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i _ MMpr HOTTED DOWN IN TEE BOCKEES IN A SNOW STOEM. Blackfoot Scouts Trailed the Gang Which Held Up the Northern Pacific Train to a Hut?Three Robbers and an Indian Killed? Two Bandits Captured.; Three train robbers and one member of an / Indian posse were killed in a pitched battle which took place in a blinding snow storm near Two Medicine Creek, on the east slope of the Rocky Mountains, not far from Kalispell, Montana. Their names were Charles Jones, alias Charles Kincaid, John Sbipman and Ben Hall, alias Ben Mattocks, robbers, and Henry Sohiber of the Indian police. 8everal other members of the posse wore wounded. The robbers were members of the gang of four which held up the Northern PaciQo passenger train near Livingstone, Montana, on August 25. They were traced from Livingstone by twc ninM-fr^f o/*r*nfa wKa flmi 11 it t/> uu?viviuvi cTvvui^i nuw uumij' iau mcui iv < ground near Two Medicine Creek. The scouts returned to Kalispell and notified United States Marshall Jackson, who started out on the trail with a posse of about thirteen Blackfoot Indian police. Where the robbers' camp was struck at Two Medicine Creek was within a mile of the Great Northern Bailroad. Prom signs about the traoks of the road it is believed that the gang intended to wreck or hold up a Great Northern train. There % were five men, one of whom probably joined the Northern Pacific robbers after their esoape from Livingstone, encamped in a log house, which had been erected by Shepherd, Siems <k Co., raliroad contractors. Whe? Marshal Jackson reached the camp a heavy snow storm had set in. The cabin was surrounded, and Marshal Jackson approaohed it with a flag of truce and ordered the men to. surrender. The answer was a sheet of flame from the windows of the cabin. Henry Schiber was instantly killed. The fire was returned, but without effect. The robbers were again summoned to surrender, but responded by another volley. Marshal Jackson sent a messenger to Helena and Kalispell for reinforcements. The reinforcements of 115 men arrived at night under Sheriff Curtiss, of Helena, and 8heriff Granger, of Kalispell. The besieged and besiegers had kept up a steady firing in the mean time, and three of the robbers had been killed by the Indians. The fourth robber. Brown, and the unknown man kept up tbe tiring ror an nour arter tne ^ reenforcements came, but their ammunition gave out and they finally surrended. None of the robbers had anything to eat for four days. All the booty, with the ex' oeption of a few artioles, was recovered. Brown and the unknown man, who said his name was Sinclair, were taken to Kalispell. They may be lynohed before their trial oomee off. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ex-Sxxatob Dawes, of Massachusetts, is to deliver a course of lectures at Dartmouth. Rev. Benjamin Jowktt, one of the foremost classical scholars of Great Britain, is dead. "Tbcst in God and defend thyself bravely,"' is the motto on a sword presented by the German Emperor to his ten-year-old son. Ex-Congbebsman Heflin, of Alabama, boasts that he lived In Washington for 830 a month, and saved $9600 oi his two years' aslarr. Sib John Gladstone, nephew of the Grand Old Man, is a tall, broad shouldered young giant, as ardent a Conservative as his uncle la the reverse, and one of the most extensive distillers in Scotland. Mb. Balfocb, who will, it if thought, be Premier of England someday, is also thought to be the most interesting bachelor in Englagd. He is 'orty-flve ywtra old, and an unmarried sister presides over his household. The Rev. T. M. Hitchcook, of Glens Falls. N. Y., eighty-seven years old, preached on a recent Sunday in the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church, Troy, a sermon in rhyme. Mr. Hitchcock has preached for fifty years in the Troy Conference. Thsbz has just died at Mietschisko one Herr<Wendt, in his 100th year. A born Pomeranian, he took part in the war of freedom against Napoleon, and had both eyes shot out. Herr Wendt bore his sorrow to the day of his death with fortitude and resignation. Mas. Fbanczb B. Ltbsakd, of Ohio, has been on the examiners' corps in the civil engineering department of the Patent Office at Washington for about ten vears. Railways are her specialty, and she has the annual task of passing upon about 8000 alleged in venuona, o: wmcn u uoseu maj poiuap i practicable. Panics Bismabok, according to a correspondent who recently visited him, is still erect and vigorous looking. His head is bald at the top and fringed with hair, which is now nearly white. His voice is somewhat husky and his breath short, but the face, as it is raised in some emphatic sentence, shows doggednoss, determination and iron wilL , Kino Leopold, of Belgium, is always looking out for the main chance and speculates heavily. It is hinted that if the true inwardness of the Panama speculation on the Paris bourse is brought to light, His Majesty will figure as one of the ohief manipulators. He is not at oil popular with his subjects, and is set down as a cold-blooded, insincere man of the world, who cares for nobody but himself. RESOURCES 01' ALASKA. Interesting Facts From' a Census Agent's Heport. Charles H. Isham, Deputy Collector of Customs of Alaska, who was assigned as census agent, to the duty of preparing sta Hatloal data of the Territory, arrived at Port Townsond, Washington, from Sitka tho other day, and gave out some information concerning the resources of Alaska which has not been published before. He estimates the annual gold product at about $1,000,000. Miners who nscend tho Yukon River In the spring usually return with from $2000 to $6000 in gold dust, and about $700,000 in gold is taken out annually by tbe Traadwell mlnps. For the year ending June 30, 1893, 118 vessels entered from foreign ports, and 110 cleared; coastwlso vessels, eighty-five and eighty-nine. In the district there aro Bfty-flve vessels documented. The value ot domestic exports to foreign" countries was 14,811, and foreign goods exported to foreign countries, $3020, making a total of $17,831. The valuation of tbe imports for the same time was about $60,000. The customs receipts from all sources amounted to 4 $11,789.64, but the expenses of collection were $19,119.26. In the customs district of Alaska there are thirteen employas, including six deputy collectors, one at each of the 3ubports?Mary Island, Wrangle, Juneau, Kadiak, and Unalaska. Speaking of the fishing industry. Mr. Isham says: "The canneries tnat Delong to the combinations enterrtd into an agreement not to put up mora than 400.000 cases this year. From reports received to September 1. I estimate their catch at 250,000 "N cases. The independent canneries have packed about 50,000. The whole output will not exceed 300.000 caws. The codflshing business is now principally operated l>y a combination controlled by a San Francisco ilrn. The base of their operations is l>etween l'opol an 1 S.m:ikii Islan ds. The Ash aro taken to thesalt Jiousi; and then transported to San Francisco, whore they ar > prepared for market. The catch in lrl'jl (later figures are not accessible; was 1,-3^0,000 Ush, Talued at $56i),00'). The Secretary of War has awarded a medal of honor to Captain Ernest A. G'.rDntrton of the Seventh Cavalry "'for distin gulshed gallantry at Wounded Knee Creek, ? South Dakota, during the Sous war of the winter of 1890-91." Captain Garlington was badly wounded in the battle. His regiment, the Seventh, was near'y wiped out in the Custer massacre. Black bears are unusually bold and numerous this fall in the mountains along the entrance of the Columbia River, Oregon, and farmers and orohardists are suffering much damage through their depredations THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. At Trinity Churcb, Boston, the Rev. William Lawrence was consecrated Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts. Light winds prevented the conclusion of the first of the America's cup races off New York between the Valkyrie and Yigilant within the necessary six hours. At the time it was declared off the Valkyrie had a lonpj lead, but it was duo entirely to a fluke. About 35,000 people watched the race from craft o! all kinds. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, hoir presumptive to the throne of Austria, arrived at New York. The New York Democratic State Convention at Saratoga named a ticket headed by Isaac H. Maynard, for Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Cord Meyer, Jr., for Secretary of State. The Republican State Convention at Syracuse, N. Y., nominated a State ticket, headed by Edward C. T. Bartlett, of New York, for Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Captain John Palmer, o* Albany, for Secretary of State. The Cunard Line steamer Lueania has made a new western record from Europe to New York, beating the Paris's time by fiftynine minutes. She went over the passage in Ave days, thirteen hours and twenty-five minutes. The Massachusetts Republican State convention met at Boston and nominated a full ticket, headed by F. T. Greenhalge for Governor and Roger Wolcott for Lieutenant Governor. In East Providence, R. I., Frank Nelson, a colored boy. sixteen years old; Edward Yolker and other ladi were playing Indiana. Nelson and Volker had rifles, and snapped them at each other. The one held by Volker was loaded, and the ball struck Nelson in the forehead, death resulting in ten minutes. Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., celebrated its hundredth anniversary. The first yacht race off Sandy Hook. N.J, for the America 9 Uup, oetween toe iinsfusu cutter Valkyrie and the American sloop Vigilant, was won by the latter, the British yacht being beaten Ave minutes and forty-eight seconds. The second race in the contest of 1893 for the America's Cup between the British cutter Valkyrie and the American sloop yacht Vigilant was sailed by previous stipulation, over a triangular course off Sandy Hook, N. J. The Vigilant again won by ten minutes and thirty-five seconds. Eighteen hundred weavers in Rhode Island woolen mills went out on strike against a reduction in wages. A fatal grade crossing accident occurred four miles west of Branswiok, N. J., by whioh James T. Ferguson, aged fifty-two, of Brunswick, and Miss Annie Jacobus, aged twenty-six, living near Franklin Park, were both instantly killed. South and West. A tbaix carrying non-union workmen from the Big Four Railroad shops at Indianola, Ind., was attacked by a crowd of sympathizers with the strikers; one man was killed and one Injured. The Democratic State Convention at Lincoln, Neb., declared for prompt and unconditional silver repeal, and denounced the movement for a commercial division of the country. A coyoBKse of Young Men's Christian Associations of the world was opened in Chicago. Tbkascbeb McCubtin, of the Choctaw Nation, made his report to the National Council at Tushkahoma, Indian Territory.. He is said to be short over $100,000, and, after reporting, fled, A tbain crushed into an electric oar near Cincinnati, onto, Killing two persons ana injuring several others. The South Baltimore (M<L) Car Building Company assigned. Tme tornado in Union County, Arkansas, proved to be a disastrous one. Many houses iv?re destroyed, two women were killed and Iv o fatally injured. Washington. The nominations of J. J. Van Alen to be Ambassador to Italy, and of R. E. Preston to be Director of the Mint, were favorably reported to the Senate in executive session. The Secretary of State has reoelved a despatch irom Mr. Flshback, Secretary of the United States Legation in the Argentine Republic, saying that the revolution has ended and the country is at peace. Orders have been sent by the Navy Department to Rear Admiral Belknap at New (London, Conn., directing him to send out (the dynamite oniiser Vesuvius on the unique and hazardous duty of blowing up fourteen ,derelict vessels that endanger navigation. The President sent in the following nomi* * ' t> _?I n^rrr nauoub ; oiepueu i>uuooi, vi iuc*ij?.uu, Secretary of Legation at Peking, to be Secretary of Legation at Madrid, Spain ; Charles Denby, Jr., of Indiana, now second Secretary of Legation at Peking, to be Secretary of Legation at Peking, Ctyna. The President has appointed these Consuls : F. A. Deane, of Michigan, at Naples, Italy: Marshall Hanger, of Virginia, at Bermuda; VV. B. Hall, of Maryland, at Nice, France, Edgar Schramm, of Texas, at Montevideo, Uruguay, J. H. Btewart, of New York, at St. Thomas, West Indies; P. B. Spence, of Kentucky, at Quebec; Reavel Savage, of Maryland, at Nantes, France; E. S. Wallace, of South Dakota, at Jerusalem, Syria. A Tbeabuky statement just issued shows the total paper money of each denomination outstanding on October 1 to aggregate $1,126,395,031. The President's family moved from the White House to "Woodley,'' Mr. Cleveland's suburban residence. Mrs. Cleveland and her babies and Mrs. Perrine, her mother, will remain at "Woodley" for several weeks, in order that Mrs. Cleveland may fully re. gain her strength for the winter season'^ social duties. The President will spend hi4 nights in the country and will drive to th4 White House in the mornings. The Joint Congressional Commission to i inquire into the status ot the law3 organiz ing the Executive Departments, etc., ha* made a report showing that there are 612' more persons employed there than arj specifically appropriated for, and that o; 17,599 employes 5610 have from one to nin4 relatives each in the Government service af Washington. President Rodbiooez, of Costa Rica, demanded reciprocity as a condition of hi? surrender of Eraberaler Weeks tothe authoriJ ties of this country. Foreign. There were 400 cases of cholera, with 220 deaths, in Palermo. Italy, daring i week, Ave d?ath believed to have been due to the plague occurred a' Bradford, England. Pallas, the Anarchist, who attempted to kill Captain-General Martinez de Campos, was extwuti-d at Barcelona, Spaiu. He was shot in the bacsc. Thk anniversary of Parnell's death was observed in Cork, Ireland, with imposing <;eremonit*<. The holy men of "Morocco aro preaching the extermination or expulsion of all Europeans from their country. Pbinct. Bismarck reached his home at Friedrichsruhe but little fatigued by the journey from Kissingen and in a cheerful frame of mind. An ovation was extended to him along the routo. R. G. McCo.nnei.l, commissioned by the Ottawa (Canada) Government, reports that he has discovered the head waters of the Mackenzie River?a lake at the head of Findlay River. Gold was found in abun| dance for fifty miles along the river. The panic at Kio Janeiro. Brazil, has subsided, and business is going on as usual. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS KILLED, Terrible Disaster at a Barracks in Central Russia. The Ncwsky infantry barracks at Roslavi, province of Smolensk, was burned a few nights ago. The fire was discovered shortly I after 10 o'clock by a non-commissioned ofI fleer. He gave the alarm, but baforo all tha ! men could be roused the flames had 3pread through most of the building. About 400 men ran out in their night ] clothes. Of the sixty who were driven to thu roof and obliged to jump for their lives, j eleven were killed and eight Wi'je injured so j severely that they will die. Twenty-three men and Ave non-commissioned officers were overcome in the halls or rooms by the smoka , and heat, and were burned to death. j torn Ml Mill THEIR STRIKING EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. This Is the First Time Far-off Korea Has Taken Part in an International Exposition?Articles of Interest on Exhibit ? Guatemala and Its Productions. This is, the first time, according to the Chicago Record, that Korea, commonly known as the "hermit Nation," has participated in an international exposition. Though ahe has been open to the world for more than ten years, her relations with other powers have not been intimate, except with China, Japan and Russia. By these three Nations she is surrounded and jealously watched, lest sha may become either too independent or too much under the influence of one of these thi-ee powers. Korea thus occupies a very delicate and dangerous position and must act cautiously with other Na tions. 8he la less Known tnan eitner uapau or Chins. Her exhibit, therefore, in the World'3 Columbian Exposition, is very important and instructive. The Korean booth is in the southwestern part of the Manufactures Building, and, being small, is crowded with exhibits. It is in charge of Royal Commissioner Jeung Kiung Wow, who, with his associates, lives at 275 Forty-eecond street. The Korean flag, which hangs from the booth, is blue and yellow, and as a symbol has a very interesting meaning. As explained in the preface of Dr. H. N. Allen's book on Korea, the flag represents the male and femalo elements of nature. Blue stands lor the heaven, or male element, and yellow stands for the earth, or female element. As seen across the eastern sea, the heavens seem to lap over and embrace the earth, while the earth to landward rises in lofty mountains and folds the heavens in its embrace, making a harmonious whole. Such is the explanation of the curious design on the Korean flag. The four characters around the central figure represent the four points of the compass. Just at the left of the entrance to the booth are some miscellaneous articles of considerable interest: A cupboard with dishes, a It M I jj^ (P-~ ! ^ WOBI.D'8 rAIB?YlgW FROM THE EAST BAJ bronze table and dinner set for one person, i linnrx and shoes of wood, straw and feather ; I a Are pot and tools, a board on whioh is played a game evidently resembling chess, banners and lanterns, a kite and reel, vases (white and blue) and on the floor a brass cannon, very old, used In the American attack on Korean forts in the 70*. One of the naval officers, by the way, who participated in that attack, is now a resident of Chicago. He is Lieutenant F. S. Bassett, interpreter of the foreign department of the World's Fair, and Secretary of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society. On the walls of the booth hang banners like Japanese Kakemono. One painted on straw attracts attention. There are also here and there screens, of which one was handembroidered by the ladies of the palace. The boxes and cabinets for clothing look like trunks and seem durable. Skins of sable, leopard, fox, tiger and other animals are scattered about. In an upright glass case are exhibited various fabrics, articles of foot gear, an embroidered silk cushion and arm rest, a man's suit, a lady's dress and a lady's court dress, while on dummies in the center of the room are shown the ancient warriors' costumes, the ladies' dress for dance and the court dress of both a military and civil official. The young Korean in charge of the exhibit has evidently become tired of answering hundreds of times every day the same questions bv different visitors. Consequently to the corner'of a map showing Korea and the neighboring countries he has attached a paper headed "Questions Answered." Many of them are her# reproduced: " 'Korea' and 'Corea' are both correct, but the former is preferred." "Korea is not a part of China, but is independent." ' The Koreans do not speak the Chinese language, and their language resembles neither the Chinese nor the Japanese." "Korea made treaties in 1882." "All the articles are owned by the government." "Korea has electric lights, steamships, telegraphs, bat no railroads." "Koreans live in comfortable tile-roofed houses, heated by flues under the floor." "Korean civilisation is ancient and high? area, 100,000 square miles ; population, 16,000,000?climate like that of Chicago, country mountainous, mineral wealth undeveloped , agricultural products, chiefly rice, beans, wheat and corn. GUATEMALA AND ITS EXHIBIT. Close up to Mexico lies Guatemala, the first huid of Central America. Although the frontier of Mexico is like an impassable chasm, and the Republic of Guatemala is shut offlromall intercourse with the realm of t>?niu* ahf? h.-Lq almost without any assistance risen to a high degree of commercial worth. Over the Mexican border almost all the trade that is done is carried on by smugglers. No railway crosses the frontier, and when a citizen of Guatemala wants to visit the Mexican capital he Rets on a steamer at San Jose, goes to San Francisco and then by rail travels back to the city of Mexico. President Barrios married an American girl, and the friendly feeling of tbo country was increased toward the Unitei Status. Guatemala lias erected a buildiDg at tho Fair and (ll)od it with exhibits which explain the resources of the country and toll of its prosperity. There are still vast and almost unexplored regions of tho republic, which in itself covers an area of only 50,600 square miles. When Cortez was pillaging Mexico he heard of a country to the south where there was more gold, and he sent troo;-sto Guatemala, who robbed the native Indians. These aboriginal inhabitants hail reached a state of civilization higher than I that of the great majority of American Indians. In one corner of the Guatemala Building j is a grotto where is exhibited specimens of the fauna of the country. Here is a kind of bird called the gavilan, which sings the half hours, and is as correct as a sun dial. It is almost as good as a Government observa : r- . tory. It stops its vigils, however, at sundown, and begins again in the morning, which is the salvation of the bibulous Guatemalan, who keeps one of these birds in the house. On the east wall of the open court there la painted a map which shows the location of the principal towns and the railways already built, in course of construction and projected. The principal work the Government is doing at present is the building of a railway which, when completed, will connect San Jose, the principal town on the Pacific const, with Puerto Barrios, on the Gulf of Honduras. Already the city of Guatemala, the capital of the republic, has been reached from San Jose, and 175 miles of the road has been constructed from the Puerto Barrios end. The Government has already expended $8,000,000. The total cost of the work it is ^timated, will reach $10,000,000, The the Guatemalans claim that for flavor their coffee is the best in the world. To advertise it to the American people they have built a pavilion by their building, where they serve Guatemala coffee to the music of the marimba. In the center of the building is an open court, where about a fountain is displayed the exhibit of the flora of the country. Pictures are hung about the balcony whioh show the principal places In the city of Guatemala and the other large towns. Along the Pacific coaat of the republic Al 1 ^anlfO fhfl lAfHoflf I Utm 19 t% 11UO \J JL VVIUOUIV pwae, vuw of which is that of Tajumulco, which la over 14,400 feet above the level of the sea. The land of Guatemala is dotted with lakes, some of which are very large. The population ol the country in 1892 was 1,510,326. More than two-thirds of these people are Indians, the other part being Ladinos, descendants of the white race and a mixture of Europeans and Indians. The Indians for the most part are devoted to agriculture, while the Ladinoe are engaged in commercial pursuits. Guatemala is one of the most fertile of the Central or South American republics. Without cultivation pineapples, oranges, bananas, lemons, anona, zapote and almost all kinds ol tropical fruits are produced. In the northeastern and southwestern parts of the oountry are vast forests. Gold, copper, iron and 8liver mines are worked with great gains. All of the South American republics have courted immigration in emulation of the United States, but most of them without very bright results. Guatemala is ruled by a political code which was adopted in 1879 and in part revised in 1885. The President is elected directly by the people. His term of office is six years, and by the constitution he is no) !|; , i 1^31| 11 LCOXT ki* THE HALL OT JTICHAWIO ABT8. allowed to succeed himself. The legislative branch of the Government is constituted by an assembly, the members of whloh are elected by the people. The President appoints his cabpiet of six secretaries, in oharge of departments of foreign affairs, interior and justice, public works, war, treasury and publio instruction. The judiciary is composed of a chief justice and a supreme court, and the system is very similar to that of the United States. FOSSILS AT THE FAIB. There are all forms of fossils ranged in rows of cabinets and oases in the south gallery of the Enthropological Building. The evolution of the first form of life to its perfection?man?is laid out and traced in order, according to the lore of paleontologists, in the Ward collection. Cabinets of crustaceans, trilobitea, crinolds do not alone monopolize the spaoe of the exhibit in paleontology. There are all sorts of things of all the geologioal ages, from the first to the latest before our own, from the Laurentiaa to the quaternary. There are reproductions of the forms of giant reptiles, mastodons and models of the hugo beasts of prehistoric times. To the mind of the paleontologist the term antediluvian does not convey the impression of great antiquity. He deals witb things of the age when the earth was a shapeless, molten mass, of the age>when it first began to cool se that existence was made possible upon it. The models of these prehistoric animals probably attract more attention than any other exhibit In the Anthropological Building. The largest of these models is that oi tho great Siberian mammoth which stands near the center of the south gallery. The restoration wns made by the celebrated German preparatem, Herr L. Martin. The measurements were taken from the largest bones of the mammoth contained in the Royal museum of Stuttgart, while the character of the outer covering is copied from portions of skin, covered with hair, taken from a mammoth that was found in 1799 in glacier ice near the mouth of the River Lena, in Siberia, and is now preserved in tne Imperial museum of St. Petersburg. The specimen stands sixteen feet high and twenty-two foet long from its tail to the forward curve ot the trunk. The tusks are nearly six feet long and curved. A huge skeleton of a plesiosaurus, a marine reptile ot the jurassic time, stands with a coterie of other models. The original specimen was found in 1848 in the Lias, near Whitby, England. It measures over twenty-two feet and would be a hideous compliment to any nightmare. A restored oast in plaster of the huge dinosaurian reptile, the badrosaurus foulkii, from the upper cretaceans of New Jersey, stands near the huge mammoth. A testudo of wonderful proportions, and an immense ungulates or hoofed animal, called the dlnosaurus, which, in the tertiary day, were numerous in Wyoming. In the insiosure of the Ward exhibit are the skeleton and several legs of various specimens of moa, a gigantic, wiugiess bird, found in recent deposits in New Zealand. The moaa were but lately exterminated. Complete skeletons, with portions of the skin and feathers still adhering. have Deen lonna. A i*lyptodon relic of the latter part of the eerii.iry ap? was found near Montevideo. A east of thla animal.is contained in the Ward xhlliit. It was a huge armadillo, but without toe bands or Joints present in modern species, by means of which they can roll themselves into a ball. There are nearly a score or mora of these peculiar animals, all of which have no counterparts in modem life. BHODE ISLAND DAY AT THE FAIR. Rhode Island's day has been celebrated In lifting manner at the World's Fair. The Rhode Island National Guard was represented by the staff officers of the Newport Artillery and 115 men, Governor D. Russell Brown's personal staff, and many military officers on the general staff. At the Rhode Island Building Governor Brown and Professor Williams delivered addresses. * " STORI STRICKEN SOUTH. i AWFUL WORK OF WIND AND WATER ON THE GULF. The Dead Estimated at Fully Two Thousand?Great Suffering Among the Survivors?Immediate Relief Needed?The Stricken District to be Abandoned as a Habitation. A. late dispatch from New Orleans, La.f ftays The news from every section stricken by the storm makes It safe to estimate the loss of life at fully 2000, while property worth millions of dollars was destroyed. Besides that; thousands of people have been deprived i of the means of making a livelihood. The situation is appalling, but New Orleans is i doing all it can to relieve the thousands in want. Dr. 8tory, Coroner of P&quemine Parish, has made the following report: ' A good many carloads of provisions and olothing have been sent, but not near i enough. Men, women and children are without food and clothing. It is a frequent sight to see little sufferers crying and beg> giiig piteoualy for something to eat. Single i graves for the dead were Impossible. Oreat ! trenches wore dug and bodies were plied in one on top of tne other. The earth was i thrown over them, and if their names were i ascertained they were cut in rude crosses above the graves. I do not think I exag ' KUiaiu mo lauio wucu x oiow ium cm. loom. i 2500 goals were ushered into eternity by the recent storm in Louisiana. This, of course, includes those at Bayou Cook, Cheniere Caminada, Grand Isle, etc. I never saw bodies decompose so rapidly as those of the storm sufferers which were viewed by me. This was due to the fact that the fish and crabs in the bayous eat the remains. I believe firmly that the marshes and other places are filled with human forms. "It is impossible to get at these however, 1 as no one is adventurous enough to explore the swamps. There can be no doubt of the fact that this is conducive to an epidemic of fever, or even cholera. If one case of the ' latter disease should develope it would' spread through the country like wildfire, but 1 nothing can be done to prevent this." The relief party which set out from Bllloxt tells an awful story of the destitution and loss of life in the Louisiana marshes. The marshes are filled with dead and putrefying bodies, in very few cases the corpses being recognizable. The number of lives lost on these marshes will never be known. The territory covered was a distance of 200 miles. Newly made graves were everywhere. The only sign of life seen in the marsh was one raccoon, and it was floating on a log. Hundreds of oyster boats and luggers wejre lost with most of their crews, and the few survivors tell terrible stories of suffering. Most of them were nude when found. Captain Julian Lefort, the leading spirit amoug the survivors of the Cheniere Caminada, places the number of saved at 300. The population of the island and the bayous immediately connected with it was slightly ! more than 1500. He says it will be abandoned as a habitation of nan. Grand Isle and Chemedeleur will alai he abandoned. THE LABOR WOULD. It takes 1,500,000 men to work the world's coal mines. Ik Naples, Italy, compositors are paid is little as $1.25 a week. Sxvibax Pittsburg mills that were idle)ill summer have started up. . Tkx thousand people are employed as telephone operators In this country. It is estimated that since July 1 800,000 employes have lost their situations. Ik Chicago, according to an exact count, 79,364 wage workers are out of employment. Neablt 2,000,000 wageworkers are out of employment in England since the coal strike hAomn ""o"? A lab ok number of idle miners from the Michigan Upper Peninsula districts are leaving for the mines in Alaska. A law in England provides that no^ person under eighteen years shali be employed about a shop for longer thanseventyfour hours, lnoludlng meal times, in any one week. The Chinese in California have a chance to go to a warmer climate. They are offered $25 a head in British Guiana to hoe sugar oane and dig gold. The cplony only wants 5000 of tkem. The north of England miners live, on an average, three years longer than Englishmen taken as a whole. They live elgnt years longer than the Cornish and nine years longer , than the South Wales miners. i Bbass grinders working by the piece are able to earn about $40 a week, but their i average life time is not quite thirty-five years. Most of them die from hemorrhage of the i lungs, caused by particles of the brass inhaled by the men while at work. L All the oollleries of the Philadelphia and Beading Coal and Iron Company at Shenandoah, Penn., have resumed operations under ' orders to work six days each week for two months, the miners to be paid at the rate of five per oent. above the $2.60 basis. Statistics show that the entire agriculture i ot the world furnishesemploymentto 280,000,000 men and represents an invested capital of $324,000,000,000. The annual product is worth over $20,000,000,000. It is estimated that the civilized Nations pay annually for food $13,700,000,000. A Pabis shop girl ordinarily begins at a salary of from $5 to $8 a month. Besides she invariably has a commission on her sales, varying from one half to one per cent., according to her success. Many receive as high as $30 a month in salary and make much more in commissions. The Government of Portugal has appropriated sufficient funds to establish labor exchanges, under the control of organized labor, in the larger cities and industrial centres of that country. These exchangee are under the supervision of the Department for Commerce and Industries. Labor bureaus which were expected to solve the problem of the unemployed in London have proved a disheartening failure. At one office some 800 applicants in search of work of any kind registered, and only three employers applied for help; so that after three months' work the bureau found employment for only two men. TEXAS HIGHWAYMEN, After Looting the Stage Mall They Remind the Driver of Lot's Wife. Particulars of the latest atago robbery have just been received. Three miles east of Robert Lee, in Coke County, Texas, the Ballingerand Robert Lee stage was held up by two masked highwaymen at a point in J ? -.-J +W4/?L. the road whore tnere are ravines uuu luiwa | underbrush, who ordered the driver to throw up his hands, pointing a six-shooter ' at him. They rifled the mail sacks, securing about |I3100, which was being sent from the bank at Robert Lee to other banks throughout the State. After securing thole booty they ordered the driver to turn his face to the rising sun and drive fast and '-remember the command given by the angel of God to , Lot's wlfe? A TRAIN" BLOWN UP. Its Freight of '200 Kegs of Powder Exploded. An eastbound freight train on the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad passed the villago of North Lawrence, a few miles east of Alliance. Ohio. Five minutes . lnf?p f-hn inh.-ihlfanM of tho vlIlaiTO Wt.T3 startled by a terrible explosion. The train hud a cur containing over 200 hundred kegs ot powder, which in dome mysterious manner was exploded, completely wrecking the train. The track was torn to pieces for a distance of 150 yards and an excavation twenty feet deep beneath the powder car was mado. Engineer Colvin and his fireman. Thomas McCowan, were fatally burned. The damage will reach $24,000, and trafflo was suspended for twelve hour* 1 or more. . Five hundred boys and girls from the i Carlisle Indian Training School visited the ' World's Fair. They paid their owi expenses i from their earnings of the paflt six months. Their band of thirtv-two pieces and choir ot eighty voices gave a concert every day. and there was a dress parade and drill on Ui? croun da. LATER NEWS. The failure of J. 8. McCaleb, who con- ' ducted banks in Uniontown and Connellsville, Pennsylvania, is found to be much more serious than at first supposed. His b place of business was surrounded by mobs e of angry Hungarian and Italian creditors, who threatened to kill McCaleb on 1 Bight. The clerks in the banks have armed * themselves to protect the property of their ? employer. n ' a A traix ran into an open switch at Whit- ? ing, Ind., causing the engine, mail-car and e two Pullmans to leave the track. The dead ^ are: Henry Warner, engineer; John Christie, e fireman. Six passengers were injured. ,> : ? Miss Etta. Qukk and Josephine Dreeeer J were walking along the railroad track near e Bluffs, 111., and a train came up behind tl them before they were aware of the danger. Miss Ounn was killed instantly, and Miss g Dresser was fatally injured. e Bbioadieb Gxkxbal Bbeckimbidgx in a t report to the War Department declares the 1 seacoast defences in tbe Soutn are in a 010- ~ graceful condition. Thx Tuoker bill, ref>ealing all present t: Federal election lawB, was passed in the | House of Bepresentatives by a strict party vote, 200 to 101. s i Tax rebel Brazilian warships again bom- y barded the forts at Bio Janeiro. A poLicKKAit and a sanitary official were t killed in a cholera riot in St. Panli, a suburb t of Hamburg. Germany. c Five students we re dismissed and five suspended forharing at Princeton (N. J.) Col- 0 lege. I The Flint Glass Worlfjrs' Union, all the t men employed by tho United States Glass * Company, better known as the Flint Glass f Trust, in its sixteen factories, went on strike 1 at Pittsburg, Penn. The company employs 1 2500 men. T^e Flint Glass Workers' Union ? is considered the strongest labor organiza- p Hon in America. It kas 7000 members and J ' has in its strike fund $175,000. The American yacht Vigilant and the British contestant Valkyrie met in a race of a fifteen miles to windward and return off I Sandy Hook, N. J., but the wind failed and .1 they could not finish within the six hour c time limit. Cohhxctxoot Dat was celebrated at the * World's Fair. t Becxttsbs were appointed for the Chicago * and Northern Pacific Bailroad by the United < States Court at Chicago, HL c 1 f T < /IA1A?A^ mlfa-hflofor wis 1 taken oat ol the Covington (La.) jail by a * mob and hanged. Several thousand additional men will be needed to man Uncle Sam's new warships. A maix boat plying between Bousay and Eday in the Orkney Islands, was upset In a squall and the two boatmen, a woman and her three children, were drowned. Choleba is decreasing in Bussia, although the mortality is still heavy. FIFTY-THIRD 00NQBE83. ^ ^ The Senate. . 48th Dat.?The open legislative session ol the Senate lasted fifteen minutes. The remainder of the day was spent in executive session. 49th Dat.?The Senate proceeded to the consideration of tne resolution for a select committee to inquire what legislation is ne?? essary to improve the banking system of the ?/- rti a 1 mi_^. wit ] uuuxiirj. iliX. Diowttn BpUKP. xno ourcr Purchase Repeal bill was then taken up, and r Mr. Blackburn sent to the Clerk's desk and j had read an amendment to the Bepeal bill. , Messrs. Call. Butler and Teller spoke against repeal.-1 Mr. Morgan's resolution-instruct- J ing the Judiciary Committee 'to inquire ' what provisions of the Free Coinage act of 1837 are still in force, was agreed to without disoussion and without division. 50th Day.?Before the bilver Purchase Be- . peal bill was taken up Mr. Wolcott offered a resolution directing the Committee on Finance to report a bill for the coinage of gold and silver in accordance with the policy set forth in the declaration section of the Voorhees bill. Mr. Roach addressed the Senate against the repeal of the Sherman act. Hja was followed bv Mr. Allen. 51st Day.?The debAte on the silver bill developed into a lively discussion, in which many Senators took part; Senator Cockrell began a long speech on the subject of repeal. 52d Day.?Messrs. MoPherson and Cockrell spoke on the Repeal bill. Mr. Cookrell spoke for five hours and then, without coming to an end, yielded the floor. 53d Day.?The 8Hver Purchase Bepeal bill was taken up at 11.45, and Mr. Cockrell be- < gan the third installment of his speech against 'it. He spoke until 2.10 p. m., and then said that he would yield the floor temporarily to Mr. Smith. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Cookrell again took the floor. He was followed by Mr. Allen. At 6 o'clock, instead of ? an adjournment, the muoh talked-of t "test of physical endurance" was begun. t At 6.06 p. m. Mr. Dubois suggested that it i was past the hour when the Senator from In- 1 diana (Mr. Yoorhees) usually made a motion 1 to adjourn. He asked that Senator whether t he desired to submit that motion. a "[ feel it my highest duty," said Mr. Voorhees, "not to make that motion this evening, but, on the contrary, to ask the Senate to sit 1n continuous session until the pending measure is disposed of." I 17.e House. 47th Dat.?Toe bill placing the Secretary j of Agrioulture in the line of the Presidential j? succession was passed. Speeches on the t< Federal Elections bill were made by Mr. 31 Murray and Mr. Haines In the negative, and g by Mr. Bussell and Mr. Money in the nfflr- ^ mative. is 43th Day.?The call of committees for re- b ports was dispensed with, and the Federal w Election bill was taken up. It was dis- <u cussed by Messrs. Hainer, Hicks, Brook- a shire, Cummings, Tawney, Talbert and Qeis- d senhainer. jv 49th Dat.?The Federal Election bill was s< taken up, and. Mr. Everett odvocated It. He a was followed by Messrs. Grosvenor, Oates, c] Hepburn, Swanson, Cannon and Hunter. w Fifteen members were present when, at 5.46 Alock, the House took a reoess until 8 e, o olock, when the debate was continued. ai *V __ i J OUTH UAY?j. no CUUOIUtiriKlUU Ul uo iwvi- q( eral Election bill was resumed, and Mr. a Aldrich spoke in opposition to it. He was A followed by Messrs. Dolliver, Boutelle, Pajrfle t. and Fitch. ? 51st Day.?The day had boen set for the jj( passage of the Federal Election, Repeal bill. K Routine business, was first transacted, but at tc 10 o'clock the :3rst vote was taken on Mr. w Burrows's amendment to Mr. Lacey'a jg amendment, and it provided for the reten- 3? tion of sections 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 of the law. On a standing vote there ip were eighty-one in tho affirmative and 188 aJ in the negative. The yeas and nays ID wero ordered. The vote was?Yeas, 100; jj, nays, 192. The next vote was on the w Lacey amendment, which strikes from fa the repealing clause the criminul sections of hi the statutes. The Lacey amendment was ^ defeated?Yeas, ninety-six; nays, 192. Mr. 0I Fitch then withdrew his substitute for the . Tucker bill. The Tucktr bill was passed? Yeas. 200; nays. 101; a strict party vote. Tho 0j Populists voted with the Democrats in the ;u affirmative. Tho House then, at 2.45, adjourned. cl 52? Day.?The bill to amend tho Chineso Exclusion act was debated by Messrs. McCreary and Geary. The bill to remit tho penalties on the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius was then taken up. The amount involved in the hill Is $39,700. No action was taken. ? Mr. Hunter asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a joint resolution providing ? for a recess of Congress. Mr. Outhwaite ob- tl jected, and the resolution was referred to ' the Committee on Rules. ** Superior and Duluth prodaced 1,010.848 o barrels of flour in September. The produc- a tion for Septemt-er, 1893, was 688,930 Darrrls. a a CHICAGO'S BIG DAY. 7 ? 'aid Attendance at the World's Fair Breaks all Records. Seven hundred and eighteen thousand two -.y j undred and twenty-three people?the great* st crowd'that ever congregated In America -visited the World's Fair on Chicago Day.. j 'his breaks the greatest one-day record at 'aris with many thousands to spare, comletely smothers the "big day" figures of any tber exposition ever held, and establishes a , ] lark which, it is safe to predict, the present j eneration will never again see attained. To I bis end glorious October weather contrtbot- ?. J When the gates opened'at 6.80 o'clock j ally 1000 people besieged each passage. ] ager for admission. From that hour until J ite in the afternoon there was a constant 4 am at every gate, The Department of lid? lisslons had an extra force on duty, and M very turnstile was kept registering Jt he highest speed. Yet these fadli- fl lee were inadequate, and at 1 o'clock w Superintendent Tucker ordered every wagon J ate opened and stationed a corps of men at a ach to take tickets. When the wagon gate* 41 rere closed at 4 o'clock- 600,000 people had i een admitted, and 181,000 more were added 1 a the next three hours. At midnight a coo-, / J ervatlve estimate place the attendance for ] he day at ^00.000. The total number of paid admissions sines he opening of the Fair is 10,492,070. The Teatest day at Paris was S97,1M and at 'hiladeiphla 217.536. Every Exposition building, great and mall, was decorated, but the Illinois Bulldog was the most gorgeous of alL The dome ras ooverafl with flags and streamers^ and | Q6 \r&liflf WWffS ana ruore ware unuuwis / rith colors of ail nations. In the wast earaace the name '-Chicago" burned in alecrlc lights in the night. . t ' The exerdaeo beOTn with the Introduction >f two Indian chiefs at 9 o'clock. The old Pottawatomie Chief, Simon Poka- 1 ;on, whose father deeded the land upon rhich Chicago is built, -had come from his,' , ; lomein Hartford, Xien. He stood. besld* he Columbian bell with unooreredhead la.' \ he drees of the white man. By his side stood a; more picturesque Igure. His dress consisted of a heavy and arled coat of paint on his face, body and Lrnbe, a headdress of feathers and a breechlout of.beaded buckskin. Ho woremocoa Ins and looked a typical Indian on thel war-, iatb, although he came with a ineewge of{ } tea^e. standing as a historic figure between; ; -V v he Chicago of yesterday and the Chicago of' o-day. He wag Chief John Young, sixty years of ge, who came from the Pottawatomie rev*- < atlon, near Miles, Mich, to tell the people of */*' i 11 Nations that his father, who bore the Vara ; v2. >a Lame, .christened the World's Fait etty"Chti; ago" which literally interpreted, means 'where the sknnk dwells." -i j;': ' ^ The ground of the Terminal Plaa* could' lot be seen for the mase of people who illed it In front of the stand erected for he chorus of 2000 voices, under thedireoion of W. L. Tonilins, an orchestra' the' id tod Exposition bonds and the Eighth j Javalry Mexican Band accompanied the j ihorus in a mighty melody which' aroused I he people to a high pitch of patrbtJe 1 enthusiasm, Following this great burst of song the . mtoiwt Han/4a nt th? Vrnoittlnil TCltnAfi In laying the mnsio ot the Southern 8 tat es,and he chorus, orchestra and band joined In 'Columbia, the Gem of the Ooeaa." " /'- yf$|'& S&f-j A notable feature was the ringing of the lew liberty bell at noon by Mayor Harrison, kcoompanied by a blare of trumpet* and irash of drams by the united bands. The Jiorua sana; "Die Waoht am Bhein," "Mar-1\ ?iilaise," the Austrian hymn, the Russian lymn. the '.'Star-spangled Banner/' and ither National and patriotic hymns. , At the came time thousands-ot -peopla srowded the stook pavilion to witness fba ohibition drill of the Chicago Hussars, who >' ^ mtered by the Midway and paraded sroumd : lie grounds. 1 if...s si<t'&??& ' The Bennlon. of the States was the tpecta-' die which the great crowd assembled to wit- , i^v; jess. As the Slates In the afternoon paSsedf ^ ; w n review around the Court of Honor, each epreeented by young ladies bearing petf lants, cheer after oheer attested sation of the vast audienoe. The review vas divided Into five sections. - ' ? sjs ' At night the most gorgeous pageant ever' produced took place, and It was folio wed by i most wonderful display of firework*' rwentT-flve great floats illustrated the arts,' Sciences. Peace, War, Chicago, and theH*v Ions. Each was a magnlfloent and costly production, and the spectacular effect war , forgeous. _ -J - i: I DOTTED STATES BAILROADsi Inter-State Commerce CommissSts . . . Report for the Y?ar. 7 The fifth statistical report of the Ints^ ' State Commerce Commission has Just beea lubmitted for the year ecded June 89,189L' rhe total railway mileage of the country ' 71.56S.52 miles, being an increase during he year of 3160 miles, the smallest increase or a number of years. . ' The total number of employes in the tec* rice of railways was 821,415, being an in- :reasa of 87.130 over the previous year. The lapitalization of thn 162,397 miles oovered by '.: he report was $10,226,748, 134. The total ' \ mmber of passragors carried by therailwayB luring the year \ras 560,95(5,211. xne groat arnings from operation of raihrajs wera >1.171,407,343. The operating expenses fM i780,997,39?. The number of railway employes killed ras 2554, being less than the number killed luring the previous year. The number of imployes injured, however, was In excess of he number Injured during the previous year, lelng 23,267. The number of passeng?Of Hied was largely in excess of tne numbeC , / :illed during the previous year, being 876 n 1802 as against 293 in 1891, wb Ire the number of passengers injured was 3227 in 1898, ' A against 2972 in 189L * AN mPEOYO) lifeboat; / S t is Built to Travel Equally Well lm Either Direction. A novel lifeboat has just beenoompletedia laJtimore, Md? The boat was designed and i patented by Charles Dlokenson, and is tain ded for use from vessels or at life-saving Nations. The model, a ays the Baltimore -? un. is eighteen feet long, with four test ddth of beam. It ie constructed of galvan:ed iron and is called a self-righter and selfaller. The boat Is built to travel equally 'ell in either direction, both ends being tho ime. At each end h hooded cabin rises / bovethe sides and is closed by a water-tight ' oor. It is said that should the boat be overtimed it would instantlyright itself by rea- ' m of the air contained in these compartLents. Ventilation is secured bv air-tubas, losed by valves, to prevent the entranoe. of I ater when waves wash over the boat or it , I overturned in the sea. Between the two I id compartments the boat is decked over fl id has seats and oarlocks for rowers. -Be- I sath the deck is a tank lor fresh water,with I ? 1 k: I'm tube leading to it. to wnion may lk> aiuKuw . pump. Another tubo leads to the bottom I >r pumping out any water which may be I ashed into the hold. A third tube ia lor I aiding a signaf staff. The boat has a nar- I >w opening running tlirough from the dqok J ? the keel, whicii will serve to carry off . V ater from the deck. A feature of the boat J a means of self'propulsion to and from H randed vessel to t ho shore. A small tubo .V ins from each end to the deck section. ' V hrough these tubes a rope may be passed id a turn taken around a reel and windlnaB V . the middle of th?? deck. With one end of I ie rope fastened on board the vessel from I hioh the boat is launohed and the other 1 steoed on shore after the boat is rowed or 1 is driftad through the brokers, it is claimed ie little vessel ma/ be easily propelled from I nMer hv turnini the wind- I iU I.V mv vn>?v* ~j - ? ^ ss. A special carriage is built for the boat f which it may be launched from any part a vessel's deck and in any position. A seaichor or drag of a peculiar pattern is cared, to be thrown out and keep the boat out ! the trough of the seas. A jealous wife of Perpignac, France, ?aked her dress with petroleum, locked the f ouse door and then called her husband to er. Just as he approached she lit a match ad set her clothes on Are. Then, seizing er husband in her arms, she held him tight 11 they were both enveloped in flames. The roman died and t.'ae man is crazy and likd? ) die. Lbadixo lumbermen of the Northwest have rgonlzed an insurance concern patterned / . fter the old English Lloyd's plan of insur* v nce, which will operate aver Wisconsin and number of other States. (i