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DECORATION DAY.
The Occasion Fittingly Observed
All Over the Union.
President Harrison Delivers a Me
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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
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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.
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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