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OURNEI NAVT Secretary B. F. Tracy Files Hi? Last Annual Report. Forty-two Ships. Built or About to be Built. Secretary of the Navy B. P. Tracy has sent his.&nnual report to the President. The most interesting portion refers to the growth of the navy. nr? fVi/a !fV? r\t 1QQO fKa flaaf f\9 Via V/U HUC 1VU Vi Uli, WJI7, W'lU Uuuv Ul WUD United States Navy, apart from a few old ships long since obsolete and fast going to decay, consisted of three modern steel vessels, of an aggregate tonnage of 7863 tons and mounting thirteen six-inch and four isrht-inch guns. They were: Dolphin, 1485 tons; Atlanta 8189; Boston, 3189. During Mr. Harrison's administration the following vessels will have been added to the navy: Chicago, 4500 tons; Yorktown, 1700, Petrel, 890; Charleston, 4040; Baltimore, 4600; Cushing, 116; Vesuvius, 930; Philadelphia, 4324; San Francisco, 4083; Newark, 4083; Concord, 1700; Benn ineton, 1700; Miantonomob, 3990; Bancroft, 885; Machiap, 1050; Monterey, 4138; New York, 8150; Detroit, 2000; Montgomery, 2000. This makes a total of nineteen vessels of the new navy put in commission during this administration, of an aggregate tonnage of 64,832 tons, mounting altogether two twelveincb, six ten-inch and eighty-two six-inch, guns, all of whicb, with the exception of five of the earliest, have been manufactured in this country. Three new st?el tugs have also been constructed and put in service during this period. There are also under construction the fol" lowing vessels, on whioh rapid progress is being made: Oregon, 10,200 tons; Indii ana, 10,300; Massachusetts, 10,200- Columbia, 7450; Minna ipolis, 7350 Maine, 664S; Texas, 6300; Puritan, 6060; O.ympia, 5500; Amphitrite, 3990; Monadnock, 3990; Terror, 8990, Cincinnati, 3183; OICO. t> OIQl. UA.KlAliAn A OtOU, 1MLU, ?IW, ?JLOt UIOUQdU, I iOOO; Castine, 1050; Torpado Boat No. 2. l-U; making eighteen vessels in progress of construction and certain to be comoleted, should their armor be delivered within the next year, of an aggregate tonnag* of 93,497 tons, and mounting altogether twelve thirteen-incb, six twelve-inch, sixteen ten-inch, thirty eight-inch, thtrty-two six-inch, thirty-eight five-inch and thirty* (our four-inch guur. During this period twenty-five vessels will have been launched, thirteen of them, includiDg the three tugs, during the current year, and of all the new ships the construc- ' tion of which has been begun during the present administration only two will remain on the stocks on the 4th of Alarch next. , Our new navy, including all vessels built nr authorized, now consists of the following vessels: One seagoing battle ship (firstclass), Iowa. Three coast-line battle ships (first-class): Massachusetts, Indiaua, Oregon. Two battle ships (secondclaw): Maine, Texas. Six doable- i turretted harbor defence vessels: Puritan, Monterey, Miantonoznoh, Monadnock, Terror, Amphitrite. Two armored cruisers: New York, Brooklyn. One ram. Two 1 [>rotected cruisers of extreme spaei Co* urabia, Minneapolis. 1 Fourteen cruiser* Olymoia, Baltimore, 1 Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Newark, Charleston, Boston, Atlanta, Cincinnati. Raleigh, Detroit, Montgomery, Marblehead. One dispatch vessel. Dolphin. I Six gunboats: Yorktown, Concord, Ben- I niugtoD, Machias, C as tine, Petrel. One dynamite vessel, Vesuvius. One practice I ?? ? T 1 tbssbi, mnuruih iwu wr|)?uu uuaw. uuw Inf. No. 2. Making a total of forty-two vassal*. The report also contains interestinz sta- j tistics regarding the experiments made with ( smokeless powder, rapid ftriag guns, armor and armor piercing shells. The estimates for the fiscal year ending 1 June 30,1894, for the Navy and tbe Marine Corps, including those for public works and 1 for increase of the navr, aimunt to 82 471,498.21, being *2,713,141.59 less than I those for the fiscal year ending J ana 30, 1893. The estimates for the running expensed ot the Navy and the Marina Corps for the fiscal year ending Jume SO, 1804, amount to 414,767,841.21, being $135,943.59 less than the esumates for the final year ending J una i 80, 189.}. The estimates for the increase of the nary , niountto 19,703,657 for the fiscal year end- , ing June 30, 1894, and are 12,577,198 less E than those for the fiscal year ending June j 80, 1893. ( ? 1 I PROMINENT PEOPLE. ; Senator Proctor's new Washington ! residence is going to cojt him $300,000. Governor Russell, the youthful Chief 1 Magistrate of Massachusetts, is left handed. Governor-elect Lewrllino, of Kan- j as, was once a mule driver on the Erie , Canal. How Qua, a merchant of Canton, is the ( richest man in China. He is said to be worth 850,000.000. * , Rosa Bonhetjr will receive 160,000 from < ? *?J?1?. iior^. '!??. t_ a Auivriuau ucaia aui uci jllui scs xureuui* ; ingr Corn Th* ol- est living ex-Governor is probably Nathaniel S. Barry, of Bristol, N. H. He was bora in 1796. Judge Altgeld, the recently elected Gorernor of Illinois, is credited with being worth *10,000,000. Thx Grand Duke Paul of Rti3sia is such a tall man that he has to carry his bed around with him when he is on his travels. Foub ex-Presidents of Venezuela are now living in Paris in exile?General Guzman Blanco, Dr. Palacio, Dr. Pulido and General Urdanetta. Benjamin Poon, of Raymond, N. H., cast his first vote for Monroe in 1816, and has not missed a Presidential election since. He is almost a centenarian. Andrkt/ Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, fifty-seven years ago, and came to this country when ten years old. He has not been naturaliz ?d. Pbe?ident-elbct Cleveland sent word to the citizens of Caldwell, N. J., his birth- ? place, that he wonld visit that place before going to Washington in March. President Harrison has taken to pedestrian pleasures once more, and there is scarcely a fine afternoon now when he does not go out for a tramp of sereral miles. Governor-elect John H. McGraw. of the State of Washington, is a native of Maine, and forty-two years of age. Sixteen yeas ago he was driving a bobtail car in San Francisco. Dennis T. Flynn, the Republican delegate-elect from Oklahoma Territory, was fifteen years ago an offics boy in Mr. Cleveland's office at Buffalo. He subsequenty atnrii?ri Law and fln&lH entered unon the practice at Kiowa, Kan." . CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL, The Annual Report Shown It to b? Making Great Progress. Captain B. H. Pratt, Superintendent of the Carlisle (Penn.) Indian Training School, has completed his thirteenth annual report of that institution It shows the school tD be in a flourishing condition and greatly in advanoe of any previous year. Tha average atteudanoe for the year has been 779, and th? results of the year's work have bean very satisfactory in every respect. The technical work of the institution bias been more effective, and tbe outing systsm has yielded better returns. Tbe earnings of tbe puoils amount to $21, 883.98. Of this the boys earnel $16,688.83 an t the girls $5170.15. During the year 101 boys and 68 girls war* returned to the agencies. The present attendance is 751?450 boys and 301 girls. Three boys and three girls died during tha year. The liberal appropriations by Congress have led to greatly increased facilities at the school. The girls' dormitories h*va been enlarged, so that now from 030 to 050 pupils can be easily accommodated and by free uea of the outing system this could be increased to 1000. ^ cttaklie amd Ethel. Jaoeso.v. seveu and four years ol , respecciveiy, of Noulesville, Ind , have die 1 from ilriuHinj taa milk of a cow wmcn had t* :n bittan by a mad oow. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Ka^tcri and Middle State*. A tery large Datural pas well has been fliscoverei <">n the Canadian border, near Buffalo, N. Y. The Carnejies are enlarging their Hom> siea'i <reuu.; mius. As appeal for aid has come from Homestead, Penn. Nearly 1000 persons, in 218 families, are destitute and in immediate need of food, fire and clothing. The details of an allezed conspiracy to coison non-union workmen at Homestead, Penn., were made public in Pittsburg. The Reform Club, of New York Citv, gave a dinner in the banquet hall of Madison Square Garden in honor of Presidentelect Cleveland. Speeches were made by Mr. Cleveland, Senator Carlisle, CarlScburz, Congressmen W. C. P. Breckenridge and Tom L. Johnson, Senator Mills, E. Ellery Anderson. Ex-Governor Stone, Er-Governor Campbell and General Patrick Collins. Two New England freight trains collided at Pompsraug Valley, Conn. Engineer William Bee be, of the west-bound train, and Fireman Curry, of the east-bound train, wera killed and two trainmen were injured. The accident is said to have been caused by the negligence of Conductor Ellison and Engineer Thompson, of the east-bound train, who disappeared. T" ? 11 has Wn flldd with & X \J*WU JUU kl ** Ul MWO ? Surrogate Ransom in New York Citv. The exact amount of property is 172,000, OX). President Samuel Gompers opened the twelfth annual session of the American Federation of Libor in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Penn. The New York Yacht Club decided to accept Lord Dunraven's challenge for a racr for the America's Cup. South and West. The Legislative Council of Tenneisee has passed resolutions of condolence and sympathy for the family of Jav Gould. Mr. Gould at the time of the pestilence wired the Howard Association in Memphis to draw on him to an unlimited extent and $10,000 of i his money was utuizea. Wha.T are believed to be wonderfully rici diamond fields have been disoovered on the south bank of Snake River, east of Walters's Ferry, in Idaho. Thbrb is a coal famine in Southern Dakota, Northern Nebraska and Western Iowa. Railways are accused of confiscating individual supplies during the grain rush. Two men were killed and a third fatally wounded in New Orleans, Lv; they were thought to be victims of the Maria. The official count of New Mexico has been completed. For Delegate, Joseph, Democrat, has 1\799, and Carton. Republican, 15,220. Joseph's majority Is 579 Ths Iowa State Board of Canvassers has completed the work of canvassing the vote **><? ntatn tifikst. For the head of the ticket, Secretary of State, the vote was: McFarland (Republican), 219,461; McConlogue (Democratic), 196.638; Gillette (People's), 20,256; Taft (Prohibition), 6087. Nearly the same vote was given other State officers. John Pure and Wilbur Marley were crushed to death by a falling wall at Alexandria, Ind. The "crooks'' who have boen driven out sf Chicago are committing bold highway robberies in St. Louis. Clbvzlixd's official plurality in West Virginia as given out by the Secretary of State is 4183. The vote in t'ae State is as follows: Cleveland, 81,433; Harrison, 80,285; Bidwell, 2130; Weaver, 4165; McCorkie, i Democrat, for Governor, has a plurality o: 5918. Phiup D. Armour, the pork-packer, ha? presented an institute for technical and inlustrial education to the city of Chicago, [11.; it cost $100,000 and will be end j wed with-fl.400.000. Thk Cincinnati Presbytery, by a vote of ;hirty-one to twenty-seven, decided to suspend Professor H. P. Smith, convicted of leresy, from the ministry. Arthur W. Wuillxeatt canceled his 'astinz engagement in Cleveland, Ohio, be ?uae little interest was shown in him. Washington. The House Committee on Military Aff airs Inished the Military Appropriation bill. Pensioic payments Dy tne .treasury ue>artment continue to increase, and for t&e nonth hare exceeded the aggregate raseipta from Internal revenue by more than >1,250,000. The figures are, pension paynents, S3,885.000; internal revenue receipts, &OBltOHl Returns received by Mr. Mason, Comnissioner of Internal Revenue, show that I ;be beet sujar factories have closed up tor ;he season. It is estimated that it will take (9,775,000 to pay the sugar bounty on this i reafa crop. I There has been a decrease of nearly $7- I 100,000 in the exportation of breadstufits rom the United States during the last nonth as compared with November, 1891. )ur total exports last month were $17,450,* i )00 as against $24,588, GOO in 1S91. ThE President sent to the Senate the folowing nominations: Genio M. Lam bar t- I ion, of Nebraska, to be Assistant Secretary 1 >f tha Treacurv. vice A. B. Nettleton, re- 1 rigned. James W. McDill, of Iowa, to be tn Interstate Commerce Commissioner (reippolntment). Person C. Cheney, of New Etampshii-e. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Switzerland. Peter 8. Grosscup, United States District Judge for the Ncrthjrn District of Illinois. Char es C Cole, of fte District Court, to be Associate Justice >f the Supreme Court of the District o' Columbia, vice James, retired. The holiday trade always causes a heavy Jraft on the Treasury Department for aright new coins. Usually the demand is for jimea and flve-oent pieces, but this year it was pennies that were desired. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: P. B. Cheney, of N;w Hampshire, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzarland; G. M. Lambertson, of Nebraska, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; M. ft. Hose, of Ohio, Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office. An investigation of the condition of the United States Treasury has been ordered by the House, and the Committee of Ways and Means has begun the work. Foreign. The snowfall in Paris, France, has been quite unprecedented, and ail the heavy traffic in the streets had to be stopped. The bimetallists in the Monetary Conference at Brussels, Belgium, are indignant at the alleged obstruction offered by Great Britain. Forty thousand striking mill hands ara destitute in England. Thk French Chamber of Deputies invested the Panama Investigating Committee w ith judicial powers; a vote of confidence in the Government was passed. During a heavy snow ;quall off Dunkirk, Scotland, a Ashing boat capsized and five of her crew were drowned. A FIRK broke out in a dwelling house at Frederiksberg. Denmark, ani seven of ita inmates were killed. The honse was comp'etely destroyed. Most of the persons killed met their deaths by jumping from window?. IN the Reichsta? Chancellor von Caprivi announced that irermany would adhere to the gold standard. The North Atlantic Steamship Association. of Europe, has decided to raise passage rate?, reduce the number of sailings and withdraw special World's Fair rates. Six proprietors of British weekly papers were arraigned at Bdw Street Police Court in London charged with violating the lottery law by the "missing; word" competition, by which poople were led to participate in gambling by sending in answers. Tne defendants were fined. Justice Stko.vg has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Domin ion oc uanaaa. Mes. Lease, who formally an noun sedhw candidacy for the Kansas United estates Senatorsuip, is over thirty, and probably not far trom forty years of age. She formerly lived in Denison, Texas, an i was known there as an agitator. Sue was stron s-rnind- I ed and in school matters she stirred up many a hornet's nest. Mr. L?pso was than what he is now, an amiable person, only s?o?n as t:>a hiuLtaad at Mrn. ftMSA. AT HOME AND ABROAD, i The Latest Intelliffencies by T Telegraph and Cable. j c Desperate AttemDt of Masked J Men to Kob a Train, i c A desperate attempt at train robbery wm j made a few nights ago, just as the Chesa- tl peake and Ohio vestibule train, No. 4, wa3 c pulling out of Huntington, W. Va. It was | about 11 o'clock and the traiD was C just getting well unaer way, when r the doors of the day cars wera thrust open ? and three masked mec armed with pistols entered and cilled upon the passengers to ^ throw up their hands. Two of the paasen- gers seized one of the robbers, throwing h<m down and attemping to disarm him. r" >?<? omiffli r>rw? of the DBS- _ sengers, a German, from Cincinnati, il who with bis wife was on his bridal trip to p Europe, was mortally wounded, the ball en- . tering his abdomen. Another passenger, p Peter Drake, of Cincinnati was twice wounded, one ball entering his leg and another his arm ' j Meanwhile Ticket Collector Zingley was t| trying to secure a pistol, which he finally D succeeded in getting in the baggage car, and r ftn fr.hn rnhhers. emDtV t I CUUi UUl^ V^UUVU *??w WM ? , - y J. x ing all of the barrels of the pistol. He w again returned to the bagzage car, secured another pistol, and began firing. In the mean time the robbers had torn off their mask?, and the whole train was in intense excitement, women faintinz, children ? screaming and everybodf who could seeking n shelter under the seats. b The robbers, seeing that their game wa3 C( up, pulled the bell cord, stopped the train a: and jumped off in the darkness. It was a thought that one or two of them were 3j wounded, but this is. not certainly known. ]c These men acted like novices in the busi- <j ess. ci Highwaymen Plunder a Town. u Twilight was just gathering when a couple of heavily-armed men, dressed like cowboys & and wearing masks made from bits of can- 81 vas, rode into the town of Gillette, Wvom- p ing. They forced their ponies into Tonv 11 Christensen'a saloon . ani dance hall ai and made the proprietor emi>ty his tills. He handed the robbers $35) and four t? pistols. Five other men and a couple of S women in the place were also robbed After * taking a drink and treating everybody, the E visitors rode to the streer. One of them I ^ * ' ? 1 i.L. I A proposed to roD me postotnc?, out me gin - behind the window told them there was no ? money on hand, and they went off. E The pair robbed another saloon ani gro- *' eery store much as they had done Christen?en s. Eight or ten citizens who came out to see what was goin? on were held up on ^ the streets. By the time the robbar3 were n ready to leave, there was a small posse or- P: zanized. The highwaymen did no: care ^ for a fight, and rode off in a hurry, going ~ south with bullets flying after them. 11 ei A Tornado's Work. g A dispatch from Summit, Miss., says that a tornado passed two miles above that town at 9:30 o'clock in the morning. The house ^ of the Rev. 8. R. Young, a Baptist minister, was demolished, and the occupants were _ . - 1 wsxanp. Dunea in we ruum. xt^uoi. p?i?? .....? w. _ ganized at once and a search was mado for ? the victims, who, when extricated, were all iE found to be badly injured. Tn^ following a i? a list of the victims: Killed?A six-year* je old daughter of William Frosman, colored; g a colored woman, name unknown, and a a: colored boy, not identified. Ten persons * were injured. The path of the tornado was 300 yards d, wide. Large pine trees were uprooted. The gi house of S. A. Lower was completely destroyed and his household effects were a. scattered for miles. ^ Roavier Kesigns. In consequence of M. Clemancaau's letter a! published in the Figaro connecting M. d: Rouvier, the French Finance Minister, M with the Panama scandal, the latter called pi ** ' J?4 ?P ?lor?a f.ho ri upon rresiuauu uuuu> <?? Elysee and handed in his resignation of the la Finance portfolio. cl Shortly after M. Rouvier"s visit to President Carnot it was officially announced that c< tUe Finance Minister's resignation had been A acoepted and that M. Tirard, ex-Minister of a| Finance and at present representing Franca pi at the Brussels Monetary Conference, had ai been appointed to succeed him. ai . ft Workmen Near Starvation. A mass-meeting of unemployed workmen bas been called to meet at Champlain Market, Toronto, Canada. About 40JO men are without employment anl on the verge of starvation. Resolutions will be passed at tha meeting asking the local government to begin the proposed public works. ^ Drowned. While Skating. Harvard A. Corley, aged twenty-four, ?nd Eliza Vandenburg, aged twenty-two, were drowned while stating at Lenox, 03 Mass. Corley was clerk for a local druggist and was studying medicine. Miss Van- gi danbura: was a teacher in the Lenox (Jram uar School. tn MEXICANS REPULSED. te Garza's Revolution Costly to rue United States. a, Farther particulars of the battle between ^ Oarza'd followers and the Mexican troops ^ near St. Ignacio are to theeff act that a band g of 3JO followers of Garza crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the Mexican bar- o! racks, just over the border, in the al Republic of Mexico. The Mexican irwps UUUID UUV (V Uigcu ?UV ivrviuwvu U ist?, and at the first fire several were killed ^ and the soldiera were driven back. The revolutionists pushed on and captured the barracks, with its guns ani supplies. After stripping it entirely, th9 placs was burnei and all ot the soldiers dispersed and the revolutionists then returned to their abode on ai this side of the Rio Grande. oi The invaders are under the direct leadership of Entrigo Ramon, the right hand h roan of Garza. Ramon was slightly jj wounded. Just after the fight, the Mexican sj authorities rushed out two companies of cavalry rrom Neuvo Larelo, but the barracits had tieen burned and the revolutionists tied. The authorities this side of the line ' Rent a^vppal comoanies North, and Uncle Sam's men are now hurrying through Masquite to head off the returning insurgent?. o A courier from west of Laredo, Texas, li says that Garza can get 800i) men together tl at a call. Diaz oas ordered Mexican' troop3 massed at the oorder. tj The exoenses to the United States Govern- F ment on account of the so-.-alled Garzi rev- T oiution will amount to over fcJO^UO.1. This b 1? ..j.'. Pnnrr. rtrnftnsrtfl. United lUU'lltiCa A-CWTIK* WH.. r States deputy marshal fees, the cose of e militiry scouting expedition?, etc. A j large number of altered revolutionists u are still to be tried, although the last two c terms of the Federal Court have been g almost exclusively devoted to disposing of the cases. The expeosa of the four weeks , of the present term of this court has been f tie, ooo. * A BIVER OF BLAZING- OIL. Trees Destroyed and Limestone Ledges Keduoed to ChalJc. ^ An immense quantity of oil escaped from a break in the Crescent Oil Pipe Company's line in Manor township, j. tonnsylvania, flowing into Miller's Run. Several hunter?, to havo some fun, set tire to the oil, and the surface of the y creek was a mass of flame in an incredibly 2 snort time. The entire run bore the appear- I ance of a furnace, the flames mounting up T fifty to a hundra 1 feet. c Large trees along the banks were destroyed I in a few minutes, and the heat was so in- ? tense toat limestone ledges were reduced to a chalky mass in a short time. To prevent j the blazing oil from reaching Cone3to*a s Creek, a large quantity in the upper part of I ttie stream was dammed and sat on fire, ex* I " *" ' U U - ] plosions following wmcn oouiu uo ueo.ru over a mite. Considerabla blazing fluid managed to get into the Conestoga, but was {>revented from doing much damage. Pipe ine employes finally smothered the flames and repaired the leak in the pipe. The loss is large. flFTY-SEOOND CONGRESS. In the Senate. 4th Day.?On motion of Mr. Gorman a esoluti on was p8s?>d calling on tne Secreary of the Treasury for copies of all corroDondence reiat.ve to advances made by tbe :ity of Baltimore in tbe War of 1812 On notion of Mr. Sherman the Senate at 12:35 i. m. went into executive session, and at ne o'clock adjourned for three days. 5th Dat.?Mr. Vest's resolution to open " ndian Territory was discussed??The A^tiiption bill came up but went over till :i*xt ay. - Numerous petitions for andagumst he bill were presented Tbe cert.iiates of election of electors fdr President nd Vice-President were presented from lew Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut an 1 >hio and were placed ou file Mr. Vest, by equest, introduced a bill to encourage the onstruction of electric railways. It was resrred. 6th Day.?The Indian Territory matter , 'aj> discussed The Anti-Option bill was . arther debated The Hou3e amendlents to the Senate printing bill f last session were non-concurred j 1 and a conference was aslted Among lie bills introduced and referred were these: ly Mr. Gallinger?For the suspension of nmigration under certain circumstances. j !y Mr. Mitchel ?To provido for a National ; ncamonfent of militia at the Chicago Fair. ( Gth Day ?The McGarrahan claim bill was , iscussed Further argument was made in j ae Anti-Optiou bill Mr. AlcPherson re ' ?t ~ kill or ted back, witnouc ameauuiem, JUUUSO UiU | ] massed May 27 last) for the sale of Navy rard lands in the city of Brooklyn, and it 'as placed on the calendar. In the ttousc. 4tii DaT ?The first business was Mr. terbert's motion tabl9 Mr. Holman's lotion to reconsider the vote by which the ill terminating reductions in tue engineer irps of tha navy was passed. The yeas nd nays were or.lered on Mr. Herbert's lotion and it was carried, 110 yea?, eightyx nays. The motion to reconsider was ?8t??Mr. Caldwell introducad a bill reucing the postage on flrst-clasa matter, exapt postal cards, to one per cjnt. per half once The Public Printing bill was taken p, the seventy-sixth soction beinj under jnsideration. On Mr. Holman's motion > recommit with instructions, a division rallied?seventy-six yeas, sixty nays. The oint of no quorum was raised, ana, peuu12 the appointment of tellers, the House . ijourne*. r>iH Day.?The following House Comm't>e appointments were announced by the ' peaker: Judiciary?Mr. Fellows, of New J ork; Public Buildings and Grounds?Mr. ietz, of Indiana: Enrollel Bills? t [r. ticott, of Illinois (Chairman) Naval .ffairs?Mr. BrowD, of Maryland; j tilitary Affairs?Mr. Gorman,of Michigan: . I iucation?Mr. McLaurin, ot South Caro- . na: Enrolled Bills?Mr Onliger of Ohio; avalid Pensions??'Ir. Cadmus, of New Jersy, Militia?Mr. Sipe, of Pennsylvania; Var Ciaims?Mr HUlborn, of Califor" ? ? DMt.Aa;A.t rva. ia; J^xpenai&ures iu iuo x uoLuui^a arcment?Mr. Sipe, OH Pennsylvania; tilitia?Mr. McLaurin, of Soutu Carolina ?Mr. Scott introduced a bill to prohibit ie employment of apprentices in the Govrnment Printing Office??Mr. Andrew resented the petition of Rev. Pnillips ' rooks anl others asking for tbe repeat of 1 ie Geary Chinese act. Ordered printed | ?The Printing bill was passed The [ouse then adjourned for two riays. Oth Day.?Speaker Crisp was cheered hen he took his place The Army Apropriation bill was introduced Mr. ummings introduced a resolution providig for the investigation of the charges lade that trade' journals ''are ilgaliy excluded from the mails Mr. cott introduced a bill providing that hereCter tbe tax on distilled spirits be fixed at L.25 per gallon. The present iix is ninety mts A bill was introduced by Mr. An TOW wniCQ jjruviuaa lur uu iu^uwu Iver coinage under the Sherman law. 7tb Day.?The Speaker announced tho ppointment of Mr. Abbot on the Cornmit e on the District of Columbia to fill a vamcy caused by the resignation of Mr. Feliws?>Mr. Catchlngs reported back favorbly the resolution offered by Mr. Wilson Irecting the Committee on Ways and [eans to inquire into and report upon the resent condition of the Treasury and the iture probable revenues under existing iw. Adopted The Weil and La Abra aim bills were passed. 8th JL)at.?The time of the House was J )nsumed in the consideration of the Army ' ppropriation bill, the first of the regular ' ppropriation bills to be reported, and it was aised after a short dnhate. The bill carries a appropriation of 124,202,74'?, against an ppropriatioa of $:4,28^,45'J for the current seal year. x _ t THE LABOB WOBLD. ; Thxks are 4,000,000 metal miners. , Glass production throughout the country t declining. a Fiwkr industrial enterprises are now pro- ^ cwa man usuai. Wag*8 have been increased.ia sixteen J ilia in Ameebury, Mass. , Latest reports from Great Britain show {j eat agitation in industrial circles. b Three thousand operators in the Cotton I ills in Guadalajara, Mexico, are idle. b Thirtt thousand unemployed working- n en are clamoring lor work in London. It is found that fifty-six per cent, of the Achers in New York City earn $8'3J a year. In Wurtemberg, Germany, letter-carriera e compelled to work tftteen hours per *y-. Alexandria, Ind., is to have a *5.000,- . >0 glass plant, the largest in the United d tates. T Th? United Portable Hoisting Engineers tl ! New York City have been incorporated ! Albany. a French newspaper compliments the n nited a tates on its mann3r of collecting a bor statistics. j It is strongly hinted that strikes may be _ rpected on some of the railroads duriug the xposition year. Ihec average wa^es of the Bo3ton cook n re, according to 574 returns, $4.45 weesly, n : $231.40 a year. ^ 1 he Engineers' Union of Great Britain as *1,11*5,000 in its treasury and an annual icome ot about $915,U0J, with a member- ? lip of 07,900. t A Hebrew nam?d Loria, who recently ied at Muan, Italy, lett $3,000,000 for a )uudiag an international hooi a xor in- & igent laborers. Keir Hardik estimates the total number f unemployed in England at over one mil- b on at present, and the iuiicatijui are that 1 liey will still.lnurjaja. n A cknsus bulletin just issued g'v^s the to? on o :o ,,wia in 3m 11 il wages pmci iu 'all Kiver (Mass.) lactones as #8,314,811. 'his is an average of ?384 a year tor ail la- * or, skilled and unskilled. * The General Electric Company now bas stablishmenta at Lynn, Mass.; SchenectaJy, " I. Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, and employs ;p ward of 15,000 men. The rise and growth if electrical industries in this couatry is omething astonishing. Workmen in the Carnegie mills at Baaver < 'alls, Fenn., find that tneir wages have >een seriously reduced. The boiler men, rbo formerly received $2.25 a day, must now vork for 11.89, and the wages for the others , ire cut in the same proportion. FOUR HANGED AT ONCE. J < ?wo White and 1 wo Colored Men i Executed on the Same Scaffold. 1 i The four murderers ia the county jail ftt ] iOuisville, Ky., were hanged a few morn- J 0R3 ago at 7:54 o'clock. The exscution was J witnessed by only a few spectators. Dennis ( ilcCarthy, who killed his wife, and Stephen lit?, who slew Albert Baurmann, were rhite; Gr-int Thomas and Nelson Lewis were lolored. Thomas killed tJinlie Coleman and jewis shot George Dean, both victims being :oioren. At 7:45 o'clock the four men entered the ail yard and marched up the steps of the caffold. All but Thomas stood with bowel leads. The latter looked at the crowd and rawed to the men he knew. The deputies arrang3l the noose3 and sinioned the men at 7:18 o'clock. Hite, while being pinioned, kicked off r.be slippers 1 le wore. McCarthy yawned as the noose ' ?as adjusted. At 7:54 tho drop fell. Lswis ? was the only man who died without a strugfle. J 1 MANY HLLIERS KILLED. ' A Disc*, rcrw Explosion in an English Coal Mine. Horrible Scenes Witnessed by the First Ee3cne Parties, A fearful explosion occurred a few days ago, at the Bamfurlong Colliery, Wigan, England, and not less than fifty lira* ware bought on the morning after to have been lost. The men went to their work as ujuiI that morning, and after the colliery had been inspected in the usu *1 way. They had not been at work long when an explosion shook the earth for a great distance, and a cloud of smoke shot up through the shaft into the air. A multitude rushed toward the mine, and the greatest excitement prevailed. The flam as spread to the engine house at the head of the air tunnel. This stopped tho pumping of air into the miae, ana added greatly to the peril of tho3e who were in the pit. The fire was not subdued until 5 o'clock that afternoon. Some little time after the bodies of < tiroatv of tbe miners who had been suffocated by tha noxious gases generated iu the mine wera brought to the surface by the rescuing parties. Though the work was extremely dangerous, the exploration of the workings was continued in the hope that Mime of the miners in the pit at the time of the explosion might have reached places of jafety, where they would be awaiting tbe approach of the rescurers. The rescue parties report horrible scenes iu hVia mina Tn t,h? mn.in poa^s th? hniiaalia in twos and threes, as tho men fell, faces downward and heads toward the entrance of the shaft. Large sections of roof and galleries lave collapsed. Among the ruias were found mangled bodies and half-burned limbs. The ruins have blocked many parts'of the mine, ind therefore the men searching for bodies were unable to give any definite idea of the lumber lost. Several miners who were just alive whan 'ound die! on their way to the surface, or ihortly after being taken from the c?r. Uae escue party reached the surface half suffo:ated by the heat and smoke caused by resh outbreaks of the fire. foe rescued miners believe that the ex j'oiion was caused by spar lis from the enema house, which is sai l to have caught Ire a few minutes before the cant- thrnimh A^lUOiUU. uic u note ovuw be mines warning the laborers, and nanj <-f those nearest the shaft escaped Che miners who worked farther from tae haft tried to push through fire and smoke ind were suffocated in the effort. GEOBOEJ. QOULD. Be Will Take Charge ot His Father's Vaat Interests. George .7. Gould, who will have charge of ais father's vast railroad interests, is the late Jay Gould's eldest son. He is about iiirty-four years of age. and is interested ai % director is nearly all his father's railroads ind other corporations. Instead of going f 532M6??x 9, QIOR0I J. GOULD. o college he went into business with hit ather, and has himself amassed a consider* ,ble fortune. He livel with his father until lis marriage to Miss Edith KinzJon. once n actress at Daly's Theatre, New York; rhich took place several yetrs ago. He has hree children, two boys, Kingdon and Jay, nd one little girl. After his marriage taorge bought the house No. 1 East Forty* 1 venth street, New Yorir, adjoining the , ear of his father's home. A passageway ... tu.tt* nnnnlu>tinff fhfl hotlSA With tttfl ' flM UlUtH VVMUWW..-Q ?? ? fifth avenus mansion. George J. Gould ived there until about a month ago, when ie moved to a house which tie purchased at fifth avenue and Sixty-saventh street. Ha as been in the confidence of his father for aany years, and during the past five has arriieda large part of the burden suppose! o be carried by the elder Gould. LATEB OTSWg, WH.ixak Hopxwxll, aged eight years, ied of hydrophobia at his mother's home in renton, N- J. About nine weeks before ie boy was bitten by a stray cur. Mobe than three hundred places of busiess ware closed in Omaha, Neb., to give mplorea an opportunity to attend B. Fay lills's revival exercises. Thousands have rofessed conversion. A BOILER exploded in Swift's rolling mills. ear Newport, Ky., killing two xramps ana lortally wounding two workman, Herman Peisling and George Read. Loss $15,000. Indian Commissioner Morgan has acepted the position of Corresponding Sec*?. , ary of the Baptist Board of Home Missions, nd he expects to assume his new duties on larch 3. < Another mill ha3 been started in Ham> ur/, Germany, for the purpose of grinding ndian corn exclusively. This is the third -:n ?fnnninty thorri whir?h irrinds noth 1111 UU" i UUMIMQ ? ? ? g but Indian corn from America. Lipma.v & Co., of Dundee, Scotland, manuacturers of burlap?, have failed for H^oO,30 and they ovre 5200,000 in the United Itatea. ^ I 1 FAIfi MUSICIANS. 1 t ] Forty-five Women Players From Mexico Going to Chicago, General Sorrauo, Director General of tha dezioan exhibit at the Cj!umbi*n Exposi* Hnn hau received a letter stating that _ tfafUm Diaz, wife of the Mexican President, agoing to send nex: yeir t-> Chicago at her 1 >wn expense, a wo uau's b ind of forty-fire | nusicians. This band will oe composed of (bamost expert artists to be found in Mexico f ind will be uaJer the patronage of Madam | ni??e_ From Mexic> will also coma the Eighth Regiment Ban 1 of eighty pieces, ' jonsidered the finest in the rjpuolic. Both these bands will remaiQ at cne fair from its opening to its close. i Captain Bassett, who has just coin* pleted his sixty-one years of sarnca in the Unite! States Senate, keeps his snuff in a box that was given hira by Daniel Webster, i Among the distinguished men who have taken a pinch from the Captain's historic I box are nearly all of the great men who i have served in the Senate from the days ol Jackson to the present time. Boo>raB3 are already assemonng on mo lout her u oordor of Knnsas in anticipation )f the opening to settlement of 6,000,000 teres of land in the Cherokee strip, though ;he date for the opening is not firea. Con* sessional action is first necessary in the natter. THE REALM OF FASHION. LONG CLOAKS IN STYLE. This Season's Fashions Are Gracious to Slim Women. Jjifo & 8EAS0N of fancifully g&gg * \ fashionable overgarments is at hand, and so thin women are at an advantatro AVftf thlnlr nnei JUfTyA Many a stylish mantle or cloak won't do for broad !? it*VC. fig^es- A typical (?ar|?V| ; ment in the new styles is ill Iv^1' herewith depicted. It {J tor" wouldn't look its best gSL\ on a lavishly rounded \ SSf' woman. However, gentie reader, don't mind if you Are plump. Men al W-l /.i ways like piamp wom?u. tat, u> course, but a woman can be very plump before she is fat. The outlines may not be the most beautiful in the world, but smoothness goes a great way. The initial fashion plate Shows a dolman, or palatine, made of chinchilla goods and ornamented with lace and ribbons. At the joiuing of the sleeves with the front breadths, folds of gray silk are placed. The lace, falling in the form of a collarette and forming a straight collar, is ornamented with bows of gray ribbon. teti -jfaLL ' ~-!^^^A VISITING DBXSS. The illustration shows a handsome gown, such as modish women wear for an afternoon or visiting dress., If preferred, beniiaa/l inatooH nf fh? cmhmprn I gaiiliV WU1U MV U9VU 1*M?VUV? I . I?W with which the original was made, and velvet instead of the surah, the velvet being of a shade darker gray than the skirt and the souave of gray or black passemerterie. The accompanying picture in which the juvenile toilet is shown, along with that for a woman, was drawn from the actual garments as worn by live perrons. The dress of the yoang girl is made of silver gray bengaline. The yoke had alternate rows of white lace insertion and silver gray ribbon. The older girl in the same gronp wore a drees of cream cashmere, the edge of the trivt Kalnoi nf i<??m omtvrmriarori fnlln Th? deep corselet, which laced behind was I cream silk brocaded with gold scales, to 1 form the appearance of a cuirass. ! TWO BALL C08TUMK8, ' The cut snows two oeaatitm costumes, particularly suitable for a powder ball. One COSTUMES FOB A YOUNG OIRX, AND A YOUNO WOMAN. of (he other pair is seen in white spotted tulle, with white roses and white satin ribbon as trimming; also, a white satin bouilionne along the lower hem of the petticoat and train. The sa9? is of iron-gray surah. The final example is a gown of paie blue " - - 'lL ?? ?U! wo aamasic trimmea wua uppjuc . white lace plis3e3 complete the petticoat. The signal man on an English l-ailiray, bavin* been watching by the jedside of his dying boy, became unit for duty and begged to be relieved.) The corporation did not recognize his right to have a dying boy, much less ? watch by him, and refused. So ;he signal man went to sleep, and iwo trains crashing together killed thirteen people and awakened him. rhe indignation of the corporation .nwarri the signal man was terrible ? see, and the manner In which ifc ihunted its own responsibility upon lis shoulders was a lesson i n agiiitj ind hoggishness. The wonderful growth of Western cities since the war has developed a new quality of wealth and educated a new school of financiers that are as permanent and as potent factors in the nineteenth century civilization as any other elements that enter into 1? /.oil fVio m?n Its maice-up. i^ruaivcio VOii wuw | themselves boomers and their calling speculation. But men who know them and their .value recognize them to ba pioneers of prosperity and their vocation to be to lay out the lines of future trade and open new highways piong the route. | K ? CUBI0C9 FACTS. Over 1700 different kinds of noup ar? known. There are orange trees in Malta over 200 years old. Millions of butterflies are e&tea every year by the Australian aborigines. 8-:Feral thousands of hair pins, ia mar.y styles, hare been recovered from Pompeii. The tallest maa in the G. A. R. is William P. Boyne, of Green County, Pennsylvania. His height is seven feet. Greek dandies, like Alciblades, allowed their hair to fall on their shoulders and at night rolled the curia round a stick. A fruit grower, of Windsor, Conn., has a barrel of Russet apples of the crop of 1891, which have been kept in cola tarn orA. Nalentia, the Spanish theologian, died of grief because he was accused by the Pope of having falsified a passage in St. Augustine. On Philadelphia's police force is a man worth $150,000, whose income ii about $15,000 yearly, outside of his $20 a week salary. The fleeces of ten goats and the work of several men for half a year are required to make a genuine Cashmere sha^l a yard and a half wide. A Kansas farmer who had had mach trouble in shipping eggs at last succeeded is getting a consignment, delivered in guuu uiuoi uj uwiam^ vuu WA ujfua* mite." Wild hemp is growing in greatlarurlance along the valley of the Colorado River and promises to become one of the moat important agricultural products in Arizona. There is ah old married couple in Porter County, Indiana, who, it is stated, have not spoken to each other for twenty*five years, although they live ia the same house and eat from the same table. A singular and fortunately unusual circumstance was reported by a farmer m 1766. A wheat field of seventeen acres near Eingston, N. Y., was found to hate no grain in the ear, and Was subsequently cut down for straw. The tallest soldier of the British Army, a trooper in the First Regiment ot Prussian Quards, is six feet eight and ' a half inches high. When he presented himself for his unitorm a special instru- ; ment had to be procured to take his measure. All bookkeepers are well aware that it is difficult to draw straight lines on the pages of large ledgers, on account of the convex form which the page assumes when the book is opened. To meet this ?J ? L_.. Jaaluu) M auucuity ? inuvuuwu u? wiwm m flexible ruter which, readily conforms to a curved surface. The United States gold dollar contains 25.8 troy grains. The ordinary pound, avoirdupois, contains 7000 grains, there* fore $1,000,000 in gold coin weighs 3,686.4 pounds avoirdupois, or over a ton and a half. The standard silver dollar weighs 412.5 troy grains, and $1,000,000 in the United States silver coinage will weigh 56,931 pounds, or nearly twentyeight and a quarter tons. A Doctor Thirty Tears Ago. v "I began practising medicine In Southern Indiana thirty-five years ago," j said Dr. E. P. Davits. Money was scarce in those days, and I took my pay in 'chips and whetstones.' There was no other regularly licensed physician in * J 1 too county, ana, as cauu auu isrer wcto plentiful and tbe scant population unusually prolific, 1 was kept pretty constantly in tbe sad die. A doxea coon skins or a tub of wild honey was frequently my reward for riding twenty or thirty miles. One patron paid me m fence rails, and another made for me a rag carpet. Living on one side of the county were the Smiths and on the othfc side the Joneses. One morning Pare / Smith and Pere Jones rode up to my front door at the same time and called iWnlul' ? tho mmp instant. I went out and learned that they had both come in hot haste on the same errand. Bach was expecting an early addition to his family, and each wanted the doctor, and wanted him bad. It was twelve miles northeast to the *esidenco of Smith, and thirteen miles southwest to the manor house of Joaes. I told them that not being possessed of a Fortunatus hat, I would be compelled to ignore one of the calls. Each insisted that I should go with bim. They began to bid against each other. One offered a wagon-load of turnips, two sack of cornmeal, and a side of bacon if i I would accompany him, while the other named a barrel of cider, a wagon-load of - * -a ^ i-i A L?.? fall pippiQS, aou iwo itu tiuaojra u ?u? , reward of my professional aemces. ; Now, look hare,' I said, taking a silver 1 half-Collar out of my pocket, 'bead is Smith and tail Jones. Here she goes.' I flipped the coin, it came head, and Jones set his spurs into his mule and rode off homeward the picture of despair. Well, sir, sad to say, Mrs. Smith died and her girl baby died. Mrs. Jones presented her husband with a brace of bouncing boys and in two weeks atI tended church with one on either arm. Smith paid my fee, but he acted as if he | wished that half-dollar had come tails." I c T Alnhu.nnmnmt. I iiUUlJ VI iVWW Nothing Too Good for His "Litlle G?l.M He was a very shabby person indeed. His clothes were of that much-worn character that precludes any attempt at description. He bad cotton in his ears and he wore a most disreputable hat, yet there he was in one of our large dry goods stores, as much out of place as a stoker in a drawing-room. No one paid auj attention to him,every one having come to the conclusion evidently that he was a workman or some porter looking for a job; anything, in tact, but a purchaser. At last, after he had fidgeted about nff MwflrH fhA lur avuitj wnuc9 uc wm. ?w cloak department and presently came back in company with an obsequious floorwalker, who snapped his finger.* and called out: 'Show this gentleman your finest sealskin wraps." Everyone looked in astonishment at the seedy figure and one young woman had the grace to remark: "Excuse me, sir, I thought you were Innlrinrr Inr a /Onfrh crrtrnient." , '"""'"S O _ "No, miss, sealskin ain't good enough I ior my little gal, and I guess if there waa M anything more expensive her pap buy it for her." Only a little everyday happening. it teaches the lesson ttmt nne not always mean the fattest pocket ?Chicago Tribune.