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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.
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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.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I
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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.
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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. ,
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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. '
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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.
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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.
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T. JEFFEBSON COOLIDGE. I
Career of the New United Statee^H
Minister to France. H
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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
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"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.