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. | MfFLis II JAPAN, j HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST AND MANY TOWNS RUINED. The Rivers Overflowed Their Bnnk9 in the Southern and Middle Prov inces?All Cities Along Them Were Submerged in Twenty Feet of Water?Much Distress. The steamer China brings to San Franclseo, Cak. news of frightful los9 of life and the greatest destitution by the flood;? in the southern and middle provinces of Japan. At Toyoe the water rose twenty feet and submerged all the houses in the town. At Minomua the water attained a height of thirty feet, sweeping away many houses. It was ?tiU worse in tho neighboring prefect of Ekayema, where, at Kawabe, the river rose eighteen feet and broke down a great embankment. carrying away 200 houses. About t ene hundred persons are unaccounted for. !n).? rfaiinn wan rf(?nfio!l?h(>fl anil thfl ehlef kilTedr"""" Going northward the storm boat with violence on the Island of Sado. whereit broke to pieces six vessels in the port of l'ebisu and Ine others at Suisu, wherebv four seamen lost their lives. At Toyama-Ken it carrisd away forty-eight houses and broke down the roads at Shing-Minato, but happily without any loss of life. At the city of loyama eighty bouses were carried away and over 1000 are under water. The Yoshino rose twentyseven feet in Tokushima-Ken. many houses were demolished, and the embankment burst In many places. In Kawabe and the neighborhood 400 houses were carried away.while a similar number of houses have been swept away at Kuboya. At Tanoura, in Buzen, a large number of junks and fishing boats were smashed to pieces. Reports of the greatest loss_of life come from Futakata-Gun, in Hyozo-nen, wrtere a mountain side gave way, burying two villages and killing fifty persons. At Misuml, m Kumamitoken, nine-tenths of the houses were damaged and all the godouns of the rice exporters were blown down. At both entrances to the port. 120 vessels r . were shattered to splinters. The wharf at ?;ta harbor is half destroyed, and a majority of the houses are demolished. Thirty largo junishave been cast ashore and damaged, on t Mt. Takaski gave way, inflicting further wrious damage. The Tsurusakigaiva River burst its banks' and carried many houses to In all sections innumerable bodies of men and cattle are to be seen in heaps. At Moji, Iwenty-four vesssls foundered. Off Tanowia, seven others were wrecked and the crews were seen clinging to the topmasts and eryintr for help, but no help could be given, and tbevsank into the sea. Tne total num ber of -vessels wrecked in that neighborhood eannof be much under seventy. ? At Osika sixty or seventy junks and flshn Ing boars foundered. At the" port of Tanoura m sixteen junks were smashed to pieces. At V Nagatsaki eighteen or twenty junks went ? ashore. . X Th? Mitsu Bishi colleries alone have lost i eleven junks sunk and nineteen damaged, ^ and at the mines seven sunk and five dam? aged. About twenty cargo boats have also be^n lost. The reported loss of life is thirty. At Kawabe the water rose eighteen feet, r? . ' and embankments were burst in ten places. The total number of houses carried away at Kawaba and other villages is about 400, and the ljite of 200 persons is uncertain. l'amajima suffered terribly. The embankments were burst in the Kavo and Kubova districts, in the latter of which 400 houses were carried away. Theresultsoftheinundationwero: Deaths, J557; persons missing, 627 ; vessels wrecked, 577; houses entirely destroyed, 3909. Tae greatest loss of life reported in any one district was 950 in the province of Inaba. At Okayama nearly 1400 houses were deI - stroyed. At Otta 144 vessels ware wrecked, but Ehime exceeds this number bv twentv. AWED BY TRAIN BOBBERS. Successful Looting of an Express Car -In Kentucky. T!;rw masked robbers held up north-Dounu rain No. 22 on the main line of the Illinois Central early in the morning at Mayfleld Creek trestle, two and one-half miles north F ot Mayfleld Junction, Ky. The express car ' was robbed of two money packages, one coai tain in u' $39, addressed to J. S. Titus. Chi/ cago, and the other containing $7000 in / transfer from Memphis to Chicago. The ex pcrrro oa>cu IUO louiamuci ui IUO contents of tie safe. AbotftS o'<Pi>ck, while the train was leaving 3ardweb, fhree men climbed ovor tho tank, .tn.l oa* of the robbers said to Engineer Ciark. "Pull out as soon as yon can." At the same time the "robber grabbed tho left arm of the engineer, and on? of th?m pushed a revolver under his ear, ordering him lo do as he was told or be killed. The fireman dropped out t>f sicrht and got oa the pilot of the engine. where he remained in hiding. Ths r- p<jo<..>:i:*er* in the two sleepers and three 'ou'iijs which made up the train were in igaor.'.irre of the hold-up. No shooting was tiono to aroasc them. The engineer wanted to i<own an 1 put some coal on the nre, bu: the robbers refussd to let him leave liis wa? iu the cab. One of the robbers did the flr;c~ "or him from Bard-well to Port Jeffer*oi3, md ordered liim to stop the train on the 5I*?yi:eld trestle. Tile self-possessed engineer insisted that tho robbers should let him put the flagman off to protect the rear end of the train and the iives ot the passengers, because they had passed a freight train at Bardwell which might run into them. This the robbers agreed to, and <^ion the train was stopped by their orders at, the ireslle they forced tho engineer at the point of their pistols to go in front of them ?o tha (-xpresK car door and open it. He shouted to Express Messenger McNeil to ?pen the doer and not to shoo:, as he was in iront of tho robbers. One of the robbers went into the car and came oat with several bundles, which he put into a sack. They thnn nr.th? pnonn?Mr tnl-n tha train to Port Jefferson. The robbers got off and went behind some piling. They shouted to the engineer. "Pull out fast, old roan." All the robbers ftore soft hats and masks of black cloth completely covering ther heads. Holes were cut for tho eyes and mouth. FIGHTING- IN"RIO HARBOR. Many of the Rebel Shells Fall In the Business Quarter. The London Times has this despatch from Bio do Janeiro, Brazil: ? There vrzs heavy firing on Sunday and B Mciday by the Government forts on the fort on Villegalgcon Island. The outside walls W were much damaged, but the interior was I Isit intact. Two were killed- and seven were I woundeo. The troops at-Mt. Castello opened Is musketry Are at 1200 yard* on 3lonUay. The insurgent forces at Fort Ville^aisrnon and on tne war ship Aquldaban replied with machine Runs, killing and wounding twenty oldiera and four spectators. The fire continues night and day. There is an immense waste of ammunition. Two guns at Castellc fired upon Fort Villegaignon ?n Wednesday. The Aquidaban replied, and many ot her shells fell into tne business quarter of the city. Several wero wounded. The bombardment, it is said, resulted from Ihe Government's firing from the town in eon?raven:ion of the agreement with the fore:p;n representative. Thtre are continued skirmishes nt Nietherry. A 'orpedo launch was .sunk on Wednesday. Tie casualties on the whole are ?;iigbt. Jvc~i3 houses have been burned and a gas hocie has been destroyed. LYNOHEJOS HI THE SOUTH. One Taken From Oflleerj and Shot and tho Other Handed. Hoary Bogue, one of the colored mon who dmitted taking part in the murder oC \V. J. Duncan at Lake City Junction. Fia.. was taken from a Sheriff s posso nt mi inight at the doors of the town jail. He was carried off a quarter of a :nUo and riddiod with ballets. A Spartanburg (8. C.) special says a eolored man, Bob Kennedy, about twenty years old, a^giulted a woman at dusk at Gaffney. Neighbors of the woman tracked the man to a house from whence ho was taken and hanged. 4 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Francis Pabkmax. the historian of the colonial days of North America, died at nis I home in Jamaica Plain, near Boston, Mass., I of peritonitis. He was born in Boston, Sep- ' tember 16, 1823. A meetixo of citizens of Brooklyn, N. Y., representing many clubs of Democrats and Republicans, appointed a committee to call a mass meetinar to decide upon the line of action to be pursued in the prosecution of John Y. MeKano. the "boss" of Gravesend. The Sheriff, Under-Sheriff and Superintendent of Police of Buffalo, N. Y., have been subpoenaed to testify in an investigation of illegal acts by public officers on Election Day. Wahrex T. Pctnaw, President of the National Granite State Bank of Exeter. N. H., was arrested on the charge of embezzlement from the funds of that institution. It Is said that the amount of his embezzlement will reach $30,000. The Yale eleven defeated the University of Pennsylvania at football in New York City by tiie score or ioureeen 10 six. A MASS-JIEETING was held in Brooklyn, N. T., and a committee appointed to push the work of punishing those responsible for election frauds in Kings County. America's greatest comedian, Joseph Jefferson ; Italy's greatest tragedian, Tommaso Salvini, and the leader of the English stage. Henry Irving, were the principal figures in the Edwin Booth memorial services held in the Concert Hall of Madison Square Garden, New York City. With these were joined hundreds of the players of this country and others distinguished in other professions, in art, in commerce, in society. It was the anniversary of Edwin Booth's sixtieth birthday. South and West. The work of destroying the buildings in Jackson Park, Chicago, has begun. The first blow was struck in the New York State Building. A suit was begun against the Ferris Wheel Company by the World's Columbian Exposition to secure payment of percentages amounting to $75,000. Fodb Hocking Valley train hands were killed in a collision near Rising Sun, Ohio. Natural gas has been struck near Grand Junction, Col. A cbank with a dvnamito bomb and a revolver in his hands, who called on Myron T. Herrick, of Cleveland, Ohio, and demanded $50,000, was promptly knocked down by that gentleman and forced to beat a retreat after firing an ineffectual shot. The Chief and Executive Council of the Osage Nation have just issued an edict ordering all colored men to leave the reservation in thirty days, and notifying them that any colored man found in the country after that time wilt be given fifty lashe9. While J. D. Davis was cutting the coal away from around a standing pillar in the Crozier mine, Welch, W. Va., a fall of coal' struck him, breaking his back. A dozen men were working to rescue him, when suddenly the slate roof began to slide, and before they could get out James Block, colored, was instantly crushed to death. Tr?Hr* Trtrioo haH hnfh Iatq Rnd liifid in about an hour. Eight Jives were lost, several persons were injured, and halt a million dollars' worth of property was destroyed by a fire in the Wetter Block on Main streer, Memphis, Tenn. C. H. Van, an advertising solicitor, and his wife retired at Memphis, 'lean., in a folding bed. The bed, by some movement, began to close up. Mrs. Van started to leap out, but was caught, and Van was crushed so badly that he will be a cripple for life. The wife is also badly bruised. Washington. The annual report of Captain N. M. Brooks, Superintendent of Foreign Malls, Postofflce Department, shows that the total cost of the service for the last fiscal year was $1,141,659, of which sum $646,030 was paid on account of vessels of American register and $492,629 to vessels of foreign register. Secretary Gresham and Minister Grip exchanged ratifications of the Norwegian extradition treaty. Hundreds of aliens made paupers by the business depression have asked the Government to deport them. The United States have given Admiral Mello, of Brazil, to understand that his fighting up to date has not raised him above the level of a common rebel,and refuse to recognize him as a belligerent. L. H. Dewey. Assistant Botanist of the Agricultural Department, acting under orders from Secretary Morton, left Washington for the Northwest to make an investigation into the extent of the damage done to the crops during the present year by the Russian thistle. Honduras has apologized to the State Department for the conduct of her officers in tiring on the American flag, carried by the United States mail ship Costa Rica. In their over-anxiety to obtaic possession of a political opponent. General Bonilla, who was on board the mail stermer. A oold medal has been presented by the War Department to General Julius Stahel, of ?w York, who at on^ time commanded the cavalry of tt.e Army of the Potomac and also the Eleventh Army Corps, for distinguished gallantry displayed at the battle o( Piedmont, June 5.1864, while commanding the cavalry under Genera! Hunter. The United States Supreme Court paid a tribute to the memory of Associate-Justice Blatchford; Attorney-General Olney and Uuief-JustiCe Fuller mat'o addresses. Dcp.iw tbe past year there were 403 accidents to railway postoffices, in which ten cleats were killed, sixty-six seriously and 115 slightly injured says Superintendent Jsmes A. White in his annual report. The President declined to approve the report of the Examining Board which recommended Paymaster Frazier of tie navy for promotion. Mas. Platt, wife of Senator OrviHe H. PJaXt. of Connecticut, died in her rooms at the Arlington, in Washington, of-paralysis, aged sixty-three. Foreign. In some districts in London coal, in consequance of the strike of the miners, is retailing at $15 per ton, and prices threaten to increase. The weather is cold, and the prices demanded for coal place it entirely out of the reach of the poor. Annie Pixley, the well-kno^n American actress, died of brain fever at the home of her brother-in-law, Edwin Fulford, London. England. Her husband vas present at the time of her death. London installed her new Lord Mayor with glittering show, while the unemployed in the gazing multitude hissed at thought of the money thrown away on the procession. Fifteen cities near Central Cuba have declared against Spanish rule and are in open rebellion against the Government. President Peixoto, ot Brazil, has bought nine more torpedo boats, Ave of which he secured in Germany. The British Government has submitted to King Humbert the name of Sir Francis Clare *. ~ *-ui.i. r ?a xt: JL'UTU as 2?UUCC73J5Ut IV bUC l.liu JLiUril TIYWU ?V3 British Ambassador at Rome. Sir Francis .;iare Fora is the present British Ambassador at Constantinople. There Is an uprising against Hippolyte in the southern part of Hayti. The rebels have declared in favor of General Manigat. Nine persons wero killed by the explosion of a shell in Russia. M. Georgievitch, the Servian Minister to France, was stabbed while dining at the bouillon Duval restaurant in Av3?ue Opera, Paris. His assailant is a crank named Lauter. At the Birtla (Manitoba') Indian school, three girl pupils there, ranging from seven to thirteen, wero drowned while crossing a creek in the school grounds. A TRIPLE MURDER. An Old Kansan Kills His Wife, His Daughter and Himself. At about noon E. P. Bernard, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Toronto, Kun., shot and instantly killed his wife, his daughter and himself. Ho left a letter to his son stating ho had outlived his usefulness and would be better out of the way. He was eighty years of age, bis wife sixty-three and bis daughter thirry-six. No other cause than that in his letter to his | ?on can be ascribed for ! ho deed. Bornard cought a lot in tbo cemetery some time ago and left written directions as to the disposition of his property. I i- 'f 1 wjlljjLHO tjiTMI 01F0BBI6N GOMMERCE. AN EXCESS OF EXPORTS OVER IMPORTS FOB UUTU^tiii. Facts Taken From the Report of the United States Treasury Department's Bureau of Statistics?The Exports of Gold and Silver?Imports and Exports for Ten Months. The Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department. has given out for publication the advance statement of the imports and exports of merchandise and gold and silver for tho month of October, 1893. The exports of domestic merchandise were valued at $85,913,802, as compared with $86,829,621 in Ootober, 1892, a decrease in value of $915,819. The exports of foreign merchandise increased by $7-10,715, beini? $1,772,013 in October, 1893, and $1,031,298 in 1892. The increased export of foreign merchandise nearly made good tho decreased export of domestio merchandise. brinsjintj the total for October, 1393. to $87,685,815, as compared with $87,860,919 in 1892, the difference in favor of the latter being $175,104. Imports of merchandise show a great falling off, being $51,641,782 in October, 1893, as compared with $71,999,550 in the corresponding month of 1892, a decrease of $20,857,768. The ex cess of exports over imports in ucrooer, 1892. was $15,861,369, and In October, 1898, $36,044,083. If the exports and imports for the ten months ending October 81 in the two years be taken, the conditions are very different, there being a much less excess of exports in 1893 than in 1832, $13,935,724 in the former year and $45,065,459 in the latter. The total exports, foreign and domestic, for the ten months in 1893 were valued at $690,907,688, and in 1892, for the corresponding period, $753,171,018, a difference of $62,263,330. In the aamo periods in the two years the imports were $708,105,559 in 1892 and $676,971,964 in 1893, a decrease of $31,133,595. ' The exports of gold were $505,918 in October, 1893, as compared with $484,250 in October. 1892. The imports in October, 1893, were $1,583,937, as compared with $8,118,330 in October. 1892. The excess of imports of sold in 1892 was $2,684,080, and in 1893 of $1,078,019. For the ten months ending October 31 the excess of exports of jfold was $49,180,486 in 1892 and $9,239,863 In 1892. The exports of silver were $3,507,422 in October, 1892, and $3,472,768 in October,: 1893. The imports of silver in October of the two years were $3,494,958 in 1892 and! $1,418,069 in 1893. The decreased imports of silver were sufficient to make the excess oC exports over imports $2,054,699 in 1893, as compared with $12,464 in 1892. For the ten months the exports of silver showed a marked increase, this increase being almost entirely of the domestic product. Tho total exports of foreign ? ollfor fnr iha ton mnnf-hu mill UUU103MV ?V. 1892 were $27,365,420, and in 1893 $36,892.482, aa iacrease ot $9,527,062, of which $9,024,878 were of domestic silver. The excess of oxports ot silver for the ton months ot 1892 was $10,148,911, and ia 1893 $20,468,159. L0 BENGULA DEFEATED, One Thousand of His Soldiers Dead or Wounded on the Field. Despatches from Dr. Jameson have been received at Fort Victoria, South Africa. They confirm the raport(that Bulawayo, Lo Bengala's capital, was captured by the forces of the Chartered Company. Tho columns which took tho town were commanded by Dr. Jameson aad Major Forbes. They had several skirmishes with the Matabeles before the critical battle. Whea about tea miles from Bulawayo they were harrassed ooastaatly by Lo Beaijula'j warriors. Several attempts were made to surround the columns. At nooa Dr. Jame son and Major jrorbes decided to give Dactie and formed their troop9 in a laager. The Matabeles, 7000 strong, accepted the challenge. They attacked furiously, but were held at R safe distance by the Maxim guns. The fight lasted an hour, during which the Matabeleskept ap a steady but ineffective rtfle fire. They finally fled In disorder. Mounted men were sent in pursuit, but were soon recalled, as they were unable to do much execution. The Matabeles left 1000 dead and wounded on the field. The forces of the Chartered Company lost thraa killed and seven wounded, all by rifle shots. During tho same afternoon the columns advanced some distance towards Bulnwayo and then went into laager. The night passed quietly. Early on the morning the columrij resumed the advance with gre;it caution, but no Matabeles appealed. Bulawayo was found empty, but for a few old people, and the white traders Fairbairn and Usher, who were supposed to have been killed by the Matabeles. The traders said thoy had been well treated. Bulawayo had been abandoned a week before, after Lo Bengula had set fire to the huts and exploded the magazine, which contained 80,000 cartridges and 2500 pounds of nowder. LIFE-SAYING SERVICE. 4000 Persons Rescued and $6,500, 000 Worth of Property Saved. Superintendent Kimball, of the llfo-saving service, in his annual report, says that the number ot disasters to documented vessels within the field of the operations of the servico during the year ended June 30 was 427. There were on board these vessels 3565 persons, of whom 3542 were saved and twenty-three lost. Six hundred and sixty-three shipwrecked persons roceivod succor at the stations. The estimated value of the vessels involved in the disasters was $6,414,075, and that of their cargoes $1,684,000. making a total value of property imperilled $8,008,075. Of this amount $6,442,505 was saved, and $1,655,570 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was eighty-eight. In addition to the foregoing, there were during the year 154 casualties to small craft, such as sailboats, rowboats, etc., on which there were 327 persons, 321 of whom were savod and six lost. The oroDertv involved in these instances is estimated at $153,035, of which $128,340 was saved and $24,690 lost. There were forty-seven other persons rescued who had fallen from the wharves, piers, etc., and who would have perished without the aid of tho life-saving crews. The cost oi tho maintenance of the service during the year was $1,231,893.46. Attention 13 called to the frequency and violence of the tempests which have swept tho Atlantic coast during the months of May and August in recent years, occasioning serious loss of life and property, and the suggestion of a prolongation of tho active season to embrace thegf months is made. LYNCHINGS IN THE SOUTH, One Taken From Officers and Shol and the Other Hanged. H'inry Bogue, one of the colorod men who admitted taking part in the murder of W. J. Duncan at Lake City Junction, Fla.. was taken from a Sheriff's pos3e at midnight at tho doors of the town jail. Ho was carried off a quarter of a mile and riddled with ballets. ? unn_*.,r.K>ipr. / Q f! qnonlfll savs a A OjJOU.l V-" ? / -I Vcolored man, Bob Kennedy, about twenty years old, a*>s mlto.i a wooinn at dusk nt GaEney. Neighbors of tho woman tracked the inau to a house Irom whence he was taken nud hangeil. KILLED HIS BROTHER. IIo Was Afraid He Would Be Whipped If He Told. While hunting near l'eoria, 111., Rudolph Bomholz, aged fifteen, wan accidentally killed by his young brother Harry, who told a story about the fatal shot having bepn flrnd 1... n without Tllft CDUIltrV I wua scoured by ;i posse in search of tho supposed murderer. The boy finally told the truth couc3rninsf the affair, and explained tb? fanciful story on tu<s ground that he was afraid at a whipping. LATER NEWS. Gotbbkob Flower appointed ex-Judg? Reynolds and Edward M. Shepnrd to assist KOAnn/tnlUn A# man Art/inOaH rtf ?u mo pivocwuuvu vj. iuu ux?u uwu->w? w? election frauds In Kings County, New York. Tec sophomore class of Bates College, Lewlston. Me., has been suspended because the members Interfered with a freshman literary meeting. The United States cruiser Columbia, on her preliminary trial trip, off Boston, made an average speed of 22.84 knots an hour, and covered seven kn ots at the rate of twentyfour knots an hour. This makes her the fastest ship afloat. John Johnson, the colored convict who, on April 17 last, murdered two fellow prisoners at Auburn (N. Y.) Prison, was successfully electrocuted at that institution a few days ago. F. B. Thubbee, the senior member of the large and well-known wholesale grocery firm of Thurber, Whyland & Co., New York City, made an individual assignment for the bene* fit of creditors. The sum involved is $300, 000. Two receivers were appointed by Judge Andrews. Francis Gebhabd, a convict of the Wetherafleld (Conn.) State Prison who died of consumption, was buried with Grand Army honors by the locol Grand Army post. The body went to the grave with the National colors on the casket. The Interstate Industrial Exposition of the South was opened at Augusta, Ga., by Governor W. H. Northen. Thbee eons of John Burgraff aged six, eleven and thirteen years, were husking corn at Marion. South Dakota. The eldest in the attempt to shoot over their heads, blew the head off one and fatally wounded the other. Pbesident Cleveland and his family left tholr country home on the Woodley road and are now located at the White House for the winter. The President made eleven customs appointments, Including that of J. Scott Harrison, to be Surveyor of Customs for Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Harrison is the Democratic brother of ex-President Harrison. He has been an active Democratic politician, A nuBBicANE blew over the Frische-HaiT, a bay in East Prussia. Many fishing boati were lost. Eighteen persons were drowned. The Provisional Government of Hawaii submits a statement of abuses in Government under Ealakaua in justification of the overthrow of the monarchy. A severe storm of stow and wind raged at Dunkirk, N. Y., and a'ong the Lake Shore. President Cleveland, aocompanled by Secretary of War Lamont and Mrs. Lamont, visited New York City. They stopped at the Victoria Hotel. The President spent much of his time with Dr. Bryant, his family physician,.to the exclusion of all other friends. A TERRIBLE boiler explosion occurred at Hook's Switch, Texas, demolishing the Hook's Lumber Company's mill. Three mon were killed and six severely Injured. The residence of Isaac Lee, near Cape Charles, Va., was burned. Mrs. John Haup and her three-months-old child wore burned to death. John A. Deake, Treasurer of the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad, was sandbagged and robbed of $21,000 in his office in Chicago. Miss Birdie Badoh was assaulted and murdered at Alliance, Ohio, by Kirt Davidson, who then out his own throat. Assistant Secretary Hamlin has sent a circular letter of instructions to Collectors of Customs to carry out the act of Congress in aid or the World's fair jfrize winners Exposition to be held at New York City. An anarchistic reign of terror prevails in Spain, more outrages being reported. The settlement of the differences between Afghanistan and Great Britain has been concluded. The marriage of Archduke Joseph Augustin, of Austria, and Princess Augusta, of Bavaria, took place in Munich. AMEEICA THEIR HOME. Of the 15,406 October Immigrant! Many Could Not Read or Write. The total number of immigrants landed a) Ellis Island, New York, during October waj 15,40G. Of these newcomers 1S4G could no read ; 1787 could not write, while 172G coulrf neither read nor write. Classified ac<-or.1ing to occupation, 102 1m migrants belonged to the loarned profes sions ; 2949 were skilled laborers ; 5881 be longed to various trades, and the rest haanc occupation. The total amount of money brought hen hy these future American citizens was $303/ OQt* TVio mir/tluiit A f Imminrorfc rcf nrnni was ninety-four, of whom seventy-two wen contract laborers, twenty-one were pauper? and one was a convict. A CHOLERA SHIP WRECKED. The Four Survivors of a Crew of Sixteen Persons Rescued! The British bark Mendoza, Captain Martin. bound from Dakar, Senogal, for Barbados, in ballast, reports that during the voyage cholera broke out on board and the Captain and eleven men died from tho disease. Only four of the men were left to navigate the vessel, which drifted helpiessly ashore on Vauclin reef on the southeast coast of Martinique, and became a total wreck. The four survivors wero taken ashoro and isolated in a hospital. The authorities are taking all necessary steps to prevent the spread of the disoase. HANGED, SHOT AND BUKNED. A Colored Murderer Lynched by Others of His Race. Tremendous excitement reigns at Varner, a station on the Iron Mountain Railway, twenty miles south of Pino Bluff. Ark.. over tho lynching, shooting and burning of a colored man named Nelson, who, a week before, had murdered another colored mnu. A mob consisting exclusively of colored men broke down the jail, liadged Nelson to a tree, riddled his body with bullets and then set flrw to it. Next morning fragments of the body wero still found dangling from I he limbs. It had been raining hard all night, 00 tho Are did not complete i(3 work. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Encouraging Reports From All Parts of the Country. The New York Sun, in its financial column, say3 that "the weekly reports of the i:ondition of business throughout tho country which have come to han-l are the most encouraging that have been received in several months. They tell of an improvement in both mercantile and manufacturing lines. The most favorable advices are received from Southern points, suggesting the possl bility of an earlier recovery thero than elsewhere from tho prevailing prostration of last summer. Tho reason for this may be that liquidation In the South antedated the contraction of business in the Northern States. Still, a gratifying degree of improvement is reported from nearly every important centre throughout tho country." ' " ' " T 'i*-: ? ."' 01 policy a pin, SECRETARY GRESHAM'S' REPORT ON THE MATTER. In a Letter to the President, He Fa..A.A iU /? /xf A.1AAH T.I 1 vui8 tut' ivcoiuiatiuii vi yuoou wi*louokalanl to Power?His Report Based on-That of Special Commissioner Blount's. After a Cabinet meeting held at the White House, Washington (which was of unusual duration, lasting over three hours and a halQ^ecretary Gresham, with the concurrence of the President, gave out for publication a report on Hawaiian afTairs, a synop, sis of which follows. Though no direct state ment to that effect accompanies thepublicatioe of this most important document, it is assumed that the instructions given to Minister Willis, who left for his post of duty at Hawaii iust about this time, after beinff twice delayed in his departure, are in consonance with the tenor o I the views therein expressed. It iS also assumed that the change of Admirals in command at Honolulu, by the substitution of Admiral Irwin for Admiral Sklrrett, which was made to talc* effect contemporaneously with Mr. Willis's arrival there, had in view the contemplated change of policy on the part of the United States. The Cabinet agreed that the dignity of our people demanded that as a wrong has been committed it abould be righted at once. Hence Minister Willis has instructions that will permit the restoration of the monarchy if the Hawaiian* so desire. The report of Seeretary Gresham is, of course based on that of Mr. Blount, who was sent as Special Commissioner to Hawaii by the President, soon after his inauguration. Mr. Gresham saj-s that Mr. Blount a report shows that the Queen on January 14. announced her intention of promulgating a new constitution, but by the advice of her friends changed her purpose and publicly announced that she had done so, A meet ing of a so-called Committee of Public Safety, consisting of thirteen men. five of whom were Americans and nearly all aliens, On January 15 created the Provincial Government, which was to exist ''until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon." A mass meeting of residents, mostly aliens, confirmed this action. Later the same afternoon the committee addressed a letter to John L. Steven*, the American Minister at Honolulu, stating that the lives and property of the people were in peril, and appealing to him and the United States forces at his command for assistance. "This communication concluded, 'We are unable to protect ourselves without aid, and therefore we hope for the protection of the United States forces.' 'On receipt of this letter Mr. Stevens requested> Captain Wilse oomtaander of the United States steamer Boston, to land a force Tor the protection of the United States Legation, United States Consulate, and to secure the safety of American life and property.' "The well-armed troops were promptly landed,and marched through the quiet streets of Honolulu with two Gatling guns to a public hall. Dreviousiv secured by Mr. Stephens lor their accommodation.' This hall was just across the street from the Government buildin? and in plain view of the Queen's palace. "While there were no manifestations of excitement or alarm in the oity, and the people were ignorant of the contemplated movement, th? committee entered the Government Building, after first ascertaining that it was" Unguarded. and one of their number, a citizen of the United States, read a proclamation declaring that the existing Government was overthrown and a Provisional Government established in its place, 'To exist until terms o* union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon.' "No audience was present when the proclamation was read, but during the reading forty or fifty men, some of them indifferently armed, entered the room. "The executive and advisory councils, mentioned in the proclamation, at onca addressed a communication to Mr. Stevens, informing him that the Monarchy had been abrogated and a Provisional Government established. This communication concluded: Such Provisional Government nas been proclaimed and is now in possession of the Government departmental building, the archives and the Treasury, and is in control of the city. We hereby request that you will, on behalf of the United States of America, recog Ill7.0 II UIO CAiOllUli UC liK'LU KUirauiucui ut the Hawaiian Islands and afford to it the mora! support ot your Government, and, if necessary the support of American troops to assist in preserving the public peace.'" On receipt or this letter Mr. Stevens immediately recognized the new Government, and in a note addressed to Sanford B. Dole, its President, informed him that he had done 80. "The same afternoon the Queen, her ministers, representatives of tho Provisional Government and others held a conference at tho palace. "Refusing to recognize the new authority or surrender to it, she was informed that the Provisional Government had the support of the American Minister, and, if necessary, would bo maintained by the military force ot the Unift . States present, that any demonu*?*aHs\rk r\r\ Uoi? nurf -tc*niil/1 rtrMrwi nihilft n conflict with that force, that she could not, with hope oi." s?acese, engage iu war with the United States, and that resistance would result in a useless sacrifice of life. '*Mr. Damon, one of the chief leaders of the movement, and afterward Vice-President of the Provisional Government, informed the Queen that she could surrender under protest, and her case would be considered later- at Washington. Believing that, under the circumstances, submission was a duty, and that her case would be fairly considered by the President of the United States, the Queen yielded, ailJ sent to the Provisional Government the paper which has already been made public. 4 At the beginning Mr. Stevens promise/1 the Annexationists that as soon as they obtained possession of the Government Building. and there read a proclamation, he would at once recocmize them as a de facto Govern roent, and support them by landing a lorce from our war ship then in the harbor, and he kept that promise. "This assurance was the inspiration of the movement. "Should not the great wrong done to a feeble but independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States be undone by restoring the legitimate Government? Anything short of that will not, I respectfully submit, satisfy the demands of justice. "Can the United States consistently insist that other Nations shall respect the independence of Hawaii while not respecting it themselves? Our Government was the first to recognize the independenca of the island and it should be the fast to acquire sovereignty over them by force and fraud. "w. Q. Gbksham." POISON IN THE PORTER. Mother and Daughter Die of It, the Father Dies From Shock. The wife and daughter, Margaret, of John J. Toolo, of South Bo3ion, Mass., dranlc part of a bottle of porter and dropped desd almost instantly. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that they had swallowed enough cyanide of potassium to have killed ten persons. Two sons and a daughter have been arrested, charged with the murder, but the evidence which the police have thus far secured against them is not strong. That night Mr. Toolo learned for tho flrst tiir e of tho death of his wife and daughter. - - j j oh,,, au<I in ;t lew minutes no, too, wiis uo;iu. shock killed hint. The scene o? tho tragedy is 83 West Third street, South Boston. Mr. Toolo is a piano poli3hor, and had lived In that houso nearly thirty years. He had reared a family of Ave sons and three dauRhters, and bad acquired property worth about $20,000. He was one of the most respectable eitisens in that part ot town. Hi? wife had been ill for soino time, and In accordance with her physician's orders had been in tho habit of drinking a glass of porter every night before retiring. Last uight she asked her daughter Mary to give her son Michael some money to purchase a bottle of porter. The lad went to George Walker's liquor stcre and procured It. Mary Toole met him at the I >ot of the stairs and carriod the bottle to her mother's room. It is a mystery how the poison got In th;t Km4*U 1 UUlklU. / HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. PRIED CHICKEN. Clean and cat the chicken the same as for a fricassee. Dredge each piece thickly with salt, pepper and floor. Pnt three tableanoonfuls of oil or lard in a frying pan, and when very hot put in the chicken and fry slowly until it is done. If vonng (as it should be) it will fry in three-quarters of an honr. Watch it carefully that it may not burn. When done arrange the pieces on a hot dish, Pour all the fat but about one tablespoonful from the frying pan, then add a tablespoonful of flour, mix and a4d a half pint of milk or cream, stir, season with salt and pepper and pour over the chicken. ?St. Louis Republic. SERVDfO OTSTEBS. To scollop oysters use a grating dish; butter it, and cover the bottom ?Ikon nnt it% q WILii uroau uuutuo) vuuu yu? . . layer of oysters which you have already drained; add bits of butter and more bread crumbs, and so on until you have used all your oysters; the top layer must be thick bread crumbs, and the bits of butter must be generously distributed. Pour the oy3ter liquor into the dish before the last layer of crumbs. Bake half an hour in a quiok oven. Of the many ways of serving raw oysters not one is better appreciated by bon vivants than the simplest?on the half shell. Wash well before opening, pour all the liquor into one side of the shells. Arrange upon a large salver and serve with sliced lemon and pepper vinegar. When you fry oysters the liquor is left; boil it and thicken it with some flour and butter r abb 2d together, add * ? J Jx v. a little cream aim puur n* u?ci uui toast for a breakfast or luncheon dainty. But be sure you boil it before setting it away if it is not to be used until the next day; otherwise it will not keep fresh. Any cooked oysters left over may be added to a breakfast hash for giving a pleasant flavor.?New York World. HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE CAKE. In large cities the making of cake is > almost a lost art.. There are many reasons for this, first and foremost of which is the bakery. Then there are the women's exchanges, where people fancy they can buy just suoh cakes ?? orrnndmii nnfld to make, but oh, what a delusion and a snare they proved! "The test of the pndding is in the eating," but the test of bought j cakes, either at bakeries or at ex- : changes, should be left entirely to their appearance, for there alone is : their merit I have a friend who makes t the'most delicious cake I ever tasted. , One of the best and easiest made of her j' almost endless variety of cakep is what she calls a luncheon cake. This is how it is made: One cuplFul of sugar, fyalf cup of butter, worked to4ine cream; one egg; one cujpful of sweet milk; ttro ' cupfnls of flour; thiee tablespoonfuls i of baking powder. Flavor with grated nutmeg. Bake in a shallow pan well lined with buttered paper. Sometimes she frosts the top of this nake and decorat.'e with English wal nut meats. Then she calls it a reception cake. Another of her cakes is what all children love. She calls it sponge cake: One large cup of sugar, four eggs beaten to a foam, three tablespoonfuls of milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one large cup of flour; flavor with lemon. This makes a small cake. It should be baked in a shallow, square pan, and eaten fresh. Another of her cakes is rich and delicious ; she calls it wedding cake: Two pounds of butter, two pounds of granulated sugar, twelve eggs. Beat.'* * * i.l_ /\ wUites ana yoices separate^. vuc cup of New Orleans molasses, three table6poonfols of cloves, one tablespoonful of mace, two tafalespoonfuls of allspice, one nutmeg grated, four pounds of dried currants, two pounds of flour and one heaping teaspoonful of baking soda. This must be thorougly beaten and mixed and baked four hours in a slow oven. To frost it heat up the whites of four eggs to a stiff frotb, add powdered sugar as long as you can blend it nicely ; also add the juice of one lemon. Spread this over 1he top of the cake nearly an inch thick and around the sides that thickness. Here you have a cake fit to set before a king. It will keep for months. ?New York Herald. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Rolls of old flannel should be ready for sudden demand. To remove egg stains from spoons rub with moist salt. Open canned fruit an hour or two before it is needed for use. It is far richer when the oxygen is thus restored to it. If the rollers of a wringer are sticky or covered with lint pass a cloth dampened with kerosene between them. Gum arabic and gum tragacanth, in equal parts, dissolved in hot water, make the best and most convenient mucilage you can keep in the house. Handkerchiefs too much worn for ordinary use should find their way to the "hospital drawer," as old, soft cloths are always of use in the sick room. Persons who travel will find that cold cream or vaseline will remove the streaks of grime on their faces with much greater ease than soap and water. When wine is spilled on table linen sprinkle salt over it thickly before it is dry. if possible. Vaseline or machinc oil should be washed with soap and cold water first. If an umbrella is wet never stand it ferule down to dry, but open it and lay it handle down until quite dry. If it must be closed, stand it on tiui handle rather than the ferule. The old-fashioned butter knife has ? ?1?,1 i.? Deen ior some umu rt-pmucu iij <* butter spear or lance, the point oi which is thrust through the tiny balh of butter, in which form butter id now served. To cure white caukcr sores in the mouth, get at a druggist's five cents worth of gold thread and steep i:i warm water, and sweeten with honey or loaf sugar; wet the cankcr spots with a swab dipped iu the tea every half hour and give a little of the tea. v'^rlr7-^&*k t -r r':"V V';V>/' - *.fv. /.;" }*?:\J . ? ' ''^i '^y} v WOEDS OF WISDOM* . a *. .4 ? #_ ^V. Every day is a little uis. - . Few love to hear the ema they lor4 to set. Politeness is the remit of good senstf and good nature. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's sell Pride requires very costly food?it* keeper's happiness. Delay has always been injurious to those who ore prepared. All cruelty springs from hard heart* edness and weak character. It is a barren kind of criticism that tells you what a thing is not . A clean month and an ixone&t hand will take a man through any land. Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself. id No ashes are lighter than those of incense and few things burn out sooner. In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. He who forgets, his own friendf meanly to follow after those of ? higher degree is a snob. The injury of prodigality leads to this?that he that will not economise will have to agonize. Flower S iotts in India* The display of flowers at a flower show in India is naturally very magnificent. In one recently held in Poona and opened by Lady Harris, the chief interest was attached to the . arrangement of cut flowers and to 5L'_* --L.V _ Jl " TT L laDie decoration. juaujr jcumxu> competed in the latter, and, of conrse, being so devoted to cricket; had two cricketers supporting the three branch lamp in the centre of her table, whioh was an arrangemont in scarlet and green- The first prize was awarded to Mrs. Whit worth, for a bine and white table, the centre spread and the ice plate being.pale bine, and the flowers used white zinziber, the bridal or _ snow creeper, white hibiscus and maidenhair fern. The second prize \ fell to a table decorated with nothing / bat the Glarisa superba, and rushes mixed with silk of the yellow hue seen when the flower opens. Another ladyhad for centre a white swan floating in water and bordered with broken swan eggs. The judges w6re two ladies who did not compate and whose names were judiciously kept secret T? tha ViaaVof nf flnvAM flomTIAtitioiL the most original was one formed of||85| lioliow bamboos of different sizes, artistically filled with'' flowers, grasses and creepers. Another lady requisitioned a real hornet's nest as receptacle for her flowers. Very gorgeous, indeed, were the'fine tables decorated by native butlers, which were a perfect blaze of color, especially yellow.? Hearth and Home. , ? The Nosrsrir Tank. One of the innumerable eurioua sights of India is the Nuggar tank of Karachi. In former times, the crocodiles which inhabit it roamed the neighborhood at their will, seeking ; " whom they might devour, but so great were their depredations that the authorities were forced to build a wall round their haunt. This is a swamp, y' caused by hot springs, the medicinal virtues or which have been known from early times, and ere attributed to the sanctity of a Mohammedan | whose totob is close by, and to whom the crocodiles are sacred. The tank, as it is called, is about 150 yards long by about half that die- 4 tance in breadth. In this space one observer counted over 200 reptiles, from eight to fifteen feet long, and smaller ones innumerable. They are ; so tame, in a sense, that it is necea- ., t>iom urit.h ft stick beforo J 0?4J W |/vav VMVMM ? _ ^ they will move. Buffaloes are always standing in the water, and are not attacked, but any other animal is instantly seized. "The whole appearance of the place," says one writer, "with its green, slimy, stagnant water, and so many of these huge uncouth monsters moving sluggishly about, is disgusting in the ex- :. treme, and it will long be remembered by me as the most loathsome spot I ever beheld. "?Chambers's Journal. H Recording the Ilise ot the Nile. During the time of the periodical inundation of the valley of the Nile, a , queer recording instrument, known as the "nilometer," is hourly and daily ,'J consulted by a sluggish Egyptian officer, who, to judge from his motions and actions, cares but very little if the M river keeps its bed or overflows the 1 whole northern half of the African continent. But, a3 it is the only labor in fnrc.Ml to nerform. and his bread and cheese usually depend upon proper f execution of the duties assigned, the record is taken with scrupulous accu- 3 racy. This queer and ancient "ther mometer of the Nile" (it dates back to 845 A. D.) is situated at the end of the Island of Rhoda. It is simply an immense upright octagonal pillar stand- * ing in a well-like chamber, surrounded on four sides with strong walls provided with arched openings which allow the rising waters free access to the nilometer. The recording pillar ia - * - * 1 1L J covered tnrougnouc iw iengm huu uu all of its eight sides with cubits and digits nicely divided, painted with great precision, much resembling sections of a gigantic checker-board. There is a huge staircase leading from above down to the bottom of the cia- ~ tern, in which the nilometer stands, the well-worn steps attesting to the immense number of times the instru- ment has been consulted. ~ i Breeding Blue Foxes. f On the island of St. George, one ot the Pribylof group in Bering Sea, the breeding of blue foxes has become very profitable. They generate very rapidly, and when an island of good * " ~Vonnmoa TV/ill Rt.nr?lr*>H it IS UUUC wcovmwo ?v? ? ? impossible to deplete it, as the law provides that they must not be shot, but trapped, the restriction being imposed mainly to keep them tame.? , Chicago Herald, One and Trro Cent Picces. < There are 119,000,000 old copper 4 pennies somewhere. Nobody knows what has become of them, except once in awhile a single specimen turns up j in change. A few years ago 4,000,000 bronze two-cent pieces were Bet af.oat. Three millions of these are still out- v standing. ** u .. j