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THE NEXT SENATE. f New Faces in the Upper Branch w of the Coming Congress. h cr Smith, New Jersey; Lode:e, Mass- th achusetts; White, California. OI 9 There will be & number of new faces in the United States Senate when it convenes in ej March to witness the inauguration of Grover fu Cleveland as President, and the installation of Adiai E. Stevenson as its own presiding m officer. Below are given pictures and bi- ri ographica 1 sketches of three of the most recent addi tions: James Smith, Jr., whom Q, the LegisJative caucus of New Jersey Dem- pi ocrats selected to succeed Senator Rufus w Blodgett; Henry Cabot Lodge, who has been tfa elected by the Massachusetts Legislature a to successor to Senator Henry L. Dawes, and XJ Stephen M. White, the Californian lawyer jflst chosen to succeed Sanator Felton by a ? majority of one on joint Legislative ballot. ^ JAMJfS SKITS, JTL ' Qc James Smith, Jr., was born in Newark, . N. J., and was educated at private schools th in his native city up to the time he went to h_ college at Wilmington, Del. After graduat- . tag he located in'New York in the dry goods _ basin ess, his father having been in thitfline for many years in the same city. Ha did not like the business, however, and soon re- ' turned to Newark, where he engaged in the " manufacturing of patent and enamelled los leather. To-day he is the sole owner of the 03 largest concern in that line of bu&i- J nms in the country. Smith's first en office was that of Councilman, fai having been elected in 1B83, when di< the Council was a tie. The ward be ran in was Republican; he was else ted. He at 3^ once became a leader, and in the flowing fall retused a unanimous nomination for .llayor. He has had offered to him every va office in the gif c of the people of his city, county and State, but has always declined to accept any office except that of President ' of the Newark Board of Public Works. Mr. ~ Smith is no orator, but talks well. He haj Jo. a dignified and easy manner, and is as shrewd as any of them in dealing with men. His gray hair gives him an appearance'older b0 than his actual age. Personally he is popu- ' lar and naturally amiable. He is married Fa and has several children. thi HXJTRT CkMOT LODQfc ' " H#nry Cabot Lodge vras born in Bostob, Mass., May 13, 1850. Ho was .graduated -y' from Harvard in 1871, and from the Lair ?c School three years later. In 1875 he rtr aa ceived the deeree of Ph. D. for his thesis on a the land law of Anglo-Saxons. Ho mi *** university lecturer on American history j from 1876 to 1879, and about ttw same time th< . edited the North American Review He Ca ' nerved two terms in the Massachusetts K< Legislature in 1880 and 1881. For ^ two years he was Chairman of no the Republican State Committee, and ye was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1880 and 1884. atj He wa? defeated as a candidate for Congress ? in 1884, out was elected in 1836, and subse- " " 2nentiy re-elected. Mr. Lodge has been an mc Iverseer of Harvard College since 1884, and *Lr he is a member of various scientific and historical societies. He has published several Pn books, among them being "Life and Letters of George Cabot," "Short History of English Colonies in America," "Life of Alexan- ha dar Hamilton," "Life of Daniel Webster," ( and 4 'Studio* in Hiftory." Ru He STEPHEN BC. WHITt th< Stephen M. White is an eminent lai^yar dia and persuasive orator. Uu more than oaa ?j occasion in National Convention of the cil Democratic Party his irnpasalonata eio- an queoce has drawn tho eyes of the entire gri country to the Golden State. Mr. White was born in the city of San Francisco Janu- * ary 19, 1853. His whole iife, except short ? *c periods devoted to travel, has been spent '~L within toe borders of his native Stat?. Since ? 1874 he has made bis home in L03 Angeles, ? ? <tanAM0 ftmao oontrarl f Kof n/\nnfw 4 auu UUO UK (Ui IUUO VIIUI.J iK.4 ? MUWk WUUVJ 'II as District Attorney, State Senator, and in other important positions. As a public man Mr. White officiated as Chairman of two 'oc State Conventions of his party, and in the Senatorial struggle of 1890 he received the ] complimentary vote of the Democratic cie Partv for United States Senator. an PEASANTS MOWED DOWN. ?,! . _ eld coi Sicilians Killed. anr| Twenty "Wounded in a Battle. j . F I About six hundred peasauts, men and 3rj women, proceeded to saizs an 1 squat uooa otf lands belonging to the Commune at Termini, >'9a ?: ? t.u- ;i t-un;r. /. _? ti? tie UiUUjr, uicuui IUO aun as waoi* WTU. A ua |> authorities ordered the intruders to depart, djti | but the latter paid no attention to the'notice. 175 Then the rendartnes were called upon to jun eject the squatters. Th9 peasants resisted and a Here? --ruegle ensued. ?-The gena^.-mes fired upon tbe peasants^ l killing eigb of them and wounding twenty. Chi A number o oeisants were taken prisoners wit and tbe others fled to the interior swearing 0t 1 . vengeance. mo 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Easter* and Middle States. Hugh F: Dk "?s?Y, District Ma3t# rorkman of the Knights of Labor, wa uud guilty as indicted in the trial of th< omestead (Penn.) poisoning case. The United Statss practice cruiser Banoft had her preoaratory speed trials ova i9 mile course at Newport, R. I., and to suits were satisfactory. Mayor Horatio S. Sanford marchet i the City Hall of Long Island City with ? altitude of supporter?, and with th9 helt the police who deserted thsir old ruler ected Patrick J. Gleason. Gleason re sed to abdicate, and Chief Woodsand tw< tlicemen tried to drag him over the rail, e finally surrendered ani the new govern ent took possession. Gleason sat up c ival administration. Mrs. Ca.tha.rixz Sharp, widow of Johi . Sharp, a hero of the War of 1812, died a liladelphia, Penn., a few days since. Shi ... 1?AKF*.an(r 1779 inH Wftl no WVIU i'OUl U?l J t/WUf XI I WUA ?? erefore about 115 years old. She was said i be the oldest pensioner oa the rolls of the nited States Government. Two persons in a sleiehing party wer lied and two severelv injured on the Eri ailroad at Passaic, N. J. The New Jersey Legislature at Trentoi ok the final vote on United States Senato id ratified the selection of James Smitt of Essex, by the Democratic caucus. South and Weit. A bridge over the Wabash River at Parti, id., collapsed, precipitating a train into e river; two people were killed and sevea verely injured. Elevator "c," in St. L^uia, Mo., wa mpletely destroyed by tire, together with out 1,250,000 bushels of wheat. The total ? on the building and its cont3uts wil ot up, in round numbers, $1,500,090. In a boiler explosion at the waterworks al ipanee, Ind.,Councilman Cornelius Frenct id Engineer William Parker were killed, ectrician Johnson was fatallv hurt, anc aac and James S. Whistler were seriously jured. A mob broke opsn the jail at Convent, La. id forced the jailer to open the cells ot >bert Landry and Pick George, two col ed murderers, who were taken to a shec ar by and lynched. rtfs ice gorge at Belmont^ K7., broke. The >vernment steamer Kiru3 and several rges were caught in the-jam and sent tc 9 bottom of the river. Three colored decl nd?. who were on the barges, perished bere assistance could reach them. The Kirn is valued at (30,000 and tbe barge3 a 000. Phe principal part of the town of Elison, ashington. was burn9i, cauiiog a total ts of 125,000. It was believed tne fire was used by an inotndiary. Mbs. Mart JL Kobbsst, widow of Genii N. Bedford Forrest, one of the most nous commanders of the Confederacy, >d, a few days since, at Memphis, Tenn. ras Bight Rev. Joseph Dwsksbr, shop of the diocese of Fort Wayne, lad., >d a few days ago of organic disease of i heart, from which he had been an inlid for three years. He was born in srcer County, Onio, in 1837. Dn the day after the oil explosion near ton, 111., three deaths occurred at St. seph's Hospital. This increased the death ll oi tne aorror do twenty. j?i mat umo elve men were expected to die in a few are. ["he annual convention 'of the National rmers' Alliance opened in Chicago; only ree States were represented. It his farm on Little Muskingum Crook, it miles east of Marietta, Ohio, John cholas Haas killed his wife and then made ay with himself. Haas was an old mnn. :ly seventy-fire years of age, and his murred wife was his thirdone. William M. Stewart was re-elected to ?United States Senate by the Nevada gislature at Cirson. He was the Silver rty candidate and recaived a unanimous te. A.N oil stove exploded at Baltimore, Md., tile Mrs. Owen Rice was preparinz supr. Her two chlldrea, a boy of Mven aud girl of four, were playing near by and 2ir clothing became ignited. The mother ed to rescue them, and all three wer< rned to death. * Washington. rHE National Board of Trade ended it! nual session at Washington. \ll the Government departments were ?ed for the day on account of the funeral the late ex-President Hayes. Thk Deficiency Appropriation bill was >orted to the Hou3?. It carries 120,844,r, of which f14,149,437 is appropriated for asions. ["he President nfkde the following nomitions of United States Consuls: John J. itt, at present Consul at Corfcrat Dublin; lolph G. Studer, at present Consul at rmen, at Singapore; Kounseville Wildin, at present Consul at Singapore, at rmen. \. dinner in honor of Monsignor Satolli, > apostolic delegate, was given at the tholic University, W ashington, by Bishop sane. ["he President 'sent to the Senate the ruination of Frank C. Partridge, ol rmont, to be Envoy Extraordinary and nister Plenipotentiary of the United ites in Venezuela. Che White House quarantine has been reived. Little Martnena Harrison has enely recovered from her illneas, and the aith Offlcsr took from the entrance to tbe vate pare of the-mansion the cards warn; persons that scarlet fever existed withthe four weeks' limit for their display iring expired. Tount Contacttzeno, the newly appointed issian Minister, arrival in Washington, i went immediately to the Russian Legan, where everything was In readiness for ireoeption. JVhen the United States Supreme Court it a chair heavily draped in mourning, tin told the story that there had passed ray one of ita members. Chief Justice Her announced jut. o uiuce uamsrs utmuu a few words. Tue court crier at once dered the court adjourned. The Justices, th a few exceptions, will attend the funit of Mr. Lamar. .30STMASTiR-GKN*KRAL WaNAKAXER is )d an order calling attention to the fact it hereafter all special delivery stamps nished by the department Postmasters 11 be light orange instead of dark blue as retofore. .N the United States Senate the credenIs of Senators Gray, of Delaware, and te, of Tennessee, were presented and iced on file. .. . Foreign. 4. procession; of unemployed men in ' carne riotous and was disused by after a sharp fight; all s evening t"tPp'lc>e were ' busy scattering orderly crowcflP"<a^ L'he report that th* 1)6611 a re?oniatioa between ox-Kim<Wilan, ct Servia, d Queen Natalie bas been officially conmed. Iahks Frascis Egan, convicted of D*ripation at Birmingham, England, in 18S4, an Irish dynamite plot, and sentenced to entv Years' oenal servitude, has been re sed from Portland prison by order of ime Secretary Asquith on the ground of health. S.N ica field forty miles wide and 305 miles lz, extends from the mout i of the Danube the northwestern coast of the Crimea. Isriiank Horowitz, a conspicuous flnanrin Vienna, Austra, went mad suddenly J killed himself. iGYPTl.v.v affairs have a?su:ned suia a aatenin; outlo^^ that England has deled to increase her military forca in that mtry and sand threa warships th#re. Search for treasure ou tho wrec'c of tlia itish frigate Huzzir, sunk in Hell Gate. New York City, mora* than a bundred irs ago, has been abandoned, and the LitGiant Huzzar Wrecking Company's afrs have been wound up. Result, expenures, $14,900; receipts, two guineas of 0 and 1766 sold for fcn.00, and a box of ik brought $170. 'UHiNO tne late severe weather in Oregon, inese pheasants became so loaded down tt sieec as to be unable to fly, and scores ;nem were caught. Alive they brought a fvtir in the market. SHOWERS OF BURNING OIL 3 Explosions of Tank Cars Fol low a Railroad Wreck. e Many Spectators of the Aooij dent Burned to Death, i ? ' Alton Junction, HI., tvrenty-three nailer k north of Sc. Louis, Mo., w&3 the scene of a > series of accident.^ begun in a railroad colli sion, and as a .result eight persona were in [ stantly killed, twelve mortally injured ani monv mnPA aorintiqlr hiirf Of fha fafjkllr i injured, eight died that night, making the t total number of deaths sixteen, while at the ? time the last dispatch was sent ten more were i expected to die. The first accident befell the Southwesti ern Limited express train, which runs between New York and St Louis. The train a is operated by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, s Chicago and St. Louis Riilroad. The train arrived at the edge of the junction yards at 8:30 o'clock. Just outside of the yard is a 11 curveL After rounding this curve, and r within a hundred yards of a siding, fho en' ' gineer noticed that a switch was turned. The train was runoing at the rate of flfiy miles an hour, and it was impossible to scop. Webb Ro8J} the engineer, stuck to. tha engine, and wm applying the air brakes when it struck a string of twenty loaded oil ' cars. The second oil car from the engine exploded, and 7000 gallons of oil were seuc i flying in all directions. 3 It spread out over the tracks in fire. Engineer Ross was unhurt up to that time, and l he jumped from the edgind to escape. No 1 man could cross through the flamas that surrounded the engine. Before he had gone ten 5 feet he fell and was burned to death, i The flames spread to the other oil cars, and seven of them were soon hissing and roaring f and sending up volumes *0f smoke. Hun' dreds of people flocked to the 'scene and per sisted in standing in close to the wreck and burning cars of oil. ? Whan f-.h? crush nnmn th? nAMMimrfi WBTfc thrown about the cars, but most of them es j caped injury. The crowd of onlookers hac* been increasing steadily. It was 11:3*" o'clock whoa one of the tanks -exploded, fol' lowed instantly by four more. Fully 35,000 gallons of boiling and burning oil were tossed ' into the air. The roar and vibration could ' be heard for miles. < The instant the explosions came some of t the spectators tried to run. The oil seemed ' to be carried by the air over the great crowd, and far out in the village. It seemed to fall in streams and pools. i For those within the circle of 100 yard' there was no escape. Their clothing woi burned, and literally fell from their bodies. In a moment those who could began run ning hither and thither, waving their hands and screaming for help. Some went to the nearest water and other; ran into the fields. Panic reigned for a short time, until the uninjured recovered their presence of mind to cira for the afflicted. , Two barrels of linseed oil were taken fror? a grocery store and applied to the wounds by several physicians who happened to bi on the ground. Every house in the littli village was turned into a temporary hoapi tal. and everv doctor in Alton - and it< 1 vicinity was summoned. As soon as possible a train was made up, and twenty ot the sufferers, were . taken, to Alton, 111., to St. Joseph's Hospital. The total loss included the engine. No. 109, of the Limited, cafe and baggage care, seren tank cars full of oil, eight box cart and half a dozan flit cars. All of these wer? burned, and tne rails were twisted out ol snaps bj the fierce heat. The loss will reach at least jl00,(KX>. The brave engineer, Webb Ross, leaves a wife and six children al Matcoon, 111. ; FIFTY-SECOND 00N&BESS. In the Senate. 25th D AT.?The Anti-Option bill was discussed??Sr. Wolcott introduced an [ amendment to the Silver Purchase Repeal bill A bill t<*enfprca the Sunday closing , of the Fair *wae-presented Mr. Wolcott proposed to discontinue the sale of the Columbus postage stamps, 26th Day.?The Senate adjourned at once out of respect to ex-President Hayes's mem' *?th Day. ?Mr. Wolcott made a speech attacking the new Columbian postage J stamps The Anti-Option bifl was afterward taken up an 1 discu js?1 for an hour. 28th Day.-?Hie Senate took up the Anfcii Option bill, ana Mr. George continued his > argument in favor of his substitute. He was followed by Messrs. Washburn and Chandler. At the close of Mr. Chandler's speeca cae DIU wont over irimvui. The Cherokee Outlet bill, which had came over from the House, was taken up for con5 jideratiotf. 29th Day.?The Senate adjourned for the . day as a mark of respect to the late As' sociate Justice Lamar. 35th Day.?The hour df the session was taken up in routine matters, none of them 1 entitled to be regarded as of much public ' interest A bill was introduced to increase the navy by twanty-one vessels. ln t.be House. 38th Day.?Dilatory tactics defeated action on the bill appropriating $103, (KK) for the erection of a monument to the prison* ship martyrs in Brooklyn, and on the measure for construction of two revenue cuttera I'or the Pacific coast Several amendments to the Interstate Commerce law were passed The National Quarantine bill was the next in order, but its opponents succeeded in staving it off. 29th Day.?l'he Deficiency Appropriation bill was reported, after wnioa the House i adjourned in memory of ex-President Hayes. 30th Day?Vr. Cummingi withdrew the Port Greene Monument bill??The Senate , bill abolishing post traders hips was passed The Diplomatic and Consular Appro- , priation bill was reported The floor was | chen accorded to toe - Committee on Com raerce, and the Quarantine bill was called up and discussed uotil adjournment. i 31st Day.?The Quarantine bill was passed after a stormy deoate?fhe Qundry Civil Appropriation bill was discussed. 3'2d Day.?The House refusal to a^ree to a motion to take up tne Sundry Civil bill, the fight against it being made by the friends of tne Bankruptcy bilL The vote stood: Yeas, 107; nays, 137??Asa mark of respect to the memory of the late Justice Lamar ttxe House tben adjourned. 33d Day.?The day was consumed in filibustering against the Torry Bankruptcy bill. , PHILLIPS BROOKS DEAD, i The Bishop ot Ala*?~.cnusetts Expires Suddenly While Couxhinjp. Bishop Phillfp3 Brooks died at his reel* 1 dence, 233 Clarendon street, Boston, Mass., a few days ago, of heart failure, brought on by a fit of coughing. The death was entire- < Iy unexpected. He was takeu ill four days ( before with sore throat, but nothiug serious 1 showed itself uutil the evening of his death. About 6:30 the patient was soized with a 1 couching spastu which lastdd for a few niomente and his heart ceased to beat. I Bishop Brooks preached his lust sermon at the Church of the Good Shepherd, on the < Tuesday evening before his death. The iiev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., was born at Bo'ton, December I3tb, 1833. He rec?ived the <le?ree of b. A. at Harvard University in 1855, and subsequently that of D. D. He studied in the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va., wis ordained in 1S59, and in the Same, year became vector of ll?e (Jburcli o? the Advrot in Philadelphia, where he remained until ISJi, when he was transferred to tbe Churci of the Jioly Trin lty. binca ho had been rector ot Trinity Churcj, Bostou. Mr. Brooks was regarded-as one of the most eloquent of the ' American clergy, and was frfqusntly chosen as orator on public occasions. At the requsst of the late Dean Stanley, Dr. Brooks E reached in Westminster Abbey, England, a May, 188G, he was elected assistant Bishop of Pennsyl vania, but declined the position. He has publUhed several books of lectures and sermons. in 1391, after much controversy and against some opposition, Mr. Brooks was elected Bishop of Massachu setts. KEPOKTg irom all sections of Mexico show a great improvement in the corn crop, compared witn that of last year. Purchases Irom the United States will be amah. LATER TOWS,. The nomination of Professor Simeon E. Baldwin to be Associate Justicj of the Supreme Court of Errors was rejected by the Connecticut House of Representatives. 1st her preliminary trials off Newport, K. I., Ihe practice ship Bancroft exceeded tier speed requirements two knots an hour. Padernal Peak, situated in the wilds of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, is now in i violent state of eruption. The Senate, in exscutire session, con irmed the nomination of Elijah W. Halford <o be Maior and PAvmasbar in the United States Army. Cohhakder Hekb? L. JoHtfSoy has >eea dismissed from the United States Savy. Ha was tried before a general court nartial oa three charges, the principal one it which was in official language: "Through aegligence, suffering a vassal of the navy to oe run upon a rock and hazarded." The vessel was the Mohican. The nomination of Judge McComas was ion Armed in executive session in the Senate. Secretary of thc Treasury Foster lent to the Ways and Means Committee ? statement of the condition of the Treasury, which shows that if the expanditures authorfeed by Congress have been made a deficit will be apparent. . . ? A passen'OER train on the railway from. Wilna to Minsk, in Russia, r&n into a freight train that hai been stopped by a aeavy snow bank. Fifteen persons ware lulled and thirty seriously injured. Yellow fever has broken out in Guayajr.il, Ecuador. Prijtcess Margaret, sister ot the Emperor of Germany, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse were married in the castle chapel in Berlin. The Italian Government has made a persmtory demand upon Brazil for satisfaction for outrages committed at Santos last summer. BAD BANK FAILUfiE, The Capital National ot Line sin, Nebn Goes Under. i The Capital National Bank of Lincoln, Neb., has failed, and the State Treasurer is caught for about $251,000. It is stated that the failure is a bad ,one. The deDoaits amount to about 1325.00). and of this amount between 1175,000 and $250,000 are State funds, for which the bond of the Treasurer will be liable. -The capital stock of $350,000 is all paid up. Cas hier D. C. Cutcalt stated that the assets wo uld pro tect the depository but there is ere at doubt expressed as to the correctness of t his statement.' A ^meeting of bankers was held at the Lincoln to discuss the situation. It was feared that the trouble would pre;: ipitate a run on some.of the other banks, and one of the .first things done was to make, arrange-' meats to prevent it. The O nahi banks were called on and they immediately responded by send ing a representative on a special engine to assure the bonkers here that every courtesy would be extended and that all needed ass istance to meet any ran that might take place would be forthcoming. JUSTICE LAMAB. He Passes Away at the Home ot a Friend in Macon, Ga. JUSTICE It. Q. 0. LAMAR. Justice Lucius Qulntus CincinnatasLamar died at Macon, Ga., at 8:50 o'clock a few evenings ago, Tfaa death was sadden In the extreme, for although he had been ailing for ?ome time, Jnstice Lamar appeared to be gradually gaiuing in health. He went from Washington to Macon about a month before, and had been visiting at the residence of W. H. Virgin, in Vinevilla, a raburb of that city. During the afternoon at about o'clock Justice Lamar took bis overcoat, intending to go to the city, but was met at the door by a friend. Or. Llewellyn, with whom he returned to the sittin? room. At that time, and during all the afternoon he was in good spirit*, ana at dinner at 0:50in the evening he seemed to have a good appetite. Dr. Llewellyn left the house about d o'clock, and - fka -Tiieh'on w3 a OAiiraH with violent pains in the Heart, and died at the hour mentioned. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was born in Putuam County, Ga'., September 1, 182.5.. He was graduated from the Emory College in Georgia in 1845, and was admitted to the bar in Macon in 1347. In 1849 ha held the place of- adjunct professor of mathematics in the University of Mississippi. . He was elected to the Georgia Legislature ia 1853 and 1354. Then he returned to Mississippi, and in 1857 was elected to Congress. He was re-elected in 1859, and resigned to take his seat in the Secession Convention of his State. Later ha sntered the Confederate Army aa Lieutenant-Colonel in the Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment. He resigned from active service on account of ill health, and was sent as Commissioner to Russia. He did not get there until 1863, when his services were us9less. At the close of the war he resumed teaching in the University of Mississippi. He was elected to Congress again in 187& Re-elected in 187? and in 1876 was chosen Vgited States Senator. On March 5tb, 1635, he became Secretary ot the Interior in President Cleveland's Cabinet'. President Cleveland appointed him to the Supreme Court bench in 1S8S. Just after entering Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet he was married lor the second time, the bride being Mr.-'. Henrietta D. Holt, widow of W. 6. Holt, of Macon, Gn. He lost his first wife while he was a member ot the House. By her he had two children, a son and a Daughter, both now married, and well known in W ushingtou society X PUBLIC EJfSltr. The saloon ha-: uothing to commend it. Its social feature is a che.it auii a delusion. it is a curse, aul nothing but a curse. It is inimical to our best interest*. It wars against the home, an i tho church, aul the community. It uli^hts and curs?3 all who follow it us a means of living, all who patronize it as a pleasure resort, and all who frequent it lor the gratificttion of tastes which it has created ami developed. Is deserves no recognition from t&e order-loving and the man-loving. It should bo legislated out of existence. It should be hated, despised and spurned by all who feel its demoralizing effects. The State should declare it a foe to good citizenship. The church should anathematize it. We would have bettor politics, safer homes, purer civilzation, more orderly society, and more frequent revivals of religion, if it was buried oeyond tho power of resurrection. ?Presbyterian Observer. HAYES'S FUNERAL. President-Elect Cleveland Take Part in the Obsequies. RUTHHRFOKD B. HAYX&, Business was suspended at Fremont, uuo and the schools were closed, on account o the funeral of ex-President Hayes, whici took place during the afternoon. Man] public and private buildings were drapec with black, and displayed flag* at half mast and other evidences of mourning. Thou sands of parsons want to the Hayes residence at Spiegel GroV* during tbe morning to view the body of the dead. On the deac man's breast rested the decoration of Com mander-in-Chlet of the Loyal Legion, and on the left lapel of the dress post the dec oration of the Army of West Virginia At nine o'clock the children of. the public schools marched there in procession. President-elect Cleveland arrived at 11:23 o'clock on the Lake Shore train; He wai accompanied only by his Private Secretary. The train was two hours lata, and a graai crowa had assembled to see Mr. Cleveland, Company K of the Sixteenth Regiment wai drawn up in two lines, extending from th< train to the oarrlage. Between these line; Mr. Cleveland was escorted by Colonel H C. Corbipj followed by Webb and Blrcharc Hayes, and member* of the committee ol funeral arrangements. Mr. Cleveland wai at onoe driven to the Hayes resident. The guest-wasuiven roomson the-second floor. The wide rooms of the mansion were filled with a distinguished company when the sim pie funeral services began at two o'clock. In the sooth parlor and tbe large bed chamber in the rear of it were President elect Qrover Cleveland and the members o President Harrison's Cabinet; representa tivee of the United States Senate and House, and officers of the Army and Navy. Thi members of the family' were also sentec there. The Rev. J. L. Albrittonof the Methodial Episcopal Church of Fremont, standing be tween che doors of the parlors in the expansive hall, read the 2di Psalm, after a hymn, and was followed la prayer by President J W. Bash ford. D. D., who eom9 forty-flvi years ago united la marriage Lucy Webl and Rutherford Burchard Hayes in Chilli cothe, Ohio. Another hymn, the Lord': Prayer repeated impressively and the frimol solemn services at the house were over. Th< remains were then taken to,Oakwooi Csme tery. The order in which the funera procession moved was a? follows: Honorary pall bearers, Hon. Charles Foster, Governoi William MoKlnley, Hon. J. L. M. Carry ex-Minister to Spain; Senator Calvin a Brlce, Major E. C. Dawes, General Wage: Swajnae. General M. F. Force and Hon. vV E. Haynes; members of the family; ez President Graver Cleveland, ticcompania by Hon. William Henry Smith, th nearest friend of the dead: member of the Cabinet; Attorney-General "W H. ' H. Miller, Postmaster-General Joh W ana maker, and Secretaries Noble am Rusk; representatives of the United State ? - rr -a oenaie; a aoiegai/iou ui i>uu quum in. xvo^ic sentatives; representatives of the officer* o the Army: Colonel Henry C. Corbin, Gen eral J. C. Breckenridge, General George D Ruggles, General M. L. Luddington, Cap tain-TjWkerN.'Bliaa, .of,. General iJchofleld'i staff; representatives of the United State Navy; Captain Howell, Commanders Diet ens and Houston; representatives of the sev eral commanderies of the Loyal Ldgion officers and ex-offlcsrs of the RegiaisaU Association of the Twenty-third Ohio . Vo unteer Infantry; officars and ex-offloers o theG. A. R..of Ohio; Governor WUUan Kinley's staff; members of the General At sembly of Ohio, and all the civil officers 0 the State in the order of nrecadenca. That followed the municipal officers of Cleveland Toledo and Sandusky. The military escort, consisting of thf Cleveland Military Troop, the Sixteenth Riglment, O. N. G., and Battery D of Toledo, was commanded by Colonel H. 8 Bunker. Metabera of the G. A. R. and Son of Veterans not otherwise assigned com ?nf th? ?u?rL The noat of hono; washefdby the First Troop of Cavalry 01 Cleveland, of which Webb C. Hayes Is i member. The body baarers were eight mem beraof General Hayes's old Twenty-thlr Regiment. The Ohio Commandery of thi Loyal Legion was represented. After tne brief ana-simple ritual of th Grind Army of the Republic, all that *a mortal of Rutherford B. Hayes, nlneteencl President of the United Stated was com mittei to the tomb. ? hi ? ?-j Milfs EE-ELECTED. The Texaa Senator Returned Foi Another Term. ROGER Q. MILLS. The Legislature of Texas in session at Austin has juat re-elected Roger Q. Mills t< the United States Senate. In the stats Senate Mills was chosen on the first ballot. Th< vote was: Mills, 29; Nugent, 1. In the House the vote was: Mills. 114; Thomas L. Nugent, 8; N. W. Cuney, I. Judge Nujent was the Populist candidate for Governor al the late election. Cuney is leader of the colored Republicans and Collector of ttu Port of Galveston. The Legislature thee adjourned until next morning, when th< joint session was held. It was brief, as Mr. Mills received the entire Legislative vote except chat of the nine Populist members. Roger Quarels Mills is a native of Ken tucky, having been born in toe old town of Salem, in Todd County, tnac Stite, in 1832, He was seventeen years old when he removed to Texas and taosc up the study o( law. He was elected a member of the Statt Legislature a tew years afterward. Witt the breaumg out of the war he joined th<i Confederate Army as Colonel of a Texas rezlirenc of infantry. He was wouned sev eral times, though "not seriously. Retiring trom the army he returned to his boma iri Corsicatia an.i resumed the practice of law In 1ST2 be was elec&jd to Congress on the Democratic ticket, .and has been in activf public lite ever since. Mr. Mills was always a tariff reformer, a.nd ha was selected bj Speaker Carlisle in>the Fiftieth Congress to hill Jr. linn nrifh vfftwsol Presideat Cleveland. Th9 measure whict: bore bis name was>che result. iu a spiritet contest for the Speakership of the House ol Representatives last winter, Mr. Mills wm deteated by Mr. Qrisp of Georgia^ the votf standing Crisp, l/ff; Mills, 104; McMillin, 4, He was elected tTnitei States Senator M%rct ?3, IS92, to fill t|fe unexpired term of Johi H. Raagau. j I f j PBOMINENT PEOPLE. 19 General Bctleb died owning 97,000, <H>J. ' Ijk King of Greece speaks twelve lad guagea. ' Ex-Senator Ing alls, of Elansae, says he is making <5000 a month by lecturing. **)an" Caffert, the new Louisiana Senator, is called the "Roaring Lion dt St. Maria." Presidentelect Cleveland , will remain in his residence at Latcewooi, N. J., until March. Governor Cleaves, of Maine, selected three of the handsomest men in his own town to members of his staff. In the House of Representatives the man with the largest name is Archibald Hen* dersoa Arrington Williams, of North Caro * I linn. Bia Arthur Saixrvaif is said to have struck a million notes on a piano in eight hours. The performance was the result of J> a challenge. The Prince of Wales ha? no intention of iriting Chicago this year, according to a statement by his Private decretal y, Sir Francis SInoilys. Charles B Lewis, the humorist, who writes under the name of M. Quad, has iron gray hair and wfcars a mustache, and is >, about the average in height. f Mrs. George Heiest, wife of the late i Senator Hearst, of California, is the most heavily insured woman in the world. Her r policies amount.to #500.003. I The new Prtgident of the SwIsb Republic ?who has held the office during six previous terms?is a Calviniat clergyman and was regarded until lately as one of the best all-round athletes in Switzerland. The late- Professor Horsfofd devised a [ profit-sharing system for the employes of the manufacturing company of which he was President, that included dowers * to such of the women as might leaVe to ' marry. ; Dr. F. S. Smith, author of "My Country, , 'Tis of Thee," was a member of the Harvard class of 1820. He is a clergyman, but seldom I dreaches now. Newton, nfnea is hi* hnm? out he is rigorous enough to take Che train into Boston occasionally, although he is disinclined to make long journeys. Da. M. O. Kicextt8 (colored)* of Omaha, is a member ot the Neorasta Legislature. The doctor is a bright/ intelligent-looking gentleman, and in conversation the smoothest in the House. He enjoys tire distinction of being the only colored man that dVer held a seat in the Nebraska Leguuatui?.'' Horace Smith, one 0f the founders of ths revolver firm of Smith & Wesson, who died a few da^s ago at Springfeld, Mass., has be* queathed his entire fortune, said to amount to at least 12,000,000, to benevolent and charitable objects, with the exception of 115,000, which is given to a brother. Pbesidebt Diaz, of Mexico, is (Ae of the hardest worked men in the Republic. He is sixty-two years old, but his life has been so temperate that he looks much younger. His daily routine is one of democratic simplicity, and he frequently rides in the street cars. When be does make nse of a carriage it is > one of the plainest in the capital, and the driver is not in livery. AncHBiSHor Oatoijj; the apostolic dalegate to tbe United atates, is a lean-built, profoundly determined-looking ""?n of ascetic .manner, with a pronounced Rnm?^ nose, a bald, high forenead and1 deep-set, penetrating eyes, and in general appearance is a typical Italian cieric. Although ovar fifty years of age, the Pope still lovee to call him one of his boys. He is a special friend and protege of Lira XIIL It is stated that he will receive KWOu per annum for his services in America. THE LABOR WORLD. Uncle Sajc has 330,000 .drummers, a FrrcHBUBO, Mas}., has never had a strike. 1 Thz cattle yards in Chicago give employ' ment to 25,000 people. \ New York musicians earn salaries ranging from $50J to 15030. A Ckttkal Labor Fjsdkra.tio* is* to be 1 established lu Philadelphia , i TbeSe are 430 industries in New Orleans, a La., in whioh women labor. I Coal miners ia many parts of Pannayl'' vania are said to ba starving. The Central Labor Union of Indianapolis ' has oeen made a secret bod/. ( Chicago policeman are about to make a j concerted stand for higher salaries. i' The American Federation of Labor has t decided not to join the Central Labor Union. 1 Kbupp's great gun works at Essen, Gari many, consume lWJtt tons of coal and coke a 1 day. ' Th?Denver (Col.) Trades and Labor Assembly has voted in favor of State ownership of coal mines. i The striking German miners, who have . lost their struggle, are resorting to dynar mite as a means of revenge. t The Federation of Labor ia to enter into 1 an educational campaign, and desires the * use of puolic school ouildings for laoor 1 meetings. 9 It is estimated that 15.000 men, 2500 horses and 10D s tea ox engineii were occupied ? in harvesting the ici from the surfaca of ? the Huuson. Labors as in Russia must work 267 days every year; in Scotlsnl 270, England 273, Spain 290, Austria 205, Francs, 'J'Jt, Sweden 3 j4, Hungary 312. Baggage Agent Seitklvs and his assistants at tne Union Station, fittsburg, Penm, handled nearly 6,000,000 packages and piec*? of baggage during tne past year, r Though American wages are higher than European in iron and steel industries, yet the labor cost of manufacture per similar uait is noc proportionately more. Havxbsill, Man., manufacturers are considering a plau to onus fifteen hundred colored mea North aad set ti.?m to woric m a soda factory waica is soon cj be built there. Chicago has more, than 30,000 children outside ol scnool doors in the "poor wards, ' and hundreds of these children are at work as casn boys and girls or in the factories and sweat shop? 1* Massachusetts mills woman and children are from two-thirds to five-sixths of ail employed, and th9 proportion in alt the manufacturing portions 0i New England is nearly the same". Two thousand men discharged by the street railway and other corporations of , Montreal, Canada, nearly moboad the Al' dermen in the City Hall for considering a petition of carcars tor the withdrawal oi street cars, on tne plea tnat taey ruin the stroets. A SCENE IN CONGBESS. A Fall-Fledged Indian Chief Occupies the Speaker's Chair. > There was an amusing scene in the Cham! ber of the House of Representatives at Washington, a few days ago, prior to the J meeting. A full-booded Indian, Chief , Wolff of the State of Washington, was f seeing the sights of the Capitol, and of i course bis steps tended towards the lar^e ' building located oa Capitol Hill. Here he was taken in charge by Frank Gorman, an ! employe of the House, who has a humorous side to bis nature. The gaudily-bedecked chief, with feathers waving ov;r him. and who used a miniature feather-duster as a f iu, was escorted tr> tne chair and toos the Speaker's seat. He oc cupied it with dignity, although he was ' somewhat at s?a as to the use of the gavel, i He mistook it' for a pipe, and the end pieca ' went naturally to his mouth. ' :l IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. I The Former Increased, and the Lat' ter Diminished. J j The value of United States imports for ' 1892 was $876,193, 179, an increase of $47,i J77.236 over the preceding year. The value J if domestic merchandise exported iast year I iras $9:23,220,3U, as against $970,333,551 ia t 1891. 3 During the last year the exports of gold > irera $70,498,479; imports of gold, $17,4oJ,? MO; exports of silver, $35,975,334; imports of i diver, $21,726,232. i The number of icnmigraats landed in 1893 m 543,487. I MBS PIRISE N , r'* ' ? ,Vw i A Fearful Explosion in M Austrian Mine. -V t- ' 'T . More Than Four Score Crushed and Suffocated. Eighty miner* were killed and scores were injured by an explosion at the Fort~ schritt (Austria) mine, a few mornings ago, when the shifts were changing. A cage fall of miners had been lowered half way down the shaft when the ground trembled end a rambling report was heard, and the oable attached to the cage gave each a larch that the lowering machinery broke. A rash of air and dost "from the pttfe month, the sounds of crashing timbers, and the cries of the men in the cage gave warning to the man abore of the extent of the disaster. Help was summoned, the machinery was repaired after a delay of half an boor, and the cage was raised. Ten of the occupants had been killed instantly by tha shock, ten hadsuffered fatal fracture?, fire who nad broken limbs and internal injuries wilt lira. Thar had ban half suffocated by the gas ruing in the shaft, and aaid that no man could live be* v -2? low. An hoar later the superintendent of the mine and five miners from the night shift went down la the cage. They were, unable to go more than a hundred yards from the fihaft into the gallery, bat they found fourteen dead bodies. Of the fifty men who were waiting for V the cage ten*had been killed and forty had , ben partially crashed by falling timbers or half suffocated by the foal air. A short: distance from the shaft the sapsriatendeat foand foar bodies which had been crashed beyond recognition by a falling beam. ' -. ' The bodies aod the Injared ware taken to the top, where the whole mining settlement had gathered to watch the wott of jejcaa* Tbemen who had been broaghtap from the bottom nid that a few minutes after the axpkxdonstiiay haard CTia8 ^ groans from the month of agallsry aboat890 yards from the shaft. There was heaTy. timber work at thttf plaoe, and .they baJieved that the nwhin tha gallery had been imprisoned by the fallen beams. They believed that soom forty men had been at work there. Shortly before the cage canto down, they said, the cries oeased. Another racas party wsnt dowa at onoe. and, after three* man had been carried back to the shaft uncoacdoos, penetrated to the ontranca to the gallery. Theentraooewasoomplesely,blocked by the wrecked woodwork. The Micas party could see dead bodies oa the oth-r ride of the timbers, bat were unable to get at them, and returned to the top eakpfy nandad. It was then believed that all tne men in the J gaUary wars suffocated or killed by the Twelve miners, who worked in the ex- x treme Interior of tho mine on the night thift and had not started for the shaft so soon as their companions, ware also believed to be dead. '' CARLISLE BE8IQKS.' The Kentucky Senator Will Bnt* Cleveland's Cabinet, \ ./ohn a. cablwi* Senator John G. Carlisle'd long expected letter resigning his seat la the United 8 tafcss Senate in order to accept the Treasury portfolio in Mr. Clevelandfs Cabinet mi r? ceiverj at noon a few daysr ago by Governor Brovrn, of Kentucky. It reads; Unxtxd Statss Snran. ) ; WaSHOTOTOW, D. c., January 18,188&J /Ion. John Young Brawn, Gorernorof Sew tucky, Frankfort, Ky.: I hereby resign the office of Senator from the State of Kentucky In the Congress of the United States, to take effect on the 4th day of February, 1893. Yours truly, J. G. Caxumxm* I Governor Brown transmitted the lettei Immediately to the Legislator in a special message. and it was entered in the journal of each noose. MABTIN FOB SEKATOB. A.X>emocrat Selected, by the Votes of the PopalUtg in Kansas. Amid interne excitement add under the most peculiar circumstance} surrounding an election of the land, Judge John Martin, leader of the Fusion Democracy of Kansas, mm elected at Topeka to the United States Senate by a combination of Populists and Democrats. Judge Martin received the solid vote of the tweoty-five Populists and Democrats in the Senate. In the Populist Bouse he received sixty-two votes; this aumber including several of those who have K<u?n aAabvi bv the Pjnulists on contests. When tbe vote *u completed the Lieutenant Governor announced tbe result as follows: John Martin, 3?; II. W. Co burn, 4; ffanna, 1; Snyder, 1; Close, L The Lieutenant Governor then said: John Martin, having receive 1 a majority o? the rotes cast for United States Senator is declared elected United States Senator. The Republicans of both Houses then went into joint committee, but the combined force of the two bodies was only seventy-eight, five :ess than a quorum. A ballot for Senator was taken, resulting in seventy-eight votes for Ady. John Martin was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, on November 12, 1833, i a is parents being natives of South Carolina. He studied law (a Lebanon, lean., and in 1855 accompanied Rush Elmore, United States District Judge, to Kansas, where be oas sine a resided, most of the time at To- i. peka. He was clerk of the Territorial Legislature which met iu Soawnee County in 1857, Assistant United States Attorney in 185$. Reporter at the Sapreme Court in 1S6J, member of the Legislature in 1873, and Judge of the District Court of Snawnee County in 1833. He has several times been Chairman oi the Democratic' Central Committee and delegate to the National Democratic Convention. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1878, and again in 1882, but declined the latter * * * ' MIsf cmiuaiioa on accuuuu u?. ? adopted. > ' TEIPLE TRAGEDY. " An English Teacher ?.lll3 Wile, Child and. Sell. Intense oxcitemenc m ciusjd at Hove, . England, a suburb of Brighton, and in Brighton itself, by the discovery of a triple tragedy at the former place. Arthur Black, a teachor of classics and matnematics, his wife and his son, aged two years, were found dead in their homes cy some of the neighbors. The child had been stabbed | in the neclr. The body of Mrs. Black, with I l^o/i faMMiKtv H**nioA/4 xxraa Ivt'nt nn fJ>a KUO Licau l>Q|4 VftMWWu, **v*4 ?J ??j VM ??w floor in a room abpve that in which the body of her son was found. She had apparently been beaten to death with a hammer. Tftera was no wound visible on Black's bgdy. Oa a table beside him were a bloody hammer and a tableknife, also bearing blood-stains, and a bottle that had contained poison wan standing on a chair beside the table. It ia the general opinion that Black murdered his wife and child an 1 tnon committed suicide by taking poison. . A