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. DM IDLE1/ FIELD.
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE EMIlTCTSTT
.TTTRTST.
He Peacefully Expired at His Home
in New York City, Just After Returning
in Apparently Vigorous
* Health From a Visit to England
?His Distinguished Career.
David Dudley Field, the eminent lawyer
and jurist, died suddenly at his home, No. 23
firamercy Park, New York City, of pneumonia.
He had just returned from England,
where he had been visiting his daughter,
Lady Mu3grave, and when he landed he seemed
in the be3t of health and spirits. Though he
was eighty-nine years old, his step was
as elastic, his form as erect, as that of a
young man. Mr. Field was taken with a
eongestive chill three days after his return
Itome. His daughter-in-law, Mrs. David
Dudley Field, Jr., summoned Dr. Stephen
Burt, the family physician, who found
that the patient had all the symptoms
of pneumonia. The efforts of
Dr. Burt proved unavailing, and- Mr. Field
ontinuea to sink until the end Anally came.
Justice Field was ac once summoned from
Washington and arrived during the day.
Dr. Henry 31. Field took charge of tho
taneral arrangements. Mr. Field's last
aaoments were calm and peaceful.
He had been in a semi-conscious
state all day and the end. when It
taallycame, waa without .a,. sound or
struggle. The great .Wwyer #eemed merely
?o fall into a deep sleep. His. daughter-inlaw
was at the bedside all the time. When
the news became known In tj]? city, Mayor
?ilroy caused the flags to be raised at half
last on the City Hall. Nearly all the courts
adjournal out of respect to Mr. Field's
Memory. The death was announced
fa the Legislature at Albany, and
irt of Tespact to his memory both Houses
tdjoarned. In the Assembly a committee
was appointed to take appropriate action. It
was decided that the funeral be held from
Calvary Episcopal Church and that the inter
aent be In the old family burying ground
%t Stockbridge, Mass.
Dsvi' Dudley Field belonged to a family
f wiilc i a single generation has set its mark
ieep?y upon American history. Himself a
jar s: with no superior at the American bar;
Cyrus W. Field, known as the layer of the
Atlantic cable; Stephen, Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and
Bt-nrv, preacherand editor, are brothers who
Mr?h fama onH rorinfofiftn
flliVOCa^U QVUiOVOU Ul^M A Ul MUV* 4V^Uiyt?VU(
David Dudley Field began life in a very plain
.fashion. He was born in Haddam, Conn., on
February 13, 1805, and was the eldest of
sine children born to his father, a minister,
with an annual salary of $500. Out of this
mm the tamily was supported, aM three of
tee sons received a college educo-. ?n. Young
Field had prepared himself forecl ",-e bythe
lime he was sixteen years old, ar i oegan a
Jepnl course at Williams in 1821. He was
admitted to the bar in 1828. Soon after this
went to New York and began the practice
f his profession, takin? an active part
In pit olio affairs almost from the first.
Altogether he spent more than sixty years in
ac: ive work as a lawyer, and devoted fifty
yw.ra to the codification of the laws. His
Irst essay on codification was published in
3SJ& His life was a busy one. The first interruption
to it was in 1836, wheD, after the
ith of his wife, he went abroad and spent"
a renr in'travel, many lively pictures of
w'uieli appeared afterward in "Sketches Over
i)?-Sea." Returning to this country in 1837,
JCr. Field considered the reform of the judicial
*yitem. Two years later he obtained a
ao'iiinntion from the Demoorats for the
Assembly, with the view of introducing
law reform measure# into the Legislature.
But he was defeated. Many law
aeiorm tracts were published by Mr.
yw>U. In the session of 1853 he pro ured
the whole Code of Civil Proeedure
to be reported for passage by a com,
nittee of the Assembly, and during 1855 the
whole Code of Criminal Procedure. The lawleform
measures of Mr. Field occupied his
thoughts and a large portion of his time for
ighteen years. He not only rewived
no conpensation, It is sold,
lot had to pay the expense of his assistants,
amounting to over $6000. Lord
Xrougham watched with great interest the
rogress of the movement here, and when
Mr. Field went to England sought from him
i ' the full details of this new legislation. Mr.
Keld next considered a "Code of Interne.
Monal Law." His ideas met with cordial approval
in England. The code was framed
pon the Idea that, some time or other the
different nations will agree upon a general
treaty concerning the subjects discussed in it.
The first political speech ever made
It Mr. Field was In Tammany Hall, in
1842. cm the nomination of R. H. Morris
for Mayor. Deceased was. a Democrat,
frat revolted on the slavery question. He
aitended the Republican convention at
Cbioago in 1860. At the peace congress
Mr. Field did all ho could, as,the head
*i the New York delegation, to prevent
war. Mr: Field, though dissatisfied with the
ourse of the Republican party In the matter
f reconstruction, still followed the recent
aolitioaUies so far as to- vote for Mr. Hayes,
feie Democrats, on the retirement from Congress.-.of
Smith Sly, offered Mr. Field
the nomination, which he accepted,
ad was elected. It was early in January
when ha took his seat, so that he was a
joember of the House of Representatives but
eight weeks. Mr. Field had been three times
?arried. His first wife was Jane L. Hopkins
to irhflrtt. ha was wedded in 1829.
Tbev had three cuildren, Dudley Field,
lorn November 28, 1880; Jeanle Luclnde,
?ctober 9, 1883, and Isabella. April 3,
1835. Mrs. Field died in Stockbridge, in
1836. Mr. Field married his second wife in
2841. She was Mrs. Harriet Davidson, and
died in 1864. He married again in 1866, Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Carr, the widow ol Dr. S.
J. Carr. She died in 1876. Mr. Field's
alv surviving child, Jeanie L.
Field, was married in 1870 to
Bir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of
British Columbia. Deceased had just returned
from a visit to her In England.
Among the pall bearers selected to attend
">te fnneraf or "David Dudley Field were the
following: Chief Justice Fuller, of the Surme
Court; John Blgelow, Joseph
Choate, William M. Evarts, Abram
SL Hewitt, Judge Charles A. Peakody,
Chancellor McCracken, R. A
Devo. R. M. Gallowav, Charles Butler, Judge
Charles Andrew, Judge A. R. Lawrence and
IL H. Anderooro. Mr.' Field's estate is valued
at between 6500.000 and ?1,000,000. It consists
of eleven acres of land at High Bridge,
sad a large estate at Stockbrldge. Mass.
3fce property is unincumbered. The Rev.
Henry M. Field, his brother, said that the
talk of the estate will be held in trust for
tto grandchildren until they become of age.
' THE TH1ETEEN-INCH GUN.
(. A
It Sent a Half-Ton Projectile Through
a Twelve-Inch Steel Plate.
Haval ordnance officers fired two shots
trom the big thirteen-inch gen at Indian
Head proving grounds near Washington, a
Jew days ago, which proved to their complete
satisfaction that the gun is a magnificent
weapon, probably unsurpassed for
all practical purposes. The occasion
for firing the great rifie
was to test the nickel Bteel projectiles, each
weighing more than half a Ion. Tbe target
was a t welve-iixch nickel steel plate, and both
bells went entirely through it, one of them
breaking to pieces and the other remaining
totact after it had cleared the plate. The Carpenter
shell was unburt by the operation of
xushing Its half-ton mass through a foot of
solid steel, which is exactly what the ordaance
officials have been looking for as a
aceans of testing the great s^venteen-inch
armor for the battle ships. The tests were
therefore only preliminary to tho trials for
the acceptance or condemnation of the
heaviest armor plates yet made in this county.
In a few days it is probable that the thirteen
inch gun will be aimed Bt the typical
battleship plates, with results that will be
anxiously awaited by the Navy Department
and the armor contractors. After these
tests the big gun's ranft-e will be tried by
3ong shots down the Potomac River.
A DEPtriPATios from the British Central Association
Chambers of Agriculture urged before
Mr. H. Gardner, President of the Board
1 Agriculture, the importance of maintainkg
naoiutio.ua to slaughter all foreign cattle
at their port of debarkation.
MAJOR-GENERAL NEI
Who Will Succeed ^fajor-GeneralO. C
meat of the East, With Headquarte
PEOMTENT PEOPLE.
The salary of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Is $75,000 a year.
The late Elliott F. Shepard's personal
property inventories at $1,089,796.20.
Lokd Salisbubs habitually dictates official
papers into one of Edison's phonographs.
'Ben1' Eiso, the Michigan poet and "humorist,
was fbund dead in bed, a few days ago,
at Bowling Green, Ky.
President Cleveland has acoepted an
election to honorary membership in the Colonial
Society of Massachusetts.
' A Chinese medical stndent, Lu Hong, in
the University of Michigan, is said to be a
direct descendant of Confucius.
Lobin A. THtrsaroN, Minister to the United
States from Hawaii, was married to Misa
Harriet Power of St. Joseph, Mich.
M. Coquelin is declared to be the richest
actor fn the world, with Henry Irving a close
second. Bernhardt Is the wealthiest actress. |
Jules Simon, the eminent Frenchman,who
is nearly eighty years of age, will shortly
undergo an operation to prevent total blindness.
Richabd Wistab, who had lived in Philadelphia
like a pauper, though worth jointly
with his brother $8,000,000, died at Atlantic
City, N. J.
The Duke of Verasrua has beeD appointed
President of the Spanish Senatorial Committee
on Treaties of Commer?e with Germany,
Austria and Italy.
Cockban and Payne, the two New York
Congressmen, have the largest heads In the
Hoase of Representatives. Each of them
wears a No. 8 nat
Beblioz, the composer, never learned to
play any- instrument save the gattar, and
plaved that so badly that no one would willingly
listen to him.
Rudyabd Kiplinq is by no means dependent
upon the fruits of his pea for an income.
He has estates in Vancouver which bring
him is a handsome amount yearly.
Lobd Rosebe^t, the British Premier, at
9CU001 vras BOtgiru&n. mai ue was mcuiuuinj
"Miss Primrose," but former schoolmates do
not venture to address him now as they then
did, "Miss Prim."
Fboh his Supreme Court practice alone it
is estimated that ex-Senator Edmunds derives
an Income of not less than $50,000 per
annum. His regular office practice and Ms
fees as a consulting attorney yield Mm perhaps
?15,000 more.
Geobox Peabody Wetmobe, of Bhode
Island, who will probably succeed Senator
Dixon In the United States Senate, was born
in London, Eng., In 1846, while his parents
were traveling abroad, but he has lived In
Newport, B. L, since he was four years of
age. He was graduated from Yale in the
Class of 1867, and from the Columbia Law
School in 1869. He was elected Governor la
1885, and re-elected in 188G.
LAWLESS STBIEEBS KILLED.
A Plucky Sheriff Quells a Mob of
Fnrlons Poles.
Trouble has been brewing between tho
Water Board and the Polish laborers engaged
to lay the pipe extensions east of the
waterworks, near Connor's Creek, four
miles from Detroit, Mich., over
the question of wages \ for some
days. These men were quarrelsome, and refused
to go to work themselves or allow any
one else to do so, but no serious outbreak
occurred. At 5 o'clock a. m. an angry looking
mob began to gather at the scene, and
When 7 o'clock arrived more than 500 men,
carrying pickaxes and spades, were patrolling
the road. Four policemen were sworn
In as deputy sheriffs, and eighteen men were
put to work. The strikers threatened to kill
the first man who dared attempt to. do any
work, and when one of tho men, more daring
than his fellow-workmen, jumped Into
the ditch he was savagely assaulted. Tho
handful of deputies were overpowered, und
the strikers were left in possession for tho
time being.
When Engineer. Williams attempted to
withdraw hie men peaoefully the strikers became
furious and made an onslaughter on
one of the men. Sheriff Collins ordered the
mob to disperse, threatening to shoot if tho
order was not obeyed. The mob appeared
maddened, however, and continued the at
tack. Then the sheriff ordered his posse to
Are. He suited the action to the word, and
fired three shots from his revolver in rapid
succession. This was a signal for a volley
from the deputies, who emptied their revolvers
at tho advancing mob. Two strikers
were shot d?ad, and at least fifteen others
are more or less dangerously wounded. Tho
sheriff was knocked senseless, being struck
over the head repeatedly with a shovel. Hi3
injuries were considered dangerous. This
had a demoralizing effect on tne mob, and it
fell back.
The dead are Andrea Karnetskl and John
Pielat. The injured are Theopll Slawinski;
shot in the bacu, fatally ; Jacs Quadupski,
shot in the breast, fatally ; Laurenz liulwicki,
shot in the hip; Tony Gersowiakl, shot iu
the thigh, all strikers. Sheriff Collins, cut
on head and right leg and several coay
bruises. Foreman Cathev, fatally injureu,
and a policeman, seriously cut and bruised.
SOARED TO DEATH.
A Snake Swallows a Canary and
Throws a Child Into Convulsions,
Vlrgle Collier, aged twelve, daughter of
Mrs. Irene Collier, living near Sktles, lti
Muhlenberg County, Ky., has been "frightened
to death by a back snake, wfelch
crawled into the house in the absence of the
family, opened' a cage and swallowed a
cattfiry.
The child came suddenly upon the snakft
In her room and immediately tell in convulsions,
which continued witu ever growing
I violence until her death during the night.
! The mother killed the snake and found it to
; be over sis feot long.
At Ellis Island, JJeir Tork Harbor, In the
month of March, 14,376 immigrants were
landed. In the same month last year 28.073
wore landed. Of the immigrants landed in
March 3505 came from Italy, 2132 from Germany,
1873 from Austro-Hungary, 1787 from
Russia, 1156 from Sweden, 754 from Norway,
792 from Ireland and 582 lrom England.
Feascis Thompson*, who Is hailed as one of
the most promising of the younger poets of
England, nas been reclaimed from a life of
vagabondage, and is now llviag at a Capo*
chin monastery In Wales.
iSON A. MILES, U. S. A,
>. Howard in Command of the Depart*
rs on Governor's Island, New York.
FIFTY-THIBD CONGRESS,
The Senate.
77th Day.?The day was consumed by Mr.
Peffer, who continued his speech on the
Wilson bill.
78th Day.? After some routine morning
business the 8enate resumed the consideration
of the Further Urgent Deficiency bill.
Mr. Hill proposed to count pairs to make a
quorum. The matter went over. When
tne Tariff bill was taken up Mr. Peffer continued
his speech on the subject, the fourth
installment. He was followed by Mr. Mitchell.
7Sth Day.?Mr. Hill reintroduced his reso
lutlon to so amend the rules as to permit
pairs to be counted in making up a quorum.
The Further Urgent Deficiency bill was
then after some more discussion as to the
censorship of papers prepared by special
agents of the Census Bureau, passed, with
many amendments. The bill, as passed by
the House, appropriated about 81,242,000,
and the amendments of the Senate increase
that amount to $1,785,000. One of the Senate
amendments is $5000 for the widow of Senator
Colquitt, of Georgia. The Tariff bill
was taken up and Mr. Quay addressed the
Senate In opposition to it.
80th Day.?Funeral services for tho late
8enator Vance were held In the Senate chamber.
the members of the House participating.
81st Day.? Attorney-General Clney sent a
letter from George Hoadly to the Senate in
reply to the Boatner Union Pacific resolutions.
Mr. Smith, of New Jersey, delivered
a speech against the income ?tax
feature of the Tariff bill.
82d Day.?Messrs. Morrill, Turple, Cameron
and Quay spoke on the tariff.'
The House.
100th Day.?The House was in session only
niil/Mimmirnn annnnnt nf thfi CflU
cos, no quorum and no business.
101st Day.?As the Clerk begnn reading
the journal Mr. Reed interrupted with the
suggestion that the first business was the
question of approving the journal of the day
before. The House was again unable to obtain
a quorum and. on motion, adjourned.
102d Day.?No business was done, the
House adjourning out of respect to the memory
of Senator Vance, whose funeral was
held tn the Senate Chamber. The House before
adjournment passed appropriate resolutions
in honor of the memory of General
Henry W. Slocum.
108d Day.?The House adopted the
quorum-counting rale by a vote of 212 to 47,
the Republicans voting for it. The Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bill was
considered.
104th Day.?A debate on the Diplomatic
and Consular Appropriation bill drifted into
a general discussion of the Administration's
record.-?31r. Cummings reported the Na*
vai Anni-nnri/itirm hill fop the vear undine
June 3?, 1895, and the House adjourned.
FIRE W BUFFALO.
Over a Million In Property Destroyed
In a Few Hoars.
At 7 o'clock p. m. flames were seen bursting
out of the front of the American Grape
Sugar Works, on Scott and Chicago streets,
Buffalo, N. Y., one of the largest concerns of
tts kind in the country. A general alarm
was promptly responded to, but when the
firemen reached the scene the entire structure
was a mass of flames.
Sixty men were employed at night on the
top floors of the works. How many of these
escaped was not known on the morning after
the fire, Among the employes seriously injured
by jumping from the windows of the
eiprhth floor were:
James Yonng, head bruised and badly
burned; WQliam Maurice, both legs broken,
fatally hurt: William Landowskl, badly cut
and burned; John Stern, badly cut; Lieutenant
S$raeder, of Fire Company No. 1,
badly hart by falling walls; Joseph Weber,
pipeman, No. 1, badly burned and leg broken.
At 10.80 o'clock the fire had spread to the
public flsh market and the wholesale meat
district, but at midnight it was under control.
The loss to adjoining property, including
the flsh market and Kllnck's wholesale
meat market, will amount to about
820,000, making the total loss about $1,200,000.
on which there is an insurance of about
$500,000.
All but twelve of the sixty men employed
In the building at night had been accounted
for at midnight. It was then feared that
they were in the rains. The Are was caused
by an electrio light wire ton the top floor.
The riiain building of the grape sugar
works, eight stories in height had, with its dependencies.
a frontage of225 feet on Scott street
extending to the corner of 8cott, and a depth
of ISO feet, reachingto the banks ofthe Hamburg
Canal, while the feed, drying establishment.
warehouses, machinery and other subordinate
structures occupied the southiside of
Scott street directly opposite the main property.
and with their respective railroad tracks
and freighting facilities stretohed nearly to
Perry 6treet, 300 feet to the southward.
A PICTURESQUE STEEPLE,
The Wind Blew It Off the Church and
It Stood Upon Its Apex.
At Litchfield, Conn., the gale Mew over
the steeple of St. Michael's Episcopal
Church. It fell apex downward on the
lawn in front of the church, and its
point sank several feet into the ground.
The steeple broke off and stood upside
down, its peak in the ground and Its
base In the air. Efforts wero made to pull
the inverted steeple over by ropes without
suceess, but its base was finally inclined to
tho bell tower, against which it still rests,
with apex to the ground. Apart from tfco
loss of the steeple the church woe not badly
damaged.
SISTEK OF MEECY KILLED,
Berlin Stirred by a Terrible Crime
Near the Grunewald Forest.
The police of Berlin, Germany, found the
body of a Sister of Mercy lying by the side of
the road leading to the Grunewald Forest,
on the outskirts of the city. The body was
partly concealed by some bushes.
The throat of the unfortunate woman had
been cut, and examination disclosed the fact
that she nad been maltreated before she was
murdered. Near the spot were evidences of
a desperate struggle, and some footprints of
a man, which it was thought might lead to
the arrest of the murderer.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
v
Eastern and Middle States.
TJsited States Judge Lacosibe refused a
writ of habeas corpus for John Y. MeKane.
pine forests stfuth of Vineland, N. J- A considerable
section has been burned over.
Gexehal 0liter Lathbop Shephebd. retired,
died at bis residence, in New York
City. He was seventy-nine years old, and
was born in Clifton Park, Saratoga County,
N. Y. He went to West Point In 1840. He
was a veteran of the Seminole, the Mexican
and the Civil Wars.
David Dudley Field was buried among
his kindred and amid the ?cenes of his childhood
in Stockbridge, Mass.
C. E. Woodbuff, of Berlln, Conn., who recently
completed a term in State prison for
forgery, has settled with the banks in Hartford,
New Britain, Meriden, Thompson and
Mlddletown. which he defrauded, paying
them $45,000, the amount of the forgeries.
South and West.
Less than three hundred men were affected
by the building trades lock out in Chicago.
The World's Fair buildings are still the
property of the 8outh Park Commissioners.
The sale of the buildings to L. C. Garrett, of
St. Louis, was declared off because the money
was not forthcoming.
Judge Dundy, of Omaha, Neb., ordered
liio wages 01 tue uuur^iuizicu. empiu)09 ul
the Ualon Pacific restored to the basis which
ruled before the reduotlon recently inaugurated
by the receivers.
Govebnob Tillmak, of South Carolina,
began to disband those militia companies
which refused to follow his Darlington orders.
Fibe destroyed the business portion of
Elizabethtown, Ky.
SEraocs Newlw, a colored man with a
bad reputation, committed a criminal assault
upon an aged woman named Mrs.
Knowles, living at Rash Sylvanla, Losran
County, Ohio. He was taken from a calaboose
by a mob and hanged to a tree.
There was just 8249,180.76 worth of dis}>ensary
liquor sold in South Carolina durug
the quarter ending February 1. There
were fifty-seven dispensaries in operation,
and the net profits for equal division between
the counties and towns were 841,163.49.
Gexebal Joseph B. Kebshaw is dead,
aged seventy-two. He was born at and always
lived at Camden, S. CM except that he
served the Confederacy throughout the war,
rising from Colonel to Major-General. He
was Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court from
1877 until last June, when he resigned because
of ill health, and then President Cleve
land male mm postmaster.
The Groat Northern railroad strike
spread to 1500 miles of the line.
Twenty-focb buildings In the heart of
Santa Cruz, CaLj were burned. Loss 8255,000.
A fatal accident occurred at Huntington,
Tenn., where a partyof schoolboys attempted
to haze a new student. The plan was to take
the victim to the woods and frighten him
with pist?ls fired from ambush. One of the
shots struck a young man named H. T. Harper,
who was passing along the road at the
time, Inflicting a wound from which he died
in a few hours.
An expert investigation of the books of
City Treasurer Mr3. E. R. Pulliam, of Fort
Scott, Kan., the only female city treasurer in
the State, makes it appear that she is 81800
short in her accounts. She has been suspended
pending further investigation.
The stoppage of trafflc by reason of a
strike continued over a large part of the
Great Northern Railway in the West.
A lome highwayman robbed the stage near
Milton, Cal., of the Wells-Fargo treasure
bos, containing-82090.
Washington.
the tsenare gave oenaior wajsa, 01
Georgia, the following named committee assignments
: Quadro-Centennlal (select)
Chairman; Poslofflces and Post Roaas, Relations
with Canada (select), National Banks
(select) and Private Land Claims.
The Postmaster-General talked over a
long distance telephone, for the first time,
with Postmaster Hesslng in Chicago.
The President made the following nominations
: Ormond Hammond, Assistant Treasurer
at Baltimore; Barnes. Compton, Naval
Officer In the District of Baltimore; Frank
T. Shaw, Collector of Customs, Baltimore;
Davis Warfleld, Postmaster at Baltimore ; C.
Rldgely Goodwin, Surveyorof Customs, Baltimore
;W. L. Marbury, United StatesDistrici
Attorney for Maryland ; William H. Harries,
Collector of Internal Revenue. District of
Minnesota; William H. Manotjue, Collector
of Customs at Georgetown. D. C. ; M. A.
Frawley, Surveyorof Customs at Burlington,
Iowa; John E. Lynch, United States Marshal
Eastern District of Missouri.
Director Prestox. of the Mint Bureau,
has completed his final figures on the gold
production of the United States during the
can?ncmr year iojo. iue iuhu ^/iuuuui
given as 1,733,031 ounces, valued at $35,050.000.
which Is an increase for the year
of 73,455 ounces, representing $1,518,423.
The President sent to the Senate another
batch of Hawaiian correspondence, which
contains some information that has oeen before
the public for several days in an unofficial
form.
a Vzhocratic caucus of Repr3sr?ntative3
decided by a majority of almost forty to report
a quorum-counting rule.
Secretary Lamomt ani party returned to
Washington from a tbrne weecs' trip of inspection
to the various army posts of tno
South and Southwest. All o: the posts
v:sited were found to be in excellent condition,
and the trip was a very enjoyable one.
William McGabrahas, one of Washington's
celebrities, who, for nearly half a century,
has been vainly contesting before Congress
for what he claimed to bo his rights, in
the Ranobo Panoche Grande, has at last
given up his flght, broken in health. The
value of his claim mounted up to the millions.
The Senate confirmed the following
nominations: W. W. Rockhill, of Maryland,
new Chlet Jlerk of the Department of State,
to bo Third Assistant Secretary of State.
Edward H. Strobe!, of New York, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Ecuador.
The log bock and other valuable relics of
the wrecked corvette Kearsarge were found
and will be turned over to the Navy Department.
Commodore Erbes has pref 3rred charges
of dereliction of duty against Captain
Mahan.
Madeline Pollard wins. The jurv at
Washington decided that W. C. P. Breckinridge,
Representative from the Lexington
(Ky.) District, broke a bona flde promise to
marry her ana that he must pay her $15,000
therefor. The jury was out less than ninety
minutes. The case was appealed, defendant
himself arising and making the customary
motion for a new trial.
The sub-committeo of the House Committee
on Indian Affairs completed the
Indian Appropriation bill. The bill carries
an appropriation of $62455,866. The office
the Gravesend (N.'Y.) election manipulator,
now in Sing Sing Prison.
Nixe Democratic members or the New
York Assembly were brought to the bar and
reprimanded by the Speaker for violation of
the rules.
Thbee burglars after blowing open the
safe of the Irvington (N. J.) Postofflce with
dynamite were pursued by Tax Collector Osborn,
who shot and wounded one of them.
Oxlt Ave of the eighty-six plants in the
coke region of Pennsylvania are now idle by
reason of the strike.
David G. Aceebjian, the Superintendent
of Sinnock & 8herriirs jewelry factory in
Newark, N. J., is accused in the papers in a
civil suit to which he is not a party, of having
systematically robbed the firm of gold
'? ? tika fl?m mrtlrnno ifa 1n4q
lur lLUrie?U ) CUI3. XUO lUUi iwawfew ?%w .v?v
at about $25,000, and the gold was taken, so
the firm says, at the rate of about $175 or
$200 a month.
Two thousand coke strikers paraded
through the disturbed region in PeDnsylvania
terrorizing the men who remained at
work.
Stephen R. Post, one of the oldest brokers
on the New York Produce Exchange, failed.
Axden Faxes, the boy murderer, of Newark,
N. J., has escaped the gallows. His sentence
was commuted by the New Jersey Court
of Pardons to Imprisonment for life.
William Hibbebt. who was in the famous
charge of the Six Hnnderd at Balaklava,
died a few days ago in Now York City.
FnpraT flroc tiouo n on J n hrnlrft Ant In the
of Superintendent of Indian Schools is
abolished.
Beab Adsiibal Johv Ibwiv was placed on
the retired list by the operation of law. on
reaching the age of sixty-two years. He
hauled down his flag on the Philadelphia at
Honolulu, as Admiral Benham did on the
San Francisco at Curacoa five days ago.
Foreign.
The forces of President Pelxoto have recaptured
Parangua from the Brazilian
insurgents.
Sib William Habcoubt announced to the
House of Commons that the territory of
Uganda, Africa, had been placed under a
British protectorate, with a regular administration.
The farmers of England, France, Germany,
Austria and Poland are grealy worried
by the dry weather which prevails in
these countries. The drought has not been
broken in more than five weeks.
An explosion caused by fire damp occurred
In a coal mine at Czuprija, Servia. Sixteen
were killed.
Adshbal Hello and his adherents have
been driven out of Bio Grande, and the
Brazilian revolution is apparently nearly
ended.
Pbesident Cabnot will not be a candidate
for re-election at the French elections nest
fall.
Riaz Pasha, of Egypt, who has been a
thorn in the British flesh, has resigned and
his fellow-Ministers go out of office with him.
The Khedive consulted Lord Cromer before
pioking out a new Premier.
Nearly fifty houses were destroyed and
eight farms were devastated by flro in
Oldenburg, Germany. The flames spread
rabidly,' ad tlid buildings and timber had
been parched by the drought and there was
little water available.
The budget Introduced Into the English
House o'J Commons provides chiefly by increased
taxation for an estimated deficit of
822,500,000.
MORRILL'S BIRTHDAY,
The Senior Senator is Eighty-foul
Years Old.
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MOBBILL.
.The home of Senator and Mrs. Morrill,
In Thomas Circle, Washington, was the scene
of a brilliant party in celebration of the Senator's
eighty-fourth birthday. From 9 until
12 o'clock the drawing-rooms held a distinguished
company, and the occasion was one
of festive congratulations and superb floral
gifts to the host and hostess. Senator and Mrs.
Morrill looked extremely well, and the years
%are light upon both. He has not missed a
day In the Senate this session, and he la
always promptly on time, which cannot be
said of some of his younger colleagues.
Senator Morrill is the oldest man in years
and in continuous service in Congress. He
is in the fortieth year of straight Congressiongal
service, having served twelve years in
the House of Representatives and twenty
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seven ytjttra 111 mo ocuuir. um uuu iuiu m
the Senate will expire in 1897. Should ho
complete it, he will have been a Senator
thirty years. Ttiomas H. Benton, of Missouri,
was the only man who ever saw a
longer continuous service in the Senate. Mr.
Benton was in the Senate from October, 1820,
to March, 1851. But he was only two years
in the House, sothathis whole Congressional
service is short of Senator Morrill's by nearly
eij;ht years. . "
SENATOR VANCE DEAD,
He Was Stricken With Apoplexy and
Died Before Midnight.
ZEBCLOJf B. VANCE.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, who had
not been well since the assembling of Congress
an<f had been confined to his home in
Washington for the past month, had a turn
for the worse and died at 10.45 o'clock p. m.
At about noon he had a?troke of apoplexy.
The stroke sent the blood to tho brain, and
since then he had been unconscious.
Zebulon B. Vance was bom in Buncombe
County, North Carolina, on May 13, 1830.
He was educated at Washington College,Tennessee,
and at the University of North Carolina.
He afterward studied law. was admitted
to the bar in 1852, and was elected County
Attorney the same year. He was elected to the
State House of Commons in 1954, and was a
members of the Thirty-fifth and Thirtysixth
Congresses. In May. 1861, he entered
the Confederate service as Captain, and was
made Colonel in August. In 1862 ho was
elected Governor of North Carolina, and was
re-elected in 1864. Ho was first elected to
the United States Senate in 1870, but admission
was refused him, and he resigned
in January, 1872. He was tho
Democratic nominee for tho Senate the same
year, but was defeated by a combination of
bolting Democrats and Republicans. He was
elected Governor for the third time in 1876,
and was elected to the Senate and took his
seat on March 18. 1879. He was re-elected In
1884 and 1890. His term will expire on March
3, 1897.
BULLDOZED THE BANKER,
A Robber With Tivo Revolvers Grabs
All the Money in Sight.
A bold robbery was perpetrated at Crawford,
Neb., the Crawford Banking Company
losing about 82300. The robbery took place
at 3.45 p. m., after banting hoars, and while
President Whipple was alone in tho bank.
He was sitting at his desk at work when
suddenly he was told to throw up his hands
and not to call out. Ho looked into tho muzzles
of a pair of revolvers in tho hands of a
big man. He was told to open tho money
drawer, which he did, and the robber pocketed
tho contents.
Whipple was then marched to the vault,
and what cash was available there was taken
The robber then closed the vault door, leaving
the bank President on the inside, and the
bolt was slipped on the prisoner, who was released
a few minutes later,
EM'S WAR COLLAPSES
THE GOVERNMENT TRIUMPHS
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Admiral de Mello Surrenders to the
Uruguayan Authorities ? Peixoto
Again Rules In Rio Grande do
Sul?The Last Act at the Play at
War In Rio Harbor.
1DMIEAL DE MELLO.
The Brazilian rebellion has collapsed completely.
The military forces of President
Peixoto have driven the insurgent out of
the State of Bio Grande do Sul, and the defeated
and discomfited Admiral de Mello has
disembarked 1500 insurgent troops on the
frontier ot Uruguay and surrendered
himself and his command to the Uru?<????
wlin hovA H icnrm aHI
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them. Though the state of slesre at Rio -de
Janeiro has been extended to June 13, ltt is
believed that Hello's surrender will enable
the Brazilian Government to raise the siege
within a much shorter time. The Uruguayan
Government, after having been notified
by Mello of his desire to surrender,
sent out a battalion of infantry to
receive his submission. The commanding officer,
after conferring with Mello, accepted
his sword and placed him and his followers
formally under arrest. Mello landed his men
from the Republica. Admiral da Gama has
caused the publication of a protest against the
treatment ne received at the hands of the
commander of the Portuguese war ship Mindello.
He declares that the Portuguese Captain,
after offering him an asylum on board
his vessel, detained him and the olher Brazilians,
refusing to permit them to land, in
spite of the fact, the Admiral alleges, that
the Argentine authorities had signified their
willingness to receive them.
A'iispatch from Rio de Janeiro, saysThe
naval revolution in Brazil came to an
inglorious end March f3. Its finale was as
farcial as its succession of incidents (scarcely
worthy thenameof events) were grotesque
in the eyes of the foreigners who looked upon
them with impartial interest.
President Peixoto brought nine craft, unworthy
of resppctable consideration as menof-war,
fnto the bay. At the same time Admiral
Saldanha da Gama and his insurgent
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ICllUtWlUUCiO uou uum iugu itviow tuctu uov
less craft, abandoned Yillegagnon, Ihla das
Cobras and Mocangue Islands without firing
a shot, and huddled like fugitive sheep under
the white Geneva cross, on Euchadas
Island.
Of the number of men who surrendered
no trustworthy account can be obtained. The
etories vary from 900 to 1700, but it is now
proved beyond doubt, as was often asserted
'by the United Press, that fewer than 500 effective
fighting men remained under Da
Gama's command.
Of the number killed on each side no account
has been or will be made. But a reasonable
estimate shows that Da Gama and
Mello together carried out about 2000 men
and cadets. This number was Increased by
volunteers who managed to reach the
ships singly and in groups orf two
and three, until perhaps 500 men
were added. There remain all told,
sick, wounded, untrained laborers, and i
marines, from 1200 to 1300, while Mello may .
have carried out of port, when he ostensibly .
went south for recruit?, as many as 800. It
is therefore guessed that the rebels lost in
killed not far from 500 men.
It is still more difficult to make an esti- J
mate of Government losses, but it is acknowledged
on all sides that the Government
lost more than the insurgents did in
every fight during the raids made along (
shore by the insurgent tugs. The Nordenfelt
and Hotchkiss guns often worked
great destruction to the soldiers guarding
the piers, when the rebels rarely lost
a man. Indeed, so bad were the marksmen
on shore that the tug Captains used to sit on
stools outside the pilot houses, smoking
cigarettes while raiding the shore line under
what the Government called "the heated
persecution by the valorous and invincible
defenders of the Republic."
According to Baron Cabo Frio, of the Foreign
Office, it was because so many soldiers
had been killed that Peixoto refused to offer
Da Gama any terms worth considering at
the time thtf rebel Admiral applied to Admiral
Eenham for arbitration. On the whole,
from 1000 to 1200 soldiers were killed about
the bay in the skirmishes that occurred during
the six months of warfare.
While Da Gama's flight does not end the
war, it ends the present danger of the republican
form of Government, and in that every
American can properly congratulate Brazil.
A war is still on in tne soutn, Dut it is not ror
the cause which Da Gamn represented. The
people of Rio Grande do Sul and of
Sa>ta Catharina bare been fighting for
about two years to resist such repressive and ,
unconstitutional acts as the removal of their
Governors by the central authority. Peixoto
did that, and was aided and advised in it
by Mello until Mello saw his own aspirations
to become President blocked by
his ohief. Then he deserted Peixoto, as he
had previously deserted the Emperor and
the first President. He took advantage of
the war In the south and of the discontent
in the navy, which was grumbling ''because
the army had the cheese and the knife
both," and created a revolt In the bay.
The rebellion in the south was justified.
Mello's revolt was an infamous attempt to
gratify personal ambition at the expense of
the lives and prosperity of Brazilians. Although
he had complete control of the bay and
a dozen well-armed ships, Melk) failed to take
the city or arouse an insurrection there.
There was a widespread passive sympathy
for him, due solely to a hatred of Peixoto's
domineering policy. But Mello's fight had
failed by the end of November.
Then came Da Gama, who, as head of the
naval school on Enchados and Cobras islands,
had proclaimed himself neutral. Da Gama
was a monarchist. He took charge of the insurgent
forces in the bay and issued a proclamation
which meant that he intended to reestablished
monarchy. Mello, with the men-ofwar
Aauidaban rvnd Rpoublica left the harbor
ostensibly to go south to organize helping
forces there and to go north to intercept tha
Government fleet coming from New York.
Both these objects could have been easily accomplished,
but Mello turned traitor to Da
Gama as he had turned traitor to all the rest
wbo had befriended him.
Hope deferred made Da Gama's heart sick
before January had ended, but he was
nagged into holding on by the English,
| royalist and church sympathizers on shore.
The Aquidaban came back for a brief interval
and several small islands were taken
from the Government. Then came
the heroic attack on Armacao on the
morning of February 9. At the head of
his crew of perhaps 50") men Da Gama
carried the along shore forts by storm, but
when, in their enthusiasm, the sailors rushed
up the streets to the public plaz3. they we. e
overwhelmed by the flood of 3000 Government
soldiers that came down upon them.
Da Gama did all that he had originally intended
to do. but more than 200 of his men
were left behind. His last tight was made. ;
Nevertheless, ho still had hope. Hi?friends
actively vaunted his cause on tho
streets and secretly intrigued to keep tin !
Government fleet from coming. Captain ,
Daker. of tho Nictheroy, says nearly all of
tho Brazilians in the fleet were worse
than half hearted. Still tho fleet did come
The Secretary of the Treasury has awarded >
a silver medal of honor to Dennis F. Ward, a <
New York City policeman, for rescuing a boy 1
named Willis Swain from drowning in the 1
Harlem River on March 24, 1892. '
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PflHah hflfb "nn1**an flinch furlYfld Qf
the Port of New York from South America
having Charles Pederson in irons for killing
another member of the crew, James Shields,
while oft the coast of Brazil. The crew mutinied
in the harbor.
The funeral of General Henry W. Slocum
took place in Brooklyn. It was attended by
a large number of his old army comrades
and his body was escorted to the cemetery
by many societies and bodies of troop3.
Hexrt S. Ives, of New York, the Napoleon
of Finance, died at Asheville. N. C.
The cause of death was consumption. He
began business with nothing in 1886, and
failed in 1887 for 820.000,000. He vaulted at
the age of twenty-sis from a six-doilar-aweek
clerk's stool to a railroad President's ?^
chair in less than flvo years.
In Pottawattamie County, Oklahoma, a
tornado destroyed fifteen houses, killed two
people, inju;ed three or four others and did
a great amount of damage. ^ v,v
Hcxgrt and shelterless, in a driving
stono, the 1600 men of Kelly's Industrial
Army, herded like cattlo by the Iowa militia
near Council Bluffs, were indeed in pitiable
plight. The Coxey army started from Cumberland,
Md., on Its boat trip down the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Corporal John Hart well, Company O,
Twenty-fifth Infantry, was shot and almost
instantly killed by Private Basel Williams in i
the company barracks at Fort Buford, North
Dabota.
Mrs. Leon Plaisneter ordered her stepson
to do 3ome work and ho advanced toward
her with a knife. She got a revolver
and fired, killing him instantly. The family
lives sis miles south of Barry, III.
Ex-President Harrison's law office at Indianapolis,
Ind., was the scene of a frenzied
attempt at murder. Two were wounded and
ex-Attorney-General Miller narrowly escaped
being shot. W. M. Copeland shot his brotherin-law,
W. H. Brunlng, of New York; he
also accidentally wounded his own lawyer.
The colored citizens of the District of Columbia
celebrated the thirty-first anniversary
of their emancipation.
Cor.o>'el Bbecklxbidoe's attorneys made
the formal motion for a now trial of Wtoa
Pollard's breach of promise suit against hinou
llectenakt-CoantAXDEB DON P.afael
Gaecia Moss ill a, naval attache of the Argentine
Legation, was thrown from his horse
and killed while riding In the Soldiers' Home
Pork.
Mas. Cleveland received a magniflcent
album, the gift of American residents of
London.
A pobtiox of the roof of the Riverside
School at Point St. Charles, Canada, fell In
and killed three children. Several were In- .
jnred.
The British House of Lords has passed the
Bering Sea bill.
A great Ore half destroyed the Tosbiwari,
of Yokohama, Japan. An eighth of a square
mile was burned over and two marines of
the United States steamer Marion and four
Japanese women were burned to death.
Admieal de Mello's Ave remaining vessels
(the Aquidabon having been sunk by a
Brazilian torpedo) have been surrendered to
fha UfNivfHan IWinfotpr af RnATtna ArrM Af
the suggestion of tho United 8tates, President
Peixoto, of Brazil, has offered amnesty
to all except the leaders.
Govebkob Flower appointed the Commission
which is to reinvestigate Z. R. Brockway
uid the Elmira Reformatory. It consists of
Dr. Austin Flint, of New York; ex-Judge
Wllliom Law Learned, of Albany, and exAsseirblyman
Israel T. Deyo, of Binghamton.
The Assemby at Albany passed the Lpxow
Bl-Partisan Police bill; the bill to curtail
the receipts of the Sheriff of New York
County was defeated in the Senate.
Augcst Loeffleb, an old watchman, was
murdered in New York City by Charles
Miller for the sake of a few dollars; the
murderer in custody confessed his crime.
The assignment of Samuel C. Clemens,
tho nnffr.x trnrlH as "MarK
&.UVVYU VT?i kuu vu??*w ?t
Twain," and his partner, Frederick J. Hall,
who compose the Arm of Charles L. Webster
& Co., book publishers at New York Cityf
was filed. Liabilities are supposed to be
over a quarter of a million. The firm was
unable to meet maturing obligation?.
Andrew Spesce, aged seventy-three, and
his wife, Hannah, ngel sixty-nine, were
found dead in their home in Boston, Mass.,
having been asphyxiated by gas.
W. H. Thomas & Son*, whisky dealers and
distillers of Louisville, Ky., made an assignment
; liabilities between $500,000 and 6600,H00,
all of which is secured by pledges of
whisky or sto:k.
Snow and high winds are reported through
out Wyoming and the Western Nebraska
slope.
Indignation meetings of the citizens of
Omaha and Council Bluffs rorced trovernor
Jackson, of Iowh, to withdraw the militia
guarding Kelly's Industrial "Cosey" Army.
Secbetaby Hebbebt received the armorplate
charges against the Carnegies from Attorney
Wallace. There will be an investigation.
Secbe^abt Cablisle was ordered to show
cause why Treasury Clerk Gaddis should not
retain his position under the Civil Servica
law.
Secbetabt Gbepha:i proposed to the Government
of Chile the establishment of a new
Commission to consider tho claims which
failed through lack of time to be adjudicated
by the Commission which was ended by the
terms of the treaty on April 9.
The United States ship Chicago on entering
the Port of Gibraltar went aground on a
sand bank, but was backed oil without
damage.
Dispatches from Armenia announce many
disasters from the floods and snowfalls in tho
districts of Van and Erzeroum. Houses and
3tores, which had been undermined by tho
Hoods, have collapsed and many people tiava
been tilled.
HOGS SLAUGHTERED.
The West Beat the Record of 1893 la
the Past Winter's Pork Packing.
Statistics of pork packing in tho West show
that the total number of hogs packed the
past winter was 4,851,000, an increase of
250,000 compared with last yoar; average
weight 2-13 pounds, an increase of 20>?
pounds. The aggregate packing in tho Wesc
for twolve months ending March 1 was 11,505.000
hogs, a decrease of 735,000 as compared
with that of last year.
Kepoets from the country south of San
Francisco, and from the west side of the San
Joaquin Valley show that there is great dls:ress
from lack of rain. Thousands of sheep
iave perished, and not a spear of grass is
seen on fields that are usually green at this
season.
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