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TEE GRANT MOMENT. ltjing the Corner Stone of the Mausoleum in New York. Simple But Impressive Ceretn an l aci r% 4r T3 * ttay>C!1 /1o Porlr iUVUlUO C*U ibivoxoiuu x uiiixi Under a cloudless sky, and with thousands of American citizens assembled on the eveatieth anniversary of his birth to do Junior to the dead soldier. President Harri?m laid the corner stone of the monument M Riverside Park, New York City, which is to mark the final resting place of General Ulyms S. Grant. It was a simple but imjwpssi ve ceremony from the prayer of Dr. John Hall to the oration of Chauncay M. I Dcpew. A perfect day favored the celebration. The half holiday specially ordered by Gov- J dot Flower for it turned the city out on parade. Early in the afternoon the stream ( travel filled the approaches to Riverside. The crowds converged from all directions. Tb*y clambered over the rocks and fields, as well as by the beaten ways, until the entire ridgre was black with them. AJl the banks, the Stock Exchange, the PmHiino Pnttnn Hnffm and tber excaanges and the Clearing House toed their doors at noon; most of the factories stopped work, and building operations eased for the most part throughout the wtro-politan district The schools also closed at noon. Wigs were flying everywhere, and the streets took on a holiday appearance early hi the morning. It did not seem as if there were much business downtown even before aocr. and after that the streets were almost ifcerted. The scene from earlv morning was a lively soe. and hours before 2 o'clock, when the ceremonies were to begin, the spectators had fcagun to arrive. The platform built over the foundation of the monument was gay with bunting, while from the top of the great derrick which suspended the twelve' ten block of granite in the air naval signal flags and pennants were strong on all sides like streamers Irom a Maypole. The corner stone was sesr the souttiwest corner of the platform, and along the south side of the platform , Kaon rocArvArf ftir the consnicuous I guests. Near the southeast eu<? of the platform was the speakers' stand, raised a foot or two above the level of the main platform, and protected by a cloth canopy. To tbo east of the platform a bank of seats Lad been built for the general public, while at the southeast corner a special stand fcad been built for the Loyal Legion. The Grand Army men were provided for in front of the main platform by long rows of plank benches, which were turned over to the public to scramble for when the Grand Army men failed to fill them. Sharply at 12:80 o'clock the sound of martial music floated in the air in the visanity of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J J~ i ^ i ?' ! ~ Si i f, \ : ' f?? X THE GRANT M02T*JlfENT, RIV It came from a band that led Troop A. of ifce National Guard of the State of New York, who had been selected to escort President Harrison and his Cabinet; with a few specially invited guests, to the grave of President Harrison's predecessor. The escorting cavairy was commanded by Captain C. F. Roe and were 160 strong. Tbey were drawn up in double files around the carriage to be occupied by the Nation's Chief Executive. The President's carriage was an open iaronche, drawn by four horses, black wheelers and bay and gray leaders. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's coachman handled he reins, and two of his footmen stood at Ibe horses' heads. When President Harrison came out of the Twenty-third street entrance to the hotel, sacorted by General Horace Porter, as nips t?9c utauivc \jl tuo uiauu iuvuuiurut Food, be was greeted with cheers from a crowd that was massed in a solid battalion that reached from Fourth to Sixth avenue. As soon as President Harrison was seated in the carriage provided for his reception he lifted his hat in recognition of the friendly ppJause given him, and Troop A, in files on each side of the carriage, slowly started fcr Riverside Park. In ? second carriage, drawn by two noble horses, sat Vioe-President Levi P. Mor- J ' ton and Mr. F. D. Tappen. Next came Secretary of War Elkins and Lieutenant Fkrker. In a following carriage was Postmaster-General Wanamaker and John H. SUrin. Secretary of the Interior Noble and B. W. Cannon came next, and in still ?ther carriages were Secretary of Agricultare Busk and Cornelius N. Bliss, General Echo field and General Granville Dodge, Dr. Cbauncey M. Depaw and Mr. F. E. TUford, tibe Rev. Dr. John Hall and Mr. E. F. Crafir, J. H. V Arnold, representing Mayor Grant, aDd President Gallup, of the Department of Public works. i W Vion fYin *\Pruv?aiAn rno/-?V* Va/^ioAn Square Troop A saluted the President and tben formed into four platoons in front of kis carriage and three in the rear, with a file f outriders on either aide. Then the line of inarch was begun. Fifth avenue was simply packed by people. The cavalcade proceeded briskly up Fifth avenue to Fifty-seventh street, thence to Broadway, to the Boulevard, into 8eventywcond street, to Riverside Drive, and thence to General Grant's tomb. Id 116th street the Grand Army had gathered from two to three thousand strong, and was forming in line, ready to march up the hillside. Soon after 1 o'clock the order to march was given, and the column swung mto fctghth avenue, twelve abreast. The route was up the avenue to One Hundred and Twenty-third street and across to the tomb, where ranks were broken, the men dispersing themselves about the grounds as they chose. Nearly all the i veterans were in full uniform, and the officers wore side arms. Quite a number, however, came in civilian dress, with nothing to indicate who they were except the Grand Army badges on their breasts. These marched in m separate body behind the uniformei hosts. The invited guests arrived at the tomb slowly, but by 2 o'clock every seat on the platform was occupied. Commodore Erben, the commanlant of the Navy YarJ, was present with his staff, and General O. O. Howard with his. It was just 2 o'clock wben the widow of General Grant, Dressed in deep biack, appeared on the platform. She was accompanied by her two sons, Jesse and Ulysses S. Grant, and their wives, Mrs. C. H. f. Collis, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Frederick Dent. Many of the guests gathered around Mrs. Grant to pay their respects just betore the President's arrival. Among those nrssented to Mrs. Grant at tbis informal re ception was Tsui Kwo Yan, trie Chinese Minister to the United States, and his interpre:e\ Shun Yu Ting, wao had come from tV&->.ni{ton to witness the ceremonies. There were about 3000 seats reserved on the piatform. Of these. 2.500 were occupied by the members of the different trades and proieasions who have been and are still act>wta a* committaamau ani chairmen of oom ' f v. r - " . *, f mittees for raising the money for the buildin;: of the tomb. Meantime the audience increased until it would not have been counted by a hundred men. Some said there were 150,000 people i Dresant. Soma said 300.000. Whatever its number it was an enormous crowd and those on the outskirts were several times removed from earshot. It was just before 2 o'clock that the school boys arrived in cliarge of Lawson N. Puller. They marched from Washington Heights. Some of them carried flowers. The police made way for them through the crowa, and they marched around to the comb and cast their flowers by it. Then a troop of soldiers from the regular army, commanded by Major Randolph, marched up and formed in line from the drive through'the crowd to the grand stand, and a squad of marines from the Miantonomoh tooK up a position immediately behind and on the left. A path was cleared there from the road. It was 2:12 o'clock, when a faint cheer came from way down tae drive, and was carried along like the sound of successive j waves or tne ocean rolling to a rocicy saore. Across the heads of the multitude appeared regular lines of golden, nodding plumes. 1 i'hey came into the eye as phalanxes of | Troop A, escorting the President of the United States, his Cabinet and a few distinguished guests. As the President's escort ascended the hill leading to the tomb, boys from the public schools were ranged along each side of the road, every one standing with almost military precision, and each holding a small bunch of flowers in his hand. When the procession had passed, these boys fell into line and marched in the rear up the hill. The Presidential party ciimbed the step3 to the platform and tiled into the orators' pulpit, where chairs had been placed for them. A3 President Harrison passed Mrs. i Grant he formally bowed to her; she responded, and that was the only greeting that passed between them. In the President's train were Secretaries Rusk, Noble, Elkins, Wanamaker, General Schorield, Lieutenant Parker and ex-Minis ter Romero, of Mexico. The United States band from David's Island played several national aire and then General Horace Porter stepped forward to speak for the Grant Monument Association. "Although the fund required for this monumental tomb is large," ue said, "it was decided to lay the corner scone to-day in the confident belief that this patriotic work once begun will never be allowed to stop until completed. The present movement organized for the purpose of securing the required fund began its labors on March 2L. The first committee formed in New York began its work on March 25. Generous Brooklyn came forward cheerfully to divide the burden and share in t&e honor. Now there are 215 committees at worn, and their membership numbers 2487 persons. I have great satisfaction in announcing to you that the total of subscriptions received up to this morning, as tbe result of about four weeks' work, is $202,800. Tne work of obtaining subscriptions will be continued until every company, firm and individual has had an opportunity to subscribe. While some generous subscriptions will- be received from other KRSIDE PARK. NEW YORK. cities, the people of the Nation have seemed to say to New York: 'You have secured the honor of entombing within your borders the ashes of America's great Captain: the superb memorial to be reared wiu be the chief ornament of your city. Pilgrimages will be made from all quarters of the globe to visit that "Mecceya. You are the metropolis and the monied centre; you must unaided build the structure.' New York has accepted the challenge and will make good her word. While this structure will be thoroughly national in its character and purpose, it will stand in history as a tribute of the greatest of American cities to the greates of American soldiers." When General Porter finished, he proceeded promptly with the programme by reading a list of the contents of the copper box to be placed under the cornerstone and elicited more general cheering and waving as he announced that the chief function of the day would be performed by the President. The reading of the list led to cheering as each item was an nounced, the Loval Legion and Grand Army poets rising as he said that their insignia would be included in the contents. This is the list he read: Constitution of the United States. Declaration of Independence. Articles of Confederation. The Bible, printed by the American Bible Society. Memoirs of General Granc. Memorial Day pamphlet, May 30 and 31, 1850, containing among other things list of contributors pf flowers, prayer by the Rev. R. S. Stors, and address by General John A. JjOgaD. A copy of Mayor Grant's proclamation, dated April 8, 1892, to the citizens of New York, calling attention to the Grant Monument. Insignia of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Insigna of the Grand Army of the Republic. A new American flag, made of silk. Medals and coins from United States Mint, as follows: One Major-General Grant, by joint resolution of Congress, December 17, 1863; one U. 8. Grant Presidential, one Pacific Railway head of Grant, one Grant's Indian piece, one "Let Us Have Peace," one Washington and Grant medalette. one Lincoln and Grant, one Grant reception, December 16. 1879: one Grant's Birthday, 18'JO; one Grant's Birthday. 1S92; one complete proof set of United States gold coins, oue complete proof set of United States silver coins, copies of New York City and Brooklyn daily afternoon papers April 26, 1892, and of New York City and Brooklyn daily morning papers, April 27, 1892. Illustrated and weekly papers of New York City. Ac the close of his speech, lienerai rorier escorted the President to the spot where the huge corner stone of granite hung on chains from the derrick. Some workmen distributed the cepaent, and President Harrison, with a gold trowel, completed this simple duty and the stone was slowly lowered to its permanent resting place. Then the President, with General Porter, returned to the stand and General Porter, facing the great mass of people below, said: "The service of laying the cornerstone having been performed, 1 will request the Rev. Dr. John Hall to offer prayer and to ? " inuuuuuuo a Dr. Hall arose from the chair which he had occupied, and those around him on the stand followed his example. After the prayer, General Porter said: "I now have the honor of presenting the President of the United States." There was prolonged cheering as President Harrison arose. When silence was restored, he spoke as follows: "Sir. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen? My assignment in connection with thes9 exercises is connected with mechanics rather than with oratory. The pleasant duty of bringing to our memories to-day those brilliant public services and those personal I manly virtues which have placed the name of - - It-., 1-1 ' ' ft: , (Jlysaes 8. Grant so high on the scroll of tame and settled the lore of the man so deeply in patriotic hearts, has devolved upon another, who never fails - to meet these high occasions with credit to himself and pleasuere to his hearers. No orator, however gifted, can ever speak in too high praise of General Grant, and the most impressive and oostly memorial that the architect could plan or the builder execute is justified when the nameof Grant is inscribed upon it. "This stone which has just now been laid, I OCWiUpQIUOU l/j Vuvav r<im.ui ^ pre38iona of popular sympathy, ia only the corner stone of the foundation, and it speaks to us of the atruc INTERIOR VIEW OF THE TOKB. ture, magnificent in its completeness, which shall ariBe from this supporting strength. Shall it arise with stated progress, without check or tardinesss, until the capstone is sat by the liberal and patriotic citizens of this great city? (Cries of Yes! Yes!| 'Thus his fame grew from Belmont to Appomattox, in whose honor this tomb is builded. I am glad to see here adequate assurances that this work, so nobly planned, will be speedily consummated. "Your distinguished citizen, who has assumed as a labor of love the burden of conducting this great enterprise, learned from his beloved friend and commander to exclude the word 'fail' from his vocabulary." At the conclusion of President Harrison's speech the band played "America," and then Dr. Chauncey M. Depew was introduced and was greeted with deafening cheers. Mr- Depew remained standing until the last rinnle of annlauM had died awav. Then he delivered an eloquent tribute to the fame of the great General. Mr. Depew spoke for exactly thirty-five minutes, and was followed throughout with the closet attentioa When Mr. Depew ended his oration, Dr. HaU, at the request of General Porter, pronounced the benediction. Then the President and his party descended the steps and passed through the line of soldiery to the driveway, where they entered the carriages, that containing the President being surrounded by a platoon of mounted policemen. Immediately after the benediction, the band had Gtruelc up a National air, and mingling with the strains came the slow, solemn booming of guns from the river, .where the Miantonomoh lay at anchor. -The firing bogan as the President and his party started for the carriages, and lasted till they were far on their way down the drive. Alter the ceremonies the casket of General Grant, which was placed in the front of the old brick crypt bankod in lilies and simple spring blossoms, was viewed by thousands. Fifteen hundred school boys from the uptown schools marched by and laid a wreath of flowers upon the oorner stone. President Harrison and the members of his Cabinet, with the Chinese Minister were then escorted to the Pennsylvania Railroad station, where, at 5:30 o'clock, they left for Washington. The Monament. Harper's Weekly gives the following description of the Grant Monument: The architect, Mr. John fl. Duncan, of New York, has designed a classical structure, with an exterior composed ot material as light as will stand the severity of the climate. The interior is to be pure white, with the exception of some well-chosen ornamentation in black. The foundations of the edifice are now finished, and the first course of granite, ten feet in height, has been put under construction. The structure, which will be visible from ail points of the upper part of the city, is placed at a slight angle to the Riverside Drive, so as squarely to face the point to the south on that approach where it first presents itself to the observer: and it forms the terminus to the vista of 123a street looking toward the west. In general dimensions it is a square of about 100 feet at ground-line, exclusive of the steps and nortico nroiection. The total height of the mausoleum will be about 160 feet from the base-line, or nearly 800 feet from the water-level of the Hudson River. From the centre of the main hall floor to the dome iflOTTPnI r $ KN THE OBTPT. is 100 feet, and the outer gallery, 130 feet above the ground-line, will affcord a view of the surrounding oountry for many miles. The interior of the dome is supported bj pendentives, figure subjects formed of marble mosaic, above which are thirteen openings into the inner gallery. In the panels over these openings are placed the seals of the original t.hirtnAn St-atwi bonMth disks with the names and emblems of all the States. Facing the south, near the beginning of the step approaches, will be the pedestal and equestrian statue of General Grant. Surmounting four of the columns will be placed equestrian statues of his principal commanders, and panels on the east and west of the structure will receive bass-reliefs of othur officers asssociated with his victories. The black granite sarcophagus will rest in the crypt below the main floor, directly under tne dome, which will receive light from the sky. GOLD IN VIRGINIA. Rich Fields "Panning" Out Just Like Western Mines. The Old Gold Fields, in Virginia, which before the war were worked in the crudest manner and then suspended, have resumed operations by the aid of Northern capital, both milling and washing, and are "panning" out equal to the Western mines, yielding from <10 to $100 per ton. The excitement just now though is due to the rich "washings." Some of the diggers secure as <S1 OA A nn/4 nnnft 1QPQ fhan 410 1*fl UlgU CU> TiOW Ob UOJ tx LAVA luaj v??w.w> ... Fluvanna and Goochland Counties. Soma of the nuggets found weighed nearly two ounces. A few of the farmers have stopped plowing and offered their places for sale at four times their price ten days ago. France's war on Dahomey is said to b? one for treasure rather than for suppression of the slave trade, as there is laid to be over 100,000,000 francs stored at the capital city. ' V- i. US M / f. ft,?.A-.'tf-X? /*" /.: , ; ' ? ACROSS THE WIRE& Interesting late Dispatches About Important Events. The United States Senate Bejects the Chinese Exolnsion Act. me United States Senate "passed its own Chinese bill exactly as reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign'Relations, and sent it to the Hous9 for conference. The Geary Total Exclusion bill was Wiled by a vote of forty-eight to fourteen. The Chinese question was debated until 4 P. if., when a vote was taken on the question of substituting the Senate bill, wnich continues ia force for ten years the present rectrictions against Chinese immigration,for the Gearv House bill, which absolutely prohibits Chinese from coming to this country. The vote btood: Yeas, forty-three; nays, fourteen, as follows: Yeas?Allison, Bate, Berry, Brice, Butler. Call, Carey, Carlisle, Cockrell, Coke, Colauitt, Cullom,Dawes, Dixon, Frye, Gorman, fray, Hansbroueb, Hi?gin?.Hiscoclc, Jones, (Ark.;, Kyle, McMillin, McPherson, Manderson, Morgan, Paddock, Palmer, Peffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Piatt, Proctor, Pugh, Ransom. Snwvor. Sherman. Sauire. Stock bridge, Vest, Vilas, Walthall and Washburn?forty-three. Nays? Allen, Blodgett, Chandler, Daniel, Dubois, Feltop, Jones (Nov.), Mitchell, Sanders, Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Warren and Wilson?fourteen. The following is the text of the bill: That all lAws now in force prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons ana persons of Chinese descent are hereby continued in force for a period of ten years from the passage of tiiis ac:. * Section 2. That any Chinese person or person of Chintse descent convicted and ad* judged under any of said laws to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United State*, shall be removed from the United States to China, unless he or they shalljmake it to appear to the Justice, Judge or Commissioner before whom he or tbey are tried, that he or they are subjects or citizens of some other country, in which case he or they shall be removed from the United States to such country. Provided, that in any case where such other country of which such Chinese person shall claim to be a citizen or subject shall demand any tax as a condition of the removal of such person to that country, he or she shall ?e removed to China. Sic. 3. That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent arrested under the provisions of this act shall he adjudged to be unlawfully within the United States, unless such person shall establish, by affirmative 5roof, to the satisfaction of such Justice udge or Commissioner his lawful right to remain in the United States. Sec. 4. That any such Chinase person or person of Chinese descent, once convloted and adjudged to be not law/ully entitled to be or remain in the United States, and having been once removed from the United States in pursuance of such conviction, who shall be subsequently convicted for such offense, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period of not exceeding six months, and thereafter removed from the United States as herein bdfore provided. Tragedy of a Wooden Leg. The discovery that her lover had a wooden leg led Maggie Williams, of Cambridgeport, Mass., to dismiss William E. Canning ham, to whom she was betrothed. The young woman upbraided her lover for the deception he had practised upon her. Next morning Cunning ham visited 35 Portsmouth street, where Maggie was employed as a domestic, and asked her to shake hands and make up. Maggie refused to be reconciled to the wooden leg and again repulsed him. Then Cunningham drew a revolver and fired two shots at his sweetheart, one bullet taking effect in her left temple and the other over the heart. Cunningham then placed the revolver at his own heaa and fired. The shot did not kill and the man fired again, the bullet passing just over the heart. He fell across the body of the girl and awaited death. The police summoned an ambulance, and hurried the victims -of the tragedy to the hospital.The girl died before reaching the institution. Cunningham would say nothing before his death about the Jmatter save that the woman was killed by getting in the way while he was trying to commit suicide. Dynamite in Pari*. An explosion occurred in Paris, Prance, at 10 o'clock, a few nights ago, at Very's restaurant on Boulevard Magenta, the place Pewa^ViAl fha Anar?r?Vilaf rtraa ap. W UOl O 4kO>T l?VUV/i| vuu A*uvai ? IM IM rested. Six people were injured. The exSlosion completely destroyed the front of le shop and the counter. The proprietor of the restaurant was killed, ana his wife and daughter severely injured. Th? bomb was placed in the cellar under the restaurant, as the front of the establish* ment has been constantly under police surveillance since the arrest of Ravachol. Immediately after the explosion the detective watch arrested on suspicion three workmen, who were apparently making their escape. A waiter in the restaurant said that since Ravacbol's arrest M. Very had received no fewer than fifty or sixty letters from the Anarchist's friend threatening his life and property in revenge for the betrayal. Very died shortly before midnieht. Three arrests have been made, including t man who, just after the explosion of the wine shop, shouted at the next corner, "Vive 1'Anarchic!" A revolver and knife were found on him. He professes to know nothing of the perpetrators of the explosion. Triple Tragedy. George Moore, Dennison, Ohio, -shot hia wife, killing heir instantly, also Edward McClelland, a saloon-keeper, badly wounding him, and then fatally shot himself, Moore was employed by the Pan-Handle Railway and worked at night. * McClelland boarded at Moore's house. Moore and his wife had had a great deal of trouble lately, growing out of jealousy on Moore's part. When Moore returned from work h? found his wife sitting at work at her sewingmachine. Without saying a word, ha drew a revolver and ?hot her through th( head, killing her instantly. He then ran into an adjoining room, where McClelland was sleeping, and fired two shots at him, one striking him in the forehead. Moore then ran from the house to the residence of his mother-in-law, near by, and shot himself through rhe head. Blew Off His Head. Edward Crosraan, a well-to-do farmer, of Middle Hope, N. Y., committed suicide the other morning by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. He had been at the Middletown Insane Asylum all winter, and was brought home in a much improved condition. He was thirty-five vears old, and leaves a widow and two children. A Broclcport Banker Suspend*. John H. Kingsbury, a private banker at Broclcport, N. Y., has made a general assignment. The liabilities to depositors will amount to $85,000, most of the creditors being Broclcport business men,who had deposits ranging from $100 to $10,000 each. The amount of assets is not known, owing to the illness of Kingsbury. Killed His Niece and Himself. Milton Trottman. of Pape City, Utah, shot and killed Hope Fuelling, his eighteenyear-old niece, of whom be was enamored, and then put a bullet into bis own brain KILLED HIS BABY SISTER, Klv^.Vonr.Olfl Willin Annlied Fire To Her Curls and Clothing. Bertha Schmidtetter, & child seventeen months old, died a few nights ago after being badly burned while playing with her fire year-old brother Willie, at Philadelphia, Penn. The two children were left alone for a short time amusing themselves with a straw basket full of candy eggs. Willie took the basket to the range, lighted it and applied the blaze to one of Bertha's long golden curls, and again to her clothes. When neighbors, attracted by the child's screaming, rushed in and extinguished the flames, curls and clothes had disappeared, and Bertha was soon * blackemd corpse. ' . .. ! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and. Middle States. It wu developed that the escape at Utica, N. Y., of Thomas O'Brien, the bunco man, was the result of a criminal conspiracy. Arbor Dat exercises were held all over New Jersey, the general form of celebration being readings, recitations and singing in the schools. Whwever it was feasible the pupils assisted in the planting of trees. The steamship Conemaugh, laden with 8000 tons of food for the starving Russians, sailed a few days ago from Philadelphia, .Penn. District Attorset Edward D. Bihgham, of West Chester, Penn., disappeared, leaving a lot of protested checks at the Farmers' National Bank. The consecration of the Rev. Dr. Charles Edward McDonnell an Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn took place at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, in the presence of seventeen Bishops and Archbishops, nearly 500 priests, and about 15,000 persons. The Reapportionment bill, amended to give New York thirty Assemblymen, Kings nineteen and Steuben and Dutchess two each, passed the special session of the Naw York Legislature at Albany, which then adjourned sine die. Parker James Truax. of Clarence, N. Y., and bis pretty stepdaughter Susan Chase, aged sixteen, quarreled about Leonard Shad, one of the tarm hands, whom she had promised to marry. Truax enticed his stepdaughter into the barn and with an ax or heavy hammer pounded her head into a jelly. Then he drew a razor from his pocket and out his own throat from ear to ear, dying instantly. Engineer Joseph H. Gray was thrown among the machinery of his engine and crushed to death by the collision of the ferryboat Cincinnati with the bridge in her slip at New York City. Ambrose Seslet, aged twenty-four, son of Andrew J. 8eeley, a well known boatman in South Brooklyn, N. Y? was killed in a fist fight with David Ryan, aged twenty. The two young men had a difference of opinion about some matters in dispute between then for some time, and they decided to settle it by a resort to their fists. South and. West. A nv xber of men were employed putting in a large vault for the Court Honse at Jonesboro, Tenn. One of the walls of the building was badly braced and fell, killing three men instantly and fatally injuring several others. Mrs. Harvill, of Kentucky, opposite Bristol, Tenn., saturated with kerosene the bed on which slept her husband and young child, and threw a burning brand upon it. While she and a friend were escaping they were caught by a mad bull and both were gored to death Philip Bajceb was hanged in the jail yard at New Orleans, La., for murdering Mrs. Neil Nelson. Charles H. Reed,of counsel for Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, died in Baltimore, Md. Death was a result of progressive paralysis. Some years ago Mr. deed's mind was disordered. During a storm the schooner S. W. Rowley was capsized near Money Point, Va.,and before assistance could be sent Mrs. Rovrley, wife of the Captain, her little daughter and two of the crew were drowned. The full vote of Louisiana in the late State election, official, from all the parishes is as follows: ' Foster, anti-Lottery Democrat, 79,270; McEnery, Democrat,48,789; Leonard, Regular Republican, 29,834; Bream. Custom House Republican, 11,301; Tannehill, People's partv, 8502. The Foster Democrats will have eignteen of thirty-six members of the Senate and forty-nine of ninety-eight members of the House, a tie in both bodies. Tn? nanhipu4 iwHIoman ?pa In ili at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and quiet reigns in the "rustler" country. Miss Saras N. Randolph, a granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, died in Baltimore, Md. The last span of the great bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis, Tenn., has been completed. Henrietta, Texas, has been almost wiped out of existence by an incendiary fire. Lo3S, 1200,000. Hhrevz, Ohio, was swept by fire. The Town Hali was among the buildings destroyed. Congressman William M. Springer was nominated for a tenth term in the House of Representatives by the Democrats of the Thirteenth District in convention at Springfield, 111. There was no opposition. Washington. The President issued an executive order promulgating the new modus vivendi between the Unitsd States and Great Britain lor the protection or seals in Bering aea. The President made the fallowing nominations: Consuls?D iright Moore (now Vice-Consul), at Aden, Arabia; George T. Lincoln, of Connecticut, at Antwerp; Joseph A. Jones, of Massachusetts (now Consul at Aden, Arabia), at Zanzibar. In the House of Representatives a rote was taken on the Kockwell-Noyes contested election case from the Elmira (N. Y.) District. Mr. Rockwell's title to his seat was confirmed by a vote of 128 to 106. Thx Senate confirmed the nomination of 6. F. Linooln to be Consul at Antwerp, Belgium. Skcretart Blaine asked Congress to appropriate $150,000 to enable the President to carry out the stipulations of the Bering Sea arbitration and modus vivendi treaties. Acting Sicrktart Spatjldino, of the Uf?faa Trooonnw haj rlaniHoH fhaf. UUll^TU UWQKK) Atvuoutji ?MM HMW? bankers who advance money on tobacco may properly be considered the owners of the merchandise for the purpose of making the necessary declaration to the invoice, as required by law. The President nominated WHJiam W. Ash by, of Virginia, as Consul at Colon (Aspinwall), Central America, vice William ?. Sims, deceased. The President sent to the United States Senate a message declining, as incompatable with public interests, to transmit at this time the correspondence relative to an international monetary conference. Foreign. Gendarmes raided an Anarchist quarter in Paris, France, and took forty-five prisoners. The choirmaster in the private chapel in the imperial palace at Peterhof, sixteen miles from St. Petersburg, Russia, while delirious, recently murdered his wife and burned her body. He then threw his three children into a river, where they drowned. A sloop, the property of the Messageries Fluviales, foundered in the River Claire. Annam, China, and thirty soldiers aboard the vessel were drowned, together with the Captain. Thk Mayor of Truro, Nova Scotia, was taken to jail to serve a term of forty-eight hours' imprisonment on a charge of contempt of tha House of Assembly. He sent to the House a document reflecting upon the conduct of Mr. Lawrence, member for Colchester. - A strong police force escorted the recalcitrant Mayor to jail. Quciir Victoria, of England, left Costebelle, Prance, for Darmstadt, Germany. Tnz ravages of yellow fever at Rio Janeiro and at Santos, in Brazil, are increasing. During a squall on the Havel Lakes, Switzerland, three boat3 were capsized and seven of their occupants were drowned. Ravachol and Simon, the Anarchists, have been found guilty by the jury at Paris, France, and sentenced to prison, at hard labor, for life. Ravachol confessed to causing the explosions in the Rue Clinchy and Boulevard St. Germain. Newfoundland decline d a compromise with the Domiuion. Canadian sealers talked of sailing under German and Italian flagj lor protection. The Chilean Cabinet has resolved to cut the estimates on public buildings and works, and also to practice a system or economy in every department of the Government. a passenger train going at full speed on the Colonial Railway, between Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne, was wrecked, and nine persons were killed and thirty in* jured, somo fatally. m. j. TtERrrsr, a freight conductor on cue Louisville and Nashville road, recovered $20,000 damages from the Standard Oil Company for injuries recsived through the explosion of a barrel of naphtha improperly labeled. LATEBJiEWP. TTrokm T) TTprnw nrnsidAd ivat ths Nbw Hampshire Republican State Convention at Concord. The names of Harrison and Blaine ] were loudly cheered. The delegates were , uninstracted. i The New Jersey Republican State Con- ! ention met at Trenton and elected twenty j delegates to tha National Convontion at Minneapolis. It was a Harrison gathering through and through. The" delegation will go to Minneapolis uuinstructed. The Maine Republican State Convention met at Bangor. Tbe platform expresses the continued loyalty and devotion of Maine Republicans "to that great statesman and leader, James (J. Blaine," and "believe the best interests of the country itill be answered" by the renomination and reflection of President Harrison. The Renublicau State Convention of Na braaka, in sflesiou at Kearney, paasai resolutions indorsing President Harrison's administration, and instructing the delegates to Tote for him first, last and all the time. , Thx Colorado Republican State Convention met at Denver. Strong free silvor resolutions were passed and the delegates were instructed to vote only for candidates favor* ing free coinage. John P. Altgzld, of Cook County, was nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Illinois in State Convention assembled at Springfield. The Delegates-at-Large were uninscrucceu, oicepc mac insy were turectea to vote for Palmer if a Westorn man was to be chosen. The Venezuelan Minister at Washington has received a dispatch from his Government saying tho revolution in his country has been suppressed everywhere. SANG ON THE SCAFFOLD, Charles Miller, the Boy Murderer, Executed in Cheyenne. Charles E. Miller, the boy murderer, has been hanged at Cheyenne, Wyoming. Ha showed no anxiety about his future, and died like a dime novel hero. 'He sang a song on the soaffold which ha himself had composed. Miller was the seventeen-year-old murderer of Ross Fishbaugh and Waldo Emerson in a box car of an incoming frieght train in September, 1890. The three were tramping Westward. Miller was a confirmed vagabond. The others were members of respectable families at St. Joseph, Mo.,maldng a cheap trip to jl/enver, wnere lqoj uupou w set food positions. These two were killed for their money?165. Each received a bullet In the head. Miller went to Kansas, confessed to his brother and was delivered to the authorities. After conviction two efforts wen made to have the Governor commute the sentence. His final decision was made two hours before the execution. Miller was born in New York on December 27, 1874. His parents died when he was five years old, his father committing suicide by taking paris green and his mother worrying herself to death. MURDER SOON EXPIATED, Fate of a Tramp Who Killed a Plant* er When He Was Unarmed. A murder and lynching occurred a few days ago, in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. A wealthy planter named Cotton was alone in his store when a tramp entered and asked for a pistol and cartridges. Being told Vt/% nmnAaAil fn Knp. WJWD TTOiB UVUD Ul OWUa^ UU J|/iVJ/VOUi4 w ww> row Mr. Cotton's pistol, to which the planter replied that he never carried one. When he had ascertained this fact the tramp drew out a revolver and ordered Cotton to give him $100. Several colored men came into the store at this juncture, but as none of them had a weapon they were intimidated by the tramp and flea. Mr. Cotton turned to flee, when the tramp fired at him, inflicting a mortal wound. The tramp then robbed the store cash box of 1300, ana was about to depart when a party of whites and blacks came on the scene and overpowered the murderer. Swift vengeance was meted out to th? murderer. The infuriated crowd dragged him to a tree and strung: him up. He died with anathemas on his lips, declaring that his brothers, living in Franklin, Miss., would avenge his death. AN AWFUL OBIME. J. H. Cockerham, While Drunk, Kills His Wife, Her Helper and Himself. James H. Cockerham went to the home of his divorced wife, Nancy, near Dee Moines, Iowa, fired through the window, and instantly killed ' William T. Davis, her hired hand. He then pursued Mrs. Cockerham to the road and shot "her dead, and reloaded his gun and blew his own head off. Mrs. Cockerham securod a divorce from her husband last year on a showing of ten years of terrible cruelty, culminating in a desperate assault upon her in April, 1891, when he told her he was going to kill her and her daughter, Losa, and commit suicide. He was drank, and the daughter then saved the mother's life by seizing his two revolvers and throwing them away. The couple had trouble alt last summer about the seven-acre place Mrs. Cockerham owned, and Cockerham had recently threatened to kill her and his daughter and also her lawyer James H. Jones. Cockerham . - <4 imlr whan ha mmmittftd the ftWful crime. FATAL BLAZE. 5 t Half a Score Perish in a Fire at St. ^ Petersburg. A fatal fire occurred at St. Petersburg, Russia, the other day. A blaze was discov- I ered in a three-story tenement, and when the e occupants of the upper floors reached the '< staircase they found it a roaring mass of ^ flames. The panic-stricken people ran back t to their apartments and many of them ? jumped from the windows. The building 1 was destroyed, and m the ruins were found the bodies of nine persons who had been * burned to death. Fifteen others were miss* * ing and supposed to have also perished. KIDNAPER'S KILLED. < They Had Stolen Two Boys From J Saginaw, Mich. 1 Three tramps, who had kidnaped two * boys from Saginaw, Mich., went to Fair xnont, W. Va., and camped near town, keep- 1 ing the boys in confinement. That evening the gang was joined by a 1 man named ftacy, of Dunbar, Penn. A row was started and the gang turned their pistols on each other. Tracy was killed, one tramp was shot and another had his jugular vein cut All are dead. The boys gave the c alarm. v VOLCANOES IN ACTION. i 8 iri-i?. L'??nHnn>j \'p?r rhp RnlF nf I f IUICIII ttuj/i....... j, California. A Yuma (Arizona) dispatch states that 1 the volcanoes near Lake dullulee, close to f the Gulf of California, wera in eruption soon after the recent earthquake shocks. e For more than twenty miles around the country was illuminated by burning sulphur and molten rocks thrown hundreds of feet in the air. The total visible supply of cotton for th? 0 world is 4,385,181 bales, of which 3.639,381 | bales are American, against 3,218,476 aqd t 1,552,078 bales respectively last year. Re- . ceipts at all interior towns, 26,847 bales. Re- c ceipts at plantations, 42,414 bales. Crop in sight, 8,000,983 bales. Ths British Government has largely ln? creased its grant for the exhibit at the J World's Fair, Chicago.. J? 1 V f IFTY-3EOOND CON Qt&E&B. In the Senate. 79th Day.?A debate on the Chinese qnestion characterised bv an onslaught upon the Searybill by Mr. Sherman, was entered upon The Senate proceeded to the ooo-i naeration of bills on the calendar, and acted' thereon, as follows: Senate bill for theapr pointment of consols to the Congo Frm / state. Passed Authorising Commander Dennis W. Mullan, United States Nitt to ? ? 4-1 lccept a mecuu prcseuMu w uwu Chilean Government., Passed. To reizo? burse the State of Nebraska for expenses inBumd in repelling a tbeateaed invasion by the Sioa* In 1890-'91 (appropriating 160,900). Passed. Providing tor saairy lighthouses and other aids to navigation. Passed; This bill appro uci?>M (504,300 for a large number of ilghtnoassi and other aids to navigation mostly on th* great lakes. To establish a military poat Dear Helena,Moat, (appropriating1800,000). Passed after explanations bj Messrs. Hawtqy and Sanders Mr. Gorman introduced ? bill providing for the payment to the ocrgorate authorities of Frederic, Md t300, uwf me sum exac&eu ircnu tuoui uj uamw Jubal Early, of the Confederate army, tm 1864 under penalty of burning the town. 80th Day.?On motion of Mr. Vilas and without a roll call the Senate adopted aa amendment to a pension bill increasing the pension of all aged and destitute soldiers of the Mexican war from <8 to $12 a monthSenate bill appropriating *81,000 for William and Mary College of Virginia for oooapation and damages by United States troops during the war was passed The Urgency Deflcieny bill was passed with amendments appropriating $25,000 for representation at the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid, ana $100,000 for continuing tbs work of the present censns The Bgass bill, adding the Secretary of Agriculture to the list of Presidential successors, passed The calendar was then taken up. Bills npoa it were disposed of ss follows: Senate jotat resolution extending an invitation to the King and Queen Regent of Spain and the descendants of Columbus to participate is the World's Columbian Exposition. Passed. Joint resolution requesting the loan from Spain of certain articles (Columbian relic# for the World's Columbian Exposition. Passed. Extending an Invitation to tha Presidents of the American Republics and the Governors of the American Colonies to participate in the World's Columbian Exposition. Passed The Geary Chinees ?K> elusion bill occupied the Senate all day after the morning hour. 81st Day.?The Senate used up thewhoit day in further debate on the Chinese bill?? Mr. Teller introduced a resolution requesting the Preddent to inform the Senate wfaafr steps had been adopted to secure an inter* ' national monetary conference. Mr. Sherman suggested the insertion of the usual ; proviso, **if not incompatible with tha : public interests." As amended the resolution was adopted. 82d Day.?The substitute for the Geary Anti-Chinese bill was passed; it extend* tas present laws for ten years Mr. McPhsrson introduced a proposed amendment to tha Naval Appropriation bill authorising tha' construction of three double-turret iron or steel harbor defence vessels of the monttdr type in plaoe of the single cruiser proposal by tha House bill. 83d D at .?The President seat a mesagt. in which he declined to make pnbHe tat corrfspondencs relative to the international monetary conference fhe Senate passed the House bill to authorise the establishaisnt a# * Xwatmh VaHr.nal Kanlr on f.K? l?I I llUlllil flf the World's Columbian Exposition ? The Army Appropriation bill was taksa on' and a number of amendments, reported from the Committee on ApproprfottWL^ were agreed to Mr. Sander* introdnoM a resolution authorizing the Presidsal, to : subscribe for the people 1330,000 to the Grant Monument Association wheo its sob scriptlon shall bare raacaea *wu,uw. 84th Dat. The Naval Appropriation btfl was pawed Mr. Quay introduced a bill appropriating <50,000 for the erection of a statute of the late Admiral David B. P<* JT in Washington. \ m In the House. 90th Dat.?The debate oh the IfoyseRockwell contested election cue waeooo>< tinued. 91st Day.?The minority report on'thai Noyes-Rockwell case from New York; ia[ favor of the sitting member, was adopted! after an exciting debate. 93d Dat.?The entire day was consumed in personal explanations. Mr. Bailev. of Texas, cited a recent article in the Waslnnc- I ton Post, which, he said, reflected upon ms I action In demanding a quorum on the I passage of bills. This occupied nearly I one hour. Another hour was consumed ^ in discussing a bill to establish a mill tary post between Burlington and Gate, Vermont, whicn finally went ovo^l without action. The report of the, Cocn-H mittee on Printing to expunge certain?! portions of the speech of Mr. Waita;H attacking Mr. Hoar and HrA Williams, of Massachusetts, was thesS called up and went ova^? Mr. Storer introduced a bill to provide for an international ratio between gold and sii-H ver, and to suspend tha purchase of rf<rarfl bullion from and after July 1, 1893. JH 93d Dat.?The entire day was consumeci^H in an attempt to procure a ??nj uu u? iw lation expanding certain portions of Mr. Walker's remarits from the Record. MrWalker had made allusions to Mr. Wifliauu and Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, which were considered objectionable. The Repub llcans declined to vote, thus breaking ? quorum, and the Speaker refused to coonl members present as voting. 94th Day.?Messrs. Geary. Chip man and Hitt were appointed Hotueconferrees on th Chinese bill The Diplomatic and Gob* sular Appropriation bjll was considered. 96th Dat.?Consideration of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill WM continued. OUB FOREIGN TBADE. j Exports Exceeded Imports $100,22 921 During the Past Year. 7 The report of the Bureau of Statistics, freasury Department, for March, showerthat >110 ujtpurus %JL UUMV.USUUioo iW* maiwy irm rained at 181,810,075; imports, $86,549,338; IXC6S9 of imports over exports. $4,730,283. For nine month*, exports, $819,720,639; imwrts, $610,327,631; excess of exports over mports, $209,393,058. For twelve months, uports, $1,008,284,506; imports, .$837.088,.1 >85; excess of exports over imports, $109;-, 125,021. For the preceding twelvemonth* he excess of exports over import* aggregated only $38,847,922, showing a handsome ncrease during the past year. / ^ The exports of golc* and silver for the same welve months aggregated $111,952,016 and ne imports $88,996,459, showing aa ezooHoC >xports over imports of the precious metals )f $44,955,557 as compared with innream n the same direction last year of $13,451,ire. The number of immigrants arriving in his country during March was 58,879, and or the past twelve months, 816,287, the argest number of whom (68,849) came from Germany. WORLD'S FAIR 00NGBE83E8. fnmBroni Aiaemblsmi to be Held, ia Connection With the Exposition. The numerous Congresses to be held in onnection with the Exposition are creating ride-spread interest, and undoubtedly wQl >e a rery important feature of the World's fair, at Chicago. According to the general. chedule now prepared, the "various confesses under the several departments will >e held in 18U8 as follows: May?Music and the drama, public press, nedicine. June?Temperance, moral and social reorm, commerce and finance. July?Literature, science and philosophy. August?Engineering, art, Government. September?Parliament of religions, d?lomtnational congre383s, Sunday rest. October?Labor, agriculture, real estate, nerchants, etc. These great departments are in charge of ;eneral committees, which, with the aavica ind suggestions of persons and societies in-* erested, arrange the programme and select he speakers, with the approval of the Frestlent of the Auxiliary. Thk total of wheat stored at Dnluth. linn., is about 15,265,000 bushels, and all >ut 140,000 bushels is of the finest milling Tad eo.