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ECHOES OF THE MTU ~ BESOLTS OF TIE BALLOTING J T*T Tr i TiT^rrn rtm A rnTC iiN V iLftlUUib ibiimjo. i d The Republicans Carried New York Mate by a <Jood Size:'. Plurality e and Klecte'l JSajtlett Over May- v nanlbya IJis; Majority? ?Jttsr.achu- " setts and Ohio Oo Republican. November elections for ofll jars wire J held in twelve States. They vr.^r? New York, New Jersey, Massachus itts, Pennsylvania, t; Maryland. Virginia, M'ssoari. O'aio. Ken- d tucky, Iowa. Nebraska and South Dakota. Now York ele /ted a Secretary of State, Comptroller, Tre:isurer. Attorney-General, State Engineer, Judge ot the Court of Appeals, and an entire Legislature, besides s Delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The Republicans elected their v entire ticket, from Secretary of State s down, by the estimated majority of h 30,000. Bartlett (Republican) was elected to the Court of Appeals' bench over Maynard ti by the plurality of from 100,000 to 120,000. ? In all the interior towns and cities the Republicans secured great gains, especially in Erie County, the home of Lieutenant Gover- " nor Sheehan. The Republicans recaptured ^ both branches of the Legislature, and al- ^ though several of the districts were extremely close it was apparent on the day following C the election that there would be a Republican d majority on joint ballot often or twelve. The Senate may be very close. New York _City gave 65,000 majority for the head of the t>em- ji oeratic ticket, but Mr. Maynard's majority j] did not reach 23.000. The entire Tammany tl ticket was fleeted bv a big majority. In Brooklyn. Schieren (Republican"} was elect-id Mayor "over Boody (Democrat) by a plu- , ralitythat will exceed 31.781. The Board of tJ Aldermen is Republican by eleven to ei ht. Thb Republicans swept Kings County, is electing iheir county ticket by a plu- O rality of about &J00. William J. Gaynor (Be- a; ' publican) w.-.s elected a Justice of the Su- o preme Court over Thomas E. Pearsall ( Democrat). The Republican State ticket has a $ p umlity of about 12,500 in Brooklyn and ^ ?500 in Kin^s County. In Gravesend, Mc- v: Kj:i?'s district, the Democratic State ticket tl rrw ved 8506 votes against 162 for the Be- s, puVfcan. N"?. w Jersey elected eight members of the S"n::te, from Camden, Essex, G'ouccster, fi<ilom Sr?m- rset. Union and Warren Counties, and a full Assembly. The t< Republicans made almost a clean sweep. si They captured tho State Assembly, which wa? last year Democratic by ten majority. y They also carried the Senate, and have a r< majority on joint ballot of twenty-one. tl In Hudson County, where there is a nor- jj t mal Democratic majority of 4590, they a elected their candidate for Sheriff jj by more than 3503 majority. In Essex County they elected their county ticket and a Senator. In no less than a dozen counties they wrested the political control from the " Democrats. The race-track bills legalizes , pool selling and permitting tho licensing of v, race tracks were responsible for the result. 'c Massachusetts elected a Governor, Lieu- p tenant-Governor, Secretary of State. Trea- A surer. Auditor, Attorney-General, eight Ex- p Conncillors and a Legislature. There *ra four tickets?Democratic, Republican, Prohibition and People's. The Republicans 11 carried the State. The plurality for Governor TJ of Fred. T. Greenha'ge (Republican) over John " F.. Iiuss?Il (Dgmocratj was thirty-flve thou- ^ 31 u 1 The entire Republican State ticket was ^ etc*-1 ?d by practicallv the same vote, and the L-g slature will have a few more Republican a: member* than the last Legislature had. TIjf re was a act Republican gain in Boston a, ov?*r Governor Russell's vote last year of fc 47:1, and corresponding gains in the other w ?*:t its and manufacturing centres. Cambridge, j Governor Russell's home, gave a Republican c gain of 1300. Pennsylvania elected a State Treasurerand n a Judfje of the Supreme Court. The vote was light and resulted in the election of tt Samuel L. Jackson. Republican, of Arm- c< strong County, for State Treasurer, and D. o, Newlin Fell, Republican, of Philadelphia, ai for Ju3ticc ot the Supreme Court. Maryland elected a Legislature, Ave Judges j;i and a Comptroller. The Democratic ticket c was elected by 20,000 plurality. The only d State contest was for Comptroller. Mayor y Latrobe, Democrat, won a notable victory q for re-slection in Baltimore over two candi- ? dates. d, vi^m'nia n finvwaor. a Lieutenant Governor. Attorney-General and a Legislature which will choose a United States Senator. Tnere were two tickets?Democratic and Populist. Reports indicated a Demo- ti cratic majority of 40,000. The Populists hi failed to make gains in the city as they ex- u pected. The Democrats arc sure of the United States Senatorship and also c2 their n State Court of Appeals. O'Ferrall was r< elected Governor by 30.000 majority. Kentucky elected a Legislature which will ^ choose a United States Senator. The Demo- jr crats bad almost no opposition. TheLegis- r, Jature is overwhelmingly Democratic and J United Suites Senator Lindsay will be reelected. Louisville re-elects its Democratic Mayor. Henry S. Tyler, in spite of the oppox lion of two other candidates. i ri Ohio elected Governor, Lieutenant-Gov- h ernor. Treasurer, Supremo Court Judge, At- r' toruey- General, Food Commissioner, Member of the Board of Iub- A lie Works and a Legislature. There c were three tickets?Democratic, Republican and Prohibition. Governor McKinley ^ and th>j entire Republican ticket was re-elected "oy a plurality which exceeds 00,000, and may roach 100.000. The Legislature is over- ? wlieiminarly Republican in both branches. tj South Dakota elected three Supreme Court t, and eight Circuit Court Judges. The Republicans elected their State judicial ticket _ toy seventy-flve per cent, of the 40,000 votes K polled. on Accnoin+a .TnaHr?f? ftf A -the Supreme Court. All early judications points! to a Republican victory in the election of a Supreme Judge and two Regents of the State University. There was a vigorous contest, and a lull vote was noiied. Iowa elected a Governor. Lieutenant-Gov- ^ ercor, Judge of the Supreme Court. Railroad Y< Commissioner. Superintendent of Public In- aJ struction and a Legislature which will elect a United States Senator. There were threetickets j? in the Held ? Democratic. Republican aa*i Fro- Bl hibition. The Republicans claimed the else- 01 tion of Jackson for Governor and the remainder of their ticket by 30.000 plurality. Thev based this claim on early returns which ^ were p?etty well scattered over the State. State Chairman Fuller says the Democratic . State Committee concedes tho election of . Jackson by 25,000 to 30.000. The Legislature is certainly Republican by about twenty ou H joint ballot and many districts have gone Re- . publican for the first time in ten or twolva J1 years. b' Cook County. Illinois (Chicago), voted , only for Judges of the Circuit and Superior ^ Courts and County Commissioner?. Judge 11 Gary, before whom the Anarchists wero ai tried, is elected by 5000 majority. The Demo- . crats won in tho other contests. A In Michigan Griffin (Democrat) is elected ? to Uongress in me rjrsi xsiainui; wot cvjuo (Republican). , ? HANGED BY A MOB. I - s A Quadruple Lynching in Tennessee on Mere Suspicion. ^ o Four colored people were lynched by un- 0 known persons at a late hour in the night on d the Boonevillo turnpike, oue mile Irom the town of Lynchburg, the couuty seat of Moore v County, Tennessee. r Thr?? were men and the oth?*r wns a wo- s , man. They were Ned Waggoner; his son Will Wajj^onsr; bis son-in-law. Samuel Mot- a low.'in.l Motlow's wi.e. Mary ilotlow. The v lynching was on the fara of Jack Daniels, j 5 an i was so quietly 'lone that r.o cne in the | v neighborhood was aware of th-i ta -t until the | i driver o.' the stage coach, who w.ts the first 1 passer-by on the road next 'lay. discorerwi the four "bodies dangling from ti.esanr? tree, a The victims were charged with burning 3 (several houses and bains ia Moore County. There is no ciue to the perpetrators of tha lynching, i The senior surviving ofii-.'ar o: the Con- J fftderacv is James LongEireet, lor whom a New York Arm is publishing a book.. Beau- ' regard was the last of the full general*?. Long- I street heading tVe list of Lkiut<!aaut-G?!norals. Ho is a very old rurm now. s;ray and ' deaf. He lives quietly and simply at his home in Gai2==^lle, G&. Two twelve-year-old boys killed au ea^le 1 measuring seven feet from tip to tip, which ! attacked them near Oakland, 111. 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Sixtv-threk men who have returned to iew York from the phosphate mines on the sland of Navassa tell a story of cruelty and irivation. A. Blaisdell. Jr.. ?.V Co., cotton and wool lealers, of Chicopee, Mass.. have failed. At Philadelphia, in the presence of 20,000 pectators. Princeton won the football game irith the University of Pennsylvania team by i score of 4 to 0. At New York Harvard deeated Cornell 84 to 0. Colonel Daniel Lamoxt. Secretary of Var, and Mrs. Laaiont visited Gettysburg PeDn.) battlefield. The Secretary was met >y the members of the United States Gety-sburg Battlefl?ld Commission. The entire ay was spent in the inspection. South and West. Chris Shorlixg, atTol?do, Ohio, shot and illed Miss Gertie Sharp, his sixteen-year-old weetheart. He then shot himself. The Minnesota Executive Pine Land Inestigating Committee charges that the tate has been robbed of millions of feet of imber. The Chesapeake. Ohio and Southwestern 'ao^ Unc Kaon oftM tn fho T.nuicvillM nnrl Nashville by C. P. Huntington. An attempt was made to hold upthenorthound Louisville express, near Coal Creek, 'enn. One of the would-be-robbers was illed and another captured. The second trial of cx-Detective Daniel oughlin for alleged complicity in the murer of Dr. Cronin was begun in Chicago. A& the result of.a deliberately planned atimpt at" train wricking, train No. 3, on the lliuois Central, was wrecked near Ullin, 11., and the fireman, Charles Harman. and vo tramps, both colored men. were killed. The Columbus caravels are to bo allowed ) winter in Chicago, and Congress is to sete the question of their iiual disposition. South-eocnd Iran Mountain train No. 51 as held u,< by seven m:isked bandits at iliphant. Ark. The conductor was kilied nd the robbers escaped with asmall amount f booty. A faxct inlaid upright piano, valued at 1500. which had been packed ready for retoval, was taken out of the exhibitors' pailion at the World's Fair grounds under le noses of the guards, by thieves who pr?;nted a forged permit for it. Washington. SecretaryHekbert has appointed aboard ) inquire into alleged defects in the new war lips. The President has approved the act proidlng for the construction of a steam svenue cutter for the Now England coast ? 19 JOini nfSUlUUOil JUl lilC xopuiliuw;, rnaiv lg and removal of derelicts, and an act mendatory of the timber culture repeal iw. The President has nominated Samuel E. ichols. of New York, to be Pension A?ent c Buffalo. N. Y.: John C. Byxbee, of Conecticut, to be Collector of Internal Revenue >r the District of Counecticut. Consuls? [. L. Davis, of Arkansas, at Merida, Mexico; . H. Jacobi, oi Wisconsin, at Keichenberg, ohemia; Leon Jostremski, of Louisiana, at allao. Peru; F. \V. Roberts, of Maine, at arcelona, Spain. The annual report of Third Assistant Postlaster-General Craige shows that the total jvenues of the department from all sources uring the last fiscal year was $75,896,933, ad the expenditures $31,074,101, which !aves a deficiency lor the year of $5,177,171. The President has signed the Chinese bill mending the Gearv law. Vice-Pbesident Stevenson loft immediiateiy after the adjournment of the Senate >r his home in Bloomington. 111., where he ill remain until Congress meets again. The nomination of James Ii. Roosevelt as ;>cretary of Embassy at Loadon was conrmed in executive session. Up tothe close of the session of the Senate le President sent to that body 1111 messages jntaining nominations,aggregating upward r 1303 names. Of these 246 wete the usual rmy and navy promotions. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, conrmed the sta-isment that the United States ircuit Judgeship for the Fourth Judicial istrict, embracing the States of Maryland, irginia, West Virginia, North and South arolina, made vacant by the death of Judge ond, had been tendered him by the Presl;nt, and that he had declined the honor. Foreign. The Cunard Line steamer Campania broke io eastward record from New York to Browead, Ireland, by one hour and twenty mintes. The British Parliament opened and busiess began by the moving of the second :ading of the Parish Councils bill. Colonel Djcbitch, ex-Minister of War, ropped dead at Belgrade, Servia, upon hearig tnat the King had promoted him to the ink of general. Apoplexy wasfche cause of eatb. M. VELrmuoviTCH, formerly Servian Miniter of Justice, has been murdered at his fsidence in Belgrade. His body was found eheaded and horribly mutilated in his t?edDom. A despatch from Johnnesburg, South .frieu, says that King Lobengula has been aptured by the Chartered Company s forces. Pbixce VVindischquaetz has chosen an .ustrian Cabinet. British warships at Bio, Brazil, sent men n shore to get sand for holystoning. Peixto's troops, thinking Mello's men were upon hem, blew up a powder magazine, killing rcn und trniin/?in<? Hva of the Britons. :iLLED BY AN EXPLOSION, Feed Mill Boiler Blows Up With Terrible Results. Five men wero killed and fifteen persons ere injured by the explosion of a boiler in ist Fourteenth stract, near Avenue B, New ark City, a few afternoons ago. The boiler, 1 upright, was in the basement of the feed ill at the stables of the Dry Dock, East roadway and Battery Railroad Company, a the north side of Fourteenth street. The feed mill was demolished and a large sction of the boiler was hurled across the reet, smashing in the wall of a tenement on 10 south side. Two of the men who were killed were lown out of the feed mill clear across the reet. One of them died in the hallway of le tenement. 531 East Fourteenth street, he other breathed his last on the sidewalk l front of 536. The rest of the killed were uried in the ruins of the feed mill. Most of the injured wero employes of the sed mill or stables, who wpre struck by fly? ig bricks or timbers. Several persons living :ross the street also were injured. Following is a list of the dead James rmstrong, engineer, twenty-eight years Id: leaves a wife and one t'hiM. ohn Gillespie, hostler, sixty-flve years Id; leaves a wife and son. Ul/Uiao XJ. uaoovu, ^laiu OUV/?>JIV.4, ears old, single. Samuel SIcMullen, grain boveler, thirty-seven years old, single. Patick Quinn, carpenter, twenty-twoyea?3 old, incle. >rha engineer in charge of tho boiler, James irmstrohg. was buried beneath a great mass f bricks and stones, broken beams andtwistd machinery, aad, therefore, the causo may ;ever be ascertained. The explosion shook buildings for blocks round. Almost simultaneously the front rail of tho foed mill fell outward, and the oof caved in, followed by tho collapse of tho ide walls. A largo section of tho boiler rose in tho air nd went sailing across the street. It struck rith great force the front of tho tenement, 34 East Fourteenth street, crushing in the] r:ill at the second story and smashing the' roats and windows of Peters's proeery and: tuhPs saloon, on the around floor. l'ho bodies of many horses were taken out ,nd eight injured ones were shot. Fifteen in .11 were killed. A fin ax survey of the ship canal across the ?lorida peninsula will shortly be made. Th*! anal will be about 300 feet wide and about 50 miles in length. It will shorten the disanco from New Orleans to Liverpool 100!) lies, and vessels will save tha dangerous royago around the Florida Keys and Bahanas, with the high insurance rates now x.vctcd. A pasty of twenty-Ova experienced California gold miners ore about to pay from , 5400 to $500 each to gat to Africa, where they expect to make lots of money. '1m- *'' ' STEA1EB EDRWED AT SEA tttt! rnw nv at.tiyantvrta LOST NEAR HAVANA. The Ship Was on Her Way From Mataazas to Havana?There was an Explosion, and Four Hundred Barrels of Rum Fed the FlamesMany Lives Reported Lost. The steamship City of Alexandria, belonging to the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, and running between Matanzas and Havana, Cuba, and New York, 1?- 1 L.. ?T* ?tno uus ueeu uurucu uu kvjiiuui. xi nao at first that sixty persons were drowned, but later news reduced the estimates of the loss of life. The steamer was commanded by Captain Hoffman. A cablegram from Havana, says : A small boat, in which were the second officer and eleven other persons from the steamship City of Alexandria, entered the harbor here and reported the los3 of the steamer. They say that an explosion occurred during the afternoon on board the vessel, and shortly afterward she was burning fiercely. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The Are gained such headway that Captain Hoffman saw it would be Impossible to save the vessel, and orders were given to abandon the ship. The steamer had 400 hogsheads of rum aboard, and this, when it caught Are, caused Immense masses of flames to ascend from the hatchways, the hatches having been blown off. There was great excitement aboard, but the officers soon succeeded in restoring order. As soon as the fire alarm was sounded <he crew went to their flra stations and the stewards began to carry provisions to the boats. There was comparatively little sea running, and but little difficulty was experienced in lowering away the boats, when the bell forward tolled the signal "Abandon the ship." The steamer was only twentylive miles from Havana when the explosion occurred, and tho officers in command of the several boats?the Captain, first officer, purser and chief engineer?had little fear o? not react-ing that port or some other place along the coast. In the first moment of terror several men are said to have jumped into the sea. Those who arrived in the small boat said that sixty had been drowned, many of them through the upsetting of a boat. Later reports, however, show that none of the small boats upsst, ana thst many of those at first reported as lost reached Bacuranao in safety. The number of persons drowned is now believed to be thirty-four or thirty-five. Among them were Herr Leibinger, a cabin passenger, whose home is in Germany, and Beveral Cuban stevedores. When the news of the disaster reached here a number ot tuss were sent to the burning steamer to render whatever assistance they could. Two of these tugs returned bringing nineteen survivors from the vessel. The City of Alexandria was built in 1879 at Chester, Penn., by John Roach & Sons. She was constructed for the Alexandria Steamship Company, which was at that time engaged in the West Indian trade. The vessel and her sister ship, the City of Washington, were suosequently purchased by the Ward Liue. The Alexandria had a gross tonnage of * 2911 tons. The hull was built pf iron. The deok houses were of the samo material,as was also the sp&r dock, which, however,was sheathed with wood. The vessel had accommodations for 150 first-class p3S3engera. She was reputed to be the fastest vessel in the West Indian service. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Blosdix is still performing on the tightrope in London. Ex-Quf.f.n Isabella, of Spain, celebrated recently her sixty-seventh birthday. The income of Henry Laboucbere from London Truth is estimated at $50,000 a year. Pbesident Cabnot, of France, has finally decided to become a candidate for re-election. 1 s2nat0r l_i allin'ger, oi ^(cw xluiiipsuuc, has the baldest and smoothest head m the Senate. Mrs. Grant, widow of the General, has determined to make her future homo in Washington. The Empress of Russia's physician when in attendance upon his imperial patient receives a fee of ?350a day. TnE Rev. L. M. Wise, D. D.. of Cincinnati, has just celebrated the fiftieth unniveraary ol bis ordination as a rabbi. Cramp, the great shipbuilder, says that he does not go abroad oftener because an ocean voyage prostrates him with seasickness. While he was in India the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, shot 2300 head of game?including five eleohants and twenty tigers. Colonel R. S. Lanier, rather of the late Sidney Lanier, the poet, died a few days since at Macon, Ga. He was a lawyer and eminent in his profession. President Woodruff, of the Mormon Church, though eighty-two years old, managed to get about the Chicago Fair as well as most of the younger visitors. Charlotte M. Joxoe. the English novelist, is seventy years old. Out of the profits she has derived irom her thirty novels she has given 10.000 to charitable societies. The Sultan of Turkey is a monomaniac on the subject of carriages. He hns been steadily engaged in making a collection of such vehicles for the past twenty years and now has nearly 500 of all makes and kinds. Pbixczhs Maud, at Wales, who is more like her father than any other of the Prince of Wales's children, inherits the paternal love of humor. She Is an inveterate punster as well, and she and her father make a merry pair when they are in joking mood. LATER NEWS. At Now York the Yale Col lego eleven defeated the Now York Athletic Club at football by forty-two points to nothing : Crescent won from Wesleyan, and Princeton beat Orange. The staamers Albany and Philadelphia collided in Lake Huron. Both weat down and twenty-four lives were lost. The annual report of Superintendent Stump of the Bureau of Immigration shows that during the hist fiscal year 410,793 immigrants arrived in this count -y. a decrease of 141,034 over the previous year. At Ilahfaz, Nova Scotia. Richard Savage killed his throe-year-old sou and fatally wounded his wife end himself. Cause, jsiloasy. The steamer Frjzer was burned to-day ' noar Goose Island, on Lak* Nipissint;. about J twenty-flvo mile* wast of North Bay. Canada. Eighteen lives wero lost. Fiohtixo vrai r.'sumel at M^lilla by the Riffians, who advanced close to the town and wera oniy drivf-u ba-k after a lleree struggle. A tram? w'.io assaults J a young woman near Lambert vilie, N. J., was pursued, and jumped into the river and was drowned. Fra.vcis H. Weeks pleaded guilty to embezzlement in NVtv York City and was seat'juccd to ten years' imprisonment. Ts;< Russian exiles wiio had escancl from a penal colony in Siberia wire picked up ia the Sea of Okhotsk by an Ainori nn whaling barb iind taken to San Francisco, Cal. Tri: C??>vmsieDt's expenses since November 1 bavo exceeded in receipts by nearly *2.090.000. The Matancie attacked a British force in South Africa, and wire repulsed, sixty ol their men b'sing killed , LoLv.ngula is -=airl to be between two British columns. Mello again bombarded Rio. in an effort to make decisivj progress before the new Brazilian war ships arrived from New York. BOMBS IK iK OPERAHODSE MANY PEOPLE MUEDEEED BY ANAECHISTS IN SPAIN. Two Bombs Thrown f rom tne uailcryin the Second Act of "William Tell"?Fifteen People Killed Outright and Many Fatally InjuredRemains Terribly Mangled. A dastardly outrage was committed in Barcelona, Spain, that for flendishness and crazy desire to murder has seldom been equaled. The Lyceum Opera House, one of the places of amusement much frequented by the elite of Barcelona's society, was the scene of the outrage. The opera season of this house had opened, ' 'William Tell" being billed for production. There was a large audience present. EverynlAf?? Trrlfhnnf n hiffth until fVlA second act, when, as the audience was listening intently to the singers on the stage, two bombs, presumably loaded with dynamite, were thrown from the gallery. As the bombs struck the floor below one of them exploded with a terrific report. Almost every person in the house sprang to his feet in terror and dismay. The wildest kind of confusion prevailed, and many meD, their faces pale with fright, abandoned the ladies they had escorted, and made desperate rushes for the exits, knocking down and trampling upon those in their way. without regard to age or ses. When the dust and smoke caused by the explosion cleared away the forms of many persons were seen writhing upon the floor in the vicinity of the place where the bomb had fallen. The seats thereabouts had been hlnurn rind flr?nrin<r in snnts was torn up anil the beams partly shattered. Fifteen parsons were instantly killed, and oi^ht have sinca died, making a total of twsnty-threa who lost their lives by the explosion. Several persons were removed from the building with nearly every shred of clothinz torn from their bodies. The scene in the Opera Hou30 beggared description. Shrinks and curses were heard on all sides. A few of the men sought to protcct the women, but they wero swept away like chaff before the fear-crazed mob that filled the aisles. Men and women, sec.ng that is was useless to attempt to force their way through the lighting and howling mob, climbed overtho backs of saats and sought to reach the door in this manner. A great number of persons were more or less seriously hurt in fho l?*nn/1 if iq rnn*wlprpd \rrtnHerful that many of them were not killed outright. Notwithstanding the frightful confusion, the lower part of the building was emptied in a few minutes of all but the police and the dead and injured. The stalls were complete!}* wrecked. The explosion in the Liceo Theatre, following close upon the disaster at Santander, the Melilla defeats, the attempt upon the life of General Martinez Campos, and other dynamite outrages, has caused a feeling of great excitement throughout Spain. THE LABOR WOELD. Brooklyn* has 344 union framers. Japan employs 221,056 cotton spindles. Chicaco reports 75,000 skilled men idle. Omaha, Neb., has a colored barbers'union, New Yoek has over 300 labor organizations. Laundry hands will form a National union. Brooklyn has a Workingmen's Free School. Haktfobd, uonn., nas uuiou u?> penters. Sacramento Vallbt, California, has Indian hop pickers. Knit gocls manufacture employs 23.000 New Yorkers Joliet (111.) steel workers have had their wages cut 33>? per cent. The Fall l'.iver Spinners' Union he* donated $800 to idle members. Scotland has a bank operated by railroad employes. It has $1,750,000 on deposit. Brotherhood trainmen pay out $51,000 per month in death and disability claims. A Pittsbdbo firm has paid all the wages temporarily withheld during the stringency America'.* delegates may attend the convention of railroad workers in Paris next yorC. -A woman walking delegate ordered a stride in a shoo iactory at jmacuesDoro Mass. Lo3t. Complaint now comes from New Orleans, Lb., that unemployed 'aboringmen from the far West are swarming into that city. Lowell (Mass.) clergymen will aid the unemployed by soiling coal at wholesale rates and through other effective agencies. Servants in China receive from sixty cent3 to a dollar a month wages and board. Carpenters, masons, bricklayers, etc., are glad to get 94 a month and feed themselves. When iie great shirt, collar and caff industries of Troy, N. Y., are running full time they employ from 15,000 to 16.000 persons, and the pay roll reaches $4,800,000 per year. Gikls in a Louisville (Ky.) laundry struck rather than handle the linen of the Louisville and Nashville special cars, upon which road a strike was on- The railroaders lost their strike. Thk Waiters' Benevolent Association of Boston was donated $500 at their thirtieth anniversary by their employers. The association has disbursed $50,000 in sick and death benefits. At New Castle, Penn., the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, the Etna and Rosena Furnaces and other establishments are dispensing with Italian laborers. No less than 800 Italians have left New Castle within the past month lor Italy. A SMASH-UP IN CHICAGO. Five Killed and Kleven Injured on the Rock Island Road. By a rear-?nd collision on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific at Seventy-first street, Chicago. 111., five persons were killed and eleven injured. Passenger train No. 11. known as the Limited Vestibuled Express. crasued into the ' rear end of a Blue Island accommodation, badly wrecking two coaches and the engine. The engine of the express train plowed its way into the rear coacii of the accommodation, being forced between the two sides like a wedge. The ear was picked up and carried forward, so great was the momentum, and was dmsn with terrible foroo into the end of the second co*ch from the rear. Th^ explosion of a lamp ignited the woolwork in the debris and the lire soon spread at a lively rate. Many Miles In a Oanos. Warburton Pike, tho English explorer, has just arrived at Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the interior of Alaska, having made a journey of over 4000 miles in a small canoe. He left Victoria, British Columbia, a year ago last July, for Fort Wrangol, and thence proceeded to Stikeen Itiver in a canoe through the Cassair country and followed the Dease River as far a3 the junction with the Laird tributary of tho Mackenzie River. There he spent the winter hunting big game. Late in the winter Piko started out witii a do;; sled for Francis Lake, which he crossed, and thence made the porratfa to tho Pelly Lakes, getting into a country never before explored by white man. Spring had set in by the time the Telly Lakes were reached, and crossing there Pike followed tho Peily River to its source. On his return he followed tho Pelly River to Lewis River, which be followed to the Yukon. He then began n continuous journey of 2300 miles, which lasted for two months. He left the Yukon River near the coast ami inado a portage to Kuskoquin River and thence mado his way around the coast to Fort Alexander, the trip having lasted thirteen months. During the vrhole time he met with no accident. He used the same eanoeall through. It weighs only one hundred pounds and is seventeen feet long. Mr. Pike formed a vary poor opinion of the interior of Alaska. He says it "Is absolutely worthless, except for hunting. Game of all kinds is abundant. . - 7- : ' * Tfbiqhtfpl calamity. AN EXPLOSION THAT SCATTEEED DEATH AND FIRE, A Dynamite-Laden Ship Blows Up at the AVharf in Santander, Spain? Scores and Scores of People Perish?About 165 Bodies Recovered ?Many Houses Wrecked. a terriDie explosion occurred a lew Dignts ago at Santander, Spam. The ship Cabo Machicaco, with a cargo of dynamite, was lying at a quay. In some way she caught Are. A large crowd soon gathered, and the police, who were unaware of the dangerous character of the ship's cargo, made no attempt to drive them away. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion that shook the city to its foundations. An official despatch says that the bodies of 165 persons have been recovered. The search was still in progress. Many persona were then missing. About 190 persons were under treatment for Injuries received. The damage to property amounted to several million dollars. The vessel was discharging 2000 tons of iron and many barrels of petroleum and flour and several wine casks. The Captain had declared only twenty cases of dynamite, otherwise he would not have been allowed to dock. The flre started at 3 o'clock a. m. in the coal bunkers. The customs officers and police hastened to remove the twenty cases of dynamite, which were soon landed at a safe distance from the vessel. A tug was then chartered to tow the Cabo Machicaco seaward. Meantime desperate efforts had been made to quench the flumes. The Captain and crew of the steamer Alfonso XII boarded the burning vessel to help fight the flames. They worked for an hour and a half without success. At the end o? that time the flre reached the petroleum. Then came a series of awful explosions as iVin flniMAfl manf t V??irr>o1 fA Kn rfil) A f no IUU UftUiCS UCUl ilVUi vailCi IW uanui VL troleum until they reached the contraband dynamite. The tug had just been moored alongside the vessel and many townspeople had gone aboard either to satisfy their curiosity or to help extinguish the fire. Then came the explosion of the dynamite. All on board the Cabo Machicaco, and many along the deck were blown to atoms The tug vanished. The quay, with its enormous crowd of spectators, rose in the air. The people were scattered in every direction, into the sea and up on the land. Firebrands fell in showers over sea and land for a radius of a mile and a half. The Cabo Machicaco's anchor was hurled 800 yards, and fell on the balcony of a house, which it completely wrecked; It thee sank deep in the pavement below. The shock was felt in every part of the city. Houses rocked to their foundations, and more than 100 were set on Are by falling firebrands. The destruction In the harbor was equally appalling. The launch of the steamer Alfonso XII, wilier was lying alongside, ana wnicn containts .A of the crew not aboard the Cabo Micbicaco, vanished with the others. The survivors ashore fled shrieking, leaving the promenade adjoining the quay strewn with doad and dying and mangied remnants o? human bodies. Wherever the terrified fugitives turnod they met only frightful destruction. Horror was added to horror In the wrecked and burning buildings, trona which came piteous cries for help. Many of the fugitives were thrown down and trampled upon. Numbers are said to have lost their reason. The psople were too panic stricken to think of anything but saving their own or relatives' lives, and ignored their burning property. When night fell the sky luridly reflected the fires burning fiercely in various parts of the city. Mondez Nunez street, running parallel with the quay, was ablaze from end to end. In the blinding light and heat the bands of rescuers worked to extricate the dead and wounded. On every side were scenes of indescribable confusion and overwhelming grief. The flre burned unchecked throughout the night. Block after block sank in ruins. Every street near the water front was filled with the noise of crashing buildings. The people were terror stricken. Thousands abandoned their homes and fled to the fields or outlying villages. Others remained L g ? *.i 11.. f Kq haano n f CO searcu muui(.-?uj naiuuu iuc UI.OJU ruins and half-burned bodies for their lost friends or relatives. Children whose parents were dead wandered weeping through the streets, calling for help. Sant; nder Is a fine port in Spain, on the Bay of Biscay. It contains 30,000 inhabitants, and has unusually fine public buildings for a plaoe of its size. It is a busy and thriving town, and has derived much of its Importance from its trade with the West Indies and South America. DROWNED IN THE BAY. A Crowded Small Boat Capsized Off South Beach, N. Y. A strong northeast wind was whipping the waters of the lower bay into heavy seas and a driving rain storm was beating down when twenty-one workmen, employed on Hoffman and Swinborne Islands, in New York Bay, finished their afternoon s work and set out to sail the distance between the Islands and South Beach. i Their boat was a ship's yawl, capable of holding with safety perhaps half the number that crowded into her. For half the distance to Staten Island the bo.it scudded before the wind. Then the pintle of the rudder slipped from the gudgeon and the craft, steered by unskilful hands, became unman ageable in the high wind. Her sail was lowered and the men tried to row to shore, using an oar as a rudder. But the boat drifted about uutil she turned broadside to sea and wind. In a second she filled, and, rolling over, spilled the twenty-one men in the water. Nine of them were drowned before the boats which put out Irom shore could rtach the spot. The other twelve were taken ashore safely. The workmen were some of those who have been employed since July 11 on Swinburne and Hoffman Islands repairing the hospitals and putting in new steam pipes and new disinfecting apparatus. They have been in the habit ot returning to Statea Island and going from there to their homes. The list of the drowned is: John Crosby, 5 Beach street, New York, Charles Draid. Brooklyn; Thomas Hoeyj New York: Edward Kenny, New York; James Malloy, Mew York; Benjamin MeGuire, New York ; Albert Norman, Tompkinsville; Charles Smith, Washington street, Brooklyn: Leonard Wanser, Amityvilie, Long Island. rriTT 1 TTTrn n TTTTlTrt TniUNJisijiYiim, President Cleveland's Proclamation Appointing the Day. The President Issued his proclamation, naming Thursday, November 00, as a day ol thanksgiving. The proclamation reads as fi'lows: "While the American people should every d*y remember with praise and thanksgiving the Divine goodness and murcy which have followed them since their beginning as a Nation, it is fitting that one day in each year should be especially devote.l to the contemplation of the blessing we have received ?rom the hand of God and to the grateful acknowledgment of His loving kindness. "Therefore, I, urovcr uieveiana, rresuieui of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the :>0th day o( the present month of November, ;is a day of thanksgiving and praise, to be kept and Observed by all the people of our land. On that day let us lor^ego our ordinary work and employments and assemble in our usual places of worship, where we may recall all that Crod has down for us. and where from grateful hearts our united tribute of praise and soug may reach the throne of grace. Let the reunion of kindred and the social meeting ei frienda lend cheer and enjoyment to the day, and let generous gifts of charity for the reliuf o! tho poor and needy prove the sincerity of o-ir thanksgiving." Whalebone sold at New Bedford, Mas*, tho other day at $2 per pound, the lowest price for some years. The price was $6 a pound a year ago. This great drop in price is caused by the unprecedented catch, of the whaling steamers that passed last winter ir the Arotio regions. THn RITRA SRmilR RNIB THE CLOSING SCENES IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE. Adjournment Came Very Quietly In the Senate?The House Ended Its Session Amid Lively Filibustering ?A Resume of the Work Done by Both Bodies. The extraordinary session of the Fiftythird Congress, after continuing a few days less than three months, adjourned without day in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. The end was calmly and quietly reached in the Senate, with 110 spectators present. The doors had been closed upon the Senatort", who were in exedutive session for an hour or two before Vice-President Stevenson's gavel fell, and they passed from this state of secrecy into final adjournment with only a moment's intermission, a moment too brief to be availed of by the public, who had been driven from the galleries. The usual resolution of thanks to the Vice-President and to the President of the Senate pro tem (Mr. Harris), for the able, dignified, courteous and impartial manner in which they had each discharged the duties of the Chair, were offered by Mr. H03r and agreed to. Mr. Harris expressed his "profound gratitude" for the honor done him. Then the VicePresident rose and said: "Senators: My appreciation of the resolution, personal to myself. kindly adopted by the Senate, cannot be measured by words. To your courtesy and forbearance I am indebted for whatever measure of success has attended my administration of this great office. The record of the first session of the Fiftythird Congress is made up. Henceforth it belongs to the domain of history. Earnestly wishing to each of you a safe and pleasant journey to your home and constituents, I now, ih pursuance of the concurrent resolution of the two Houses: declare the Senate adjourned without day. There was a slim attendance on the floor of the House, but the members who were nroaont ahoxiroH rf"A?Lt fnf.prpRf in thfl nrncpflH* ings and were seeking every opportunity to get recognition and forward the passage of sundry bills of local importance. Mr. Richardson introduced a joint resolution providing for the employment of Senate and House clerks and employes during the interval batween the sessions. The entire day was spent in filibustering against the measure. onen the adjournment took place the House was in the process of voting by tellers in order to discover whether a quorum was present or not. But before the vo^e was announced the hour of three came around, the gavel fell, and thp Speaker announced that tue House stood adjourned sine die. Now that the extraordinary session has ended, it Is interesting to recall what it has accomplished. The session began on Monday, August 7. The President's proclamation calling attention to the distrust and apprehension concerning the financial condition of the country, and stating that he had called Congress together to tne ena tnat tne people might be relieved from the Impending danger and distress through legislation was read on August 7 and on August 8 the President's message, urging the prompt repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman Silver act. was receivedand read. The House spent the first three days ot the session in organizing and discussing the contested election case of Belknap against Bichardson. On Friday, August 11, Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, presented his bill repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman law. Dabate on the subject was limited lo, fourteen days. On Monday, August 25, the bill was passed by a vote of 230 to 108. The same day the bill was sent to the Senate and referred to the Finance Committee. The next day. Augusi 29, Senator Yoorhees,. from the Finance Committee, reported to the Senate a substitute for the House bill. The next day the substitute was taken upand Senator Sherman, of Ohio, opened th< discussion with a speech in favor of it. Wednesday, November 1, All Saints' day, the Senate substitute for the House biLJ passed both Houses of Congress and became law by the President's signature. Of the 1135 other bills and thirty-six joint resolutions introduced in the Senate only vvqooa/) Then* {n/>lndA hi Da ttUUUL a UU/iCU l/OWOUt xuvj making appropriations for a hail of records and the Senate folding room; to aid the midwinter exposition in California and relative to homestead entries In Oklahoma, and a joint resolution granting to the State of Illinois the brick battleship built in connection with the World's Fair for the use of its naval militia. This last became law by the action of the House. In the House 4291 bills and eighty joint resolutions were introduced. Committees reported on about 150 of th6m and about fifty were passed. . Among the more important measures which were acted upon by the House were the following: < Fortherelief ol purchasers of timber and stone lands; for the protection of persons furnishing labor and material for public works; amending the timber culture laws; fixing the time for holding United States courts in Idaho and Wyoming (became a law;) for the better control and to promote the safety of National banks; relative to the disqualification of registers and receivers of public land offices; disqualifying Justices, Judges and United 8tates Commisfrom aifHnc as such in cases in which they are interested ; providing revenue cutters for the great lakes. San Francisco harbor and the New England coast; increasing the number of army officers to be detailed to colleges ; requiring railroads operating on territory over which rieht of way has been granted to establish stations at town sites established by th?s Interior Department; extending the time for completing the eleventh census (became law); amending the law relative to the fees of United States district attorneys, marshals, commissioners and clerks of courts ; the public printing bill; repealing the section of the statutes requiring proof of loyalty in pension cases ; addinp the Secretary of Agriculture to the list of eligibles for the Presidency in case of the death of the President; regarding the disposition of articles imported for exhibition at the World's Fair: allowing the settlement of the property of the Mormon Church held by a receiver: for reporting, marking and removing derelicts and other menaces to navigation in the North Atlantic Ocean (became a law) and fixing the qualifications to vote and hold office in the Cherokee Outlet. TO RESUME COINAGE. Orders Sent to the Mints by Score tary Carlisle. Important action hag been taken by the Treasury Department in regard to silver. Orders were sant to the superintendents of the United States Mints at San Francisco and New Orleans to resume the coinage, suspended some time ago, of standard silver dollars. This action is taken under authority of Section 3 of the Sherman law of 1390. It is for the purpose of utilizing the seigniorage that the coinage of standard silver dollars is resumed. The expectation is that about 1,600.000 standard silver dollars can be coined at once, which will give the United States Treasury a seigniorage of about $500,000. In other words, the seigniorasre bears the proportion of one-third to the amount of silver coined. It is the intention of the Treasury Department as the other mints become clear of gold coinage, to have them also coin silver and thus increase the coinage from 43,500.000 to $4,000,000 per month. This seigniorage is so much clear gain to the United States Treasury, and if it could all be pla-;ed to the credit of the Government at onceitwouia increase ine oaiamje u> ?ji,000,000. The amount of silver subject to coiuajre is 140,000,000 ounces. The silver bullion to be thus converted into standard silver dollars is the silver purchased under the Sherman act of 1890, and upon which the coin notes are issued. The coinage of the silver, however, will not contract the currency, but will increase money in circulation to* the extent of the seigniorage, and without further legislation is the only means of increasing the per capita circulatiau to keep pace with the increase in population. The merchants of Norfolk, v.v, say that this seiison has been tho slowest for the peanut market that they have had for years. Thousands of bushels of stock aro stored, with no demand, and it is only a few weeks before the uew crop will bo ready for tha market. / ^ J : ;; .-v immmaagm WORDS OF WISDOM. 1 flight is might, but might ia noff right. The right kind of a prayer never ( stops. When faith goes to market italwayi* 1-1 1 1 L " tatt.es a uttsneb. A chronic grumbler can be set downi as a person who loafs too much. A child's first question is the firsli round in the ladder of knowledge. ; No man can live right for a day whoi does not realize that he is to live forever. ! 1 We are never saved by knowing our strength or lost by knowing our weak*; ness. | . . i Too many people have an idea thai J religion oan be measured by the length!. . I oi tne iace. The man who works the hardest fo* the least pay is the one who has thf ? biggest fortune. / i We need more of the kind of reform/ that does not go a thousand milesfrom home to begin work. It will not do any good to pray for ten talents if you are not improving your one talent. * There is a touch of flavor in the garden truck that is only known to the man who swings the hoe. Before some men are willing to cart' their bread upon the water they wantl to be sure that it is going to be mentioned in the newspapers.?Barn's Horn. Seeing by Electricity. t We can writs by electricity, can" send pictures and designs by the same agcncy, and talk to our iriends at a distance by means of the electric wire.| When the British Association, visited! Newcastle, England, says the Chronicle of that city, Professor Perry told his auditors that seeing by electricity was a possibility of the future, and he had' shnrtlv before drawn a picture of if. scientific achievements which, would p enable friends divided by. large continents and oceans, not only to ialk With] each other, but to look upon their fea^ * tures. Even before that Professoxi Bell was known to have been at work in his laboratory endeavoring to solve, the problem, and though ten years have elapsed since the possibility of applying the well-known principles of v light in the same way as the principles of sound have been applied as in the telephone was first suggested, the pro-< fessor is e' '11 as hopeful of success aa ever. There is no theoretical reason why light may not be conducted in thel same way as sound, but Professor Bell' tells us that it will bo very much moral difficult to construct an apparatus fori the purpose, owing to the immensely! greater rapidity with which the vibra-l tions of light take place when com-j pared with the vibrations of sound.} ?; The difficulty, however, is merely onei of finding a diaphragm sufficiently sen-< sitive to receivo these vibrations and! 7, produce the corresponding electrical yiDr&nonfl) uuu it ?a cuuuuxo^iu^ wi have it on the authority of each a man) as Professor Bell that at least a dozen! men, eminent in scienoe in various parts of the world, are at present en-. gaged in endeavoring to find the solution of this problem. Professor Bert himself, who has never ceased to grap-' pie with the difficulty, candidly admits >7that up to the present his labors have been in vain, but he is full of hopefulness as to the successful issue of hie , own research, as well as that of the other scientists who have taken the matter up. Batting in Pennsylvania. The most romantic and entertaining feature of the pine business came with rafting. On the larger streams the mills were built. BaUroads had not penetrated the region when white pine was king of Western Pennsylvania,and the lumber was all sent to market by; the creek and river. A raft was compactly built of boards containing from 20,000 to 50,000 feet, owing much to the size of the stream to be navigated. Then when the spring floods came everybody, even to the village preacher f and doctor, went "down N the creek." The rafts were fitted with great oars at either end, the use of which enabled the hands to keep the craft in toe cnannel. As these smaller pieces reached the river they were grouped in fleets and coupled together until a fleet, as it reached Pittsburg, covered half an acre of territory and floated nearly half a million of lumber. As they went on down the Ohio to Oincinnati or Louisville they were again coupled up \ nntil the area of some of the large ones fell little short of two acres, with ? value of close to $250,000. In April and May the main stream of the Allegheny presented an exhilarating sight. From early daybreak until nightfall the stream ran full oi rafts following closely behind one another. At night every eddy along the valley was tied full of acres of clean white pine. And the cabins on ths rafts in which the crews were quartered were miniature although exceedingly ephemeral cities. When the great Pifcfcshnrc the wharves UI1YU ? 0 and landings on both sides were filled with lumber in every available place where a raft could be tied. The congestion reached us far up the river aa Plum Creek, ten miles or more from "the point"?a bridge in the city.? Philadelphia Times. A Biver Threatens a Totto. The erratic Missouri River if threatening, and will most likely soon accomplish, the complete destruction of the town of East Atchison, Mo., on the opposite bank from Atchison, Kan. ? The stream has been eating a new channel for 6evercl months, and dur* . ^ ing the past summer nas waaueu ?w#j over 300 acres of land. It is now within an eight of a mile of East Atchison, and the destruction of the little town, with mauy thousands of dollars* worth of valuable property, is regarded aa inevitable, and the people are moving away as rapidly as possible. Wigs and Tories, "Whigo" were originally teamstert J i:i Scotland, who used the term "whiggam" to encourage their horses. Opponents of the Government in the restoration period were derided aa favTring the Scotch covenanters, and hence were called "whiggams," afterward "whigs." "Tories1* were origin* all/v bands of Irish outlaws. The Ool tic word "toree" means robber.?9t. Louis Globe-Democrat. i * .. 4 X u k