Cite in the expedition of 189L FUEE SILVER BATTLE. fhe Hoase Defers Action oa the Free Coinage Bill. A dispatch from Washington says: The amult and confusion which attended the ilibustering to defeat the Force bill in the ist Congress foand a parallel in the House nring the last day's discussion of the Bland 'ree Sliver Coinage bill. The ex* iting proceedings will be hisoricaL Three times the rulings of the peaker were called into question. Once be Speaker himself, the first time he has xercised his prerogatives, cast his'Tote nil saved the Silver bill from defeat. After a day of debate participated in by lessrs. Coskran, Hatch, Castle, Cumlings, Williams and English, Mr. Iland promptly at five o'clock, and fter the spsecbes had been crowded, ne after the other, into brief llowanee of time, moved for the previous ? ? ?.u? a??>n-Dmant *nfl third read UCSblUli VU mo vmmvm* w?? ? ig of tbe bill and amendments. It wa3 the gnal for tbe fight. The members on both des were then to engage. The galleries rere packed. A motion to table the bill, made by Mr. urrows, of Michigan, would have prevailed ad not the Speaker votel and male a tie. hen a motion to reconsider the vote by hich Mr. Burrows's motion was lost waa lade and carried. The question recurring a the motion to table, it was lost by a close ote. Mr. Bland then tried to force a vote a the bill, but failed. After that the filibustering bagan under leiead of Mr. Cockran and Mr. Fitch, and as conducted afterward by the men who ippeped to be about. Mr. Bland had counted on carrying the ill with a rush. He had failed and his coadence in his following was wavering. Finally, after seven hours an i a naif of libustering, he had a consultation with the peaker and Mr. McMillan, of the Rules ornmittee. Then he went back to his seat, and ended ; 12:35 in the morning what promised to " f-Lk ? mrtfirtn fn fid- f ) an all-Dlgdb SetSjiJU uy a IUV..V. lurn. it was carrie. 1 unanimously. The Silver bill now goes up on the calenw. but it was considered probable thaf< the ommittee on Rules would at an early day iport a resolution Jor its further consideraoo. OURTEEN SAILORS DROWN I Fatal Collision Between Two British Vessels Off the Isle ot Wight. A collision, resulting in the loss of fouren lives, occurred off the hie of Wight. i le British bark Palls of Garry, from San ( ancisco for Havre, via Qusenstown, came i to collision with the British steamer The- < ] i. Toe Falls of Garry was cut nearly in j ro and sank almost immediately. ' The crew of the Thetis hascened to assist e wrecked seamen who were struggling in e water and succeeded in saving sixteen of em. Fowrteen were drowned. The Thetis as considerably damaged and made signals r assistance. The tngboat Btlos went to i? assistance of the Thetis and towed that esel into the Solent. -v;. . ' -' ' ' V;V--*^7*?.*/' ,\- r.C?.- . . . t>t - f . . ' ' " ? ' " .' ' ' '. . V ' ' ' ' ' ^fiSST . The "Good Gray Poef'Breathes I His Last at Camden, N. J. j : Sketch of His Eventful Life and * Literary Labors. i . ? s WALT WHITMAN. Walt Whitman, the "food rray poet," ^ died at his home in Camden, V. J., at 0:43 d a few >venings ago. His en 1 wm peaceful, and he was conscious until the last. The e: aged bard had been struggling with death ? in December 17. when he was taken down a with pneumonia. His death was looked for a daily. His vitality was so great that he rallied from the attack, although his Jihysicians said he was very weak and d iable to expire at any time. Five days be ti fore his death a change was noticed in ? Whitman's condition, and for the last three days he took no nourishment at all. About 1 4 o'clock in the afternoon his attendants t noticed he was growing worse, and Or. AJ- 0 ezander McAllister was sent for. He saw the poet was dying and remained until the ? end. The other persons by his bedside were n Mrs. Mary Dans, his housekeeper; Warren Fritzinger, his nurse; and Thomas B. Harned and Horace Traubel, two warm P friends. Dr. McAllister asked Whitman if he was in pain, and the dying poet ans wered: , "No." Whitman's last woros were a re- 1 quest to his nurse to shift him in bed. Then, reaching for his handkerchief, respiration ceased, although his heart beat for ten minutes afterward. Artist Ait ken made s plaster cast of Whitmsn's face. It was de- j cided that Whitman should be buried in ? 1 " ' " n 1? ?l i & Jtmneijca wmewry, uuuueu, nuero us au^r erintended the erection of his tomb several $ years ago. He died a poor mu, his only s possessions being his house, library and cop> v right?. Whitman disposed of these by will three months ago, learing his property to I those who nursed him in his last illness. $i Life and Llterarjr Productions. Walter, or Walt Whitman, was born at West Hills, Long IslAud, N. T.t May 31, c' 1819. His rather, whose name he bore, was d a farmer; and the boy, the eldest of tha family, was brought up with slight knowl* 11 edge of even the tew refinements obtainable Q in the country sixty years ago. e He . was strong and sturdy, a good rider and swimmer, fond of out-door oxer- ? cine, and impatient of all the amenities of life. What book education he had he re- . ceiled in the public schools of New York and Brooklyn. It was not much, for when only E sixteen he was back in the country, teach- n ing others and learning from them rather r than from books. After a year or so of teaching he became P a carpenter for a time; then he learned c printing, working at the case in New York City and Brooklyn, and editing papers in New Orleans and in Huntington, Long j Isian \ In 1847-8, with his brother Jefferson Whitman/ be went on a long pedestrian tour 0 of the country, working his way fl along by doing carpenter's Jobs, tramping it, one might almost say. ror two years the brothers wandered about, down the Ohio - ?? . oi I. .M<| and Mississippi ruvCI S, 1U mu Texas duriag the Mexican War, along the lakes, into Canada, and down the Hudson back to Long Island, where Walt Whitman a betook himself onoe more to the printer'* case. ( Up to 1855 he had been known, so far u he was known, limply a* a carpenter-printer <j of no especial steadiness. In 1855, however, appeared bis first and most famous book. . "Leaves of Grass," a volume of rhspsodiaal 1 poems, always without rhyme, generally without rhythm, dealing especially with the t interests involved in America life and progress of the time. f The first edition of this book Whitman sat up and printed himself, and for thirty years . he has been revising and adding to the oook. At the beginning of the war Whitman was living in New York City; but his r brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg in 1863, and the poet went to the front I to nurse him. He remained with the army t ?ui nf tha war ai?#rward crivins? UUtU lUO v?vrv V*. ^ bis experiences in two volumes, "Drum Taps" (1865), and "Memoranda During the S War" 11867). His most conventional poem is in "Drum Taps"?"Captain, My Captain," in memory of Lincoln. ? In 1864 be bad been compelled to (ire up * for a time bis work as nurse, because of a fever caught in the hospital camps among f; the sick From the effects of this fever d Whitman never recovered fully, though he returned to his nursing; as soon as he was able ? to be about. 0 At the close of the war he obtained a clerkship in the Interior Department, from which he was dismissed when his superior officer * learned that be was the author of 6 "Leaves of Grass," He obtained a clerkship in the Attorney-General's office, how- li ever, which he kept until 1874. In February, ^ 1873, he bad a stroke of paralysis, resulting from his fever of 1864 ana the exposures of n bis army life, and went to Camden, N. J. n He was recovering rapidly when in May his mother died suddenly in his presence. The ? shock caused a relapse, and he was incapacitated for any work for m^ny months. On his recovery he resigned his clerkship and settled in Camden, where he resided " the rest of his life, 0 Before this, while In Washington, he pub- ' 0 lished "Passage to India" (1870), "After All Not to Create Only" (1871), "As a a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" (1872), and a v volume of Drose essays, "Democratic Vistas" fi (1S70, republished in 1873 and 1888). In 1881 a new edition of "Leaves of Grass" was j, published in Boston, to the sale of which the ^ Massachusetts authorities objected, on the ^ ground of immorality. In 1883 Whitman published ".Specimen Days and Collect," in .. 1885 'November Boughs," and in 1888 * "Sands at Seventy." ? In the latter year he had another stroke of r paralysis. It crippled him almost entirely, ? and on his seventieth birthday his friends ? S.ve to him a pony carriage and pony, and , e "good gray poet" drove himself about Camden, enjoying the outdoor life he had h always lover). His infirmity was physical, ? not mental, however, and within a few J months he has published a farewell volume of ?' poems, '"Good-By, My Fancy." -< Of late years the bitter attacks on Whitman have ceased, and he has been admitted " to b* indeed a poet. Whitman was dependent entirely on th? sale of his books, and while never rich, of late jrears has been absolutely poor. He steadily refused to accept charity, however. . Whitman was described by the admirer, who gave him the title by which he is most widelv known, that of ''the good gray poet," as tall and stalwart, bis race rosy, and seamed with kindly 12 wrinkles; with heavy-lidded, firm blue P eye-, and with a short thick beard, and thin- w ly flowing hair. Of late years his hair and board have been almost snowy white. He never was married. It was said that 00 a disappointment in early life was the cause. ^ mil co The number of Immigrants landed in tbo United States during the month of February br ivas 25,068, and daring the twelve months ou snding February 29, 264,065, the largest ra lumbers coming from Germany, 53,640; iu rtalr, 30,063; Russia, 23,027; Sweden and Norway, 19,479, and 15,300 e&cti rroua pc 2angary and Austria. wi wi affairs in Satnaa ars in a bai coa lition, th The taxes ot the whites are all paid, while fu natives are two years In arrears. The roadi br are a wilderness, and the natives are hope* sfa leesly in debt to foreigners. no w ' IAfE8ireWt!.^~ Wmi?,r, O. Kimnrr, a member of jower House of tbs Penjuyirania Lagi ore, died at Harrisborg, ifad tWrtyn 'ear*. Class's Hotkl in Boston, Mul, ornsd; several persons wars iajorsd here wars many narrow escapes. E. 'errr, of Leominstsr, Mass., died sha fbr Mnir ttkrni tn a hnmltil. T. kmthbridge, of Cambridge was fat urt. Porr Walt Wbitxav wis buried 'amdm, N. J., with put such services ad wished. , There was no religions, c K>nj, bat instead hie dose-.friends < uctod unique exercises at the tomb, wl e had designed, in Harlelgh Cemst 'housands attended the ceremonies in pen air. *" The crew of a train coming down beep grade on the FrackviUa (Pal ranch of the Philadelphia and Rett tailroad loat control of it and the aoi nd cars shot dawn the decline ?? a tm peed. Brakeoan Jodah Troj and J tauer were crashed to death. Qovaavoa McKinlxt, of Ohio, has ointed Hon. C. L. Poorman Seorstei7 tate, rise D. J. Ryan, resigned. It rained heavily in North Dakota: forth era Minnesota and great damage one to wheat Jossph LaiQHTKB, an ex-eoldisr r-convict, went from the Soldi iome at Dayton, Ohio, to his t Findlay, Ohio, and killed his i nd dansrhter with a hatchet. Thx Kentucky State Convention to du alegates-at-large to the Republican Com Ion at Minneapolis met at Loairfilla. ' oareatioa adopted resolutions fndon lie McKinley trill and Harrisotfe ad mil ration, protesting against the free coin f silver and recommending that the d atee to Minneapolis vote for Harrison's omination. Great damage has been done bf ertni rairie fires in Nebraska. 8tatibtiou.it Dodo*, of the Afrieclti >epartment, has been removed, Thx Presideat appointed Frank L. Oooii f California, Minister to Japan. Sxobztabt Foster transmitted to louse a letter from the Secretary of W iking for an additional appropriation. 106,430 for the armament of forttteatl nd $155,000 for the Board of Ordnanoe i 'ortiflcations. He also sent a letter to louse asking an immediate appropriate SO,000 to continue the recoinage at t diary silver coin. Sxcbctakt Blam has resmned the barge or bis omcui aaues, ana wuh act all farther negotiations on bebal lis Government in the Bering Saa mat" feneral J. W. Foster will oontinna, h eer, to assist in the conduct of tb?M n latioua. Siitatob CtTLLOK, of Illinois, has wrfl rom Washington a letter to axXiJ loche, of Chicago, declining to allow a me to be brought before the Vftmaaf lonvention as a candidate for tta i nblicaa Presidential nomination. He laree in faror of Harrison. Fobtt of the leading Anarchists of P* 'ranee, have been ordered to leare d on try, and thej will be conducted to! rentier. ????? k THE LABOB WORLD* l Thb coal strike in England has ton i ted. Them are 20.000 waiters in New ^3 Jity. ''J The mining interests show a heavier luction. Ship buildings, both on coast and laid hriving. The British House of Commons reji he Miners' Eight Hours bill. Tax outlook for laborers in the Iron n acturing business is gloomy. \ The theatres in London, England, arly employ orer 12,000 people. A Boston (Mass.) dry gdods house 1 egular physician for its employe!. Russia is employing 150,000 Poles ii ujd in building new roads and fort ions. Eighteen thousand men are need nee to man the vessels of tho United ? favy. An alien labor bill is being urged ii Canadian Parliament in retaliation o Inited States. The reduction in the wages of pw rom $4 to S3.50 a ton went into effect ays ago at Lsbaaon. Penn. The Pharmaceutical Union is abot sake a demand for a reduction of the, f labor for nruggistk' clerks. The averago annual wa?es of B rorkinK-psoptc are about 1260 a ysai verr man. woman and child. Thx FurridTa' Union has adopted a ?bel, a copy of which has t?M> ? Washington to be duiy registered. The un?mp'i0j-0l of German}- afll laking matters interesting for tho lent by threatening disturbances. Botldiso material men ar? alt roric at present, an J archi torts dently of booming demands ahea^^^7 Th2 proprietors of two Boston :1s have untied orders th/it noo^Hn tig mploy shall Inrdalrer w*ar oilhJp must? r Deard. 7 Thx puddiers in tho iron works of Med nd Scnwerte, in We3tpbali<? ar>' aowfl ided with furnaoe shields to protect 9 rom the intense tint. / H The hotel and restaurant waiters of Bifl ru and New York City itave ask -d all rfl ors of organisod labor not to patronizfl lurants that employ fdrfialo waiters. K The recontly orgauizad Fa-'.eratioH tetal Workers Li combos;*! or tha Intfl onal Association of MachlnUte, vithH X) mombers; J rot: Moulders? Union, 3a rotherho>i of Bkcksatiths, 4000; BroH ood of Brass Worit^rs, &X>>. nniPat? [akers'National Uaioo, -OX) uiauibera. Employes of the Grand Trunk Kat ire been ordered not to smblu whil ofcy or when in uniform. They mas to re their bats while passing throt Ining cat or any car in which oa offlc le road may bo seated. They mil n< llowed to use a seat, part o? naioh jodv occupied b/ n passenger. DYNAMITE IN PABIS Ln Explosion by Which Seren son* Were Injured. At eight o'clock in the morning a lite explosion occurred at 89 Rue C aria, France, a structure of four si ith a shop in the basement. In the sided M. Bulot, one of the prosec lunsel in the recent Anarchist trial. Most of the occupants of the building bed at the time. The main staircM mpletely wrecked. A number of essed women and children escaped -jl_ i ?1? ^ifmu tvh 5UIJT UJ luo DUiTOUVo owuvwn.. igade extinguished a small fire that it in the debris and rescued some of 1 a tea. Seven persons were seriousl red. Infernal machines had apparently be sited at a door on the second floor, w occupied If. Bulot. Tbe whole interior of the building recked, and in the two adjacent hous e doors aud windows were smashed. J rniture, especially on the second floor oken to fragments, and the ooartyan rewn with debris. Sixteen persons ore or lses shocked by the explosion, i