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BROWNED IN ICY WATERS. Ap Instructor and Eight Boys Perish in Boston Harbor. The Boat Capsized and One by One They Dropped Off. An instructor and ten boys connected with the Boston Farm School at Thompson's Island were capsized in a sail boat in Boston (Mass.) Harbor, a few evenings ago, and ight of the boys drowned. The victims were A. F. Nordberg, instructor. aged about forty; Frank F. Hitchcock, gad nineteen; Homer F. Thatcher, seventeen; Georce F. Ellis, sixteen; Thomas Phillips. sixteen; William W. Corrai), seventeen; Charles H. Graves,seventeen; Barry E. Loud, sixteen; Adalbert H. Ftckard, sixteen. The rescued boys were; Ore W. Clements, seventeen; Charles A. Limb, sixteen. Tbe instructor had been to the city during the day to attend church, and the ten boys, cnstitating a regular crew of the school, left the island at 6:30 to sail to City Point to convey the instructor to the island. The trir> is considered perfectly safe under ardinary circumstances, having been made for years, even daring the winter months, without accident. As a precaution, however, in view of the hraeze, the crew took a single sail boat in lead of a double sail craft, in which the trip ia often made. The trip to the Point war, made without accident, and soon .after 7 o'clock the boat atarted on tne return trip. At a point supposed to be between Spectacle and Thompson's islands the boat was *ruck by a squall and immediately (Capsized. The e?iven occupants were thrown into tha ice cold water, but baing accustomed to tnct discipline and the exercise of heroism in the school, they all secured positions where they could cling to the overturned craft, ana then began a lone wait for rescue. which to most of thorn was never to come. According to the statements of the two um'vors, they encouraged each other by words of cheer, occasionally shouting in the hope that they alight be heard by some ?tm on shore. At one time a tu? was Been in the distance, and they shouted with all thiir remaining; strength, but could not attn ct attention. Tb s night was cold and the shores and wbaives were abandoned. When the time tor the boat to return to the island had and, the Superintendent of the school, Charles H. Bradley, went to the beach to can the waters toward City Point to see if kii boys were approaching- There was a re on a neighboring island, and he got in tha range of the firelight in the hope that it would aid his vision, but he saw nothing. The survivors say that they saw his form patrolling the beach and felt sure that rescue would come, but it did not. Finally the cferill of the water and the exertion necessary to keep their heads above the surface overcame the unfortunates, and one by one they were compelled to release their hold. Hie instructor was the first to go. Each offered a prayer or a word of farewell to the others as he gave up his hold on life. Borne of them endured the unequal contest for nearly four hours, and it was quite four hours, or about 11 o'clock, when the boat with the two survivors still clinging to it, but exhausted, drifted ashore. They were immediately cared for, and rapidly recovered from the effects of their exposure. Superintendent Bradley notified the police, wndertakers and the officers of the Boston Farm School of the disaster and engaged a Aver to search for the bodies of the lost. ? oArtHanf fhnt: hna happened to the school since 1&42. The Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys is a private institution, supported by wealthy citizens. Its funas are all appropriated lor relieving, instructing and employing indigent boys. The boys receive a good common-school education, and are instructed in moral and religious duties. The boys were all good swimmers and Mr. Uordberg was an expert. The icy temperature of the water is supposed to have chilled tbem so that they were uneble to make any Sorts tor their own safety. pbomirent people. Hurra?, the well known English pub* laber, is dead. 8nrA.t0b8 sffermax atd Hoar and exInator Evarts are cousins. r*tmr? jrrtjtrne Fuller and Justice Har In, though very unequal in stature, are firm friends. Quxs.i Victoria has become so feeble reantly as to require assistance when she walks. Abbas, the new Khedive of ?gypt, is a lagnist to the extent of speaking five lan* gaages fluently. Mb. (Toombs.of California, the new Ministar to Japau. is yet in his thirties and is a lawyer by profession. Ladt Mart Howards sister of the Duke of Norfolk, is a sister of charity in the Order of St. Vincent de Paul. Firrr years ago Dr. Edward Everett Hale was first licensed to preach, and for half a century he-has been hard at it. Joszm Fkawcis, of Boston, the "father et the marine life-saving service," has just celebrated his ninety-second birthday. Thk writer of a successful play is certain fafortune. Bronsoa Howard's royalties m*A intarMta Am said to be not far from $75, 800 a year. Governor Eagle, of Arkansas, ia by occupation a fanner, and by inclination a preacher. Baptist congregations sometimes Trite him to fill the pulpit, and he is said to be really eloquent. Much surpriss has been caused by the fcafcemunt of Mrs. Spureeon, that her husband died worth only $10,000. It is said that Mr. Spurgeon gave away large amounts In charity. There is some talk of a testimonial to the widow. Ginkral Hkxrv W. Slocum, who starched with Sherman to the sea as a corps commander, is now a fine old gentleman living in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is much interwwd in railroad matters, especially In the introduction of the trolley system. "William Waldorf Astor, the New York millionaire, is reported from Europe Co b* writing a novel of the fifteenth centnrr. When he wants to describe a certain kind of room ha has one fitted up in exactly I the way he desires it, regardless of ex- I p6Q8B. A despatch from Samoa says that Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, is acquiring great influence there, especially among the natives, many of whom regard him with more reverence than they do King Malletoa, on account of the interest Stevenson takes in their affairs. Ha is trying to induce them to wear clothes and give up fighting. A pair of white kid gloves was given to Judge Bmery, of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, not long ago by the Grand Jury of Franklin County as an emblem of the county's irreproachable morals. The *dg? bad bad to dismiss the jury from service because there were no indictments to b<> acted upon at the term for which the jurors ware drawn. Thb Amir of Afghanistan expressed his ?" " ! 1L. I?.nf jympaioy w?d yuean vscwriauu tuo iv? >? her grandson in an original manner. He has transmitted to the Viceroy of India a letter containing profuse assurances of respect,and enclosed in a casket which is said to be a most beautiful specimen of Oriental workmanship. It is of pure gold and weighs more than a pound. Congressman' Kiluore, of Texas, is said to have surprised some o: the staid and easygoing equestrians of VVashingtou by dashing along the country roa<ia at reckless speed on horseback and leaning from hissaddletopick wonphbles from the trrjuu i aa he tlew by. Thou 'h fifty-six year* old dad white-headed, Colonel Kilgorn rides with all the vim and rigor of a cowboy. Ths past winter in eastern Nevada was above the average in severity. while in the western part of the State, beyond Battle Mountain, it was abnormally mild. And the prin^, so far, has been vr-?v wet in the eastern part of the State and rtry dry over the Test. "i*HZ oldest inhabitant of Vienna, Magdalen Ponsa, has died at the reputed age of 117. She lived on charity. ThB Emperor gave bar a pension of $7.40 a month. She retained her faculties olmout until the ead. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State*. Thx Massachusetts Democratic ?' Convention met at Boston and adopteu a resolution favoring Cleveland for the Presidential nomination after opposition from the Hill qjen; the delegates were not instructed. J. Pikrpont Morgan, the Wall street financier, has agreed to endow the New York City Trade Schools with the sum of $500,000. A forest firs burned ovsr thousands of acres in South New Jersey,near VVaterford, doing 130,000 damage. Three hundred man fought the flame* and saved churches, residences and barns. Paymaster Lo.va.a retire!United States Naval offical, who had escaped from an ?svltim in Washineton a few days before. died in New YorK Citv of morphine poison- I ing. He had written to his relatives threatening to kill himself. Forest fires, due to the prolonged drought, occurred in nearly all the rural towns of eastern Connecticut. Christopher Culvsr, aged twenty-four, keeper of the Race Rock lighthouse, was drowned while attempting to reach his station from New London, Conn., wbere he had been spending a few days with his wife and child. The Ohio Society of New York City, a purely social organization, gave a dinner at J)elmonico'd in honor of United States Mm ister to France wniteiaw twia. venerai Wager S wayne presided and speeches of welcome were -made by Secretaries Foster and Elkins, Chauacey M. Depew and Colonel McClune. Mr. Raid replied. Brigadier - General Thomas w. Sweeny, United States Array, retired, died at his home in Lone Island City, N. Y. Ha was bom in Cork, Ireland, in 183J. John K. Porter, ex-Judge of the Court of Appeals, who appeared for the defendant in the Beecher trial, and was the senior counsel for the people in the trial of Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin, died a few days since at Waterford, N. Y. He was born at Waterford on January 12, 1819. Peter F. Wanser, Republican, was elated Mayor of Jersey City, N. J., by about 2000 majority, defeating Allan L. McDermott. Democrat. It has just leaked out that Gamble Weir, Superintendent of Police of Pittsburg, Penn., who died suddenly three months ago, was poison?d. Police Sctpebinte.vdevt Murray, of New York City, has been retired on a pen Bion of $3300 par year at His own request,anu Inspector Byrnes, the famous detective, was chosen to succeed him. South and. West. A ctclonb did much damage in Faulkner County, Ark. Cattlx are dying by thousands in Texas owing to drought. The tirst results of the war for the extermination of horse thieves in Eastern Montana and Wyoming came to light, when the body of a man was found on Alkali Creek, about ten miles from Billings. He had been hot through the head, and had been dead several days. The raaa is suppose! to hare been a Wyoming "rustler" on His way to Canada. Sokk disastrous flood news has come from Columbus, Miss, The river rose over two feet higher than ever in its history. Fourteen persons were known to have been drowned. The reunion at New Orleans La., of the United Confederate Veterans, ended with a parade, in which 8!?00 Southern soldiers marched. The Veterans wer? escorted by the State militia, and consisted of four divisions. At Catlettsburg, Ky., the flour mill of J. O. Patton & Co. was destroyed by an in ? ? - 1? cenaiary nro. ouiihoj uo luiim, was buraed to death. Hydrophobia, is alarmingly prevalent in Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Bill West,a colored desperado, quarreled with John Roberts at Pima, (la., and shot; him dead. A crowd of people chased West and shot him down, killing him instantly. Richard Hancock shot and fatally wounded his wife at Winlock, Washington, and then sent a bullet through his own heart. His wife had refused to give him money. The entire pxant of the Winters? Art Lithograph Company, of Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The company published all the lithographic World's Fair advertisements. A large stock of lithographs of the various halls and other buildings of the Fair was in the establishment, as well at the stock of the official lithographing of the Fair. Washington. fHE Navy Department invited proposals for the purchase of the following condemned vessels: The Galena, at Portsmouth, N. H.; the Cohasset, at Newport, R. I.; the Intrepid, at Brooklyn, N. Y., and the Wyoming and Speedwell, at Norfolk, Va. Orders were issued from the Navy Department directing the Yorktown and ths Adams to proceed from San Francisco to Puget Sound. The ultimate destination of the vessels is Bering Sea. The Baltimore and Charleston, also at San Francisco, have been ordered to Astoria, Oregon. Secretary Noble sent a telegram to the Special Agent of the Department in Oklahoma, postponing the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapohoe reservation until April 19. General Charles W. Field died of | Bright's disease at bis re3irtenc9 m Washington. He was bora near Lexington. Ky., in 1828, and graduated from West Point in 1849. The amount of per cent. Government bonds redeemed by the United States Treasury Department to date is 123,672,800, leaving outstanding $l,831,y00. A statement prepared at the United States Treasury Department shows that since April I there has been .a net loss of gold to the Treasury of more than $1,200,000. The President issued a proclamation, opening to settlement April 15, at noon, 574,257 acres of Sisseton and Wabpeton lands in the Dakotas. ATTORNKT-lrEITKRAIi MlLLEB has gone South to be absent a month, and will investigate during bis trip the charges made omiinof PnHaml nfflpints In- TeXiS. ZrOWinZ out of the Garza trouble. The United States Seriate has dismissed ' its executive clerk, James R. Young, on the charge of having betrayed the secrets of tae executive session. The President has approved the act relating to life saving appliances on steamers plying exclusively on lakes, bays and sounds of the United States. James W. Cooper, one of the colorel jurors who served in the Schneider murder trial at YVashington, died in the Court House from men til and physical exhaustion. Foreign. The Russian famine is said to have caused a loss to the Imperial treasury of about 240,000,000. it is reported mat jmiuu rtuua iw> iow?ered the immense stores of ivory which he was forced to abandon when he left the equatorial province of Africa with Stanley. The election in the Argentine Republic for provincial delegates to elect a President passed off quietlv. The Ra Urals abstained from voting. iThe Conciliation party was victorious. After the elections a state of siege was reimposed. The majority of the delegates eiected fRvor Saenz Pana for I President. The polls ware guarded by the I police and soldiers. A dispatch from Middlesborough, Yorkshire, England, says thar, owin* to the Durham miners' strike, children are crying in the streets for bread. In the House of Commons Mr. Goschen. Chancellor of the British Exchequer, presented the budget; it showed a surplus of $5,335,000. a seditious movement in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, was promptly suppressed, and a thr?e aays' state oc sioge was pruc-uuiucvj>. i A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, says that the election for President in the provinces has proved a walk-over for Saenz P<>na. Revolution has started in the State of Matto Otrosso, brazil. The Legislature has proclaimed it independent of the Republic. The river is obstructed by hulks. (Jolonel Barboaa is in charge of the rebels. ! AT HOME AND ABROAD. ( The Latest Intelligence by Telegraph and Cable. The Government Statistician's Monthly Crop Eeport, The April report of the Statistician of ths United States Department of Agriculture makes the average condition of winter wheat on April 1 81.2, and that of rye 87. This is against an average for winter wheat on December 1, 1891, of 85.3 and an average rye on the same date of 88.8. The report issued by the Department on April 10, 1891, corresponding to this report, showed: Wheat, 90.9; rye, 95.4. The averages of the principal winter wheat States are: Ohio, 71; Michigan, 83; Indiana, 78; Illinois, 82; Missouri, 72, and Kansas, 77. The average of these si* is 77, against 97.3 in April of 1890. It is 97 in Nsw York and SI in Pennsylvania. In the States from Delaware to North CaroHna it varies from 79 to 87. But it Is 90 to 93 in the Southern belt east of the Mississippi, and somewhat bwer "west of that river. On the Pacific coast tne condition is higher. The season was generally late, in the West especially, and in the Southwest later than the States of the Atlantic coasr. The unfavorable seeding conditions were drought, difficult plowing, snow, resulting in an Imperfect stand, and they were naturally followed by late and feeble growth. The plant was, therefore, generally small when the winter set in, and apparently of weak vitality. It is quit6 uniformly reported tuat tne winter was not very severe, and was in many sections mild. Winter killing was exceptional, or limited to flat or wet areas. Some correspondents indicate a probability of improvement with favorable April weather. The low condition is leas the result of winter killing than of late germination and a slow autumn. Hetherington Acquitted. A. telegram was received at the Navy Department, Washineton, from Commander J. R. JBartletf, United States steamship Marion, announcing the acquittal by the Consular Court at Yokohama, Japan, of Lieutenant J. H. Hetherington, United States Navy, of the murder of George Gower Robinson. This action is final, and Hetherington cannot again be tried for the same crime in any other court. George Gower Robinson was an English banker in Yokohoma and a very prominent member of European society there. He was a handsome man, and many persons gave him the reputation of a lady killer His attentions to Mrs. Hetherington, wifa of Lieutenant Hetherington, of the Marion, had continued for some months and were becoming a matter of general knowledge. When Lieutenant Hetherington was satisfled of his wife's misconduct he consulted iiis brother oracers ana tney advised mm that he would be justified in killing the man who had wronged him. He waited for Robinson, whom he expected would drive from his place of business to his home on the principal street of Yokohama. Robinson drove up to him in a dog cart, accompanied by a friend. Hetherington shot him dead and immediately gave himself up to the authorities. Two Old People Tortured. At Hollidaysburg, Penn., Three masked burglars entered the house of John Daly, an old soldier, aged sixty-five years, to steal his pension money. They bound his feet and hands and tied him to a chair, and when he refused to tell where his money was they tortured him by cutting him in the neck with a knife and holding a lighted lamp under his ear. fie would not tell them where the money was, and they then ransaoked the house, chopping the floor open with a hatchet and tearing the plaster from the walls, but were unable to discover any booty. Then they departed, first knocking Daly senseless with a blow from a revolver. They next went to the home of Miss Olivia McDowell, an aged spinster, bound her in a Diamtei*, goggeu uer. ctuu lieu uw iaj a wu.post. They tortured the old woman to make her tell where she kept her money. Her scalp was gashed with a penknife, and her left eye closed by a blow from a revolver The ruffians got only 16. Memphis Bridge Finished. Iron beams closed up the gap, at 10 o'clock a tew mornings ago, in the big cantilever bridge, across the Mississippi, at Memphis, and the States of Arkansas and Tennessee were joined. The celebration of the opening takes place in the early part of May, and the United States warship Concord will steam up the river and take part in the celebration. The bridge cost $3,000,000, and, including trestle work, is about three miles long. It belongs to the oompany operating the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad. Canada's Finances. The following is a statement of the revenue and expenditures of Canada for the nine months ended March 31: Revenue, $26,733, 946; expenditure*. *23,333,30!*, leaving a surplus of $3,349,477, which indicates that after the interest due on June 80 is paid there will not be a large surplus but there will be no deficit. The statement of the debt on March 31 shows a net debt of #236,270,162, whica is & reduction of $1,537,868 since June 30 last. Oxiord Wins the Race. The aDnual English inter-university boat race was won by Oxford, adding another victory to the long list of the dark blue. Oxford covered the four miles in nineteen minutes twenty-one seconds. The time made by the winning crew beats the record. i be nearest to it was in is73, wnen uam Dnage won in 19:35. Oxford now leads by four victories. Fortynine raced have been rowed, that of 1377 being a dead heat. A Fatal Midnight Fire. At midnight the resilience of James Hawley, of Midway, W. Va., was destroyed by fire, and Alexander Linton, aged ten. who made his home there, was burned to death, while Mr Hawley was so terribly burned that he became insine and cut his throat. Kate and Annie Rankin and Mrs. (ielesippt jumped from tho second-story'Sfindow and were badly hurt. Indian Prophets Released. Prank White and Buffalo Black. the two Indians wno call themselves prophets of the coming Messiah, were release! from jail at Guthrie, Oklahoma, on a writ of habeas corpus, and left that night for the Pawnee reservation. The ghost dance was once more renewed, and as many of the Indians have armed themselves and refused to obey the agents' orders, troops will be needed to quel) an outbreak. Four Drowned in the Tennessee. Four bovs, named Charles Beatty. Manson Stevens, Joe Waters and James Padgett, were drowned a few days ago in the Tennessee River, near Lower Island, Tenn. The laris warn ririftinr on a raft, which Was dashed by a swift current against the island . Killed His Mother Accidentally Mrs. Ross, the wife of a farmer living twelve miles from Topelta. Kan., was shot and instantly killed the other day by her twelve-year-old son. Tho gua was accidentally discharged. TRAIN BOBBERS ROUTED. One Killed and Three Captured Alter a Desperate fr'ijcht m Alabama. Four colored desperadoes attempted to rob a car of a Louisville ana jwasavme rreignt train as it was taking water at Wilhite, sixty miles from Birmingham, Ala. The engineer discovered what was up and pulled out, the robbers firing upon the train men as they went. Officers were notified at Falkville. They found the bandits not far from Wilhite, and had a fight, in which Tom Wright, one of the robbers, was shot dead. Two escaped, and the fourth was captured. Another of the gang was caught later. They confess that they participated in the train robbery at Wiems two weeks before, and have girau the names of accomplices. LATEBNEWP. Louis Aubbrtiit,alias Louis Harriott, tb young French farmhand who strangled Mrs. Charles T. Leonard to death at her home near the Atlantic Highlands las) November, was hanged at Freehold, N. J. Rudolph Sherklb and George Pfeiffer, workmen emdoved on the new Astor hotel, the Waldorf, in New York City, fell from the roof and were crushed to death ninetyfive feet below. The Democratic Stata Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg and adopted resolutions indortinj Grover Cleveland for the Presidential nomination. The Vermont Republican State Convention met at Montpelier and selected delegates to the National Convention, who are favorable to the renomination of President Harrison. Ex-Speaker Reed addressed the Convention. Reports from all parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas tell of heavy rains or snow, and seeding was everywhere delayed. Central Iowa also reports the worst storm of a backward and unsettled season, baing a hurricane of wind accompanied by snow, hail, sleet and rain combined While the life saving cnew at Bandon, Oregon, were practising, their boat capsized and Captain Nelson and three of a crew of eight were drowned. E. D. Campbell, Professor of Qualitative Analysis in Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich., was at work over a glass receiver containing hydrogen and oxygen, when an explosion occurred. Bits of glass flew into his eyes, inflicting such severe injuries that both eyes have been removed. T>? ? ???? ->? Mm W Ti! Ormnnri t.hn VI ?"o- ?? i ?. w T wife of a mechanic, of Saginaw, Micb.,fouud her body and that of her baby in a cistern ear his home.It is supposed the mother took the child in her arms to lift a pail of water, when she lost her balance and fell in. Mrs. Ormand was eighteen years of age and her son nine months old. Colonel J. J. Van Horn, of the Eighth Infantry, at the head of three troops of United States Cavalry, has compelled the Wyoming regulators intrenched at "T" Ranch to surrender. The troops were ordered out in accordance with instructions sent out from Washington at the request of the acting Governor of Wyoming. Thk fourth annual convention of State Railroad Commissioners began its session in the rooms of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington. Nearly all of the States were represented. E. P. Jarvey, of South Carolina, was elected Chairman. Secretary jslkuts airec^a lae jjepartment Quartermaster at St. Louis to send immediately 300 tents to the Mayor of Columbus, Miss., for the benefit of tha sufferers from the recent floods. Fire at Nogoya, Japan, destroyed the tern* pie and tower and 1300 houses, entailing a loss of $350,000. Anna Sajnio, wife of a professor at the State College at Tevastehuus, Finland, has been found guilty of murdering her husband. The Court sentenced her to be .beheaded and ordered that her body be afterward burned. Another bomb was exploded by anarchists in Valencia, Spain, doing much damage to property. aqbiopltpeIl exhibit. The Marvelous Display That is Being Prepared for the World's Fair. Secretary Rusk, of the Government Department of Agriculture, is preparing what is certain to be pronounced a marvelous agricultural exhibit. It will be at once a striking: demonstration of the broad scope and efficient work of the department of which be is the bead, ana a school of instruction for all who are interested in agricultural matters. It will include full illustrations of various insoct depredations, a mammoth globe representing graphically the history of pleuro-pneumonia and its remarkable extermination in America; a model of the famous Deatn Valley, with its straage fauna and flora; and a working set of a modern weather station's outSt. Under the immediate supervision of Expert Hubbard the most complote and comprehensive collection of grains ever made is being prepared with the cooperation of the farmers in this country and in foreign parts. Samples of wheat grown in every county in the united States will be shown. Grains from Peace River in northern Canada to Patagonia; from Russia to India, will be in the collection; every seed picked by hand and the varieties arranged in tasteful glass compartments with labels indicating the name, place, weight and effects of the soil aud climatic conditions. There are now collected 2000 samples of wheat, 1000 of oats, 5000 of rye, ?-? ? * '? onii K,.,:,?,KoGr 15/Vl nf auuu 01 unrwy, uw ui ? oorn (besides the exhibit of corn in the ear), and proportionate numbers of the various other grains and garden products. An effort is being made to secure from Egypt one of the original father wheat plants. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION. Seven Men and a Powder Mill Blown Into Atoms. A frightful explosion of powder completely demolished the mills of the Moosic Powder Company, tweuty miles from Wilke9barre, Penn., at 11 a. u. The first explosion was in the drying mill, and a fracHnn nf * second later the storage house blew up. The shocks were felt over a radios of forty miies, and thousands of paople in surrounding towns rushe 1 out of doors thinking an earthquake had occurred. Both shocks were distinctly heard at Wilkesbarre twenty miles away. The mills were blown to the'smallest atoms, and there were no fragments found larger than a foot long. Seven men were instantly killed ana two fatally injured. The names of the dead are: John Gibbons, Daniel Carey, Aaron Coolbaugh, Moses Tucker, Edward J. Vanderberg, Allan Small and Caradog Reese. The fatally wounded weia George Alls and Daniel Billings. The body of John Gibbons was blown 150 feet into the air. Caradog Reese was found sixty feet from the scene of the explosion. Moses Tucker was fouad 130 feet away from the mill. Other bodies were found from 150 to 200 feet distanr. The terrible scene of grief and anguish duplicate those of frightful mine accidents. The iron framework on the Erie and Wyoming Railroad near the scene, used as a spark screen, was torn and twisted like paper. The absolute desolation of the scene cannot ha pictured in words. The last explosion of These mills was eighteen years ago, when several men were also killed. The loss will reach $20,000. FIRED HIS COUCH. Sensational Suicide of a Well-to-Do Illinois Kariuer. Frei Buse, a wall-to-do faraiar. living five miles south of Momanc?, III., committed suicide in a peculiar manner. He went to a thicket o.' timb?r remote from anv dwelling, built himsalf a bad of dry hay* set tire to his coucj, aai thin shot himself with a shotgun. A neighbor saw tae light of tha fire, which led to the discovery of th9 remains before they were badly burned. Buse had a family aud was in easy circumstances, and uo cau-ia for his act is known. A farmer la Connecticut has been married six times. His role seems to be "the more the merrier." MTIMTTLE THIEVES. A Battle Between "Rnstlers" and a Sheriff's Posse. The Casualties Were Heavy on Both Sides, A dispatch from Casper.* Wyoming, sayi: A man jost in from Riverside reports that the 150 deputies of Sheriff Angus attempted to arrest th? invading army of the rustlers and killed twenty-eight of them and lost eighteen of their own men. Angus of Johnson County wired the Sheriff of Converse County, saying there had been a fight and directing him to arrest all fugitives, ? . That day two horsemen came to a ranch near Douglas and tried to exchange their jaded horses for fresh ones. They said they had been with the stockmen's expedition which went North. One of the men had a bullet wound in the arm. Horses were refused and they pushed on. Two deputy sheriffs followed, bat the trail was lost where the men forded the Platte River. The authorities placed guards at all the bridges and fords of the Platte River west and north of Douglas. Kid Donnelly, of Powder River Crossing, brought word to Antelope Springs, thirty miles north of Douglas, that the stockmen were camped on the Casper road, on North Powder River, sixty miles north of Casper. Two men, Nate Champion and Ray, were killed on Powder River. Donnelly reports the rustlefa as flying in every direction and, attempting to escape from the country. Fifty men were surrounded by 100 men under Fred Hesse and Charle3 Ford at the 'J'. A. Ranch. Hundreds of shots were exchanged. The fighting was done with Winchesters, Indian fashion, at long range. The "rustlers" are cattle thieves who have conducted their operations systematically, collecting large herds of cattle and running them off to other States. They became so bold that they warned cattlemen off their own ranches and threatened to murder them if they did not leave their own property unprotected. This was too much for the stockmen. TOKIO SWEPT BY FIRE. , OOOO Houses Destroyed, and Over 100 Persons Killed. Advices from Japan report that Tokio, the ' capital of the Japanese Empire, has been visited by a most disastrous conflagration, i involving great loss of life. Tha Am annears to have spread with great rapidity in the older and more poorly built section of the city, and did not cease until 6000 houses were destroyed, making many thousands of people homeless. I The police and the fire departments of | Toklo did excellent work, and succeeded in | saving the new portion of the capital. The loss of life was chiefly due to the efforts of natives to save.their effects. Many of the people remained in their dwellings to the last moment, gathering their belongings for flight, and were caught by the flames, which licked up the unsubstantial structure like paper. The firemen found great difficulty in fighting the flames owing to the halt-crazed behavior of the populace. The number of dead is over one hundred. Tokio or Yeido, the capital of the Japanese Empire, is situated on the eastern end of the Island of Hondo, the main island of the Japanese group, on the Bay of Teddo. The Tonogawa River divides the town into two parts. The word Tokio in Japanese means city or port. The town covers sixty square miles of ground, a large portion of which is takes 1 up wit a gardens, temples, sacred proves and j ha Hk?. The citv nrooer is divided into three districts: Siro, "the Imperial citadel, I I surrounded by a maze of moats and embattlements; Soto-Siro, the middle ground, outside the citadel, but within the city's walls; Midzl, the onter parts, beyond which extend a line of defences. The population tf Tokio is over 925,000. SWEPT BY FLOODS. Appalling Loss ot Lite and. Property la the South A dispatch from Columbus, Miss., says: The recent heavy rains have swollen all streams in this section of the country to a point never before known, and as a result I the destruction of life and property has been frightful. All farms along the Tombigbee River valley have been abandoned, houses of all kinds washed away. All fencing is gone and cattle and mules by hundreds have been drowned. Many floating houses passed down the river. Every available craft has befa used day and night relieving the sufferers, car* rying out food and bringing in the destitute people. On one small mound there were forty people and as many more cattle and mulee. On another there were seventy people ana l cattle by the hundreds. The colored people on all the low lands have lost everything on earth they had and there are hundreds of them being fed by the city. Twelve colored men have been drowned within three miles of this city. At points on the river below here the loss of life is verv large. The railroads have abandoned all trains westward and there are many washouts. The trestles are swept away and all of the roads have large forces repairing damages, but it will be a week before trains will be running. One rescuing party was upset, and three colored boys were drowned three miles above town. All the others climbed trees and were found. Another rescuing party was upset and spent twenty-three hours in the trees. Seventy-five colored people are known to have been drowned, and many more will be found dead when the waters subside. The greatest loss of life and injury to property was along the line of the Torabigbee River. This river is not large enough in the dry season to float a small steamboat, but now it is ten miles wide. Its valley is extremely fertile, and is thickly populated. All of the plantations along its border for four or fire miles are submerged from five to twenty feet. 5fo great is the devastation in Northern Mississippi that the people have appealed to Congressman Allen for assistance from the general Government. The greatest suffering is among the colored people. Thirty is the lowest estimate of the number of drowned in Alabama. POPULAR 5VTENCE. It Is asserted that women do not feel pain as much as a man does. Admiral Selwyn, of the British Navy has discovered a valuable process of treating ores. The circumference of the earth's orbit is about 612,309,500 miles, that of the moon about 1,500,493 miles. The average age at which women marry is 25.5. Married women live two years longer than single women. The essential ingredient in "safety matches" is chlorate of potasu mixed | with other combustible substances. The United States has 190,000 square miles of coal beds, of which 120,000 square miles may be easily worked. The Reading's new compound doubleend locomotives for suburban travel are attracting a good deal of attention. The Poorman Mine owners in Idaho say that their electric light plant saves them 83.000 a year. Why not put in another one? A.N" lnsnlt from certain sources is a .? j(mnnt WVian on om lHflfa at. l^UllipilUAOUU* TTUVU wu www MW I you he does so because he recognizes that you are unlike him. I ' . v."" ' ' . . flFTY-SECOND C0MBBE33. In the Senate. TOrn n*T Tha District of Columbia Ap propriation bill was considered Mr. Falkner introduced a bill authorizing the construction on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington (the ground to be selected by a commission composed of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Patents and Colonel Casey, Chief of Engineers), of a building for the use of the United States Patent Office. The entire cost is not to exceed <3,500.000. 71st Day.?The Senate made public correspondencs transmitted by the President touching the refusal of the Chines) Govarnment to receive H. W. Blair as United States Minister The District Appropriation bill was passed after an amendment had been adopted approDriatinzllOO.OOO for the G. A. R. Encampment in Washington. 72d Day.?After.the routine morning business the House bill to place cotton ties on the free list was referred to the Finance Com* mittee Mr. Stewart offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information connected with the purchase and minora of silver Mr. Gallinger ad dressed tSe Senate in favor of his bill to select a site for a sanitarium for consumptive, and the bill was referred. 73d Dat.?The Senate devoted half an hoar to bills on the calendar, passing a large number The resolution offered by Mr. Morgan, calling for information as to reciprocity with Germany and Haytl, was agreed to?The proposed constitutional amendment for popular election of Senators was discussedMr. Stewart spoke on his silver resolution Hie Senate appointad Messrs. Dawes, Cnllom and Call conferrees on the Indian ADpropriation bill. ' 74th Day . ?InHbree hours,' fifty-two bills were passed, among them one for promoting the safety of National banks and four relating to the Army The Geary Chinese bill was adversely reported; Mr. Dolph's substitute Chinese bill, continuing existing laws, was placed on the calendar Mr. Morgan delivered a speech on the silver question. In the Honse. 78th Day.?The House spent the morning in Hic/vicaino- t:hfl Free Wool bill. Mr. Wil> son, of West Virginia, making a spaech in its favor. At 2:25 p. m. the bill was passsd ?yeas, 192; nays, sixty The House then went into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Blount, or Georgia, in the chair) on the Turner Cotton Bagging bill. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio; J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, and Mr. Lane, of Illinois, debated the measure. 79th Day.?The bill placing cotton ties, eotton bagging and bagginar machinery on the free list was passed by tne Committee of of the Whole Mr. McCreary introduced for Mr. Springer a bill to authorize the holding of an international monetary congress. 80th Day.?The House passed the Cotton Tie bill by 106 to forty-Ave The bill placing tin plate on the tree list was then reported The House pass 3d a joint resolutiod authorizing the State of Wisconsin to place in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol a statue of Fere Marquette The River and Harbor * - - * ?-- a?I J!-- .Tuna 31 IftQS j Dili ior me uauai jctu wwut . was formally reported. 81st Day.?On motion of Mr. Wise, a bill was passed establishing West Point, Va. a I sab-port of entry and delivery Jtr. I O'Neil reported a bill to establish a life saving station at Gay Head, Mass. Committee of the Whole The floor was then accorded to the Committee on the District of Columbia Mr. Coombs introduced a bill placing German lookiag-glas3 on the free list. 82d Dat.?The Naval .Appropriation bill. was discussed Mr. Allen, of Mississippi, asked consent for th9 present consideration of a joint resolution appropriating $50,000 for the purchase and distribution of subsistence stores to the sufferers from the overflow of the Tombigee River and its tributaries. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, objected, and the resolution was referred On motion of Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were non-concurred in Messrs. Peel, Alien and Wilson, of Wash., were appointed conferr9es on the bill "-The House then went into the Committee of the Whole (Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, in the Chair) on the Urgent Deficiency ApDropriation bill. 83d Day.?The House passed a bill grantnf WAV ta the Gaines villa, JUg UIO ? ? J ? Oklahoma and Golf Railroad throujh the Indian Territory The remainder of the session was devoted to the Naval Appropriation bill, several hoars belnj consumed in the discussion of a point of order on the item providing; for a new battleship. Pending action the matter went over. THE LABOB WOBLD. ( The undergarment cutters ha+e formed an open anion. Tsf window glass factories in the United ! States decided to shut down May SI. There are 417J men employed on the grounds of the World's Fair, at Chicago. Trrw Pntl?ic? ViuphhMTMdskV IS ftt thl | bead of the Russ&in peasant lace industry. The lumbermen and planing rail! workers of Pennsylvania have formed a State organization. ' Electricity in its vjrious forms of application is said to give employment to 5,000,000 persons. In the most advanced Continental glass manufactories glass blowing is no longer done by the mouth but by compressed air. About 23,000 workers are to be locked on* by tbe Staffordshire (England) potters, the former refusing to settlo disputes by arbitration. About 200 employes have been laid off on the Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley railroads as the first fruits of the Reading combination. In 18S0the numberjof workers employed in American woolen mills was 161,557. Ten years have increased the number of hands to 221,032. Sixes April 1 the Southern Express Company has discharged about ninety expros3 members for being members of the Messengers' Brotherhood. The membership of the Telegraphers' Mutual Benefit Association has increased about ltUO tbi8 year, xne organization wui c-eiobrate its twenty-fifth anniversary next year Thk London (England) Polytechnic, n popular institution tor the promotion of the education or the working classes, will arrange a series of workingmen's excursions to the World's Fair in 1893. Lead mixing is done by workingmen wearing a mask, in which are inserted sponges on a level with the nose and month. It is in tbii manufactory that the gloss panes perforated in conical-shaped apertures to admit the air are made. !New York telephone girls work nine hours a day: Boston girls are kept at the switchboard nine and a half hours. Thirty ?* - * (IIIawiw) In twfh A^mruU U11UUIC9 17 cue nuio auvnuu >u wwu w<?*^ Dies for lunch and there are two intermit 8ions lor rest daring the day of fifteen minutes each. The entire receipts of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in 1885 amounted to II?,903.07, while during the first two months of 1892, *87,987.17 were received, or llo,951.47 more than during the tirst three years ?41 avi0*ama^ T oc^ mnnf.h U1 HiO UlUbUOiUWUS OAlObOUW^. who* 857 new members were gained. The entire umber of subordinate lodges is 508. LASHED T(TTHE POLE. A Gruesome Sight Witnessed by Karlj Morning Pedestrians in Boston. James Hayes, a trimmer for the Boston (Mags.) Electric Light Company, was found early the other morning hanging lifeless from the cross-bar of on3 of the poles in Dover street. The leather straps that bound him to the cross-bar prevented him from falling. Passers by noticed that something was wrong and the body was taken down. No one seemed to know whence came the current that caused his death. The switch * J- -/*? __ L. I 3 i>. wasiouuu turneu on, as ue uau iuiu..u before beginning his work. At that hour there should have been no current on any of the wire*. The company's offic?rs are of opinion that the trouble wag caused by some one at the central station thro' mg a current over the wires carelessly and without giving proper warning. The ruling passion strong in death was sharply illustrated at Salem, Ohio. George Censer, a wealthy property owner, money lender and miser, haggled for fifteen cents , on the price of a revolver with which ha committed wilcide ia as hour. I t \?. s' T*",u 1 TEMPMANCE. WHICH SHAX& IT ?*? A tidy little home for Betsy and me, With just enough room for one, two, thl* Or a tumble-down hut with a broken gate. And a sad-eyed woman toiling early an late;. Which shall it be For mine and me? A five cent glass of beer for me, Or a five cent loaf for all of us three? Beer or baby?wine or wife, Which do I hold mare precious than life? Which shall it be For mine and me? ; Y Potatoes and aalt with a crust of bread For the best little woman the Lord en made, While the rumaeller's wife feefls on tcrks and wine. Bought with my money?if I so incline, This shall it be For mine and me! Tatters and rags for my little one, My fair comely baby, my own darling soi While the romseller'g children1 go warm aa well clad, On m^earnlngg, wrested from my bona This shall it be For mine and ml a , Well, man, do yon think n? a whole-eye fool.-' Blindly to serve as the rumseUer** tool? Ahi How can I heeitato which to ohooae, When ifs all to rain?or all to Ionj For mine and ma. For mine and me? ADXIBABLX WOBK Admirable work among inebriate worn is being done at the Brownsland Temporal Home for Women. Peebleshira, under t a asp ices of the Scottish Christian Unit Women who hare fallen Into habits of temperance and who desire 'x> reform ? are willing to enter such a home are receiv at Brownsland for $1.75 a week. In country where a poor creature has to wo like a slave to earn f 1.50 salvation should cheaper. EXHIBIT BY TEXPZK.15CE CHILD BIT. ' At the great Columbian Ex position '93 a building will be sat apart for the use the W. C. Tf U. and in connection wlti there will be a most unique exhibit by temperance children of the whole wor The iuvenile department is under the cha of Miss Anna A. Gordon, of Eransfon, Cards 2x3 inches in siza will be famished all juvenile temperance societies through* the world. Bach child will write his or ! autograph on one, each country adopti its national color, or using white if pi ferred. The United States will be rep sented by red, white and blue. Canada a chosen crimson and yellow, tits colors of 1 maple leaf. These cards will to fastei into a chain, miles longand will festoon i headquarters of the W. C, T. U. daps ment besides being draped round i world's petition, which is fast assuming lnsttal nronortions. A BrBtra. Biahop Asbury was onoa the gaest of family who were very anxious to make Tint pleasant. They did everything in tl power to show their hogpitallty, and m nim feel at home. At dinner a bottle, brandy was placed on the table, and he t invited to partake, but he declined. The I blushed and aaid, "Bishop, I believe t brandy is good in its place." "So do v' replied the bishop, "and if; have no objection, I will put it in its pla< So he arose and put it in the oid-fasalo cupboard in the corner of the room, aaj with emphasis, 'That is the place, and to let it stay." And there it did stay, never to be broa on that tabie again. The dinner-table fa place for the wine bottle or brandy botfcU, strong drink is hurtful for digestion. A i person does not need strong drink of I kind, and it is too dangerous to be qw sickness.?Youth's Temoerance Banner. SOBER MB* VVAXTK0. , Aoout two months ago the employe fha HIavaUii/! Rnllinv Mills (lomnadt Ift going to their won saw the folIowing'^M tice posted on the Kates and in all the miH| "Now, and after t^is date any employe leaves his work pr the yard daring work^H hours, or is knowa'tD have entered or saloon, or to cirry beer or intoricari^H liquors to the work*, or is seen ondec'^H influence of Jiqu jr either coming to worfc^H work, or at any tune ouring which fe^H supposed to be on duty, will be immedia^H discharged. W. B Chisholm." When paH day came and the ineu went to <lrtw^H money about half a dozsn of them informed that their services were no loiflfl required. When they asked the reason ware told* that they hud been seen going^^H the saloon during working hours. XatuflH enough, the sentiment among the worjfl^H men seems to be divided. Some say it is^^H right, as the work in which they are eng^^H is dangerous enough for men whoflH perfectly clear-headed. Others thinl^^H order dictatorial, and that it imposes on "personal liberty," rehashing the argument with which we are familiar. ^Hj I right minded workingmen, and people g^^H ally, Will see tnac wo prupriewr ai favor to those to whom be has fnrnishj^^H added motive to lead sober lives. ? CHT7BCH T2KPBBANCE OBGAJTCZATIO^BH A correspondent of the Sanday-e^^fl Times writes to that journal exprdB gratitude for the gTeat increase of in temperance and temperaooe tead^^H bat viewing with alarm the rapid inc^H| in the organized strength of the liquor t^^Hj and urging increased organized tempe^HB effort on the part of Christian cbnr^^l claiming, very properly, that it lies w^^H the power of the Church of Christ gr^^H to lessen and eventually to destroy ent^H| t hi s greatest of evils. The writer adds: a few men in each church or commonit^^M earnestly take the matter in hand. the^Hfl find themselves strong in the righteoiJIBB of their cause and in the great numbef will lollow their lead." He askst/'M there not five, ten. or more in each /ch who are ready, if necassary, to /saa^H something to secure the execution <&.f pre^H laws or the enactment of better dnea? who will not rest in their Uod-siyeo and say this crime of crimes shall be^Hf down!'" He affirms that "God Wevar r^^fl to give victory to that kind of men. bH timp? arn rioe for a exeat monment iaHl matter." We are glad to sejb this suggestion in the columns of/ the school Timed, and hope it may call lfl| practical responses in the Way of church temperance oreanu^tioas in n^^9 parts of the country.?National TemperMH Advocate'. " ' /' H9 T2MPIRAACE XEWti AW D It OTIS. HH ^The only foe England has to f^Hjl drink," said the late Prince Leopold. A royal commission has been appointJHH Canada to inquire into the drink qnesti^BH The decrease of. revenue from spiri^HK Canada last year amounted to $L,OOu.OO^^H Surgical operations are vary suoceesl^lB Japan, and the healing process is r^^H owing probably to the abstinence of tiuHH pie from aloohol and thair not being H There is m batailion of eighty boys Church of the Redeemer (congregation^Hfl Lakewood, 111erery ohb of whom nas the triple pledge against liquor, tobacc^Hfl profanity. Lady Somerset assisted recently in spflDfl some liquor which had been seized at ^HK land, Me. "Here goes!" she said, a^^H neatly-gloved hands upeet a brown jug^BH the sheriff assigned to her. A successful competitor for the priz^^H foot race made this graceful tempe^^B speech in accepting it: "Gentlemen, lH|j won this cup by the use of my legs. that I may never lose the use of tuy the use of this cup." In connection with the British Wo^h9| lemperaouw orouciauuu tum oaio iuut for inebriate women, through which uf^^H of 850 patients have passed, many of are thoroughly reclaimed and most gr^HO for the help received. W&H The London temperance hospital recent annual meeting heard reports testify to its good management and ben^HH work. Filty per cent, of the patient^^M cured, and the death rate was about OflH cent. Of the total number treated than fifty per cent, were abstainers. QpH A Loyal Temperance Legion hasH^f formed at the Woman's Christina Tet^lH ance Union coffee hoase, Minneapolis^HH consists ot the children who come back door for the left-over food. Thes^^R given tickets which entitle them to thing each day and invito them into thMH to jom the legion