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? " 4 ." - { v. V; ; . V TEE STARYIE Distributing America's Contribution of Grain and Flour. Appalling Condition of the Famine-Stricken Districts. C. McC. Reeve, one of the commissioners who delivered in Russia the steamship Missouri's cargo of flour and cornmeal given kj Americans, and particularly by residents cf Minnesota and Nebraska, to relieve distress in the great famine districts, has returned to this country. From twenty-six 8tates grain or money vas contributed, and the New York Caamber of Commerce capped the climax by giving *12,OW. which norcbased enough flour to make up the Missouri's cargo of 5,250,000 pounds of flour and meal * "After learning the needs and prevalent conditions in various communities of Rus a," said Mr. Reeve to a New York World reporter, "we selected about forty persons, and allotted to each a proportion of the cargo, which ho seemed to need. The list was revised several times. "The places selected for consignment are scattered in the great territory, some six hundred miles wide, southeast of Moscow, including the provinces of Tula, Tambouf, Barrator and Samarra. Count Bobrinsky and Dr. Crawford, the Consul-General, went with me to Libau to meet the ship and the other Commissioners. The Missouri came towards the harbor of Libau Sunday night, April 3, but was so heavily laden that anchor was dropped three miles out. "The people were alive to the mission of nnamtinrtQ TTQC Afeotfl WW 9UJU auu udi with salutes from the town and vessels in the karbor and an abundant display of bunt?pr. "Lightering was at once commenced, and by Monday at 2 p. x? the first tram of thirty-two cars was ready to start from the Interior, As each car was filled a Government seal, which is one of the thin ;s no body meddles with there, was put over the lock. Tne last few bags of flour were lifted into the last car by the Russian dignitaries and the commissioners. Upon racb car an official placard was attached woich directed that the consignment be hastened, with preference over all other freight. "Thousands of citizens were present at the departure of the train, which was attended by imposing religious ceremonies, mesis u f the Greek Church, clad in their robes of office, conducted the exercises which blessed the sacreJ freight. An invocation for God's messing upon the American people was fervently delivered. The scene altogether was so unique and yet so solemn that it was to me wonderfully impressive. I have never beard the singing of a choir which equaled that which participated in those services. 'That Monday night the Missouri had been lightened enough to come into the inner , harbor. Bells were rung in the city and rockets lighted up the night. Praises of America were on everybody's lips. Each departing train was blessed by the priests ana by Wednesday night, April 6, the last era had gone. We followed it to Moscow. "None of us went into the heart of the limine district- Obviously after placing ear offering in the wisest hands possible we could accomplish no further good. I sat about gathering information of this famine and the condition of the Russian people which would establish for my own satisfaction the wisdom of this generoui venture Americans. 'The famine is limply appalling. No picture of men, women and children starring and freezing to death in wretched hordes can be too awfully drawn to truthfully portray the real situation. Besides this district, into spots of which this offering want, there is a triangular district alonz the upper Volga and east of Nizni Novgorod from which few details can be learned, because the situation is simply awful. There are vast regions, remote from the railroads, where it is impossible to send any relief. "Where the soup kitchens and fool dis Iributions are in operation lists are prepared which allot times for ea:b person's eating. Able-bodied men an 1 uhilarea under two yearso? age are deui^i public food. These children usually die. Women and children are fed, but large families are allotted a less J amber of meals than the number of memhers, so some of them must each day go without eating "In the face of all that has been saidabout the neartlessness of the nobility and landed proprietors oi Russia." continued Mr. Reeve, A 1VUUU bUIW VU7JT LLCS T Cf CM t? V.MMIJ, WIT tantiy aided in uplifting the condition of the peasants. Minister Smith told me that the present Czar has been frugal and from allowances for ordinary court expenditures has saved large sum-, and that be has not nly given all those savings, but has made teroads upon his private purse in contributions to allay this suffering. He has given, Mr. Smith said, between $8,000,000 or $10, 00,000, or more than all the rest of the world. Tnis proves to my mind his deep solicitude for hit people." ;THE BANCBOFT LAUNCHED. She is the New Practice \ essel lor the Naval Cadets. ' The United States practice cruiser Bancroft, which is designed for the rise of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, has baa a launched at the shipyard of the Samuel L. Moore & Sons' Company at riiizaoesoport, If. J., where she was built. The "baby cruiser,0 as naval officers have already duobed her, showed amazing spirit upon her liberation from the timbers which have cradled her during her building, and took to the water literally like a duct. She broke away with su:h rigor that ber blue-eyed and fair-haired christener, Miss Mary Frances Moore, ha 1 to act with uncommon liveliness to smash the bottle ovar the vessel's steel nose before she rushed away into Statea Island Sound. The Bancroft is the smallest vessel of th? aew steel navy. The act authorizing her construction was pawed on September 7, 1989, and ber purpose was to provide a thoroughly modern war ship in miniature for the use of the cadets oC the National Naval Academy. Heretofore the cadets have cruised annually in the old ship Constellation, but, while this has given them practice in steamship and discipim?, it has left their education in the hands o? Modern ships and modern armameuts to be got after graduation. The plan was to fit the steel practice cruiser with every appliance which could be found aboird the best of the new ships, and she was to be so constructed as to make a small though serviceable cruiser in case of war. These are her dimensions. Length on water line, 187 feet 6 incnesi; length over all, 180 feet tiincnes; breadth of beam, 32 feet; moulded depth, 21 teet \yt incaa-; urau^uu o? water, 11 feet forward, 12 feet aft; area of immersed raidsaip section, -7J square I?et; of load water plane, 40J2 square feet; displacement per inoa of immersion at loai water line, 9.53 tons. Tbe Bancroft is expected to develop a peed of fourteen knots. Her propellers are even feet in diameter, with a pitch of seven and a half feet. Shi will be rigged as a barkentine witaout head booms, and will have a siil area for 530 square feet. For a main battery she will have four four-inc'a rapid-fire guns in projecting sponsons protected by shieMs. Tn? secondary battery will consist of two six pounder, two three pounder, au 1 one one pouader rapid tire sans, one thirty-seven mm. revolving cannon, au 1 one Gatling sun. There will oi two tubes for automobile torpedoes. With her equipment the vessel is to cost $33 5,75 J. CRAZED BY BIDIOULE. A Lebiffh University Instructor of Whom the Students Made Game. Dwight F. Carroll, the instructor in fh>sics at Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Penn., has become insane from m practical joke played upon him by the students. He is a graduate of wesieyan. He was a fine instructor, but so reserved and unsociable that he became the bject of the students' ridicule. 1 month ago the students gave a minstrel performance, in which one of the actors burlesqued Carroll. The audience applauded and laughed heartily, and the hapeless inotrocter left the hall. He brooded so much <mr the joke that he fall sick from nervous prostration. Ho soon got the impression that all students were his enemies. His toother, Charles F. Carroll, took him away. - r-\fc ' * FIFTY-SECOND C0NQBE3S. In the Senate. soth Day.?The Senate spent the whole of the day's session in an animated discussion of the now famous Choctaw award of last winter? Mr. Turpie introduced a bill . _i j ??-,/-! coilnra ftf t.hfl lO exempt soiultjl3 am* -- ! late war in the classical civil service of tb< United States from compulsory examination for promotion?? The nomination o?T. Jefferson Coolidge to be Minister to France was sent in by the President. 56th Dat.?Mr. Manderson introduced a joint resolution authorizing and requesting the .President to take such amicable measures as, in his opinion, are best adapted to obtain from the Italian Government a suitable indemnity for the injuries infl.cted by the civil and military authorities of Italy upon Nicolino Mileo, a naturalized citizen of the United States, who, while on a visit to Italy, was imprisoned and afterwards compelled to serve in the Italian Army. 87th Day.?The Senate by a vote of thirty yeas to fifteen nays agreed to the conference report on the Chinese Exclusion bill??Mr. Morrill submitted the report of the committee appointed by the Senate to inquire into the effect of the tariff legislation on our trade with Canada Mr. Morgan called up the [ President's message on the subject of an international conference as to silver coinage. Mr. Kyle then addressed the Senate in favor of the free coinage of silver. At the close of his speech the message was again laid on the table. 88th Day.?Mr. Chandler reported an amendment to the Naval Appropriation bill, appropriating $100,000 toward tne construction of a dry dock at Portsmouth, N. H. The limit of cost is placed at $590,000 Mr. McPherson reported an amendment to the Naval Appropriation hill, which purposes to increase the number of narbor defence vessels from one to three; torpedo boats from six to teD, and also provides for torpedoes, marine and otherwise, for which $1,000,000 is appropriated After the routine morning business the Senate took up the Calendar, and the following bills were disposed of among others: Appropriating $100,000 for a public building at McKeesport, Penn. Passed. Senate bill to convey to the State of Kansas a portion of the Fort Hayes Military Reservation (about 3209 acres) for homes for old soldiers and their families, and to open the re3t of the reservation to homestead settlement. Passed. Senate bill for the disposal or tne remaining public lands in Alabama for the promotion of technical education. Passed, after some discussion. Senate bill appropriating $50, 000 for a public building at Charlottesville, Va. Passed. In the House. ^6th Day.? No business was dona on account of a lack of a quorum. 97th Da v.?No quorum was present. The Sergeant-at-Arms submitted a report upon the order to arrest members absent without leave. Twelve members were brought before the bar of the House and compelled to give excuses for their absence? The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar, the pending bill being that for t&e relief of Henry H. and Charlotte K. Sibley, which has been pending for Ave weeks. It was finally re ferred to the Court of Claims for adjustment. The committee arose and the House took a recess until 8 o'clock p. m., when private pension bills were considered. 98th Day.?There was again a scarcity of members, and it took an hour to muster a quorum, after which the House took up the iNninmatin and Consular Appropriation bill, the pending question being the Hitt amendment to restore the salary of the Minister to Venezuela to $7500, the committee having reduced it to f5030. The House sustained the committee?yeai, nineteen; nays; 149. Pending further discussion the committee rose ana the House adjourned. 99th Dat.?Mr. Cockran's bill to admit to American registry certain foreign built ves sels owned in this country was passed? Mr. Moses moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to pension survivors of the Blackhawk, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole wars. Agreed to. The bill grauts a pension of $8 a month to the benefieiaries On motion of Mr. Blount the rules were suspended, and the bill was passed, appropriating $150,000 to enable the President; to fulfill the stipulations contained in the treaties between the United States and Great Britain, Rizned February 29 and April 18, 1892, in regard to tribunals of arbitration at Paris? Mr. Bryan asked that the rules be suspended, and that the House pass the bill putting binding twine on the free list Mr. Burrows made an attempt to secure a time for debate, but it was limited to the forty minutes allowed " * ^? Tho Kill vu beiore nnai action wm iauu. ? ? passed?yeas 183, nays forty-seven. 100th Day.?Jlr. Davis, of Kansas, introduced a bill placing salt, lumber, wood and manufactures of wood on the fres list ??'The 0ouse passed the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill after a lenjthy J debate. The most important changes in the bill were the items restoring the Danish mission, and the rejection of the appropriation of 165,000 for the Continental Railroad survey. 101st Dat.?The House, by a vote of yeas, 185; nays, twenty-three, adopted the con ference report on the deary Chinese bill? Mr. Bland introduced a bill repealing all laws imposing a tax ou the currency of circulating notes issued by authority of any State or banking association organized by the authority of a State A dozen or two private pension bills coming over from Friday night's session were passed Mepsrs. Outhwaite, Mitchell ana Belknap were appointed conferrees on the Army Appropriation bill. PB0MINENT PEOPLE. pTH^King and Queen of Italy are to visit uu5^uu* .*?Senator Hiscock, of New York, Is fond of athletics. Haws von Bttlow calls Bismarck the Beethoven of politics. Representative Dubobbow, of Illinois, is the Apollo of Congress. Rear A.dxibal Kimberly has been placed on the retired list. The King of Denmark puts on no frills or style as he rambles through the streets of Copenhagen. The Princess of Wales is said to have "aged" very materially since the death of her favorite son. A sisteb of the late Cardinal Manning is still living in England at the age of more than ninety veass. Pbofessor Franz Leitz, known as the Nestor of German surgeons, is dead at Munich, Bavaria. In the House of Representatives Mr. Rayner.ot Maryland, i9 3aid to be pre-eminent for fluency of speech. Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, is commonly credited with being the readiest of Congressional speakers. The late Prince de Chimay for years played first violin in the most exclusive or* chestra in Brussels, Belgium. The late Alexander Mackenzie, of Canada, was offered a knighthood three times, but always declined the honor. Senator Brice, of Otic, gave a musical entertainment at Washington one night recently, attended by the President and 400 other people, whicti cost $12,000. Soke speculative mathematician has figured it out that William Waldorf Astor'a income is twenty-nine cents a second, $17.28 a minute and about $1000 an hour. Senor Martinez dr Roda, a Spanish nobieman, aDd Mme. Francisca de Barrios, widow of the late President of Uuetemala, were married in New York several days ago. Shy is worth $8,000,000. Louis Kossuth, who is living in Turin, Italy, is just ninety year old. Several of bis fellow countrymen visited him recently. They found him not only in good health, but taking a keen interest in everything going on in Hungary. Miss Sarah N. Randolph, the youngest daughter of the late Colonel T.J. Randolph of Edge Hill, Va., and greatrgranddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, died a few days since in Baltimore, Md. She was the author of the well-known work, "The Domestic.Life of Thomas Jefferson," and other books. Samuel Minturn Peck, the Southern poet, lives like a hermit on his farm near Tuscaloosa, Ala., but is the soul of hospitality when any one drops in on him. During the 1 summer he keeps open house for his friends, on the understanding, however, that none of I them hail him as a poet or talk too muc1 | "shop." A BLOODLESS MAY DAY. Europe's Vision of Anarchistic Horrors Happily Dissipated. Lar^e But Orderly Demonstrations by the Workin^men. May Day passed off in Europe withou any serious disturbances, a few explosion: in several places doing comparatively littli damage. Instead of the red dragon o anarchy the dove of peace hovered ove Europe, and with few exceptions order pre vailed everywhere. In England, where free speech and thi right of peaceable assemblage was respected, the workingmen met in public places am intelligently and temperately discussed tbt means of attaining their ends tbrou<?a legislative enactments. A frothj tongued anarchist who sought tc create a disturbance in Hyde Park, London, was dragged from the speaker's stand and hustled beyond the outskirts of the assem DJage, wmcn numoerea neany ow,wu. llie streets of Paris, France, and all the public buildings were heavily guarded with military and police, and outdoor meetings were prohibited there ajid elsewhere tiirougb* out the Republie, from all parts of which a quiet day was reported. Spain also was quiet, the only startling incident being in Seville, where a priest found a bomb with ignited fuse in the confessional. In Italy the elaborate police precautions sufficed to prevent aay outbreaks, except at Forii, were two bombs were exploded, one at the prison. No damage was done with the exception of smashing some window panes. In Germany, generally, and in Austria rain put a damper on the ardor of the opponents of all law, and this combined with the precautions of the authorities, served to give those countries a peaceful day. The only reported outbreak of any moment was at Liege, where the mob attached a company of soldiers who were marching tnrougn a sireau, uul were luapoideu. aiuci two bombs bad been exploded without,however, causing any loss of life. Altogether, it would seem that the authorities have succeeded In badly scotching the anarchistic snake, and that the real workingmen of Europo are most disposed to kill it than to warm it into life, ana are inclined to seek redress for their' wrongs by the peaceful way of political agitation. London witnessed one of the largest labor demonstrations in its history, marked by only one disquieting incident. Up to 6 p. it. the police around Hyde hark had made arrests only for drunkenness and disorderly conduct in isolated cases. Shortly after noon a sentinel at the Woolwich Arsenal discovered at the entrance of the gun factory a bag containing eight canisters loaded with dynamite, gun cotton and cartridges. He called in a policeman and the bag was removed. No I use was attached to the canisters, but a detonator was found at the bottom of the bag. The plot was undoubtedly to destroy England's greatest arsenal, although thereby 17,000 men would heve been thrown out of employment. Excepting this incident nothing marked the peacefulness of the demonstration.' By 3 o'clock tbere were fully 350,000 people in the par it, and Detwan tnen ana o me cruwu swelled to half a million. Scores of meetings were held. May Day was celebrated at Manchester, England, with processions and meetings. Between 20,000 and 30,000 men assembled in the park and listened to speeches from six platforms. All the speeches were on the eight-hour day. There were several processions of labor organizations at Bradford, England, and ait open-air meeting attended by about 10,000 workingmen. Resolutions in favor of the eight-hour day and sending more laborers to Parliament were adopted. About 25,000 laboring men participate 1 in the eight-hour demonstration at Glasgow, (Scotland. There was no trouoie. Liege, Belgium, was panic-stricken, and collisions between the crowds of workingmen and the National milita occurred hourly. The day passed without disorder, and no attempt was made to bold meetings. After sundown the streets were filled with workingmen, some intoxicated, but most of them ober and orderly. A body of militia, in marching out to relieve a company on guard uear the City Hall, came upon a crowd of workingmen and tried to march through. Instantly there was cries of "Down with the police I" "Kill the hirelings!" and "Long live anarachy I" The militia charged and dispersed the crowd, but hardly a minute later an explosion was heard and the air was filled with splintered glass. A bomb had beon set off in tront of a shop about fifty yards off. The pavement was shattered and all the windows of near-by buildings were blown out. Nobody was injures. Withiu ten minute* two more bombs were ex oloded in the same district THE CHINESE BILL, The Conference Report Adopted bj the United States Senate. The United States Senate, with a scant quorum present; passed by a rote of thirty to fifteen, the amended Chinese Exclusion bill. The new sections of the bill proposed by the oonferrees are: Skction 5. That after the passage of this act, on an application to any Judge or court of the United States in the first instance for a writ of habeas corpus by a Chinese person seeking to live in the United States, to whom that privilege has been denied, no bail shall be alio weand such application shall be heard and determined promptly, without unnecessary delay. Szc. 6L And it sball be the duty of all Chinesa laborers within the limits of the United States at the time of the passage of this act, and who are entitled to remain in the United States, to apply to the Collector of Internal Revenue for their respective districts, within one year after the passage of this act, for a certificate of residence; and any Chinese laborer within the limits of the United States who shall neglect, fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, or who. after one year from the passage there?.t oholl Ha fnnnH within thn -jurisdiction of the United States without such certificate of residence, shall be deemed and adjudged to be unlawfully within the United States, and may be arrested by any United States customs officer, Collector of Internal Revenue or his deputies, United States Marshal or his deputies, and taken before a United States Judge, whose duty it shall be to order that he be deported from the United States as hereinfore provided, unless he shall establish clearly to the satisfaction of said Judge that by reason of accident, sickness, or other unavoidable cause, be had been unaole to procure his certificate, and to the satisfaction of the court and by at least one creditable white witness, that he was a resident of the United States at the time of the passage of this act, and if upon the hearing it shall appear that be is so entitled to a certificate, it shall be granted upon bis paying the cost. Should it appear tbat said Cbinamnn had procured a certificate, which nas been lost or destroyed, he shall be detained and judgment suspended a reasonable time to allow htm to procure a duplicate from the officer granting it, aud in such cases the costs of said arrest and trial shall be in the discretion of the vs'ouru adu any v^uiuomj persun uiucr vuan a Chinese laborer having a right to be and remain in the United States desiring such certificates as evidence ot such right, m.iy apply for and receive the same without charge. The vote by which the bill was adopted, as reported by the Conference Committee, was: Yeas?Allen. Allison, Chandler, Cockrell, Cullom, Dolpc. FeltOD, Gallinser, (iorman, Hansbrough, Harris, Hiscoc*, Jones, of Arkansas; Mcpherson, Mitchell, Morgan, Peffer (F. A.), Perkins, Power, Ransom, Sanders, Shoup. Squire, Stanford, Stewart, Stockbridge, Vest, Walthall, Warren and White?thirty. Nays?Bate, Call, Colquitt, Dawes, Dixon, Frye, George, Gray, Hie"' r^yle (Ind.), Palmer, Piatt, Pugh, Sherman and Wilsoa ?fifteen. It tran?pir2s that the establishment ot "St. Andrews Coffee Houses," of New Yoric, where thapoor could buy a meal for a tiunny, was only the scheme of a Mrs. Lama !rid, iheir founder, to get money for herseif. She bsgeed a fortune on their credit ana liv<fd wall both ia town and country. , . <??*;.: - : > . " THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I / Eastern and Middle State*. JoH* Lex, a Chinaman, handed himself 5 in his cell in Boston, Mass. He was under arrest for entering another Chinaman's shop. He used a blue silk handkerchief for a rope. Gkpteral William Wclls, one of the best known citizens of Vermont, died suddenly in New York City of heart disease. He was born in Water bury, Vt., December 14, 1837. . A ron*8T fire was started by a spark from a locomotive near Richland, N. J., and be* fore midnight had burned over a thousand > acres of the finest standing timber in South i Jersey. A fierce fire also raged for several H?va nn what is know as Rattlesnake Moun ' tains, near Oxford, N. J., and hundreds of acres of fine timber vcere bnrned. Three freight trains collided at Church* ? ville, N. Y? and Engineer Walter J one* was killed. The cars caught fire. Ferdinand Ward was released from Sing ' Sing (N. Y.) Prison after spending therein > six years and a half, part of his sentence of ten years imposed tor his connection with ' the wrecking of the Marine National Bank in 1881. By good behavior and obeying the 1 rules of the prison he earned three years and a half as commutation. , The Rev. M. L. Veakley. reported to have been the oldest Methodist minister in the , United States, died at his hom9 in Berlin, Penn., a few days sine?. He was ninety-five i years old. Bishop McDonnell was formally installed as Catholic Bishop of the Dioceae of Brooklyn, N. Y. The steamship Tvnehead sailed from the Port of New York for Russia with a cargo of flour and provisions gathered by the Red Cross Society for the relief of the starving peasants of Russia. The vessel was gayl.v decorated with flags, bunting and flowers furnished by the women of Washington. She carried 117,000 bushels of corn AAA x m a "J r\9 oonn&A 'MU pods 01 auur auu oc>oi<~ wuo v>. meats, soaps, jellies, etc., for use in the hospitals of Russia. Two earthquakes were felt in Concord, N. H., the first about half-past 8, another at half-past 9. One shock was felt a GoUstown, N. H. Granits-cuttkrs and quarrymen struck for more pay and shorter hours throughout New England. John Mc Winter, the oldest resident of Connecticut, died at his home in Boltooville, aged 104 years and six months. He leaves eight children, forty-two grandchildren, sixty-one great-gran Ichildren and sixteen great.great-grandchildren. Thkodore L. WooDRtrrr, eighty-one, of sleeping-car fame, was killed, a few days asfo, on the railroad track at Gloucester, Tax Connecticut House of Representatives met at Hartford, after a recess of nearly three months. A few appropriations for contingent expenses were passed, and a con4'J?4-' 1 ?nroo hv mp. BlllU'vlUJitu aui:uuui?uv vmv*w? ? j . . Healy, of Windsor Locks, submitting plurality for majority wherever the latter word occurs in Article IV. of the Constitution. The House then adjourned until September. The State Convention of the People's Party of Maine assembled in Gardiner. Nearly 100 delegates were present, including ma ny prominent labor men. It nominated a State ticket, headed by L. C. Bateman for Governor, and indorsed the St Louis platform. The graduating exercises of the Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary were held in the seminary chapel. There were forty-four glBU?a>w> Ax electric storm passed over Pittsburg, ! Penn. The lightning struck the Allegheny County Blectric Light Company's works and burned out seven dynamos. Five hundred telephones were burned out. South and West. "Got" Spencer and Jaok Burnett, horse thieves, were killed in a fight with five deputy sheriffs in Northwestern Wyoming, and fifty horses stolen from the Big Horn country in Wyoming and Montana were found at their rendexvous. Food and relief supplies from the North for the starving Mexicans at Rio Grande City have baen received at Corpus Christi, Texas. Over 500 families were red. Jackson, Sevier and Knox Counties in Tennessee are in a panic over the operations of the White Caps. About fifty persons have been whipped. Among them was a minister, the Rev. Mr. Jenkins. A fa&meb named Wetherton and his wi. e were foully murdered in their bed while on a visit to the house of some relatives near Amity, Ark. Seven frame houses were destroyed by a I cyclone at Burns, Kan. A constable attempted to arrest two colored men at Bayou tiara. La. They resisted, drew revolvers and began firing. Several white men went to the constable's assist* ance. Edgar Hamilton (white) and two colored men were instantly killed. Two other white men were wounded. A construction train on the Great Northern was ditched near Bonner Perry, Montana. Attached to t^he train were large boarding cars containing railroad laborers, four of whom were instantly killed. While picknicking on Chickaraauga Creek three members of the middle class of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) High School were drowned. A highwayman near the mining camp at San Andreas, Cal, attempted to get hold of the money on board the stage. He used a shotgun, and bis attempt resulted in killing a young woman, wounding the driver, ana dangerously injuring the express messenger. The nigh way man escaped. A culvert near Lincoln, Neb., was washed out by the heavy rain, wrecking the eastbound passenger train. Tne engine and mail and express cars were thrown into the ditch. Fireman H. P. Shring and two tramps who were stealing a rlae were instantly killed. Louis Schmelz, Sheriff of Brown County, Minn., was found dead in the Minnesota River. He had been despondent and had vv^.fanoH nnmmit suicide. Shkbiff Luna, of Searey County, Ark., rent on a spree a few days ago and spent (3000 of the county'* money. His bondsmen iad him arrested. By the cansizing of a boat on Leighton Lake, near Grand Rapids, Minn., fourteen of Backus's driving crew were upset and Sandy McLeod, John Murray and an Indian were drowned. Storks, with Joss of life and property, raged in the West, especially in Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois ani Michigan. The Presidents and Executive Boards of Southern Farmers' Alliances met at Birmingham. Ala., and it was understood that thesentimeat was in favor of support v the third party. One hundred ironworkers on World's Fair buildinars iu Chicago, III., struck for thirty-five instead of thirty cents an hour. The heavy rain in Iowa caused a ioss of 1100,000 to crops and bridges; many of the latter were washed away. Advices from yarl' ous points in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri show that the raiu storm was the most damaging for years. Washington. The following is a list of United States Senators who have been appointed to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Democratic Campaign Committee: M. C. Butler, South Carolina; A. H. Colquitt, Georgia; J. C. S. Blackburn, Kentucky; ?i. K. Jones, Arkansas; W. B. Bate, Tennessee; C. J. Faulkner, West Virginia; David TTirpie. Indiana; Rufus Blooigett, New Jersey; J. S. Barbour, Virginia; R. Q. Mills, Texa?. President Harrison has issued a proclamation announcing the establishment, under the provisions of section three of the McKinley Tariff law, of reciprocal trade relations with Honduras. Representative Oates, of Alabama,has received from Auourn a sample of the first cotton ever ginned by electricity. Ex-Speaker Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, a venerable mau, now called on the President. Mr. Winthrop has enjoyed the acquaintance of every President of the United State3 with the exception of Washington and Jefferson. Justice M. V. Montgomery, of Michigan, who was appointed by President Cleveland to the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and entered upon his duties February 3, 1883, has resigned his position to take effect October 1, 1892. - . .. .' ' ' : / <41*% " ' -. 1. i ; ? C&tnrr 'JFKtiaUitof, wColuu Bern for the last nine years counselor of the Belgian Legation at Washington, has just been appointed Minister to the Grand Dachjr of Luxembourg. Thk Navy Ordnance Barean continues to have success with its smokeless powder made at the works at Newport, R. I. A sample of powder has been tried in the five-inch gup, the charge being, in this case, ten and , three-fourths pounds. A velocity of 2540 \ foot seconds was obtained at the low pres sure or is.sj tons. Thz public debt state moot shows that the < interest and non-interest bearing debt de- , creased $778,375 daring the month of April. . Total cash in treasury, $797,635,846.81. Secretary Foster transmitted to tho House a letter from tho Postmaster-General submitting: an estimate of $305,293 for ocean and mail service now under contract for the ' year ending June, 1893. 1 Thz Postmaster-General made a report to the Senate that the experimental free de- , livery of mails in forty-eigbt small towns in all parts of the country had been highly successful In nearly every town the increase < in postal receipts was equal to the additional j expense of free-delivery service. , Columbia Typographical Uniox No. , 101 dedicated its new building in Washington, which is said to be the finest ever I erected by a single chapter of a labor organization. Representative Amos J. Cummings made the dedicatory speech. Presi- ' dent Harrison entered the hall after the speechmaking and stood on the steps in i front oi the platform and shook hands with l the people who tiled past him. Foreign* ' A. great fire raged at Toklo, Japan. The flame was extinguished after it had consumed i 5000 houses on twenty streets. It was es- < timated that seventeen to forty-five persons had perished. The steamer Raiden Mam was sunk by ' floating ice in Kushiro Harbor, Japan, and < forty peraons were drowned. I Mrs. Florence Ethel Osbjdrne, who i was recently seat to prison m juonuoa iur stealing pearls belonging to her friend. Mrs. Harfrrea7ea, has been released by order of 1 the British Home Secretary. . The Dnke of Westminster has offered, at , London, England, a reward of 135,000 for the arrest of the person who poisoned his race ' horse Orme. A dynamite cartridge exploded on the threshold of a house in the Boulevard Sanvenlere, Liege, Belgium. The house and a ' building adjoining it were partially wrecked, i tho flnimtones ware torn ud and all the win- , dows were smashed. . At Melbourne, Australia, the multi-murderer Deeming was found guilty of killing his wife and sentenced to death. The jury ] also decided that he was not insane. ( The report is confirmed of the destruction ( of Tonitaba, West Africa, by the British, with the mortal wounding of Captain ' Roberts and the killing of many men. The I British took 119 women and children to j Bathurst to save them from slavery. The Brazilian Government is taking active steps to put down the rebellion in Matto Grosso, which State recently declared itself ] independent of the Federal Government. A flotilla, consisting of six war ships, accompanied by a transport with a strong foroe of j troops, will shortly start for the purpose of < suppressing the uprising. \ Queen Victoria of England arrived at , Windsor on her return from her sojourn in the south of France, and her visit to Ger- ' many. The Newfoundland Legislature bas passed i a resolution renewing the tariff diacrimina- , ting against Canada. THE LABOB WOULD. | A hospital for railway men is to be built 1 In Chicago, IU. Nineteen million spindles are idle in I*n* cashire, England. I A a Duma bene diver sometimes makes as high as 120,000 a year. * The volume of business in iron is greater in all lines than last year The Italian silk weavers of New Tork j City have been organised into a union. m om * a JLtiJtKJb are nuw oiv iajnua ?uu wvhw ? * United States where carpenters work only Dine hours per day. The master cotton-spinners in England 1 have inaugurated a lockout which will affect ] full} 700,000 operatives. The National Seaman's Union has finally organized at Chicago, 111., with representation of 23,003 member?. A union of laundry workers has been organized under tha auspices of the New f York Federation of Labor, I Seventy cents per ton has been fixed as ( I the rate for wages of miners in the Brazil [ (Ind.) coal districts for the coming season. Chivese laborers, skilled or unskilled, are j debarred from United States territory. , | There is no restriction on Japanese immigration. , Jouenetmaw on New York morning I papers earn from $20 to ISO per week, ana ( on afternoon papers from 915 to ?25 per week. Railroad employes in the Far West are ( forming political clubs, with the object of : opposing legislation detrimental to their interests. There are at present in New York City from 12,000 to 15,000 cloak op?ratives who are working for sweaters on the East side, and 20,000 cloak-makers. 1 Ik one of the large match-box factories of J England there are 3000 girls employed rang* Ing from fourteen to thirty years, and the | salaries average *2.30 a week. The Durham (England) coal-mine owners declare that none of their mines will be r?- ' opened except on the condition of a ten per 1 cent, reduction in wages, to continue in force ( during the next three months. ( John Burns, the London workingman's champion and "agitator," is thirty-four fears old and an engineer by trade. He is a member of the London County Council and f baa a prospect of getting into Parliament. In 1872 Denmark had 8000 members of la* ( bor organisations. There are now over 1 50,000. When candidates for the Riksdag t i??.J i. 1Q70 flinrr 31K 1 "WO uuuiiuaucu 1U 1UIW tucj * www*?w? f votes in five districts. In 1890 ten candidates received about 17,000 rotes and three of them were elected. , < PLUNGED FEOM A TBESTLE. 1 An Engine and Twelve Cars Fall Into t a River. ! A bad wreck on the Louisville, New Al- f bany and Chicazo road occurred at Otis, 1 Ind. It resulted in the death of Engineer s J C, Hurray, Fireman James Brown and Brakeman Elmer H. Brown. 5 Engine 27, going irom Monon to Michigan c City with a heavy train of freight cars, dashed through the trestle into the swollen mill stream beneath. Several miles above the bridge is a dam, which gave way shortly before midnight, and, tearing aloog, bore with it a large sawmill. It is supposed that the mill struck the trestle just as the loaded cars were on it. The bridge is a new one and made of oak and iron. The curve in the road and the darkness, together * with the downpour of rein, made it impossi- t ble for the engineer to notice the washout, ^ and tha engine and twelve of the cars went over, bearing with them the trainmen, who c were killed. The cars were loaded with pig ' iron and coal, and crushed down upon the 8 engine and tender. * MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS, J A United States Census Bulletin on Nebraska Heal K*tate. The Census Office has is3uei from Washington a bulletin showing that the real estate mortgage business of Nebraska during the past decade is represented by 337,872 mortgages, made to secure a debt of $374,36S,358. Of this debt 48.44 per cent, remained unpaid on January 1, 1890. Nearly onethird, 31.90 per cent, uf the existing debt is in village and city lots, the principal portion of this being in the counties of Douglass and Lancaster, in which are the cities of Omaha and Lincoln. In jj Douglass County the existing debt is $27,- ? 064,041, of which 87.60 per cent, is on lots. ? In Lancaster County the existing debt is ? 19,172,26(5, of which 6*. 97 per cent, is on lots. ' Existing mortgages cover 14,085,293 acres, * and these are 33.13 per cent, of the total J number of taxed acres in the State. ' - ^ ... . .V . jJ-. . ; L LATER flEWE, The bo'!fr of a locomotive exploded in the yard at Irvons, Penn. Moulton, engineer, and Ake, fireman, both of Punxsutawney, were instantly killed. Ake's body was blown entirely through a box car, and the engineer's body was found 100 yards from die scene of the explosion. Thx case against Almy, the New Hampshire murderer of Christie Warden, was reDoenel at Plymouth; the new evidence was lot regarded by the judges as weighty, and the prisoner was resentenced to death. Charles Emort Smith, United States Minister to Russia, arrived in New York on the Teutonic a few days ago. Two more of the Injured hare died from the effects of their barn?, making eleven rictims of the Central Theater fire in Philadelphia, Penn. The latest victims were Rand Patterson, sixteen years old. and Charles Briggs, aged twenty-nine, both of whom were burned while escaping from the jallery. Albeit Faxes, the Newark (N, j.) boy murderer, confessed that after he knocked rhomas Haydon* down he beat him into injensibility and then chloroformed him before robbing him. He had planned to go to Boston to enjoy himself with the money that lie took from Haydon. Senator Hawley was Permanent Chairman of the Connecticut Republican State Convention which met at Hartford. The felegates-at-large are Morgan Gr. Bulkeley, James B. Piatt, Timothy E. Hopkins and LorrinA. Coake. The platform strongly ndorses President Harrison's administrators, but does not instruct for him. The 'Democratic State Convention of CVisconsin assembled at Milwaukee and sleeted twenty-four delegates to the Chicago invention. The delegation was instructed .'or Cleveland. Toe Tennessee Republican State ConvenJon assembled in the hall of the House of Representatives at Nashville and elected lelegatee-at-large to the Minneapolis Contention. They are for Harrison, but go un attracted. Bpsnceb 0. Fisher, Don M. Dickinson, Edward Ryan and Edward F. Uhl were sleeted delegates-at-large to the National Ikinve^tion at the Michigan Democratic State Convention at Muskegon. The platform adopted instructs th9 delegates to rote 'or Cleveland for the Presidential nomination. Tariff reform was pronounced the wersbadowiiig issue of the coming cam* jaign. The Republican State Convention of North Dakota mat at Grand Forks and ilected delegates to the Minneapolis Convention. The platform eulogizes President Harrison, recognizes the great ability of Blaine, indorses reciprocity and condemns the FreeWool bill. The delegates are for Harrison [f Blaine is not in the race, and are unlnitructed. The California rvepuoucan ou*m> wu<?. tion, after a two days' session at Stockton, adopted a platform which unqualifiedly indorsed the administration of National affairs and President Harrison's action in th Italy, Chile and Bering Sea controversies. .These achievements, the platform stated, made the Republicans feel that the party needs no better leader in the battle of 1893. Th* State Convention of Maryland Republicans at Frederick elected these delejatee-at-large: James A. Garry, Louis F. SfcComas, Alexander Shaw and Thomas S. Hudson. The platform indorses Blaine's reciprocity idea and indorses Harrison, expressing a preference for his renomination. Wyoming's delegation to th9 Republican Rational Convention will contain two (romeo, Mrs. C. G. Carleton and Mrs. Theresa A. Jenkins, who were elected alternates by the State Convention at Cheyenne. The resolutions adoptei Mm mend Harrison's administration. Therk was a very severe snowstorm a Tew days ago in Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota. Charles Ferry and Henry Quigg were blown to pieces in a mine explosion at Aspen, Col. Frank Owen and James Trepesso were killed in the tunnel canal at Magora Falls, n_i K Viaino- pnKhon unrtar & load of uwi.f */j " ? ? ? stone. Another slight earthquake shook was Felt a few days since at Davisville, Cal. The President made tbo following nominations: Richard Lambert, of California, to be United States Consul at Mazatlan. F. B. Earbart to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Cohmodor* William P. McCaxn, Presiient of the Examining and Retiring Board, 2as been placed on the retired list, on ac:ount of age. This retirement will promote Captain R. W. Meade to the rank of Comnodore. General Frank Whkatox, the lately ippointeJ JBngaaier-jeaerai, na-? uwu w iered to hold himself ia readiness to comnand the Department of Texas on the recrement from active service, June 1, of 3ri?aiier-General D. S. Stanley. General E. Burd Grubb, United States Minister, took his farewell of the SDanish 2ourt, ani next day a banquet was given in lis honor by Premier Canovas. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies Prenier Rudiai stated that the extra expendi.nr23 for 1892-'9.1 would be covered by sconomies in the War Department and by ;he sale o! National propsrty. There would itiJ be left, however, a deficit of $3,250,003. Cl'.vinghame Graham, the Socialist, was mpeuded for a weak by the Britiab House >f Commons for disorderly conduct. ? - nrrr I TTAir A CYULUJNJti JLJN UALAnuJiLii. Cwo Persons Were Killed and Mac fc Property Damaged. A qyclone touched tho outskirts of King* Isher, Oklahoma, overturning small out* mildings and unroofing two residences, [he cyclone did great damage to growing Tops, overturning houses in its path aud rilling considerable young stock, finally pending its force about fifteen miles disant. Fourteen residences outside of the city vere destroyed, and F. A. Bidwell, of York, fob., aid his son wers killed. Simoa Bates, a farmer, while riding, was ivertaken by the cyclone. He dismonnted ind held his horsa by the lariat j-ppe. The lorse became frightened and wound Bates up n the rope. Before he could extricate himtelf the horse was lifted from the earth and :arried a hundred feet. Bates's left leg was ractured, and he received internal injuries. George Rickert and his family of ten en? ered the dug-out, and the house was torn o atoms. A portion of the roof was hurled Sainst the roof of the cave, crushing it i?f lesc&ood wtth.bruises,.. _ JoenO. Bishop, seventeen years old, Das >een arrested in Kansas City tor a series of ighwayman crimes. Ia two mouths hehas teld up and robbed nine men and two street an. He said when arrested that he went ato the business because he was in debt. He moked cigarettes incessantly and an effort rill be made to show that his mind was afected by them. - ; .1 . .!.;t-: T. JEFFEBSON COOLIDGE. I Career of the New United Statee^H Minister to France. H C~\ I T. JX77ZRS0X COOLIDGE. T. Jefferson Coolidge, who has jotfc b?eo appcuabau uiuuucr w cnuvc, u a of Boston, in which city he wa* born Augmt; 26, 1S3L After his early studies in Boston, he went to Harvard University, where ha graduated, and then went to Europe, where he finished his education. After spending several years abroad h?r?> turned to Boston and entered tho East Indian trade, embarking in business nntkrthe firm name of Gardner & Coolidge. th* late Joseph Gardner beiiig his partner. H* accepted the presidency of a manufacturing company in 1858, whicu owned a number Ot cotton mills at Lowell, and under his administration the affairs of the company prospered exceedingly. He went abroad aoout the beginning of the war and resided for three years in France, at the end of which time he re? turned to Massachusetts and took charge of the La wren oe Manufacturing Company. In 1880 he gave up tbe manufacturing bus in?l.and entered the railroad buslneiL accepting, the presidency of tbe Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Tnis office he resigned to accept the presidency of the Oregon RaiV' way and Navigation tympany, which office he only held for a short time. . Before this he had been Treasurer of the , Amoakeag Manufacturing Company and suhaeauentlv became Treasurer of the New Hampshire Company, a position which h? still holds. He is also identified with tb?. Lairrance Manufacturing Company, the Dwight Manufacturing Company, the Emery" Company and is a Director in the Barling-' ton and Quincy, the Kansas City, Fort Soott and Memphis, the Boston and Lowell and other railroad companies. At the Pan- American Congress ha repre*' sentad the interests of Massachusetts. Mr. Coolidge has never taken a very prominent part in Massachusetts politics, and atone, time was classed as a Mugwump, having joined the independents who organised tha/ Youngs Men's Democratic Club, of Mn? chusetts. Subsequently, Uotrerar, he retained , to the Republican fold. V He is at the head of many local oharitabJa^ organizations in Boston, and has personally contributed largely 01 ms mwu townra -, their-prosperity. Among his banaCaottooiVv are toe Jefferson Physical Laboratory at Harvard, which cost 1115,000. and the lie library of the town of Manchester, to*. ward which he contributed $40,000. A TENNESSEE LYHOSDTft, $ The Governor Pleaded, With the Mob,^ Bat It Was Deat A mob went to Nashville, Teen, a few ; nights ago. and gathered near the Davidson County Jail to lynch the men charged with ~ assaulting the Misses Brace at Goodlatto^ vtle. At midnight twsnty-flve officers be?; gan guarding the jail. As soon as the head of the mob reached*^ the jail gate an imperative ring of the bell sounded, bat admittance was refused. A-'$ dozen men were on the fence; bat those who -1 had already gotten over broke the lode of < the gate. Governor Buchanan and Ad jatant-G?n- 'PM eral Homer, who bad been awakenel, made their way into the jail. The QovernorH mounted the crowded steps, bat he waa on- , m able to make himself hear! and he preeeOd hia way into tha excited throng aroand the D door. Hb attempted to speat, tint his voice .M was drowned in the frenzy of yells. fl He promised them that the law should be H indicated, but they would not wait. The M crowbar was applied to the iron door andsS half a dozen men grabbed hold of it Qot* J| era or Buchanan grabbed the crowbar and H by main strength held it back for a moment Mj but was overpowered. He retired into an- H other room. The mob was not success*al, jM Hnwnvnr this time. i9 During the excitement a shot was fired from without. This was returned by the officers. A man named N. L Guthrie was ' shot through the left breast and died ths next morning. Charley Bear was also shot. At 2 o'glock next afternoon the mob again attacked the Jail. It assembled on the Square, and, apparently without interference on the part of the officer*, secured Eph GrizzardL They put the rope around nfs j neck and led him to the east end of the bridge across the Cumberland River, in the heart of the city, where they hanged him, after which they r ddled his body with bufc lets. I MENACED BY WOLVES. Driven Oat ol the Forests of Miune- J sota by Jttres and Hunger. Live stock in Illinois is threatened with / extermination, and grave fears are felt for/ human life, by the ravages of wfliipj wolves which have been driven opfe of their seclusion in the Minnesota forests by hunger. The forest fires of the early fall and winter left the wild beasts without jujj * kind of food, and they caaie down the ice oo the Mississippi River and sought food and j shelter among the farmers in HptaoOjSk ~ County and in other localities across the river in Iowa and Missouri. / C. D. Baxter, of Montebello Township, Illinois, the other morning found,'nineteen of his best sheep lying deadf in the pasture, while several other animals' were found in a badly crippled J condition. Mr. Baxter said that the wolves divide up into pairs and attack a flock of sheep, cutting the throat of' each animal with ther long teeth, and then devouring the ? heart and liver of the animal at their,;/} leisure. From many sources Come report* of loss of domestic animals, and a general oo- ' alaught of wolvas has begun. The farmers, however, are at a Ion as to a '% successful method of warfare against the uncleared emigrants. The wolves by their hunger are bolder than the dogs, and the latter are unwilling to attack them. Large bounties have been offered for the heads of the wolves. . - " "ANGEL MAKERS" TO HANG-. ' Six Murderers of Children Convicted In Kcssia. At Vilna, Russia, six men and women were convicted of murdering babies that had been intrusted to their charge, and were sentenced to from six to twenty years peaal 1 servitude, id many cases tae marawj were committed with th? connivance of the mothers of the little victims. The preliminary inquiries into these crimas lasted nearly two years, each case baing thoroughly investigated before any arrests were made. The tirat clue to this wholet&le conspiracy to murder was obtained in April, 1S90, whan some one discovered in the cess- ( pool of a wretched hovel in Vilna the bodies of six small children. This led to further searches, and in the end the remains of sixtyfive infants were found. Forty men and women were arrested, and 350 witnesses were summoaed to testify against them. The dispatch from Vilna does not state whether all the prisoners were triad ! and only six convicted, but the supposition is that, as the evidence vu so strong against the accused, only the six condemned ware tried. The prisoners had gained the colloquial name of "angel makers," from th9lr practice of killing children whose existence was inconvenient or distasteful to parents.