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o;- V, %>, .... WILD RUSH FOR LMDT Opening: of the Sisseton Indian Reservation. Thousands of Home-seekers Cross the Line at the Bugle Signal, Tne Sisseton Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, has been opened to settlement in accordance with the proclamation made by Fresiclent Harrison. A dispatch from Ladgerwood, South Dakota, gives the following description of the sad ra^h for the new land: At Ave minutes to nron a United States cavalry bugler, with a long yellow plume streaming l'rom kii helmet and a brand new bugle susaartded from his shoulder by a bright yel??rd. rode to the crest of the hills wh?ci.i separate Brown's Valley from t&s Rwetoa reservation. Scattered along in B uneven line to the north and south of him were three companies of cavalry, ach man fully armed with sabre, revolver, nd carbine. Back of these were grouped, ar rather herded, a heterogeneous mass of mo?white, yellow, and black?all nationalities of the Caucasian race, with a liberal mixture of half breeds and colored people. There were women in the crowd, too, sad hers and there could be seen a baoy held in the arms of its mother as she sat on her horse, determined to be one of the first to enter the Dromfaed land which was to be opened. A splendid Kentucky thoroughbred carried a man who had thrown aside everything w&icn could impede him in the ride for the reservation. Next to him, on a wiry bronco, was a half breed who sat his horse as if a part of it Further down the line was a big colored aan aitride a diminutive mula. All were Jhepatient for the race to begin. As the ran neared the meridian Major Bernard glanced as his watch. The bugler Bfted his instrument to his lips, and the crowd ot land seekers gathered up their reins aad awaited the signal. At last Major Bernard, watch in hand, nodded to the ki^?er. who began to sound the reveille. At the first note there was a crack from the 4-arbme of the soldier next to him, which was quickly echoed by one further down the line. The shots rang out clear in the crisp air, and as tha volley rattled down the line a either side it was answered by the hoof haatt of hundreds of horses spurred on by aiders reckless of lite or limb. A cioui of alkali dust ro3e as the motley arxny charged for the line oZ the reservation, aad' aoon all that could be seen from the crest of the ridge was a black mass of koddled horsemen closely pursued by a whirl ?t vellowi->b dust. The man on the Ken* ' * - *- 1 ? A. ~2 tocky tuorougaoraa got a goou atari, auu when the lino was reached he was ten Ingths in advance of the next rider, a tall cowboy, who ro.1e like a centaur, but who was at a disadvantage as to his ooarr. Behind the two leaders strung out ? long line oc horsemen, men in buzzes, thers in spring wagous, and others still in Inge prairie schooners, the rear bsing troa;ht up by a man from Pike County, "Ma.. whose wire, children and household efJects were contained in a Cones toga wagon 4rawn by a yoke of oxen. Within half an hour the last man and vehicle had vanished from sight beyond the foothills, and the jpldiers, at the word, wheeled and returned to camp, their duty in opening tue reservation being finished. There are now fully 5000 settlers on the warvatioo. They are pretty well divided between the northern and eastern borders. Tbe squatter is monarch of all he surveys; the filer is literally out of Mm* running. Governor Mellette had 5S0 deputy sheriffs on the reserve, heavily armed and instructed to maintain mrdtr. They checked several rows. Wells are being dug everywhere, and all the squatten apparently intend to live on their land. ?- ? 1 ~ " * Koaalrinrv nlniva mill MM S CUUplO VI tt caivo uttORmj ? ? ke at worlt everywhere. There will be |?od lands open to settlement for weeks, for mot half has yet been taken up. Ida Burnett, a handsome graduato of the UniTersity of Minnesota, is now the possessor of the choicest quarter section about the town ?ite. Mis? Burnett has Indian blood to her veins. Beoind the fastest team obtainable she was drawn to the town site from ttte agency. The start was made at gunfire, and the girl was first on the field. She straightaway went to work building her shanty, assisted bj her driver. The Sisaeton Indian reservation surplus Starts jnst opened to settlement are located to the northeastern corner of South Dakota, covering the most of Robert County, lap* ping over on the edge of Marand Dar Counties, crossing ? am/) fka ohorn IK pPUUmiUlO \JL x*k *uu aau mo dutuy point of the triangular-shaped reservation, xtenaing down to the centre of Coddington, few miles from Watertown. The north j rn base of the triangle extends over into argent and Richland Counties in North and for that reason filings may be nde at Fargo. The reservation is the noree of the Red River of the North, -which flows ultimately into Hudson's Bay; of the Minnesota River, ana of the Big Sioux River, which flows oath and joins the Missouri. The lands are xich, and numerous lakes covers the entire xtent of the reservation, a good portion of at which is wooded and of a hilly character. In fact, the character of toe lands reflects nrach credit on the judgment of the Sissa .on Indians who chose this land as their reward for their help to the settlers in the Indian wnr of 186i For nearly thirty years thsy kid the reservation intact, but Anally concluded ther would prefer to have their lands in severalty and live like whites. Tin Indians have selected many of th? oest lauds n the reservation, but it is estimated tjhat ?Boogh for about 4000 claims of ICO acres acb still remained up to the time of opening. The reservation is fortv-flve miles across the northern side!, and seventy miles an the southeastern and southwestern sid?6 of the triangle respectively. This liwii hi inn is right in the heart C well-settled country, and small tomu and cities are wituin easy reach mt the settler on whatever part of the reservation he may make bis home. The Groat Xcrthern and Milwaukee railroads run all amend the reservation, while other roaos are within easy reach, runain5 to ?oma of Ida anany near-by towns. A REMARKABLE BILL. ft Provides lor the Establishment ol a "Composite Dollar." Secator Kyle,of South Dakota,by request, las introduced tbe most remarkable financial bill of the session. It provides for the establishment of a "composite dollar." The chief clause of the bill says that the composite dollar shall he established in the following manner: **IWi.?nofa ?-a mnoW nf vnOflf r^4? aat*. corn, barley, beana, potatoes, cotton, . , .wool, nutter, eggn, flour, sugar, lard, pork, oi" * kwf. tobacco, salt, leather, hemp, ceinent, cotton-seed, bnck, lead, pig iron, con and copper as shall be conveniently aear to one dollar's worth of each in the New York market, so arranging quantities that the sum tocal oJ ' *be value or thirty articles suall be thirty iiOilars,and that one-thirtieth of thesuin total of , the articles designated shall be termed tna ornp-^itedollar of the United States.'; Other dances of the bill provide that an accurate monthly average record shall be icept o; 11? daily price ot thesj articles, and ch it it shall he lawful for any persou or corporation ?cjjage, receive or deiiver composite dollars basea on this security. FAMINE IN TEXAS. Great suffering Caused by Droutb in Six Counties. In Starr, Hidalgo. Porticos, Zapata, Mexico and Duval Counties, Texas, the season for planting has passed, and early crops have been killed by frost. Thjre is no hope for relief unless su Timer rains should secure light fall crop. Tcere is smallpox from Ignaclo to Rio Grande City. Some of the people are using for food the flesh of cattle whiun have died trooi disease or starvation. The loss of cattle is estimated at eighty per cent, and in Hneoes County alone 0J,(XX) head have died. The famine district contains a population estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 people, and a foartta at this number require assistance. . WITH MUCH POMP. The Investiture ot the Khedive of Egypt at Cairo. KHEDIVE ABBAS-. The investiture of Egypt's Khedive took place at the Abdin Palace, Cairo, a few days ago. The ceremony was celebrated with much pomp. AH the British and Egyptian troops were masse! in Abdin Square, fronting the palace. Tribunes had been erected on the sides of the square, and these were filled with officials and others. The Khedive aad his Ministers assembled on a dias in front of the palace, where they received Ahmed Eyoub Pasha, who arrived at ten o'clock, accomdanied by a brilliant escort of cavalry. The ttrman of investiture was read by an official, who also read a telegram from the Sultan of Turkey, conferring upon the Khedive the administration of the Sinai Penin. sula. UDon the conclusion of the reading: the assembled troops thrice saluted the Sultan, and a baud played the Turkish anthem. After this the troops saluted the Khedive three times, and the Egyptian anthem was played. Then a salute at 102 guns was fired. The native spectators displayed the greatest enthusiasm throughout the whole ceremony. Afterward the Khedive received the con- J eTatulations of the Ministers and diplomats. : The city was decorated with flags and buntins, and the day was generally observed as a holiday. That nigbt the city was illuminated. A BUSH FOB HOMES. Opening of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservations. A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says; This morning found the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country a wide stretch of land, populated and lonely. To-night this great expanse of prairie is settled at every stone's throw." At noon Governor Seay, in the watch tower at El Reno, dropped the signal flag, the battery belched fortn the signal to the waiting thousands, and the wild race began. How they did go through the pouring rain.. up hill and down dale, through the little rivulets that threatened to be torrects before night. No trouble of any sort, na disturbances, oc m th? linn of the ooenincr. About six IVUllOU VM WHV ? ._t thousand people made the race from west of El Rano, as many from Kingfisher, and 7000 from the line of the "Wichita reservation west of Minco. Thre? thousand from Rover, as many from Hennessy,and about as many as'all these went in small squads all along the line from the Cherokee strip on the north, the Panhandle of Texas on the west, and the Kiowa Indian reservation on the south. 1 A riot occurred in front of the Oklahoma i City Land Office at the hour of the opening, and a number of people were badly injured. At 12 o'clock the register, Leach, announced that no lines would be recognized, and the first person to get in the dor would have the first filing, and others in successson as they arrived. This precipitated a wild rush, and in a few moments hundreds of men and women were engaged in a disgraceful scramble, fighting, pulling, trampling on each other, and for a time it seemed as though many would be killed. One man was struck on the head with a revolver and badly injured, but he remained in the ring and got the eleventh filing. He had been third in the line, but sold his place for 1250 in the morning. A woman near her had her clothes torn to | pieces, and several men were trampled on -- - - ? -i- - T f and injured, winaows o. m? uaaa uuiw were smashed and other damage done. The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservation, I where 80,000 citizens of the United States | hare just found new homes, is situated in | the Indian Territory, between the Cherokee , Outlet on the north and the Kiowa. Com1 manche and Apache Reservation on the > south. Its eastern border adjoins Oklahoma and its western the Panhandle of Texas.' Its area is mush greater than is generally understood to b9. It would make two Oklahomaa or five Rhode Islands, while the whole States of Connecticut and Rhode Island could be set in it and there would [ still remain room for four Districts of Columbia. The tract contains 6300 square miles or 4,000,000 acres. Out of tbis tne resident Indians have been alloted by the Government 536,960 acres, giving to cash of the Indians 160 acr3S. There was thus left for general settlement about three and a half million acres, which, allowing a quarter section or 160 acres to each home seeker, would accomdate about 22,000 settlers outside of the town sites. Very few of the thousands who had been waiting for weeks on the border and in the frontier towns for the final rush had anything but the vaguest idea as to the real character of the land they were so anxious to possess. when they had reached their claims and had staked them off, and had taken the opportunity to survey their broad acres, they found that instead of a Garden of Eden, a j I promised land flowing with milk and honey, | as thev had fondlv believed, they had really | possessed themselves of a section of very ordinary Western prairie land, flowing with nothing but hign grass ana very brackish Btreatns bitter with alkali. THEY AGREED TO DIE. One Shot Himself Dead and the Other Cut His Throat. While people were going to Easter services in Chicago, 111., Carl Casel and Henry Hpania sat at a beer table and agreed to kill themselves there and then. Casel bought one more round of beer, and then Spania went out of doors and bought a revolver. When he returned the two despondent men began to make preparations for the double suicide. It was Anally decided that Casel should shoot Spania and then kill himi self. One more round of beer was ordered { and drunk. Tbeu Casel weakened. He told bis friend ' that he was willing to kill himself, but ha I did not care to die as a murderer. Spania | arjrued that as there w,ih but one revolver in 1 the party, the job could be done more exI peditiouslr if Casel would commit murder i an t then turn the weapon upon himself. ; Ca.-el finally conseute i to this proposition, buc just as he was about to fire Spania baekrd out and said he preferred to kill ', himseif. The waiter in the saloon brought i one more round oi beer and left the two men aloue in the little room. W hen the beer was drunk Casel arose, j turned the weapon upon his Uead and fired. He tell dead across the table. Spania did ; not take his Lite by this methoi. The re( volver lay on the floor, and the German, J ? ?* ?? . ?1- -l; ? .. ...< *-nr\ til Pflt I | " "W niw J CI. CkJ I V C, V/Ub KW v?v?? ? 0 ? ' the weagon, thrust his hand into a pocket and drew out a huge knife. j Before using the elude, however, he leaned over the table and satisfied himself that his companion was deao. Then he drew the knife across his throat. Spania was alive waen the bartender ran into the room, but before his hand could be stooped tbn blade of the knife came down with a powerful sweep and cut the man nearly to the heart. Tne fellow before he j died told of tie agreement he had made with Gaaei. ' 1 :-V-.V' ' v* ' ? "xt-s. 2l&L.i ,.'0 ;; . ' . /. EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA The Severest Shock Since the Lively One of 1868. Several Towns Badly Damaged and Many Persons Injured. The earthquake which shook up northern and central California a few mornings since, was the heaviest and longes6 known there since the great earthquake of 1858, while the damage caused was- far greater. Many persons were bruised, and there was larze loss of property in Dixon, Winters, and Vacaville, three towns of the Sacramento Valley, as fires followed the overturning of stove3 and lamps. The shock occurred at twelve minutes before three in the morning. And lasted ( forty-five seconds. It was especially disastrous in the three towns named,because of the insecure foundation in that part of the vallev. The soil is rich alluvial bottom, deposited by the Sacramento River, but underlying it is quicksand. This unstable foundation is proved by the fact that heavy railroad trains sometimes depress the track and cause fissures in the ? 1 1 ? ? flA.rx Tki'o inof'aKiHtlff nf momi JSUU UU txvuil ?ur. AUW the land is the only explanation for the heavy damage in these towns. Places not twenty miles away escaped almost unharmed. Vacaville was the centre of the shock. Main street presenting next morning a picture that beggared description. It was blocked with brick, lumber and tanked wires. There is not a brick building on the south side of the street which was not mora or less wrecked, and some of them are a total loss. The vibrations were at first from southwest to northeast, and then changed suddenly to north and south. Fronts of buildings tumbled into the streets, chimneys were twisted and torn as if struck by a Kansas tornado, and the entire population ran into the streets. That there were no fatalities is little SQorc 01 mmvellous, though there were a number of narrow escapes. The fronts are out of Odd Fellows' Hall, Masonic Hall, Chittenden's grocery store, Hacke's hardware store, Kambo's cigar store, ;Amea & Thomas's grocery store, and Joe Donovan's barber shop. Davis's butcher shop was a total loss. Will Patterson and Tom Rogers were sleeping in a rear room and were buried beneath brick and mortar, but escaped alive and almost unhurt. Ray Ben* nett's saloon is also a total wreck. It was a two-story brick, and three young men were sleeping in ths upper story. The front and sides of the structure fell outward, leaving the beds standing [ on the verge. J. M. Miller's drug store, I Hewitt's Jewelry establishment, and Blum I Brothers' grocery were greatly damaged. The Piatt block, the finest in town, was almost totally destroyed. In this block were the Opera House, the Postoffice, the Wei Is-Far go office. Crystal Brothers' dry goods. C. R. Madd's grocery, the Enterprise office and McCabe's tin shop. The Brunswick House, a large two-story structure, J. W. Kennedy snfT?rad severely. almost everv inoh of plastering being shaken from the I walls of the lower story. The total loss in town is estimated at from $130,000 to $200,000. In Pleasant Valley, the shock was terrific, and not a chimney is standing in the entire valley. The residence of General Gates, about three miles from Vaciville, was totally demolished. The new Presbyterian church in Vacaville was damaged to the extent of $500, and chimneys were toppled from the Christian Church and adjoining buildings. J. A. Malone's frame building on Main street was turned and thrown three feet toward the north by the violence of the shock. His daughter had her arms badly injured. Business in Vacaville was almost suspended, men being engaged in clearing away the wreck. A temporary postofflce was improviseJ. Estimates from San Francisco are that the total loss will be $1,000,000. In San Francisco the shock was severe, and the guests in the big hotels were badly frightened, but no damage occurred. In the eight-story Chronicle building the last | form haul just been locked up when tbe shock came. The building swayed like a pendulum, and the frightened printers expected to see the ceiling drop, but nothing was even cracked. A severe shock of earthquake was also felt at Stockton, Cal., at 2:50 in the morning. For a time people were almost panic stricken, but no damage is reported. At Nevada, Nicolaus, Auburn, Chico, and other places the shock was severe. The indicator at Chabot Observatory, Oakland, Cal., shows that tbe earthquake lasted filty-eight seconds; vibration east to west. The earthquake shock visited Winters at 2:45 o'clock m the morning;, causing general destruction to property. A large brick hotel, bank buildings, Bartholet's two-story build ing, and in facc every building in town was damaged. The loss will reach at least $50, 000. No one was hurt. The contents of stores and dwellings were all piled on the floors in heaps. rrrrtTiTrirTilT TIT nTITVr rfln TJTTPO WU-ttAHLrin uijumrn iu jjho, The American Forcite Powder Mills Near Port Morris, N. J., Explode. An explosion in the nitro-glycerine department of the works of the American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Company at Hopatcong Landing, N. J., near the lower end o( Lake Hopatcong, killed six men and seriously injured several others. The works consist of forty small wooden buildings on the lake side of Rockaway Hill. The buildings are about fifty feat apart. Nitro glycerine was made in four of them. The explosion occurred a bout 2:45 o'clock. Superintendent Smith had just made the rounds of the, buildings, and had ;gone to the nitro-elycerine department. In the place where the explosion had taken place there vras a big hole in the side of the hill. Not a vestige of any of the four buildings in the*nitroglycerine department remained, Other buildings near were damaged. Half an hour after the explosion all the men employed in the works who had escaped gathered at the foot of the hill. Then it was discovered who had been killed. Then men set to work to look for the bodies In a pool of water, tlfty feet in tront of the nitro-glycerine buildingg, they found two bodies. The upper part of the head and the right leg of one were gone, and all that remained ot the other was the head and trunk On the first body were a chest protector and undershirt and a white shirt. Dr. Taylor, the powder works physician, recognized "the chest protector as one he had given to Superintendent Smith. The face of the other oody was but little bruised,and it was easily reoognized us that of Godfrey Waller. Smith was married. Waller was a 8wede, and unmarried. Carlston and Johnston ware Swedes, and married. Pierce was an American, and married. Bath, the youngest of the killed, was unmarried, aud was an American. The bodies of Smith and Waller were placed in a / room of the office of the works. Coroner ? . ?I ? ? - ?Ua I *'ancaer visiWJ'J tae ptsce suurujr aim wa explosion, Captain Evans, one of the officials at the works, superintended the search for the bodies. One of the workmen told hi that a minute before the explosion he saw Superintendent Smith and Carl3ton standing in front of the house in which the nitro-glycerine was stored. The other men suppose t to be killed Captain Evans said he had learned were in the other houses of the nitro-glycerina department when the explosion occurred. Cassimore, the only i one severely injured, was on his way down tne hill, and was struck by the flying pieces of glass and wood. i'ne explosion was felt for thirty miles around tne country. The windows in a train on the Delaware. Laclrawinna and Western Railroad, coming into Hopatcong landing, were shattjred. VVindows in several houses in the neighboring to as were broken. A representative of the company, who was seen at'cer the explosion, said that it would be impossible to ascertain what caused the explosion. The Chinese Minister at Washington said that China would sever diplomatic relations with the United States should the new exclusion bill become a law. v :i-v JC'.j'- .1..^ ' * < *"-V hnntnews epitomized. Em tern and Middle States. Joint E. Mrr.HOLLAND, Chief Contract Labor Inspector at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, has been asked to resign by Secrefo?*v TTnflfar A heavy rain and gnow storm put out all of the forest fires in South Jersey. It was estimated that the numerous fires had done over $100,000 damage. A great amount of valuable timber has been destroyed and much cord wood. Several extensive forest fires ragod in the woods in Maiden, M 3d ford and Melrose, Mass., and the fire departments were called out several times to save houses from being destroyed. The Chamber of Commerca of the State of New York gave a banquet at Delmonico's in honor of the Hon. Whttelaw Reid, Minister of the United States to France. About 200 men of note were present. Two sons of William Conine, aged five and eleven years, were instantly crushed to death at Catskill, N. 7., by a large stick of timber falling on them. ait explosion took place in the fireworks factory of Jacob J. Detvriller, on the Newark Bay shore of New Jersey, and killed two boys, fatally burned another and injured four more persons. The factory consists of about twenty small buildings separated by yards. The Prohibitionists of New Jersey met in State Convention at Trenton and. elected delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio. The 117th anniversary of the battle of Concord and Lexington was appropriately observed in those Massachusetts towns. Business was suspended and buildings decorated. There was a constant ringing of bells and firing of salutes. The Daughters of the Revolution celebrated the anniversary by a meeting in the Governor's room at the City Hall, New York City. South and West. Joh* Wamb, a full-blooded Choctaw, about fifty years old, was hanged in the jailyard at Tanlequah, Indian Territory, for the murder of John Daugherty, of Flint District, last July. The Wyoming Democratic State Convention met at Cheyenne and elected delegates to the Chicago National Convention. The only instruction given was that the delegation should vote as a unit in the National Convention on candidates and measures. Robert Stevenson, Paymaster of the Empire State Phosphate Company, at Hernando, Citrns County, Ala., and Mr. Payne, a mail-carrier, have been murdered and robbed of fl80J by unknown assassins. The New Mexico Territorial Republican Convention was held in Silver City. Uninstructed delegates were sent to tha National Convention. Fire destroyed the main building of the Clarke University, for.colored students, near Atlanta, Ga.; loss $100,000. Tee Washington Republican State Convention assembled at Seattle and chose eight uninstructed delegates to the National Convention. The platform adopted indorses the Administration of President Harrison and reaffirms devotion of the party to all its well-known principles. The Georgia Republican State Convention, after being in continuous session m Atlanta for over twenty-four hoars, adS'urned. A Harrison delegation to the ational Convention is the result. In Cuba, Rutherford County, N. C., Weldon Atkins, while intoxicated, threw a stone at his father, Charles Atkins, crushing his skull and resulting in almost instant death. The Spanish Government has agreed to exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair a model of the Columbus caraval. William Rajjloft. a German, twentyseven years old, was found burned to death at Seattle, Washington, and there is evidence that murder was committed in order to secure his life insuranca of 955,000. Low Bach and Jo Gen;. Chinamen.were shot and fatally wounded by highbinders in St. Louis, Mo. The shooting is said to be the carrying out in part of a determination among the highbinders to kill all Christian Chinamen. A most unique strike took place at Fort Dodge, Iowa. The school teachers refused to teach the boys and girls in the public schools unless their salaries were raised, and many of them left town to seek employment elsewhere. A fire broke out in the Northwestern Mattress Factory, at Kenosha. Wis., and before it was stopped three blocks of ouildings and lumber piles were destroyed. The loss reached $500,000. Four colored men have been lynched at Inverness. Fla.. for the murder of dtevenson and Payne. About midnight a strong body of armed and masked men surrounded the jail and took out three prisoners and hung them to trees nearby. These three made confessions and implicated a fourth. Thin this one was secured and hanged about 3 o'clock that same morning. Larkijt Lancaster, colored, was hanged at Pulaski, Tenn., for the murder of Alonzo Dickson, a boy seventeen years old. A desperate fls;ht between United States authorities and a band of moonshiners took place near Big Bay, Ark., in which T. C. Bryan, one of the moonshinerj, was killed. The Marshal's posse captured several stills and a quantity of whisky. The election in Louisiana and New Orleans passed off without a serious disturbance anywhere. On toe morning after the polling there was no doubt of the election of Foster, anti-lottery Democrat, over Leonard and Breaux, Republicans, and McEnery, Democrat The famous lottery amendment to the State Constitution, which has been fought over for two years, and which was the cause of the division in both Democratic and Republican ranks, was defeated unanimously, not receiving a vote in the State. Washington. Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, has been instructed by Secretary Blaine to return to Rome. The Secretary of the Treasury was informed that the mill at Pittsdeid, Mas?., where is manufactured the distinctive paper used by the Unite 1 States Government for paper currency, had been destroyed "by Are, and that all the stock of paper with the exception of 240,000 sheets of note paper and 90,000 sheets of check paper had been burned. The stock of paper now in the hands of the Department is limited. The Chief Postofflce Inspector has prepared a statement showing: that 104 arrests were caused by postofflce "inspectors during the month of March, 1892, for various violations ot the postal laws, which is an unusually large number. The Secretary of State and Mr. Von Hollenben, the German Minister, have exchanged the ratifications of their respective Governments 'ot the copv right agreement concluded between the United States and Dnrmnnv at Washinscon on Januarv 15. I 18W. ' The President's wife has recovered from her recent illness. Civil Service Commissioner Thompson presented his resignation t5 President Harrison. Mr. Thompson bas been elected ComDtroler of the New York Life Insuranca Company. Nicholas Veddbr, Rrevet Lieutenant 1 1 u~?cjfnfjx: Army. v_/UiUUOi uuu i amaaiot uuiuou wwu?? ??, died in his seventy-fourth year. He was General Sherman's chief paymaster on his "march to the sea." o'uring which time he disbursed 1)00,000, Chief Enzineer Charles F. Devalin, United States Navy, retired, died in Washington, on the same day. of apop'.exy. He was placed on the retired list on April 11. Miss Hexp.iktta. Louisa Brh'.vrr, daughter of Justice tJrewer. of t'ie Supreme Court, and James Lawsnn Iverricii, of 3osto.i. were marriodinSt. John's Church. The bride was Riven away b r her father. Chief E.voinsir Natiiav B." Clajik. United States .Navy (retired), died at his home in Washington, where he had D=en almost totally disabled for years with rheumatism. He was the invantor of the deflective armor now used on war ship.; of all nations. Thk House passed the Naval Appropriation bill, which provides for only one additional armored cruiser for the new navy. Propositions for the construction of mora than one were defeated. The cattleman's trouDie m v? youimK r?<M discussed at a Cabinet meeting at the VV"hito House. Thk United States War Department in Informed of a alight revival of the Garza insurrectionary movement in. Texas, and that i i , "VV- ' 'yr -7 : '"Y" Jr.vf*. '^y-T; 'r "t',% ""V"" ?'? I troops have gone to the scans of the latest outbreak. The President sent to the 8enata the nomination of Colonel Frank Wheaton, Second Infantry, to be Brigadier-General. Colonel Wheaton succeeds Brigadier-General Hautz. He is from Rhode Island. Hit nomination ends a long contest. Foreign. A. G. Brows, the defaulting broker of Toronto, Canada, has fled to Mexico. It la also stated that his pilferings will aggregate over 1150,000. Thk United States steamer Tallapoosa has been sold at public auction at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Rapublic, to the higheit bidder for $4500 United States gold. Babon Fava has received instruction! from his Government to return to Washington and resume his duties as Italian Minister to the United States. The Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, ex-Premier of Canada, died in Toronto a few days since. He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1822, and began life as a stonemason. A plot of Spanish Anarchists to kill the boy King of 8pain was disclosed by one of the conspirators. Baron Schaeffeb, once Austrian Minis* ter at Washington, is dead at Vienna. He was recalled from Washington on aooount of a dispute between Austria and the United States, and at once retired to private life. The formation of a new Italian Cabinet has been completed. Its programme Includes retrenchment in the army budget. Winnipeg, Manitoba, was partially flooded and the Canadian Pacific tracks were under water, owing to the rising of the river there. Miss Amelia. B. Edwards, the well known novelist, lecturer and Egyptologist, died in London, Eazland, a few days ago. She was born in 1831. Great damage has been done to crops and fruit trees in Great Britain by snow and frost. Eight persons were killed at H&mpste&d Heath, England, in a rush down a crowded stairway at the railway station. LATER Orro Schneider, a Custom House broker' and his clerk, were arrested in New York City, charged with bribing a Government weigher to make a false return. The Republicans of Pennsylvania assembled in State Convention at Harrisbarg and sent an uninstructed delegation to the National Convention at Minneapolis. Tee Massachusetts Republicans met in State Convention, at Boston, to elect delegates to the National Convention. The delegates were not instructed, but are said .to favor the renomination of Harrison. The platform adopted opposes the free coinage of silver and favors protection and commercial treaties, civil service reform and a National bankruptcy law. Seven- attempts were made ia one night to burn Louisville, Ky. In five hours fifteen buildings were destroyed, and a loss of $15,000 entailed. A11 were of incendiary origin. The night before there were five incendiary fires in the same radius. Waynx County, Mississippi, is the greatest sheep-raising county in the South. There are many flocks of 5000 bead each. A new disease has appeared among the sheep, and they are dying in droves. The loss has already reached $100,003. A terrific wind storm, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, passed over Kansas. California, was again slightly shaken by an earthquake. The Oregon Democratic State Convention met at Portland and elected delegates whc are known to be Cleveland men, but refused to instruct them. A resolution to instruct was defeated, as was one recommending P^nnAtrAi?Ui nama fnr* a nla/Hi nn wtoj uui i ouuyjoi a uauio *wt u vu the National ticket. The Democratic State Convention of Kansas convened at Salina and elected delegates to Chicago who are instructed to vote for Cleveland as a unit as long as his name is before the convention. The platform declares for a tariff for revenue only, and that all raw materials shall bo admitted free. The South Carolina Republican State Convention met at Columbia and Harrison delegates were elected to the Min? neapohs Convention. The platform lauds the administration of Harrison, and commends the last Congress for its tariff and nnnninn Ipoialntion. r' o By direction of the President, Captain James S. Pettit, First Infantry, has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics at the Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.,to take charge on August 1st, 1892,as rolief for First Lieutenant Charles A. L. Totten.Fourth Ar tiliery, who will join his battery. The Treasury Department ha9 decided to discontinue the quarterlv conference of local appraisers af ter the close of the present fiscal year. Thk Treasury Department has decided not to admit to the United States as citizens of Great Britain Chinese who go to Canada to take out naturalization papers. Mr. Mercier, ex-Premier of the Province of Quebec, Canada, who is ill in bed, has been placed under arrest to answer to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Province of the sum of ?60,000 in conjunction with a contract with one Langlais to supply ths Government offices with stationery. Three murderere were executed at Santa Clara, Cuba, a few days ago Explosions, due to Anarchists, occurred in three Spanish towns. Great damage was done to property and several lives were lost by a storm in the Swiss Tyrol. Six persona were killed by flying fragments. French vineyards have suffered immense damage from icy storms. The crop has been destroyed in many parts of Burgundy. It is expected that seventy-five per cent, of the grapes will be lost in the Touraine district. 1'hk Venezuelan revolutionists captured the towns of Araure and Acarigua.and took live hundred prisoners. They also routed the Government troops near Poiita. Valencia and Puerto Cabello are in a state of terror In the former the police force is doubled, and mounted guards patrol the streets. In the latter all able bodied men i-- ?? s>,>noArintaH nnH cnmmflrefl ig UQ T o trcuu vvu0W4*^wuf W. . ? paralyzsid. A firm of English ship-builders Is coming to America, and a New York paper reports that Mr. John D. Rockefeller will become a member of the Arm, putting In $40,000,000 for his share of the capital. If Mr. Rockefeller contributes such a sum he must be the firm and the other fellows the company. The little dot of $40,000,nnn wnnld huild a verv resnectable ship yard of itself. Emin Fash a has oeen welcomed back to his province of Equatoria with booming of cannon and such violent hand-shaking that his arm la sore. He had better rally a cohort of his followers and rescue Stanley from the wild Australian audiences with whom he is heroically contending. ' r^'y-v:' ' vfft&t,- ?v yzc.i.J-,'i'irC>/? ,i*yz.'-j y.: flTJY-SECOND C0NQRES3. In the Senate. T5th Dat. ?At the close of the routine morning business the calendar was taken op and bills were disposed of as follow** The amendments to the bill creating the Circuit Courtsaf Appeal were passed: appropriating $500,000 for the erection of an additional fire-proof building for the National Museum, on tbe grounds west or iQ8 omitnsoniau institution, rissea. Appropriating $75,000 for the foundation and p&deatai for a bronza statute of Christopher Columbus, at the west entrance of the Capitol grounds, on Pennsylvania avenue, where the Peace monument now stands. Passed. Extending the privileges of the free delivery of mails to cities anl towns with a population of not less than 5000, and where the postoffice gross receipts for the previous year amounted to $5000. Passed 70TH Day ?The Senate,on motion of Mr. Peffer, passed a resolution requesting the Secretary of State to obtain from our Consuls abroad information as to the application of electricity to the propulsion of farm machinery ana to the propogation and growth of plant? The Senate also passed the two court bills lately laid over and spent most of the remainder of the day in executive session over the modus vivendi in Bering Sea and other matters. Hav ?Mr ftorkrcra'a PAanlnHnn mln? tive to the low price o* cottoa aad the depressed condition of agriculture was agreed to. It direct* the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to ascertain in every practicable way and report from time to time the present condition of agriculture in the United States and the present price* of agricultural products, and if there be any ot which the prices are depressed then the causes of such depression and > the remedies therefor The joint'resolution to pay to West Virginia the amount due to it under the direct tax refund act was passed without discussion?The bill to establish a Court ot Appeals for the District of Columbia was then taken up, and several amendments (proposed by Mr. Hoar) were agreed to. Mr. George moved to strike out the provision entitling: the judges to pensions. The motion was rejected ?7 to 36; and the bill was passed The Bering Sea modus vivendi was approved A i?1.1 ?_ -J?I _j j ^ a a unci siivci ucuabu anu uiv uiiuu uuwiatou when Mr Piatt called up a House bill amending the Arizona Funding act and asKed its immediate consideration. Mr. Kyle, of Booth Dakota, moved to strike out the words which made the live per cent interest payable in gold, and to insart the words "in lawful-money of the United btafces." The motio? was carried by a vote of twenty-eight yeas to tweaty-four naysvas follows: Yeas?Allen, Bate, Benry, Blackburn, Blodg?tt, Butler, CaiJ, CockriiJ, Coke, Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner, uioson, (Aid.), Hansbrouzb, Harris, Hill, Jones, (Nev.), Kyle, Mitchell, Peffer, Pugh, Ransom, Stewart, Teller, Vftst, Walttiall, Wolcott ? twenty-eight. Nays ?Allison, Carey, Chandler, Cnllom, Dixon, Fiye, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Hiscock, Hoar, McMillan, Manderson, Paddock, Palmer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Piatt, Proctor, Sawyer, Stockbridge, Washburn, Wilson?twenty-four. 78th Day.?Mr. Teller spoke on Mr. Morgan's silver resolution Mr. Cullutn reported a bill directing t&e Interstate Commerce Commission to report annually certain information in relation to the adoption by common carriers in interstate commerce of a uniform system of automatic coupling. In the House 84th Day. ? The Naval Appropriation bill was discussed during the entire day's session. 85th Day.?When the Speaker called the House to order at noon the vacant seats far outnumbered those which were occupied. The bill for the relief of, the heirs of H. H. Sibley, the inventor of the Sibley teat, again proved an obstacle to the transaction of business, and the whole day was consumed in its consideration. No quorum was present, and after two roll-calls emphasizing this fact, the House took a recess until eight o'clock, when an evening session for the consideration of private pension bills was held. 86th Day.?'The House discussed the Naval Appropriation bill. Speeches in favor of the rehabilitation of the navy were made by Mr. Fellows and Mr. Cummlngs, of New York, and Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, while the amendment to j>uild one new cruiser was opposed by Mr. Moltnao, or Indiana; Mr. Watson, of Georgia, and Mr. Baker, of Kansas. 87th Day.?The entire day was devoted to the consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill, which was finally passed as it came from the committee, with the exception of the dry dock at Algiers (La.), which was stricken out on a point of order. 88th Dat.?The greater part of the session was spent in considering the contested election case of Noyes against Rockwell, from the Twenty-eighth New York district. The time for discussion was limited to five hours on each side. 1 S9th Dat.?The House resumed considera| tion of the Rockwell-Noyes contested eleotion case. DROWNED IN A MINE. ' A Flooded Mine Bursts Thonjjh th? Walls and. Eight Men are Drowned. Late the other afternoon a number of men lost their lives by the flooding of the Lytle *v?11i?7-ir Minnr.ivillp Ponn. hv a hod* of water that burst through the old workings. The accident occurred just about the timi the shifts were chansons:. The colliery officials say that eight men were drowned. The plac9 where the accident occurre 1 is a new coal operation that is being opened on a big scale by the Lytle Coal Companv. The works are on Primrose "Mountain, several miles northwest or Minersville, and tap the great Wolf Creek colliery, which has bee a idle for several years, owing to large accumulations of water. Two years ago the present operators begun the reoDenine of the tract, and have soent many thousand dollars in pumpin; and opening up new slopes. Gangways are being pushed out from these slopes oa all sides of the new workings. The old water lies in it, and it is the bursting through of one of these deposits without warning that caught the miners. They were surrounded on all sides by water Some of the men swam out, while others are said to have been heard talking as if they had reached a high point above the water. THE EXPBESS HELD UP. ifetivcen $5000 and ^10,000 Taken bv Kobbers Near Independence, La. The Chicago train of tha Illinois Central was held up at 9:30 P. M. by four men at a noint iust below Independence, La. Two men boarded the train at Hammond station, and, covering the engineer and fireman, orderei them to go ahead and take the aiding at Independence so that the down train could pass". After the down train had passed two other men, who were standing on the track, joined their confederates and ordered the train backed to the seventy-seven mile post. The men then at the point of pistols made the engineer and firemen go back and open the express door. They robbed the Southern express safe of several thousand dollars, estimated from $3000 to $10,000,a lot of New York exchange and a package of tickets. The authorities at Jackson were notified, as well as those of adjoining towns, and bloodhounds were ( laced on tbe track o" the robbers. TERRIBLE WRECK. Seven bailors and the Captain's Little son Victims ottheSurC The German brig Felix, hailing from Stettio, went aground in the sleet and wind off Gore Point, near Bran caster, England. Heavy seas swept over her and carried away her mast;. The crew tried to get away in a small , boat, but it capsized and live men were carnei away and drowned. Two lifeboats were started out from the shore, but returned, as the occupants said they could not live in the sea. A third boat was almost at the scene of the wreck when the Felui was struck by a tremendous sei. which drove her off the rocks and capsizad her. Two more sailors were drowned, bat the captain clung to a piece of wreckage. His little boy, who had accompanied him on the voyage, was drowned when the brig capM?d. . '** * mm j mv MODUS YME I The Convention Between theH United States and England* H Protection for the Seals Dnring the Pendency of Arbitration. Ad agreement between the United 8tatW; and Great Britiin for a modus vivendi in relation to the for seal - fisheries in Bering Sea for the present season has been signed, al Washington, by Sir Julian Faoncefot^ the British Minister, representing the Goveminent of her Britannic Majesty, and by James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, representing the Government of the United States. This important agreement was signed at IV o'clock in the morning at. the residence of Secretary Blaine, wao, owing to the inclement weather, did not go to the department He at once took it over to the Executtva Mansion and laid it before the Preridao^ who in the afternoon transmitted it to tb? Senate for its action. The modus is in the form of a fcupplemental convention to the treaty of arbitration recently negotiated and ratified. It says that both Governments will prohibit during the sealing season the killing of seal in wot pari, ut uie u*u lug aoa i/ug eastward of the line of demarcation described in article No. 1 of the treaty of 1867 between the United StatM and Russia and each Government wiU enjoin its citizens and vessels to an t>b??r-: vance of this agreement. The United States, it is nnderatoo , is allowed to kill j for the subsistence of the natives on tbay islands of St. Paul and St. George 7500 seals, the same restriction as was mada last; year, and the United States binds itself to observe this prohibition. The vessels of either the United States or 'i Great Breatian, or citizens of either coon* try, offending against this agreement mar \ be seized by either of the high contracting ' pax idea, uui as wuu ao piacucauio ^uuhi uv banded over to the authorities of the natioo to which they belong, who shall have sola jurisdiction to try toe offence and impost the penalties for the same. In general it may be said that the dooo-/; ment is a renewal of the agreement of 1W1,\, with the addition of a clause providing farv the settlement of damages sustained by the Canadian sealers through the interruptioir of their business in case the arbitration goes ; against the United States. Under this clause, owners of Canadian sealing vessels have already began to me their claims with a commission ap- . pointed to receive and present them. Bat 1 General Foster, the agent of the United,, States, who is preparing the case for tt&f Government,and the Hon E. 8. Phelpacounsel, are leaving no point uncovered, and will be fully prepared to meet the Halms on this score, in the event that they shall ever be pressed for payment. The British Prime Minister has sought aS ; . along to reduce the liability of his Goran* 7 inent practically to a nullity, by insistisg that Great Britain can acknowledge &?n> orwrittiHtHf'.w frw tha in*itipjM to iMllifi fiflflA - by Canadian poachers, and most charged with such damages only m have resulted directly from Gwvw%& ment action Mr. Blaine, it is understood^; has endeavored in framing the new agree- j ment to obtain from Great Britain mora general acknowledgment of liability along the lines laid down in last summer s correspondence, "and it is said that, in the terms / agreed on, he has maintained the contentions or the United States with creditable saocdifc.'.' 1 be Senate discussed the modus Tire**#;' briefly in executive session and then referring it, according to usage, to the appropriated committee?that on Foreign Relations. . ? '/ $ PEOMDJENT PEOPLE. M President Harrison receives over 100; 000 letters a year. gf Hak-and-spiwach is a favorite dtsh or President Harrison. Ldnn Tennyson ba?,in his old age, become an inveterate noyel reader. $ Ladt Tknnysov has composed the marie for thirty of her husband's lyrics. Governor-elect Brown, of Rhode Idand. will receive only f1000 a year for hit service?. William Waldorf AsToa,the New York./ millionaire, is writing a book on society i* * the sixteenth century. Prince Bibmaeck's physician has ??la<3ad Neryi, Italy, as a place of future winter residence for the ex-Chancellor. John Russell Yooxo, journalist and Apr lomat, has been appointed Fourth Viu^ President of the Reading Railroad. V, Senator Carlisle recently recairei s $25,000 fee for winning a suit involving1 1200,000 before the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Senator Leland Stanford, of California^ rapidly losing all power of locomotion. ana ne can soarceijr iron, auuu ? without assistance. H Ex-Se v ator EdmuXD3 tau latolV beta jfuest of Senator BJackburn, in Kentucky, and surprised some of the good people there fll by his thorough knowledge of horse*. H| Sib Edward Watki.y, of London, aged Jfl seventy-two, was recently married to Mrs. Ingram, a^ed eighty-two. Watkin is a rail-^H way king and his bride brings him $3,000,- H 000. ABCHBisHpp Ibblaxd was an Irish ?nl>H grant to this country forty-three years ago. Part of his clerical education was received in H France. He was chaplain of a Minnesota regiment daring the Civil War. Dean Bbadley, of Westminster Abbey, London, has decided that there is no room I for the proposed monument to James Ro?- ) sell Lowell, but has suggested a memorial] window in the Chapter ilouse where Mr J Lowell delivered some of his addresses. '" 'J Speaking of Cbauncey M. Depew's bohhood, one of his classmates says that he Was not conspicuously bright, but he was studious and methodical. The one thing that be seemed to have his mind set on was to become a speaker. He had no natural oratorical gifts, but he practiced recitation constantly. Mas. John Sherwood, of Ne* York City, the popular writer on etiquette, delightful parlor reader and society: leader, is said to be past seventy, and althoi^h suffer- / iDg mUCQ irutll ruomuoun u auu reverses of fortune to support herself and invalid husband, is always cheerful, graaoai and entertaining. - ' Edward Pardridgi, the grain "plunger1 of the Chicago JProouee Exchange, who, in the opinion of "Old Hutch," is the most daring speculator on> the short side of tha market in the United State*, is a natire d New York State, and was, not many jaain ago, a dry goods merchant' in Buffalo.. He. is carelea. in ois dres*, almost to the point of sbabbiness, and has a duN^ooking but determined face. ; - -s * < -^1 >? ?- , , BOBBED THE BOTHBOHILDST' One of Their Cashier* Has Been Stealing lor Years. Herr Jaeger, who for twenty yean has been in the service of the Rothschilds at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, is av< fugitive, and an embezzler of nearly $300, 000. No event within -many years has created a greater sensation in the financial circles of Germany. The Jaegers have for two generations have trusted employes , of the Rothschild family, and their name, to German ai'd Austrian financiers, is almost as familicr as that of the Rothschilds themselves. The father of the cashier who has proved an eaabezzltr was himself cashier of the Frankfort home of Rothschild. He was so upright and faithful that, -when the firm lost his service the son was given the post. This was not done out of regard , only for the father, but because the son '! seemed thoroughly qualified by training for i the post. He was treated with as much confidence as the Rothschilds treat any one. i m fot/,1, / ?? oil thoir am* JLlltSJ Kcop U ?uwu vu MW ployes, and even on each other, and it is a H matter of wonder that Jaeger could have get- H away with the amount he is known to haw fl embezzled. He bad more opportunity for H theft than any other employe, ana ha H is said to have been inflamed with a desire H to become a millionaire himself. The stolen H money, it is rumored, was lost in stock* gambling, Jaeger having been unfortunate H almost from the first in his enterprises is that direction. When be saw tharoetactiOB inevitable he fled. g