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Long Island City Torn Up by t
Terrific Explosion.
The Scene, a Tunnel Shaft in a
Populous Block.
A terrible explosion of dynamite OMUTsi
in Cnn? Isla-ii City, N. Y., at eisjht o'clock
a few morning a?o. by which Are parsons
lost their lives and soma twanty or thirty
persoos ware severely injure I. Tae accident
occilrrel in the w>rcs oC the L>n; Island
and New Yorfc Tunnel Company, at
Jackson and Vernon avenues.
The workiav;men e-nploye 1 by this corporation
have bean engaged there for a considerable
time drivin; headings under the
surface an i hav a used fcreat quantities of
tKa rv->?r?rfiii nrnlosives in Drosecucinz their
work.
There have been several minor explosions
of dynamite at the plac*. Buildings have
been shaken an1 window glass shattered,
bat no one until this occasion becama a victim
to the accidents,
The pushing of the headings has been
prosecuted with vigqr recantly and great
quantities of dynamite have b?r\ kept naar
the works in order to economzj time in the
blastinz.
Residents of the neighboraoo 1 have protasted
against the apparent carales3aes3 of
the company, and have appealed to thi authorities.
but with no effect. There were
nearly a hundred men who bad been em.
- ployed in thi tunnel about an hour when an .
alarm came or a premature ezolouon.
There was a panic at once, but before
anyone had time to save himself the earth
shook with the explosion of dynamite and
the surface of the ground in the vicinity of
the tunnel rose in the. air. scattering the
* fragments of the unfortunate persons near
and the debris of the tunnel in every direction.
The flames from the explosion sat fire to
the lar^e four-story brick huildin; adjoining
the tunnel an I shattered every pane of
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glass ill UUU.-W Wl |.W?.
T&e dead were: Mary Graven, azed nineteen,
Lon? Island City; Eiward Hopkins,
? Peter Rocco, Mrs. Peter Rocco. Henrj
O'Brien, aged tnirty-three, clerk, Long
Island City.
' When the explosion occurred all tho work
men were in t.ie tunnal except Roccj, whc
was placed in charge of the dynamite at the
head o* the tunnel. He was blown tc
pieces. None of the men in the tunnel were
injured. The cupola of Sc. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church on Vernon avenue and
Fifth street was smashed if to pieces by the
concussion.
Work on the tunnel has been progressing
about two months. The city, it is said, ha;
been warned time and again of the danger
attending the work, but no action was takes
(or the protection of the residents of the
neighborhood against a disaster of this
character.
The fire.' which at first set the brick builduhi?
soon extended to the adjoining I
ones, whose walls had been warped anc
cracked by the forca of the explosiou, and
they are now la imminent daaeer of falling.
The tenants are supposed to hare escaped
with safety.
In the building which was nearest the
tunnel was the po3tofflce. When the shock
occurred tons of debris fell in this part of
the structure and completely buried the
mails. They were at once removed to No.
89 Borden avenue, where a temporary oSce
was established.
Hundreds of people, attractei t> the
place by the explosion, aide 1 tha fireman in
rescuing the wouaded. Wagons of all kinds
were used in conveying the maimed p?ople
to their homes an I to St. Join's Hospital.
All of the doctors in the city hastened to
1 the scene.
WHITE HOUSE CLOSED,
The Illness ot Little Martens Harri
son With Scarlet Fever.
xne wnise uouse, at Washington, was
quarantined for savaral days against the
public. Medical Sanitary losjactor Dr. C.
J. Osmun of the Health (Xfica tackeJ two
signs on tha door?, one on the lower and one
on the upper floor. The signs are pink*
colored pasteboard and on them is printsit
"To remove this placard without perm?
sion is unlawful.
"Scarlet fever within."
' The signs were pat up because of. the ill*
nees of President Harrison's grandchild,
! Martens. Harrison, daughter uf Ruisell Har|
rison. Her ailmsnt, wh'.ih was at first supposed
to be scarlatina, has developed into
a genuine case of scarlet fever. It it
of a mild cvDe. however. Tha 1
iMcKee children, who were playing
; with tho little patient whan she was taken
ill, have been watched carefully and have
not as yet shown any signs o* the disease.
I They will be obliged to remain in the build*
'in?, and this naturally increases their
da.izer.
President Harrison has thought it advisable,
as a precautionary measure, to establish
a rigid quarantine against the public
and the employes of tne Executive Mansion,
'so that if there be any contagion it may not
be communicated.
* W hen the disease has run its coarse at the
White House tbe mansion will be thoroughly
disinfected, and the bedding, carpets and
curtains in the sick room will probably bs
* destroyed. Whether thess precautious will
remove tha danger of contagion is a ques- .
tion wliioh many Washingtonians are 1
, divided itpoju.
SHUT HIS BROTHERS. J
Little Henry Smith Thought the Gun 1
Wasn't Loaded. 1
A most disastrous accident occurred a few 1
afternoons ago at New Haven, Ind. Henry, 1
the oleven-year-old son of Bamuel Smith, (
aw his brother's shotgun against a table in j
the kitchen. 1
There was no cap on the gun look, and 1
thinking the gun was not loadel he secured j
a cap and in lun pointed the gun at bis two I
younger brothers, Joseph and Grovar, aged 1
ten aud eight respectively. He snapped the
trigger, and, the nun being loaded, the full I
charge of shot struck the two boys. 1
Grover, whose heart was penetrated, diel I
instantly and Joseph was fatally injured. i
The shot entered both of hia lungs. About 1
fifty shot entered Joseph's breast and arms 1
MTJftDEBED BY BOYS.
Two Farmers Shot Dead in a Quarrel
Over a Koad.
Renewal of an old feud over the location
of a country road near Snowhomish, Wash*
ington, resulted in tne murder 01 two wento-do
farmers namea Foallcs and Smith by
two boy^ fourteen and fifteen years of age,
named'John Lan^ston and Kobinson.
The road runs through the farm of young
Robinson's tather, but be fenced it up.
Fouiks and timitb starte 1 to tear down the I
lence wnen oid man Robiason appeared and i
a fleht ensue.: ' ]
Young Larigston and Robinson, who had
been huntinsr, appeared on the scene armed <
with Winchesters an t fired, killing Smith
and Fouiks instantly. Old man Robinson i
was seriously injured iu the fight. Tha boys
surrendered to the Sheriff
FOUR CREMATED.
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They Were Enveloped in Flames |
W hlle Trying to fc-xtinffuish a Fire. <
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Everett, Mass., has baon visited by a most |
disastrous conflagration. The loss of prop- I
erty is aoout ?50,00\ and four men, em- 1
ployed by the West End Street Kailway
Company, were burned to deatu.
About ti;57 o'clock a fire broke out iu tha (
boiler room iu tde basement. John Clark,
Luke G-.eunai), Oeorgo Wallace and Joseph
McGinnisat on.-e began pissin? water in
pails, and tried to extinguish the flame?, but
wittxout effect, aud inside of flrteen minutes
the blase had sprea 1 to a room ovar the engine
room, which was titled with tanks containing
oil.
The tanks at once ignite!. The fliaes
sprea I over the entire rear end o<! the
building, enveloping the man. They were
Mao no more and were burned alive.
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PKOMIN?MT f APPLE. I,
Pops Leo is a poet of the Virginias I
scnool. ]
The Prince of Wales writes his letters on
light blue paper.
John Burroughs, the writer aboat
birds, was one* a schoolmaster of Jay 1
Gould. J
Thottoh onlv forty-seven years old, EliZ'
abeth Stuart /helps "Ward has been writing
lor p<- ';itioQ over thirty yaars.
R< \Woodward, of Brookline, Mass.,
the original "village blacksmith,'* died re- j
cently, and his will has just been filed.
"Foxy" Bancroft, who has been elected
Mayor of Cambridge, Mass., was the cap- c
tain and stroke of tha best crew Yale ever I
had.
Mgr. Louis Galikbebtt, recently raised
to the cardin&late, is said to be the only
journalist to whom the red hat has been
given.
Cornelius Vanderbilt may be found
hard at work at 9:30 every morning, and he
very raraly closes bi9 desk until 5 in the
afternoon. ,
"Fighting Jim" is the name given to
Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, so well
known to the National Capital and so welcome
to all drawing rooms.
It is Congressman Bourke Cockran's
practice never to prepare a speech in manuscript,
but simply to make a few notes of
the topics he intends to discuss.
Dr. Pentecost, who goes over from this
country to take charge of a Presbyterian
church In London, is to have house rent
free and a salary of $7500 a year.
George Kennan, the traveler, is desirous
of returning to Rutsia, but is re
gtfrded with such cnsravor oy ine auuaor- r
ities of that country that he does not think '
it wise to do so.
Daniel Lamont, formerly the Private
Secretary of Grover Cleveland, is said to
have made more than $500,000 sines he went
into the street railway business in New
York City four years ago. ,
Rev. C. L. Dodson (Lewis Carroll), the
bachelor tutor of Oxford, known the world
over as the author of "Alice in Wonderland,"
refuses to visit grown-up girls who
had read his book when they were little. He
is tuAhtul, and is afraid they might become
sentimental.
Miss Helen Gould's inheritance makes
her, probably with one exception, the rich*
est young and unmarried woman in America.
The fortune of Mijs Garrett, daughter
of the late President of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, is larger than Miss Gould's,
but a part of Miss Garrett's fortune has
been made by her own business sagacity.
Truman Henry Safford, Professor of
Astronomy at Williams College, is one of
the most remarkable 1 'lightning calculators"
now living. He is small in stature, bat has a
large head and a most active brain. His
manner is quick and nervous, and when
"doing a large and difficult sum in his head"
he walks rapidly up and down the class
room, clasping and unclasping his hands or
twitching nis mustache; but the calculation
is rapidly made, and the result is almost in*
variably the correct one.
FIGHT IN MEXICO.
Ten Soldiers Killed and Fivo Burned
Half Alive.
Reports, although conflicting, coins from
every part of the Northern part of the Republic
of Mexico indicating the growth of
the revolutionary movement. UmiuMm i
are rushing to and from the Mexican offl- !
rials to the United States officials. 1
An officer who desires that his name should I f
not be used, states that another battle took ; 3
place, when Mb men were killed at Coralvo,
where there is a garrison. At this piace ,
Ave of the Mexican 3oldiers wore burned t
half alive 5
A courier with official lnformatioa gave t
it out that the revolutionists gave and i
asked no quarter, but in every way out- J
fought the regular Mexican soldiers, thosa
at Coralvo being a sleepy lot of half breeds. 5
It is reported that the Governmfnt has t
seiz3d the railroads for official purposes. A r
special train of twelves coac es, left Monte- ]
rey for Lampasas Cxuayos, with eight com* c
panies of cavalry. <
A Washing+ou dispatch says: Rocha, the t
Mexican general who is reported to have left c
the City of Mexico to join the revolutionists
on the Rio Grande border, is a famous 8
cnaraccer. tie is Known kj an me jaexrc&n t
army as ''The Tiger."
"W hen Maximilian was fighting to establish
an empire in Mexico, Rocha was one of
his favorite general*. After tne surrender
at Qnerataro. Maximilian and two ot his
generals, Mejia and Miramon, were executed.
Lopez, who recently died, was disgraced.
Of all the imperial generals Rochi was
the only one taken into favor oy Diaz and
the Liberals. He was, atter the reorganize
tion of the Republic, given command of a
division of the army, but almost ever since
bis restoration to favor he has beau kept on
some duty near the. Mexican capital, as if
the (xoyernment did not care to trust him
in the provinces.
If "the Tiger" has gone to join the revolutionists
it means something serious.
Rocha ha* a record for desperate lighting
which no other Biexican general uow possesses.
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FAMINE IN FINLAND. J
It is Feared That Whole Communities
Have Perished.
The famine in North Finland is increasing,
and there is a movement in Sweden to
renew the subscriptions of last year for the #
lid of the starring; Finlanders. Although
:ne iamine is ragtag m xvumuiu ua nwijr, y
fit the Finns, on account of their old attachment
to Sweden, look to the Swedes ?
rather than to the Russians for assistance.
Many villages are snowbound, and it is
[eared that the sufferings of the people are v
ntease, as they have no means or breaking
through the great drifts on account of the t
weakness of themselves and of their cattle, o
[t is feared that whole communities have
perished, as nothing has been beard from
them for a number of davs. c
Owing to the hardiness of the Finns it ia
hoped, however, that the famine has not
been so destructive of life as many appre- v
bend. It is believed that the survivors will a
abandon the country by wholesale during 1
the coming sprine and summer and remove
to some part of North America where they t
will have a better chance to maintain them- li
selves. t
PT P A QTTPP P A T?TVn'RfiWN"Pn o
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A. Yacht Capsized by a Sadden Squall
in Australian Waters.
A sad accident occurred at Sidney, New ^
South Wales, a few days azo, to a party of *
merrymakers, resulting in the death of teo t
of them. The owner cl a yacht made up a a
party of bis friends to take a sail. All went n
well until the mouth of the harbor was ti
reached. Here a severe squall
struck the yacht, and before any r
preparation 4 could b* made to meet it the t
vessel capsize. The squall passed away fo
quickly, and vesssli in the neighbarhool t
bore down to the upturned craft. They j
succeed in picking up thircaen psrjons who
were struggling in the water, but ten of the ,
party were not seen after the yacht turned ?
over. t
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Tkk most remarkable derelict mentioned
la the r?.?cor Is of tne hvdro graphic office has ?
38tTi sighted a -rain nine hun Ired miles east
>f Bermu la, after a lapse of 102 days. She d
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5 tn? recora w cahci ui uciciiuu?, ?^uo ucu *
seen an ocean w \nderer for 625 days, and j
ias average I somewhat more than eight c
niles a day, coming over five thousand c
Hiles. \
THE people of Williamsburg, Col., reoantly c
demanded tlie resignation of Processor J
Voorhis, principal of the primary depart- c
ment of the puolic school. Hois accusad of s
having pulled the teeth of pupils as punish* i
ment for disobedience. One ooy is said to f
have had fifteen teeth extracted in thi? t
manner. The professor resigned. 1
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"He 13 an artisfc by profession." 1
"I know that; but what is he by occupation?"?Washimrton
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A PALACE OF PEAYEB.
Laying the Corner Stone ot a
Great Cathedral.
Lt Will Cost $10,000,000 and
Take Twenty Years to Build,
The oorner ston9 of the Cathedral of St.
rohn the Diviue, in course of construction
it the corner of Morningside and Amsterlam
avenues, New York City, has juat been
aid with simple but impressive ceremonies.
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When completed this cathedral will be one
>.* the most magniflcent and costly sacred
itructures iu America.
The ceremonies were held under & tent,
vhich the severity of the weather made
lecessary, erected in the shape of a cross.
Che day was particularly appropriate for
he laying of the corner stone as it is known
n the church calender as the day of St.
lohri the Evangelist.
Tbe corner stone btool in the central
quare of the tent nnder a peaked roof
wenty feet high. Around it was built a
jlatform four feet high on which were
bishop Potter, the visiting bishops, the
;lergy of the diocese and prominent invited
juests. The platform could accommolate
exactly 1012 persons and just that number
>f tickets were issue i.
Inside the tent was a steam-heating plant,
ind ten radiators raais cue temperature
:omfortat>l?. Too services be<an with a
jrocsssion to the platform, in the following
>rder:
The Church Choral Society, students of
;he General Theological Seminary, Trustees
>f Columbia College, Trustees of St. Luke's
lospital; ths clergy; Architect George L.
3ein?; David H. King. Jr., builder; Trusses
ot the Cathedral; the visiting Bishops;
3i?hop Hinry C. Potter.
As the procession ascended the platform
lavages irom the Psalms ware reia by the
jlergymen and bisaop?. Then followed a
ipscial sertica arranged for the occasion by
Bishop Potter, in waich the musical fea:ures,*which
were prepared by tha Rav. Dr.
fciuntington, were particularly elaborate.
An ad tress was delivered by the Right
Rev. Dr. William Duane, Bishop of Albanv.
L'he corner htone was then laid by Bishop
?ott?r, in which he use 1 a handso ue stiver
;rowe),settling maut ofoalc, square, level and
>lumo. The berv.ces closed with a recessional
hymn.
In the stone was placed a large pewter
x>x containing a copy of the Bible, Protean
t Episcopal prayer boo<<, hymnal of the
THE LABOR WORLD.
'The great iron Industries of Pennsylvania
nd Ohio are booming.
Colorado has 206 labor organ! gations,
nth about 15,700 members.
Railboad employes, to the number of
4,743, "h ave their homes in Kansas.
A oo-opera ttts boarding-house for
working women is talked of in Boston.
The glass factories in the Pittsburg disrict
aru enjoying an unprece dented season
f prosperity.
Employes in the various mills about
Villiamstown, have had their wages increased
seven per cent.
Machinists and nearly all the great railray
companies in this country have come to
n agreement on the apprenticeship quesiOD.
The plate glass manufacturers claim that
he present producing capacity of the eight
arge factories is about fifty per cent, greater
ban the annual demand.
The builders of bridges and elevated rail*
oads have so much work on hand that their
rders will probably keep all the structural
aiils busy through the winter and spring.
The deman i for all kinds or rarming imilements
and machinery is very he?vy, and
here is a rash of orders at all the small
outlines and the machine shops of the New
England and Middle States.
a movkxkift is on foot in Southern oitiea
o organize the wives, daughters, sisters aryjL
weethearts of union men into auxiliai$
inions for the purpose of attending to the
oycott end of the labor movement
Shop girls in Boston now have a "noon
est," thanks to Edward Everett Hale, where
hey can get not only a good mid-day luncb.
>ut find also a piano, easy-chairs, a mendingasket,
eta It is conducted by the Lend-aland
Club.
Tklxphoxk rirls in Belgium are going to
iave a hard time of it. The lines having
>een acquired by tbe Government, opera
ors must now pass an examination, ana mo
[Unification is a thorough knowledge of
'rench, Flemish, German, English and
;eography.
Italy has at present 683 co-operative
lairies, forming a National organization.
They have brought about a progressive im rovement
in the making of cheese and
ontributed largely in ameliorating the
:ondition of the workmen and working
vomen engaged in that industry.
Several labor organizations of San Franlisco,
Cal., have formed the San Francisco
Squitable Co-operative Society, with a
lapitil of $100,000, divided into 40,000
htred at$2.d:>each. Its object is to manuactui-e,
purchase and sell groceries ami
teneral merchandise. The society proposes
;o deal directly with the factories and
armers, thus providing a higher profit for
he producer and a lower price for the couiumer.
john w ilt.itts is organizing companle
jf the Popuiist military organization in
fopeka, McCioach and Valley Fall*, Sanaa*
church, journals of the General Convention
and the Dioceae of New York from 1882 to
1893, History of the Diocjse of New
York, church almanac?, various coins,
copies of the Churchman, the Living
Church and the Standard,
and the morning: and evening daily papers
and a brick from the first church built by
Columbus in America, bearing the inscription:
"From the ruins of the flr3t Christian
city of the new world, whero the first church
was erected by Christopher Columbus, 1493
?Isabella Hispaniola."
Description ot the Edifice.
The idea of rearing a great Protesting
cathedral in America, according to tle NcW
York Advertiser, was first conceived in 187
by the late Bishop Horatio Potter, an uncle
ot the present Bishop. Whea, in 1836,
Bishop Horatio Potter lay dying, but little
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IATHEDRAL OP ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
had been done, and only nine of the original
sevsnteen trustees were Urine. Those nine
men were sum mo tied to the bedside of the
dying Bishop, and were pledged by him to
go on with the work. With the elevation
of the present Bishop Potter to his hizh
office work began anew, and over 11,000.003
has already been collected for building the
cathedral besides the 1830,000 paid for the
three city blocks in the centre of which the
e<iifice will stand. This property, lying between
110th and 118th street^ Amsterdam
avenue and Morningside Dri re, was formerly
owned by the Lealce and watts Orphan
House. 1c is the highest ground on Manhattan
Island, and overlooks thS country
for many miles.
As a result of the prizes offered for the
best designs for the catheirai, the leading
architects of the country submitted plans.
The design of Heinsand Lafarge was chosen,
and George L. Heins was declared the architect.
The catheiral, which is of the
round arch Gothic type, with modifications,
will take about twenty years to build and
will cost about $10,003,000. The first part
of the edifice to be completed?the choir?
will take several years to finish, and will
cost $1,000,000. It will seat about twentyfive
hundred people anl will be used for
worship during the completion of the remainder
of the work. The finished building
will seat between ten anl twelve thousand
people. In it will be seven chapels, in
which, every Sunday, the Gospel will be
preached in seven foreign languages to nonKn^liah-sp-akia?
wjr3bip3ra.
The Cathedral will be 520 feet in length,
293 feet wide through the transepts and the
height of the central tower will be 445 feet,
i'ha wldta of the main front will be 103 feet,
the height of the front .gable 161 feet, of the j
front tovrera 248 feet, of the flanking towers
158 feet, and of the interior of the dome 253 ,
feet. The nava will be 9J feet vride and the
span of the central tower 'JJ feet
These dimensions will placj the Cathedral I
of Ht. Joha ths Divine far ahead of any J
other cathedral of the Western World in
MEXICO'S REVOLUTION.
The Regular* and the Insurgents
Hare a Fierce Battle.
The Mexican Troopers Defeated
With Heavy Loss.
A battle was fousiht, a few days azo, near
Las Animas, Mexico, east of Guerrero, between
300 regular Mexican soldiers and 250
revolutionists, in which thirteen soldiers
were killed and many wounded, and the
Mexican troops routed. Several of the revolutionists
were also killed and a larga nun
ber wounded.
The revolutionists were commanded by
General Estrada and the Mexican troops by
General Garcia. Captain Garcia, of the
Mexican militia, has arrived in New Laredo,
opposite Laredo, Texas, with several of the
wounded Mexican regulars.
The town of Guerrero was in danger of
being captured by the revolutionist!}. T^e '
peoole on the Mexican side are represented
as flocking to the standard of General Estrada
because of his victory at Las Animas.
The revolution is'assuming a more serious
aspect than it was thought it would at ttrst.
There will be work for all the United States
troops that the Government can sand to that
section, for they will be needed to protect
the interests of Americans.
News was received from down the river to
the effect that th9 Unite! States troops
under Lieutenant Hedekin and a po3S9
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unddr direction of an experienced trailer,
were close on the trail of the revolutionist
Dartv who captured the
United Statas Deputy Marshals Gu?rrera
and Benavide?, ani felt sure of rescuing the
latter. Three companies of the Seventh
United States Cavalry arrived in Liredo
and left next day Tor tne lower river country.
TORTURED THREE DAYS.
I Zuni Indians Resist Arrest lor Their
. Cruelty.
An attempt to arrest the Zuni Indians,
who recently torturod two allege I witclie.-,
has been resisted. The tribs consists of
about 1500, of whom 30J are warriors. Two
compauies of United States troops and two
Gatling guns have been ordered from Fort
Wingate to support United States Marsnal
Green, of Gallup, and as the Indians are
burnishing up tbeir guns and pistols, trouble
is expected.
The two witches were tied up by their
thumbs for three days, ani tortured in,
many ways till they died.
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size and gfanrie-r- and trill place it in the
front rank amon , - ie greatest cathedrals of
the entire world. Tbe most noted chorohes
of America at nr.'-- nt are the Gothic Cathedral
in the Citv l>: Mexico, which is 500 feet
lorn? and 423 fe"-- wiie, and which took from
1573 to 1667 to . -iiId; the Gothic Cathedral
of Notre Dame m Montreal, 241 feet long by
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IW'I muo, V -U IUITC10 ^If UlKUf kjw*
Patrick's Cathe il in this cilr, 832 feet
lone, 174 feat w...e and with towers 328 feat
high; and the cathedral in? Lima, Fern, 320
feet loni nd IS J feet wide.
St. Fear's, in Rome, begun in 1450 and
dedicated in 1626, is 613% feet long, 446)?
feet wide and 448 feet high to the top of the
cross. It was 175 years in building, and is
the greatest church iu the world.- The
Cathedral of Milan is 486 feet long, 288 feet
wide aad 355 feet high to the top of the
spires, being inferior in uiza to the Cathedral
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of St. John. The celebrated Cathedral of
1?lArannA whinh f^nlr frnm I2QR fcn 1444 ta
build, is bat 500 feet long and 806 feet wide,
and sJightly smaller than the Cathedral to
be built in New York. The Cathedral of
Cologne, begun about 1250 and finished in
1S63, is 311 feet long, 231 feet wide, and the
towers are 511 feet high. It surpasses the
Cathedral of dt. John only in the beighc of
its spires. The great Canterbury Cathedral
in England is 574 feet long an 1159 feet wide,
being 137 fees narrower than that of St.
John the Divine.
The silver trowel and other implements
used by Bishop Potter in laying the corner
stone of the Cataedral were presented by
Tiffany & Co. They consist of a trowel,
mallet, level and square, and the materials
used in making them were sterling silver
and golden ebony; the latter selected from
the choicest produces of t jo California for*
est.', and remarkable for the beautiful goldlike
veins running through the .wood.
The principal piece, the trowel, is of sterling
silver with ebony handle.. The engraving
of the inscription on the face of the
trowel is an appropriate text, and a piece of
art work in itself. The mallet is of golden
eoony with plain silver mounting*. The
level, which is fifteen inohes long, is also of
golden ebony, while the spirit tube is set in
i sterling silver, the square is a solid piece of
silver modeled after ,a regular mason's
M?U3rO} iribU au uuo WiiOOw LUUIMIU uiuukiwwa
Tue entire set is incased in a handsome oak
chest, size 17x16 and OX inches deep. It is
lined with oozoi calf. The mountings, lock,
bandies, etc., of the chest are ail of sterling
silver. Inlaid on top, in proper form, ara
the arms of Che Diocese of New York.
The instruments will b9 carefully stored
in the property-room of the cathedral and
used ac the laying of the corner stones of
any future building that may be erected in
connection with the cathedral proper.
Turouah the courtesy of the New York
RiCirder we are enabled to print the accompanying
cut of the new cathedral as it will
appear when completed.
LATEBJTEWS.
Thi Treasury of Rutland, Vt., is empty,
and as the voters refuse to sanction the raising
of money to pay debts the incoming officials
are in trouble. Toe Trustees threatened
to shut off all electric lights and dis
charge all th?-policemen.
Elias T. Inqalls, aged eighty-two,
father of ex-Senator J. J. Inqalls, of Kinsag,
died at hii residence in Haverhill, Mass.,
a few mornings ago.
A MOB entarad a court room in Bawling
Greeo, Ky? and seized a colored man unier
examination for assaulting a white girl and
riddled him with bullets.
Three large two-3tory dwjlliajs ia
0?awatomte, Kin., caug'at fire from natural
gas and ward entirely burned. Pour
persons were burned to deata and several
had miraculous escapes.
Reports from the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys ot California show that tha
damage by fljod will go above 11,000,000.
Tbe capital city is safe, but all along the
river fine wheat land is covered with water.
A bomb was thrown into the main buiid->
ing of the South Side plant of tbe Milwaukee
(Wis.) Street Railroad Compiny. In
a moment the interior of the building was
in a blaze. The fire was soon beyond control,
and in less than an hour the entire
ntont was mnsumad. entiilinz a loss of
- 9510,000.
PoSTMASTER-GrEXERAL WaNAMAEER has
ordered a new postal card. It i9 pearl
gray.
Baro.v Andrado aud General Cerqueira,
Brazil's Commissioners to adjust the Argenl
tine dispute, have reached Washington.
Our Government will be umpire.
William Potter,-newly appointed Minister
nf the United States to Italy, haijujt
presented his credentials to Kin:; Hunoart
at Rome.
At Carriontes, Argentina Rjpublic, tha
insurgents, numbering 1500 men, made four
assaults upon the town, but were repulsed
with heavy losses by a garrison of 500 men.
Jay Brockton, an American, killed
Count Peter Rouianholf in a duel at Monto
Car lo.
The postal pennant on mail ships will be
twenty feet long by eight feet six inches at
the mast and tapering to five feet, with a
red field and a nine-inoh bias border.
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1 TEE SEWS EPITOMIZED.Eutera
ud Middle State*.
mrs. diahta douty, aged 108 year*, nine
mouths and fifteen days, died a few days
kA. .AM paimkni^m
mgu, au uio uuuio ui uu t?*iuunugo i j
pouty. ki Charlton, Mass. (
The tamouscase of Father McOlvnn, of 1
3t. Stephen's Church, New Yorlt City, has <
i inally been decided by the restoration to 1
11in of authority to perform his priestly 1
1 unctions. " 3
All the Hudson County (N. J.) ballot
1 >ox stuffers serving terms in the State !
prison have been liberated, the Court of
1 'ardons having paroled thirty-two and par- :
cloned ona, John A. Whelan.
Christmas dinners and trees for the bene
fit of the poor warmed up New York's ceiet
ration of the festal day. Nearly 20,000
t oor children received Christmas presents in
1 [adison Square (harden.
Hksry C. Vabnttk killed his wife and
(laughter and seriously wounded his motherim-law
in Worcester, Mass., and then com- *
Dp it tod suicide
Rivxb traffic at Pitteburg has been suspended.
The Hudson fUver south from
Pjoughkeepsie was closed for navigation.
Buffering among the poor in New York
City increased on account of the dearth of
ccjal. The charities department has 2900
applications for fuel on its books.
Joseph Karge, Professor of Continental
Languages and Literature in the College of
Npw Jersey at Princeton, died on a ferryboat
which was crossing to New York City.
He was born in the Grand Duchy of Posen,
od July 3, 1833.
South and West.
The snow storm after prevailing over the
Pacific Northwest for forty-eight hoars
ceased. Snow fell to a depth of twenty tour
inches.'
A wreck occurred on the Santa Fe Road
near Colorado Springs, Col., in which
many people were injured, two fatally.
B. S. Cobskr, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
failed for 11,000,000, in consequence of
wheat speculation; the real estate firm of
which he is head also suspended.
General Frederick T. Dent, a distin- ;
puis bed Union soldier and brother-in-law of 1
General U. S. Grant, died a few days ago at
Denver, CoL General Dent was born in
Missouri in 1820. ^ He was appointed to
Watt Point from that State In 1839.
Another convict who partook of the poisoned
food at Helena, Aric, has died at tde
pennitentiary at Little Rock, making a
total of nine deaths.
Foub persona were found dead in-their
rooms at the Colored Heme for the Aged,
Baltimore, Md. Two old women, Fannie
Ward and Maria Jones, were asphyxiated
bv coal gab. Two colored children were
also found dead.
Fntx destroyed every business house in
Snow HilL Ala., except one. The total loss
is $25,000.
Two men lost their lives at an incendiary
fire which burned two Milwaukee (Wis.)
tanneries and cauwd a loss of $225,000.
Tax official statement of California's voce
shows that one Harrison and eight Cleveland
electors were chosen. The vote in favor of
the direct election of United States Senators
by the people was enormous, 187,058 voting
for and only 13,342 against
Five wooden stores on Broad street, Camden,
S. C., were burned. A snowstorm pre*
vailing at the time probably saved a large
portion of the town from being burned.
Thi Straits of Mackinac are frozen over1.
Trains in Kansas were ssriOualy delayed by'
snow, and bitterly oold weather prevailed
throughout the entire. West.
A blizzard struck Virginia and 8opth
Carolina, turn for the first time in fifteen
years houitetops were covered with a thin
coating of snow and sleet.
'Washington.
gbnzbal john w. iusiiu, oourcuujr ui
State, decided to reaign that position and
accept the appointment as special counsel
for the United States in the Bering Sea ar bitration.
Thk Secretary of War issued a general
order announcing a renewal of the agreement
between the Federal Government and
Mexico, whereby the troops of the two countries
may cross over , the territory of the
other in pursuit of savage hostile Indians.
Thk" Postmaster-General has Issued the
annual circular prescribing the telegraph
rates to be paid for the transmission of
Government messages during the fiscal
year ending June SO, 1893. The rates are
the same us those which the Western Union
Company objected to. The claims of that
?omp*ny for telegraph service rendered
during the past three years have not been
settled.
crizt Drxxkmond, of the Secret Servioe
division, baa cautioned his agents to exercise
the closest possible scrutiny to prevent any
counterfeiting of the Columbian souvenir
coins.
The Spanish Minister to Washington,
Senor Dupuy De Lome, has been recalled.
Foreijrn.
. Cholhu has appeared on the Austrian
frontier as well as in Hamburg.
Michael Davttt, the Home Rule agitator,
was unseated as a Member of the British
Parliament.
r Thx fact has just been made public that,
during theTrefort Ministry, $2,000,060 were
embedded in the Austrian Department of
Education and Public Instruction.
Thx Coroner's inquest on the body of De*
tective Synott, killed in the Dublin (Irsiand)
explosion, failed to give any clew to the
perpetrators of the outrage.
Txs thousand troops have been mobilized
to suppress the spreading rebellion in the
Argentine province of Corrientes.
Cholera is said to be making steady
progress in Hamburg, Germany. *
Thi Rod Star stxamshio Noordland was
towed into Queenstown,* Ire lead, with a
. broken shaft, by the Ohio.
Th* rebels in the province of Corrientes,
Argeiltine Republic, nave defeated the proving
troops in a number'of skirmishes, and
have sized the towns of Mercedes and Ciseros
id the railway lines of the district.
b' ;igands bob a train.
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Boot Amounting to $20,000 Taken
? by Russian Thieves.
Tbt, >ther evening a body of brigands sue
ceede< by the use of signals in stopping a
vrell-filled passenger train at a point about
midway between Warsaw and Kowal, in
Poland.
The rain was then boarded by a number
cf the gang, all of whom were heavily
armef Other brigands guarded the doors
of thApaches.
Be J ming at the forward end of the train
the brjaDds went through each coach with
revolvrs In their hands and ordered the
pa?seinvers, men and women, to deliver their
valuates and money to them. They even
, torced'.he married women to giv* up their
weddiu; rings.
Not t-e slightest attempt at resistance was
raaue, m t it is estimated that the plunder
. secured by the robbers amounted to $30,00u.
.
, as th> brigands were leaving the train they
relieved the train hands of their matches
ana then bade them adieu, springing to
the groind and disappearing in the dark1
uess.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
iii the Senate.
12th Day.?Mr. Ferkin? introdu cad a bill
to enabe the people of Oklahoma and of
the Indan Territory to form a Constitution
and Sts e Government, and t o be admitted
into th( (Union. Raferre i??Mr. Mitchell
introdured a bill prohibitia g electro-magnetizing
mesmerizing an i hypnotizinghu|
man beings. The punish aient provided in
certain :ases is aeatn ine Mcuarranan
bill wis then taken up, and Mr
Hunton continued his argument in favor of
its passage over the President's veto Mr.
Gibson was appointed a member of the
Committee on Epi Italic Diseases instead of
Mr. YVhte, excused at his own request
The Ana-Option bill was then taken up,
andjlr. Peffer continued his speech in favor
of it Ifter a snort executive session the
Senate idiourneJ for the holidavs.
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In the House.
14th Day.?No business of importance
was dooe, as no quorum was preseut, and at
12:15 th; House adjourned for the holiday
recces.
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TEMPERANCE.
HE LOVED HIS TELL>W XA.!T.
Beside a dusty road that follow# the Sw*n>
lanoa River in North Carolina is a gate that
ipens on apath leading to a spring that has
been walled with brick and protected by a
atnopy. Basidethe rate is a marble slab .
bearing the picture of a drinking cap and J
the.followinginscription: . 1
Bain up. ye thirsty passer by. ' I
As you are now, so once was I;
Stop short, alight, you're not tae first.
Who at this spring has quenched his thirst.
GKrdup your loina, drink once, drink twioe;
Pass on and think of John 8. >Aic?,
For thirsty man he walled this spring,
And then for heaven did plume his wing;
He asks no thanks?hit life's- long span
Proves that he loved his fallow man.
FATHER'S IffFLtTBirCB.
8ome years agoa young man had become
addicted to the use of strong drink; his
father also drank. A neighbor, who had
become interested in the boy, .labored with
the father, suggesting that for son's sake a
the father put away his glass. To this the
father replied"What, shall I daay myself
for that cuss!"
Some weeks ago I visited the son, now aa
old man. 1 found hitn'iU, in bed, a mere
wreck of what was once a strong body and
a bright intellect. When I asked if he did
not want a Saviour in his illoev he replied, .
"I have often wanted a Saviour ithen in , .
healtc."
I prayed with him.
uo M1U ouicu wiau aWiUOU W VUUid UUUi t
a hungering and fainting soul, bat nne agoniziug
in ttie egabraqo of fiendish /rms to
whose care a father hi"! committed' this aoa
in early and tender years. ?Rsv. fr. F. Liargin.
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ALCOHOL VS. TXAR<
Writing o; the p lyaiology op tears fn the
Asoiapicni Dr. b. tV, Richardson says*
"Tears have their value in the life of mankind;
they are of ralne not as tears, although
their actuil flaw gives relief, but aa
signs that the grief centres are being relieved
of their sensibility, and the nervous
organization is being fitted to bear up
against sorrow.. Change of scene, mental diversion
and outdoor lire/are the best remedies'for
the tearful, but an opiate judiciously
prescribed is. often the sovereign remedy.
Other narcotics are injurious Alcohol, so
often resorted to, is f eartuly injurious. It
disturbs and uaoalmces the nervous system,
keeps up a maudlin and pitiful sendmentality,
and sustains the eviL Alcohol is the
mother of sorrow. There an other nar- ' ; ;
cotics which are similar in effect* aotabty
chloral; but an opiate givan at night time;
under necessity, not only soothes, bat con- <
trols, and when prescribed to that the use
of it shall not pas* Into habit, ia a divine ^
remedy.
ITT? iCtg Of THS MM TJiOTOT.
Rev. Dr. Talmage gives very concisely the
five acts of the rn-n tragedy as follows:
Act L?Yonng man starting fro at home.
Parents and sisters weeping to nave him go.
Wagon pasns over the bills. Farewell kiss
thrown bade. Ring the bell ani let the oart?in
drop. '.?>
Act II .?Marriage altar. Bright lights. ....
Fall organ played. White vail trailing the
aisle. i*rayer and congratulations ana ex- & S
ciaaxatkmsof "how-wall she looks." Ring
the bell and let the enrtain drop.
Act III.?Midnight. Woman waiting for
staggering steps. Old g&rmsnts aback into y?
the orokea window-pane. Mmy mirks of jEM
hardship on the face. Bitin? the nails of
bloodless fingers. Neglect, cruilty, disgrace.
Rinsf the bell and let the curtain drop. 3W
Act IV.?Taree graves in a very dark - *
place. Grave of a caild who died from lack
of msdicine. (jtaire ot a wife wao died of a
ran hMrt O-pats of husbin 1 and father
who die! of dls3ioitio:i. P.eaty of weeds, j|H
but no flowers. Oh, what a blasted heath
with thren graves! Kin; tae bell and let.
the curt tin drop. ,
Act V.? V destroyed soul's eternityI.- i
light, no music, no hope! Dsipiir coiling
arouad the heart with unubt?r?bl3 anjuW^
Blackness of darkness forevefrT ' "J.
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HOW ALCOHOL AFFECTS THC BRAIN.
Alcohol aff?ct* specifically the braia. $ &?
John A. Holllday, orTVoy, IT. Y., writes of v viu
being present at the auto;)*? of a noted old *
"rounder1 of that city, a few wseks ago. t)Efij
The dead man was about sixty years old,1 vgSH
and bad been a drunkard for forty years. i >*>
He says: "When the surgeon's saw had
cut off the man's sknll the odor of alcohol - ,
that filled the room was strong enough to
sicken one. Then one of tae surgeons struck ->MH
a match and held it close to the brain. Im- '|B|
mediately a blue fUme enveloped the entire if&jl
portion of the cerebral organ exposed and
the quivering fl-?h sizzled as if on a grid- %Bt
iron.1' He adds: 'That experiment and :S5j
disclosure set me to rary seriously thinking m \
about the error of my ways. I am not a W
temperance lecturer nor a prohibition poliKm*
T mnjf mntf ramM?kfnHv Afld
firmly decline your invitation to hare something.
I don't want my brain to float
around In a sea of alcohol, a* did that of the
poor old town drunkard of Troy/' Snob an
object-lesson, ghastly and startling, may
well suffica to make any one thoughtful concerning
the use of alcohol. Of course th*
case cited is extreme and unosual, but theirs
is no doubt that alcohol has a spacial affinity
far the human brain, and tharttfe beverage
use of it is always attended with danger
proportionate to the quantity and freqamav.
?National Temperauca Advocate.
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TEXPHtAXCE 0ROWING.
Higher up in society it is a noticeable fact <
that on occasions of great public excitement,
as at political conventionx, horse /
races and other meeting* where both sexes
mingle and spirit* are used freely, intox.- * .
cated women are rarely seen. The same is J
true in society, on the street, at the theatre 1
and other public places. 4
Within a few years wines have been
gradually disappearing from the social
boards and society begins to frown ou any ' 1
#tiw9 munffAat in nnblie. These and other
facta sustain the' belief that Americin women
are becoming more and mora temperate.
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It is the common observation of both
specialists and family physicians that inebnate
women are concealed often as skeletons
in the households, and that strong efforts
are constantly made to cover up their
personality. Associated with the nse of
spirits is an increasing dread of exposure
and a shrinking from society, and even < '
from relatives and friends, and also a dispo- I
sition to retreat behind the mask of various - 1
nervous diseases. J
When soirits are used for any length of I
time the disorder takes on a periodical form 1
in which hysteria and other emotional 1
symptoms are prominent. It may be said ' I
to be a rule, to which the exception bring* J
ample proof, that the use of alcohol in wo
men very soon merg36 Into drug talcing, 9
and the spirits are abandoned.''?New York flj
Journal. m
T 'ilPSRANCK XCW* XTD N'OTSS. fl
Ruui is ma j? from the rafuis oI su^ar. mm
Many s man has bean betrayed by a kiss B
after taking a drink of woisky. BH
About 6000 intoxmnti of different kinds
are known to custom house officials.
In the southern provinces of Kossia a |9
drink resembling brandy is oatainei by dis- SB
tilling the juicj of water .n el Dns.
In ten years Russia produced ever eight H
million gallons of pare alcohol Tae twenty M
million bushels of grain u?i for this would Jm
have prevented ths terrible famlae and
pestilence which ha3 devastate! that coun
The liquor dealers of Waltham, Mass., V
have deciae.1 to with Iraw all their funds, 1
amounting to abouc $15),0)0, from tha loc?l !
National Bank, tho odl mtj of which were m
prominent in ihe no-lioeniii ajitaiioa this "
lalJ. ' %
A Chicazo paper bids its realers not to be
downcast at the prospect of aa increase of j
the whis.iy tax. It comforts thsai with the
assurance mas it win umj <i mug uujd lw
work up the price of alujhoi, burnt sugar, I
fusel oil and water. 4 I
Ths Woman's Columbian Association of
Northern Ohio, said to be one oftae bast in
the whole circle of a&sociaticus of its kind, >
has called to its presidency Mrs. Mary B. |
Ingham, of Cleveland, a wiiits-ribaon.'r and .
? i J 4.U.*. *???? la in thaf!
leaner UL luu WUMIV *
city in 1874.
The Zurich (Switz)rlan 1) soiiety for com
bating the alcohol haDit has circilated an
appeal on the coutinent pointing out the
dangers which menace the future of Europe
through the usa of intoxicants, an i calling
upon ths people to show thiir patriotism by ?H
becoming abstainers. ? 4 Kb
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