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RUTHERFORD B. HAYES DEAD The Ex-President Succumbs to Neuralgia ot the Heart. A Unwmnr /vf TTi o T.rtn fP Mil 1 A JLbUVlUW U1 JLLIO JJUUg and Civil Career. Rutherford B. Hayes, ex-President of the United States, died at his home near Fremont, Ohio, at 11 o'clock, a few nights ago, after a brief illness. Daring the month before his death the exPresident had complained of one or two light attacks of neuralgia of the heart, but as they soon passed away he thought nothing of them. Mr. Hayes left home just a week before his taking off on a trip to Columbus, Buffalo and Ithaca. At the last named place he spent a few days with his son, Webb S., who resides there?. He experienced a severe recurrence of the malady, but being: prepared for his return home, proceeded on his journey, accompanied by his son Webb. Word had been sent home by telegraph of the condition of the General, and he was met at the train by his son Rutherford and Dr. F. S. Hilbisb, the family physician, with a carriage. Entering the carriage they were rapidly driven to the Hayes mansion, in Spiegel Grove, where all attention was given the stricken General during the night and up to his death. The house was kept quiet, and Dr. Hilbish spent most of the time in watching at the i bedside. The doctor said that the ex-President had been suffering with a severe attack of heart neuralgia or angina pectoris, but that he had partially recovered, Next day, however, the attack returned, terminating fatally. Rutherford B. Hayes, Jr., Webb C. Hayes and Miss Frances Hayes, the ex-President's children, were with him at the time he died. Scott Hayes, another son, had been summoned from Cincinnati. Sketch of His Career. Rutherford Burchard Hayes was born In Delaware, Ohio, on Octobar 4, 1822. It was raid in the campaign biographies of him Ttubluhed before his election to the Presidency that his ancestors were wealthy Scotch people. The founder of the American branch of his family was George Hayes, a blacksmith and carpenter,, who left Scotland in 1680 and settled m Windsor, Conn. Rutherford B. Hayes was born three anonths after the death of his father. His uncle, Sardis Birchard. superintended his education. He was sent to Kenyon College, and was graduated in 1842. He I began the study of law in the office ot Thomas Sparrow, of Columbus, Ohio. Ha I , afterward attended a course of law lectures in Harvard Collesre, and was admitted to the Bar at Marietta, Ohio, in 1815: Shortly after he began tc practice his profession at Fremont, Ohio, having en tered| into partnership with -Mr. Ralph r. Buck-i land, of tbat town. In 1819 he removed to. Cincinnati, where he in time acquired a fair practice. He became a member of the 'Cincinnati Literary Club, composed chiefly* of men of mart, or of men who afterward, became famous. In 1856 he was nominated for Judge of Co Tim on Picas, but declined the nomination. In 1S5S, the offioe of City Solicitor becoming vacant by the deaih of Jadge Hart, he was unexpectedly elected by the City Council to till the vacancy, and ht 1859 was re-elected by the iwople for a full term, running 503 votes ahead of his ticket. He held this office until the spring of 1861. The attack on Fort Sumpter called Mr. Hayes to arms. Judge Mathews and Mr. Hayes raised a regiment which was called the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry. Of this Mr. Hayes became Major. Colonel W. S. Rosecrans was placed in command. > Colonel Hayes was promoted to brigadier general "for gallant and meritorious service in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek," to take rank from October 19, 1864. and was bravetted major (Central "for gallant and distinguished ser; vices during the campaigns of 1864 in West Virginia, and particularly in the battles of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek." When the Republicans of the Second Congress District of Ohio were looking for a candidate for the election of 1864. they turned to General Hayes, and asked him to consent to become a candidate. The General's absence from^thejcanvass did not make any difference to the result. He was elected by a majority of 3093. His first term in Congress was uneventful. He never made a speech. The committees he served upon were unimportant. In the Congressional election of 156G his majority was 3558. He had made all arrangements for a further stay o! two years in Washington, but the State Republican Convention held at Colint-.h 1S<\7 nominated him ' as its candidate for Governor. He accepted thr nomination, it is said, with reluctance, but after acc3pting entered upon the campaign with exceeding vigor and was elected. His opponent was Allen G. Tburman, whose personal influence was large, and whose ability was equally great. The camDaign turned largely upon the antijStates' rights position which he assumed. So was nominated in 1869 against Senator Pendleton, and defeated him. The war issues and the question of honest money <en>red largely into this canvass. Soon after the close of his second gubernatorial term he was again nominated for Congress in Cincinnati and defeated by Genoral Banning. In June, 1875, he was once more nominated for Governor in the face of the most positive declaration on his part that ha would not be a candidate. The action of the Convention and the persuasion of friends caused htm to yield at the last moment and accept. He was subsequently elec- I ted after , one of the most notable hard money campaigas that the country has witnessed ana which turned considerate attention toward Governor Hayes as an available National candidate. William Allen and the groenback men had stamped tke w.. i. .v *f_ ouaie buuuuuj^ IU auib lu^uijr, uuu ui "?? . Hayes they found their match. His adroit manner eZ dealing with the financial question snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. He received a majority of 5544 over Mr. Allea. The Republican State Convention of Ohio, which met in March, 1376, recommended the nomination of Governor Hayes for the Presidency and urged the National Republican Convention to select him. The Convention met in Cincinnati on June 14. Governor Hayes's name was presented for the first place on the ticket by ex-Governor Noyes, of Ohio. AmoDg the opposing candidates were James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkliug. Mr. Hayes was nominated on the seventn ballot, the opposition to Blaine concentrating on nim. In his letter of acceptance Mr. Hayes advocated civil service reform, resumption of specie payments and good government in the South. The election which followed the nomination was the occasion of a grave crisis in the history of the couotry. Two sets of returns on Presidential electors were received from the State of Kioma, three Trom l/>uu?"*na, two from Oregon and two from South Carolina. On the face of the original returns from the various States the Demure tic -candidates had received 303 of the 369 electoral votes and Hayes The election turned on the twentv-one contested vot?3 of South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida and one vote contested in OreeoD. , The Constitution provides that the VicaPresident shall count the Electoral votes in theoresence of the members of both Houses of Congress. Ths acting Vice-Presid?nt was a Republican. The Senate was also Rapublican. The House was Democratic. A law was enacted providing for the creation of on Electoral Commission to Ho composed of two Democrats and t i<-?e Rpublicans from the Senate, thraa Democrats and two Republicans from the House, and four Justices of the Supreme Court, two Democrats ann cv?o rvepuoiicins. me justices were to select another member of the Supreme Court Bench, who would thus hold the balance of power. The Democrats who voted for the bill expected that David Davis, of Illinois, would be the fifth Justice on the Commission and the fifteenth and lost ciiosen mamberof that body. Davis was elected to the Unite 1 States Senate, resismedhis Justiceship and bacime ineligible. Joseph Bradley, of New Jersey, became the balance of power. H9 was a Republican. The vote on each contested question in the Commission was eight to aeren in favor of the Republican position. Both parties being pledged to abide by the decision, this resulted iu the declaration of Hayes's election by an electoral majority of one vote. The President, on March 7th, sent to th? Senate the names of the members of the Cabinet, all of whom were confirmed. The list was as follows: William M. Evarts, Secretary of State; John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury; George M. McCrary, Secretary of War; Richard W. Thompson, Secretary of the Na^ Carl SchurA Secretary of the Interior; liavliTM. Key, PostmasterGenera), and Charle3 Deveus, AttorneyGeneral. Peculiar difficulties and embarrassments surrounded the administration at its outset. Tho disturbed condition of public affairs at the South, particularly in the State3 of Louisiana and South Carolina, demanded immediate attention. One of his first acts was to withdraw the troojja Vli AIUVV* which his predecessor hal ordered to be stationed in the State Houses of Louisiana and South Carolina. On the expiration of his term Mr. Hayes retired to his home at Fremont, Ohio. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Kenyon College, Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities. He was made Senior Vice-Com mander of of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Commander of the Ohio Commandery of the same Order; the first President of the Society of the Army of West Virginia and President of tbe Twenty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers' Association. Later he became President of the John P. Slater Educational Fund, oneofthe Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund. President of the National Prison Reform Association and active member of the National Conference of Corrections and Charities, a Trustee of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland. Ohio; of the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio; of Mount College at Alliance, Ohio, and of several other charitable and educational institutions. His marriage took olace in 1S52, when he married Miss Lucy W. Webb, the daughter of Dr. James Webb, a prominent physiciau of Chillicothe, Ohio. H)3wife died in June, 1889. Her death prostrated the General. Physically Genaral Hayes was a powerful man, weighing between 183 and 199 pounds. His friends say that he was able even late in life to jump any fencs upon which he could place his hands, that he was a splendid horseman and a capital shot, and that he oould cut a good swath in any granger's meadow. ABNOBMAL COLD IN EUROPE Wood Fires Kept Burning In the Streets of St. Petersburg. Abnormlly cold weather is prevailing all over Europe. Snow fell for three days and the mercury reached the lowest point known for years. Races were to have been run on the course at Monte Carlo, but the snow and cold weather have compelled their postponement. \ The weather throughout England is intensely cold. In Russia the mercury is reported to have fallen sixty-nine degrees Centigrade below zaro, and in Sibaria to Seventy-nine degrees below ziro. Wood fires are kept burning in the streets of St. Peters* burg for the benefit of wayfarers. Even the double windows of houses are coated with ice. In the south of Russia the mercury indicates forty-five degrees of frost. An army of men is employed in the streets of Berlin clearing away the snow. So far they have been able to clear passes only in the leading streets. All suburban traffic ii suspended. Navigation on the Baltic has almost ceased. The pontoon bridges on the Rhine have been hauled in. In some parts of xr 1. Ha. xz.uug?ry uua buauivmuvcA 19 u?.vj-mv ww grees below zsro Centigrade. In Constantinople tramcars and cabs have stopped running and snow has blocked all traffic in tne suburbs. Even telegraphic) communication in Turkey is generally interrupted. Many deaths from the cold hare been reported. ' EDWABDMUBPHY, JB; Oancui Choice of the New York - Democrats lor Senator. BDWaBD MURPHY, JR. Edward Murphy, Jr., who was nominated for the United States Senate by the Democrats of the New York Legislature in Joint caucus (such nomination being equivalent to an election) was born in Troy, N. Y.t on December 15,1338. His parents wora both natives of Queens County. Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1832, first settling in Canada, but within a year after their arrival making Troy their home. The elder Murphy established a brewery in 1846 and was very successful in business, amassing a large fortune in a few year3. All of Mr. Murphy's life has been spent in j Troy. His early education was designed to tit blDl lor tU6 pneSlQOOU, OUU *voa UULOIUW at the Montreal College and at 3c. John's at T^rdham, New York City. When this plan was abandoned Mr. Murphy entered into the brewing business, which his father had established shortly after coming to this country He assumed lull control in 1857, and since that time has amassed a fortune. Although his father has been dead for several years Mr. Murphy still retains the "Jr." to his name for business reasons. Mr. Murphy made his entrance into political life at about the same time as his en tr&rce into the business world. He attended his firet convention as a delegate in 1860. Sine? that time his appearance as a factor in State politick has been continuous. In 186i he was a delegate to the convention that nominated Horatio Seymour for Governor, and in 1S68 be had his first experience as a delegate to a National convention when Seymour was nominated President in Tammany Hall. In the interval he was one of the delegates at the three party gatherings that placed John T. Hoffman at the head of the State ticket. He has been Mayor of the city of Troy several terms, and ia today lararelv interested m all its leading'lines , of business. _ i Mr. Murphy became Chairman of the Democratic IS cat? Committee in 1839, and has won a wide reputation as an organiser and party manager. When not bo?y with his political or business plans be spends his entire time with his large and interesting family. NEABLY BEHEADED, Awful Scene at a Murderer's Hang. injT in Scotland. A horrible scene occurred at Glasgow, ' Scotland, at the execution of William MaEwan for the murder of a woman at West Pollokaoieu. McEwan. after attempting the crime, had attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. The doctors succeeded in saving him tor the gallows, although his neck was left in a very weak condition. The condemned rnau walked without apparent tear to the gallows, and the rope was adjusted. When the bolt was drawn the wretched man's head was nearly torn off, and blood gushed cut over his body and the gallows. The United States Government will be asked by England to pay an indemnity ot' $1,000,000 for the hanging of Eiward Hallinger, a colored murderer, in New Jersey. DEATH IMS THE SPORT. A Train Crashes Into a Jolly J Party of Sleighers. * E Eight Persons Killed and Eight Badly Iniured, i V A few mornings ago a large sleigh containg thirty persons crossed the Lonsdale I grade crossing. Providence, R. I., just as a J freight train dashed up. There was a cdI- a lision. Eight persons were killed and eight seriously injured. These wer? killed: Daniel S. Richardson, j Robert Cook, Sarah A.nn Draper, Mary Ann rawcecie, wmiam nenry u. draper, anss Annie Wilson. Mary Hamilton, Annie Sul- F livan, who died at the hospital that day. j The injured were: Mrs. Joseph Rilley, collar bone broken; Ida Young, ri^ht leg broken, a JoseDh McKnight, scalp wound; Klorenci b McGowan, slight injuries; Mary McUowan, o slight injuries; William Braithwaite, ribs broken; Thomas Wilsou, collar bone broken and bad injury to the back; Finny Smith, t bad scalp wound, compound fracture of lower jaw and fracture of nos?. A gateman is kept at the crossing during w the day aud until 9 o'clock at night, when the most of the passenger travel is over. w Freight trains pass sometimes frequently after that time, and the crossing is left un- 01 guarded. The party comprised, youn? pe >ple from the vicinity of Centre street, Pawtucket. They were in a sleigh drawn by four horses, S and owned by Charles F. Thurbsr, of thac g city, leaving Pawtucket at au early hour, the party went to Attleboro. 1 A s$op was made at a cafe, where supper w was had, and to lengthen taeenjoymsnt a g roundabout course was taken on the return. \ The party was singing when, at 12:04 o'clock, they approached the Lonsdale crossing on the Worcester division of the Con- g solidated Railroad. ' x A II ~CC i.UA yvP Mil. -JJI -"l. hioua wau auui> uil me ncn ul mo i?uroad, and when the party reached the cross- a ing the headlight of a locomotive was within p fifteen feet. The engine crashed into the 1, sleigh just forward ot the centre. Before the engineer could reverse his lever the train t< plowed into the wreckage The residents of the village hurried to the scene in response to the cries for help. Phf- n sicians toon arrived, and the wounded were tl put in the caboose to be removed to Providence. Ac 3:10 o'clock a locomotive drawing the caboose slowly entered the station, and - the wounded were taken to the arabulanc2s. The engine and caboose were attached to a the freight train waich crashed into the j.| sleighing party. The engineer. Harris Atwood, said that his train was going at the a regular rate of speed. Three-quarters of a mile west of the crossing he haa slowed down the train, as v usual, and was within fifteen or twenty feet C of the crossing before he noticed a pair of y horses. The momentum of the train could j not be checked in time to avoid the collision. He was greatly overcome by the accident, P and said that it was unavoidable. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. ] In the Senate. 20th Dat.?Mr. Sherman's bill to extend seal protection to the North Pacific was passed The McGarrahan bill was under consideration for half an hour, and after a speech against it by Mr. Mills it went over * The Anti-Option bill was then taken up, and Mr, White's pending amendment to strike out the last proviso in section 2 was ' defeated. 21st Day.?Most of the session was occu- ? Sied by a discussion of the Nicaragua Canal ill Then the Anti-Option bill was entl- h tied to consideration; but Mr. Wolcott (In opposition to that measure) moved to pro- D ceed to the consideration of the first bill on the calendar. The vote on Mr. Wolcott's motion was nine to thirty-one (no quorum). B Adjourne*. , 22d Day.?The Anti-Option bills was discussed The McGarrahan Claim bill was ? the text of several speeches. k 23d Day.?A bill to repeal the purchase of silver bullion was reported by Mr. Sherman from the Finance Committee The T Senate refused to pass the McGarrahan bill ot?er the veto The Anti-Option bill was f discussed. i 24th Day.?Immediate adjournment was 1 ordered out of respect to the memory of exPresident Hayes. 6 s In the Mouse. ' 22d Day.?a. resolution was adopted that , at l*i:35 o'clock the House attand as a body ? tha tuneral ceremonies, to be conducted in the Senato Chamber, of Senator John R. Kenna, of West Virginia? In the consideration morning hour the douse resumed th9 consideration of tne bill to promote tbe efficiency of the militia. No action was taken, and at 12:15 o'clock the House in a body, preceded by the Speaker and the Sergeant-at-Arins proceeded to the Seuate Chamber. Immediately on returning to its own chamber after attending the funeral services in the Senate, the House, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the dead man at 1:50 o'clock adjourned. 23d Day.?Opponents of the measure filibustered all aay against the consideration of Private War Claims bills, with the result that nothing was accomplished Mr. Richardson reported a concurrent resolution for the printing of 00,000 copies of the report of the Agricultural Department on the sheep industry and on th9 diseases of cattle, for distribution by Senator* anl Representatives. The resolution was agreed to. 24th Day.?Tne time was principally consutned in tne consideration of the bill ratifying the agreement with the Cnerokee Nation of Indians for the cession to the United States of the tract of land known as tne "Cherokee outlet," tne Government to appropriate $8,000,000 to carry out its part ot the contract Secretary Foster, of the Treasury, sent in a request lor an appropriation of $8000 for bath nouses and disinfecting apparatus at Camp Low, Sandy Hook, N. J., these improvements havin? been recommended by Surgeon-General Wyman. 25th Day.?H. resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for popular election of Senators was passed?The Swamp Land e bill was defeated. s 26th Day.?Mr. Brosius introduced a bill t for tue usue of two per cent, bonds and tne i w>nMI of tha silver uurchasj law??A few t private measures wero passed, and the Com- 1 mitte$_on the Judiciary having, under a ? prior order, the right of way, called up I some bills oi secondary importance. 2~t& Day.?The Sundry Civil bill and the g reporc on tae Reading deal wero presented g ?? l'he aunouncemeat of the death of ex* c President Hayes was then made by Mr. a aaynes, of tae Fremont (Ohio) district. Re- <j marks upon the life and public services of i Mr. tiayes were made by Mr, O'Neill, of j Pennsylvania, and others who served in the 8 House" with the ex-President. Then the i House adjourned out oi respect of the exif resident's memory. ] ELECTRICAL EXECUTION, i The Murderer of Mrs. Demacselc, of Schenectady, Dies. i Electricity ended the life of Kornel Loth ? at Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y.t a few t mornings ago, at three minutes before 12 , o'clock. E Loth had been an examplary prisoner, and r his last day and night on earth were passed e as quietly as any sines his inaprisonmsnt. Father Blanker, a French priest of tha t iilage, was closeted for half an hour with j the condemned man. About an hour after bis breakfast liis con- j feasor was again admitted to his cell, this j time bringing with him Father Beaudry, a ] French priest of Bedlord, whotu Loth de- t sired to be present. Botn men remained j with him until the summons to come to the ( death chamber was delivered. The guar .Is adjusted the straps quickly, ] and one minute from the time the man had , entered the death chamber he was ready for , the fatal stroke. < A f oi'?moI fko olanfftidian eanf" 1T5!? 1 volts into Loth's body, and the shock was , repeated attar an interval of five seconds to t make sure of death. 1 In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at j Schenectady, New York, on the afternoon \ of November 30, 1392, Kornel H. Lath was j convicted of the murder of Mrs. Etta De- ] macsek. He was sentenced December 2 to be executed at Clinton Prison, Dannemora, during the week beginning January IS, ii 18<J3. d LATER NDWg. I The steamship City of Atlanta, of the Oil )ominion line, caught fire at her winter lock in the East River, and burned to the 1 rater's edge in midstream. New York City, naking a magnificent spectacle. Loss, , bout 1100,000. The debate between representatives of ^ larvard and Yale at Cambridge, Ma33., fas won by HarvarJ. Teams and wagons crossai the Mississippi liver on the ice bridge at St. Louis, Ho. si 'he ice is so thick that it will support a team 1! nd wagon of severalftons weight V Senator Citshman K. Davis, was re- fl lected by the joint session of the Minnesota ? isgislature at St. Paul. " At Atlanta, Ga., Sheriff J. B. Hewall, of ^ 'ayette County, shot and instantly killed A . N. McEachern, a prominent citizan of the ? ima couaty. Taere had baen bad blooi etween the mea for some tims, growing C1 ut of the recent county elections. tl M Senator Bates was re-alectei by the 5 isgislatura o! Tenaessee at Nashville. a (j The handsome steamar, Guiding Star, rWnh ic ciirriunilai h? ii?fl ut Harris Lind- T ig, a few miles from New Madrid, Mo., & rill prove a total loss. Sha is valued at 180,- " 30 and her cargo at $50,000. w Thb two houses of the California Legislaire in joint session at Sacramento elected f( tephen M. White (Democrat) United States g enator to succeed Charles N. Felton (Reublican). White received sixEy-one votes, ^ inning his victory by one. This vote was ol iven by Kerns, a Populist elected from Los ingeles, the home of White. The Secretary of the Treasury sent to the gi [ouse a communication from Secretary ^ foble, submitting an e3timat9 of appropri- g( tion of $3,335,815 for deficiencies in the ap- ui ropriation for army and navy pensions for ^ le present fiscal year. This is in addition a > the original estimate of $t0,508,ftil. OI Both Houses of Congress adjourned im- ** lediately after convening, out of respect to g, le late ex-President Hayes. F w A DEFiciEjrcT of $800,030 is stated to exist w i the Rome (Italy) branch of the Banc* n rapoli. The cashier has been arrested and fr director has absconded. It was reported te aat the absconding director recently bonght j* ticket to the United States. - -V The inr&nta isaoeua uas wicaarawu uor rovisional promise to open .tha Chicago m Columbian Exhibition, a3 if she did so she w rould be obliged to visit also Cuba and bl ?orto Rico, where yellow fever generally revails. 2 The Khediva of E^ypt yielded to the * English demand for the dismissal of his new linistry, and promised to appoint Riaa fc *acha President of the Council. di , si PBOMINENT PEOPLE. ? ?- ic The Khedive of Egypt uses a type- b Titer. h Rev. T. Di Witt Taljcaoe is sixty-one * ears old. fc Bismarck is reported to have extensive d ivestnients in Milwaukee. Wis. 1 Ex-Mayor Grant, of New York City, * as had five flattering business offers. ? Governor Hogmj, of Texas, is only thirty* y ine years of age, but he weighs 375 pounds, j The Medical Society of Berlin has made a [. Pasteur, the French scientist, an honor* li ry member. Gladstone, within the most exclusive of- * icial circles in the English Gover nment, is 1 sown as plain "Mr. 0 " ??-? "--J ?-I- .t_U.lL t iMOHsasri ceiBurateu uis iuumu uutu- .. lay recently, and festivities in his honor *_ rere held throughout Norway. P The Duke of Veragua, a descendant of t k>lumbus, has announced that be will sail 0 rom Spain for this country soon. b Peru's new Minister to the Unitai States, c (enor Cenevaro, is a gallant soldier, fa trikingly handsome, very well off and a e lachelor. fa President Harrisow has praat con- \ Idence in his ability to read character 1 hrough the expressions of the human face. Chore jb a fascination for him in the pursait F if his theoretical science. * Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, j( vho sprung into fame at ths age of twenty j >s th6 author of "Gates Ajar," is now iu her * iftieth year. Her face is still very young j ind she has a good color. ^ Stanley Brown, once PriVate Secretary j >f President Garfield, is now a clerk in the (fflceof the Geologial Survey in Washing- (.' on. at $1400 a year. He married Mollie, d he daughter ot the dead President. p W. T. Adams, better known as "Oliver A )ptie." ha3 written over 6000 short stories md 100 books. He writes Ave bocks a year t! ind has been hard at work for twenty years t >r mora. His books are written for young j1 -eaders and ho has marla a fortune out of c ;hem. 1 Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, has 2 >een advised by his physician- that his eye- * feht is fully restored, and thai he may use lis eyas for hard w&rlc as freely as during toy time in bis life, While he is making no >lans for re-election, he denies that he ever itithorized the announcement that he in- j ends to resign. Trttma.it Hkvry 8afpord, Professor of \stronomy at Williams College, is one of be most remarkable "lightning calculators" j low living. His manner is qoick and nerviU5, and when "doing a large and difficult L utn in his head" he walks rapidly up and si town the class-room, clasping aad unclasp* e ng his hands or twitching his mustache. Johjt T. Rich, the newly-installed Gov- n irnor of Michigan, is a self-made man. His t chcoling was only that of the average far* J ner's boy, and he is himself a practical far* p ner to-day, besides being the President of d he Michigan State Fair Association. He li las served in the Legislature and in Con- i ;res.3, and wasStata Railroad Commissioner o or four years, beginning with 1836. d Senator Kivma"3 death is the fourth r mon% the members of the United States a Senate since the Fifty-second Congress was e ailed together, a little mora than a year go. First there was Senator Plumb, who ? lied ia Washington, December 20, 1891. ? ?hen there was Senator Barbour, who died J - r- ' * *r 14 l.nt. flJK. 1 a ?? ttiuuiKfcja, uu uLiy l* nut, uou>?i V.H on, who died at Hot Springs, Arte., Decern- n ?r 15 last, and now Senator Konna. n FOUR HANGED TOGETHER, ? _ _ D Sxeontlon ot Dr. Bill's Murderers at j Cbestertpwa, Md. The four colored men chargei with the jjj ourder of Dr. Hill were hanged in the jail t 'ard at Chester town, Md., at 12 o'clock on b he day appointed for the execution. Tbera ^ fas no evidence of the threatened disturb v ince about the jail during the night or g norning. The streets of tne town were al noet entirely deserted, except by the posse r ummoned by 8herlff Plummer. These t tuards, In twos and threes, armed, patrolled ? ;he streets all night and until the execution g :ook place. An armed guard of citizens also r emamed on duty all night at the Court- *, louse. Unsuccessful efforts were made dur- t ng the early morning by the father of Dr. q 3111 and others to obtain a confession from fee condemned men. All maintained their j nnoceuce and attempted to throw blame on o >ther persons. T On the night of Saturday, Anril 23, 1802, Doctor James H. Hill, while driving to visit i patient near Millington, was stopped by ? i band of colored men. Two boys, Frisby Somegys and Perry Bradshaw, held the lorse. Charles Brooks struck the Doctor * in rem stone, and Fletcher Williams r itabbed him. Four other colored men stood ? t>y and saw the crime. The body of the doctor was then placed in the road c$rt. ^ The horse, turned loose, retraced his steps to Dr. Hill's home. Some time later tbe boy , Bimdihairconfessed the murder. c The Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington ? i to be enlarged by the erection of an ad- J: itioo. which will cast about $430,003. o THE COUNTRY SHIVERED. L Cold Snap Which Broke All ] Previous Records. j ?he Entire South Seriously Af" | fected by the Severe Weather. for a good many years to coma au cou laps will be compared with the one of 393. It has broken all previous records. Fhile it lasted one could hardly place bis nger on the map of the United tates or Canada and fin I a place where 'ater would not freezs if it was left ut of doors. The temperature reachett'the eezing point clear to the middle of Florida, .nd that is mighty cold weather for Florida, he mercury registered fifty-six degrees in i ley West. That is an unheard of tern- ; erature there, and is bound to play the misbiief with oranges. At other place3 along le Gulf or Mexico they were worse oft. At [obile and Pensacola it was eight degrees elow the freezing point on the same day, nd it was only six degrees warmer at New ! irleans. The centre of tha cold wave was over lastern Tennessee. At Knoxville it reached j sn degrees below zero. That simply nashes all previous records into little bits. i northern Georgia and Alabama had minus i eather, too. At Atlanta, Ga., it was ight degrees above zero, which means that , usiness was practically suspended. Nor>lk (Va.) thermometers showed four derees below zero. It would seem that the Northwest had arted with all its ccld weather. Bat it adn't. At St. Vincent,which is usually one t the coldest places in the United States, it as thirty-two degrees below z9ro. At Du* *-? *? nut t I ICQ 1C was ten aegraw oeiovr. uaa mii catching it, too. It was eight dereas below zaro there, and there re probably few places on earth as cold as blcag^ 'a when the mercury is below zsro. d it ?l. be seen that the whole couatry sited with New York in one grand shiver, hare was no place one can go to escape the >ld. Not since 1835 have the bays and harbors 1 Long Island Sound been so completely ozen over. The waters of Oyster Bay ere practically, sealed up, and there was a rid of ice as far as the eye could reach, or the first time in the history of the bay, hat is known as the "Gut," a narrow nack here the water coursed through like a mill ice, was frozen solid. The Hudson River was frozen over solid om Tarrytown, N. Y., to Nyack, a disince of 8)? miles.' Numerous men and >ys mads the trip safely across the river, jth walking and skating. All mails were late in arriving at New 'ork City, for, though it was cold in New ork, it was colder and the storms were iore severe outside the city. From north, iuth, east and west came reports of railroad lockades. The Chicago mail was four hours ,te. The mail from the west via the Pennrlvania Railroad was five hours lata. The tails from the south were in au almost lually delayed state, being later than they id been before in years. The effect of the severe weather was felt i every channel of communication at Philaslphia. River navigation Was almost at a *ndstill. No boats were moving in the ale wore except the ferryboats, iceboats ad tugs. Vessels ready to put to sea were *-do uhq, mil 1u buiud uljot huo udtto imtw een discharged. Never in the history of the Central 8cmth ad there been so much suffering from cold reather as daring this "snap.1' All rivers ave been blocked with ice and snow, reuering passage over them impossible, [any trains were late, ana some 'era abandoned ' by their suffering rows. The most intense suffering was prevlent among mountain people. The snow ras from tea inches to three feet deep in iastarn Tehnessee, Western North Carolina nd Eastern Kentucky, and all kinds of ibor were suspended. Not for thirty years bad there been such avere weather as prevailed in Tennessee, 'he united efforts of the Knoxville officials nd church members were utilized to aid be poor. The Cumberland River was frozsn rom bank to bask. More than a dozan ersons were frozen to death. After three winters that scarcely deserve be name,the Northwest is now experiencing ne of the old-fashioned kind. January has eaten the record for intense and sustained old weather. For four years the new year as found the ground clear of snow and very lake and stream open. The cold has, owever. been entirely without the blizzard eature, although it has in many cases been orty degrees below zaro Dispatches from all parts of Wisconsin re- ' ort the coldest weather for years. In Milraukee it was fourteen degrees below.* At Iparta the mercury froze solid at forty bejw; at Whitehall it was forty-five below; jacrosse, thirty-six; MedforJ, forty-two; ieenah, twsnty-eignt. warertown, tmrcy; Zaukaun, thirty-five. The Winnebago Inians ou tba reservation near Black River 'alls are suffering terribly. Senator Brice's representatives at Lima, )bio, received a telegram telling them to istnbuto to the destitute anJ suffering oor 100 tons of coal and 190 barrels of iout. In Florida, where, even at this season, be luxurious warmth of the tropics and the ragranco of orange groves are usually enDyed, it was below the freezing point, exept in the most southern part of the State, 'be only other spota where anything like rarmtb may be found are in Southwestern 'eras, Key West and the extreme southern oast of the Pacific Ocaan. SEMTOB^ELECTED, Sight Legislatures Choose Members ot the Upper House. The Legislatures of New York, Maine, lissouri, Indiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Delaware and Pennsylvania met in joint jssion at their various State Capitols and tected United States Senators. At Albany. N. 7., both houses voted at oon in tbeir respective chambers for a fnited States Senator. Eiward Murphy, r., was chosen In the Assembly by a strict arty vote of seventy-three to fifty-two allots cast for Frank Hissock, the Repubcan nominee. The vote in the Senate was: lurphv, seventeen; Hiscock, twelve; Riid, ne. One Democratic Assemblyman?Van e Mark?and two Republicans?Adams and - * i- i or a. Jenlston?were aosenc. nauaiors auaier nd O'Connor, Republicans, were not presnt. 4 i At Augusta, Me., Eugene Hale, Republi- , an, was re-elected to the United states enate by the State Legislature. The Sen* ' te gave him twenty-eight votes and Sswall, )emocrat, on?. The House gave Hale ' inety -five and Sewall forty-one votes. At Jefferson City, Mo., the Democratic lembers In both branches of the Lsgisla* are votei for the r*-elwtion of Senator ' Yancls Marion Cockrell. Tbe Republicans ominated Chauncey I, Filley, of St. Louis. ' 'he Legislature mat in joint session next ay and re-elected Cockrell,, At Indianapolis, Iud., the vote of both . ouses was cast for United States Senator. , ienator Turple, Democrat, received sixty- j hrae votes in the House and W. C. Fair- t ank,Republlcan,thirty-six, and the former ] hirty-flve and the latter fourteen in the enate. The two houses met in joint con* ( ention nest day and Turpie's election was ( nally declared. At L rosing, Mich., both houses of the i ijgislature re-elect id 'Tnited States i ienator Francis B. Stockbridge and then atifled their action in joint session. Tha J lenate gave Stockbridge twenty votes; J )aniel J. Campau (Democrat;, tan, and E. I. Belden (Damocrat-PopuliBt), one. The ? louse vote was: Stockbridge, sixty-five; lampau, twenty-five; Belrien, four. At Rmitnn Mn?a hr>t.h branches of tha ; jsgislature voted separately for the United Itates Senator, and then took a joint ballot, n the Senate Henry Cabot Lodge, Republi- f aD, of Nahant, received tweuty-nln9 votes, nd General P. A. Collins, Damo% at, of toston, ten. The House gave Lodge 169 r otes, Collins sixty-niao and A. E. Shuoiaa ne. At Dover, Del., United States Senator ^ teorge Gray, Democrat, was re-elected by be Legislature without opposition. At Harrisburg, Penn., Matthew Stanley j. |uay was re-elected to the United States j lenate by both branches of the Legislature, n the Senate he received the full Republi* an vote and in the House every Republi- < an but Representative Moore, of Chester j bounty, voted for him. The Democrats of ( oth homes vot9d for Senator George Ross, i f Burke County. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle State*. Ex-Mayor Willia* Wickham died at lis reddened in New York City. When the lews was received at the City Hall Mayor cc Silroy ordered the flags raised at half-mast. Two Swedes, Frederick Allchrist and m Charles Bukeson, of the crew of the sloop 3hawmut, from New York, which was burned at the Commercial wharf in Boston, perished in the flames. Vermont's oldest inhabitant, Mrs. Lucy P* Whitney "Wood, of Barre, was 107 years old i few days since. She was three years old ai when George Washington was inaugurated the first President of the United Statea Her y eyesight is good, but her hearing is a little jc iefective. New York Harbor was frozwi over be ni bween Ellis Island and the New Jersey ? shore. Private funeral services ware held over General Butler's body at his home in Low.11 u.? . kajo tan jh 3LL, AU.OJJ3,: ai^ci vraia mo way u*j ui owavo Id a public hall, and crowda struggled to see it. ' ^ Arrangements were completed at Pottarille, Penn., whereby Contractor Taylor, who constructed the Court House, and Architect Beebe gave up $19,030 of the a money overcharged in the erection of the building. jc Jams is kith, Ja., was unanimously ^ nominated for United States Senator by the n Democratic caucus of the New Jersey Legislation in Trenton; the Republicans nomin- k a ted General William J. S9well. m Thx four-story brick building. in Phi la- 01 delphia, Penn., occupied by the Nixon Paper Company collapsed. Seven m$n Ie were in It at the time, three of whom were fc killed and one badly hurt. al At Trenton George T. Werts was inaugurated Governor of New Jersey. In The long-continued cold spell was broken, 8! the thermometer showiug a marked rise In ^ temperature in the Bast. It is announced that Monsignor SatoUi is to reside in New York. ? 7-v ?z South and Weit * ti Ik a premature blast in the new yards ot the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway at (a Denison, Texas, George Hampton and Jerry 6 Kylie were killed and two other laborers la seriously injured. o< Tax deadlock in the Nebraska Legislature was broken aud the two Houses met in 1' joint session and canvassed votes. Governor r< Boyd's farewell message was read and Gov- f< ernor Crounse duly Installed, delivering bis ft inaugural address. * Won.v Sheriff T^m wax t*tins' four hand cuffed prisoners across the river at Com- el mins, Ark., Ed Taylor, one of the prison- h era, capaiaed the boat in midstream. Taylor ? and his partner, Walker Woodan, ware ei drowned. S Govbbhob Eaolb retired, and Colonel W. A. M. Fishbaok was inaugurated Gover- b nor of Arkansas, at Little Rock. t< Fob the seoondtime in its history an ice !! gorge formed at Memphis, Tenn. 1 Vj Thb Tennessee River steamer J. C. War- e ner, exploded four miles from Kelly's Landing, Tenn., killing two men and scalding fi fifteen. ? Az his residence, Wolfs Cfogfc, Tenn.. t near Winchester, Governor-elect Peter 0 Turney took the oath of office. The state of c his health and the weather forbade the Got- x ernor-elect from being inducted into office at the State Capitol. ^ William Roach was nominated for i United States Senator by the Democratic i caucus at Bismarotr, North Dakota, and ^ Walter M. Mnir by the Populist caucus. 1 _____ < "Washington. Thb President made the following nominations: Consuls?John H. Cront Jr., of Massachusetts at Bermuda; John Brigham, of Iowa, at Alx-la-Chapelle. and Albert S. Twitchell, of New Hampshire, at Santiago i de Cuba. Posthastbb-Gbitbbal Wahahakb has submitted an estimate of appropriation of 1854,128 for the transportation of foreign 1 UIOUIO lUi VUO U9MK JOW VUVIUIK V UUO V/VUi f 1894. . 5 Dojtixson' Catpbbt, appointed by the , Governor of Louisiana to fill the vacancy * caused by the death of the late Senator Gib- ^ son, was introduced in the Senate bj his col* f league, Senator White, and took the oath of _ office. 1 The twenty-fifth National Woman Suf j frage Convention was opened in Washing- T ton. - r Foreign., ? German strikers attacked the overseers of , the mines in the disturbed district, but were subdued bv the gendarmes. i A labor party has been started la Eng- a land under the leadership of J. Keir Hardie, f Member of Parliament. t There was a heavy storm in England; v much damage was done to shipping. c Russia will send three warships to New ^ Toric to take part in the naval demonstration in connection with the Columbus fetes. c These vessels will be under the command of 1 Admiral Knanakoff. ? Frances Anne Keatblb (Mrs. Pierce t Butler), the well-itnown actress, died a few fc days since in London, Eaelaad. Mrs. Bat* 0 ler was the daughter of Charles Kemble and a niece' of Mrs. Siddons. She was born in v Newman street, London, November 27, y 1809. g Akthpb Allan, youngest son of Sir s Hugn Allan, the millionsir ship owner, has been burned to death. He was a bachelor and lived at Montreal, Canada. The French Government's course in expelling four Nihilist* was approved by the * Chamber of Deputies. Anotner correspondent was expelled from France. The Paris garrison is held ready for an emergency. The Pope created fourteen Cardinals: no tc American is in the list, and only one Eng- n lishman, Archbishop Vaughn. ^ FoETT-xufE soldiers lost their live* by the 0| burning of a railway train ia Russia. a Great suffering from the cold ia reported b throughout Europe. it AN APOSTOLIC DELEGATE, ? fl a Monsignor Satolli Hade the Pope's p Representative In America. 1:1 a /ii'cnotpii fpnm Rome Suva that "the n Pope has decided to establish a permanent ^ apo3tolio delegation in the United States, ^ and has nominated Monsignor Satolli, who tl recently went to the (Jnitel States as the ? Papal representative, to be the first dele- & gate. 'Tope Leo is said to be greatly interested ? in the situation m America, and desirous of ? putting an end co the ecclesiastical differ- d inces existing there. With this purpose " the Pope isjpreparing an encyclical to th-i American episcopate, advising harmony and TL union.' Monsignor Satolli, the Papal ablegate, re* . Mived at the Catholic University, Washing- A Can. the following cable message from Dr. j'Conueli, the American Secretary of the Propaganda, who accompanied Satolli to ;his country, and recently returned to di Etome: & "The apostolic delegation is permanently tstablished in the United States, and you M ire confirmed as the llrst delegate." fr Information was also received that the bi :tev. F. Z. Rooker, of Albany, N. Y., bad ri )een formally appointed Secretary of the al tpostollc delegation, and statin? further n< hat he had left Rome for New York, and ei vas no doubt the bearer of the Papal bull fc reating the delegation an i confirming all tr he powers of Monsi jnor Satolli. Archbishop Satolli cama to tnis country t is a mere Papal representative at the tl VorldVs Fail*. Suddenly he bocame au n? Ablegate, which meant tnat be ha1 limited ft towers in a few spacial cases. Now as a hj Delegate Apostolic ne takes rank over the ntira hierarchy of the United States. As Ablegate he was a minor official. As to )elegate he reprssonts the Pops, precisely as at . Minister Plenipotentiary represents his ni J ? A a fir* o a fha 1 ft ouniry ac a loreiju cour- n.* ^ ? >ishops of tb? United States ara coa a erned be 19 the Pope himself iu the trans- rr iction of church affairs. He could have O >ut one higher office, that of Cardinal at .^gate, a rare appointment in these days. The General Lmd Office has given John te 3-. McBride title to 1*30 acres of mineral lind c* n Tacoma, Washington, valued at 15,003.- u XX), the claims to which he bought for less ;han 16000. di THE LABOR WOULD. Finland has women builders. IN Washington Uncle Sam employs 2894 >)orod people. . Thi strike on the Clyde in Scotland has lade crews scarce. Sinck 1380 the Govern meat has issued an . inual report of strikes. The iron trade still shows a waiting dlsjaltion for new yew developments. Tax Carnegie MlUs, at Homestead, Penn., re running full in every department. Thk Wabash Railroad has given its opera* ves its choice between unionism or their tbs. Boston workmen agitate against the re* awing of charters to street railway commies. . Or the 5,364,465 industrial laborers in Gerlany only about 250.0JQ are members of ades unions. It is estimated that the total funds of adas unions in Great Britain amount t? V> per capita. Kansas railroad employes will ask the legislature to-pass a number of measures ilculated to benefit them. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has en>ined the striking job printers at Pittsburg om interfering with workmen who have iplaced them. ihb rennsylvania road a&s began the iltiative in what is sail to be a general ioye on the part of all railroads to get rid t union employes. Pittsbcho production of pig-iron ia still ss than-the demand, although the twenty* rar furnaces In operation are turning oat oout 5000 tons a day. Tac local Federation of Labor, at Washigton, D. C., embracing twenty-eight or* inizationa, has adopted resolutions asking ongreas to restrict emigration tor five Mrs. Sdtce 1887 the Cigar-HakenT Internaonal Union has increased the wages of its lembersan average of twenty per cent, id lowered their hours of work also about renty per oent The laborers of South Lincolnshire, Eognd, state that their hours of labor are from to 0. Their wages during the summer of ?t year were sixty-two cents, bat hare >w dropped to fifty-six cento. Th* jury in the case of the thirteen Dunesne (Penn.) strikers charged'with riot itnrned a sealed virdict. Ten of the demdanta were convicted of riot, two of willll assault and unlawful assembly, and one as acquitted. Chbistopekb Bsxsoir, an old' man of ightr-six years, in the Philadelphia Alms* ouse, is said to be the oldest loco mo tire ogineer in this country. Ha ran the old igine "Jdhn Bull" on the Albany and rn*d flffcv.ntnn vmn ArtV. CcLOira. Cab roll D. Wbioht, who hat sea reappointed t^ommisslonsr of Labor jr four years more by President Harrison, rill pro baly resign, it is sail, when Mr. Ilevaland cornea in, bac it is regarded ocbtful whether his resignation will be moopted. bill was introduced in the New York itate Senate providing that in ftew York Mty the wages of day laborers employed by be city shall not be lees than 93 a day, and I other employes not lees than twefeiy<Ave eats per hoar, preference to be given cites* of the State on sach work. Rxprubstativis of all the American romen who eirn their livelihood by work ipon white goods (shirt),' collars, caffs and vometfs underwear), recently held a conrention in New York City. There are at east 15,000 women of this class in Philalelphia, Hew York, Brooklyn, Boston* Lowell, Troy; Chicago, Cleveland and St. taxis. DOUBLE MTJBDBR. I. Thriftless Son Shoots BU Father, Mother and Slater. A tragedy was enacted at Chester, Peon., i lew afternoons ago, Which will remit, la he loss of two lives and the oonvictioa of ["homes Rodger* as a doable parricide, lodgers is twenty-four years old, and the ictlms are his lather, Thomas Bodgers, -?* ? ./?. Kin mntW Ihreh* Ann J*ir jrwvw ? , lodger?, of abode tie same ago, and his narried sister, Mrs. William Kildey. As Thomas sat uac? of the store in the itchen of bis parents' borne, jnst after the roonday meal ia thn afternoon, his father eprimanded him for his laziness, fuid, deotarng that be must go to work, Toomas an.wered, '*?ou can't put me one," and, going ip stair?, secured his t>ro taer-in-law's revolper. The wife and daughter attempted to sare Ir. Rodgers, but Thomas pushed them aside ind deliberately fired two outlets into bis ather at short range. The first shot-entered he thigh and the second lodged in the heart; rhile the powder scorcaed the old man's lothing. After his father bad fallen to the loor young Rodgers kicked him in the face. The motner attempted to escape by the ellar door, but a bullet froai her son's evolver struct her in toe back and lenetrated ber lett lung. The sister, Irs. Kildey, fled from the bouse by the ront door, and her brother, whose iloodthirsty passions had been thorughly aroused, pursued ber to the street; nd, standing on tne doorstep, shot her rhiie she r^in, in almo3t the same place that ie had wouuded his mother. The bullet lanced on the shoulder blade, and this aved the young woaian's life. NEARLY 2000 LOST, [any Hundreds ot People Burned in a Temple on a Cbtnese Hoisaaj. A Canton (Chins) corrasoonieat sands this xount of a terrible disaster in. a country >wn about fifty miles from Canton, which milted lu the loss of nearly 90JO lives. A ind of robbers ma ie a raid on the Tillage ! Earn Lt, in the Shin tf in ? district. They rst levied a tribute of several thousand lels on the priests oC the temple. f The laiter hai just received large offer* igs from the people who ware celebrating holiday with a dramatic entertainment ndtr a big shed temporarily erected in root of the temple. The angry robbers pplied the torches to thi s shed, and the eople in a panic rushed into the temple for sfuge. The main entran ce of the temple, which ras of wood, caught fire from the fieroe eat of the burning shed, and over 1400 ten, women and children were either burned, mothered, or trampled under foot. Most of < natalities resulted from suffocation, as strong wind drove the smoke into the ?mpie. At the time of writing the roll of missing umbered 1610, and it may be that some of ieee were burned beyond recognition. Tha isaster is the worst that has oocurred in )utb unina ior evornj [ANY S0LDIEE8 BUBNED. . Hallway Train Takes Fire While Banning at Fall Speed. A fatal railway accident occurreJa few' lysago on the line between Slatousk and unara, in Russia. A train composed of veral cars filled with recruits was running ota Slatousk to Sabiara, whon flames irst from the foremost car. The train was inning at full speed, and in a few moments 1 the cars were blading. The engineer did >t stop the train until it had run a considable distance. It was then found that irty-nine ot the recruits were dead, and venty terribly burned or ocherwise injured. A strict investigation will be held to de? rmine the cause of the lire. It is charged lat the engineer was guilty of negligence in at stopping the train as soon as he saw the re. Hadne done so the loss of life would ive been small. A burro loaded with $3000 worth of silver irs 13 roaming at large in the mountains 'ound the town of Pueblo Neuva, if he has at been relieved of his valuable burden by >hbers The burro was one of a train of niraals loaded with silver bars at the Anilizauo and started for Durango, Mexico. J a the way the burro wanaorea unoraervea ivay from the train. Mrs. Yatks, wife of a Springfleli (Ohio) amscer, gave birth to her twenty-fourth lild the other day There are Are sets of rins. She was married at fourteen. The dest child is twenty-seven. Tnirteen chilren are living.