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DECORATION DAY. The Occasion Fittingly Observed All Over the Union. President Harrison Delivers a Me 1 I 3 1 J- T") _ _ l_ moriai Aaaress ai nuunosum, Decoration Day wa3 observed all over the country by admirable military parades, by the decoration of heroes' graves in various cemeteries, by spjci&l caremonies and memorial services. The whole country placed flowers on the tombi of her soldiers. Nobly did the metropolitan area abont New York respond to her duties to the dead. In every spot where there is the resting place of a soldier could ba found tokens of a Nation's thanks beside those of a family's remembrance. Memorial Day has not lost its hold on the hearts of the people, though the war wa3 ended uaarly thirty years ago. The great event of the day was the unveiling of the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument at Rochester, N. Y. This was the event which the President had come from Washington to witness, and which had drawn a distinguished assemblage to Rochester from all parte of the State. Never before had the city been so crowded and never before had it entertained so distinguished a company. Public and private business was suspended and everybody took a holiday. It is estimated that fully 250,000 people took an active part in the various demonstrations. Of this number fully 100,000 came from the surrounding country. The President was enthusiastically received everywhere, and was compelled to bow his acknowledgments to almost continuous cheering. The weather was bright ana iair. The exercises at the unveiling of the monument were preceded by a review, in which at least 8000 men and boys formed into organized parties, participated. The first division was made up of the veterans of the Civil War as oomprised in the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic and other veteran organizations. Following these came 2000 German-Americans, who were succeeded by 2C00 children of the public and parochial schools. Next in line was another division of 2(XX), made up of various -organizations. The President, Governor Flower^ and other distinguished men visiting the city followed in carriages. The reviewing stand, which was in front of the Court House, was haudsomely decorated, the President's flag being prominent at the tront. This flag has never before been used except on naval vessels, so it was a curiosity. It shows the National coat of arms on a blue field. The exercises at Washington Fark began as soon as the various bodies reached the positions assigned tbem. Along the east border of the park was drawn up one company of the Naval Reserve, one of the National Guard, and the Knights Tamnlar. On the west side was stationed the company of the National Guard and of the Naval Reserve and the Roman Catholic Uniformed Union. Directly facing the speakers' stand at the north end of the Park were placed the Grand Army of the Republic posts and veteran organizations. On either side of the monument a camp of the Sons of Veterans was stationed. The children of the public schools occupied a place in front of the speaker's stand to the right and the parochial school children a similar position to the left The exercises at the unveiling of the monument were of the moet imposing character. They were preceded by music by the bands. Tho opening prayer was made by the Rev. L. M. Foote, pastor of the Spencer Ripley Memorial Church. General Rdynolds then made a short introductory address, at the close of which the beautiful statue was unveiled by five young women, each of whom is the daughter ot' a veteran belonging to one of the five Grand Army posts in that city. The oration was then delivered by President Hill, of the Rochester University, and the poem was rea 1 by Samuel H. Lowe. President Harrison then made his aidres8. He was followed by Governor Flower, who delivered a short speech. The monument is a tall column of solid cranite, nine feet high, resting on a granite Ease, and carrying a life-size -statue of Lint>ia whoi? monument is forty-three feet high. On each corner ot the base is a statue representing some branch of the naval or military service. On the four sides of the base are bronze pictures, in bas-relief, representing war scenes. The monument was planned eleven years ago. Its total cost has been <36,000. In New York City the event of the day was the parade of United States troops, National Guardmen and members of the Grand Army of the Republic from Fifoy-eighth street and Fifth avenue past a reviewing stand below "the Worth monument in Madison Square, in which sat Mayor Grant, General O. O. Howard, Commander-in-Chief -of the G. A. R. Ijhn Palmer and his staff, and many city officials and aoted pntons. Prom the battery to the Harlem and beyond, from the East River to the Hudson, everywhere, were to be seen the National oolors, half-masted from the poles on the tops of big buildings, festooned about arches and pillars, flung from windows and doorways, and gracefully twined about the statues in the public squares. Business in the Exchanges, public buildings, and utost mercantile houses was suspended. Relow Fourteenth street the usually streets were comparatively deserted. In the morning the Sons of the Revolution decorated the statue of Washington before the Sab-Treasury Building, the large monument to Revolutionary heroes in Trinity churchyard, and the memorial tablet to General Montgomery in the wall of St Paul's. In the up-town .squares the statues of Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Parragut, and the Worth monument were decorated by the Grand Army organisations. Th? statue of Lincoln was almost bidden from sight by pottel plants and cut flowers. The Seventh Regiment veterans made a pilgrimage to the Seventh n : ? Pa fir XVC^IUIOUV OMkUUO III A t in the morning. They were escorted ly the Society of War Veterans. The parade, which was the most imposing seen In years, was headed by a detachment of United States troops under command of Colonel William R. King. They comprised r. battalion of engineers, battalion of infantry, Batteries DaodL. First Artillery, from Fort Wadsworth. Batteries H and M, First Artillery, from Fort Columbus, and Battery H, Second Artillery, from Fort Schuyler. The excellent appearance of the men and their inarching, which, however, did not excel that of many of the citizen soldiers, created much entausiasm. Mayor Grant returned his first salute at thirty-five minutes pistnineA. vr.ani for more than two hours thenceforth he wa* hard at work recognizing tb# courtesies of some 8 )0) men. * rc.ar.ai.>; ftmnt'a fcnmh in Riverside Park, New York City, the exercises were Impressive and appropriately simple. While 10,030 people shouted General Horace Porter, chief of stiff of General Grant, and Colonel Charles Marshall, of Baltimore, Md., chief of staff of General Lee, shook hards, victor and vanquished stool there while the rain came pattering down and the minute guns of the man-of-war Jamestown in the river beneath the bluff roared their salute. No more striking scene was ewer enacted ou any Memorial Day. The oeremonies were under the auspices of U. 8. Grant Post, of Brooklyn, which was escorted by E. D. Morgan Post, of New York City. The corner stone was covered with a canopy of flowers bearing the arms of the Chinese Enpire, the gift of the Chinese Consul. On the platform sat Mrs. U. S- Grant, the only member of her family present. Other guests wen? Colonel David 8. Brown, Senior Depaicment Commander De Lacy, General Wager Swayne and Brieadier-General IjOUlS Klizgei'diil. i. U:l*e w?rj dial) pr*Seu<. members of the Confederate Veterans* Camp of New York and of the Loyal Legion of America. The exercises b-gan at 3 p. M. by an introductory speech by Chairman Henry M. Calvert, of Grant Post. Commander Topham then read the ritual of th9 Grand Army of the Republic, and the assemblage w?s in nraver bv Rev. Mason Gallagher. The first oration was delivered by General Horace Porter. While he was speaking a violent rainstorm came up, bat audience and speakers alike held their ground. The next spsaker was 'Colonel Charles Marshail,of Baltimore, Mi., who was formerly chief of staff of General Robert E. Lee. In Brooklyn the parade of the military and veterans was the principal feature of the Memorial Day celebration, and,although ttio ranks or the veterans were not as full as last year, ani the Thirty-second Rjgiraent was missed from the National Guard column, from 7000 to 8100 mea were in line. The procession was reviewjJ from a large stand erected in Cumberland street, about midway between Lafayette and DeKalb avenues, and probably not far from 100,000 persons were nms9d in the immediate vicinity. General Bsajamiu F. Tracy, the secretary 01 tne navy, revia?reu sua procession, with General Hanrv W. Slocutn. General Calvin E. Pratt Mayor Boody, Commandant Erbean, of the Navy Yard,and W. W. Goodrich groupjd around him. The memorial services at the various cameteriea drew large numbers in addition to the delegations of veterans assigned to them. From 4000 to 5900 persons were grouped around the Soldiers' monument in Greenwood. Mayor Boody presided, praysr was made by Chaplain James J. Kane, United States Navy, and addresses delivered by Congressman Thomas P. Magner and Colonel M. J. Curnraings. The Binging of the "Star Spanglei Banner" and the "Soldiers' Requiem" wa3 a feature of the services. The graves of S. S. Cox, General Thomas S. Da kin, and other veterans and friends of veterans in Greenwood Cemetery were speciallv decorated. At Cypress Hills, in the National Cemetery, a company of forty-two young women and girls, dressed in white, assisted the veterans in decorating the soldiers' graves with flowers. At Washington, there were two general processions, one to Arlington and one to the Congressional Cemetery. At Arlington a beautiful floral ship was placed on the grave of Admirial David D. Porter. The ceremony of decoration began at noon, preceded by a salute by Battery C, Third Artillery. Following that a programme of music was performed at the amphitheatre by the Marine Band and the Mozart Club. Tne other procession, under Junior ViceCommander Bickford,of tho G. A. R., went to the Congressional Cemetery. The music was by the Soldiers' Home Band and the Farragut Octet; addresses by Senator Galllncr?r of Nnw Hnmnshire and RaDresenta tive 8cott,of Illinois, and a poem by Da Witt C. Sprague. Theservices at Anacostia, over the Eastern Branch, recalled Dathetic mem' lies, the graves covered being those of 1000 veterans who died insane. The veterans at the Soldiers' Home engaged in their Decoration Day exercises at 10 a. m. They heard an address by General Cyrus W. Bassey, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, a poem by Edward M. Tabor, and musio from the Third Artillery Band and the Mozart Club. Afterward the tombs of General Logan and General Hunt were decorated, and then the graves in the cemetery attached to the Home. In all 80,000 graves were decorated At Philadelphia, the thirty-six posts of the Grand Army of the Republic celebrated Decoration Day with the usual ceremoniesMembers of the General George B. McClellan Memorial Association visited Trenton, N. J., where they decorated the grave of "Little Mac," and were accompanied by several other organizations. Charles Emory Smith and the Rev. Russell H. Con well delivered the orations at General Meade's grave in Laurel Hill, where Major-General o. W. Crawford was also present. At Lenox, Mass., the unveiling of the beautiful granite monument in memory of Major-General Paterson, brought together many people. The body of General Pater ' s- )?, l?f SOU was UlUIOU U1 bug JJ^IOJWU iuuj**"* the church yard. Colonel Walter Cutting represented the State. Professor Thomas Ejleston, the donor, presented the monument to the town. At Chicago,111..brilliant fla^s and streamers floating from tall buildings with the inspiring spectacle of thousands of parading veterans and militia helped to dispel the gloom of the overcast sky that marked Memorial Day. At Waldheim Cemetery the graves of the Anarchists,Spies, Parsons and Lings:, were strewn profusely with flowers, and the spot was made a gathering place for hundreds of sight seers and others. In the Miami (Ohio) Valley the impressive feature of Memorial services was the ceremonies at the Ohio Soldiers' Orphans' Home, near Xenia. The usual address was delivered by the Rev. George W. Collier, the venerable chaplain of the Thirty-fourth Ohio Infantry during; the war. At Gettysburg, Penn., the Decoration Day services on the battlefield were marred by rain, but the town was crowded with strangers, as usual. In the County Court^ tt 1 _? xocomouve is auout iiiai. There is widespread discontent among the laboring classes in Chile. The chief cook at a fashionable Nevr Turk hotel is paid 18500 a year. The carriage and wagon industry throughoat the West is particularly prosperous. California, Kansas, Oregon and Nevada satisfactorily operate State printing offices. Switch- Engineer Tunnel has beea awarded $18,500 for loss of a leg on the Santa Fe road. At the labor bureau of Sydney, Australia, over 8300 unemployed workmen registered their names in March. It is estimated that the wages lost through the Durham (England) miners' strike amounted to about (6,250,000. An agitation has been started by the work ingmen of Canada tor the abolition of the law permitting attachment of wages. Thxelx hare been instances in the neigh* borhood of Reading, Penn., where farmers have given up farming because of their inability to secure farm laborers. Mori than 47,000 firms engaged in the various lines of business, wholesale and retail, and manufacturing in Chicago, 111., give employment to 4)7,880 persons. The miners of Great Britain have a bill before Parliament prohibiting the employment of women and of boys under sixteen years of age in all mines of the country. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish servant girls in Chicago have formed organizations to demend 910 per week during the World's Fair year. They are now asking S5 or 16, or double the wages prevailing a month ago. The organized laborers of Cincinnati, Ohio, have decided to erect a magnificent building at a cost of about (200,000,tor their use. It will contain lod^e rooms, gymnasium, LK*I<U iajuuis auu a uaii tuut win ?oai< people, and only union laborers will be admi tied. Railroad employes in Australia do not work more than Urty-flve hours per weeks, while miners in silver mines work only forty-four hours. " Domestics and coachmen have their eight-hour day. Building trades workmen get an average of 15 per day, while jewelers earn about *100 per month. The poorest paid people are textile workers, who receive $12.50 for sixty hours per woek. TEBRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION. Kour Miners Killed and Seven Badly JBnrned in a Aline. The mine accident at Macanaqua, Pen?., (urns out to be more disastrous than at first reported. The victims number four. Their names are: John Protheroe, foreman; John Walters, Heary Ritter and I Walter Dietriclc. all miners and beads of families. Seven men were taken to the hospital severely burred. The accident was due to a terrific explosion of gas, which did great damage to the mine. The dead were horribly mangled, and shreds of flosh hung from the bodies of the injured. Just who is responsible lor the disaster is not known. Foreman Protheroe could tell, but he is dead. Fishermen on the Lower Columbia complain of the depredations of sea lions and seals. The former are so ravenous that they will enter the nets, oat what they want, and then break through the meehes, While the seals are also very troublesome^ they are not so destructive to tho nets. | TORNADO IN KANSAS. It Plowed a Ruinous Path Through Wellington. Hundreds of Buildings Wrecked and Many Lives Lost, A tornado plowed its way through the business part of Wellington, Kan., a few nights ago, causing immense destruction of property and great loss of life. A heavy storm of wind and rain preceded the tornado about half an hour. A few minutes after 9 o'clock the tornado struck the town coming from the southwest. Everybody was indoors, an I the tornado swept along with a loud roar, unseen. Washington avenue, the principal business street, is lined on both sides for blocks with ruins. Fire broke out in the wreck of Colonel Robinson's blocks, an 1 Mrs. Susan Hasher was supposed to have perished in the flames. A solid block of buildings, containing half a dozen stores and the Monitor, Press and Vqice printing offices, was made a tumbled heap of bricks and mortar. Just across the street a laborer named Fauning was killed, and other bodies were suppo*i to be in the ruins there. Hundreds of dwelling were either destroyed or more or less damaged. The town was left in darkness, broken maius having made it necessary to shut off the gas to prevent fire. Seven bodies were taken out of the Phillips House ruins. Two members of the Salvation Army were expected to die from injuries received. At Squire Smith's resilience seven persons were more or less injured. The Hon. James r .wranM MnHIHntB for Afctornev-txenerol. had an arm broken. Walter Forsyth was dangerously wounded. Tde streets were littered with tin roofing, cloth awnings, broken glass, ami timbsrs. The Standard and Mail offices were wrecked, the Opera Hoiwe an I dozens of the best business buildings were unroofed and school building and churches were d*stroyeil. Fifty persons were said to be dead in the ruins, and the wounded, many of whom were not expected to lire until morning, numbered 125 or more. The Wellington foundry was lifte i from its foundations and dashed to pieces. The Strahn carriage factory was crushed like an sggsbell, and caught fire. The Grand Army hall was transformed into a hospital, and as fast as the dead and wounded were recovered they were taken there. The storm cloud was accompanied by a waterspout, which burst over the town. The water fell in a deluge and seemed to threaten the destruction of the little that was left standing. Soon after the water cease! falling fires burst from the wreckage in half a dozen places. The rains of tne Phillips House wwe soon a sheet of flames, and then a blaze arose over what had been the Slrahn car. riage factory. The Fire Department was powerless, owing to the inability of the firemen to get t.hoip Annaratus throuzh the streets, which were piled high with the ruins. The property loss was estimated at >500,)00. Two hundred brick and wooden buildings were destroyed. The Salvation Army was holding a meet- | Ing in its barrack*, ihe frail building was blown away and its inmates burled in evairj direction. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, In the Senate. 104th Dat.?The debate on Morgan'.* silver resolution was resumed and continued until 2 o'clock, when, at the suggestion of Mr. Morgan, Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of his Free Coinage Silver bill. Mr. Morgan demanded the yeas and nays, which resulted?y"eas twenty eight, nays twenty. So the Free Coinage bill was taken up and discussed. 105th Dat.?The Stewart Free Coinage bill was made unfinished business ?Among the bills passed were the following: To reclassify and prescribe the salaries of railway postal clerks. Also thirty private bills and pension bills, including one giving a pension of $30 a month to Tendoy, chief of tne Banrocks, Shoshonesand Sheepeaters tribes of Indians as "a faithful and valued friend of the white settlers in Idaho." iuoth 1jay.?mr. onerman maae aspeeaa on the Stewart Silver bill, which occupied the entire session. 107th Pat.?The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was reported. It carrie* $1,710,MS, an increase ot $231,800 over the bill as it passed the House Mr. Sherman finished his speech on the Silver bill and Mr. Stewart began one. In the House. II&th Dat.?The consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was again resumed. Amendments were adoptod in Committee of the Whole prohibiting the opening on Sunday of the Government exhibit at the World's Exposition, and that no intoxicating liquors shall be sold at any time in any Government building. 120th Day.?The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was passed The PostofQce bill was taken up Mr. Stevens reported a bill to place iron ore and scrap iron on the frea list and to reduce duties on manufactures of iron and other metals. 1m 1st jjay.?ine juejjisiauve, lixacucive and Judicial Appropriation bill was reported and placed on the calendar The House then went into committee of the whole on the Postoffioe Appropriation bill. 122d Day.?Discussion of the Postal Appropriation bill was continue J. 123d Day.?'The House resumed the consideration of the PostofRce Appropriation bill. The pending amendment to increase the appropriation for free delivery $300,000 was voted down, thirty-four to 131. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT, Pensions Cause an increass tor Last Month ot $4,023,374. The United States Treasury Department's monthly public aeot statement snows an increase in the aggregate of the debt last month amounting to $4,623,374, Un usually heavy pension payments in May, which for the month amounted to nearly $13,000,003, against about 19,000,000 in May a year ago, brought about this increase in the debt during the month. There was an increase of $250 in the interest bearing debt and a decreaseof $5,512,523in the sarpius cash in the Treasury and a decrease of 1889, 149 in the non-interest-bearing debt. The total debt, less $26,005,887 net cash balance in the Treasury and the flOO,000,000 gold greenback redemption funl is $843,353,356. National depository banks hold $15,605,320 of the Treasury surplus?an increase of about $250,000 since May 1. Treasury gold coin and bullion assets aggregate $271,527,091, or about $2,000,000 less than on .Vlay 1. Silver assets aggregate $443,429,505, an increase of nearly $4,500,000 during the last month. Against these coin and bullion assets there are $171,765,729 iu gold certificates,$330,904,002 in silver certificates and $97,391,986 in silver Treasury notes outstanding . Government receipts fnm all sources in May aggregated $28,498,793, against $27,417,425 in May, 1891. Custom receipts last month were $13,121,391, or a million and a quarter more than in May a year ago: and internal revenue receipts were $13,050,168, , an increase of fully three-quarters of a million over May, 18'Jl. The coinage of the mints during May aggregated 5,388,900 pieces,' valued at $5,079,270. Of this amount $4,115,900 were in gold pieces; $916,170 in silver, and $4 7,200 in J minor coins. ' That ramous horse, Rarus, so long King j of the trotting turf, has just died of old age at Robert Bonner's Tarryiown (2f. Y.) farm. The old horse's teeth had given out, and his death was hastened by a cold. Rarus was twenty-tive yean old and had long been in feeble health. Altogether, in six years, Rarus won fifty-five races, and 185 heats were trotted in better than 2.30. Ranis was purchased by Mr. Bonner in 187# for 139, 000. _____ tiAROS orders are about being placed In lake ship yards for craft to supply the increasing demand for lake tonnage. ! THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State*. Gswkral A. D. Strkioht died, a few days ago, at hia country home, near IndianaDolis Ind. He was born in Wheeler, N. Y, on June 17, 1829. The May convention of those New York Democrats who opposed the action of the February convention, was held in Syracuse. Cleveland's nomination was strongly urged, and the delegation elected to Chicago was instructed to vote as a unit, though left uninakmirtarl an tn pjinriirintag. General Horace Porter announces that the fund for the Grant monument in New York City is more than complete. The people of Johnstown, Penn., observed tne third anniversary of the great flood of 1889 in a fitting manner by unveiling a beautiful monument which has been erected by the citizens of the town to the unknown dead who lost their lives in that terrible catastrophe. At Newport, R. I., Governor Brown and the other State officers elected in April last were inducted into office in accordance with the ancient ceremony of "Election Day." The weather was fine and crowds witnessed the inauguation. South and West. Edward Speers was hanged at Magnolia, Ark., for the murder of J. B. Hunt, mill owner of Ouachita County. The Nevada Democratic State Convention at Winnemucca declared for free silver coinage, and absolved its delegate from allegiance to the Chicago nominees in case the convention failed to nominate a candidate in favor of free coinage upon a free coinage platform. Cloudbursts and tornadoes have caused further damage in Missouri and Kansas. fire la San Francisco, uat., ournei me Fulton iron works, Hammonl car wrorks, Van Drake's brass foundry and a number ot smaller buildings. Loss, #450,000. Coster & Martin, grain speculators at Chicago, 111., have made an assignment. Their failure was caused by an unsuccessful attempt to corner May corn. They lost several million dollars. Ice on the rails caused a train to plunge down a steep grade at Deadwood, South Dakota. It struck a rocky wall and two men were killed. Heck Willis, colored, was lynched at Lebanon, Ky., for an assault upon a white girL Dave Shaw, also colored, has been lynched at Gray Court, S. C., for larceny. Washington. Chairman Clarkson, of tbe Republican National Committee, called at the White House and had a long interview with the President. The President nominated Major Fred. C. Ainsworth, Surgeon, United States Army, to be Colonel and Chief of the Record and Pension Office of the War Department and the nomination was promptly confirmed by the (Senate. This settles a case that excited much attention in military circles. This Government has received notiC9that France and Germany will send delegates to the International Money Conference, which assures its assembling. President Harrison and party returned WTooKmwMn frnm "V "V. Thfl President expressed himself in warm terms over the trip, saying it was one of the pleasanteat in his experience. < The House Committee on Elections, by a rote of seven to two, decided the contested election case of McDuffis against Turpin, from the Fourth Alabama District,in favor of Turpm, Democrat, the sitting member. General. Schofibld issued a general order announcing the retirement on account of age of General David S. Stanley, who is command of the Department of Texas, with station at San Antonio. , Foreign. The worst of recent reports as to the anarchistic condition of Venezuela are confirmed. Repeated dynamit9 outrages have spread terror among the citizens of the capital. Two cadets and an officer in the military academy have been killed by a bomb. Sionob OxoLrrrr, the new Prime Minister of Italy, announced to the Chamber of Deputies at Rome that the members of the Cabinet had offered their resignation to inn? Humbert but that his Majeitv had refused to accept. The King of Portugal has accepted the resignation of the whole' Cabinet, and charged Senior Ferreira to form another Cabinet. Thx prohibition of the entry of Russian Hebrews into Germany has been withdrawn. The cholera epidemic at Sringar, in the Vale of Cashmere, caused 1600 deaths during one week. A terrible panic prevailed among the people, the horror of the situation having been increased by a great fire, which had destroyed 20DO houses and made 80,000 persons homeless. Food is held at famine prices, the crops in tin district being almost a failure. A destructive fire at Moscow, Russia, threatened for a time to sweep through the whole city. The Fire Department found it impossible to subdue the names, and when the fire had burned itself out three streets, containing sixty houses, were in ruins. Again Honolulu, the capital city of the Hawaiian Islands, is aroujei, the excitement being caused by the arrest of twenty persons charged with treason. The persons arrested are. from information received by Marshal Wiiaon, memborE oft the "Hawaiian Pro tec tive Association" and have for their object the overthrow of the existing form of government by deposing Queen Liliuokalanfacd establishing a Hawaiian Republic. Iowa's gift of flour, provisions, eta, to Runfa has arrived safely at Riga. Emperor Willi ak of Garraanv reviewed the Berlin garrison; his Empress and the Queen and Queen-Regent of Holland were present. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Gladstone has become a frequenter of the lionoon theatres General Miles is enthusiastic over the use of bicycles in the army. All attempts to induce Rubinstein, the pianist, to visit America have tailed. General N. P. Banks gives a good deal ?rtni4am'nr* in hid aM Q ftA Vi ai/iriiiiuu iu |^m uuutuj^ m u<o v??* wgwi Composer Arthur Sullivan has entirely recovered from his recent illness. Queen Victoria has made the Khedive of Egypt a Knight of the Order of the Bath. Herbert Spencer was tendered a nomination for Alderman in London, but he declined it [ Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, is supposed to be the best dressed and most | poushed man in tbe Senate. Colonel Steadman, who ha3 just been made Commander of the Grand Army, Department of Iowa, is only forty-three years old. It is said that Rev. Dr. Con well, of Philadelphia, had a law practice yielding a revenue of $20,000 a year before he entered the ministry. Senator Barbour and Senator Plumb are said to have both been killed by the over-work of answering letters of their constituents. Though Senator Berry, of Arkansas, has but one leg, he is an expert billiard player and gets about the table as nimbly as his opponent. Jay Gould carries in his puroo a ten-cent piece which he declares was at one time all that stood between him and a dead-broke condition. Emperor William, of Germany, is being severely criticised tor his wasteful personal extravagance in the face of the prevailing distress among his subjects. Senator Hiscock, of New York, is fond of athletic sports and as a sprint runner h*s done good work in the Columbia Club, of wbich he was at one time the most fleetfooted member. John R. Buchtkl, founder of Buchtel College, died a tew days since at bis home in Akron, Ohio, from paralysis. He was seventy-two years old. During his life he made gifts to Buchtel College amounting to 1500,000. The notorious bandit Juan Alania was captured recently near China, Mexico, and was lodged in jail at Matoamoras. The day after his capture he was taken out for an airing by an escort of soldiers, and, after the Mexican style, was allowed to make a break for I liberty. He fell dead with a score of bolleti ki hit body before he had gone tarn DAMAGE BY BIG STORMS. Gales and Floods Derastate tho West and South. Dwellings Overturned, Orop3 Buined and Life Destroyed. Reports received from points throughout the States of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and South Carolina, state that a heavy storm of wind, rain and hail pra; vailed. In some places the storm took on the dimensions of a tornado. Lightning struck several buildings at Newport, Ark., and at Carthage, Mo. At Mexico, Mo., eleven persons were injured by a building blown aowD by the wind. No loss of life was reported. The northern section of Audrian County, according to dispatches, was devastated. Buildings were blown down and hundreds of trees uprooted and orchards destroyed. A cloudburst followed the cyclone, flooding the section. At Joplin, Mo., the rains flooded all the mines, and in low places the shafts were filled to the top with water. There was a washout on the Fort Scott and Memphis Road near Qalena, and hundreds of yards of track were carried away. . The downpour of rain at Kansas City was in the nature of a waterspout, and the streets of the city wera flooded. Similar reports wera received from other parts of the State. Dick Van Osdell and Charles Scantling were struck by lightning in Lake Township, Mo., and instantly killed. i nere ws.s a ateaay ana at times terrific downpour of rain, accompanied- by fierce electrical displays at Indianapolis, Ind. Fully two inches of rainfall bare been precipitated and PogueQ Ran, an open sewer that meanders across the city from northeast to southwest, has broken bounds, flooding a thickly populated territory nearly a mile long and varying in width from one to five squares. All the transfer wagons in tne city were kept busy moving families out of their homes on Pine, Davidson and Noble streets in the night,and these and many other streets were submerged. A train on the Lake Erie & Western Rail* road was derailed near Fisher's Station, Ind. The accident was caused by a washout, the result of the cloudburst. The passengers were badly shaken up, and considerable damage was done to the rolling stock. At Anderson, Ind., the c'oudburst caused great damage. The dynamo in the atrpet car stables waa burned and the Big Four depot was struck br lightning and partially destroyed. Carl Weaver, a boy seven years old, was drowned in Fall Creek. Despatches from various parts of Illinois report extensive damage by the wind and ram and lightning. At Olneya number of houses, barns and other buildings were blown down. The cyclone was moving in a northwesterly direction. A drove of cat tie were lifted bodily in the air and landed a considerable distance away, and strange to say, only a few of th9m were injured. Th? two-story stone house of James Sullivan, four miles east of Independence, Kan., was destroyed by a cyclone. There were eight persons in the hoose at the time. Mrs. Lucy M. Lucil and a four-year-old child were taken from the ruins dead, having been crushed by the wreckage. The twister seems to have spent its entire fury at that point, as all other damage was nominal. Immense damage was done in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, by a tornado. Trees were uprooted and barns and fences blown down. In the city of Orangeburg many houses lost their roofs and were otherwise damaged. The steeole of the Methodist Church was blown down and other churches were damaged. The steeple struck a gin and burned the gin-house and many bales of cotton. Elsie Palmer, an aged colored woman, died from fright. LATER NEW?. Thi Pope has written to the bishops of the province of New York reapproving AreaBishop Ireland's Faribault scheme. The Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania met in State Convention at Scranton. One of their first proceedings was to take up a collection of 1350 to defray expense. A platform was adopted, unreservedly denouncing the manufacture and sate of alcoholic beverages, favoring the issue o! money directly to the people instead of through corporations, demanding a judicious protective tariff, advocating women suffrage and demanding that the World's Fair be closed on Sundays. Thk Wisconsin State Prohibitionists in convention nominated 7. C. Richmond for Governor. A platform was adopted favoring the points of the Bennett law. Fibs destroyed thre?-fourths of Coquille City, Oregon; loss, $10),000. Rival Highbinder societies naa a natue with pistols in the streets of Sacramento, Cal. Two Chinamen were killed. Ths Illinois Prohibition State Convention met at Springfield. R. R. Link, a farmer, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. A resolution was adopted declaring in favor of closing the .World's Fair on Sunday and against the sale of liquors on the Fair grounds. East Duranoo, Texas, has been completely wrecked by a hurricane, not a house being left standing. The house of Tom Withers was crushed like an egg shell and his wife and his six children instantly killed. A baby escaped unharmed, the only sur?: ?Knnf t??nf*TwnnIfl were serionslv V1TV1* aiAruv v> wuwj injured, gome fatally. The centennial of the admission of Kentucky into the Union was celebrated at Louisville by a public meeting in the morning, and by a banquet in the evening. The 100th anniversary waa also celebrated at Lexington. A delegation of Philadelphiana presented pictures of Carpenter's and Congress halls to the State. Colonel w. B. Remey, Judge Advocate General of the Navy, has been surveyed and condemned by a Naval Retiring Board under the thirty years' clause,and Secretary Tracy has recommended his retirement. General Eppa Hutrrow, appointed United States Sanator from Virginia to succeed the late Senator Barbour, has been sworn in. Mr. Hunton was escorted to his desk by his colleague, Mr. Daniel. He took the seat to the extreme right of the Chair formerly occupied by Mr. Mills, of Texas, who has moved into the seat of the late Mr. Barbour. Sir Hijho, with odds at forty to one against him, won the English Derby; La Fleche, the tavorite, second, and Bucentaure third. THREE UNCLES LYNCHED. They Counseled Their Nephew to Murder His Jailer. Two weeks ago Charles Stewart murdered Jailer Holmes in the jail at Perryville, Ark., while awaiting trial (or criminal assault. Before he was hanged ha confessed that his three uncles, the McArthnrs, had advised him to murder Holmee in order to effect his escape. Sheriff Oliver left Perryville for Little Rock by overland route with the three McArthurs, and should have arrived there, but did not. It was learned that the three I prisoners were taken from the sheriff and ynched. The McArthurs were white people. Th? AU-Pervadlng Vice. A Virginia City (Nev.) youth was recently detected in the act of shooting an arrow, with a cigarette attached, through a broken window in the rear of the jail to some boys who were imprisoned within. DIED m A BURNING MDiK Silver Miners Meet a Horrible Death in Bohemia. r? - n..i. nxr j x-l. tt: _i.j ! xiBiiapg uub uu auu mo viuuiua Perish in Flames. 1 terrible disaster has occurred in the famous Birkenberg silver mins at Prizibrem, a town of Bohemia, celebrated for its rich silver and lead mines. A fire started in the mine, when 500 miners were below. The employes made a frantic effjrt to reach the shaft of exit. Their cries could be beard even above the roar of the fire, and thou* sands hastened to assist in the rescue. Many escaped, and in the first confusion it was believed that only forty men were missing. But a house-to-house inquiry among the miners' families revealed the fact that nearly 200 miners were left in the pit. The number is known to be at least as high as 175. The flames were supposed to be finally subdued at the time when the first rescue party went down, but after fourteen bodies were brought up the flre started afresh. Water was pumped into the mine, but the machinery was inadequate and the flre increased. When the flames seemed to abate some* what a rescue party went down and returned with eleven more dead bodies. They said that they could hear shouts and groans far off in the mine, but that the smoke was so thick and the heat so intense chat they did not dare venture in. None of the party would return, and two hours passed before a foreman could find seven men to go down with him. The foreman and the seven men tried to make their way in the direction where the shouts and groan3 had bsen heard, but the heat was stifling, and heavy smoke and fire finally obstructed all progress. About 100 yards from the shaft the party were suddenly enveloped in a gust of fire and smoke from a side gallery. Four men fell unconscious. Their comrades tried to drag them away, but were compelled finally to run for their lives ani leave the men to die. This rescue party heard no sound in the galleries save tha crackling of the fire. All of the woodwork near the shaft bad been burnt away. The four survivors said the fire evidently bad followed tbe miners from the entrance to the end of the galleries. The foreman Bays there was no doubt that all the men who were left in the mine were dead. The heat beyond the point where the four miners were stricken, he said, would have been fatal and the smoke was stifling. He saw tools and garments abandoned in tbe haste of flight, showing by their positions that the men had fled away from the shaft. Immediately after tbe foreman's return with the remains of his party the fire started up again despite the work of the engines. Thousands of men, women, and children sur> rounded the pit. The list of the 175 miners believed to have been left in the pit and burned has been posted, so that if any of the number bad escaped his friends might come forward with the information. Not a name has been erased, however, and the continued inquiry of the police in the city has been fruitless. - One hundred families have been deprived r\f nil thair inala mnmlMrs bv th? disaster. CUK10US FACTS. The el&ck tower of the British House of Parliament is 320 feet high. Green vegetables will retain their color, it is said, if cooked in an uncorered vessel. Forks were not introduced into England until the reign of James I., in the Seventeenth Century. Audiences ia Russiau theatres are forbidden by law to manifest their displeasure at actors by hissing. A merchant in Germany has been fined heavily for using a quotation from the Bible to head an advertisement. Edward McDonald, of Allentown, Penn., owns or did own a dog which weighed but four ounces when it wau five months old. A man who enlists in the United States army now may wear a cravat if he chooses; a privilege, which has been i denied him heretofore. A set of false teeth made of ivory by a New York dentist for George Washington and used by him is on exhibition at the Patent Office in Washingtop. In olden times, when every part of the body had ita price, the beard was valued at $5?a large sum for the time?while the loss of a leg wa* only estimated at $3. The Massachusetts Statu Board of Health has found that of 1313 samples of wall paper collected in twenty cities and towns, 389 contained arsenic in appreciable quantities. JIark Kenniston, of Phillips, Mc., had tbe smallest bear probably ever seen by mao, and he has been mounted artistically. It is sir inches from tip to ?:p and ia three inches in height. Tko /omAtio Hrlnff rJinmond of Russia was once the right eye of the great idol Serriagham in the Temple of Brahma. This precious gem was stolen somewhere about the beginaiog of the Eighteenth Century by a French solder. The streets of London are cleaned between eight in the evening and nine in the raorniug. Many of the carriageways are washed daily by means of a hose and the courts and alleys inhabited by the poorer classes are cleaned once a day. The Chinese make what is called uchiwa-hi," or grass cloth, from the fiber of the common nettle. It is said to make a splendid cloth for tents, awnings, etc. When made into belting for machinery it is said to have twice the strength of leather. A couple of months ago a Philadelphia woman bought a rustic table made of the boughs of some tree from which the bark had not been removed. A few weeks ago the table began to throw out green sprouts and soon after the whole table was in full bloom. The Chinese arc ahead of the world in the preparation of roast pork for the table. After it is come out of the oven it is hung in the smoke of various aromatic herbs, which gives it a delicious flavor and robs it of the porky taste which is offensive to some palates. The witch plant, which ia the aston isbment of the native Australian as well 08 the foreigners, resembles our common plantain in the matter of leaf. Six or eight of these leaves, sometimes an inch and three-quarters broad an . five inches long, often spring from a single "stool," which sits tiac on a bire spot without the least sign of a root. Put. It is related that at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Soule, of Freepart, Me., recently, the minister in the course of a long prayer said: "Oh, Lord, give grace to some soul to-day." As the groom was known familiarly as "Sum" Soule, and as hia bride's name was Grace, the prayer was answered satisfactorily, although the clergyman was unconscious of having said anything so well fitting the occasion. . TEMPERANCE "A HUlfDRED YEARS TO COXB." "We all within our graves shall sleep, A hundred years to come; No living voice for us will weep, A hundred years to come. "Well, be it so, we'll not be sai Concerning days to come, But try to leave the world more glad, Because it was our home. Sing on, fair Hope! that men shall see The broad earth shine on liberty, Its naked clothed, its nungry tea, Its weak and weary comforted, "A hundred years to come." Sing that the "Bright and Morning Star" Shall light all pagan gloom, Sing that there soall be no more war, "A hundred years to come." Sing the Saloon forever crushed, fhe violence of cities hushed, And men and children glad and gay. Reaping the trath we sow to-day, "A hundred years to came." ?Josephine Tyler, in Temperance Advocate, TEMPTED BUT TRIUMPHANT. An English railroad conductor is credited with the following statement: "From the time I left London with my train?an express one?to the end of my journey, I wag asked to drink no less than thirty-one times; each time I was asked I made a mafic with a bit of chalk in my brake van. One would tempt me to have a drop of whisky, another a drop of brandy, and othersa glass of ale or stout, but thanks be to God, by His strength I was able to refuse them all." The prayer, "lead us not into temptation," has a deptn of meaning in such: a life that is beyond the conception of many who live amid more guarded surroundings. New York Observer. PROTECTION OV FAMILIES. "Tae Kaiser's Law," recantly enacted in Germany, is said to provide for theappointment of a guardian for persons who have become imbecile or otherwise incapacitated from the use of intoxicants to manage their property affairs. This is a step in the right direction, and we hope some day to see a law enacted that when a married man becomes unable to manaze his property in a manner tending to the best interests of his home and family, he shall be restrained from managft* meat by a decision of the court, and if the wife be adjudged capable, the property shall be placed in her power. In case the wife is intemperate, her husband should be appointed sole administrator. These things are sure ' to be wrought r?ut some day in that "law of the land," which is dimply a thermometer, showing to what height the education of public opinion has reached.?Union Signal. WIFE 07 DBCSKARD. How often the happy bride of yesterday finds herself, ere the voice of the holy prom' ises spoken before God's altar has ceased to reverberate in her ear, the wife of a drunk* ard! For years she leads a life of sorrow and misery, the horrors of which no one realizes who has not witnessed them. He has pledged undying affection, knightly protection; when He comes home from the saloon, his mouth opens to curse, and his hand rises to strike. Only alcohol could produce the hellish scene of a weak, timid, loving wife; weltering in her blood, and a brutal man, her husbafld, gloating over the scene! And the little ones! Is there no spark of human feeling left in the drunkard? No. The tiger of the forest, the lion of the desert, feed and protect their young; a drunkard leaves his children to starve, if he does not in his cruelty, hasten their death. A drunkard's home?out side of hell in all created space, thfcre.is no other such place of tiejpair and agony. The father's; steps approaching it is a signal for the child ' to crouch away in some corner. Pear and roiseiy never permit a smile to wreath its Ups, its heart to beat, with one joyful sensation. We have known the child to scream from hunger, and the father would take the last cent from the house to purchase drink. We have seen the child laid cut in cold death, and the father still demshded alcohol. We have met children in rags, roaming the streets a prey to vice and crime, and in reply to our questionings, they would say, father drank and home was not endurable. We have seen maidens as pure as snow falling from til* clouds whoee hearts had known but the most innocent affections?<ra have seen them driven to hideous vice, and, again, the reply was- I could not stay at home because father .< drank. The home is the fount of happinesu, / the guardian of virtue, the sanctuary of re-, ligion. Alcohol desecrates and wrecks it The burning lava of Vesuvius does not leave behind it ground more barren, more shorn of beauty, life and promise.?Paullst Fathers' Circular. CLINICAL ZXPXBIXlfCK AS TO ALCOHOL. j Dr. Ezra M. Hunt, Sanitary Editor of tfa* ! New York Independent, in a recent article^ I w -? m* hn AWw ' hoi," says: ' "While exact clinical exparimenfc and experience now narrows the sphere of alcohol, < it regards it as available in sudden shook from injury, chiefly in the form of hyp& I dermio injection with digitalis, as also for f temporary use in sudden prostration until nutrients and other restoratives become pre-; ferableinita place, as is quickly the case.; There is a narrow stageof fever and debility in which alcohol may be available; but it? j to be borne in mind always that the stlma-1 lant effect is short and apt to be followed with depression, and that its chief effect is , that of a neurotic. Since we have came to : know the value of the various perotouoid* \ and of their combinations with beef, giutea, / milk, and flavoring oils or condiments there ) is far lees need for alcoholics. The appetu- i ing effects of winee, etc., result full as V much from flavors, such as oenanthio, ethers developed in them from the acidity, at ' from the alcohol itself. The fattening effect ' of beer to some results from the malt, eta, which now has an excellent substitute in the syrupy malt extracts. Alconor as it comes < to derange organs, especially the liver, has / much the same effect as is produced by aj forcing process upon the livers of geese,/ H which become abnormal. The more sues H geese weigh and the better tbey'look, jk> fl much the worse for the guese. No doubjfby H the clogging of organs there may be neten- H tion of materials and pent-up secretions B which add slightly to the bulk or Weight; H but it is only a storage tending to duseasev H and not a storage of health. j H "The day is passed when upon dietetic and H medicinal grounds there is any indispeti- H sable call for the moderate or hagitual use | of alcoholic beverages, in the midst ot toe various alcohols and of all the /manufactured and concocted mixtures whiph are now aold.as if they were the real / and pur* product of the grape or of alcoholic disolation, we have better known /tonics and nutrients which effectually take their place, except to those who wish them as pleasuregivinz drinks." ' / TESTPKRAXCE NKWS AND NOTES. Drunkenness in Damascus is known as the "English Disease." Out of a total of 235 Mayors in England, forty-four are total abstainers. Eight measures relating to tomperanoe have been introduced intD the British Parliament during the present session. . If some people would throw some of their weight against the whisky business their prayers in church would msan more. If moderate drink is allowable and respectable, what's the reason that moderate stealing, or any other kind of qualified meanness isn't commendable* Miss Alice Palmer, of Indiana, for years a successful Woman's Christian Temperance Union or^anizdr and spsaker, will soon visit South Africa in response to the earnest ?11?# j? w>(U Ui wiui oucs iu i/uai/ moiu* There is a large amount of material for reflection in the remark made by the superintenJentof a brewery in New York City when high license was discussed. He asked: "Who is going to be nurt wnen the brewer has only to deliver to fifty saloons the sarna amount of beer he used to send to 100?" The generosity of th9 American Deople to the Russians in these days of need is extolled from the Czar to the peasant. No other country has as yet sont help save ours, and the first money given here was the #20J collection at the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Convention at Boston, November, 1891 Dr. Wilnelra Bodey shows in Germany's drink statistics tDat one-flfteenth of the cultivated land of that country is occupied in the production of wine, beer and spirits. If devoted to food culture, he says, thiscoun try would produce rye enou/h to reea cos 50.000,000 people ot Germany for six or seven weeks. But the average German will MB do with a little lees rye and make it up with a little more beer. SB M bouse uenerai iv. an. nanuersuu, ui vmnm, delivered the oration. In the City of Mexico the American colony celebrated Memorial Day with a parade of the Q. A. R. and Sons of Veterans. LABOR WORLD. The makers of boilers and engines are verj buy. Thk latest from Minneapolis, Minn., is a hired girl famine. Great activity is reported in all the Delaware River ship yards. There are now about 3000 union terpen* ters in Cincinnati, Ohio. The average daily earning of an American