.
| 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
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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."
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SECRETARY GRESHAM'S' REPORT
ON THE MATTER.
In a Letter to the President, He Fa..A.A
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.'*
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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
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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.
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WOEDS OF WISDOM*
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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
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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. ,
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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
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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
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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.
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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 *
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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. **
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