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the Mod calamity. Greatest Desolation Eyer Seen in the South and West. Hundreds of Lives Lost and Millions of Property Destroyed. Fr >m the very source of the Father of Waters down to the Louisiana delta the story is one o! desolation. Farms ruined, houses swept away, live stock drowned, railroads idle, human livds in danger?such is tho his* tory of the big flood. Beginning at St. Cloud, north of Minneapolis, following the Mississippi down to Keokuk, Iowa, where the givat. Egyptian levee has yielded, flooding "thousands of acres of the richest farm lands on the continent; thence in succession passing the cities of Quincy and Alton, in Illinois, where the work of the wind and water has been disastrous, the first great stage of the desolate journey ends at St. Louis, Mo. It is impossible to make an estimate of the damage to property in that city and vicinity, except 10 say that millions will express it, and that the loss embraces untold acres of growing crops destroyed, the wreck of several villages, injury to factories, the stoppage of trains, and the demoralization of business. Devastation hovers over a big and prosperous manufacturing district. Already the losses and damages turn over 11,000,000,and hundreds of men are in forced idleness. Merely to name towns and villages in Missouri and Illinois that have suffered from the inundation, would make a list of appalling length. The truth is that the destruction is so widespread and overwhelming in its character, as to bo difficult not only of description, but of realizatior. On the Missouri, too, and its tributaries, the waters are abroad to a greater extent than ever before known. Throughout the Dakotas farms are under water, bridges have been carried away and railroad tracks undermined. The horror at Sioux City, Iowa, is still engaging attention, and the full story of the deluge has not yet been told. Even yet hundreds of people are closely following the receding floods, searching for their ruined homes and missing relatives. Weeks and perhaps months wi*l be required to repair the havoc caused by -the flood, and it will probably never be known exactly how many ptrishea in the torrent. The loss by water even when the buildings were not carried away, was very large. Everything is soaked or ruined, or smashed by the waves or by the timbers hurled along oy the current. Down through Nebraska the Missouri and its tributaries are on the rampage. The Platte is especially turbulent, and all along its course through the State until it empties into Big Muddy at Plattsmouth it has left desolation on either side. At Kansas City the Missouri River it higher than at any time since 1844. The town of Harlem is left without a soul of its populace, and many houses have been carried from their foundations. A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says? Ten thousand people along the banks of the Mississippi have been rendered homeless bj the ravages of the Hood between this city and Cairo, 111. In some parts the river ranges from ten to twenty miles in width. The river runs are swesping away homes, drowning stock and submerging bottom lands. Five hundrai thoosand acres of growing crops have tx en destroyed. As the water begins to go down an estimate is being made of the art oal damage done, and it is believed that half a million will not cover it. There are now in Harlem, Argentine, Armourdala and West Kansas over I0f>0 houses which have been deserted. It is impossible to make more than a rough estimat \',but it is believed that the damage, actual and resultant, will t amount to fully $5,000,003 In this immediate vicinity. In the flooded district probably 1500 square miles are submerged to an extent which renders it impossible for th9 farmers to raise crops. At least 15,000 persons have been tbrowa out of employment. The following Louisiana parishes are of firtnd bv crevasse water: East Carroll, Ma1 laon,Tensas,Concordi?, Morehouse, Richland, Caldwell, Catahoula, St. Charles, St. Johu, Plaquemines, Assumption, La Fourch?, Caddo and Bossier. The large crevasses now running are two on the Lafourche bayou and two on the Mississippi proper. A telegram from Shreveport. La., say*: The whole country above here, with few exceptions, is one sheet of water, and the flood offerers have taken refuge in houses, barns and gin-housee, from whtca they are awaiting succor. Despatches have been reojived reporting a oig rise at Garland City, and advising the committee at Benton to spare no pains to hold the leveee. At 3.30 o'clock in the morning the Dan Nicholson levee on the Bossier side, a few miles below this city, gave away at a point where no danger was anticioated. The guards were seated in a store n9ar by, and the store and contents were carried away. Fifty armed citissns cut the levea at Ottumwa to save their property. The cutting was calculated to injure the property of the Water Comoany, and the company apt>ealed ?- ? if U.ll ar.a TO 6C0 \jlhJ JlmroiHill, VUV mw T!?e Water Company's superintenient attempted to stop the men, but be withdrew when a revolver was levelled at bis bead. A dike was soon opened in three places, allowing the water to escape. The Secretary of War has authorized the Chief of Engineers to use Government boa1;* upon all Western rivers to save human life where residents of the flooded districts are in danzer. Governor Boies, of Iowa, after investigating the flooded districts resolved to issue a proclamation inviting the people of Iowa and the country generally to contribute for the relief of the destitute people. The proclamation will state that 1200,000 is needed for this purpose. A telegram from Castoria, Ark., stated that 1500 mec, women and children were water bound there and askel that a boat be sent to their rescue. The destitution amon? the flood sufferers, white as well as colored, between Little Bock, Ark., and the mouth of the Arkansas ?uter, is appalling, rine biuii ana us vicinity is covered with thousands of refugees. Tbe cotton crop; ail alon? the river is totally destroyed, and it is hard to tell on what the farmers will liva this summer. The Government boat C. B. Reece supplied 15'JO half-famished people on seventeen different landings with provisions furnished by the citizens of Little Rock. Hundreds o! people were taken up along the trip, and put of? on dry placeo. At Eagle's Landing 120 people were found living in three houses. Two men were seen drowning by the crew, and four were rescued froai housetops, where they ?or hours fouud refuje> A flotilla of Government boats is continually on the river bringing sucor to the helples3 victims of the flood. The entire Illinois Valley is desolate. Farms that are usually b9ing worked at this time of the year are now under several feet of water. The farmers have abandoned the hope of being able to get a crop of corn in this year, as the season will fa* too Into. It will take three or four weeks of tbe mo. ~<avor%bl? weather to get the Water off the farm?, and the ground will be tco wet to work. The American Red C*v,ss Association has decided to receive no more relief for distribution in Russia. They recommend to thfi generous people who wish to give that they rond all relief direct to the destitute cities and towns in the flooded districts of the West and South of our own countrw WAGES OF FABM LABOEEES. The Department or Agriculture Issues a Report on That Subject. Secretary Rusk has published a report on the wages of farm labor in the Unite! States. The tables show that in 1SC45, monthly farm wages, without board, were as follows: In Eastern States, 133.31; Middle Staws,fjy.oo; oouuieru o?t??,?iw.uu1 Western States, $27.84; Mountain States, J27.33; Paciflc States, $44.60, the average being $36.87. Wage3 were lowest in 1879, J >hen the average was 816.05. Since then Aioy have slowly increased year by year, until at present they are: In the Eastern States, *36.46, Middle States, $23.&3; Southern States, 614.86; Western, 122.61; Mountain, $33.16; Pacific, $36.15. The average per month tor the whole year being $18.60. Tbe report says that "A careful analysis of all tbe data collected concerning farm wages from 1840 to 18S5, in comparison witb ! results of the more recent investigations, will how that in fifty years the compensation of j farm laborer! has very nearly doubled." ! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. JsAtiOrrs Ferdinand Palkowizc, a Hungarian blacksmith in East Orange, N. J., shot and killed bis wife and ended his own me. A great fire raged along the water front at Oswego, N. Y.. sweeping through the lins of elevators. It startea in the big Washington Mills. Six elevators were destroyed. The Director of Warner's Observatory. Rochester, N. Y? who discovered the comet now attracting so much attention, has succeed in obtaining ail excallent photo?rapn. The comet has eight distinct tails and is unprecendented in astronomic history. The Torpedo Board, consisting of Commander G. A. Converse and Lieutenants T. C. McLean and C. A. Bradbury, having in charge the tests of the Destrover's submarine gun at the Brooklyn (N'. Y.) Navy Yard, has made a successful trial of Ericsson's powerful projectile. As experiment with bicycles as a mode of conveying war dispatches has h?en made under the auspices of the United States Army. A small armv of wheelmen forwarded a dispatch from General Miles in Chicago to G?n? eral Howard on Governor's Island, New York. The trip took four days, twelve hours, four minutes anl lorcy-eiRiuseconas. Rains interfered with the cyclists ana another test will bo made. Edward Butler, aged 102 years, died a few nights sines at Elizibsth, N. J. It is said he was never sick a day in his life before his last sickness. He retained his maatal faculties to the end. William H. Vanderbilt, eldest son of Cornelius Vanderbiit. died at his father's home in New York City from typhoid fever. He was twenty-one years old, and was destined to inherit his fataar's vast fortune. Work was stopped on the monument to commemorate the Battle of Trenton, N. J., owing to the fact that the necessary granite. which comes from a Vermont quarry, was tied up in New York by the retU3al of workmen to handle it. Secretary of State Blaine went to New York City from Washington to see his granddaughter and to have his eyes examined. Patrice Fitzpatrick was hanged at Pittsburg, Penn., for the murder of bamuel Early. It was the first execution iu Allegheny County in eight years. The People's Bank at Sea Isle City, N. J., closed its doors for lac!; of business. The officers of the bank announca that the depositors will be paid in full. Mrs. Ralph Noyes, of Woodsville, N. h., went suddenly insane and dr&nk a strong solution jof aconite. She then forced her two children to partake of the mixture. Then she cut th? children's throat with a razor. The mother is dead and the children fatally hurt. South and West. Sixteen* colored persons were drowned by the floods in Arkansas. At a dinner in Baltimore Md., the silver service given by its citizens to the United States cruisar Baltimore was formally accepted by Secretary Tracy. There were snowstorms throughout Min? j esota, w isconsin sua pai ?ui Seaborn Smith, colored, was hanged at Covington, Ga., for assaulting a colored girl. Eliven King's Daughters of Chicago and St. Louis were passengers on the steamer Island of the Thingvalla line, which sailed from New York for Chriptiania and Copenhagen. They are going to the relief or the starving Russians with a purse of about 110,0[)0, which was collected in Chicago and St. Louis. Patrick and Jakes Dody, aged respectively fourteen and eighteen years, were shot and killed by Charles Ebbinghaus in the yard of the tatter's residence in St. Louis, Mo. The two boys, who bore a bad reputation, were drinking beer in the yard. Governor Northen, in view of the recent triple lynching in Clarksville, tas issuad an address to the people of Georgia denouncing the outrage, offering: a heavy reward for the murderers, and calling for the enforcement Of law. Charles Stxwakt, a prisoner confined in the Perry County (Ark.) jail has been lynched. He seized an iron poker and struck Deputy 8heriff Holmes across the head, fatally injuring him. At Martin's Ferry, Ohio, Henry Morris, sixty-fire, wanted to marry Lena Williams, fifteen. Lena's father objected and Henrv killed him. Joskph Hardin, a young man of Willington, Kan., underwent a mock trial and died of heart failure after being condemned to death. He had been attentive to a number of ladies and their husbands determined to play a joke on him. An incendiary fire at Chehalis, Washington, destroyed four blocks. Loss, $110,000. Walter Siuth, coiorec, woo assaunou a white girl, was taken from the jail at Cabot, Ark., and lynched. The car drivers' strike at New Orleans, La., assumed serious proportions, and rioting occurred all orer the city. The Mayor swore in over 150 citizens as officers. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Tengham and the nine-year-old daughter of Charles Pinckney were drowned at Aransas Pass, Texas. The Territorial Convention of the Republican party was held at South McAlester, Indian Territory. The delegates elected to the Minneapolis Convention are as follows: Ridge Pascol, a full-blooded Cherokee, who heads the delegates, of Tahlequah; John S. Hammer,of Ardmore. One or the alternates is a colored man. The delogates were uninstructed, but are for Harrison. At the Third Party Convention at Charlotte, N. C., it was resolved to present the name of L. L. Polk to the National Convention at Omaha, Neb., .as a Presidential candidate. Fire destroyed a number of mills in Spokane, WasningtoD, and caused $230,000 damage. Three man were injured and two perished. Washington. A proclamation was issue 1 by the President announcing a reciprocity arrangement * < * oL-a ofTa/?r, Mav 30. Wicn uruawsixiaio uu mnu j ? A bill to place on the pension roll, at the rata of 520 a month, George W. Jones, of Iowa, formerly a distinguished Senator from that State, was reported to th e Benato by Mr. Turpie and was immediately passed. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Nathan A. Morford, of Arizona, to be Secretary of Arizona. a petition' was presented in the Eouse of Representatives by Mr. Cummings, of New j York, bearing 25,003 signatures of merchant tailors, asking for the passage of a law prohibiting any person from bringing in rrea of duty more than two full suite of c.othes and one overgarment of foreign manufacture or workmanship. The thickest piece of armor ever manufactured in this country has been successluily tested at the Indian Head proving grounds. It was one of thft ten fourteenhicb nickel steel diagan*l plates for the Indiana. being the first of the battle ship armor plates completed by the Bethlehem (Fenn.) Iron Works. The President appointed Admiral Stephen B. Luce, retired, to be Commissioner-General, and Professor G. Brown Goode. Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti t.utioD, an! Professor James C. Wellington, President of the Columbian University, to be Assistant Commissioners to represent the XTn'tod States at the Columbian Historical ExDosition, to be held in Madrid, Spain, in 1S92, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. The President withdrew the nomination of Frederick Bancroft a"? United Stated ConI sul at Brunswick, Germany. The Italian Minister, Baron Fava, was received in the Blue Room of the White House by President Harrison. He was accompanied by the attaches of the Italian Legation. Secretary Blaine accompanied the Baron to the Executive Mansion and made the introductions. Mr. Blaine had a | long conference with the President afterward. The executors of the will of the late General George W. G'ullom. of New York City, called on Secretary Elkins and presented ' ' 1- -? . mm B ULlOCi. iur t^Ol),UUU| tuc kuiuuuu w* ? bequest made by Ueneral Cullom for the erection of a memorial hall at West Point Military Academy. Secretary Elkins formally acc9pt?d the bequest. A caucus of the Democratic members of the House decided that the remaining appropriation bills shall be disposed of in their regular order before other bills are takes up. Sir Julian Pa.uwc*fofk, the British Minister, and Lady Paunceforta gave a reception at the British Legation, Washing too, in honor of the seventy-second anniversary of the birthday of Queen Victoria. Foreign. E. P. Deacon, of Boston, Mass., was tried at Nice. Franco, for the killing of M. Abeille his wife's admirer, was found guilty or the wilful wounding of the latter, and was sentenced to imprisonment for a year. Spain' has cancelled the prohibition of the import of American pork, which has been in force for many years. Dispatches from Lagos announce that the British have defeated the Jebus near Magone. T wenty chieftains and 400 soldiers were killed. Frederick Batlet Deeming, on3 of the most versatile and bloodthirsty wretches in the history of the world's crime, has been executed at Melbourne, Australia, for the murder of his wife. He made no confession. Fifteen students who were attending the convent at Wurmsbach, in the canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, were boating on Lake Zurich when their boat was capsized and all were thrown into the water. Seven of them were drowned. Thk celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of tho marriage of the King and Queen of Denmark began at Copenhagen. Phylloxera, has appeared in eleven provinces of Spain. Great injury has been done in the vineyards in the affected places, especially in Gerona. Herr Schencx, Manager of the St. Gall branch of the Federal Bank, of Switzerland, has been arrested for embezzling the funds of the institution. The amount that he has taken is at least $1,000,000. Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians fought near Los Pilros, Mexico. Seym privates and two officers were killed. The Yaquis were dispersed. President Diaz has appointed Senor Matias Romero, the present Minister to the United States, Minister of Finance. No successor to Senor Romero as Minister to the United States will be appointed at present. Sir Alexander Campbell, LieutenantGovernor of Ontario, Canada, is dead. Hi was the son of the late James Campbell, M. D., and was born in Yorkshire, England, is 1833. _ LATER NEW?. after an aosonce or exaony iwonty-uvu weeka the United States cruiser Chicago, flagship of Acting Rear Admiral J. G. Walker, returned to the harbor of New York. The Dorflinger glass works at White Mills, near Honesdale, Penn., were almost entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $250,000. Robert J. Godfrey, of Pittsburg, Penn., Treasurer of the Supreme Lodge of the Order of Solon, is charged with embezzling $14,000. The Prohibitionists of Vermont held a State Convection at Rutland. E. L. Allen, of Fairhaven, was nominated for Governor. The Democratic State Convention of New Jersey assembled at Trenton and instructed the delegates to Chicago for Cleveland. A mob attacked the jail at Dallas, Texas, in order to lynch a colored man who killed a polioeman. Two of them were shot and the others desisted. The Kentucky Democratic State convention met at Louisville and elected an uninstructed delegation to the National Convention at Chicago. At the Washington Democratic State Convention in Vancouver all the eight delegates chosen for Chicago were Cleveland meD, and the name of the ex-President was loudly cheered. No instructions were given. It was estimated that at least 10,000 people were rendered hornless by floods on the lowlands of the St. Francis and White Rivers. Thirty-two lives in all have been lost in the Arkansas bottoms. Governor Fifer of Illinois issued a proclamation calling for money, food and clothing for the flood suffers. The damage in Madison, St. Charles and St. Claire Counties will foot up $11,000, 000. The Democrats of Colorado held their State Convention at Denver. The delegates to the National Convention are uninst rue ted, but all of them are known to be pronounced Hill men. The United States Treasury balance is stated at 127,089,844, made up entirely of deposits in National banks, subsidiary silver and minor coin. A new commercial treaty has been negotiated between Austria* Hungary and the United States on the basis of the reciprocity clause of the McKinley bill. A commercial, modus vivondi has been arranged between Spain and France. Queen Victoria's seventy-third birthday was celebrated in London by a parade. The fetes in honor of the golden wedding of the King and Queen began in Denmark. Four soldiers were fatally injured at Chalons, France, by m explosion of gunpowder. They, with two others, were conveying a chest of gunpowder to the camp firing grounds, and on the way stopped to rest, sitting down on the chest. Without thinking of the powder they began smoking cigarettes, and almost immediately the explosion occurred, THE LABOR WORLD. Uncle Sam has 3000 women printers. | The supply of good stenographers in Australia is far below the demand. Government farms are to be established in New Zealand for people out of employment. Artisans in Italy receive thirly to forty cents a day ana are uuu i ogmcu ij at that. The Workingmen's General Benefit Union has 10.433 members and $10,720.70 in its treasury. Girls who work as waiters in the cheap luncheon places in New York City get 16 a week and their meals. The International Cigar-ifakara' Union has about 4700 members on strike, and $550,COO in the general treasury. Eastern Pennsylvania farmers are looking for emigrants to assist them, home labor bein? impossible to obtain. Governor Flower, of New York, has signed the bill providing that mines muse have two entrances for the safety of workman. A combination of the leading houses in all branches of the Bohemian glass industry has been formed with the object of regula I ting output and prices. The Central London Railway, tngiana, w to run three workmen's trains daily, the fare being only two cents for six miles, the cheap est railway fare in the world. The Trades and Labor Council of Vancouver, British Columbia, reports that over forty-five per cent, of the workmen, both in Vancouver and Victoria, ara out of employment. United States Labor Commissioned Carroll D. Wright has found a cotton mill in which the average earnings for six months was $S0 a head of the labor employed. It is not uncommon in Northumberland, England, for a farmer to allow any of his laborers who wish for it the keep of a cow as I part payment of wages, greatly to the beneI lit of their families. Austin Dyer, masta.- shipbuilder in the shipyard of J. W. Savage & Son, Millbridge, Me., is an unusual example of a man who it I thnr-micr), jn his nrofession. He is --"-V 9 x able, personally, to do every part of tha work connected with a ship, from selecting aud cutting the timber to fitting the vessel (or sea, ana is also perfectly capable of navigating if. after it is launched. % AN ISLAND LAD) WASTK A Hurricane's Fatal and Destructive Work at Mauritius. EnormouB Damage to Buildings, Shipping and Standing Crops, Baron de Worms, Parliamentary SecreHfflna raaH a fala-rrom {n I MU'jr Ufc bUC7 W1VUKM UUlbU,! WV*U V* ?W*V6kMU* MS the British House of Commons, London, folly confirming the news of the terrible disaster at Mauritius. The dispatch said that one-third of the capital city, Port Louis, was destroyed. Among the buildings wrecked were the Royal College and twentyfour churches. Many sugar mills in the country were completely demolished. The special correspondent of the Times nays that the loss of life in Mauritius ia not less than 15,000. In the city of Port l/ouis alone 600 persons were killed. In the various country districts at the time tbe dispatch was sent, 800 persons were known to have lost their lives. The latest official estimates were thatl200 persons were killed. It was thought that many of those who were injured would die. The hospitals in Port Louis were filled to overflowing wicti tne injured, ana tents were erected on the hospital grounds to accommodate those whose injuries demanded instant attention. In Port Louis alone 1000 persons were injured. The Government. which is under the direction of Sir Charles Cameron Lees, has taken measures to relieve the distress that prevails in every direction. Thousands of people have lost their houses. Baron de Worms added that Lord Knutsford, the Colonial Secretary, had communicated the facts of the disaster to the Lord Mayor of Loudon, and stated that the latter would at once open a fund for the benefit of the islanders. Other advices from Mauritius are to the effect that the devastation caused by the hurricane was enormous. Business at Port Louis, the capital, and at the other towns on tbe island is still greatly interrupted. All the crops suffered more or less, and some of them are ruined. The hurricane was accompanied by one of the heaviest rainstorms in those latitudes. When the storm broke, the scene defied a ' - A ?1J A# rvola description, auiiu uuo i uai ui coula be heard the crashing of thunder that was appalling in its violence. The flashes of lightning were so awfully vivid that even those who have seen the electrical displays that sometimes occur in the tropics were frightened. The people were panic-stricken, and sought safety in their houses, many of them only to find death shortly afterward in the falling buildings. The wind gauges were blown to atoms, but those best qualified to jndge say that the wind blew at th9 rate of 120 miles an hour. It was utterly impossible for a human being to stand against it Many of those who lost their lives were killed by being lifted bodily from their feet and dashed against trees, walls and houses. The greater part ot the fatalities were ?Sklnaarta A Primins Rin. AUiUUK mo lauui IUK doos, Chinese and Malagassys, who do much of the work in the plantations. There was no loss of life among the British troops on the island, although number of the soldiers were injured. The hospitals are unable to accommodate a tithe of the patients offered,and many hundreds of dwellings in town, village and country are giving refuge and such succor as they can to the crippled and wounded sufferers. The dead were buried as rapidly as possible, many of them being thrown together in a common grave, as it was feared that the corpses in that warm climate might cause a pestilence. In some places whole families were buried beneath the ruins of their houses. Mauritius, or the Isle of Prance, is an island belonging to Great Untain, lying in the Indian Ocean, about 460 miles east of Madagascar, and 2327 miles from Capa of Good Hope. It is thirty-six miles long, and thirty-two miles wide, and has an area of 676square miles. It is noted for its violent hurricanes, and has been the scene of many great disasters. The island was first settled by the Dutch in 1644. They named it Mauritius in honor of Prince Maurice, but afterword abandoned. it. Then the French took it and called it Isle de France. The English captured the island in 1809. Slavery existed until 1833. The island is a strategic point of importance to England with regard to her Indian possessions. It is surrounded by coral reefs which, on the leeward aide, make fine protected harbors. The reefs are cut by eleven passes, through most .of which vessels of large draught can enter. The island is very fertile. Indigo, cotton, sugar, and spices are grown successfully. Deer, wild hogs, goats and apes are common, in the moun> tains. | The population is a little over 300,000, and is made up of various Asiatic, African, and European races. The English encouraged Indian immigration, ana tnis element u large. The other great branch of the population, the libsrated Africans and their descendants, regard themselves as superior to the Indiana Port Louis is the only town of importance. It has a convent, with a large school attached, a college supported in part by the Government, and a number of Government schools. SeverrJ newspapers ara printed there. The Government is similar to that of other British colonies. MUBDEB AVENGED. i Two Train Robbers Shot Dead by a Sheriff's Posse. Two of the express robbers who held up the train at Monroe Junction, Fla., several mornings ago, and killed Messenger Saunders, have paid ths penalty of their crime. They were killed at Buffaia Bluff Bridge, on the St John River, flv# miles south of Palatka. A Palatka special says: "At about halfpast twelve o'clock a natlesa colored man staggered into the Court House and said, 'Come to Buffalo Bluff?-robbers P" Deputy Sheriff Dyson aroused his posse and a special train left with them. George Wurtz andT. H. Wigg, the guard placed by the Sheriff's posse at Buffalo Bluff bridge, at half-past eleven a. m. saw three men coming from the south on the railroad track. As the first passed three feet I nf fka nfhor? thn oimrrln Railed "Hands up!" and the first one obeyed. The second and third drew their revolvers, and the guards knew that the desperate robbers were facing them. The firing was begun by the robbers and a lullet grazed Wigg. Wurtz fired his shotgun loaded with buckshot and Williams, one of the robbers, fell. The man in advance then ran toward Palatka, the other man backward and was shot in the leg by Wurtz. An engine load of young men composed Hie "special," and among them were Dr. Benjamin E. Morgan and Mr. Willard, of toe express company. The big man of the robbers had taken to the swamp. They pur,-ued him and suddenly a ball ripped through " A lj ? ?vu. u ur. iW Organ's V03t. no aaw tuo itjuudi uobind a lallen tree and flred a shotgun loaded with buckshot and Saunders's murderer had met 1>is doom. SIX PERSONS DROWNED, A Waterspout Bursts Over an Ohio Village and a Dam Breaks. A waterspout burst ovar Kinsman, a small village twelve miles northeast of Niles, Ohio, on the Pymatuning River, drowning six persons an1 destroying buildings, stock and crops. Th9 water fell in torrents from 4 o'clock until a few minutes after 0, and the small river overflowed its banks. The farmers did not flae, thinking there was no danger, and all would have been safe had not a dam about two miles above the village broken without warning. J. B. Robin's bouss was on the brink of the river. He and bis wife anrf two childreu were eating breakfast when the flood came. It is presumed that they started to flee, but too lata. K. Stewart and son were in their barn, which was carried away. Their house withstood the torrent and Mrs. Stewart wit aessed the drowning of her husband and son. J. D. Campbell and wife were carried down stream but lodged on an abutment of a bridge and were rescued. The bodies of the six drowned were found in a large pile of driftwood which reached a early across the river. Many horses and cattle were swept away and the loss is esti<uated at 130,000. HFTY-SEOOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 100th Day.?The River and Harbor bill passed without division after having been under consideration about five hours altogether Mr. Quay introduced a bill appropriating 125,000 for a survey for the proposed ship canal from Philadelphia across New Jersey to New York Bay. 1018t Day.?The Senate discussed all day, without taking final action thereon, the bill introduced in response to the suggestion of the President's annual message, to punish in United States courts offences committed against the treaty rights of aliens At the request of Mr. Butler, the SeDate bill appropriating 150,000 for an equestrian statue of General Francis Marion in Columbia, S. C., was passed Bills were also passed appropriating $15,000 for the introduction of reindeer into Alaska; referring the claim of the Citizen^ Bank of New Orleans to the Court of Claims; providing for a commission to enquire into the distribution of mails in large cities by pneumatic tubes; appropriating $15,000 for a painting of Abraham Lincoln, and appropriating $20,000 for the erection of a statu9 of the late Robert Dale Owen of Indiana, to be placed in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. 102d Day.?The bill to provide for the rmnishment of violators of treatv rights of aliens was further discussed An amendment appropriating $40,000 was proposed to the Agricultural Appropriation bill to continue experiments in the production of rainfall by means of ex-1 plosives The Senate bill to transfer ttie revenue cutter service to the Navy Department was laid aside without action Mr. Pettigrew reported a joint resolution direct* ing the President to proclaim a general holiday commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America on October 12, 1892. Placed on the calendar. 103d Day.?Mr. Morgan's silver resolution wa3 discussed at length, Mr. Sherman making the principal speech In the House. 114th Dat.?Consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was continued Mr. Cocwan introduced the Corbin Steamship Registry bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Chandler. 115th Day.?The Sundry Civil bill was again considered, ten pages bein^ covered. Almost the entire session was occupied in discussing an amendment offered by Mr. Forney, which was adopted, ninety-six to ninety-three, providing that all pension money received by inmates of National Soldiers' Home in excess of 13 per month should be deducted for maintaining the homes, except where the disabled soldiers have a wife, dependent parent or a minor child. Then the excess should be sent to such dependent by the managers. 114th Day.?This being District day, tho Sundry Civil bill was laid aside and a nura ber of local bills were passed jjt. ua armond introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to asses3 annually an income tax upon all incomes of persons and corporations in excess of $1000, sufficient to meet the payment of pensions. 117th Day.?Consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was continued Mr. Stewart reported back the River ind Harbor Appropriation bill with Che Senate amendments thereto, with the recommendation that the Senate amendments be non-concurred in. Messrs. Holman aud Bynnm, of Indiana, objected, ind the bill was referred to the Committee af the Whole. 118th Dat.?The House in Committee of the Whole devoted more than six hours to the two pages of the Sundry Civil bill, which contains the paragraphs carrying appropriations to the amount of $412,000 for the World's Fair??Much disorder was caused by references of Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, to intimidation of voters in the South. SHOW IN MAY. New England, and a Portion ot New York Experience a Winter Storm. Snow commenced falling at six o'clock in the morning along the northern division of the Boston and Maine Railroad, commencing at White River Junction, Vt., and corv tinning as far south as North Boscawen. N. H. In many towns four inches covered the freshly opened leaves and flowers. The south bound freight train from Woods, ville came into Franklin at half-past nine covered with three inches of snow. The hills of Franklin and North Boscawen were white with saow, through which green grass five inches high overtopped, making a novel spectacle to the passengers of the morningsouthward train, upon which the snow still fell as far south as Fenacook, below which it lost itself in a pouring rain at Concord. It is learned that considerable damage has been done to the cherry and ap* pie crop in Northern New Hampshire. Three inches of snow fell in New Ham* shire at Dublin and six inches at Chesterfield. At Hanover five inches of snow fell. It has snowed hard all through the valley at West Randolph, Vt. It is not thought j that any damage will be done to growing crops. At Montpelier a half inch of snow fell. Four inches of snow fell in New York State at North Creek, Warren County, and at Johnsbnrg snow covered the grass. The mountains near Warrensburg were covered two inches deep. There was a severe fiurry of snow in the Catskill Mountains, the ground in many places being completely covered. ?nu_ <j?u? i? naotam nart of DnfccheSI J. UO UOiUO 1U wuo vw?v? ? r*" - ? County, New York, were covered with an inch of snow. The storm was the heaviest at Mount Riga and through the Harlem Valley. MTJBDE30US BANDITS. Train Robbers Kill a Messenger and "Wound, an Assistant. Train robbery was attempted at half-past one o'clock the other morning on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad, near Munro Junction, four miles north of Sandford, Fla. The West India fast mail, carrying two express cars, the United States mail car, and several passenger coaches was boarded by four men. and when the train was run* | ning at about five miles an hour two of the men crept upon the engine. Pointing reI volvers at the heads of Engineer Dumas and his fireman, they told them to obey such orders as might be given to th9m. The two other robbers entered the express cars, which were occupied by Messenger W. N. Saunders and Special Agent I. H. Cox, and attempted to overpower them. The expressmen, although taken by surprise, made a desperate resistance, and the robbers then deliberately shot downSaunders, two bullets taking effect in his breast and killing him in atantly. v Cox had his man at baj and was about to snbdue him when the robber who had killed Saunders pointed his revolver at Cox and fired twice. One ball hit Cox in the arm and the other grazed his face and tore out hie lefc eye. * i All the desperadoes then hurriedly jumped from the train and fled to the woods, which tn very dense in that section. DENMARK REJOICING Golden Wedding Celebration of King Christian and Queen Loaisc. The celebration of the golden wedding of the King and Queen of Denmark began at Copenhagen when the members of the royal family attended Holy Communion at the palace of Amalienborg. The Empress of Russia, who arrived that day with the Czar, has o iininna nnri snlendid Dresent for Ker father ana mother. It consists of a team of six horses, perfectly white and of the rarest breeds. Besides this gift of the Czarina, the ruling families of Russia, England and Greeca will make a maguiflceut joint present to the King and Quean of Denmark, consisting of a group ot sculpture by the Danish artist Husselrus, and will later on be placed in one of the public squares of Copenhagen. King Christian extended a hearty greeting to the Czar on his arrival at the palace. The King looks remarkably vigorous, although seventy-four years of age. Queen Louise is also in good health. The Prince and Princeas of Wales, accompanied by Prince George and the Princesses Victoria and Maud, arrived and were received with marked tokens of affection t*r the royal couple. WORLD'SFAIB NOTES. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad la having; an elaorate display made for the Expo* , eitloD. Insurance aggregating more than S3,. 000,000 is dow carried on the World's Fair 1 buildings. Chile will be represented at the Fair, regardless of the fact that its Government made uo appropriation. ] An association has been formed in Ger- , many to organize excursion parties to risit the World's Fair and incidentally Niagara VaIIs and a number of the larzer cities. Many relics of the Cabota, the early Eng- ] lish voyagers to America, will be exhited at the Ezposit ^n by a committea formed for that purpose in Bristol, England, vrhere the ' Cabota lived. A project is being perfected at Melbourne, Australia, whereoy a large party of ' artisans of various crafts may be enabled to visit the Exposition at Chicago for study and pleasure combined. ] General J. H. Brink* r, one of the alternate National Commissioners from Mississippi, has in his possession, and will ex- . hibit at the Exposition, five bales of cotton that was raised' by slave labor in 1862-3. The 160,000 World's Fair appropriation ' which Greece has made will be devoted in large part to the preparation for exhibit of reproductions in cast of the many famous ] specimens of ancient Greek art, now owned by the Government. At the special request of the Empress of Germany the Princess Frederick Karl, aunt of tha Emperor, has accepted the presidency of the women's commission, which will cooperate with the Board of Lady Managers in promoting the women's exhibit at the r air. a glass punch bowl, mad? by the glass- < blowers of Cork in lS.'o, and presented to Daniel O'Connell, the famous Irish patriot, will appear in the exhibit from Cork. One side of the bowl beara O'Connell's initials and the other a representation of Cork, as it then existed. Visitors to the Exposition will be able to go comfortably and expeditiously from one part of the grounds to another and obtain advantageous views of the buildings. They may do this either in electric boats through the lagoons, or by the intrhmural elevated electric railway. The Illinois Woman's Exposition Board contemplates a novel exhibit as pare of its work, in the form of a model home. The idea J is to show the ideal conditions that should surround a woman's life in the household and demonstrate the facilities that can ba provided at a moderate cost. Great Britain's building at th9 Expoai- i tion will be a typical specimen of a picturesque, half-timbered English home of the time of Henry VIIL, or about the period which the World's Fair will commemorate. It will be ninety feet square, two stories high. and built of red brick, neavy timber and yellowish terra cotta, with red tiling for the roox. A 150,000 monument to Columbus, designed by ticulptor Howard Kretschmar, of Cnicago, will be erected in Lake Front Park, which has been termed the "Gateway to the Exposition." It will be a statue in bronze twenty feet high, surmounting a granite peaestal thirty leet high. The monument will form the design for souvenirs of the Exposition. 'Ihb New York World's Fair Board has vi3ite.i Chicago, inspected the Exposition grounds and buildings, and inquired carexully into the progress of the work of prep* aration for tne great fair Tne member* of the board expressed their astonishment and enthusiasm over tne magnificent buildings, and the vast amount of work that has been accomplished. In the women's exhibit from South Da kota will be a lire size statue of a tiioux Inaibu maiden. The subject was Minnehaha, the eighteen year old daughter of fitting Bear, wno was prominent in the engagement with General Custer's troops on tne Little Big Horn. Minnehaha feu in love a Lieutenant in the United States Army at Fort Bully and cue a of a broken heart. Dr. N G. Blalocjc, President of the 'Washington State World's Fair Board, announces that tnere will be celebrated at the Washington building a "watermelon day." He has set apart 100 acres to be devoted entirely to the raising of these melons, and he promises to take a train load of them to the Fair and give them away with the purpose of convincing people that as a water-melon growing State W asbingcon stands first. Thx Exposition probably will not have an Eiffel tower or anything' approximating it in height, except the elevation to which the captive balloons will ascend. There will be, however, three ooservation towers about 300 feet high for the accommodation of visitors who wfeut to take a bird's-eye vidw of the grounds and buildings These towers will be of elaborate design and beautiful in i nnri will r>nat about A2C0.Q00 act. DYNAMITEBS IN SPAIN. Nineteen Persons Blown Up in an Ei< plosion at Ooldocano. An explosion took place in a dynamite factory at Goldocano, Spain, causing the death of sixteen men and three, women. The report of the explosion was heard a distance of twelve miles. The scenes witnessed when the families of the workmen were assembled on the' 8T>ot were heartrending. One* woman, seeking her husband, found only his bead, while another found the corpse of her husband with the head blown off at a great distance from the factory. The explosion was caused by two small boxes of nitro glycerine. Two workmen were discharged from the factory for insubordination. They threatened revenge, and the superintendent saw them running away from the back of the smaller of the two buildings, in which a large quantity of nitro glycerine was stored. A few seconds later there was a terrific report, both buildings were lifted about forty feet into the air and then went to splinters. All the people in the immediate neighborhood were stunned by the shock. In Bilboa, five miles away, the ground trembled as if shaken by an earthquake, and the people ran into the streets in panic. The scene of destruction is appalling. For hundreds of yards round the factory only ruins are left. Splinters of the ruined faetnnr covered the around, but not a niece of board or beam aa large as a man's arm could be found. Treee were split down the trunks, outbuildings were laid flat and not a chimney was left standing within a radius of a mile and a half. A FAMILY LYNCHING. The Lynchee Worked lor the Lyncher and Helped Him Do the Job. An extraordinary murder and lynching occurred at Bastrop, La., the other day. One man committed the murder and one man did the lynching, with the assistance of the murderer. Schambliss Brigham, manager for Colonel Georg* C. Phillips, wtjo owns a plantation on Island de Siard, while in the field was shot dead from ambush by an old colored man. The murderer then waited to the plantation residency summoned Coiooel Phillips and told him that he had killed Brigham and wanted to be hanged for it. Colonel Phillips put a rope around the man's neck and he was soon swinging in a death struggle from the limb of a tree. No motive is assigned for the murdert and it is thought that the murderer was insane. f The Southern train brigand has ' '"1 * " nn/JdAtia Kit | I gnt A new wnnKie m uia I'luuuuu i/ui I remunerative profession. He waits until a train has moved out upon j some trestle hanging high over a dizzy gulf, and then appears on th? scene. With the train halted anc his trusty guards placed at either enc of the trestle, he has things hisowc way for a few minutes. During thai time he gives passengers, expresi agents and others the choice of deliv-1 ering up all their valuables or walking the plank into the abyss. Th? neatness of these land pirates haj rarely been exceeded by anything at sea. I . i . i * *' .Jc'UAX;f v* v ' ' ' < . . ; - .1: /:*: rT-1 TEMPERANCE. THE GOLD Or RIGHT HABITS. rhis bichloride treatment of gold, my dear boy. ; Of which in the papers we read, (fill doubtless bring jo7 into homes fall of woe, And balm to some hearts which no# bleed; For many a man, who is traveling down | The hill, that most surely will lead ro death and destruction, will grasp at this As drowning men grasp at a reed. j But gold can be taken in childhood, mj, boy, i Which works in a far surer way: rhe gold of right habits, pure thought* and deeiree, Bright bands; growing brighter each day; rhe gold which is sent from the Father above, To shield from the tempter's hard sway, j Bach boy, who will take up his stand for the: right, And not for one moment delay. j 5o seek for this gold in your spring time,. dear boy, This wisdom and strength from on high, rhen safely you'll walk through the years that will come, Though many a pitfall be nigh,. For God sends His angel to camp round that boy, Who dares to stand firm, though be die, And leads him through all of the dangers of youth Up, up to that home in the sky. ?Jessie F. Houser, in the Voice. KOTO ALCOHOL IN GERMANY". In a surrey of the imperial statistics of the consumption of alcoholic drinks in Germany, L)r. William Bode says that the production >f the raw material manufacture into wine, seer or spirits occupies about one*flfteenth ' )? the cultivated1 land of the Empire. On > ;his area of farming land enough rye might x grown to supply 3800 millions of pound! ?f Dread, whlcn wou'.l make sixty-six pounds of bread more a rear to ever; one of the 50,000,000 of people inhabiting Germany, jt 330 pounds to an average family of fire persons, which is the entire food needed by . Che family for nearly fifty days, or about one-eighth more of food than they can enjoy at present On?-f ourtaenth of all the productive forces of Germany is engaged in this pernicious industry. The amount of money spent dn drink has been estimate! at about 1120,000,000 a year, or 13.40 to each inhabitant, or 112 to each average family of five. Professor Scbmoller, the economist, says: "Among our Working people the conditions of domestic lif<\, of education, of prosperity. of progress or/igradation, araall dependent on the proportion of income which flow* down the father's throat. The whole condition of our lower and middle classes?ona may. even without exaggeration, say the future of the Nation?depends on this que** tion. If it is true that half our paupers become so through drink, it girds us some ' estimate of the costly burden we tolerate. No other of our vices Dears comparison with this."?Chicago Herald. <mMVLA1*j3 WORE. Rev. Dr. Talmage, in a recent number of the Christian Herald, writing editorially of "Stimulated Work," says: God intended us all to be husy. The sun and moon in six thousand years have rested only a part of a day; and then it took a miracle to stop them. Nothing that God ever made, animate or inanimate, human or ; angelic, can afford to quit work. But the outlay of human energy often leads to inebriation. Men have so much to do that they think they must have artificial stimulus. Vast multitudes of professional men have found their nervous system exhausted,: and their brain lethargi&and have resorted to this dangerous help. Now what a man cannot do without perpetual stimulant I do not believe he outfit to do. ' You are r?* > sponsible for no more strength than that which you have in your arm, and for no more speed than you have in your foot, and for no more vivacity than you have in your brain. God asks no mora, and the world Fa has a right to expect no more. Notwithstanding this, some of the most brilliant men in th? law and medicine, yea, even in the minisb y, have fallen overboard. It will be a glorious day for Britain and the United States when all their professional men and - oK.n thmv th? hottle ont of the back window. It may require a struggle; but what great and grand and glorious thing was aver done without a struggle? WHAT DRINK DOES. The following are some of the reasons why T. V. Powderly advocates the tamper- . ance cause: "Why do I so bitterly arraign the poor drunkard? "For the reason that he is a drunkard,and because he has made himself poor through his love of drink. Did I, or any other man, rob him of the money he has squandered in drink? Did I make him poor* The vileat names that tongue can frame would he apply to me if Idid. Must I stand idly by and remain silent while hs roos himself? Did he rob only himself it would not make so much difference. He robe parents, wife and children. He robe his aged father and mother , through love of drink. He gives for rum j what should, go for their support. "When they murmur he turns them from c. his door, and points wicn contaminated linger towards the poor house. He next tarns toward bis wife and robe her of what should be devoted to the keeping of her home la j comfort and plenty. He robs her of her * wedding ring and pa was it for drink. He i turns his daughter from his door in a fit of. dmnken anger, and drives her to commit j deplorable crimes, and then accepts from , her hand the proceeds of her shame. To satisfy his love for drink he takes the prioe of his*child's virtue and innocence from her sin-stained; lust-bejewelled lingers,and with it totters to the bar to pay it to the man who 'does not deny the justice of my position.' I do not arraign the man who j drinks because he is poor, but because, though j being a slave to drink, he has made himself J and family poor. I do not hate the man J who drinks, for I have carried drunken man-* to their hometi on my back rather than aKlow them to remain exposed to inclement weather. I do not hate the drunkard?tts is what drink has effected; and while I/do not hate the effect, I abhor and loathe/Um cause." J TKUP2RAXCE ^CW3 A ITT XOTZS.J Des Moines and Sioux City, the/argest cities in Iowa, both now have stronr prohibition municipal governments. i A German wine merchant has b^en fined 16000 and sentenced to six months imprisonment for adulterating wine with cfder. The breweries of Munich, Germany, pos Bess 800 railway cars, equipped *rith refrigerating apparatus, for toe transportation of beer. Auburn, Me., a city of ten thousand inhabitants, employs three policemen, one for day service and two at night. Prohibition v. prohibits in Auburn. There are said to be twenty-eight total abstainer s on the London County Council. Out of the 117 Councilors, eighty-?ix are la faror of a temperance policy, and out of * seventeen aldermen eleven are on the same j side. These added make ninety-seven out of a total of 137. The Woman's Christian Temperanoe Union of Bloomingt>n, 111., has decided to build a white ribbon inn, at an expense of $15,000. The new building will b^ of brick, three stories high and of modern style, and will contain a cnapel seiting 65J. - - . .U.i i-, lit+1* A Swiss aauj paper sl?m? wxk uj ??W7 < account is taken of the ravages caused by alcoholism in Switzerland and the numerous deaths resulting therefrom. Dr. Foret, the director o' a large lunatic asylum at Zurich, adds to these statistics that twenty-seven per cent, of the male patients in that asylum are there as the result of alcoholism. By the coartesy of the Baltimore & Ohio ' Railroad in f'niladelphia, the Woman's \ Christian Temperance Union in that city recently entertained the "railroad boys" all day. The largei dining rooms of the company were gayly decorated, a choice luncheon was served and a number of speakers were present to take part In the meetings. The attendance was large and deeply inter esvea. Miss Mary Allen West, one oC the ablest experts in white-ribbon work, for years President of Illinois Woman's Christian Temperanca Union, and editor of the Union Signal, was recently chosen Superintendent of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union School of Methods, and is going to the Sandwich Islands ana Japan to teach and train workers in the cause. This trip has long been oontemplated and signalizes m notable advance. t ( J