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CLEVELAND'S CABINET. His Official Family Announced Before the Inauguration. Biographical Sketches of the Presidential Advisers. In defiance of numerous precedents in the cue Mr. Cleveland removed the baa of aeerecy which usually makes the composition of the Presidential cabinet a mystery so til the inauguration, and as fast as h? had chosen his advisers and their acceptances of the positions rrere received official announcement of the fact was made from the "Little White House" at Like wood, N. J. The list of appointments as thus given out, supplemented by a biographical sketch of each cabinet minister, is as follows: Secretary of State?Walter Q. Gresham, cf Illinois. Secretary of the Treasury?John G. Carfcle. of Kentucky. Postmaster-General?Wilson S. Bissell, of New York. Secretary of War?Daniel S. Latnont, of New York. Secretary of the Navy?Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama. Attorney- General?Richard Olnev. of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior?Hoke Smith, of Georgia. Secretary of Agriculture?J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska. Secretary of State. Judge Walter Quintin Gresham, who will occupy a seat in the Cleveland Cabinet as Secretary of State, was born on March 17, 1833, in a queer old farmhouse near Lanes ilie, Harrison County, Ind. His father, William Greeham, was Sheriff of a backwoods county, and when Walter was two years old the father was shot while attemptlog to arrest an outlaw by the name of Spies. Judge Gresham was then next to the .youngest of fire small children. His mother was poor and owned a small farm. Elbe managed by hard work to keep the family together, and, as a boy, Walter followed the plow and studied by night. When sixteen years of age he obtained a clerkship in the County Auditor's offioe, and with the nooey earned defrayed his expenses at school and at Bloomington University. Returning to Corydon tie studied law in the office of Judge W. A. Porter. When twenty-two years of age he was admitted to the bar. In politics be was a Whig, and joined the Republican Party when it was organized. His partner was a delegate to the convention which nominated John C. Fremont in 1856, and young Gresban stumped the State for the Pathfinder. In 1869 Gresham was elected on the Republican ticket to the legislature. When the war broke out his constituents wished him to return to the Legislature bat Gresham wouldn't have it, and enlisted a> a private in the Thirty-eighth Regiment. Almost immediately he was mode its Lieutenant Colonel. At Leggett's Hill, before Atlanta, be was shot in the knee^ and he has never since that time recovered from the effects of the wound. After the 1 WALTER Q. G EES HAM. surrender of Vicksburg Grant and Sherman recommended that he be made a BrigadierGeneral, and shortly after he received his commission. In 1865 he was brevetted a . Major-General. After being: mustered out V . be started to practice law at New Albany, lad. Two positions were offered him under General Grant as President and - he refused both. He ran for Coneress twice and was defeated by Michael C. Kerr. In 1889 be was appointed Uniteid Utates District Judge for Indiana and accepted. He was Postaaster-General unaer President Arthur. At the close of President Arthur's term be was made Secretary of the Treasury, but only held the position for a short time. Suosequently he became United i States Judge for the Seventh Judicial Court. In 1863 he made some remarkable decisons in the celebrated Wabash cases. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1884 and again in 18S8. He weeded from bis party in the last compaign and announced his intention of voting for ?rover Cleveland. Secretary ot the Treasury. 1 JOHN G. CARLISLE. John Griffin Carlisle, who resigned his Mat in the Senate in order to accept the portion of Secretary of the Treasury, is a na? tire of Campbell (now Kenton) Count?, Kentucky, where he was born on September 8,2835. He received his schooling from the common schools of the county and subse fJQCUUY uoumio a o^uwi ica^uu au VA;TIU^" too. He began the study of law, and ia 1858, at the age of twenty-three, fas was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Covington and met with almost immediate success. When the war opened he was a member oil the Kentucky Legislature. After the war he served in the State Senate and &j Lieutenant-Governor. In 1876 h? was elected to represent the Covington District in Congress and was re-elected biennially thereafter up to 18$), when, on May 17. be was chosen to com plate the term of James B. Beck, deceased, in the United States Senate. As a member of Congress he ranked higa as an * authority on fiscal an1 economic subjects, i He served as Spaaker of the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was a recognized leader in the Senate, where in debate he was ready and so uetimes aggressive^ When speaking ha was deliberate and undemonstrative. He was a careful student and a bard worker. Poet master-General. "Wilson Shannon Bissell, who succeeds Mr. Wanamaker as Postmaster-General, is a Buffalo lawyer. He was born in New London, N. Ym December 81,1847, and when he was six years old his parentis removed to Buffalo. He studied in the schools of that city, and then entere 1 Yale. At ttie age of twenty-two he bad graduated and was studying law with A. P. Lansing, wao subsequently formed a firtnership with Mr. Cleveland and Oscar olsom. In 1372 Mr. Bissell formed a partnership with Lyman K. Bass, and a year later the firm became Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. The firm dissolved on the removal of Mr. Bass to Colorado and the election o: Mr. Cleveland as Governor. Mr. Bissell re~~.o,n<ro i t-.h? firm with new ttarcners and built up a large practice. He is regarded aa an able iv ilroad lawyer. He has been President ol . vo or three small railroads ia the western < 'art of New York State and Pennsylvania. He is also a director in a number ?C corp< th tions. He is a man of strong convictions, u>"s m uuiformly good naturad. He t is President of the Buffalo Club, and Mr. Cleveland is yerj fond of him. When Mr. WILSON1 3. BISSH-U Cleveland wis married Mr. Bissell acted as best man. Secretary ot War. Daniel Scott Lamont, who is to be President-elect Cleveland's Secretary of War, is now forty-one vear3 old. He was born at Cortlandville, Cortland County, N. Y. For thirty-five years, up to a short time ago, his father was a storekeeper in a Cortland County town called McUrawville. Mr. Lamont's first work was performed as his father's clerk, and at the same time he at DANIEL SCOTT LAVONT. tended school. He entered Union College in 1872, and even before his graduation was something of a politician. When be was nineteen he was Deputy Clerk in t he Assembly, and at twenty, which was in 1871, he was a delegate to the Democratic State Convention at Rochester. When Lumont was twenty-one he was nominated by the Democrats for County Clerk of Cortland County, but lost, lu 1874 he ran for Assembly and lost by a few votes only. He then became Deputy Clerk of the Assembly at Mr. Tilden's request. Subsequently he was appointed Coief Clerk of the State Department. When Governor Tilden organized the party in the State be called npon young Lamont, among others, for assistance. In 1875, during the State campaign, he was Secretary of the State Committee. He was actively engage! in eveiy campaign np to the time he went to Washington as Grover Cleveland's Private Secretary. When Cleveland was Governor, Mr. Lamont accepted the post of Military Secretary of the Staff, and the position carried with it the title of Colonel. When in 1389 Mr. Cleveland retired to private life Mr. Lamont accepted an offer from William C. Whitney and Oliver EL Payne and became associated with them in the projects of the Metropoli tan Traction Company. Mr. Lamont is of a quiet disposition. Ue is slow when talking and of modest demeanor. He married Miss Julia Kenney of Cortland in 1874, and they have three children. Secretary ot the Navy. nttlRT A. HERBERT. Hilary A. Herbert wa* born at Laurens* ville, 8. C.t on March 12, 1834. He removed to Greenville, Ala., in 1846, and was educated at the University o? Alabama and the University of Virginia. He is a lawyer by profession, having been admitted to the bar just before the war. He has served sixteen years in Congress. During; much of his Congressional career be has been a member of the Committee on Naval Affair?, having been made Chairman of that Committee about the beginning of Mr. Cleveland's former term. During this time be has worked zealously for the interest of the Navy, which has earned for him the title of the Congressional Secretary of the Navy. At the time the Civil War broke out Mr. Herbert entered the Confederate service as a captain and was soon promoted to the Colonency of the Eighth Alabama Volunteers. He was disabled at the battle of the Wilderness, in 1364. At the close of the war he resumed his law practice, and in 1872 removed to Montgomery, which has since been his home. In 1876 he was elected to Congress and reelected in 1878, 18S0, 188i, 1881, 1885, 1883I and 1890. He is a widower, with three children?a married daughter, a younger daughter who is popular in Washington society circles, and a son at school. His left arm is shorter than his right, the result of injuries received in the battle of the Wilderness In Washington Mr. Herbert lives at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary ot interior. | w \ J I m HOKE SUITS. Holco Smith, of Georgia, named as Sacratar> of the Interior, is thirty-eight years old and was born in rtortn Carolina, nia father was H. H. Smith, and the newcomer was named Hoke after his mother, who was a Miss Hoke. The Hokes are an eminent Southern family, and are represented in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. He began to practice law in Atlanta In 1879; , and he standi welt in the profession. Mr. > Smith is over six feet tall and weighs about 250 pounds. He has regular feature* and a deathly pale complexion, which is not an in> di cat ion of bad%ealth for he scaroely know* what it is to be ill. In some ways he bears a forcible resemblance to Mr. Cleveland. His fame has been won as a politician and not as a lawyer. He is the owner of the Atlanta Journal, an afternoon newspaper, but does not claim to be an editor. The income from his law business is estimated to be from 130,000 to $35,000 a year. He is known throughout Georgia and in Alabama as an anti-corporation lawyer, and the biz suits against railroad companies which he has won for his clients are numbered in the hundreds. Mr. Smith married in 1883 the daughter of Howell Cobb, ex-Governor of Georgia, a Confederate Genera), who was Secretary of the Treasury under President Pierce. He has three children. Attorney-General. Richard Olney was born in Oxford, Mass., September 15, 1835, and is a member of the Massachusetts bar. He was graduated from Brown University in the class of '56. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and entered the law offices of Judge Benjamin F. Thomas, in Boston, in 1859. He advanced rapidly in his profession and was for many years counsel for the Eastern Railroad Company, and after the consolidation was retained as counsel for the Bos ton & Maine, a position which he now holds. He is also counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Chicago, Hurllngton & Quincy railroads. In Boston Mr. Otney is known as an old line Democrat, although he was never actively engaged in politics. He has on several occasions refused to accept public preference to confine himself to hia law practice. He has at least twice refused to accept a place on the bench of the Supreme Court of his State, Governor Russell naving been desirous to appoint him when the last vacancy occurred. Mr. Olney served one term in the lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1874, and once accepted the Democratic nomination for Attorney-General of the State, althou?rh it was only an honorary nomination. When the vacancy occurred in the office of Chief Justice of the United State?, Mr. Olney's name was presented to President Cleveland, bat the appointment went to Melville M. Fuller. Secretary of Agriculture. J. STERLING H03T0*. J. Sterling Morton wan born in Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., April 22, 1832. While yet a boy his parents removed to Michigan, where he attended the school at Albion and subsequently at the State University at Ann Arbor. He went later to Union College, New York, where he graduated in 1854. At the age of twenty-two he married Miss Caroline Jay French, and terted almost immediately with his bride for the West. He located first at Bellevue, but shortly afterward removed to Nebraska City, where he became the editor of the Nebraska City News, which position he held for a number of years. A year after Mr Morton's arrival in Nebraska he was elected T^fAnlol T.Q(rialfthiPfl In 1857 hf kU VUO .. .. was chosen again and took an active part in the proceedings of one of the most exciting and memorable legislative sessions in th< history of the Territory. In 1338 he became Secretary of the Territory, and a few months later, through the resignation of Governor Richardson, Mr. Morton became Acting Territorial Governor. Mr. Morton took no part in public life after that foi sixteen years. In 1883 he again ras for Governor against J. W. Dawes and E. P. Ingersoll. He ran after war 1 in 1834 and again in 1892 for the same office. He was appointed to represent Nebraska at the Paris Exposition, and was one of th9 Commiseionars at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1878. For many years he was a prominent member and President of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture and Horticulture, and to him the honor of being the originator of "Arbor Day" ha? been cradited. Mr. Morton ha? been a farmer all his life. For twenty-five year* he has lived on the same farm outside of Nebraska City. He took up land tbere, he explains, as a squatter, and' after holdin ? it for two years secured a title from th9 Government. For twenty years he has beec connected with the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture. His farm is known as Arbor Lodge, and Arbor lJay, wnicu comet on April 22, Is his birthday, His farm ia a half mile square. CAPTURED BT BANDITS. Desperadoes' Successful Kald ia a Western Town. A few nights since just after Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train No. 2 pulled out of Adair station, Indian Territory, three desperadoes confronted the agent and robbed him of $8700. Eighteen citizens woo appeared on the scene were made to hold up their hands and were marched at the point* of the bandits' guns to one of the commercial stores in the town, which was robbed of #3JO. The robbers then marchel the men to the stock yards where their horses were hitched. They then mounted and departed. CENTENARIANS DEAD. Mrs. Catharine Uoss, of Nova Scotia, Leaves 208 Grandchildren. Three of the oldest people in Nova Scotia died within a week. One was Malcom Mc Mullin, aged 106. He lived at Catalone, Cape Breton, with his son, grandson and great-grandson, and for years past it was a daily occurrence to see the four generations working in the fields together. Mrs. Catharine Ross, of Northeast Margaree. died, aged 101, leaving 203 grandM TV?na.lfi Rhlnholm. a?ed 102. I died at Guysboro Intervale. SHOT WHEN EXTRADITED. Desperado Lopez Executed Jos Across the Mexican Border. A special receive! from Lisbee, neat* the Mexican border, states that Eduardo Lopex, a desperado wanted in Mexico for thj murder of a prominent official at Fro titer as, was turned over to the Mexican authorities under extradition. The Territorial officers accompanied the prisoner to the line. The Mexican officials then took Lopez 300 feet upon Mexican territory, bouna him to a pjst and shot him dead. Lopez had killed a score of men in Sonora and in Arizona in the last five years. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Atlanta, Ga , is to have a new courthouse and city hall under one roof . The cosl of the building will be over $500, 000, and il will be one of the finest public edifices it the South. A Siberian exhibition is to be held at Moscow in 1695. The exhibition i3 being organised with the view of bringing under the uotice of European countries th9 proiu3ti.ino nnH rMnurras of Siberia. At Minneapolis, Minn., one G-areke became angry at bis horse for refusing to pull a load ot gravel. Ho tied a rope on the horse's tongue, hitched another horse on the rope and pulled the tongue out by the roots He la under arrest. / TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. I The Lffiljst Intelligences From at Home and Abroad. Miss Julia Force, of Atlanta, Murders Two Younger Sisters, Just before 2 o'clock a few afternoons ago at Atlanta, Ga., Mis3 Julia Force, thirtyeight years old, shot and killed her two younger sisters Florence, thirty years old, and Minnie, twenty-fire, at the residence of their brother, A. W. Force, on Crews street. TTiifwo anlxrwi Polica UWU aivok iuwo * w? w w?--. Headquarters and gave herself up, saying: to Captain Wright: "I have coo* mittcd a crime, and want to get the protection of the law." She is thought to be insane. She is a member of an old and historic . outhern family. The tragedy was the result of family differences. A domestic employed by the family says the younst woman has been out of her head for months. An offlcsr was sent to the house. A. W. Force, a brother of the girl, had just got home. Miss Florence Force, one of the slain sisters, bad been an invalid for some time. The position in which her body lay indicated that she bad risen from the bed in alarm, and just as her feet touched the floor bad received the shot which killed her. ? She was lying on her back across the bed, I both hands pressed to her cheek in the attitude of fright. Her eyes were wide open, with the fixed death stare, and her features were hard to recogpize. She wore her night dress only. '"Toet-e was no evidence of a struggle in the room. The medicine bottles were in their places on the tal le by the bed. Miss Minnie, clad in a housa dress of dark brown, lay at full length on her back with her arms extended, as if she had thrown them up as she fell backward. She looked as if she had been advancing to the door when her sister entered, pistol in hand, and had received the fatal shot directly in the face. When the reporters entered this room the aged mother of the three sisters was bent over the dead body of Miss Minnie, moaning and uttering exclamations of the deepest grief. Mrs. Force had '?een down town when the tragedy occurred, and bad just returned to the hofc<e to And two of her daughters corpses and the other in the hands of tne po lice. The room occupied by Miss Julia Force was a picture of neatness and order. The bed was neatly and freshly made, the toilet articles on the bureau were in their places, and the only indication of the awful crimo that had been done was a pistol, the weapon which had done the deed. It was a thirtytwo calibre double action revolver. It was new, and had never tirad other than the two shots. The funeral of the Hisses Force took place next day from their late residence. Episcopalian and Presbyterian ministers officiatea, one of the dead women being an ardent worker in the Episcopalian Church and the other in the Presbyterian Church. The World's Fair Tickets. For a week the bank note faotories at Daltou, Mass., have been makingpeculiany distinctive paper that is to be used for tickets of admission to the World's Fair. The first order, which was for 5,000,000 tickets, has been shipped to New York, so that the American Bank Note Company may have time for the elaborate engraving ou the ticket. It is expected that many will .be aold. as souvenirs. To guard against counterfeits it has been decided that between the sheets of paper of which the card is composed there shall be scattered plan:hets of tisauo paper. These planchets are of different sizes, the largest as big as a pinhead* They are of three colors, blue, pint and salmon, the shades being plainly discornible through the thin paper on both sides. The planchets are not scattered all over the card, bat simply in a row less than an inch wide across from top to bottom. The tissue cut in these little disks is expensive, and considerable t will be saved by using them only in the cen ' tra ol toe ticket. i as caiei rotuuu iur piw ing them in this way is the increased difficulty in counterfeiting. The sizs of the tickets will be 2% by 4% inches. The style of tickets was approved by the Treasury D;partment when W. Murray Crane was in Washington a week ago. Fire Life Saver* Drowned. ' Bow and Pigs Reef, extending southwest from the island of Cattyhunk, Massachusetts, wad the scene of a thrilling fatality the other night. Five gallant life savers, while attempting to rescus the crew of the brig Sagua, bound from Cuba for Boston, were drowned. The vofisel ran on the reef early in the evening and was discoverad'by, William Eisener, son of the light keeper at West End, who hastened to the village and sent word to the life savers. Their boat was soon launched, despite the terrible sea, and was manned by Captain Timothy A. Akin, Jr., Isaiah H. Til ton, Eugene Brlghtman, Josiab Tilton, Hiram Jackson aud Frederic* Akin. After a hard battle they reached the vessel's side, only to be strucic by a tremendous wave and capsized. All of the crew except Joaiah Tilton were drowned. Tilton grasped a rope thrown from the brig and was dragged on deck. Another rope, thrown to Captain Akin, was tied on him three times, but slipped every time. The loss of the crew was not known to the islanders until liex; morning, and then wives, sisters, parents and children tramped the beach in despair. Tbe crew of the brig was rescued by means of a breeches-buoy, the line being fired from the tug Elsie. Extra Session ot the Senate. The President issued a proclamation convening the Senate <n extra session on thi iifli nt M?pph Th? nroel&mation savs: Whereas, Public interacts require that the Senate should be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such commnnications as may be made by the Executives Now, therefore, I, Bsnjamin Harrison, President oLthe United. Statee^.do. hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol in the city of "Washington, on the 4th day of March next at 12 o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. IThis is the usual course pursued at the outgoing of each Administration, to enable the Senate to "advise and consent" to the Cabinet selected by the incoming President. It is also customary at the same s339ion to send in the names of Ministers selected for the most important foreign posts and other leading offices at home. Killed a Oirl aatf Himself. J. Frank Gilbough until a few manths ago was a clerk in the freight department of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Company at Galveston, Texas. People near Sixteenth street and Avenue I wera startled at 5 o'clock the other afternoon by thj report of three pistol shots. Gilbough's body was found lying across the sidewalk, his head in a pool of blood from a wound just back of his right ear. The body of Miss Dora Wassam was by his side. The father of the dead girl, A. M. Wassen, a real estate dealer, said; ' This is my daughter.* The man who Killed ner 13 r rans umoougu. ns whuwj her to marry him, but my wife objected on account of her age. She was only seventeen years old." Congo Arabs Defeated. The Congo State has received dispatches to the effect that Commander Dbauis has defeated a horde of Arab slave traders in Africa, under Tippu Tib's son, and has captured 5iK) orisoners and OOJ rides. The fight took place naar Sefu, on the Lomamai River. During recent skirmishes between the Europeans ani the Arabs M. Lippens, formerly a resident of Kasougo, and Lieutenant De Bruyn were killeJ. Lieutenant Chaltin routed the Arabs at Yadumua and /reed eighty slaves who were dying of starvation. Unless cannon ba sent at once, he adds, the Europeans canuot hope | to hold their own. iwo isrotners t oana ueaa. Thomas and John Fagan, brothers, aged about eighty years, were fouad dead on the floor in their house, four miles north of Hoilj, Mich. They lived entirely alone, and it is not known when or how they died, but suicide is suspected. They were rich, ani their money is sup posed to be buried. Their peculiar drMsaud ' Habits have excltsd much comment ia the past, it Li thought that they had been dead several days. Marderj Her Motfier and Cousin. T1 Jennie Wonch. sixteen years of age, murdered her motner and cousin, a boy of five years old, in a shanty in which thsy lived near Craigleith, Canada- Tae girl used an _ axe, and the bodies of her victims were hor- XI ribly mutilated. Jennie's brother says her sitter wanted her mother out of the war so she could marry her sweetheart, ^ Ten Persons Drowned. an/ While a peasant wedding party was yai crossing the Dnieper near Ekaterinoslay. .Russia, the ice broke anl two sledges, containing ten persons, disappeared under water. All were swept uuaer the ice and ^ were drowned. A PBINCES8 PLEADS. ani Kaialanf, Seeking Sympathy, Isaac* we a Manifesto to the People. PRCTCZSS KAIUXANT. ^ PrincssB Victoria Kaiolanf, 'the seventeen- 24 year-old Hawaiian girl who was heiress to 10, the throne of Hawaii when it existed, ar- ^?' rived at New York from England on the Teutonic a few afternoons ago. Her escort 1 from her English school was Theodore tec H Daries, and her party included ble Mrs.- and Miss Davios and Miss Whatoff, th( her companion. The P/incess left Honolulu an fonr years ago, when she was thirteen years ioc old, to complete her schooling in England, and during ner stay in that country she had joa been a ward of Mr. Davies and his wife, who ^ reside most of the time in England, although Mr. Davies is the British Consul in Honolulu " and one of tha largest sugar planters on the island. ? Ka.ulani is the daughter of Princess Likiliki, who was a sister of the late King Kala- *" kaua and the recently deposed Queen Liliuo- J.? kalani. Her father is Archibald 8. Cleg born, a Scotchma?, who is the present Governor of th* island of Oa'iu, on which Honolulu is situtfted. It wa3 intended that Kaiulani UP should remain at school in England until 001 she attained her lezal majority-, eighteen 801 years of ag?, next October. Then it was r*Jj plannad for ner to be received by Qu9en victoria and return to Honolulu, after visit- 5?a tug the President of the United States and ^ making an extended trip through P , this country. But these plans were violently . disarranged by the Hawaiian revolution, !?? and. accompanied by h9r English guardian, ,18 she hastily departed for this country to take |D<: a youthful hand in the ganw of politics ia , which her throne Is the stake. ?" The Princess Kalulani is a dignified young 8 1 woman: tall, slight, straight; has beautiful *?< black eyes and the musical voice of her race. *ul Her sight has been affected by overstudy *n< and she wears glasses of clumsy British jo* make. She talked freely and pleasantly about her life in England, but was disposed |?< to say very little on the subject of Hawaiian politics. The Princess issued tha following address "" to the American people: J "To the American People: ?n "Unbidden 1 stand upon your shores to? b? day, where I thought so soon to receive a 81(3 royal welcome on my way to my own king- eQi dom. I come unattended, except by the loving nearta wao cutuo wivu mo u?oi >u0 wintry seas. I hear that Commissioners ? from my land have been for many days ty] asking this great Nation to take away my ' little vineyard. They speak no word to me, Hi and leave me to f.ad out as I can from the inc rumors of the r^r that they would leave m* inc without a home or a name or a Nation. 18} "Seventy year? ago Christian America en< sent over Christian men and women to give am religion and civilization to Hawaii. They bu gave ns the Go3peJ, they made us a Nat.on, pr< and we learned to 1070 and trust America. 1 To-day three o! the sons oi taose missiot- dei ariea are at your capital asking you to undo ani their fathers'work. Who sent them? Who to gave them authority to break the Constitu- of tion which they swore they would uphold? me 'To-day 1, a poor, weak girl, with not 46C one of my people near me and all these dal Hawaiian statesmen against me, hive lat strength to stand up for the rights of my on people. . Eveu now! can hear their wail in 1 my heart, and it gives me strength and ve< courage and 1 am strong, strong in the faith all, of God, strong in tae knowledge that I am wii right, strong in the strength of seventy ahi millions o* people who in this free land will 101 hear my cry and will refuse to let their flag cover dishonor to mine. Kaiulaxi." ' N. UNDEB THE WALLS. * Seven People Killed by the Crushing _,j ?f Their Houses. * mi The lives of seven people were instantly th< crushod out in their sleep a few mornings 0ff ago at Chicago, 111. At the same moment fei one other person wa3 fatally injured and ?P two more wars dangerously hart. A heavy wind overturned the toppling; walls jj{ of the recently burned dry coods establishment of John Yoric at Halstead and mj Nineteenth street^ and an onormoua <po mass of brick, mortar and timber fell to upon a two-story structuro adjoiuing, occu* in, pied by the families of John Schmiat, a sa- wj Joon-keep3r, and James Kuazs, a jeweler, wj smashing buildinc and occupants without warning York's wall vras tire stories in ra height and it camo down with a forco that RD was terrific. Tbe killed were: g, William Kunze, aged sixty-seven years; Mrs. Mary Kunze, aged sixty-five years; ^ Johu Schmidt, aged forty years; Lizzie co Schmidt,aged eleven years; Hattie Schmidt, aD aged three years; Paulina Montina, aged ^ twenty-one years; George Mesterle, aged y twenty-eight years. The injured were; w Mrs. Carrie Schmld, skull fatally fractured and internally injured; Annie Schmidt, nine years of age, shoulder blade broken: Frod Kunzo.oged twenty-six years, oead, limbs and body bruised. N< VILLAGE SWEPT AWAY. lai Fatal Floods From the Overflowing tw ot the Danube. op A terrible calamity has overtaken tbe in village of Gergely, near the town of Pak?, thi in Huncarv. on the river Danube, about sixty miles south of Buda. Owing to a sud- rC' den rise of the Danube the 1600 inhabitants bit found the mud huts in whicn they lived sur- ?c rounded by water. an The frail dwellings gradually yielded be- po: fore the furious current, and the people took coi refuge in the church and school, and, led tht oy tneir pastor, offered Earnest prayers for ' their safety, and mothers and children clung wi' to the alter, beseeching the intercession of ity the saints. inc At last they decided that to remain would hai mean destruction, and started out in the of flood nearly to their waists in the directiou sea of Paks. One mother with five children sank cas and perished. Many others were drowned. plo The people of Paks gave the fugitives all the succor possible. Nothing could be done toward recovering jja the bodies until the river, then twenty feet a, out of bounds, retired within its usual channel. p0 ne the total railroad mileage in North Caro? lina, according to the Railroad Commissioners' report ju?t issued, is 3000 with a record ] of 135 persons killed and 32.1 injured. 0( these, thirty-nine were killed and 137 in- in jured on the Western North Carolina Koad. m; STiggest vessel i ie Huge Indiana Successfully Launched at Philadelphia. ill Description of Our First Beal Battleship. The great United 8tatee cattle-ship Indii was successfully launche 1 at the ship* rd of the William Cramp & Sons' Com* jy, Philadelphia, Penn., in the presence thousands of people, among them the addent of the United States, several rubers of the Cabinet and quite a large egation of Congressmen and others. - "** *-*? ?v #*ftm Wllflh* LUO X"resiueuufu parvj upun? uwu> >* ? ^toa on a special train over the Baltimore 1 Ohio Railroad. Among the visitors re Secretary of the Navy Tracy, PostiSter-Greneral Wanamaker, Attorneyneral Miller and his daughter,' Miss Jea , the fair christenar; Senators Voorhees J Turpie, of Indiana (ia honor of which ite the vessel is named), and others, fhe christening party proceeded to where > battle ship lay and took positions on a 8ed platform at the bow. Tust as the 4200 tons of steel started down ?incline, Miss Miller broke the customary itle of champagne, it being encased in a lutifully hand-painted and embroidered in cover, across the bow and firmly said: christen thee Indiana." fVhistleft shrieked, bells rang and the ?wd cheered and waved handkerchiefs anl Se huge coast defeaoe ship slid down tha 11-greased ways with comparative rapid* and struck the smooth watsrs of the la ware River with a fores that sent waves ;h into the air. Then she was towed back the wharves, and in about a year will be idy for service and turned over to the vernment. Che keel of the Indiana was laid oa May 1821, being the first of the three vessels thorizad by the act of Congrees approved ne 30, 1190. The principal dimensions >: Length of load line, 348 feet; extreme im, 69 feet 3 inches; draught on level keel, feet The vessel's displacement will be 388 tons. She is built of steel and has a able bottom for a distance of 196 feet, exiding for the length covared by the manery and magazine spaces Thus all the vital portions are amply proted, and every feature is provided to enai her to cope successfully with vessels of ) heaviest armor and armament. The nament of the Indiana lfl foar thirteen:h breech-loading rifles, eight eight-inch sech-loadlng rifles, nine six-inch breechding rifles, twenty six-pounder rapid flre four one-pounder rapid flre guns, four tling guns, six torpedo tubes. iJl the guns are protected by the latest mentions from the flre of an enemy. The >id-flre guns are so arranged that a rading flre of shot may be thrown around the ssel. The four thirteen-inch and the eight ht-inch guns are mounted in pairs within turrets, two of which are erected upon > main deck and the remaining four on the superstructure deck, the former itaining the larger and the latter the les' guns- The turrets are all mounted in loubts.' Phe armor of the Indiana, which was ide at the works of the Bethlehem Iron mpany, is the heaviest that was ever iced on an American warship. rhe following figures show the thickness the plating:7Thicknes3 of the side belt is - - p-? * ?J koif li. incises, iniCKnesa ui ?uu uuiuuw ?... ;hes, thickness of , thirt^en-Inch breecniding rifle redoubts 17 inches, thickness eight-inch breech-loading rifle redoubts ncnes and 10 inches, thickness of conning *er 10 inches, thickness of cunning tower be 7 inches, thickness of casement 5 she?, thickness of eight-inch breechullng rifle turrets 8.5 inches and 6 inches, ickness of six-inch breech-loading rifle sal protection 5 inches, thickness of eaty-pounder local protection 2 inches, Ickness of armor dec* 2.75 inches and 3 shes. [n addition to the armor protection t ie <inee will be protected by the coal in the nkers, measuring twelve feet on each !e back of the side armor. Each boiler and gine is in a separate watertight compsrttnt, in order tc localize any possible inry. The engines are of the twin-screw, rtical, triple-expansion, inverted cylinder pe. t'he diameter of the cylinder is as follows: ?"i pressure, 34.5 inches; intermediate, 4S es; low preeure, 75 inches; stroke, 43 has. There are four double-ended boilers, cl5 inches in diameter, and two singleled boilers (donkey) 8)<xl0 inches in dileter. The normal coal supply is 400 tons, t a coal bunker capacity of 1800 tons is mded. The vessel, according to contract, must re lop a speed of sixteen knots per hour, i thus with a full coal supply will be able steam for ten days, giving her a radius action of about 4000 knots. The complent of the vessel, officers and crew will be 'persons. Good quarters and accommotions are provided for them, and all the est sanitary improvements will be placed the battle ship. The Indiana is designed especially as a sal to fight and to do no running away at , and it is the opinion of th03e acquainted th marine architecture as applied to warps that she will answer fully the purpose - which she was built. EW WYOMING SENATOR, C. Beckwlth, Democrat, Appointed by Governor Oaborn. i, C. Beckwitb, Damocrat, a citiz9a of Aiuton, aad the wealthiest man in Wyong, will be a United States Senator for ?next two years. His selection to that Loe was announced by Governor Osborn a r evenings ago. It became necessary to point a Senator on account of the Lagisure adjourning without electing one. The new Senator is a genuine Westerner, i has held but two ofH -as. One was mem* P3 dp in the National Worla's Fair Com* asionandthe other membership in the first iwn Council of Cheyenne. He went Cheyenne thirty years aro, work; his passage across the plains th a bull team. He identified bims'lf th the community by building its first use and opening a grocery. When the ilwaycama and went on he went with it id was a rich man before h9 settled in ranston, a thrifty town near the Utah line, lere he owat the local bank, herds of ttle and tracts of ranze, coal mines and al and timber lands. His hobby is horses id he bree is trotters in the finest farm in e mountains. Beckwith was born in New ork sixty years ago, but was in Missouri ith a party of trappers at fifteen. THOUSANDS STARVE. 3t Sucli Misery Since the Cotton Famine During Our Civil War. Great suffering exists in Oidham, Engid, owing to the prolonged struggle be reen the master cotton spinners and the eratives. The number out of employment Oldham alone is 34,000. Thousands of ase are destitute of food and fuel, only Dje who belong to tho Operatives' Union wiring union aid. The prolonged cold weather has caused iter hardship to multitudes of those out of irk ou account of the strike, and the frost d snow linger with a persistence tbat ints to fatal suffering unless relief speedily ii*s to the shivering ani starring poor of ; great cotton manufacturing centre, rho local authorities are overburdened th demands upou tUe m and private char has been exnaustea oy me cuauquu auu ireasing drain since last November. Old* m has not seen such misery since the time the American Civil War, when the rcity of cotton cause! thousands of Lanibire operatives to be thrown out of em yment. I"he various German colonial societies ve petitioned the Reichstag to protest ainst the allege! intention of the United ates to annex the Sandwich IsUnds. The tition demands that Germany, if the an* xation becomes a fact, should at one* za Samoa and the Tonga Islands. i'x the British House of Commons a resolon prevailed citing the editor of the ndon Times to appear and apologize for sstatementj concerning the Irish. ft " * ; -mm -' m _ AN EXODUS" OF FABMEBS. Many Hundreds of Illinois Families Moving West. Leaving on Account of the High Price of Land. _ . A despatch from Clinton, DL, rayi: A big exodus of Livingston County agricaltu- A rista, to Southwest Minnesota and North- V west Iowa pointy is takiu? place. 1 It requires three solid trains to transport I the stock, farm implements, household 1 goods, etc. The first train started over the 1 Illinois Central Railroal a few days a^o, 1 and the last will leave for its destination , I over the same railroad shortly. All the per* J sons in the party have purchased farms on M the line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and fl Northern Railroad. The decrease of the S population of the county by this one m move means 100 citizens distributed in 1 thirty-four families. Land in this section 1 has risen in valne from $5) an acre to $100. Those who have disposed of their small farms here at these high prices and invested the monev in land on the line of the Bur* lington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad at about 930 an acre were able to buy entirs sections of soil thsre. This present exodus of agriculturists represents a holding /"} of nearly 100,003 acres of as rioh land as there is in Minnesota or Iowa. Undoubtedly fifty families in all will move out of Livingston County this spring. ;- >r, De Witt County is in the heart of Illinois and the centre of rich corn belt lands. In one day sixty-five pzrsonr, with child ran enough to make 103 passengers, with thirty* two cars of goods, *too'< and farm implements, left for the town of Imperial, Neb. Three-fourths of them were well known and quite sucoussful farmers of the county. One large passenger -coach and two vestibule cars with chairs are with the special trains. ':?v Public opinion assigns many reasons for the movement west fro n Central Illinois, ? wbicn tbls is true one instance. ine ntpia rise to high value of lands on which the occupants in former years toiled hard Cor meagre profits has bred a desire to ?efl and use the money in land spesulatiam Another. cause quite evident among the emigrants was the dartre to provide homes for the chil-, .' f dren rapidly growing to i manhood and womanhood. The hope of purchasing homes ? in this region is an utterly forlorn on& FIFTY-SECOND^ CONGRESS, In the Senate. 55th Dat.?Within less than an hour two of the general appropriation bills?the Diplomatic and Consular and the Military Academy?ware read, considered, and passed. There was no discussion on either ' of the bills?The Legislative, Executive, < >:! and Judicial Appropriation bill was then v' taken up. 56ra Day.?The Senate took up the Legislative Appropriation bill, and all the com- . mittee amendments were agreed to. The V *'Senators voted themselves clerks at a cose ot 144,376 a year. They also vote! to oontrnue the Utah Commission and increasetha appropriation for tiie Civil Servioe Commissioners. No further progress was made . i j in the Legislative bill The Senate bill to authoriss the lnter-0.*eanlc Railway Com- "-.. 'A pany to construct and operate a railway' line through the lniian Territory was 1 '' passed. 57th Day.?The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up and an amendment was agreed to appropriate 972,000 for the purchase of George tfancroffr library of historical manuscriotj and printed books and pamphlets. Tne bill was then passed Business was then susoendad in order^ that fitting tribute mightbepaid to the memory of the late Representative Francis . B. Spinola, of New York. Speeches were f :' j made by Messrs. Hill and Hiscock. " 'h -? *> WL. D 1 ? . V OOT1IUA*;?IU? xeuaiuu 0|>)KV|niiHwu t. bill was passed without amendment??The conference report on the Military Academy : , bill was agreed to?-The Agricultural .biu was reported with a net iacre&se of 138,000. As passed by the House the bill carried #8,291,800, the estimates being $3,313,300 The credentials of James Smith, Jr., as Senator. from.the State of .New. Jersey In * ' place of Senator Blodgett, were placed on Hie At 4 p. m_, on motion of Mr. Faulk ner business was suspended in order that fitting tributes might be paid to the memory or his late oohea^u?, (Senator John P.' ' Senna, at West Virgin*. 59th Dat.?Mr. 8h8rman's motion to pro-. . ZM ceed to executive business was defeated? ' ~'i The Naval and Agricultural bills and the bill regulating the sale of liquors ip the District were passed. I 60th Dat.?The Sundry Civil bill was re. ported by the conrerrees The Sherman bond amendment was dropped* a| was the 1800,000 appropriated for the Ntw York Custom House?The Indian Appropriation bill was reported The Postomse Appropriation bill was placed on the calendar Business was then suspended in order that fitting tributes mighc t>e paid to the memory of the4hte Senator Gibson, ef Louisiana. The usual resolutions of sorrow and sympathy were adopted. In the House. 58th Dat?A bill was passed for the re- lief of George W. Jones, late United States Minister to New Grenada (now the United States of Columbia)?Mr. Herbert, Cleveland's selection for the navy portfolio, was cheered as he entered the House. His Bhnrt rwoch in Jtcltnnnr I Adamant km mtMtai I with long and load apphuse, and then Mr. I Herbert bald a levee in the rear of hall The conference report on the Army bill was i Cben agreed to Tbe Indian Appropria- * > tion bill was taken against a vain attempt' to call up the Anti-Option bill. th Dat.?Mr. Harser introduced a bill to provide tor the free coinage of silver and! gold at the present ratio and upon equal terms?Mr. Peel moved to go into Committee of tbe Whole for the consideration of I general appropriation bills. Mr. Hatch op-1 posed this motion witu his Anti-Option bill, i but Mr. Peel's motion was agreed to?Teas, i 148, nay?, 84, and the consideration of the i Indian Appropriation bill was resumed?? At 4:30 o'clock the H juse then took a recess; until 8 p. ou, the evening session to be fori , the consideration of private pension bills? The galleries were crowded when the Housemet fn the evening. A motion to proceed' to the consideration of private pension bills] was responded to by 13? members, and a calli of the House was oraerad, to which 149' members responded. Tnis being sbort of a quorum, the Houie at 9:10 adjourned. 60th The rirst oill on the calendar was the Indian Appropriation bill This bill Mr. Holman request ;d should be passed over. for the present Mr. Hatch objectei. and the committee was compelled to rise to submit the question to the House, which decided i that the bill should be passed over The committee having returned its session the Sunday Civil bill was tavern up, and discusMd: ??The oommittee taeu rose, and publioi business having been suspended, the House proceeded to pay a tribute of respect to tne memory of tbe late Ssnator John d. Barbour, of Virginia. Atcer eulogistic remark! 'by Meredith, W.s-, Millikeo, Kendall, 'I ticker and Jones, thj House, as a mark ot respect to the memory of tha deceased, adjourned. 61st Day.?The Indian Appropriation bill t * wa3 passed The conference report on tbe Military Academy b>li was agreed to?-Tha Senate amendments to we ounary wivm bill, includinx the Saei-jian bond provision, j 4 were non-concurred iu; tbe Senate amend-. meat to the Car Coup^r bill was concurred-' in. tSlD Day.?The election contest in the IVth Alabama District was uecidei in favor ot Turpin, Democvue ? The bill putting pig tin on the free l:si was passed. 63d Day.?Tha Atui-'jptiou bill was tilled by iaiiing to receive a t.vo-thirds vote to take it up under Mispansiou ot the rules. Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, was oa the floor when the bill was deteated. During the roll call on the measure he h?l(t quite a reception, Deiug inirooucaa lu members by Mr. Hoar ftao denate amendments to the Agricultural Appropriation bill were non-concurred >u and the bill was sent to conference Mr. Doccery called up the conference report: on the District of Columbia Appropriation bill, and it was agreed to Beiore annouucing tbe adjournment the speaker made the following appointment*: Visitors to Naval Academy, Messrs.* Uutnoiia^a, Blount and Kobinson; visitors to Military Academy, Massrs. Wheeler, Gorman and Bingbaui. ittk worton heirs won Che suit to compel the city of Superior. Mich, to purcaaat 9156,000 worth of land for park purpotea.