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BAYABD FOR ENGLAND. Prpsident Cleveland Sends in a Numoer ol Nominations. 3iort Biographies of the More Important Appointees, J THOMAS F. BAYARD. C President Cleveland sent the followIn^ nominations to the United States Senate: Thomas F. Bayard, of Dela' ware, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain; to be Envoy3 Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States: James D. Port9r. of Ta-xnessee, to Chile; James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky, to Peru; Lewis Baker, of Minnesota, to Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Salvador; Pierca H. B. "Young, o? Georeia, to Guatemala and Honduras; Edwin Dun, of Ohio (now Secretary of Legation at JaDan), to Japan. To be Consuls of the United States: L. M. Shaffer, of West Virginia, to Stratford, Ontario; Harrison R. Williams, 'of Miss ouri, to Vera Cruz; M. P. Pendleton, of Maine, to Ktou; Theodora M. Stephao, of Illinois; to Aanaberg; Will# jam T. Townes, of Virginia, to Rio de Janeiro: Claude Meeker, ot Ohio, to Bradford; Newton B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be Second Secretarv of the Legation of the ? - ~ * * mr n u. United states at fans; uoun m. xveyuuius, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Secretary of tie Interior, vice Cyrus Bussev, resigned; Henry J. Hathaway, of Maine, Collector of Customs for the district of Aroostoclr, Maine; Walter Goddard, of Connecticut, Collector of Cus.oms for the district o? Fair3eld, Conn.; Lawrence Mai .veil, Jr? of Ohio, to be Solicitor General, vice Charles H. Aldricb, resigned; John 1. Hall, of Georgia, to be Assistant Attorney Genera', vice George H. Shields, resigned. Ex-Secretary of State Thomas P. Bayard, nominated as the first American Ambassador to the Court oil St. James, was born in "Wilmington, Dal., sixty-three years ago. He was trained for a commercial life, but arter a short experience in business in New York he returned to his birthplace and studied law with his fattier, James A. Bayard, also a United States Sana tor from Delaware. Mr. Bayard was admitted to the Bar in 1851, and two years later became United States District Attorney for Delaware. He has served three terms in the United States Senate, his father being re-elected a Senator t the time of his son's first election. His grandfather, James Asnton Bayard, was also a Senator from Delaware. In 1835 h9 resigned his seat in the Senate to become Secretary of State in President Cleveland* Cabinet. Since his retirement from the Cabinet Mr. Bayard has engaged in the practice of the law at Wilmington. Ex-Governor Jamei D. Porter, Minister to Chile, to succeed Patrick Ejan, is a resident of Pari*, Tenn., where he is engaged in the practice of law. He has served with distinction on the bench, and has the reputation of being one of tue ablest lawar3 in his State. He was born in 1824. Mr. Porter was Assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Bayard. James A. McKenzie, who goes as Minister *- n ?? ~ ? ?A?i?/?oanfofitra fmrn TT art - V> reru, nua a igpmiuw?.. tuoky in the Fnrty-S2venth C mgress. Ha is fitcv-three years of age, and, while he was duct ted as a lawyer, has followed the oc eupation of a farmer. He was a delegate ' to ths last two National Democratic Conventions. He is an ex-Congressman^ one of the National World's Fair Commissioners and has a high reputation as an orator. At home he is familiarly known as "Quinine Jim," because he puc through Congress a bill placing quinine on the free list. L*wis Baker, of Sl Paul, who will go as Minister to Nicaragua, Costa Kiev and Salvador, is proprietor of the St. Paul (Minn.) Globe. He was born in Belmont County* Ohio, November 7, 1S32. He was a Delegate at Large from West Virginia in the Democratic National Convention, an I was a strong: advocate of Cleveland's nomination in 1884. His odIv previous political office was presidins officer of the West Virginia Senate in 1870, which was at that time Republican. Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, nom:aated to be Minister to Guatemala, was a Major-General of cavalry in the Confederate Armv. He has served several times in Congress and is well-known in Washington. He was educated at West Point, and is a large plantation owner. Under Mr. Cleveland's former administration he was CoasulGeneral at St. Petersburg. B Iwin Duo, nominated to be Minister to JapaD, is a citizen of London, Ohio, His nomination is in the nature of a promotion, for he i3 a holdover from theprevious Demo?? ?immietrifirin Mr Cleveland whan vraut* auiuiuM?iuv>wu? ??. President before made Mr. Dun Secretary oC the Legation at Japan, and on account of his services and abili'y he was retained by Mr. Harrison. Mr. Newton B. Eu-tis, of Louisiana, to ba Second Secretary oi! Ligation at Paris, is the son of Minister Eustis. John M. Reynolds, of Pennsylvania, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, is a lawyer of excellent reputation, and lives in Bradford. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., who is appointed to the Solicitor-Generalship, is a native of Cincinnati, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, and lias been a Judge of toe Common Pleas in Cincinnati, He is a lawyer of repute, and has been for some year3 a leader in musical affairs in Cincinnati. John I. Hal), nominated to be Assistant Attorney-General, is a member of the law firm o: Hall & tinmmond, with offices in Atlanta and Griffin, Ga., the latter place being his home. The Senate immediately confirmed the nomination of Mr. E^yard. Additional Nominations. The President also sent th? following nominations to the Senate: "William Ennrand Curtis, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Charles S. Hamlin, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secre??' tary of the Treasury; James H. Eckels, of Illinois, to be Comptroller of the Currency, James P. Meline, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States: L. Stobo Farrow, of South Carolina. to be Second Auditor of the Treasury; Johu B. Brawiey, of Pennsylvania, to be Auditor of the Treasury for the Postofflca Department; James J. Willie, of Florida, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Benry W. Ejnor, of New Jersey, to D* Collector of Customs for the District of Newark, N. J,; DuU?v O. Watson, of Michigan, to be C'iiiec:or of Cus:o.tis f.?r the District of Micaij;un; Jolin Tracay, of New York, to be Superintendent of Charities for the District of Columbia. Appointments and Confirmations. tw. #?n : I HIT x I C31UCUU UC^V UCbj C;UV 040 LUUUtTiUj^ nominations to the Senate: James 0. Broadhead, of Missouri, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Switzerland; Bartlett Tripp, of South Dakota, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Uniteil States to Austria-Hungary; Eben Ale." i ier, of North Carolina, to be Envoy Ex . ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary *>f the United States to to Greece, iljumania and Sarvia. To be Consuls o cue United States: James E. Neal, o ' taio, at Liverpool; James M. Dobbt, or ueorgia, at Valparaiso; _ Q. O. S 4 ? . - _ j Eckford, 01 -jiississippi, at n.uigscon, Jamaica; David N. Burke, of New York, at Pernambuco; Ed^ar Whidden, of Maine, at St. Stephen, New Brunswick; Stephen Merritt, of Illinois, at Barmen; Asa D. Dickinson, of New York, at Nottingham; Benjamin Lenthies, of Massachusetts, at Sherbrooke. Charles E. Ingersoll, of-Pennsylvania, to be Appraiser of Mercaandise in the District of Philadelphia, Penn. Paul F. Faison, of North Carolina, to be an Indian Inspector. James 0. Broadh?ad is by profe?sion a lawyer, and has represented his State in Congress as a member from St. Louis. He is about sixty-fivi years of age, and has baen prominent in politics in Missouri for a long time. Bartlett Tripp was one of the pioneers in the Dakotas be:ore the division of the Territory. Ho is forty-eight yoarj of age, and is a brothar-in-law to Senator Davis, of Minnesota. He is a Domocrat and was made Justice of the Territory of Dakota by President Cleveland durinz his tirst administra tion. He lives at Yalikton and is a lawyer. Eben Alexander is at present Greek Professor at the University of North Carolina. Professor Alexander is a little more than torty years of age. He stands among the leading Greek scholars of the land. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: Allan B. Morse, of Michigan, to be Consul of the United States at Glasgow; C. W. Cuauceller, of Maryland, te be Consul of the United States at Havre; George P. Parker, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Birmingham; 8amuel E. Moras, of Indiana, to be Consul-General of the United States at Paris; George G. Dil<ard,of Mississippi, to be Consul-General of 'he United States at Guayaquil. The President nominated Jam9sS. Ewing, j' of Illinois, law partner aud cousin o? VicePresident Stevaoson, to be Envoy Extraor- ( dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of tha United States to Belgium; Thomas T. Crit- i tenden ex-Governor, of Missouri, to be Consul-General of the United States at the City of Mexico; Louis C. Hughes, of Arizona, a j newspaper editor at Phoenix, to be Governor of ArizDn9; "William T. ThorntoD, of , New Mexico, a mine owner, to be Governor j of New Mexico. ELECTRIC^EXECUTION". ; A Colored Murderer Killed br One , Shock at Sinjf Sin#. < James W. Hamilton, the colored expreacher and convicted wife murderer, died in the electric chair at 11:13 o'clock a. m, et Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison. The death warrant was read by Warden Brown ia thi condemned man's cell the nierht before. Carlyle W. Harris, th9 wife poisoner, who occupies the sacond cell from Hamilton's, was able to hear the reading of the warrant. The witnesses who had been invited by Warden Brown arrival before 10 a. m. Electrician ?. -F. Davis made a careful tea: of the apparatus. The same chair, electrodes anu switching mechanism which ^vera used In the last execution were employed. Hamilton was quicily strapped, and at 11:10 all the connections being made, Warden Brown gave the signal, and a current of 1740 volts was turnedoa. Hamilton jumped upward straining at the straps, aad remained rigid. The crucitix which he held in his right hand was still clasped tightly, but his lips stopped moving, and all signs of life ceased at the instant of contact. The current was left on for sixty seconds, and then turned off. The physicians stepped forward, listened for tne heart beats and felt for the pulse. They declared the subject dead at 11:13:10. t-U. a|| AUO UUU LIUU uiucigu ** ?V? predecessors in that only one : k was given. There was no scorching or scalding of the skin, or steaming at the el ectrodea, and while the man was above the medium X height and of massive buili, it was evident t! that death was instantaneous. Elec trician t] Davis said that it was the most successful fl execution at which he had officiated. tl DROWNED IN THE LAKE. J Foar of a Pleasure Party Lost r, Through Bad Sailing. C Thomas Kelly and his wife; W. B. Knops, c a stenographer; Thomas Smith, an engineer; w Ed. Smythe, Miss Mamie McCue, aged ^ sixteen, Mary Flynn, thirteen; Agnes Flynn, fifteen; Maggie Sheppard, twenty, and Effie Kelly, thirteen, went to Milneburg, a resort on Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans, La., and hired a sloop for a day's sail. After cruising about for a few hours they decided to make a trip a mile and a half out from shore, where they saw a fishing party. The course of the sloop was changed, and the party got within hailing distance of the fishing party. Thomas Kelly was in charge of the sloop,, and attempted to gybe the craft. As the boom swung, the sloop's guawale went under water and the boat began to AIL Kelly lost his head, and his lack of ability frightened the women. * xney tumoiea over one anotoer, ana tue ? boat was cap?izjd. The water was thirteen K feet deep. Tue anchor of tin sloop slipped from the deck and caused tho3e of the party >2 who had secured a hold ou the keel to lose their grip. The men in the skiff saw the accident. They were Go-ifried Merzinach and B. Schneider, and they succseied in rescuing Maggie Sheppard and Mamie McCue, but as they were about to rescue Mrs. Kelly she gave a cry and sank. gi Agnes and Mary Fiynn slipped from tna rt bottom of the upturned boat and sank in k each other's arms. Effla Kelly clung to the ai rudder post of the sloop flrith the energy of despair, but each wave which struck the cc boat caused her hands to slip, and the girl tt went down a moment before the skiff could at reach her. % at The men were all saved, and with the two o] rescued children were rowed to the shore. tt E. C. Flynn, father of the drowned sisters, declared that be would kill Thomas Kelly on sight. He blames Kelly alone for the accident. . , .utiH WORLD'S FAIR TICKETS. ti Great Rush ?or Them fit the Chicago Hotels. All the leading Chicago hotels, just a | month before the opening day, placed on ~ sale tickets of admission to the World's Co- 2 lumbian Exposition, and a brisk demand at ~ once manifested itself. Thousands of them were bouzht up by individuals who were desirous of keeping them as souvenirs or send- ct ing them away to friends. ai The tickets are a trifle larger than tho old fifty-cent pieces which were current ia the qi days of fractional paper money, and are K printed in four design?, each one bearing a ai different medallion 011 its face. The faces o f the series 6re all ia blue, but the backs fc vary, one series being a light yellow, another st red, another green, and tbe other light T blue. One ticket bears the face of Colutn- vi bm, another that of Washington, Lincoln (X is on the third, while the fourth bears the portrait of Pontiac and is the finest in the Ii series. Fifty cents apiece is the price of the tic- ri kets, ani they are good for one a Imission to " the grounds on any day from the opeaing to B the close of the exposition. Besides the tickets p'.acsd on sile at the hotels, Treasurer r< Seeberger has received lar*e orders for e' them from business houses who desiia to send them out to their customers iu the ? country. The orders already on fi.'e from t&is source aloue aggregate over -*310,10'!. President Hicinbothatu, ot the Worm's Fair Direc:ory, bought tin first tic cets himself, [>ayiug for them a liaudso:ne prfa.ju r.. FATHER AND SONS KILLED, Four JLives Lost by tne Explosion of a Boiler in Iowa. g. A boiler exploded in a saw-mill at Liconia, Iowa, killing four persons. Tha dead are: Henry McKinness, aged fifty-two. owner of the mill; John McKinne3?, aged nineteen. p u.-_ Honrir McKinnes?. azed thirteen, tj uia j . w bis son; Peter McKinnes?, aged eleveu, hli son. The boiler was an old one and had been in De ase many years. The explosion wrecked the aiill, whicn was a very suostantial buildiag. ct er Thb military competitive drill, to take ol place at Norfolk, Va., on April 2i>, will ba participated ia by companies from twelve re States. The priac3 are 16JO, $350 and $150. ai BUILDINGS AT H I V The Electrical Building, the seat of perhaps feet long, the major aria running north and sou The general scheme of the plan is based upoi of the same width and height. The nave and the clearstory windows. The rest of the building is The second story is composed of a series of gi lhe area of the galleries in the second story is Hi The exterior walls of this building are compo supporting a full entablature, and resting upon a feet 6 inches. At each of the four corners of the building tl mediate between these corner pavilions and the c< low square dome upon an open lantern. The Electricity Building has an open portico open screen in front of it. The various subordii srders are richly decorated, nuc1 the pediments, f ?,nijF0 ?Vi? ?sn<ira1 ton^nnnv nf which ii bCVLUI UJWAIff IUQ V?.? W?- J ? The appearance of the exterior is that of ma enriched with color, the pilasters in these places EOflt is $375,000. M \ i Located at the southern extremity of the wes lines and Mining Building. This building is 70 he grcnnd floor spacicus vestibule?, restaurants hose of the north aDd south fronts being the mo: ights of easy stairs leading to the galleries. Th he sides by large windows, and from above by a The main fronts look southward on the great rith flowers. These principal fronts display enoi lining and its allied industries. At each end of Dur corners or toe Duuamg, ana are ugnsea oy ia Between the main entrance anri the pavilioos scesaed promenade on the gallery floor level, whi Central Court on tbe south. These covered prom uilding at numerous points. These loggias on :nsidered part of tbe Mining Exhibit, and so uti pill be heavily coffered and richly decorated in pi be exterior presents a massive, though graceful 4 The Dairy Building, by reason or tne exceptu reat favor by World's Fair visitors in general atures of the whole Exposition. It was design i connection with which will be conducted a series 3d butter producers. The building stands near the lake shore in 1 ;vers approximately halt an acre, measuring 93 le first flcor, tesides office headquarter?, thero 1 ting room D&xlOO leer, in which the Model Da :commodating 400 spectator?. Under there seal >erating-room, which extends to the roof, has on ory is devoteu to a cat e, which opens on a balco T"."^ ^ The main entrance to tho Transportation Buil irvings, bas-reliefs and mural painting--, tLe entii id is called the Golden Door. The remainder of the architectural compositic aiet aud modest, though very broad in treatment umerous minor entraccjs are from tima to time ad statue-. The interior of the building is treated much a; ire in three divisions. The middle one rises inuct ory. The cupola, placed exactly in the center o hese elevators of themselves naturally form a pi srious stages or hei2ht, a fine view of the interio; t the abundant elevator lacilities, prove quite ac Tne main building of the Transportation exbil ilanu avenue au enormous annex, covering about chibit?. A ong the central avenue or nave the v mrenng the perspect.Vd effect of the nave both npreasion given by a long vista of richly oriinrae uilding is one of the most impressive oc the Exp Tho Transportation exhibits naturally inciu Je inge trom a baoy carriage to a mo?ul engine, tr: rerything comprised in class G of the official claf NEWSY GLEANINGS, Europe has 50,000 match factories E Smallpox is killing many Silesians. wri Thirtv-nine railroads enter Chicago. P The United States have 73,000 paupers. l(^ Firebugs are terrorizing Milwau kee, Wi?. There aro about 4300 Hebrews in Portu- g i'- seer There are 38,400 street cars in the United rat.*. Au, There are 21,000 Western Union tele- ^ aph offices. di(1| The grip is becoming epidemic again in ^ ew York City. y0] A r> * *-rr fAi? fKo naa aF Artlnra.1 nannlfi hfl_3 f jnr >en organized at Anniston, Ala. of 8 There are now ninety-two Christian T lurches in the city of ToKio, Japan. Bal Aw epidemic of mumps prevails among resf noloyes of the Indianapolis (Ind.) Post- gre flee. T Th* Senatorial elections in Spain have Ho: suited in a sweeping victory for tho Slon- not chists. cioi [E WORLD'S GOLUMBUN plar7* H \~l -??* ?<J.ri?" s? THE ELECTRICAL BUILDING. the most novel and brilliant exhibit ix th. i a longitudinal nave 115 feet wide and 1! > transept have a pitched roof, with a ra covered with a flat roof, averaging 63 fe< illeries connected across the nave by tw< 5,546 square feet, or 2.7 acre?. -sed of a continuous Corinthian order of stylobate 8 feec 6 inches. The total he; iere is a pavilion, above which rises a 1 ?ntrai pavilions on the east and we3t side extending along the whole of the south tate pavilions are treated with windo riezss, panels and spandrils have receive ) to illustrate the purposes of tbe buildini rble, but the walls of the hemicycle and being decorated with scagliola, and the \#t tfjj' rni hall or hixes and kixino. tern lagoon or lake, and between the E 0 feet long by 350 feet wide. In plan i: , toilet-rooms, etc. On each of the four 't spacious and prominent. To the right > cmllnripa ore 60 feet wide and 25 feet h high clearstory extending around the bu Central Court, and northward on the we rmous arched entrances, richly embellish these fronts are large square pavilions irge arched windows extending through 1 are richly decorated arcades, forming az ch commands a fine view of the lake enades are each 25 feet wide and 230 f< the first floor are facet with marbles lizei as to have marketable value at the laster and color. The ornamentation is , appearance. THI DAIRT BUILDING. mally novel and interesting exhibits it n , while by agriculturists it will be coas ed to contain not only a complete exaibi j of tests for determining the relative me ;he southeastern part of the park, and 1x200 feet, is two stories high and cjit s in front a large open space devoted to iry will be conducted. On two sides ol ts are refrigerators and cold storage ror three sides a gallery where the c-ieese tx ny overlooking the lake. ft. TUB TRANSPORTATION BVILDINCJ. ding consists of an immense singl' arr re teature forming a rich and beautii'u. , j >n falls into a just relation of contra?t w p. It consists of a continuous arcad* v pierced in the walls, and with them ar fter the manner of a Roman basilica, w 1 higher than the others, and its Wilis n f the building and rising 165 feet aoov; rt of the Transportation exiiibit, an.I i r of the building may easily be obtaiue 1. cessible to visitors. t>it measures 963 feet front by 251 feet a mine acres. This is one story only in isitor may see facing each ottior sons exceedingly novel and striking. And i need colonnade, and it may easily bj : osition. s everything, of whatsoever name or sort, >ci a cash conveyor to a balloon or cirri ssification. Tbe Transportation Building PROMINENT PEOPLE. T-President Harbison denies that he is ting a book. resident Cleveland is making a colleci of walking sticKs. x-Senator Ingali.s wears wooden shoes le on bis Kansas farm. enator Pkfter'3 daughter Is his private etary at six dollars a day. [ax Judd, Consu'.-Ganerat at Vienna, stria, is an excellent chess player. [rs. Anna Potter is an independent canate for Mayor of Kansas City, Mo. iieutenant-Governor sheehan,of New rk, never travels without his identiflcai tag, which might prove useful in case in accident. HE late Captain Henry H. Lewis, of timore, bore a strong facial and physical imblanca to George Wasaington, whose at grandnephew he was. HE Japanese Mikado's eldest son. Yoshi ti, who is coining to the World's Fair, is quite fourteen years old, but as preco13 as an Occidental youth of eighteen. FAIR, CHICAGO. ^ I i the whole Exposition, fs 345 feet wide and 7 14 feet high, crossed in the middle by a transe nge of skylights at the bottom of the pitch, ai it in height, and provided with skylights. 3 bridges, witb access by four grand staircasi pilasters, 3 feet 6 inches wide and 42 feet hig ight of the walls from the grade outside is ight open spire or tower 169 feet high. late 3, tbere is a subordinate pavilion bearing facade, the lower or Ionic order forming i iws and balconies. The details of the exteri d a decoration of figures in relief, with arcl . of the various porticos and loggia are highl capitals with metallic effects in bronza. Tl to j %' lectricity and Transportation Buildings, is th t is simple and straightforward, embracing 01 sides of the building are placed the entrance ; and loft of each entrance, inside, start broai . . . . i m ? .1 .ma li<vVifnn ni lgb Irom tat groaaa uuor, &uu ? o v. ilding. stern and middle lakes and an island gorgeou ed with scuptural decorations emblematic o 5, surmounted by low domes, which mark thi ;be galleries. 1 open loggia on the ground floor, and a deep]; s and islands to the northward and the grea rat long, and from them is bad access to th of different kinds and hues, which will b close of the Exposition. T.ie loggia ceiling massed at the prominent point* at the facadi rill contain, Is quite safe to be regarded wit1 iiiere 1 one of tne most useful and attractive t of dairy products but also a Dairy School rits of different breeds of dairy cattle as mill close by the general lire stock exhibit. I 30, (WO. In design it is of quiet exterior. Oi exhibits of butter, and farther back an opei r mnm am *mnhi thnatra seats caDable o >tns for the care of*the dairy product*'. Thi ;aioita will b? pUcad. The rut of the seconc frTW't >WBE8MBa?g>?WfM uri??? >'i pnric'aol to an extraordinary decree witb ,':t qu ar, color climax, for it is treated in leal ith the highly wrought entrance, and is duly viiii ruoordinated colonnade and entablature. a grouped terraces, seats, drinking fountains ith oroad nave and aisles., The roof is therere oiercsd to form a beautiful arcaded clears iii? ground, is reached by eight elevators, u c ley alio carry passengers to galleries at Taa main galleries of this building, because e?p. From this extends westward to Stoney height. la it may be Been the mora bulk; of locomotive engines, highly polished, and f> tu? effsut of the exhibits the architectural >eea that Che interior of ths Transportation , nevata i to the purpose of transportation, and r r>ig*)Q. 'Ironically this exaibit incluiea cost about $dO ),OJO. THE LABOR WOBLD. Ths Cincinnati police are organizing i union. Pin making employs 20,0JO in Radditch. England. Organized labor in Japan wants a shortei wortc-dar. Wisco.vsm railroad man want a lega eigbt-hour day. Labor U.vio.vs in Ohio demand the pas sage of a pure food bill. A.vti-Pinkerton* laws are now in force ii Nebraska and Wyoming. joh.v Clerk recently received $7500 foi an arm lost iu a Lowell (Mass.) factory. There is a man in Hartford, Conn., whi has worked at forty-six different trades. The Rubber Workers' Uaiorioc me Ainer ican Fedsration of Labor lias been dissolved Lady Somekset has opened a working men's botel at Millwell Docks, London which is already too small for it* patrons. The United Uine Workers of North Amer ica propose to make a general demand to an advance in the price of mining on May 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Kaatern and Middle State*. Tbrough carelessness and ignorance while discharging a blast in the same quirr at Etna, Penn., Frederick Houseman wa instantly killed and Matthew Ryan fatall; injured. A GovERjntEirr Board at Springfield Mas*., began a test of rifl9J for the Army Miss Blanche K bister and Miss M^gei | Blair were drowned In Slippery Rock Creek near Keister Station, Penn. Their boa sprung a leak. Fibe totally destroyed the beautiful sum mer residence of Joieph Jefferson.-the ac tor,on the shores of Buttermilk Bay, Mass* c'ausetts, and the family cook, Helen Mc Grath, perished in the rains. Th9 furniture and curios and $150,000 worth of painting: CI U <J^L13UI11CT A. In New Tork Cityflr^ destroyed the bl; tobacco factory of V7. Duke. Sons & Co., and also burned out seventy-five tenants ii fifty-three rooms of the Temole Court offio building, which was suoposad to be fireproaf losses about half a million, all told. Forest fires are raging in various parts ol New Jersey. William PL Shaw, the cashier of the Lin coin National Bank, Bath, Me., confess^ himself a defaulter in 53,000. The boiler of a shifting engine near Connellsville, Penn., blew up. Throa brakemsc were fatailv scalded. A. A- McLzod, President of the P'ailaiel phia and Reading Railroad aud Coal ani iron Comoaniea, tendered his resignation 00 to take effect May 1. He also resigned th: receivership. P* Judge Lippincott, of Jarsey City, N ia J., caarged the (iraud Jury to indict: r.acs track owners, saying that racaut legislation in their behalf was void and unconstitu ^ tional, and the old law was still in fore?. 53 Godfrey & Clark 8 warehouse, Eber hardt & Cher's malt nou3e, elevator ant ir. warehouse and ten other buildings oa South a Canal street, Allegbany, Penn., have bsei Wv flra T.ojc SSOI HfY) Tfc Wa in jrumored that a child was burned to death or Two firemen were hurt by a falling wall. li , South and West, 10 A Bio illicit distillery, valued at $75,Oft was seized by Government officers ia Balti more, Md. I HaboldM. Sbwall and W. 8. Bowei sailed from Saa Francisco, Cal., for Hawaii it was rumored, to assist Commissioaei Blount. A. B. SuTTOwand his bookksepar, Will iam Beecher, were arrested at Louisville Ky., for Wniskv Trust certificate forgerio amounting to $200,0J0. In the presence of a polyglot gath=rinj numbering about two hundred the Ho-o Den. or sacred palace of the Japanese a Jackson Park, Chicago, III., was dedicated Louis Lewis, colored, was hanged a Macon, Ga., for the murder of his wife. Fibe destroyed one-fifth of the town o Galena, Md. Twenty-fiva stores and dwell inga were consumed. There was no fir. department there. ( A thai it loaded with Japanese exhibit! ^ for the World's Fair, including five car loads of natives and a big ourang outang 8 collided at Moingona, Iowa. The native were more frightened than injured. = At Clarksville, Va., the buildings on bot1 sides of Fourth street, from Main street were consumed except the railroad depo and Magee's warehuose. Eight or te stores, hotels, offices and tobacco bouse were burned. Two olored men were borne to death. a fierce woodlandfire destroyed some o e the best timber laads in Virginia and 1; ? North Carolina, along the the line of chi , Petersburg and Weloon and Wilmingto ^ and Weldon railroads. The fire covered a a area or over luu mues. The United States cruiser Essex, whic! s returned from South America abouc i C month ago, has bsen ordered to Annapoiis i Md., for use as a practice ship. Joseph Hattbbwaok and his son Charle \ were drowned while crossing an arm of th ? Mississippi, at Lincoln Pprk, Minn. 0 General SCH07HLD telejjraphsd to Gen s eral Miles, at Chicago, to sen 1 troops to Anl (. lew, Indian Territory, tho scina oi th Choctaw troubles. A colored desperado named Morgan wa lynobed by a mob of his own color at Gra ham,Vo. Ha murdered a law abiding youn colored man at a frolic. Vice-President Ststvknsoit formall; opened the baatr of the Maryland Societ; of tbe Sons of the Amsrican Revolution a Baltimore. He delivered an address. Citt Treasurer Strong, of Grand Island Neb., confused to his bondsman that he wj *13,000 short in his accounts. He surrenderee his property aud turned over his offices. Prairie fires in Kansas and Nobraski bave oestroyed scores of farm buildings au swept everything out of th*ir path. Engine No. 2 of the Choctaw Coal an Railway Company exploded as it was leav 1 lnz Red Oak, Indian Territory, causing to death of four trainmen. Firi at Carrol Itoa, Gj., destroyed the en tire business portioa of tha city. Eighteei buildings were burned. Th? tire was of in cendiary origin. Datid mzrrwethzr, ex-Governor of Nev Mexico and Henry uiays successor m ta United States Senate, died at Louisville b Ky., a few days ago, aged ninety years. J In a battle between farmers at Jacksoi Junction, Iowa, and, seventy-flva employe of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Fau t Railroad who were trying to prevent th ; farmers from building a warehous?, sevei . or eight men were badly hurt. At least oni ^ will ale. The railroad men won. s Almost complete returns showed th I election in Michigan of Judge Hooier, Re publican, for Supreme Judge and the tw? Republican Regents by pluralities of mop than 10,000 each. a light vote was police throughout the State. Election for Giroatf Judges was held in twentythrae dietrioM of which the Republicans carried thirteen the Democrats fonr and tha Fu3ioabti six. The Republicans carried the Kansas alec .* tious; not a single city wa3 reported as elect ing a Populist Mayor. " | Carter Harrison*, Democrat, was eled I" cd World's Fair Mayor of Chioagc I III., his plurality over Samuel W. Allwton - Republican, being estimated at 30,000. )WA?aiujiton.f Gkveral -Hiram Bkrdan, the inveoto , of ine famous Berdan long range flodw torpedoes and rifl?, died suddenly 'at th, Metropolitan Club in Washington. He bai been ill for some time with angina peetarii T?" 'c Btorjir fha now Minisft^r fc I uuDn Ui xbioum*? kmw ?wlfft? w Denmark, called at the State Pepartmgntti bid good-by to Secretary Gresham. He ra ceived his instructions, and expectei to sai for Copenhagen shortly. i Thk Columbian stamped envelopes hav< i been placed on sale. The principal featuri of the design of the stamp impression is t spread eagle, the denominations correspond' ' in? in color to tbose of the adhesive stamps. [ bxcretart Carlisle appointed Oiau to > Johnson, of Lexinjtoo, Ky., to be keeper o the dies in tne Bureau of Engraving anc Printing. Secretary Morton ordered a thorou?t investigation of charges of corruption in th< Weather Bureau made by Jas. B. McLiu^h lin, Chief of the Executive Division of th< ~~ bureau. Secretary Carlisle appointed Oliver P Tucker, of Covington, Ky., Deputy Comp troller of Currency. 1 Iw an opinion or Justice jacxson tn< United States Supreme Court decided thai , persons extradited from one State t< another upon ona charge may ba tried upot . another, thus demolishing an old theory ii regard to the law of this couatry. . The Chicago Park Commissioners hart refused the W ar Department's applicatior for an encampment ground for United States 'r troops in Washington Prjk. It will b< abandoned. i Foreign. r Dcthimo a stor>n a fishing sehoonar containing Michael Fa?an aud his son, John J and Michael Briggs, Patrick Saulon and Joseph Delury wa3 caosize.i near Caplin Cove, Xova bcotia, and all the men were drowned. .. MacManus & Sows, bankers, of Chihuahua, Mexico, have suspended, with liabili* * ties of $1,000,000. The cause of the suspen, slon was land and mining speculations. r A Vienna physician sent to southeastern Hungary to report on the progress of the 1 . I cholera, says that the epidemic is spreading rapid! j in that region. A RZBiuuojr in Coeta Rica was rapprussed by the prompt action of She Gov't era merit. { Major Thomas M. Nkwso*, United States Consul at MalagA, died a few days ' since at the Consulate. The cause of deatb was malignant smallpox. M. Dupur, the new Freuch Premier, com* pletod his Cabinet, and announcsd his polity e to be to obtain the voting of the budget M ; once. 1 At Nikopolis, Turkey, a rock fell upon the house of Mustafa Bey, a high Turkish functionary. The pert in which the harem was situated was struck and three women and five children were kiiiad. '* Tas Commercial Bin.-, of Melbourne! ' Australia, suspended payment. The cholera koaps inarching en,' and now Austria, as well as P.ussia, is officially del olared infected. ; Prince Bismarck's birthday has, year ~ after year, grown into a day of National recognition in Germany, and this year his ' seventy-eighth anniversary was given up to congratulation anl rejoicing, to the speeches of visiting delegations, to poems read in his honor and to gongs composed for the day and sung on his grounds at Frieder1 icsruhe. A yacht carrying eighteen persons capsissd a short distance from Burnham, Engi land. Five persons were drowned. Nwitt houses in K e!n-Poechlarn, Austria, were burned. Fifteen dead bodies have 1 been removed from ibs ruins, and twelve more were !rao<v7i to do lying under the s ashes. l^att. mam ma l/?a4 4u?:. i:.... ?._ al. ... *-vu? i/TisHjuo iuai/ wirjir u v<rs uy lqk ci" sizing ot a jmall boat at Amsterdam, Hol? land. ' The Court of Arbitration to piss upon the differences between G-.vat Britain and America as to tbe seai fisheries in Bering Sea began its session at Paris in a lam 1 apartment in the offic; of tiio French Fori eign Ministry. Argu.iieats were begun by i counsel on both aides. . laterTjew?. fhohas A. Baow.v, a picture frame maker, oil dissipated chtracter, was arrested / ' charged with beating t> death his mother, Mrs. Catharine O'Mjaliy, an old woman, x with whom he lived at S )ath B jJtDn, Mats. '? Six farmhouses aal m my head of cattle have been burned in forest fires near Holli. daysburg, Pann. i "Dajt" Dosoraic, of Cleveland, Oaio, was v - g 3 killed by "Joe" Dunfe?, of Syracuse, N. Y., ? in a prizefight near Syracuse. Fobkst fires in New Jersey threatened to c wipe out West Ple&santville and Sutton- ./ j town entirely. The State election in Rhoie Island ref suited in no choice for Governor by the p30pie, but Brown's plurality of 3037, with 3 a majority of 196 entirely disappeared, and 5 in its place is a plurality for Biker, the . r Democratic nominee. s The Florida Legislature, at Tallahassee, elected Samuel Pasco to succeed himself as , i i United States Senator. t Secretabt Cabltsle designated Morris n Tj. Muhlemao. cashier of the New Tort t Sab-Treasury, as acting Assistant Treasurer 3 atKe-Tork. ^ f Thk contract for furnishing the seven n spring return mortar cirri*^as for the j twelve-inch braech-Ioiding riflji mortar a has been awarded to the West Point Foundry Company,- of New York, the i> lowest bidder, at 16750 each. i , A rmi at Pedhaiczyki, near Sambor, in ' Galicia, destroyed one hundred building?, s including the schoolhoiua, and three persons a perished In the flame#. t. Thx Sultan of Turkey's pleasure steamer has foundered off Constantinople; - it was e said that sixty people were drowned. Tm Colombian Government has granted V L. an extension of twenty months to the g Panama Canal Company in which to resume work. y jmi < IN A FIBE TRAP. , M i Thrilling D?s< raction ot a Bradford j (Penn.) Hotel. Bradford, Penn., in the heart of the upper i oil region, was visited the ether morning by i the most disastrous hotel fire in its history. The Higgins House, a large frame structure, was destroyed, together with th? * Rochester and Pittsburz passenger station across the street, and the house of the agent ot toe roao, wmca a.ijoinea cao station. Leroy's grocery store was also burned, i One hundred and twenty-fire people wert asieep in tha Higgius House at 4 o'clock when the fire broke out. It caught from a f gas jet in the kitchen, and the big e frame structure wr , soon ablaze. Th? >t dead are: Thomas Cuileo, painter Miss Georgia Bon1, bradfor*; body taken from ruins. Two-year-oH baby of Mrs. E. * Tucker, Elmira; drowned in" the creek. . George Parks, railway machinist, Bradford; a body taken from rains. F. Havelia, locomotive engineer; bodv taken from ruins. * Twenty-two others were badly injured. The inmates of the notel were awakened by a man who rushed through tha hallways, 8 kicking at the door* aal yelling "Firer Men and wouwd s rushed from tbeir rooms 3 into the halfa, already filled with smoke and * flams, and tha general cry was: "Jump 1 from tha windows an 1 savj yourselves." t Many did so, bat it was a bad jump to t risk. From the spoer story it was thirty ? feat to the plank road way oa the west side, and oa tba east side was tha creek, . where the jwnp was forty feet Several r persons mad* tha leap for life into the stream and ware reacoea. , Mr. and Mrs. HI g^ins escipei from tha ' burning boildiaf acter taey were nearly * (uflpaued by the 8mo.ie. Mm. Hi^gioj waj ? badly injured. Tha Riddle tfadse was transformed into a * temporary hospital. in one room wis Professor Neumeyer.'of the Jamison Orchestra, _ Hislatft foot waserusaeJ, and be was sirl. oaaiy hart iatsrnally. In another room J. : W. Osborne lay, bo ra le^s broken and his j baok injured. ito auotaer apartment wore * twomeu, hurt inlerntliy and badly bruisel about their head!?. Two women were in 9 another, bruised! about their faces aad 3 t"?A One ot the women had lost her baby, aad bar agoay was pitiful. A Iwy ? nnaisd John Johnsoa was found wandering through the streets wittt a two-year-old j baby in his arma its fuce, arms and hands s burned an^ biistsred. i It was estimated that the property loss would reach fLOUlUOO, with a total insurance ; of *50,000. I WORLD'S FAIR FINANCES. 1 Receipts and Kxpemlltnre-i Show a > Balance ot ^7117,61)5.08, President HJginbocuam has issued his an nn?i p?nopt to the stockaolder* of tUe World's JExpodtio:), (Jaicago. Ia it be * thoroughly reviews tae prozres* of tha Fair sinoe the . first orgaaizttion of a Board of s Director*. He says t-i? oi.Dculties that were t overcome dariofc In > ias: turee years were > manv, and predic t m* jiosc brilliant suc1 cess icr the Fair, whic i. he dedares, will be * 1 in readiness fjr visitors on May 1. The following is the statement of receipts and ? expenditures to Marcu 31. 1S9:*: i Capital stock, $5,53'3.r.)J.SJ; city of Chii ago,$5,000,000; souvenir coins, $937,532; de? bentur* bonis, $4,091,50.); inter.*sr. tU>,973; special souvenir coins tun I, *1,110,030; % ate receipts, $281,86101; miscellaneous, *87, r ... ..HI-. r..y w, n? U'.'I/'J; 11*01 lines, ? encrow, ?73,007.50; total, ?17,495,4.14.16. i5xpiendiiur-???Construction exoeuditures, *14,411,?03.74; genprat exixjnses, ?'J,-.97,319.74; total. #li,ii8>8Asset<i on band, l7d7.tiOJ.ai. I Th? Government ot Soaln, through tb* State Department, his officially tendered to the United States a gift of the reproduce! flag rhlp of Colnrabui tha tiansa Maria, now somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, en roate to thi? country to participate in the naval review and for a part of the Spauish |( CfckMgfc j . ;