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; K' . V DISASTER AT SIOUX CITY. A Wav?? From the River Rnshes Through the Town. Many Drowned and 8000 People Made Homeless. At least eleven people drowned, thousands left bomclftss and hundreds of thousands of dollars' damage to property were the results of a sadden and unexpected rise in the Floyd River at Sioux City, Iowa. A ?reat wave came down the river which flows thro*?h the centre of the city. It was alr?ady swollen bank full. Kfion TTon hut: n short time before the wave came to the inhabitants of tae low lands. The first intimation most of them had. however, was a volume of water spreading over the banks to & depth of three feet and throwing a mist of foam from it. In a few miuutea the water had risen above the first floor, and inside of ?n hour and a half bad risen four teet. It then continued to rise steadily, but not so rapidly. Probably ten thousand inhabitants of the city live in the low grounl which was overflowed . So rapid was the rise of the tide that great number.'! ware unable to escape, and the work of rescue engaged the energy of the people. At twelve o'clock eleven persons were report?d drowned. The only names obtained were Nellie West, a child, and Mrs. Louise Horner and her two chiidren. The fire alarm was sounded to call oul more workers. All the boats from the boat bouses on the Sioux River were brought in and were used to save life and property. The Missouri River is very high, and whet the flood in the Fioyd River struck it th? water dammed up and rushed over the adja cent low grounds. The stock yards and packing houses were situated at the confluence of the two rivers and they were quickly innnriata<L Abont two thousand head of live stock were drowned. The whole railroad yards and switching track district was under water, and there has been immense damage to the roundhouses and railroad property. The roundhouses of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha were damaged to the extent of 440,000. That road, the Illinois Central and bioux City and Northern enter the city by tne Floyd Valley, and all were compelled to stop. Not a train left Sioux City that day. The water reached to Jennings street on Fourth street at one o'clock. The Hotel Fowl# and the Boston Investment Company's building were surrounded with water. Tae Union Depot was cut oft at nine o'clock. It was estimated that eight thousand people were driven from their homes. Al! Business was suspended. The Chamber oi Commerce organized for relief work. Before noon the ladies had several soup and lunch houses opened for the flood sufferers, At Spencer, Iowa, a fearful wind and rain storm from the northwest raged. Sucb a fall of water in a similar length of tim? has never been known there. The Siotu River rose two feet. Three to four hundred feet of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul track was washed out at a creek two milei east of that city, the track being carried entirely off. The entire country along the river was under water. The water in tbe Das Monies luver at uttumwa reached the highest point since th? great floods of 1851. The electric light plant there shut down, and this left the city in darkness that night. Trains were badly delayed. The Little Sioux Valley is under water and it was feared that the loss of life would be heavy. Trains on all railroads were hours late or ahandoned, and tbe Illinois Central and Minneapolis and St. Louis lost heavily by slides and the washing away of bridges and embankments. Conservative estimate? placed the area under water in the section immediately surrounding St. Louis, Mo., on both side3 of tbe river at 400 square miles of fertile lands, the depth heing from two to twenty fe?t. Fully 1503 families in that area left their homes with little prospect of an early return. The main suffsring was in the Amarican bottom and on Missouri Point. As an instanoe*of tin suffering in the former locality then* were nearly 596 people gathered on the bluff.-!, for whom St. Clair County, Illinois, was asked to supply food and shelter. Missouri Point, the land lying like a triangle between the Missouri and Mis9issippi, a triangle of land tweaty-seven miles on the river side by twelve at the base, was covered with water and every living soul driven to higher land. The washout of the approach to the Union Pacific bridge, at Omaha, Neb., was serious. Fully 300 feet of the approach gave way. A funnel-shapei cloud passed over Cone, Iowa. In passing over the bluff it razed a number of houses and barns, and nnroafed a number of others. A young man named Gay was picked up, carried twenty yards and seriously injured. A cloudburst near the head of the Blue River in Kaasas swept away the house of William Sherman, drowning one child and four horses. Loss of life was also reported from the Watson neighborhood, about twelve miles northwest of Manhattan. THE MEMPHIS BRIDGE OPEN It Is tbe Third Largest Bridge in tb< World. The United States gunboat Concord fired the salute at the formal opening at Memphis, Term., of the nevr bridge across tbi Mississippi The crowd at the ceremoniet probably numbered 35,000. The river crafl were handsomely decorated. Tbe exercises of the day opened with i parade, the first division being composed 01 visiting and home military companies Knights of Pythias, Knights of Innisfail anc otner secret societies and friendly and benevo lent associations, the members of the Ger man Manifest, the fire department, display of local industries, and tha attaches of thi municipal departments and distinguished "visitors bringing up the rear. The procession morel through tbe principal streets of tbe city and naltel at ths bridge, and while Governors Buchanan, of Tennessee, ancTEagle, of Arkansas, clasped hands in tbe middle of the bridge, President Lucas B. Clapp, of the Tax Department of Memphis, placed his bands upon their heads and de *? vrr x. i iC. clared tue onion. or tne great ?v est sua mi great East, waile cannon boomed from the river, and the great multitude on short made the air quiver with cheers for South era energy ana enterprise. The oration was delivered by Senator Daniel Voorhees, of Indiana. Tbe length of the now bridge and its approaches is thrae miles. The structure is a cantilever with five spans, and oost over 33,000,000. The bridge is 8uppD39i to b:s localed on the spot whero Ferdinand Da Soto crossed the Mississippi in loll, and in excavating for the shore pier on the Tennessee side some Spanish halberds, suppoia I to have been used by him, were fouad. HUNDREDS DROWNED. Frightful Steamship Accident lie. ported on the Caspian Sea. A frightful accident is said to have occurred on the Caspian Sea. A report has been received at Astrakhan that the steamer Alexander' Wolkow, carrying passengers between Caspian ports, has foundered with 250 passengers on board. This, following a recent accident, attended by almost r eaual loss of life n few weeks ago, has caused | much excitement iu Caspian ports, and there is a general opinion that the Russian authorities do not attend, with due vigilauce to the inspection of steamships in those waters. Mo.?t of the steamers on the Caspian are poorly built, and not calculat3d tor enduring ?ha Budden and severe storms which occasionally sweep ovar that inlani sea. It is bslieve i that this latest disaster will lead to a general overhauling of the steam and sailing craft on the Caspian Ross Whtans, the American millionaire gporrsman, is t?ein? sued by the Trustees of Sir James MacKenzie, from whom he rents an immense deer forest in Inverness, Scotland, for allowing his keepers to drive 900 red deer off the grounds in an unsportsmanlike fashion. Winans contends he did it because his estate is overstocked with dear. The losses of sheep during the past y?ar throughout the country generally were tighter than daring any recent season, i ' V . . . v. wiliihsrefffrgtrcittrf WM the news'm^msbs Eastern and Royal E. Fox, paym&st^hj^^bhb?| Process Company, was masked robbers on his way 'hbhh panv's office to the Split Rock ^USHDm ries, and at the muzzles of fo^KSmMgn was robbed of $3300. ^B|9BR5| lloyd rater, the fourteen ?f Robert RaYer, of Gravefield, F^HHjUgg and killed Charles Harrington, -.:-t ?U-.-i hia gicfor I VICli, VT uu uou av/uu^uwv* The 230th anniversary of the inclHM? tion of the town of Willimantic, Cohu., was observed by a civic and military procession and with addresses by leading citi zens. Text caterpillars are doing an incalculable amount or damage throughout Eastern Connecticut. They have never b9en known to be so plentiful before. During a squall a rowboat on the Delaware River, Pniladelphia, Penu., conrainin| live you tag men and boys, was capsize! and three of the occuo^nts, L=>wis Tiernore, nineteen years old; Charles Anderson, colored, twenty-two years old, and George Roalt, twenty-four years old, wero drowned. The Brooklyn Handicap. worth $18,000 to the winner, s5000 to the second horse, $2000 to the third, was run at the Gravessnd (N. Y.) Track in the presence of over 30,0t)0 people. Judge Morrow was first, Pessara second and Russell third. The distanc?, a mile and a quarter, was made in 2.08%. Secretary Blaine has appointed as Junior Counsel for the United States before the Bering Sea arbitrators RusseJl Dnane, or Philadelphia. Mr. Duane was a member of the class of 1891 in the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, and attracted Mr. Blaine's attention oy his masterly oration at the commencement on "The Case of the Sayward." Jcst after a train left Hyde Park. N. Y., a well-dressed man ros9 from his seat in the parlor car and shouting "Tfny are after me!" plunged the blade of a knive in his throat, and drawing it rapidly right and left cut his throat from ear to ear. He died instantly. He was Albert L. Stanton, of New Jersey. The Deleware Democratic State Convention held at Dover elected the following delegates to the National Convention: Thomas F. Bayard, Hiram R. Borie, Governor Reynolds, Richard R. Kenuey, John W. Causey and William L. Sinam. The resolutions denounce the McKinley bill, oppose the tr&) coinage of silver, and strongly indorse Cleveland. The Chicago delegation was not instructed, but all favor the nomination of Cleveland for President. South and West. Etienne Deschamp3 was hanged at the Parish Prison, ia New Orleans, La. Deschamps's crime was the murder ot Juliet Dietsch, aged thirteen, by giving her chloroform. He then attempted suicide by the same agency. Great damage has been done by rains in the Missouri Valley. A remarkable wedding took Plac9 in Covington, Ky. It W2S that of two old ffpople of Mount Sterling. Ohio, who said ,_jy had eloped. The bridegroom was David Heath, who gave his ag3 as ninetytwo years, and the bride was Mary L. Setrick, who registered as sixty-five years old. The Bering Sea squadron, consisting of the United States steamers Yorktown, Mohican, Adams, Rush and Bear, left Port Townsend, Washington, for the North. At Frankfort, Ky., four meD were killed in a street brawl. One of them was a prominent J udge. The tents and small buildings in the town of Arapahoe were all demolished by the wind storm which swept over Oklahoma. Near the town of Frisco five houses were totally destroyed, several parsons wero a badly injurad. j Tom Davis and Henry Dickerson, colore! I and brothers-in-law, were hanged in the jail yard at Nashville, Id., for the murder of a peddler. The Utah Territorial Democratic Convention, at O'den, elected Juige H. P. Readerson, formerly of Michigan, and John T. Caine, presant Delegate to Congress, delesates to the Chicago Convention. The platform denounces the system of unimtructei government forcel on Utah by the Nation, demands home rule at once if not Statehood, and the remonetizition of silver. As appalling accident occurred at the Anaconda Mine, Butte, Montana. Twelve men were caught in a cave-in that took place from the 500 level down to the 800. Nine IKian IrillftH were supjjusou. w ?...? Tea People's party of Oklahoma held their Territorial Convention at Guthrie and elected twelve delegates to the National Convention at Omaha. The Convention declared unanimously for Jamas B. Weaver for President and L. L. Polk for Vice-President A Bio Four freight train and the cannonball express collided near Clevas, Ohio, during a terrific wind and raiu storm, wracking both trains and killing and injuring many persons. One estimate placed the number of dead at five. A blunder of the station agent caused the tragedy. One of the Burlington and Quincy's seventy-five ton locomotives blew up at Deadwood, South Dakota, killing Engineer Renchard, Fireman Wilson and a brakeman named Nelson. At Childersburg, Ala.,three colored murderers named Berry Rowden, Jim Rowden, and Will Cantor, were hanged and shot on the bridge of the Georgia Central Railroad over the Coosa River. The bodies were cut down and fell into the river. The United States warship Concord arrived at Cairo, 111. She wa3 met below the city by several boats and tugs and escorted to the landing. A salute was fired - * j.J * 11*01X1 toe snore ana was resp^uaoa w iuw the ship. A recaption was tendered to the crow in the evening. More levees on the Mississippi River have broken, causing much inundation of farming land. Water in the flooded districts continued to rise and much damage was reported m Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. Ira Mullens, a mountain bandit, while driving across Pound Gap, W. Va., from court in Letcher County, Ky., wa3 tired upon l'rom ambush. He was accompanied by his wife, brother-in-law, child, and the driver ot bis wagon, all of whom, with himself, were killed. There was no clew to the murderers. Tan key Valley, in Greer County. Texas, was swept by a cyclone from one end to the other and not a building has been left standing. Five persons were killed instantly, ten were fatallj injured, and many more were badly hurt. Hardly a person in the valley escaped. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Autrey, of Adel, Ga., were thrown from a carriage and killed Ring Brothers' circus train was wrecked near Atchison, Kan., and four showmen were killed and five badly injured. A mob of 200 men at Clarksville, Ga., broke into the jail, too* thererrom ttiree colored men, charged with the murder of a night policeman at Toccoa, and hanged them all on the limb of a large oak tree. Thb Arizona Territorial democratic Convention at KTucson elected delegates to Chicago. The convention recommended Marius A. Smith as, delegate to Congress, and endorsed Grover Cleveland. Washington. Jcjstice Harla.w, of the United State3 Supreme Court, and John T. Morgan, United States Senator from Alabama, have been selected by the President as arbitrators on tha part of the United States in the Berin? Sea controversy. E. J. Phelps, late United States Minister to England, has been selected as chief counsel on behalf of the United States before the Arbitration Commission. T hb Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of tbe Mint bava approved the proposition of the managers of the World's Fair for the special issm of $20,000,CKJO fiftycent pieces for use at tlie Exposition and benring designs appropriate to the occasion. The President made the following nomin- | atious: Frederick A. Bancroft,ot iNew xorx. Consul at Brunswick, Gernnny; Thoinas F. Wilson, United States Attorney for Arizona. The United States Treasury Department has reported to Congress that more than $7,000,000 is needed to meat the pension payments for the months of May and June. The Pension Bureau has issued a statsment that for ten months, from July 1,1891, to Aoril 30, 1893. there were issued 255,448 pension certificates. The total at first pay ment was (35,470,632; average first payment $138.86. Number of oeusioners on the rolls | March 31, 1892, 827,267. 1 ' '.V .. : X,': ... . . 4 Treasnry Department nenta on aocount of the he Drment year. The >7,350,000. id Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Parker a the light-house tender few dors' vacation at ^ f-tress Monroe. airs, nurruju win ra Rain at Tidewwater, Va., until flhe reprovers her strength, which has been graatly impaired by her long illness. Barok Fava, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps paid his respects to Secretary Blaine. He naa jnst arrived from Italy, to renew relations broken off by the New Orleans lynching. Thx United States Supreme Court handed down a number of important decisions and adjourned to October. For the first time In the history of the United States the services for the dead prescribed by the rituul of the Roman Catholic Church were performed in the Senate Chamber. It was the funeral service over the late Senator John S. Barbour, of Virginia, which was conducted by tha Right Rev. Bishop Keane, rector of the Catholic University. The Congress of the National Art Associtlon, in session in Washington, passed a resolution favoring the admission of works of art free of duty. Justice Harlan and Senator Morgan have formally notified the President of their willingness to serve as arbitrators on behalf of the United States in the Bering Sea matter. The body of Senator Barbour, accompanied by the Congressional Committees, bis immediate relatives and a few personal friends, all in charge of Sergeant-at-Arms Valentine, was taken from his house at Washington and conveyed to Poplar Hill, Md., where it was buried beside tnat of his wife. The National Baptist Educational Convention at Washington elected these officers: President, Professor G-. W. Hayes, of Virginia; Vice-President, the Rev. Isaac Tolliver, of Texas; Second Vice-President, the Rev. P. T. Mailoy. Foreign. The house of a mine overseer at Lem, France, was wracked by dynamite; Premier Loubet spoke at the funeral of M. Very, the Anarchists' victim. A. G. Porter, the American Minister to Italy, has returned to Rome. He expressed ? LI-LI J k. Qimaeu. US ui|(uijr uibumsu wan wouupuio uctween Italy and the United States, growing out of the New Orleans affair, had been ad* justed in a manner satisfactory to both Nations. The American steamer Connemaugh, loaded with flour, grain and provisions, sent from Philadelphia for the benefit of the starving Russian peasants, arrived in Riga Roadstead. The municipal authorities and the chief residents of Riga proceeded in steamers to the Roadstead, where most hearty greetings were extended to those on board tne Connemaugh. At Cork, Ireland, a large meeting of the anti-Farnellites was addressed by William O'Brien and Dr. Tanner. When the antiParnellite procession, led by a band, came down the street a mob made a rush, hurrahing for Parnell and yelling: "Down with the turncoats! Three groans for O'Brien and Tanner I Punish the traitors!" A terrific onslaughter was made on O'Brien. The militarr were called out The Russian police, acting on a warning from the police of Paris, discovered a number of leaded mines under tin Gatchina Palace, the mines extending for a distance of 300 feet around the palace. A terrific hurricane passed over central New Zealand, and the damage done was enormous. NEWFOUNDLANn decided to remove the discriminating duties on Canadian products and to grant Canada bait privileges. F?xsia has refused Russia's offer of a loan for paying the indemnity to the tobacco corporation, and will raise the money in England. Dispatches from Venezuela confirm the capture of Bolivar by the insurgents. The death is announced in London of General George Klapka, a contemporary of Louis Kossuth. Hi was born at Temeswar, Hungary, April 7, 1820. He had a famous military career. LATER TOWg. An extensive forest fire did much damage on the plains southeast of Windsor Locks, Conn. Professor Jacob Gould Shusman has been elected President of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Professor Shurman has been at the bead of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University durinz the past six years. By the capsizing of a boat on the Dowdle Place, near Morrilton, Ark., Hamp Wilson, colored, four women and five children were drowned. Jim Taylor, a colored man, who assaulted a little girl near Ch9stertown, Md., was lynched by an armed mob early next morn ing. There has been a battle between United States Deputy Marshals and horse thieve3 in the Sac and Fox country in Oklahoma, in which two of the thieves and one of thi deputies were killed. John M. Lackst, Private Sucrotary of General Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart while laboring under temporary aberration of mind. John A. Anderson, United States Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, is dead. French forces in Tonquin, China, recently attacked and captured a pirate stronghold. The pirates made a desperate resiatance-and their loss was very heavy, it being known that 125 of them were killed. The French loss was also heavy, fifty-three soldiers and five officers being killed in the attack. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. The Pope has the largest private fortune of say man in Rome. Emin Pacha, the African explorer, has become blind, it is stated. Moody and Sankry have been urgently requested to visit Australia. M. Ressmann, the newly appointed Italian Minister to Paris, is a German by birth. The writings of Gladstone fill twenty-two pages of the printed catalogue of the British Mu?eum. Justice Lamar, of the United States Supreme Court, is well enough onctiraore to go out driving. General Longstrret has become quite infirm with years, and is now vory deaf, 30 that conversation with him has to bo through an ear trumpet The colored ex-Senator, Blanche K. Bruce, received the name "Blanche" after Mitw Blanche Mackrae, of Virginiu, who was his UJUI/UU1 9 1X113Li COO. Mrs. Jenkins and Mr*. Coulton, tho two women alternates to tho Minneapolis Convention from Wyoming, are said to be forcible speakers and energetic workers at th; polls. A. C. Guntkr, the novelist and play wright, is said to have received j40,00.J ui royalties frum tho dramatic versions ot 'Mr, Barnes of New York," and ''Mr. Potter oi! Texas." ISknor Romkeo, tho Mexican Minister, has acquired tho reputation of being tha most astute of tho diplomatists in WashingI hnr* Wr\ Vino Kaan l-tT\ wn tr* nnc<i MTfc*?i>ll hours at his desk. Sib James Allport, who died a few weeks ago, was the oldest railroad man in England in point of service. He began as a lamp-room porter and was at the head ot the great Midland Railroad Company when ho died. Oreteks have been issued to track immigrants to their destination to see whether they settle down to work or become ad[ 4itiona to the criminal and pauper element. A HOME FOB PRINTERS. Dedication of a Handsome Building at Colorado Springs. Tha ffliilda-Drwrel Home for Printers was dedicated at Colora lo SpriDgs, Col., in the presence of a vast concourse of people. The dedication ceremonies were preceded by a street parade, in which many trades unions look part. Governor Routt and Mayor jjprague delivered addresses of welcome. THE PRINTERS' H0K3. 3Ir. George W. Childs responded briefly, exEresaing bis warm friendship for the printers, enator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, also delivered an address. The home is located one mile from the city on a small elevation which overlooks the surrounding country, including the Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, Manitoa ind Cheyenne Canon. It is constructed of ?Wte lava stone, with red sandstone trimmings. The style iB Renaissance, and the construction cost $60,000. The home is four stories in height and 144 feet front, with a depth of J forty feet. It has three towers with halcon ibs exrouuiug muug uuuu uu^ ?uu **???j stcfry. The fond for the construction ot' the building was started in 1883, when Mr. George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, presented the International Typo- 1 graphical Union their joint check for 910,000. To increase this fund it was agreed that on May 12, the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Childs, every Union printer east of the Mississippi River should contribute the J price of 1000 em3, and on September 13, of the year following, the birthday of Mr. Drexel, all Union men west of the river should donate a like sum. By this means the money was secured to construct this magniScent home, the location of whioh was decided upon during the National Convention held in Denver in 1869. THE LAB0B W0BLD. There are 40,000 laborers in Detroit Mioh. Telebe are nearly 3000 stitches in a pair of hand-sewn boot?. Irr Ohio laws have been enacted prohibit* ing shaving on Sunday. Farm laborers in Italy get but twenty , cents a day on an average. The Brotherhood of Kail way Trainmen has a membership of about 23.000. Thk convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met this year in Atlanta, Ga. Iif Philadelphia the cabinet makers have succeeded in reducing their daily working hours to nine. Is the rice fields of northern Italy women wade to their knees twelve hours at a stretch lor ten cents. Over one million children are at present employed in the iuUls and factories of the United States. . Over awo granite cutters working a number of New England quarries were locked out for demanding that their yearly agreement should be signed by their bosses at the regular time. At the dictation of the men put in power by the Unionists in Australasia all immigration into the colony is prohibited, so that the thousands of people now unemployed there may have an opportunity to find work. In the telegraph service of the United States, it is estimated that 45,003 men and women are at present employed. The length of wire in use is over 900,000 miles, and the capital invested is stated to be at least $100, 000,000. Captain Mitchell, of Chicago, known familiar)y as "Old Mitch," is said to be the oldest sleeping-car porter in service on the road. He is sixty-eight vears old and has been employed by the Pullman Company for seventeen vears. President Clark, of the Union Pacific Rsriiroad, began life as a bralrecian on a gravel train. He is particularly popular with all the labor organizations, and no trouble has ever arisen from these sources since ho became manager. Last year 6334 people, most of whom were railway employes, were killed in this coun try in railroad accidents, and 29,025 were wounded. The number of killed in England were 1075 and 4721 wounded; in France 379 were killed and 709 wounded, and in Prussia the number of killed was 402, while 1397 ware wounded. SLICED TO DEATH. Terrible Execution of a Chinese Rebel Chief. A dispatch from Shanghai, China, describes the execution of one of the chiefs of the recent rebellion in Mongolia. The man was Drougnt in cnains to ? temain, ana, attar being examined for several hours by the Viceroy, LI Eung-Chang, was executed by the "slow process" of slicing to death?ling chi (literally cutting into ten thousand pie^e). The wretch was fastened to a wooden cross, and the executioner proceeded to cut slices from him here and there, beginning with the end of his nose, then cutting off pieces of the arms, and breast, and legs, bat carefully avoiding a vital part. It is usual, in the case or this punishment, for tbe friends of the condemned to bribethe executioner to give the victim a fatal stab at an early stage in tbe proceedings, but it happened that the rebel had no money and no triends in that vicinity, and besides the exe cutioner was carefully watched bj the officials. 80 the torture went slowly on for fully an honr and a half, until the wretched victim presented a moat hideous spectacle, being denuded of the greater part of the outer flesh and yet still alive. At last the officer in charge ordered the executioner to strike off the criminal's head. The latter was ovidently conscious, for he heard the order, and bent his head to re1 ceive the blow. Throughout the whole horrible scene the victim never uttered a 1 groan or an appeal for mercy, although his compressed lips showed that it was not without effect that he maintained his apparent stolidity. Several foreigners who were present at the scene say that it was the most 1 cruel execution ever witnessed. FOUfi WOMEN SLAIN. | An Unknown Assassin's Bloody Wort ar Dennison, Texas. Between eleven p. m. and half-pist thre* 1 A. sc. an assassin at Dennison, Texas, sho and killed four women, two of them leaden of local society and two fa9t women. The first victim was Mrs. Haynas, th? i wife of Dr. Henry F. Haynes, prominent ir business and social lire. Mrs. Hayne?, a young and attractive woman, was assassin ated while alone in her home or else taker forcibly from it and put to death by her captor outside and near the house. The re3i s dence of Dr. Haynes is just outside the city limits, on Woodland Boulevard, two and a half miles southwest of the City Hall. Five hours later, in the very heart of the city. Hiss Teen Hawley was also shot and killed in her room in her mother's cottage home. Dr. Haynes was absont at an Elk Lodge mnnn hie ixrifa tuoc mnrHonuil Tl\a mnrHaror ' took her gold watch and chain, diamond riu ' and earrings. The assassin ibsn direct9.1 his steps to the house of Mine. Rivers and fired from the front porch through a widow; killing Maude Kramer. After this ho crossed to the next i streit, where he mortally wounded Rose Stewart, who was about to retire to her room at Mme. Williams's. This shot was fired from the sidewalk, the ball entering beneath the girl's right arm. Hundreds of armed men went searching for the assassin, aiding the Sheriff ana county officers. Bloodhounds were brought into service, but without success. < A'<| 3/' ' J- . -"'v.. ' . . I wmi Mn i iT-rin11 r AflifnniK i THE liKAMiS LuuLUUl. Greatest Labor War in the His* tory of the Stone Industry. Work Stopped on Many Structures in All the Large Cities. The war between labor and capital in the granite industries, which for months had been oonflned to skirmishing, began in real earnest a few days ago, and the conflict extended through nearly every State in the Union. Dispatches received from all the points involved stated that the New England Granite Manufacturers' Association, comprising the owners and operators of fifty two quarries in Maine. NewHampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, carried out its threat to lock out all the paving-block cutters and quarrymen employed by its members because of the strikes inaugurated by the pavers' unions in New York and other cities. By this move the greatest labor war in the history of the stone industry was fully de clared. In .New York City the strike, which had been ordered (or the purpose of bringing to an end the lockout of 30,000 men from the New England quarries, was begun at daybreak, and before nightfall at least 50,000 men were idle in consequence. In that city and Brooklyn about 600<0 men have stopped* work. As a result of the lockout in the quarries "sympathy" strikes were ordered ail over the United States, wherever a piece of stone turned out by the New England Association was used. The direct effects of the strike were felt as far West as the Missouri River. The number of locked-out men was in the neighborhood of 15,000 men. In New York and its vicinity alone the strikers numbered about 30,000, including paverf, granite cutters, longshoremen, marble workers and rammermen. As the Central Labor Union indorsed the action of the pavers and their associate unions, every other labor organization which had to do with building was, of course, affected. Beside the men directly employed in paving anrl ^ninir st/tnA wnrir on hnildlnm the strike included many branches of the building trades, such as derrickmea, engineers, truck drivers, brickmasons, hodcarriers, plumbers, gasflttara, carpenters, plasterers and ironworkers. The effect on tbe building industry was seriously felt in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington. Albany, Chicago. Milwaukee, St. Paul and Kansas City. The New England Association supplies large quantities of stone to all these cities. Among: some of tbe principal structures in New York on which the men were ordered to quit work were the new B.'ack building, tbe Mutual Life Building and Grant Monument; in Brooklyn, the Memorial Arch and all sorts of monument and tombstone work: the Capitol, at Albany; Betz Brewery ana Richmond Terminal building, at Philadelphia; National Library at Washington ana some of the World's Fair buildings at Chicago. The origin of this gigantic labor struggle dates back to about the first of the year. According to the paving cutters it has been their custom and that of the contractors to sign a scale of wages for each ensuing year about May 1. This year, however, the contractors insisted that the scale be signed January 1. The paving cutters refused, saving that by so doing they would be at a disadvantage, in that they could not make as good terms as usual. Tk?? nraitMnf/mi wrtrilri not vinlrf in t,h? pavers of New York City took the matter up and declared a strike unless the demands oc their fellow-workmen, the paving-cutters, were granted. The contractors retaliated by locking out all their employed, and the unions in turn ordered a general strike. The strike was directed principally from New York City and from Concord, N. H., where the Executive Council of the Granite Cutters' National Union was in session. Secretary Grant, of the Paving Block Cutters' National Union, had his headquarters before the lockout at Westerly. R. I., but thev were moved to New York City in order to give a better opportunity of directing all the operation*. Advices from Brooklyn, Washington, Albany, Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia assured the strikers of large financial assistance. Newark (N. J.) contractors declare that if it bad not been for tae strike a Newark firm would have been awarded a contract for erecting the new postofflce there. The granite trade in New England was paralyzed and work will probably be at a standstill for a long time. A conservative estimate placed the number of locked out quarrymen at about 30,000. They lived mainly in Boston, Quincy, Monson, and Milford, Mass.; Coucord, N. H.; Waterville, Clark's Mills, and Portland, Me., and West* erly. R. I. All work has ceased in^ Concord, N. H., except at the New England Granite Company's shops, where the association allowed 420 men to continue on some Government work. In Barre, East Barre, Williamstown, Montpelier, Northfleld and Hardwick, Vt., the lockout began in the yards of all concerns - a /1 ???? except me American wauite t-umpouj. GARZA'S BEVOLPTIQN. Ten of His Followers Killed on Mexican Soil. A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas,says: The Garza revolution has broken out afresh. The outlook is more sarious than during the disturbance along the lower Rio Grande a few months ago. This is indicated by a telegram received by Dr. Plutar Ornelias, Mexican Consul at San Antonio. It is from ^General Lorenzo Garcia, commander of the troops in the field in the northern zone of Mexico, with headquarters at Mier, in the State of Tamaulipas, and reads: "Lieutenant Indalecio-Sado, commanding a detachment of cavalry, met and had an engagement with a party of Garzi's revolutionists at a place called La Mecca, in this State. After a hardfought battle the Government troops won a victory over the invaders, killing ten of the latter. Among those killed were Julian Flores and Abelardo Dominguez, - * * n n n fka QAvaramAnf ol'^A anas l_>UObb? UU. UU IUD uuiuiuuiouu W.V one soldier and three horses were killed. The troops are in close pursuit of the remnants of the band." This band crossed t he Rio Qrande River to Mexican territory at Ramif Ramineo crosssing. Julian Plores, one of the revolutionists killed, was a First Lieutenant in Qarza's so-called army, and was under indictment in the Federal Court at San Antonio on several charges of violating the United States neutrality laws. He has been next to Garza in leading this revolutionary movement, and in fact it has been generally believed that he really did the most of the planning. He had been a political refugee from Mexico for several years and was a brave man. He owned a ranch of several thousand acres in Star County, where he made his home before the outbreak. Since then he has lived in tin saddle, and was successful in evading the numerous United States scouting parties. It is estimated that ho was surrounded by about 175 desperate men. CENSUS BULLETIN. The Population ol New YorJc, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Census Office issuad a bulletin giving the population of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in 1S9), by sax and nativity. The total population of New York is given as5,997,of which 2,976,893 were males and 3,029,'JoJ females, 4,4.'iO,S3D3 native and 1,571,030 foreign born. New Jersey had a population of 1.444.903, of which 720,819 were males an 1 721,114 females. 1,115,983 native and 328,975 foreign born. Pennsylvania's nopulation of 5.25S.014 was made up of 2,6<W,331 males and 2,591,683 females, of which 4,412,294 were native and 845,720 foreign born. The number of males in the three States has increased in the last decade 1,162,144, or 22.34 per cent. It is shown by accompanying tables that the females in New York and New Jersey in 1890 slightly predominated, while in Pennsylvania the males wer* slightly in excess. BABON FAVA BETUBN8. Italy and the United States Once Mort in Fnll Rirmony. :({M& BABOW FAVA. Baron Saverio Fava, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Italian Government to the United States, has, after a year's absence, re burned to resume his Ministerial duties at Washington. The Minister reached New York on the steamer La Gascogne. Baron Fava's departure from this country about a year ago was due to the strained relations between the United States and Italy, which followed the Ivnchiog of eleven Italians by a mob in New Orleans on March 15, 1892. The difference* having been amicably adjusted, Baron t^ava is sent back as proof of the kindly relations which the Italian Government wishes maintained ba? tween itself and the United States. The welcome to Baron Fava by his Italian-American friends was on an extensive scale. The steamer Laura M. Starin was chartered, and about 500 Italians went down the bay to meet him. It was the intention of the reception committee to take the Baron off the ocean steamer to the Laura M. Starin, but there was a heavy sea and the captain of the pleasure boat refused to go alongside the big ship. Consequently the Minister remained on La Gasco/ne until she reached her pier. It was here that the Italian Minister was formally welcomed by Coroner Messemer, the Honorary President of the United Italian Societies. The Baron waa not taken to a hotel from the pier. He was escorted aboard the Laura M. Starin, which steamed op and down the North River until it was time for him to go to the Pennsylvania station and take the 3 o'clock train for Washington. To a reporter the Barou said: "The New Orleans trouble will not have any effect in prejudicing Itlay against the United 8tates In the Bering Sea arbitration. Let bygones be bygonos. The King and Queen of Italy take a great deal of interest in the coming VVorld's Pair and send a private commissioner to this country. In regard to any special mission outside my regular diplomatic work, the only thing is to cement more firmly the frendship of our two countries." FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. Wth Day.?The SeDate agreed to appropriate $50,(XX) toward the expenses of the baval review at the Columbian Exposition The Naval Appropriation bill was considered Mr. Call introduced a raaolutioa i Miring for the appointment of a joint committee to inquire into the condition at Cuba and the islands known as the Greater Antilles. Bahamas and th9 Lesser Antilles or Windward Islands Mr. Daw6s intro- ; duced a joint resolution directing the President to proclaim a general holiday commenoratin? the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America on October 12, 1892. 95th Dat.?The consideration of the Naval bill was resumed and several minor amendments were proposed by Mr. Hale and agreed to The River and Harbor bill was reported. The gross increase made by the Senate Committee is $1,951,143 ? Mr. Gorman spoke in favor of adequate appropriations for public works Sir. Quay introduced a bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a mint in Philadelphia. 96th Dat.?Funeral services over the body of Senator Barbour, of Virginia, were held in the Senate Chamber, Bishop Keane, of the Catholic University, officiating. 97th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill was again considered. Mr. McPnerson's amendment being rejected, thirty to eighteen Mr. Hale introduced a bill for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamship Despatch on Assateague Shoales, Va., in 1891 Mr. Chandler introduced a bill to authorize the registration of steamships and vessels of the United State! wnich are to be built by the Americar Steamship Company, of which Austit Corbin is to be the head. The company wil] have a capital of at least 110,000,000. Ita vessels wih plv between New York City oi some port on Long Island and Great Britain 98th Dat.?The Naval Appropriation bill with all the Senate amendments intactbattleship, double-turreted monitor, foui light-draft cruisers and six torpedo boatspassed by a vote of thirty-three to eighteen In the Honae. IO&th Dat.?Mr. Oates introduced a reso lution asking for an investigation of the Pinkerton Detective Agency The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was further considered. 109th Dat.?Speaker Crisp laid before thfl House a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of deficiency in the appropriation for pension! for the current fiscal year of $7,674,333, and recommending that the deficiency be sup plied by reappropriating that sum from thi unexpended balance of $8,834,079 remaining to the credit of pensions for the fiscil year of 1891 The day was spent in consideration of the Sibley claim. 110th Day.?Mr. Stone introduce.! a re3o lution providing for the appointment of a special committee of five to investigate ttw affairs of the Freedman's Bank and tht Freedman's Saving and Trust Company ? The remainder of the session was devoted to the private calendar. 11 1th Dat.?Consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was resumed The House then adjourned to the Senate Chamber to parcici - ? ~ 1 AA^mrtnifla ntrar thft hnriv pOMJ III bUD L UUCi ai tOiOkUWMtvif V ? v> ?MW of the lata Senator John 3. Barbour, of Virginia. 113th Day.?Consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was continued ? Mr. Bryan introduced a bill placing rouih lumber on the free list and reducing dutiet on manufactures of wood. 113th Day.?Consideration of the Sundrj Civil Appropriation bill was continue i, Mr Holrnan yielding to an increase in thi amouDt set aside for the surveys of publii lands Mr. Ueary introduced the Htscocl bill to admit the Pacific Mail steamshi) China to American registry. , DEATH BY ELECTRICITY. Successful Execution of Tlce at the Anbnrn (M. Y.) Prison. Joseph Lt. Tice, the Rochester wife murderer, was executed by electricity at 6:39 o'clock a few mornings ago in Auburn (N. Y.) Prison. The execution is considered a great success. There was nothing revolting about it. The witnesses saw no burning of flash, no exhalation of air from the lungs, no struggling of the victim. The murderer met his fate calmly. He was apparently unmoved while being strapped in the chair, and be had nothing to say at the last. The electric current was turned into the body four times, each contact being brief. The physician in charge believe! that better results would bo obtained in this way than with two long contacts. The complete time of contact was fifty seconds. At the request of Dr. Daniels, Drs. Baker and Irvine examined the body. They said there was no pulsation whataver. Tice was dead. The other pnysi'vsus also examined the body a little late:. All agreed that Tice had passed into eternity the instant the first contact was made. A close examination of the body showed no marks or burns upon it. FLOODED BK A WA'IWUUT.1 ???????? ^ Terrible Loss of Life in a Hungarian Goal Mine. Scores of Miners Drowned Like Bats in a Fit. Dispatches from Fuenfkirchen, in Hungary, say that a waterspout bunt orar the mine* near the city, a few daya ago, and flooded them, and that between eighty and 100 miners, if not mart, hare been drowned. The flood came shortly after noon. The atmosphere had been heavy and the temper' ature high all the morning: An hour before the waterspout burst the wind, which had : been from the south, shifted to the east and droreuporer the mountains near Peetvar rad a huge mass of clouds, at first yellowish gray but quickly deepening to dead black. The clouds were whirled along the crest of the mountains by the wind, which roae to a eale. until over the mountains skirting the coal fields on the north they had mnmnrf. the form of an enormous cone, with it* apar almost resting on the mountain top. The men at the month of the pits ooaeaii' work, aad two ganza of men from the ptt nearest the mountain became alarmed aad refused to descend. They started for their, homes to wait for the storm to blow over. Suddenly the wind shifted to the north, the darkneas increased and the cone wir, swept directly over the collieries. It bars* a moment later and the water came dowais j a deluge, sweeping the men from their fMfc ' wrecking the shanties and pouring in floods down the shafts. Large buildings were swept from their foundations, the roofs were crushed in aad. furniture and tools were carried through0 shattered doors and windows by the wiad and water. ' /; Several men standing in the pit entrance* disappeared in the first rush of the flood,aad were supposed to have been carried down tha shaft witn the water and wreckage. In the mines the full force of men were at work. The total number was said to approximate 300 or 400. They had absolutely no warning. / The lower galleries in several mines were said to hare bean completely flooded, al*' though the water did not rise to the upper. galleries; Inoae pit there were fifteen deadf ia another seven; in another nine. That* olume of water broke with a rushing MnAwf ala'pmo/1 fha wXaIa rtlfc* AM within thirty minutes thousands of men ttdl women were harrying oat to the scan* at destruction. Volunteers were called for at all the pits, ' and men from the night shifts war* Hot down the shaf ts, which had been left reasonably safe, to rescue their comradas. The first descent was made in the min* where about fifteen men were at work <m> the lowest level. The men in the upper gat'-;: lories were found uninjured and were carriqi to the top. Nobody in the lowest gallery was alive to-, tell the story. The mine was flooded at that level, and several bodies were found floatiaff; i in the water and were sent up. nips! JOHN S. BABBOUB.: ' Virginia's Junior Senator Dies SudUdenly in Washington. /r3B Senator Barbour, of Virginia, died tad*' denly at his residence in Washington a fair mornings ago at 6:30 o'clock. He awakened** shortly before and aroused Captain Sh4p< herd, of Warreztoo, Va., who was his euast, saying that he was ill, and asked, him to send for a physician. Returningto his own room. Senator Barbour lav . down and died within ten minutes. Ttta physician prononncad the cause of deattt heart failure. There was do premonition of' death. In 1880, while in Europe, Senator! Barbour experienced a similar attack, bat it soon passed away. List week, at thairaces, he complained of a similar feeling, but it was not severe enough to disturb him any nor causa him to. abandon anv of nis duties. He was in the ' Senate the day before as usual, in the; morning attended a meeting of tho Committee on the Affairs of tne District of Columbia. Senator Barbour left no im-/ mediate family. His wife's sister, M1m\ Dangerfield, presided over his household,an4< a brother resides in Culpeoar, Va. John S. Barbour was the junior Senator ) from Virginia in point of servica, though'! the senior in years. He was born in Colpeper County, Virginia, on December 2Sfc '. 1830. He graduate! from tha school of tha University of Virginia in 1843, and began, the practice of law in his native county. > Born of a family of politician^ young! Barbour became prominent in the politics of I Culpepar County, and at the age of twentjH seven was sent to the Legislature. . j He was re-elected to serve in three succea- H sive sessions of that body. Mr. Barbour^H I then abandoned official life to engage ac-^l tively in business, and did not resume his^B political career until his election to tha^H I Forty-seventh Congress. During the terim of nearly thirty years he wai^B engaged in several lar^e enterprisaa.^H In 1852 he was elected President^? of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and^f served in that caoacity until that road waa^H merged in the Virginia Midland Railroad^H when he was made President of that roa<H| until 1S33, when he resigned. Eepresenta^H UTC UaiUUUU ? UO < U VAWWM eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, and chosen by the Virginia Legislature, uiH Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the^B expiration of the term of United!? States Senator Harrison H. Puddl?> H berger, Readjustee He took his seat oaH March 4, 1889, and his terra of service would H have expired March S, 1895. Senator Bar^H bour was of large figure, mora than six fee^H tall, with an inclination to stoop. Lo*cS| curly, iron-gray locks and a heavy limmta'n^^B of the same color set off his ruddy face an^H made the man a noticaable figure in anv aJM| semblage. The dead Senator resided/mI Alexandria. He was a childless widowerJ^H LYNOHED IS THE CIT^. 9 Hangc<l to a Telegraph Pole /in thoH Centre ot Little Rock./ Henry James, mulatto, twenty-two years flj old, employed about the house of Charloa fl| Johnston, at Little Rock, Ark., assaulted the H five-year-old daughter of the latter during H the temporary absence of the family. was arrested and placed in the county jaiL^B At 9 o'clock at night a crowd of 1000 mea^H surrounded the jail. The mob broke open the gates, secured the prisoner, and started with him to tbe^H residence of Mr. Johnston, where he wiuf^H identified. 92 The mob then marched to Fifth and UtaH streets, in the very heart of the city, op-SI posite the Masonic Temple. James at first^l denied his guilt, but finally admitted it A^H ">m war thrown across the arm of a larg?H telegraph pole, and James was soon swinging^? in mid-air. He was no sooner drawmnj^H than the mob opened fire on hicn and hi^H body was riddled with bullets. M| STATE CAPITOL BOESED. I New Mexico's $1,000,000 Stractuxe^H Totally Destroyed. At 8 o'clock, a few evenings ago, smoke^H was seen issuing from the roof <}JL an attic^H near the base of tha south dome of Mexico's Capitol building in Santa Fa. uens at once drew up the tire bose to tbflM spot, but only to find that the water fromH| the water works bad been shut off from th^H building and grounds, and it at once beoime^H evident that the structure was doomed. The^B vaults are uninjured. Owing to quarrels it^H the late Legislature uo money was appropri-^H ated to pay for insurance, and the policiei^H were allowed to expire. Ths building wa^H alued at $l,00(i,0'K^ and is a total losi. H The electuc-fight trust, that de^B manrtnH StSfi Sft nar am lamn fnr il^H lum-inating the World's Fair grounds^B admits that it made a mistake. Wha^H it meant to demand was $20. Ther^H Is a general suspicion that all It coult^R get wad about the size of the flgur^f that the trust was after. gH