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PECOAM ff AS DEFEATED THE UNITED STATES SENATE BEJECTS HIS NOMINATION. President Cle\*eiand's Second Selection to Fill the Vacancy on the Supreme Court Bench Refused Confirmation by a Vote of Fortyone to Thtrty-two. WHXELEH H. PZCKHJJL President Cleveland has had another test f strength between himself and the United States Senate, and again he has been deSeated. The Republicans of the Senate, twenty* four in number, with fifteen Democrats, nnder the joint leadership of William E. Chandler and David B. Hill, have won this eoond victory over the Democratic Administration in the rejection of Wheeler H. Peck ham as a candidate for Associate Justin nf t'fiB Runrama Court of the United Elates. Oa the 16th day of January li3t the Senate, fcy a vote of SO to 24. rejected the nomination of William B. Hornblower to be an Assooiate . Justice of the Sapreme Court of the United States, and now by a vote of 41 to 82 has rejected the nomination of Wheeler H. Peck* ham to the same offioe. The Senate considered this nomination in executive session ior more than three hours on the first day it was called up. and then, at the urgent request of the friends of the Administration, 'an adjournment was taken for a day, in or* ' der that noses might be counted. i The first half hour of the executive session "was spent in routine business. Then the decks were cleared for action, and Senator , Yilas began his speech in support of Pecki.: . ham nnd the AdmlnfStration. ! At ta? conclusion of Senator Vilas's remarks shoit speeches were made in behalf of Mr. Peokhani by Senators Gray, of Delaware ; Mitchal!. of Oregon, and George, of MtaMippi. The interesting feature of the </ ' ' lattHr'a ?D3ech was that it was made while Senator MeLaurin was sitting next ki n. The new Senator from Mississippi b / k?d not indicated to any one how he intend" 1 to vote, and there was much uneasi: / Bess oa both sides, as it was apparent that jc.uor George was talking directly for the fcenaSt of his n8w colleague, Senator White, of California, made a speech of a few minvteb against confirmation, and Senator Teller n co pat in a few words on the same side. Senator Hawley made a good-natured sp***eh against Mr. Pecfcham, taking, the ground that he was too old for the plaoe. It was generally expected that Senator Hill would go into the achate, and several of the Administration Senators were ready, . . they intimated, to assail him, bat . they did Bot get a chance, for before they realized what was going on the Secretary of the 8enate began to call the roll, whioh cut off further debate except by unanimous content. The vote was taken at 3.55 p. m. The question before the Senate was, "Shall the momination be confirmed?" The affirmative vote was comoosed of 23 Dem<y>ratH 8 Ha publicans,. and 1 Populist?82. The negative vote consisted of 15 Democrats, 24 Republicans, and 2 Populists?41. The vote In ietall was as follows : ^ Democrats in Favor of Confirmation? Bate, " of Tennessee; Blackburn,of Kentucky ;Brice, of Ohio; Butler, of 8outh Carolina : Caffery, of Louisiana; Faulltner, of West "Virginia; George, of Mississippi; Gray, of Delaware ; ? ' Harris, of Tennessee , Hunton, of Virginia, Lindsay, of Kentucky ; McPberson, of New Je*337; Martin, cf Kansas; Mills, of Texas; Mitchell, of Wisconsin ; Palmer. of Illinois j Pasco',-of Florida;HanAocr, of South Carolina ; Bosch, of North Dakota; T tuple, of In, ilana; VJ?3. of Wisconsin ;Voorhees, of Indiana, and White, of Louisiana?23. > Bepublic^^s for Confirmation?Dixon, of Shode Irland; Hale, of M^ine; Mitchell, of Oregon; Petrigrew, of South Dakota; Piatt, ft Conne^cut; Proctor, of Vermont; Squire, w Washington, and Stockbrldge, of MichifcPopulist for Confirmation?Kyle, of South Daxotai * - . r fc.Dsmoorats Against Conflmation?Berry. K Arxansa*; Cal!, of Florida; Cockrell, of Iflsejuri ;Coke, of Texas; Daniel, of Virginia, Blfcson, of Maryland: Gorman, of Maryland; mil, of New York; Irby. of South Carolina; Tones, of Arkansas, MoLaurin, of MisriBSippi; Murphy.' of New York; Pugh, of Alabama; Vest, of Missouri, and White, of .California?15. J1 Republicans Against Conflrmation?Aljdrlcb. of .Rhode 'eland; Allison, o: Iowa; Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Carey, of Wyoming ; Chandler, of New Hampshire ; CulJom, of Illinois, Da vis,of Minnesota; Dolpb, f Oregon; Frye,of Maine; Gallinger. of New mampscire ; Hansbrough, of North Dakota ; Hawley, of Connecticut; Hijcijiu?, ?f Dela." are; Hoar, of Massachusetts; Lodge, of Massachusetts: Mandereon, of Nebraska; Herrill, of Vermont; Perkins, of California; Power, of Montana; Shoup, of Idaho; Stewart, of Nevada; Teller, of Colorado; Washhorn, of Minnesota, and Wilson,of Iowa?24. Populists Asainst Corflrmation?Allen, of Hebraska, and PefTer, of Kansas?2. Pairs were announced as follows, the irst-named Senator in each case favoring confirmation: Mr. Camden, of West Virginia, witL Jones, of Nevada; 8mith, of New Jersey, with Dubois, of Idaho; McMillan, of Michigan, wirti Vance, of North Carolina; Morgan, of Alabama, with Quay, of Pennsylvania ; Gordon, of Georgia, with Wolcott, of Colorado. Senator Sherman did'not vote, and wouid not pair because he did not hear fche argument. Senator Colquitt, who was claimed by both sides, was also absent without being paired. ? . joseph keppler dead. ? The Man Who Brought "Puck" Into Prominence Passes Away. Joseph Keppler, one of the founders ot Puck, died suddenly at his home in "New York City. From the very start of the pioneer humorous lithographic weekly 31 r. , Keppler's cartoons have been dominant in Its pages. Borneo! 1he most notable of the political and social pictorial arguments and satires in Puck have been his. He was a great ally and admirer of Grover Cleveland, and a portrait drawn hy him soon after the President's first inauguration W!l8 bis masterpiece in portraiture. Death was caused by spinal trouble. He leaves a widow and three children. Mr. j Keppler was born in Vienna oa Fet.'ruarv l 1138. thibteen persons killed. > A Fatal Collision on a Railroad in Eastern Russia. ; A fatal accident has occurred on the railTray between Samara and Slatvousk, in Eastam Russia. Two trains collidod near Jelan. and thirteen persons were killed. Several V were badly injured. " Atb*bt Waltox, an American criminal ?ow under arrest in Copenhagen, is considered the most dangerous crook on the contlment He has swindled 400 merchants in Germaay and Switzerland out of fabuloua KQUt THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Keeper Goss was horribly mangled by the chimpanzees Chiko and Johanna, at the Central Park Arsenal, New York City. Justice Babbett. of the 8upreme Court, New York City, sentenced Dennis J. Buck ley, an eleotion inspector, who was convicted of permitting a repeater to vote at the last general election on the name of a man who lived in his house, to one year in the Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500. Chabi.es E. Flohb's store in York County, Pennsylvania, was blown up by a dynamite bomb.. People in Plymouth. Penn., have given up all hope of rescuing the thirteen miners entombed in the Gaylord mine. Alfbed Hosmeb Lixdsb, the Harvard junior, who was injured at Cambridge, Mass., by a heavy blow in a sparring contest with his college friend, Arthur Foster, died without recovering consciousness. For Ave days he lay in a comotose condition South and West. Mat Bbookyx, one of the leading ladies ef the Palmer Stock Company, playing at the Baldwin Theatre, Saa Francisco, Cal., committed suicide by taking poison. She played the part ot Mistress Page in "Alabama." The remaining World's Fair buildings at . Chicago will be sold immediately to the high- * est bidder, on account of the many incendiary fires. Counties in Western Kansas ask for contributions of coal and free transportation for fuel and seed. William Leonabd, an Englishman who killed Jesse Anderson, has been hanged at Frederick, Md. James E. Stone was executed at Jeffersonville, Ind., for the murder of the Wratten family of six last September. Pbendebgast, murderer of Mayor Earrison, sprang at Prosecuting Attorney Trade Will in the court room in Chicago, III Armed men guarded the presiding Judge, anony- 2S2 moas threats having been received. p Mas. Annie Ruckeb was assaulted and killed by two colored mpn at Birmingham, Ala. Both were lynched. The KIowas and Comanche Indians about 4is ra n >QOj uKitiuunia, uuvo umuuidu a uusiuo rescu attitude. by hi Thbee thousand miners have been thrown comp out of work in Ohio until they accept the pany terms of the operators. Enid A fatal cyclone swept a path 200 feet Sate wide through Claborne Pariah, Louisania. JfJr Two persons were killed. , jtTE A fire supposed to be of incendiary origin 421 took place in the east wing of the Indiana jng 0 State Building in the World's Fair Grounds j^e i Chicago. The damage was slight. in e: ham Washington. 43i Claims for sugar bounty thus far aggregate $9,940,000. Sekatob McLaubi>*, of Mississippi, has land been sworn in to succeed Mr. Walthall. t0 ^ The annual report of the Director of the and 1 Bureau of American Republics has been sent 44i to Congress. in op The first half of February showed a deficit of $3,000,000 in Treasury receipts. 52r The new Rivor and Harbor bill carries an njors appropriation of $7,300,000. 5gr succe Foreign. ? for ei . . . _ ... ... a foreign* Anarcnisc was mown up ar Greenwich, England, by an explosive with or*5' which, it fs supposed, he intended to wreck 5o? the Observatory; the bomb-outrage by ?! Emlle Henry at the Hotel. Terminus, Paris, Blan is said to have been part of a vast Anarchist answ plot. ajw. Admiral Benham promptly made a Brazil- ]ess t Jan rebel captain at Rio apologize for firing t^e j on a launch from the United States cruiser Newark. Empebor William, of Germany, caused a profound sensation at a state dinner in Berlin by saying impressively "If the treaty is His rejected by us we may look for war with Russia within three months." The hurricane that passed over Northern ^Ul Germany a few days ago wrecked the school- Oyer house at Zuckers, a little village in Pomer- j0jjn ania, and a number of children were buried r in the ruins. Seven have been killed and (jrrav twenty injured. Priso The American Liner Paris returned to Queenstown, Ireland, her rudder having become disabled when she was about 800 miles iwllic out from Southampton; the steamer is unin- lmPr jured. ed.CCb Twektv-ose lives were lost in Germany ^eeo during the recent storms. ( W0lJl Yellow fover is increasing at Rio, Brazil. Mc All the American warships, except the New time York, are to be stationed outside the harbor, in Gj within easy call. citize Portugal is too poor to pay her debts to ?' ^ the French, and is in danger of Jailing into manj the hands of Spain. The French Minister on " has been recalled pending an adjustment of or^?: the relations of the two countries. A meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, 1 adopted a resolution for the abolition of the ,d British House of Lords , three Members of ~ ^ Parliament spoke. Trade in Paris is crippled by the Anarchist nout scare, and the hotels are deserted. port The closing ceremony in Rome of the ool- thins ebration of Pope Leo XIIL's jubilee year Su was witnessed by 50.000 people. The Pope'a just physicians say he is much better. for t' hims DOLE TO MINISTER WILLIS, "ofi trial The Hawaiian Provisional Government's Burden of Complaint. seQtl The stean-er Alameda arrived at San Fran- appl cisco, Cal., with Honolulu advices up to Fi ruary 8. On the evening of February 3 r. \ important meeting was held by the Annexation Club, which was largely attended by in- The fluential citizens. The business of the meeting was to act upon this resolution: 'Resolved. That it is the opinion of the No. officers and Executive Committee that areD- Rose resentative form of government be estab- A Jisnen as soon as possiD??, auer ?i io iw.wtaioed that the present Congress will take no ?PeE definite action toward annexation." fired Dole's "letter ofspecifications" of January temj 11 was published in Honolulu on the 6th insf. bers The President is confident of amicable rcla- Fc tions with the American Minister. badl In his letter to Willis Dole says: "Ihave ingj made no charges against the President o? ters, the United States or its representatives. On extr: the contrary, in order that there might be no moti misapprehension concerning the matter, I fatal specifically stated to you in my communica- Ti xion of the 27th ultimo that I do not claim or box? intimate that this unfortunate situation has Com been intentionally created by you. or the belie Government you represent. Non "Some of the words and actions of the T1 United States and its representatives in this pie? connection, and the conditions and circum- it w stances attendant thereon, from which its Mor intentions and attitude toward the Provi- offic Bional Government must be interred, are : plan ' A treaty of annexation had been negoti- Tt ated between the Provisional Government on a and the United States Government and pre- cars sentel to the Senate for ratification. expi 'This treaty was withdrawn by President Thei Clpveiand immediately upon his entering start office without prior notice to this Govern- Se ment or its representatives of his.intention to and do so, or of his reasons for such action. and ' I must also submit that an official com- caug munication from the Chief of the Depart- one ment of State to the President, in took which he charges the Government aui It its officers with conspiracy, weakness. witfc timidity and fraud, and recommends its subversion, which letter is officially furnished to and published by the public press, without any information concerning the 8=imo being afforded Sell to this Government, is not a 'domestictransaction,' and is pre-eminently a proper subjoct lor inquiry on the part of this Government, as to the intentions of your Govern- Pon< ment concerning the subject matter." buil? Sir. Dole, in a most prolific manner, then goes over the whole Hawaiian <sontrover."y again, but does not t;pitch into Uncle Sam," as previous dispatches had stated he might. T* hav? The Mayor of Rochester, N. Y., has senl rout teams with wagons through the city for tho Tbft purpose of collecting second-hand clothing and other material that can be used for the "^a relief of the unemployed. aud Cou PnkyK SluasKS, a young man-cST Eancast'er, < Penn., who a year ago had an arm torn of by a broken cable of the Lancaster Traction A Company, has been awarded $20,500 dam* ages by arbitrators. ,ll3C "THE GRAND OLD MAD v\v lam Ewart Gladstone, Great Britain's Prim [From His Latest Pt ?M????? IFTT-THM) CONftRESS. The Senate. _ t Dat.?The Vice-President came to the T e of the Oklahoma Town Site bill, and s vote broke the tie and passed the bill ? felling the Rock Island Railroad Com- P to stop its trains at the new towns of d and Round Pond. Peflfer's amend- _ providing for woman suffrage was ded.??A bill was presented by Mr. Hoar, 0 prevent lott / practice" through the S: ;aal and fore./n mail service. j. > Day.?A resolution was adopted calln the President for the Dole letter. N 3enate spent the remainder of the day C cecutive session, discussing the Peck- yea nomination. T > Day.?Minister Willis's reply to Mr. trac 8 specifications of alleged unfriendly ^as sent in. Mr. Duniel spoke against . ~l liian annexation. President Clevenominated Senator White, of Louisiana, B Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, t?ra le was promptly confirmed. A h Dav.?Mr. Daniel finished his speech 000 -nnnorafInn v ipUSIUUU 1KJ UAUCmuu uuuvaui.ivU, p The House. t0 8 > Day.?The debate on. tho Bland seig- 0 ige bill was continued. ?11 > Day.?The day was devoted to an un- A sssful effort to secure a quorum to vote get oding debate on the Bland bill. h Day.?The debate on the Bland seign- ^ 3 bill was continued. :h Day.?The House spent the day in ne work and trying to get a quorum on "le d's seigniorage bill. Minister Willis's A er to the reply of President Dole of ren lii was sent in. T h Day.?The day was spent in a fruit- Lor iffon to secure a quorum to vote on ? (land bill. * ave M'KANE SENTENCED. tho A Punishment Fixed at Six Year* Bro In Sing Slug. E 3ge Bartlett, sitting in the Court of and Terminer, Brooklyn, sentenced Y. McKane, the so-called ''Boas" of in t esend, to serve six years in Sing Sing F in. Judge Cullen later granted a stay wil ree days. col< e maximum penalty of the felony of T u McKane was convicted is ten years' and isonment; the minimum two. The jury's loai nmendation to mercy saved the convict- ?j oss four years. But his friends were _{v ly disappointed. They hoped thnt he d reeeive the minimum punishment. _ Kane s crime was committed at election , 1 in 1893. He caused election inspectors ravesend t? withhold from the view of l),a sns who were not Gravesenders and tools J 5 the rugistrj* lists, which coutaine.l in I f spurious names. It was brought out a d le trial that the lists had been falsified in i r to pave the way for a fraudulent vote. mal Kane heard his sentence with a show of pei< Terence which contrasted strongly with cbu smotiou he manifested when the jury ? "guilty." He took advantage of the opinity afforded to criminals to give rea- ,gg why judgment should not be proiced, by making a little speech, the purof which was that he "hadn't done any? wrong." preme Court Justice Edgar M. Cullen, before 10 o'clock p. m., signed an order he prosecution to show cause, before ? >elf, at Special Term, within three days, a certificate of reasonable doubt should ^ )e issued upon which a motion for a new i83( in the McKane case might be favorably C rtained. The order was coupled witn feel y of the execution of McKane's six years ^ ?nce until a decision was rendered in the ^ Ication. ^ COOL TRAIN ROBBEES, 000 Outlaws Use Dynamite and the S Deadly Rifle. whi aln robbers wrecked Passenger Train ^ 20 on the Southern Pacific Railroad at tjja ioe Station, twelve miles north of Los will 3les, Cal., at 1 o'clock a. m. They blew ft' l the express car with dynamite and *arl several shots at the trainmen, who at- ' >ted to escr.pe. Those shot by the rob- 1 or Injured in the wreck were . 000 ?ter. ?. brakeman; cut on head and He y braised ; Grander, ?, who was steal- s i ride on the train, shot and killed j Mas- offl Arthur, fireman, shot and killed while has I eating himself from the wrecked loco- two ive; Thomas, David, engineer, probably t ly injured by falling off his locomotive. le robbtiffl escaped with several strong ^ a belonging to the Wells. Farco Expmss J pany, but the total amount of cash was >ved to amount to not more than $1000. f e of the passengers were injured. tor le robbery was the moat daring and cool *ke e of work done in the West in years, and ras believed that "Chris" Evans and T roll, the outlaws for whom California Wo ere have been searching for months, Roi ned and executed the crime. froi le switch was thrown and the train ran n short spur, throwing the engine and two hov off the track. The robbers then blew the * ess car open with bombs and robbed it. 7lni re were three men in the gang, and they g ! ted north on horseback after the robbery. ' iveral men boarded the train at Burbank, ^ at Roscoe their accomplices ditched it Poc commcncod shooting. Tho fireman was ,RC jht under his engine and only lived about h*3 hour. Engineer Thomas jumped and : to the brush. . ( is now known that the robbers escaped wit l several sacks of gold. jQ | Ni< PLANTING BOMBS. wl> emc of Property Owners to Prevent Railroad Building. wa M. Flagler, owner of the Royal 'be Tiana Hotel, on Lake Worth, Florida, is ^ ling a railroad to-the hotel, cutting ugh many of the prettiest places on the a.s! an River. ilrtyofthe proporty owners, it is said, tbe > placed dynamite along the proposed e of the railway through their lands. bombs are placed so that thoy will ex- 1 e at the stroke of the spade. sot ,mes Holmes, a banker, of Jansen, Fla., tJ"1 J. V. Wooten, tax collector, of Brevard 1?nty, have been arrested for complicity in ag< iynamite plot. widespread conspiracy to accomplish tra freedom of Poland is said to have been t"! overed by the police of Warsaw. [" OF ENGLAND. I a Minister, Eighty-four rears of lotograph.j THE LABOB WORLL. a.EI6 has 3000 onion women. ubeey has only had two strikes. ostox has a co-operative union. a.bzs has 700,000 working women. etroit teamsters get $1.80 a day. hebe are 47,500 union bricklayers. hio has State employment bureaus. peixofield, Ohio, has girl molders. rALY has 117,000 women silk workei ew Yore has 5000 idle granite cutt< levelasd (Ohio) policemen get $ r. ora four nnnrflnHftftS in the Da; le. iIght hours rules In Indianapolis bu les. attle Cbeek, Mich., is to have a pie. bmopb, the Chicago packer, emplo; men. f Russia factory hands work from 5 i p. m. veb ninety per cent, of Tennessee ative born. li, Pennsylvania Railroad employe! vaccinated. camel owner and his beast in Pal worth SI a day. iNETY per cent, of the milling capai Northwest is idle. Woon8ocket (R. I.) firm has susp ts during the shut down. he Metropolitan Police Commlssio idon employs 15,093 men. ailboad clerks in Germany are ps rage of flfty-two cents a day. rBAXD masteb WoBKMAX sovebei K. ofL.,is on a lecturing tour. bolleb mill was moved bodllj iwn City, Mich., to Richmond. ?ent, Allcboft <fc Co.. London glove cturers, employ 15,000 people. hii.adelph;a plassworkere are pivii cent, of their salaries to aid the st he West. laxtebs of the Lower Mississippi I import Germaa labor to suppla 3red hands. he Smyrna porter eats only a little I some olives, yet he carries with ea d of 200 pounds. 'he Salt Lake (Utah) Relief Com es a dollar's worth of provisions to d of a family who works a day. 'he Spanish peasant works every df ices half the night, and yet eats oa ck bread, onion and watermelon. Izw Havex's hardware factory, the 1 Connecticut, is now running only a: ay below its usual winter sohedule. >enveb (Col.) unions are after a ? a who pays bricklayers $4 a day. bu 3 them to donate (2.75 a day iroh. 'he Textile World says that 172 new ploying 13,160 people, were star 3, against 272 mills. , employing pie, in 1892. PROMINENT PEOPLE Idisox is an Ohio man, aged forty-e ustix McCarthy is a Cork man, b 0. hbistiax L, of Denmark, was over t tall. xl the grandsons of Charles D r the name of Charles. iHpebor William, of Germany, ha sd a desire to visit the United State Ibispi, the Italian Bismarck, is wort ,000, amassed in politics and in the exatob Pebkixs, of California, i lie fisher in his early days before h< California. r is authoritatively stated in Phllad t the value of George W. Childs'a I h? a little over 81.000.000. [ayob Hopkins, of Chicago, has ily Riven up ten per cent of his sal turned into the city poor fund. 'he Czar of Bussia has an income o ,000 a year, derived from his own e receives no salary from the Govern enatob Eutleb is the youngest pre cer of the Massachusetts Senate tha had for many years. He is only l ?years old. Cenbt H. Faxos, of the Qulncy (] ice force, is a millionaire. He serves pay, and devotes his energies to e the liquor laws. bofessob Babnabd, of the Lick Ob >*. has been awarded the Arago ma French Academy of Science for dis Jupiter's fifth satellite. 'he remains of Miss Constance Per olson lie in a. Protestant cemetc ne. Her grave is onlr shortly rei en that of the poet Shelley. 'he Crown Prince of Slam is amo authors of the world; he has v oral stories for English children's es and can write fluently in ropean languages. Ibet Habte, although past fifty ? >r health, is a very handsome man. e retains an appearance of youth, hair is silvery white. He has a s ire and an erect carriage. }band Duke Geoboe of Rcssia is h consumption, a disease here; the Romanoff family. The Czar's b iholas. heir to the Russian throne h it at the age of twenty-five. ?nE companions of "Mark Twain's' 3d in Monroe County, Missouri, ( lerstand Mark's popularity. They sthe dullest boy in the county schoc i laziest one in the neighborhood. V. D. Howells recently made one ni-annual visits to bis father's ho Terson, Ohio. J. D. Howells, editor atabula Sentinel, his brother, his invalid brother and his father still i old homestead. ["hf.be are few boys who will n ry to hear of the death of R. M. I ie. He wrote his first story for I 13, when he was twenty-threo yer 8. aud after he had bean for six y ildent of the Hudson Bay Company orles. Before he exhausted that fli .veled extensively in other countr it his numerous stories cover a gre: the world. LATEtt NEWS, Axl the coal mines In Mahanoy Valley, Pennsylvania, resumed work on full time. Four thousand returned to work. Chbis Evass, the bandit, and his partner, Edward Morrell, have been captured in Tisalia, Cal. The President sent to Congress another batch of Hawaiian correspondence. It included President Dole's letter to Mr. Willis, already published, and Mr. Willis's reply, with several other communications. John L. McAlee was confirmed by the Senate Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ot Oklahoma. Kaiseb Wilhelk, of Germany, went from Berlin to Frledrichsruh to return Prince Bismarck's visit. The meeting between the Emperor and the ex-Chancellor was cordial and even affectionate. French troops shelled the Tillage of Miafume, Jn Tlmbuctoo, Africa, and killed 100 warriors. The German Bundrsrath has ratified the the Eusso-German commercial treaty, The Democrats ni aiouiod, ?i. J., decided _ to institute quo warranto proceedings ^ against the Republican Senate. t *. 11 G alusha A. Gbow, Republican, was elected 14' ConKressman-at-Large from Pennsylvania Yf by a plurality estimated at 150.000. V Pumtmst Eliot's reoort for 1892-93 to * the Board of Overseers of Harvard University launched boldly into what is perhaps the most complete and exhaustive consideration Agf6* of athletics that has yet been made. He is opposed to college football unless the rules are amended and strictly enforced. There should be no Freshmen intercollegiate matches or races. One sport the same year is enough for any student. All contests should occur on college grounds. Or seven young colored men who were fishing on the banks of a stream at Houma, La., near a draining machine, three were instantly killed by the explosion of the boiler. The postoffico at Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., was blown up and $14,-g. 000 worth of property burned. It is supine posed to have been done by robbers with 1000 a dynamite. All the postofflce money and stamps were either stolen or burned. Inters Vibgijjia's oyster navy sank one pirate llding schooner from Maryland and captured two. The Court of Claims at Washington hand* TV 1X1001 ed down a decision in tno JttLuuua suip aviu | ^2 case, making awards in forty-two claims and ^ dismissing three others. These claims were a> ^ among the oldest and most important of the French spoliation claims. laboi Attobney-General Olney has rendered an opinion that silver certificates are not "law5 mus* ful money' within the meaning of the acts lestine ?' February 28, 1878, and June 20. 1870. The President made the following nominaJity of tlons: Dele? P. Phelps, of Illinois, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at ended Chicago ; James W. Hunter, of Illinois, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth n6r 0 District of Illinois; Martin J. Russell, of IIIild an tools, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Chicago ; Frank G. Hoyne, of Illinois, ok, of to be Appraiser of Merchandise in the District of Chicago. *rom Axothee new warship has been added to | mqn. the White Squadron. The Government accepted the Oiympia in San Francisco. rfkere A BOsrB left 111 R I>ar's hotel exploded and injured three persons. Valley Br order of Emperor William, of Germany, nt the the thirty victims of the Bradenburg disaster were buried with the same lionora accoraea to soldiers killed in battle. Ok motion of Mr. Gladstone the Employmitteo ars' Liability bill was withdrawn in the House every 0f Commons, and many were disappointed . by the mildness of strictures on the House of ty and / , jy tia Lords. ; TUe Vice-President of the Italian Chamargest ber was compelled to suspend the sitting on 1 our account of the disorder among the Deputies :ler2T- over Sicilian riot3 question. t com- " to the RIOTS AND A PANIC. mills, Mob of Anarchists Clamor at Bos* 30*000 ton's State House. About 2000 persons gathered on the Commons, Boston, Mass., to listen to addresses bv Morrison I. Swift, Herbert N. Casson and > other Socialist-Anarchists, as they call themselves. ^ After hearing the speeches the crowd orn Iz marched to the 8tate House, where hwitt ana Caason were made a delegation to visit Govsevea ernor Greenhalge. They demanded, as they themselves put it, that employment should be given to the lckens crowd which they led. The Governor intimated to Swift and Cas3 indi- son that he would do all in his power to help 8. the unemployed, and that he nad no doubt h . the Legislature would do something for the jaw ' men. He consented to come out and address the crowd. He said to the people that perivas a sonally he would do all he could and that he 5 went would recommend action by the Legislature. After this Swift and Casson, followed by a elphia crowd of unemployed, went up to lay their estate petition. On their return Smith made a speech in Doric Hall, threatening the Govrolun en moat and Legislature. j-y t;Q Chief Wade, of the district police, immedi3 ' ately telephoned to the Police Headquarters for fifty patrolmen, and they started at once f S12,- for the scene. This was at 2.50 p. m. states. Governor Greenhalge met Casson and unent. Swift directly after Swift's speech in the airline Governor's chamber. He told Swift the lat tbody ter's speech was utterly improper ana oothlrty noxious. The Governor suid that intimidation would not be tolerated. \Tnss \ While the mob was surging back and forth with- *n rotunda after Casson's speech Gov. " ernor Greenhalge came out of the Executive " Chamber and Went down upon the floor among the crowd. He addressed some of serva- the leaders and reminded them that this was iai by the .State of Massachusetts, and that if the cover- demonstration continued the law would be enforced and the crowd would be dealt with limore as 11 His remarks were treated with iry in respect and had a quieting effect. moved Meanwhile Doric Hall was jammed, a multitude pressing into every nook and corner . of the building. Hisses, mingled with cheers, Q<L; were heard everywhere. rritten There were shouts of, "Down with capmaga j{aj ..rhi the police!" at the capito!. three 'Pho legislators themselves were rushing about everywhere, although the proceedings ind in of the Legislature still continued. EveryHis thing portended trouble. while The force of police was sent from the varilender ous downtown precincts and by the aid of the patrol wagons arrived in time. dying ^lie W(-'rfi )n charge of Lieutenant ditary Donovan, ot Headquarters. He reported to rother Sergennt-at-Arms Adams and Chief Wade, of ) died State police, and after a short consulta' tion the llnest of Boston took action. , . . At 4 o'clock the crowd at the State House "OJ*" had been driven back upon the Common and ;annot order restored about the gilded dome. say he a?J ESTHEE CHEISTENED, of his me in President's Younger Daughter the of the Principal in a Prettj' Ceremony, sister, live in There was a pretty little ceremony in the Blue Parlor of the Executive Mansion,Washington, when, in the presence of the Presiot feel dent. Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Perrin, Dr. BryJallau ant and a very few intimate friends, the >oys in younger chilu of the President was christirs of ened as Esther Cleveland by the P.ev. Dr. ears a Sunderland. 's ter- The baby was Ave months and nine dayg aid h<| of age, and stood vhe ordeal without crying ies, so or fright. Mrs. Perrine, who is Mrs. Cleveit part land's mother, left Washington for her home In Buffalo after the ceremony. ' . * -y - , .. f . I I WHITE THEHEff JDSflCE. LOUISIANA'S SENATOR NOMINATED AND CONFIRMED. The New Member of the United States Supreme Court Especially Conversant With the Civil Law as Derived Through the Code Napoleon ?The Career of the Nominee. EDWABD D. WHITE. President Cleveland surprised everybody by sending to the United States Senate the nomination of Senator Edward Douglas White, of Louisiana, to succeed the late Justice Blatchford on the Supreme Bench. The nomination was received while Mr. Daniel was delivering a long speech on the Hawaiian question. As soon as the Virnlni,. Senator concluded his remarks, Mr. Caffrey, the junior Senator from Louisiana, moved An executive session, and without the usual reference to committee the nomination was taken up and unanimously confirmed. Mr. Pugh, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, moved confirmation in a short speech eulogizing Mr. White and predicting for him a career of great usefulness and distinction on the bench. Mr. Teller, Mr. Daniel, Mr. CafTery and Mr. Hill followed with words of praise for the nominee. Mr. Hill, in a few remarks, which were much complimented for theirgood taste, expressed the regret that the President had decided to go outside of New York for the man, but said that in doing so he had selected one of undoubted capacity and excellent character. No opposition was made in any quarter. The whole discussion was in marked contrast with the wrangling over the Hornblower and Peckham nominations. As soon as the vote was taken the President was notified of the result by wire. Edward Douglas White was born on his father's plantation, in the parish of La Fourcha. Louisiana, in November, 1845. His grandfather, James White,went to Louisiana before the treaty of cession, and when the territory was transferred totheUnitedStates, became the first parish judge of what was then known as the Attakapas region, in Southwestern Louisiana. His maternal grandmother was Mrs. Wilcox, ol Pennsylvania. Kis father, Edward Douglas rvuue, was uum iu iciiucoooc, new ou?cated at the University of Nashville, was for many years a member of Congress, and was Governor of the State of Louisiana from 1834 to 1837. He married Miss Catharine Sidney Dee Ringold. Justice White received his early education at Mount 8t. Mary's. Emmettsburg, Md.( and subsequently at Georgetown College, District of Columbia, from which he withdrew at the beginning of the war, and served In the Confederate army. Entering the armj a mer? stripling his courage and intelligence were soon recognized. He was promoted to a place on the staff of General B*al, and was captured by General Banks at the surrender cf Port Hudson. He commenced the study of law at the close of thy war in the office of Edward Bermudez, sub sequently Chief Justice ot Louisiana, and was admitted to the New Orleans Bar in December, 1868. Justice White (Pas elected State Senatoi for four years in 1874, serving during the troublesome times leading up to the final settlement of the Louisiana complication In 1877, during President Hayes's administration. He was appointed bj Governor Nicholls in 1878 an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ol Louisiana, which place he occupied until th? arlontion of a new constitution creating a | new court. He is a Catholic, and one of th? wealthiest member of the New Orleans Bar. He was elected to the United States Senau in 1891 to succeed James B. Eustis for th< term expiring in March, 1897. HELD UP THE COURT, Daring Escape of a Prisoner Whc Was Arraigned in Buffalo. Leroy Harris, a lame man with a gun. heic tip a United States Commissioner, a Unite* States District-Attorney, two Deputy Unitoc States Marshals and two Postoffice Inspec tore in the United States Court in the Post office Building at Buffalo, N. Y., walked oul of the room, locked the door behind him imprisoning the officials, and, limping roth< elevator, coolly rode down to the street anc made his escape. It was Harris's plan to enter a postoffice and represent himself as an inspector anc steal blank postoffice orders, department en velopes. and the form of advices used bj postmasters to notify eafch other of the issui of postoffice money orders. He was once t clerk in the New York Postoffice, and hat sufficient familiarity with the workings o the money order department to enable hi a: to operate successfully. The Commissioner read the complain I against Harris, which charged him witl | forging the name of William H. Clark to i money order for $100, sent from Buffalo, nn< Wnlni>i"ilcA TnH Thnn he turnei I UilOUOU Ul f Ui|.'iuui^v, AMVM . to tho prisoner, whose handcuffs had beei taken off to administer the oath preparatory to hearing his testimony. ' Hold up your hand," said the venerabl< Commissioner. ' Holdup both of yours," was the quid reply, and Harris sprang to the door, pu his back against it, and covered the littl* group with his revolver. Deputy United States Marshal Watts Commissioner Faircbild and District Attor ney Mackey. each with a revolver in hL pocket, threw up their hands. '"Keep them up or I'll fire!" said Harris still keeping the men under cover of his re volver. He then opened the door and coollj locked it on the outside, leaving his victim! imprisoned. He was afterward captured ir Canada and returned without extradiiioi proceedings. All that He Wanted. "What do you want?" she asked of the tramp who had made his way around to the kitchen door. "Nothin' much,ma'am," he replied, with a politeness that awakened her suspicion. "Money, I suppose. We don't give tramps money." ">To'm. I don't want no money." "Well, we have no victuals, excopt for dinner, and they ain't done yet." "I don't even ask for none of yer dinner, ma'am. All I want is some dry bread: jes' dry bread." She was touched. "Poor man:" she exclaimed. "ITere, I'll give you a piece of pie, anyhow." "No'm. I druther hev the dry bread " "Do you like it?" "No, but you see me an' the rest of the boys hez hustled aroun' till we've got a turkey, an' some celery, an' some cranberry sauce, an' some plum puddin', an' all we want now is jes' the dry bread ter make the stuffin' of for a picnic."?Washington | Star. i fyt jtt rtiv Moving Bi^ Libraries. As the new public library building '? in Copley Square nears completion the question of how the 700,000 volumes composing the library shall be moved from the old structure to the new one becomes a most perplexing one. When the removal is made the library will have to be closed, perharm f/ir fcwn months. f*, -w- - ^ If books were bricks the problem would not be so difficult, but they cannot be thrown into a cart at one end and dumped out iu a heap at the other. First they must all be cleaned. No one has any conception of the dust on books that are not in constant use. After they are cleaned they will probably be put into boxes the size of the shelves (eight to ten feet on the average) and all properly labeled so as to avoid confusion. Then they are to be transported to the new building, unloaded, and put on the shelves in exact order. i >IovjDg a library is not an every day affair, and there are hardly any precedents, not even one really practicable precedent to 'go by. The nearest precedent in raapect of size was the moving of the great royal library at Berlin a good many years ago. The library contained 800,000 volumes and was moved in twentyfour hour? by a regiment of soldiers, who carried the books, shelf by shel^ to the new building, marching in files, keeping step to music by the regimental band, all with military precision. All the books as they stand I will be placed on tne new eneives m | exactly the same corresponding position, otherwise the library would have to be recatalogued. This wonld be practically an impossible task, and wonld be too costly besides. The Harvard library, containing abont half aa many volnmes as the Boston Fnblio Library, began to recatalogne its books in 1861, and the work was finished only abont five years ago. That is to say, recataloging the Boston Public Library would take about fifty years.?Boston Transcript. The Lowest Depression. Mr. Momson'is reported to have said that the bottom of the valley is the lowest depression on the earth's surface. This is not strictly oorrect. The lowest levels obtained in Death's Val-' ley are about 430 feet below the sea, 1 ' * -m <l_ r\?j Qaa i wnereas tne sunace 01 me j^onu un> w Palestine is 1300 feet below. Bat the hole which goes by the name of Death , Valley is pretty deep. The crost of the i earth throughout the valley of San 1 Bernandino and Inyo Counties must be very thin. The traveler's feet are separated from the internal body of everlasting fire by a slim sheet of earth ; and rock, which would offer but a slight i resistance to seismic force. A few miles distant from Death Valley there is a region which may be surveyed by the eye, and which contains a thou| sand active volcanoes?small of their kind, to be sure, baby volcanoes, so to speak, but still actively engaged in ' throwing up mud and water. And not many nuies awajr io wc mu^c Ut ? ' ite mountains, among which Mount Whitney rears its head through the . clouds; solid masses of primeval rock [ which must have worn the shape in which we see them now when the plain | at their feet was a seething, raging caldron in which fire and water con* I tended for the mastery. i To see such marvels of nature people . cross oceans, spend fortunes and carry i their lives in their hand. Neither ' Mauna Loa nor Hecia offers suoh won* J ders to the beholder as Death Valley t and the Colorado Desert. In January and February the heat in the valley is II bearable?not over ninety degrees in k' the shade. Excursion parties might > be fitted out with supplies of food and water and in a few days the visitors | might see enough to realize what the world was like in the Plutonic age. The contrast between the pleasant val* 11 ?* iVi ? tvaad levs ot tne rivers, mm mcu uiu? bursting into blossom, and these dread* i ful deserts, with their awful chasmd and their hideous inhabitants, would I be a thing not easily forgotten. ?San I Francisco Call. I Artificial Sunlight. In a dark room with alternating cur[ rents of 800,000 voltage, Nikola Tesla, 3 by means of atmospheric vibrations, I caused a faint glow of light to appear. Explaining the phenomenon, he said: | "If I can increase the atmospheric vibrations, say 1,000,000 or ten thou' sand millions, I can produce sunlight 3 in this room. Of course, I can inj crease the vibrations by increasing thf t voltage. I can make the voltage i 8,000,000 as easily as 800,000; but 3 . am not ready to handle 8,000,000 voltf , of electricity. ' Currents of such i strength would kill everybody in the \ room. I expect, however, to learn how to control a large voltage. Wfcen J f have increased the atmospheric vibrations perhaps a thousand times, the 3 phenomenon will be no longer elec. tricity. It wiH be light. I am satist lied that sunlight can be made from electricity without doing harm to anybody, and I expect to discover how it ; is done. It is a grand idea, and j whether the voice through which it came be hushed and still or yet re1 sounds in the proclamations of new truths, the idea itself will be carried 5 to fruitage, and the world will be wiser, | whatever may be the issue."?Scientific American. Costliest Meal on Record. The very costliest meal ever served, as far as history shows, was a supper given by Aelin Verus, one of the most lavish of the latter-day Roman aristocrats. The supper was only intended for a dozen persons, yet its cost was 6000 sestertia, which would amount to ?-48,500 (?18,500 more than Nevil's feast) in English money, or nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The celebrated feast" given by Vitellius, a Roman Emperor of those degenerate days, to his brother Lucius cost a fraction over $200,000. Leutonius says that this banquet consisted of '2000 different dishes of fish and 7000 different fowls, besides other courses in proportion. Vitellius, fortunately for the world did not reign very long, otherwise the game preserves of Libya, Spain and Britain would have been exhausted. It may not be out of place to mention here that it is recorded as a curious point of historv that a single dish on the table of the Emperor Heliogabulus was worth $200,000.?St. Louis 1 Republic.