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GOVERNORS' DAY.
iJhief ExecutiTes Inaugurated
|k in a Number ot States.
P
Russell, of Massachusetts, Sworn
in for His Third Term.
OOVKRXOR EU88ZLL, Of MASSACHUSETTS.
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Governor William E. Russall, in opening .
, >ia inaugural address; referred to the fact
that this is the third time he has entered
upon bis duties as Governor of Mas- ,
* aachusetts. ,
After .referring to raforms accomplished
(n his previous administrations he arged
tioon the Legislature sush amendments to 1
4he ballot law as would give recognition to '
minority uarties and forbid a recount of '
ballots. The first count should be fair and
flnaL He urged the abolition of an elected
council and the concentration of more-power
in the Governor and less among the State
commissions.
The Governor favored the mobilization of i
'the National Guard of the country at the
Columbian Exposition. He suggested the
abolition of the State fast dav, owing to its (
lack of reverent observance, and the sub3ti- i
"* *~s?L ~a ? i??1 in t-.hft c or inc.
mviuu a JlU^ai uuuuaj *M ??*V _.
On the subject of trade relations toe Got*
?rnor drew attention to the importance to
Massachusetts of reciprocity 'with Canada. '
The Governor reflected upon the State
Prison system, the control of which he said
<s weal:, irresponsible and ineffective.
"The right of self-government by towns
and cities, inherited from the Pilgrim
Fathers," he said, "should not be interfered
with by legislative enactment or the Statj
assumption of municipal functions." As to
the effects of such legislation in Boston, he
ssirt:
"Against the wish of a great majority ot
her citizens and the protest of her repre- i
Hentatives in the Legislature, other members
representing constituencies under no
(pecuniary responsibility for its support and
no more moral responsibility for its efficiency,
placed the police force of Boston in
the hands of State Commissioners and
authorized them by requisition to compel
that citv to raise ay taxation whatever sum
la their sovereign judgment was neces.
?U7."
< Governor Cleaves, ot Main?.
Governor Cleaves, ot Maine, in his inaugural,
noted with satisfaction the great
development of the industries of the State
by the investment during the past two years
of many millions of new capital. Private
capital has caased to flow westward and ha3
found its development a* home.
He complimented the generosity, which so
handsomely supplemented the State'3 appropriation
for the World's Fair.
Ob the prohibitory laws, he says:
The restraining . influence of our law3
upon the sale of intoxicating liquors has had i
a marked and beneficial effect. The people
of Maine have repeatedly reaffirmed their
adherence to all reasonable provisions
for the suppression of intemperance; and the
aducationaJ, moral religious influence
constantly being exerted to maintain a ,
healthful public sentiment have had a controlling
forca in repressing the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors within our
State."
The Governor noted witli pleasure the
general absence of labor troubles in the
State, due to- tue high intelligence and
character of its citizens.
Governor Rich, ot Michigan.
The inaugural message of Governor Rich,
of Michigan, was unusually brief, and
opened with a plea in favor of good roads.
He criticised the operation of the Minai
law, which provides for the election of Presidential
electors by districts, but did not absolutely
recommend its repeal; favored two
boards of election inspectors at the polls on
election dav to facilitate the count and a
canvass of the vote for State officers on?
month earlier than now, and wants legiti.
mate campaign expenses defined.
The Governor asked. among other things.
for an additional appropriation- for 5hS
World's Fair and an effective quarantine
gainst cholera.
The message of the retiring Governor,
*t luftos! uujb ttbwouviuu ww ?...
financial condition of the State, and tin vary
satisfactory condition of all Stat) institutions.
The appropriation for the World's
Fair he thought was sufBsifot. The establishment
of a public road system was urged.
New Hampshire'j Governor.
Governor John P. Smith, of Naw Hampshire,
in his inaugural address at Concord
said that the sum of *106,138 represents the
excess of revenue over expenditures during
the laBt fiscal year.
The Governor noted with commendation
the wholesome effect of the with lraw&l of
foreign insurance corporations from busi *?<?
?* ?-.? whiKW fiftusnd an incraasa
in the prosperity and the numbjr of domai.tic
cptnpanies. The rado...oJC Jossia?ruij
to premiums has been reduced from-63.31:3
83.9.
The prohibitory policy has baen in effeot
la New Hampshire for nearly forty years,
and Governor Smith deprecated any change.
The Governor al9o recommended bettsr
provision for the National Gaar J, appropriations
additional to tha ?2>,0JJ already authorized
for the World's Pair, and a monument
to the heroes of Stark's brigade at
Bennington.
- GAVALBY WIPED DUX
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'ftovnHina .QtrAv Pmm Thftlr Oatnoafs
and the Dervishes Annihilate Thera. '
Details of the recant fighting between
dervishes and Egyptian troops near Ambukolhavejust
been received. The Egyptian
troops numbered 123, including a body of
Shaggiyeh irregn'ars. The dervishes were
surprised bf the troops at daylight and
retreated to the hills, keeping up an incessant
firing; A squad of the troops which followed
them soon fouo 1 itself cut off from
the main body by amoushei dervish cavalry, _>
apported by spearmen.
A hand-to-hand fight easued, in which the
Egyptians made a gallant detenc?, but uasuocessiuily,
as thyy were greatly outuu nbered.
A similar fate Oefel! anoiiier
detachment of the troops that followed
the dervishes. Tne flghtin; c3a?
tinned until Captain Payne ani a native
officer fell. The Ejyptians than retreated.
Besides the losses mentioned,
twenty-eight of th> Egyptians ani eijhc
Shazsnyeas were killed, and li^teei wouaied.
Toe few who were lift managed to Pi'
tara north.
In the coum of the yea.* ju?t closo I 057
ocean steamers arrive 1 at New York from
European ports. They landed 470,47T passengers,
of whom 12J,991 were cabin paseengere
and 3">\ 48G steerage. This is a decrease
in immigration over 1891. In that
ear U34 steamers brought 559.313 people
from the other side, of wbom 105,023 cam*
In the cabin and 44^290 in the steerage.
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TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
New Yobk Crrr was visited by a violent
gale, and nearly twelve inches of snow fell.
Much damage was done in the suburbs by
the heavy storm. Navigation was made difficult
onrl tha r>ru?ah was 5wnnt hv a very
high tirle.
A fireman named Charles Baldwin was
killed and several passengers were slightly
injured in a railroad collision near Mott
HaveD, N. Y.
Together with a presentment declaring
the Columbian celebration expenses exorbitant
and illegal, the Kings County (N. Y.)
Grand Jury returned thirty-three indictments
against Brooklyn and cjunty officials.
I'ire destroyed the West Brighton Casino,
the tall observatory ani other buildings.
valued at 5100,000, at Coney Island,
New York's seaside resort.
Lieutenant Robert E. Peart is engaged
at Philadelphia, Penn., with preparations
for his expedition in the spring
tn t.ha Arpfcif? rations In New York he
has purchased 4000 pounls of pemmicaa,
the staple food of all Arctic explorers.
Captain William Whitehead, United
States Navy, died a tew days since at the
League Island Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, of
congestion of the lungs, brought on by a cold
contracted New Year's Day.
Large icefloe3 blocked up the rivers and
bays around New York, making navigation
troublesome for the ferryboats and all other
craft. ,
Simpson Wool3EY, of Highland, N. Y?
while swinging a hammer struck a dynamite
cartridge in his pocket. The dynamite
exploded, killing him. i
Fibe which started in the large building
010 V<vHaral itraat Rn?tnn Mms. OCCtinied
by Hecht Brothers, wool dealers, did over
ti, 500,0^0 dfCmage. The blaz i' originated in
Che explosion of a gasoline stove.
Walter Marshall, a guard on the "L"
road in JNew York City, in a fit of jealousy
shot Robert Dingfelder, whom he found in
Mrs. Marshall's apartments, dead, wounded
Mrs. Marshall dangerously and then killed
himself.
Edward Murphy", Jr., was nominated
for United States senator by the joint j
Democratic caucus of the New Yor* L3gis- i
lature at Albany.
The one hundred and seventeenth session !
of the New Jess9y Legislature opened at I
Trenton in the presenca of a vast multitude. |
Thomas Flynn was elected Speaker of the
House. * i
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South and West. ,
Authoritative denials were made of the
reports of the bloody rioting in Bakersville,
X C. ]
The breaking of an icegorgeciused $100,
aw damage uo snipping m vuo kjuau xvivw
C.ncinnati; the storm was general through3ut
the West.
The Democratic caacm for United States
Senator at Sacramento, CaL, had fifty-nine
present. Carlson, Independent, did not go
in. The flrat ballot resulted: White, forty
jix; Wilson, of Tehama, seven, and Lynch, six.
The second ballot was unanimously
for White.
An east-bound passenger train ran into a
sleigh-load of people while passing through
the town of Sunset, Mica., killing two
people outright and fatally injuring two
more. '
The Electoral College met at Cheyenne,
and cast the three vote3 of W yoming for
Ron-iamln Harrison for President.
The Lawson-Swinford vendetta broke out
Ln Forest Chapel, Ind., duriag service, and '
as a result two persons are dead and seven
wounded.
Steakbk New Mary Houston was struck
by a large piece of ice at Cincinnati, Ohio,
and sank. Loss, $20.(XX). The total damage
by ice gorges in the Ohio River is 9^0,000. !
F. W. Thornton, of Fayetteville, *N. C. '
one of the largest dry goods houses in the |
State, has assigned with liabilities of $20C,- <
(XX'. i
The legislative deadlock has been broken, 1
in Colorado. The Democrats and Populists
have combined and organized the Senate.
Kennedy, the Democratic candidate for
Secretary, was elected by 20 to 15 votes. For
Sergeant-at-Arms, Cummings, the Populist
candidate, was elected. The minor office*
were divided between the two parties.
Thk Supreme Court of Wisconsin affirmed
the rutin jo'Judge Newton in the
celebrated State Treasury cases, whereby
the State recovers some $5^0, OM interest
money from former Treasurer*. The decision
is confirmed by all the Judges.
The Republicans and Populists in the
ECansas House each elected a Speaker after
an exciting seen;.
Washington.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
Gilbert A. Pierce as Minister to Portugal.
The classification of the postal service,
under the act of January 16, 1892, has been
extended to all free delivery postofflces.
The Navy Department has reieived an
official dispatch stating that the trial of the
Monterey, at San Francisco, Cal., was a success
In every way.
The President made the following nominations:
First Assistant Postmaster -General?
Heury Clay Evans, of Tennessee:
United States Consul at Three Rivers,
Canada?Henry M. Moore, of Washington.
John H. Smytre, colored, ex-Minister
to Liberia, has been arrested at Washington
on a warrant sworn out by J. E. W.
Thompson, of New York, also colored, formerlv
Minister to Hayti, charging him with
obtaining money under faltte pretences. I
Commissioner or Pensions Raum appeared
before the Deficiency Sub-Committee
of the House Appropriation Committee
and explained his estimates for pension deficiencies.
His first estimate was over $10,
000,000, and the committee was somewhat
surprised when he informed them that he
now estimate 1 this deficiency at something
over $13,800,000.
Owing'to the severity of the weather the
President has abandoned hii propose! hunt*
ing trip for the present.
The Electors chosen to carry out the will
of the people expressed at the polls last November
met in the Capitals of the various
States at noon on the same day to discharge
that dutv. Each appointed a messenger to
carry the result to Washington.
It is estimated by the Navy Department
that the Monterey, on her trial trip, exceeded
the MOO horse power limit by at least
200, which will give tne Union Iron Works
a premium or
Foreign.
Twenty thousand bale3 of cotton were
destroys a by lire iQ Liverpool, England.
Threa firemen were killed.
Thk sqow was so deep in Berlin chat it
was found necessary to substitute sleighs
for cabs ahd other wheeled vehicles. There
was a scarcity of coal, due to the miners'
strike in the JSaar District.
The mana^w of the Brussels (Belgium)
branch of the New York Life Inr'ranci
Company has made le<al complaint against
a cashier and a clerk formerly employed by
him. He charges them with having absconded
with #225,009.
XTw tnr w all fUa fnivno ktiH ni hlAQ rtf
Northern Merico. except Monterey and
Durango, are effected tiy an eoidemic of typos
fever, and the rate of mortality ia
alarming.
. Thkp.e are many idle British steamers.
There is nothinz to do for 473 vessels of a
tonnage of 856,0T0.
A dispatch troin Buenos Ayres, Argentine
Republic, states that Cnsaro , after a
stubborn resistancs of two wrests, has been
surrendered oy the rebels to tae Ojrarnment
troop-.
After four days' immunity another death
trnm r?hnl?r? in r^nopi;?d in Hambur *. lier*
many.
M. Casimip. Periei: was elected President
of th? French Cnambar of Deputies in
place of 31. Floquet.
McRae was executed in Englau 1, for the
murder of Annie Pritchard.
Princess Marie, of Eiinburgh, and
Priace Ferdioand, of Roumanio, were married
ie Sigmaringen, Germany, in the presenoi
of many royal personages.
With the commencement of the new year
the price of registration of mail matter was
reduced to eight cants. This makes the entire
cost of sending a registare 1 letter or
package through the mails but ten cants, a
much more convenient form ior the publlo
than under th* old rates.
FRANCE'S FERMENT. |
Ribot's Cabinet Resigns and He
Promptly Forms a New One.
Excitement in Fans Speedily
Checked by a Strong Police.
A cablegram from Paris says: After a
day which has shaken the Presidential seat,
overthrown a Cabinet, witnessed the beginning
of one of the greatest trials in history,
and almost recorded a riot in the National
Legislature, France is still peaceful and
self-possessed. The hours from early morning
were crowded full of events which will
take a prominent place in the history of the
National disgrace; Th<? greatest excitement
prevailed, and people thronged the streets.
The police were out in force, dispersing the
crowds.
The French Ministry resigned, owing to
differences in the Cabinet on the arrest of
ex-Minister of Public Works Baihaut and
other matters.
President Carnot charged M. Ribot with
the duty of reconstructing the Ministry.
It is openly charged that the President and
Ribot are not in earnest in the Panama
prosecutions, and that they have no intention
of bringing Che bribetakers to trial,
and that the prosecution of De L?sseps,
Fontane, Cottuand Eiffel will be nothing
more than a farce.
The new Cabinet organized by M. Ribot is
as follows:
M. Ri&ot, Premier ana Minister 01 tne
Interior.
M. Develle, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
M. Tirard, Minister of Finance.
M. Bourgeois, Minister of Justice.
General Loizillon, Minister of War.
M. Burdeau, Minister for the Colonies and
Marine.
M. Dupuy. Minister of Instruction.
M. Viger, Minister of Agriculture.
M. Siegfried, Minister of Commerc?.
M. Viette, Minister of Public Works.
The Ribot Cabinet, in the few weeks o{
its existence, has been terribly riddled. II
Carnot's ambition has been to get rid of
Freycinet as a rival for the Presidency, he
has succeeded. But it looks as though he
had accomplished his own destruction in the
process.
The events in the Court of Appeal were of
9ven greater interest thin the fall of the
Cabinet. There was one five-minute scene
crhioh or nosed in full the significance and
true awkwardness of the political situation
in France.
Charles De Lesseps was under examination
by President Perrivier of the bench of
Judges, who gave every indication of aD
honest intention to get at tha truth. The
accused man had said that the Panama
Company allotted to Baron Reinach $1,200
D00 to get a loan through Parliament
without any question as to detail?.
The Judge replied that this was not
satisfactory. The witness must have
knowledge as to the disposition of the
money, and this must be explained.
Lssseps began givinsr the detailed answer
sailed for, when the public prosecutor interrupted,
saying he might say what he pleased
in nis own deieuse, but must not directly
accuse others by using names.
This extraordinary speech, disclosing aatt
3id the Government's real desire to suppress
the truth and shield guilty public men,
mused long and angry protests from
the spectators. The proceedings were
interrupted and the (Jourt xnreacened
to clear the room. The interference
of the prosecuting officer was
most sternly rebuked. The President and
Judges declared that the information
whica the public prosecutor asked the
witness to suppress was just wnat
bad been demanded of him, ani
what ths Court proposed to procure.
Lassaps began his recital, but before he
tiad gone far he was cut short by the hoar
of adjournment. He siid that the Minister
af Public Works, Bathaut, had demanded
F200.01K) for his services in advancing Panama
measurements before the Government.
GENERAL BUTLER DEAD.
The Soldier, Statesman and Lawyer
Expires Suddenly.
GENERAL B F. BUTLKB.
General Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts,
died at his Washington residence,
No. 230 New Jersey avenue, at 1:30 o'clock
a few mornings since. The General has al?
ways to a more or less extent made his resi
denoe in Washington, although many of the
scenes of his successful ventures have been
located elsewhere. During the present winter
a case which had been decided
against him in the highest courts
of the State of Massachusetts, and in
which he took an appeal to the United
States Supreme Court, has demanded his al
most constant residenca in Wasntngton. ms
aga as well as his general impairment of
health, while listening to the oral decision?,
looking for bis own, was a matter of remark
time and time again. General Butler's
death created surprise, as it was not
even known that he was ailing.
Benjamin Franklin Futler was born at
Deerfleld, N. H., November 5,1818, the sou
of Captain John Butler, a soldier of the
War of 1813. He was graduated at Watervilie
College, and was admitted to the bar
in 1S40, in Lowell, Mas?., where he soon acquired
a good practice. In Apri', 1361,
ou the first call for troops, General
Butler, at that time Brigadier-General in
the Massachusetts militia, issued the requisite
orders for mustering the reziments * of
bis brigade. At the bead ot tne juigacu ->iassachusetts
he went to Washington. He was
soon made a Major-General in tbe United
States service. He took possession ot NewOrleans
May 1, 1802; in November, 1S6K he
was sent to New York City during the
Presidential election to keep the peace.
He was sent against Fort Fisher
in December, 1864, an expedition which
failed. General Butler was a member
of Congress from Massachusetts from
1886 to 1875, and again from 1878 to 1879; he
was Governor of Massachusetts in 1S83, and
candidate of tbe Greenback Party for President
of the United States in 1834. General
Butler was married in Lowell, May 14, 1844,
to Sarah, daughter of Dr. Israel e'nd Dolly
Jones Hildretb. Mrs. Butler died in Boston,
April 8, 1S76. Of this union were three
children, Blanche. Paul and Beu Israel.
LIVED TO GREAT AGE,
A Woman Dies In Vermont With 110
Years to Her Credit.
RituWatr Hi aH in tlia tnwn of Gior^ia.
Vt., a few days ago. She was tho oldest
woman io Ver.nont, possibly in the United
States, having lived 110 years. A daughter,
eighty years of age, and a son of seventyfive
survive. Mrs. Busliey outlived three
busbauds. At the time of her death her hair
was burnished-gold color, and her skin as
yellow as parchment, free from wrinkles,
but tightly drawn over the face.
a haft o? logs wa? brought down th?.
Skagit River and sold at Tacoma. Washington,
recently, which scaled an average of
29,000 feet of lumber to each log. It is said
by lumbermen to be doubtful if larrer logs
were ever put into Puget Sound. Tm same
dealer sold a raft last July which averaged
24,000 feet in each loz.
LATER NEW?.
New York Crrv was ice bound, and
water traffic was entirely suspended for a
short time; the Kill Von Kull, Staten Island
Sound and Flushing Bay were frozen
over.
Three men and a horse were killed by the
eastbound Royal Blue H. Be (J. express between
Somerville, N. J., and Jersey City.
The caucus of Republican members of
the Connecticut General Assembly to nominato
a United States Senator was held in
the House of Representatives at Hartford,
and General Joseph R. Hawley was renominated
on the sixth ballot.
Governor Brown commuted the sentences
of the four colored boys who, with
the four colored men, were to have been
hanged at Chestertown, Md., for the murder
of Dr. HiU, to life imprisonment
Paul Scruoqs and Henry Allen, who |
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I murdered ana roooea xvuuo .tvi/Kiusuu, uu>
housekeeper and her little daughter, were
taken from jail at Cotton Plant, Ark., by a
mob and hanged. *
United States Tre^subkr Nebekbr
has reported to Secretary Foster that tba
account of the legal tender notes of the denomination
of ISO0, aeries of 1874, shows as
its stands an excess of $54,000 redeemed over
the issue, $38,400,000 in all.
The Speaker laid before the House a communication
from Secretary Foster of the
Treasury renewing his recommendation of
last year for the appropriation of $50,0*0
for the redemption of worn and ran dilated
paper currency and the issue of new currency
for it. Also an appropriation of $50, -
003 for gun. and mortar piatiorms.
A Federal envoy charged with bringing
an end to the insurrection in the Province
of Corrientea, Argentine" Republic, succeeded
in stopping the fighting between the
provincial and rebel troop3 at Santa Lncla.
A body of Federal cavalry attacled the
rebels at Santo tome and dislodged them
from their position. Fifty of the rebels
were killed or wounded.
M. BonDEAtr declined to aocept the Ministry
of Marine in the new French Cabinet;
the post was offered to Admiral Gerrais,
who also declined.
There were several casss of cholera tt
Hamburg. Germany, on ths steamship Murciano,
when she arrived from New Orleans,
one death occurred in Amsterdam from the
disease.
70TB OF THE NATION.
Official Statement ot Totals tor Each
Presidential Candidate.
Th; assemblage at the various State Capi
tola of the Presidential electors, to formally
choose a President and Vice-President of
the United States, thus cpmpleting the work
done by the voters last November, causes
renewed interest to attach to tha following
official election figures from all the States:
Cleva- HmtI- Bidland.
son. Weavor. well.
9.197 85.181 241
Arkansas.".".." 87.834 4t>;974 li;88l 113
CoUforo^....118,174 118,027 525,311 8.096
^SlorSo.... ...... ?? 53,564 M
Connecticut.- 83,5195 809 4,026
Delaware.. . 18,576 18,07- ...... 584
Florida 30,143 ...... 4,843 570
G!^7.::..1$836 48,305 43,739 988
Idaho ?? ^ 8,599 10,530 288
IUiJois.......426,281 399,288 22,207 25,870
Indiana ...V. .262. 740 225 615 22,208 13,050
SwT .....196,367 219,795 20,593 6,402
157,241 163,111 4,553
KeSy:::.m.46i IH,?I
Louisiana.... . 27?903 ??
Maine ..... 48,044 62,871 ' 2,381 3,062
M^laad. . U3SH6 9J.736 790 5,877
SSaJhu^tts 176,858 202.928 7,539 3,348
Klranf... 201.850 222.535 20,633 20,877
ESto ...100.579 122.736 30,393 14,017
SSppiV... 40,237 1.4C6 10,256 910
Missouri .. .268.039 228,824 41,183 4,293
Montana ...? 17,581 18 851 7.334 549
NebrSa... 24 943 87.227 83,13 4 4,902
Nevada .... 714 2,811 7,284 8J
N HtOMhlK 43,079 45.653 XK 1,297
NewSy.-171042 156,068 969 8,131
New Yo>k .654,908 609,4-59 16,436 38.191
N? Carolina. ..132,951 100.343 44 732 2,636
*N Dakota 17,519 17, <00 899
Ohio ....404*15 405,187 14,852 26,012
Oregon.... .. 14,243 35,002 26,875 2,281
PenSylVania.452.264 516.011 8,714 25,123
Rhode Island.. 24,335 26.972 223 1,654
S Carolina... 54.693 13,384 24,010 .....
g Dakota... . 9.081 34.888 26,514 .....
Tennessee 136.477 99,973 23,622 4,856
Texas ....239,148 77,475 93,683 2,165
VCTmouc...... 16.325 37.9&J 44 1,424
V?Sna......163,977 113,263 13,275 2,738
Washington.. 29,844 36.46J 19.054 5,553
W Virzinia.. 84 467 80,2?3 4,166 2,145
Wisconsin ...177,335 170,846 9.829 13,132
Iwyoming... S'3W 7'58tt 539
Fusion.
SENATOR JOHN E. SENNA.
He Dies at Washington After a Long
and Painful Illness.
Senator John E. Karma, of West Virginia,
died at Washington about 8 o'clock a few
mornings ago, of heart disease, fro -n which
he had been, for some years, an acute sufferer,
so much so that for long intervals, he
had been compelled to abandsn his duties as
Senator and to forego all mental exertion.
Two summers ago; with a view of diverting
his mind from his physical ailments, he established
an amateur boat builder's shop
and busied himself in the mechanical operation
of constructing a boat. He partially
reooverei and resumed his seat in the Senate
and made one speech, which was remarkable,
both for its tength and its vigor,
but soon suffered a relapse from which he
never rallied. His sufferings during the last
few months of his life from heart spasms
were so poignant that to himself as well as
to his family, death must have been looked
upon as almost welcome.
Mr. Kenna was born in 1818, was consequently
forty-five years of age?the youngest
man in the United States Senate. His
birthplace was Valoulon, Va., since incorporated
into West Virginia. He workel on
a farm until the outbreak of the Civil War,
when he entered the Confederate Army as a
t-.hrnuo'h to thj end. He
private, ?uu iuu.4? ? 0
afterward studied and practiced law until
elected to Coagress. H j served six years in
the lower House, and then in 1883 was
elected to the Senate as a Democrat to succeed
Henry G. Davis. His term of service
would have expired in 18S5.
Mr. Kenna's Washington residence was on
Capitol Hill, at 130 B street, N. E., an 1 it
was there he die J. He leaves a wife an 1 six
children, four boys and two girls. The oldest
of t <e children is about seventeen, and
the youngest boy just five years old.
TWO NEW WAR SHIPS.
The Cramps Get tbe Contracts lot
the Brooklyn and the Iowa.
Secretary Tracy has awarded the contracts
for constructing t'ao armored cruiser
Brooklyn and the sea-?oia; battleship
Iowa to the firm of William Cramp &
? ?P Vhiinrtflinhio Of ifc liirl nf S9 OST, .
ouu:, Ul. ...
00J for the Brooklyn an I #3,01l).000
for the Iowa. This settles the controversy
as to the necessity and fairness
o? allowing one of tho vessels to be
built on the Pacific Coast, and also as to the
right of the Secretary to award bids 011
plans prepared by the bidder. Secretary
Tracy gives as his reasons for awarding both
bids to tbe Cramp Company that he is required
by the statute to award the contracts
to tbe lowest and best responsible bidder,
and that there is no doubt that the Messrs.
Cramp & Sons are the lowest bidders.
' Owing to the frequent rows between civilians
and soldiers the Qerman Government
has issued orders not to supply sentries with
ball cartridges after the present year.
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GREAT ICE GOUGE, f
Two Huge Glaeiers Collide Below
Cincinnati.
j Many Tugs and Coal Barges
Crashed and Destroyed.
#
A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, sayi:
Itrequires a stretch of the imagination to
picture 8,600,000 tons of ice moving at five
miles an hour down the Ohio River?the
condition that became a reality, a few days
ago. All steamer^ on the river at the Pore
of Cincinnati had been keeping steam up al
the while waiting for the worst All the
coal fleets ware covered with men
> night and day. The steamers in
Sort and exposed were: Tacom, Bostonia,
t. Lawrence. Iron Queen, John K. Spaed,
New, Mary Houston, Fleetwood, City of
Madison. Carroll ton, Bonanza, 8hirley and
City of Vevay. All these are riv?r packets.
There were also several tow-boats.
Besides tbese were cnree noge wnari Doats
for the Big Sandy, the Memphis and New
Orleans, and the Louisville mail lines, respec
ti rely. In the ice gorge, within a mile
of its lower extremity, was ail that was left
of the f?0,000 worth of coal In Ibarges that
were destroyed a few days ago in a like
mannir.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon this mighty
glacier of 3,000,000 tons began to more with
a horrible groan, and the hills echoed with
the screaming of a score of stfam whistles.
Grinding the shores, crashsng. against the
great stone piers of the fire monster bridges,
on it went; its speed increasing every minute.
Nineteen steamers nod a hundred
coal barges, empty or loaded, had only two
or threelnches of oak plank to present resistance
to this ponderous aggregation of
power. Every man was at his pose on the
steamer?, and every man was a hero.
Again and again the ponderous chains
*u_? V?l/t utpB mflro an/1 the
wharf boats to their moorings wars parted,
and as often skill!ul hands repaired them.
The two bridges above the public landing
broke the ice somewhat ana prevented the
otherwise inevitable destruction of every
packet.
By 9 o'clock that night all apparent dancer
to the steamers at.the landing was over.
The gorge had passed and the river was
comparatively clear. One towboat, the
Mattheson, owned by Marmet & Co., valued
at <5000, was sunk ahd destroyed.
Down below, the destruction of coal, barges
and other property had been terrible. The
harbor towboats Comet, Ben wood and Alice
Barr were going down with the gorge fully
manned and working heroically to break the
ice and save property.
The gorge that moved past Cincinnati extended
trom Conej'i Island above the mouth
of the Little Miami to below Anderson's
Ferry, a distance of nearly eighteen miles.
For ten miles below this the water was
clear and open. Then cams another gorge
beginning at the mouth of the Great Miami
nri A'rtaTiritnc hfllow Lawreacebursr. This
lower gorjjs was about five miles Ions. The
upper gorge with its doomed coal fleets
crashed into It and tore it oat and bsgan
both grinding their way with a terrific roaring
far down the Ohio at five or six miles
an hour.
Here is the nearest approximation of the
destruction of coal fleets: Forty-five loaded
barges, worth *4000 each, $180,000; sixty
empty barges, worth 12000 each, 1120,090.
Grand total, {300,000.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
J. B. Watson, the richest man in
is worth W, 000,000.
General Weaver's favorite drink is
buttermUk sweetened with sugar.
Thb late Congressman Samuel J. Randall's
estate amounted to only 1739.74.
Cleveland was the only President to deliver
his Inauguration address extempore.
Prisident Harrison will retire from the
Presidency at the ronnd age of sixty years.
The Russian Ccirand the Siamese King
have one taste in common?each is a bicycle
rider.
General Patrick A. Collins, now one
of Boston's leading lawyers, began life as a
cabinet maker.
The heaviest man io Congress is John W.
Rife, of Pennsylvania. A special chair is
provided for htm.
Alrkhmax Ksill, the Lord Mayor of
London, began lire in London as an apprentice
to a fruit broker.
John L. Mitchell, of Michigan, is the
rich man of the present Congress. He ia
worth about $30,000,009.
Mbs. TT. S. Gba.nt has probably over a
score of pictures of her husband?paintings,
photographs and crayons.
Prksidext Diaz is said to own shares in
every railroad, telegraph, telephone and
electric company in Mexico.
Ex-Govwrwor Ri73K. of Wisconsin. set
the fashion of not having an inaugural ball
when the administration was re-elected.
Mrs. Henrt Ward Bebobzr, although
eighty years old. is an indefatigable worker
with her pen. She spend* hoars at her desk
every day.
Sxnator Cockrki.l's brother, the Con*
gressman-eiect, is of heavy build, the Sena*
tor being spare and wiry. Both were Confederate
soldiers.
.ndrew Carneqie is said to be a great
admirer of Herbert Spenoer, to whom he
has made a number of gifts. The latest is
said to be a fine piano.
General Roche, who is reported to have
joined the Mexican revolutionists, is known
throughout the country as "The Tiger." He
was one of Maximilian's generals.
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the historian ands
philanthropist, died, after a brief illness, at
the Coleman House, in New Tork City, a
few days since, where she had lived for a
number of years.
President Harrison has received from
John F. Healy, Consul at Funchal, Madeira
Islands, a cane made from the wood of a
house on Porto Santo, occupied by Christopher
ColumDus at the time tie was n resident
there.
Orange Jodd, for many years the pub
lisher of the American Agriculturist, and a
writer on agricultural affairs, is dead. He.
established the sorgham industry in America,
and was a Government statistician. He
was also a Long Island railroad director.
Elijah W. Haltobo, the Private Secretary
of President Harrison, was for many
years the managing and afterward the
editor-in-chief of the Indianapolis Journal,
which belongs to Consul-General John C.
New. He will probably return to his deslc
after March 4th.
The Frenoh Cabinet receives new blooi
with the advent of the new Minister of Commerce,
Mr. Siegfried, who was assured by
hi* physicians a dozan years ago that ha
would die if he were not helped by the transfusion
process. A gardener supplied the life
liquid and the operation was a success.
ALTGELD'3 INAUGURAL.
First De.~\>cr*tic Governor Since the
War in Illinois.
At * o'clock in the afternoon of the appointed
day the blare ot a trumpet was
heard in Springfield an 1 the militia and the
Democracy of Blinoij bagan to form In line
for the inauguration of the fir3t Demo
cratic Governor in Illinois sinca before
the war. Heading the column
was General John A- McClernand,
of Springfield. surrounded
by bis aides de cimp. 100 in number. Kobes
of various colors and sashes of gold wera
worn by the mounted men, and as the aides
directed the course of the marchers they
made an imposing array.
There were five divisions, each commanded J
by a mounted Marsha!. Besides the fluttering
banners in the parade many a
live rooster wa3 hoisted aloft. The line of
march was through the principal streets,
through the Governor's grounds, and to the
north entrance of the Capitol, where the
clubs arrived just at the hour of the joint
session.
Governor Altgeld's appearauce was the
signal for an outburst of applause. The new
Governor, after taking the oath of offlc.,
delivered his inaugural, which was listen' i
to with interest. The address touched up< a
the subject of strikes and lock-outs.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.
Their Growth and Progress Daring
the Past Year.'
The Manufacturer's Record gives a very
detailed and complete compilation of statistics
showing the growth and progress of
Southern industries, railroad, financial and
commercial interests during the year 1893.
The iron industry of the 8outh has shown a
great deal of activity, notwithstanding the
extreme low prices and the depression which
has existed in some parts of the country.
The output of pig iron in the Southern
States, as obtained direct from the producers,
amounted to 1,954,295 *ross tons in 1893,
as compared with 1,709,955 tons in 1891. being
an increase of 245,330 torn, or nearly fifteen
per cent During 1892 eleven new blast
furnaces were completed, and most of them
went into operation. Six of these new
fnrnu>M w*rn in Virginia. one in North
Carolina and four in Tennessee. Three rolling
mills were also built daring the yeartwo
in Virginia and one in Tennessee. The
coal industry of the South has been in a condition
of activity and prosperity throughout
the year, and the output increased from 23,686,312
tons in 1891 to 24,612,617 tons in
1892. During 1892 eighty-four new coal
mining concerns went into business in the
South.
The railroad mileage of the Southern
States was increased in 1892 by the construction
of 1063 miles of new railroad. In the
reorganizations of railroads begun or completed
daring the year twenty-four roads
were included, representing $139,164,453 of
capital stock, 1128,007,492 in bonds, and aggregating
6309 miles of road.
The reduction in the estimated acreage of
cotton for the present season as oomoared
with thaamiinn of ISO 1-92 in OTsr 3.800.000
acres, and the best estimate* point to a crop
of not exceeding 6,500,000 bales for the pros'
ent season as compared with 0,083,379 bales
during the last seuoa.
Daring the year 1893 a number of new
steamship lines hare been started at Southern
ports, which promise a large increase in
foreign trade in the immediate future.
In the last sixteen months the number of
spindles in Southern cotton mills has been increased
bj 559,188 and the number of looms
by 11,819. January 1, 1893, the cotton mills
of the South contained 33,537 looms and
2,875,906 spindles. The consumption of cotton
by Southern mills increased from 603,188
bales in 1891 to 682,297 bales in 1892The
phosphate industry of the South shows,
shipments of 639,920 tons from Florida and
South'Carolina in 1892 .as compared with
550,272 tons in 1891.
The total number of new industrial establishments
organized in the South during 1893
was 2688.
Shipments of lumber from nina leading
Southern porta aggregated 1,305,733,714 feet
in 1893, comparedwitn 1,075,421,141 feat in
180 U ' t
The assessed valuation of property in the
South shows an increase from $4,740,280,375
in 1891 to ft,806,620,182 in 1893.
A PLAQUE OF 0B0W&
Tens of Thousands of 'Them Killing1
flogs and Sheep.
On the farms of Messrs. E. P. McF.itridge
and Thomas Alexander, two mllei
from Harrodsb org, Ky., tr e tens of thousand*
of crows. There are so many together that
they are starring. They have killed a large
bog and ravenously devoured tbe flesh.
' Sheep that are now dropping their lambs
aot only lose their offspring as food for the
crows, but the old ewes that are not strong
enough to defend themselves are also de
oured. Not a lamb in that looauty ww Da
gavad unless the immense collection of crows
fa be gotten rid oU
fatal gas explosion.
Three Persona Were Killed and Four
i Were Badly lnjared.
By an explosion of gas at Pittsburg, Penh.,
the house 1010 Sarah street. South Sida,
was wrecked, three persons killed and several
injured. The list of killed is as follows:
Thomas Dovey,aged thirty-fire, ironworker;
Sophia Dovey, aged thirty-three; Mary
Dorey, aged two years. The injured ware:
William Dorey. aged seven, burned and
hurt br bricks; taken to South Side Hospital;
William Harris, ironworker, severely
burned; Mrs. Harris, hurt by falling wall;
child ot Mrs. Harris, burned and severely
bruised.
The bouse was jointly occupied by tbe
families ol Thomas Dorey and William Harris.
The latter family occupied three rooms
on the third floor. Harris goes to work at
7 o'clock. He arose yhortiy after 6, leaving
his wife and child in bed, and taking the
scuttle in one hand and a lighted lamp in the
other, started down stairs to the cellar for
coal. Harris reacned the bottom steps, when
suddenly the very aic seemed turned to fire,
which, for a moment, blinded him and
caused intense pain. At the same time he
felt himself caught op and hurled half way
up the staps, while his lighted lamp was
shattered against a post
The neighborhood was shaken by the
terrific explosion, and tbe few persons on
the street saw the house totter lor a moment,
then the roof fell in, followed by tbn right
wall. The upper floor was crushed in and
felJ, carrying it to the first, which held, and
this alone saved Harris's life. Meanwhile
the harvest of death had been awful, for
the Dovey family was wiped out of existence,
save the young son.
The second floor, the brick wall, and the
roof simply crushed the ceiling as though it
was paper, and sleeping calmly in thoir
beds, Thomas Dovay, his wife and ths coiid
in the cradle by their side, were wakened
only to be crushed and burled in the ruins.
A policeman passing sent in an alarm at
ones, and soon a large fore* of man was
placed at work to rescue the imprisoned instates.
Mrs. Harris and her 'child were
found easily and taken out. They were cut
and badly frightened. Then Harris was
takan out eas.iy, but it took twenty-five .
minutes to dig to where the Doveys were
imprisoned. They were alive when reached,
but died as t&ey were Deing lateen out.
There was neither natural or illuminating
gas in the house, and it is supposed that the
gas leaked into the cellar from one of tta*
large mains on the street The loss is $15J0.
WANT $500,000 MOBE,
The World's Fair UaiKtln^ Will
Cost $20,000,000.
Chief Architect Burnham has made another
estimate of the amount of money necessary
to finish the World's Pair buildings
at Chicago. Much to the surprise of the
directors, this estimate calls for $303,00J
more.
When Chicago was making a campaign
before Congress to get the prize, Ift.OOO.OOJ
was considered a tempting bid Later $10, 000,000
was named as the figure. After the
scheme of the Fair was prepared it became
nt*in that more than $10,000,000 would be |
needed.
Another budget was made up. This one
called for $15,0J0,090. It lasted about six
months. The budgets that have since been
prepared varied, ranging from 119,003,000
to nearly 122,000,000, but a compromise was
reached on 119,500,000. This was supposed
to be enough to op.*n the Fair, but Burnham's
latest call shows that it will be |30,000.000.
SAN JUAN GJLD FIELDS.
'They Are Now I'roiinunced to be a
Fraud of the Flrat Water.
Th? (Treat SlU J uin goM fi9lds in Colo
rado ari now declared to ba a fake of the
first water, and the rush hoaie ward has
started. Between seventv-fiva and 100
angry men came in to Mancos from the
soutb. and hundreds are following them as
rapidly as their means of transportation
will permit. All are loud in their denunciation
of those wno originatsd thess stories ot
rich placers, and large rewards are offered
for any reliable clue to their identification.
The situation would be ludicrous were it not
for the fact that uiauy of tdese deluded men
I risked every dollar they owned in the under[
taking and now find themselves penniless.
The rice lands of Southwestern Louisiana
are selling at $10 to 913 per acre and will
yield |30 to |3o per acre net eaca year.
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MY COLLIERS FEBISi
r\i 1_?,? t. > flnln.
l/iauatruus cjl()ivbiuu m ? w?vrado
Coal Mine.
Caused by a Charge of Powder
Id sufficiently Tamoed.
By the discharge of an insufficiently
tamped charge of powder in the Union Pacific
Railroad's coal mine four miles from
Co mo, Col., a few evenings ago, there was
an explosion which liberated black damp in
a chamber where twenty-five miners were
at work and twenty-four were almost instantly
killed.
Of the victims twenty-one wer* Italians,
one a Scotchman and two were Americans.
Eight of them were married.
The survivor, who was working apart
from the others, was thrown upon his fatee
hv t.hA fcrnmnndnni tnrrz nf tha bint bat
was not seriously hart, and scrambling over
the prostrate bodies of his fellow workmen
he made his waj to theaorfaoe.
The noise of tbe explosion was hoard ia v;
every part of the mine, and all the nan employed
in the other chambers of the miae.of
whom there were aboat seventy-fir*, rushed
to the open air. There wae immediately
wild excitement in the Tillage and a reecoinz
party was quicklr organized. Fool air
still issued from the chamber, bat hcyra
men rushed in and brou jht oat the hodies.
They were found in or naar the chamjbere
and piled together and sotnaflmse clasped
together. In all . sorts of positions, with
limbs and faces drawn and distorted by the
agony of their death, the poor fellows were
found. Somehad aridently been killed In- \
stantly, their bodies being burned and
blackened so arto be unresognisable.
The ecsnee as the mangled forms of husbands,
fathers, brothers and lores* were .y:'
brought out and deposited upon thefnwn ;
ground was heartrending. Slowly, with
toil ana stnum ia nwbv> hw >?.mm |w*j
worked. It was not until after dark that
the laat of the twenty-four corpses wm
brought from the mine.
The head of nearly every family in the
little town of King; was employed in or
about the mioe.and the woman and cbildrian V .]?.
crowded about the entrance as the bodies
were carried oat into the daylight
The dead-w?r? placed in the company**
storehouse, where the bruised and blackansd
faces were eagerly scanned by friends and
relatives. P. Hardin?, Superintendent oC
the mines. tNisc&l in the work of reeoue and
wired to Denver for coffias for ail the vfcv
tine 8.
. The portion of the mine in which tke accident
occurred was sealed by the authority
tn wait; th* Arrival of the State Inane?
tor of Coal Mines. The sole survivor was
James Carmosss. His ooodftion it not
seriou?, bat he refuses to talk; appearing to
be dated.
The damage to the mine is slight, being
confined to the dlriodgmancof a few timbers.
This disaster was the first serious accident
that has ever occurred at King.
The mines hav* been operated about six ,
years. Abouf a year ago a alight explosion
occurred in one of thelowertooms by which
one man-was killed an 1 anrthir seriously .
injured.
FIFTY-SECOND GOW&ESS.
In the Senate.
15TH Dar.?The Qrirauttue bill wssdis-_1
J. *1 IU? - M.. .
(JQ8B0U J buo rcswiuuuu umiu^ vn ww w?>u
Department for information as to whether
tho bill to suspend immigration Is is conflict
with any treaty with a foreign Govern*
ment wu agreed to?Mr. Chandler
argued in favor of strict quarantine and
immediate suspension of steerage traffic.
16th Day,?A bill to providea temporary
Government for Alaska was introduced by
Mr. Piatt. It provides for a Governor an i j
a Secretary, and direct# the fVesideot to appoint
seven Commissioners, with powers of County
Judges, at an annual salary oi
13000.
17th Dar. ?The UcPherson resolution for
the suspension of silver purchases was dabated
at great length?-Tne Quarantine
bill was discussfld.
18th Dat-?lave-bill granting1 additional
quarantine powers an | imposing additional
duties upon the Secretary of ttw Treasury
and the Marine Hospital 8?rvlc? was passed
The fecial order, tije bill prohibiting
immigration for oae year, was permitted to
lapse ?'l Q6 Aira-vptioo out was kiwi mim
up and Mr. Vilas completed bis argument
agiinstit.
1!>th Dat-Mr. K?noa'a death was an*
nounced at the openia? of the proceeding?
by Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, in thi
absence in Wert Virginia ot tie dead {Jenator's
colleague, Mr Faulkner. The Senate
thereupon adjourned.
In the House.
ITn Dat.?The day's session was an an- '
eventful one. The attendance was small,
and nothing but private business was considered.
About twenty-5re private pension
bills were passed, anl the House adjourned.
18th Day.?The House was engagel the
entire day in the consideration of the Di?*
trict of Columbia Appropriation bill, which
was not disposed of.
10th Day.?The House, after the passage
of a few private measures, resumed the consideration
of the District of Columbia Appropriation
bill, which was passed Mr.
Watson introduced a bill to create the office
of National inspector of cotton and
grain, to provide for the issuance of cartificates
of deposit and for the issuance of
poetofflce money orders thereon, and toprovide
for the payment of such order*.
20th Dat.?Norfolk and Western, Railroad
bill was passed After a sharp die*
cuss ion the joint resolution changing the
time for the meeting o: Congress and the
inauguration of the President was defeated.
21st Dat.?The bill to repeal the Sherman
act was reported from the Committee
on Baking and Currency?-lir: Richardson
qrpofted, with ths recommendation that
it pass, the Senate joiot resolution providing
for the orinting of 500,000 copies of the
agricultural report for 1893. The estimated.
cost is 1300,000?Mr. Robinson Introduced
a bill increasing from 41 to $3 per barrel -the
internal revenue tax on fermented liquors
The House adjourned at once on the announcement
of Senator K?nnn't death.
-^mr- . _ 'A
THIRTY MINERS DROWNED.
Water Catches Them In a Penzance
(Ungland) Shalt. .
A calamitous accident has just occurred .
at Penzance, Cornwall, England. While a %
number of men were at work in the Wheal
and Owl Mine at that piac?, water suddenly
rushed in and drowned many of the miners.
As ' soon as the rush of the water "was
heard those nearest to the main
shaft rushed . into the cage and were. .,
quickly drawn. to the sunac;. Others
at a distanoe wera overtaken by
the water and their cries coatd be heard re*
sounding through the galleries. The number
of men drowned has baen ascertained to
be thirty.
The water which flooded the mine cam*
from an adjacent one which had been closed
for many years. Water had accumulated
' * ? ?li? ahan^nnnl m<na
in a VUV uuauwu; --y??? ?
and suddenly burst its war through. Hundreds
of thousands of tons of water poured
into the place.
' THE SAAB STBIKE.
Rush of the Miners to Secure Reemployment.
Shortly after the regular hoar for going
to work a few days ago a break occurred in
the ranks of the strikers in tho 8iar (Germany)
District, and in less than an hour the
rush of men to secure re-employment was
immeuse. It was known by the strikers
that many of them would not be taken back,
but they did not know who the men to be
dropped would b?. Of all the strikers in the
district 1 L.170 were re-employed and immediately
weuttowork. Ttiree thousand of
the men were not allowed to go back to the
pits, the reason given that the slackness of
trade did not warrant their re-employment.
THraTY-Ni*B new vessels will be aldol to
the French Navy this year, including eight
craissrs, one submarine boat ani thirty
torpedo boati of various kinds for um inshore
and ut>on the hizh seas.