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1$*/. COM M FAMES LEADERS ARRESTED BY THE WASHINGTON POLICE. Marching Through the Streets of th< National Capital?An Attempt tc Speak From the Capitol Steps is Frustrated ? An Exciting Time Near the Halls of Congress. JACOB S. COXET. The lone march of the Coxay's "Common weal Army" to Washington was followed by parade through the streets of the National . Capital and an attempt of the leaders to apeak from the steps of the Capitol, in which Congress was at the time assembled. A ' Washington dispatch gives the3e particulars: The parade of Jacob S. Coxt?y, of Massillon. Ohio, and his Commonweal Army from Brijrhtwood Park came to a conclusion at tb* Cipitol where its leader was ordered off the Capitol steps and out of th- grounds when he attempted to ro.-t'c" his spe?cb, but was not arrested. His marshal, Carl Browne, who was mora obstreperous, was placed under arrest after ' ? -U ?+U.X rt rTT/1 oml fol'on trt a a ru^ic Wliu luo wtvnu UUA ,v ?. police station. The four hundred marching men composed the "Army of the Commonweal of ChrUt." The march was the close of the long journey which began at MaseiUon. Ohio, five weet6 befor?. The Capital never before beheld such r. parade as that which passed down Pennsylvania avenue under banners bearing the name ''Commonweal of Christ." but known far and wide as "Coxsy's Army." There were about 400 men in line. A'I Washington turr ed out to see the sight. At 10.15 o'clock the army? -< ready and out of the Brightwood Drivin Park it started for town. Nine mounted policemen rode on ahead, clearing the way. Then came Carl Browne, in his buckskin suit, mounted on his l-ig gray Percheron stallion and waving a small flag. Npxt was a creamy white prancing steed, bearing Miss Mamie Coxey, in the role of the Goddess of Peace. She Is a slender, really handsome giri of seventeen years, with long golden hair drifting down her back. Kh? worn n nnra white ri diner habit, which itvanaed after her as the lall horse oa which she was perched pranced to the music of the band. Her head was covered by a little rimless blue cap, and she shn led her face with a tiny parasol. Altogether, she was a picture of such unusual beauty that a spontaneous cheer greeted the unexpected appearance all alone the line. Tb? Goddess of Peace was followed by Oklahoma Sam, the cowboy, on another big stallion. Then came Boy Kirk, and three other marshals: Thatcher, the bugler, rode next, emiuiug frequent blasts ?rom his cornet, and followed by a big American flag, carried by a stalwart Commonwealer Next the Commonweal army band of six pieces, mostly bass drum and cymbals, playing "Mai ching Through Georgia.*' The banner, with a portrait of Carl Browne, and the legend, "He is Risen, but Death to la teres t on Bonds," was borne atter a light buggy decorated with flags.drawn by two black hones, in which sat General Cox ay himself, beside Mrs. Coxey, a rather ' *" handsome woman, in 'a tan-colored tailormade gown, shading with a parasol the white robed infant, "Legal Tender" Coxey, aged two months. Then, marching two by twcL came' the regular divisions of the army. Before eaca body was a commissary wagon drawn by two Percherons, the wagon decorated on its white canvas covet wkh allegorical Ulostru. ( lioas of the "Curse of National Binks." ?. Small flags fluttered in the hands of tho marshals, who galloped alongside; the men bore their white peace flags, and symbolic financial banners were sprinkled along at interval)?. Finally tho bagpipas heralded the Philadelphia detachment. From tho City of Brotherly Love came the other Goddess of Peace. A heavy brown wagon horse, selected ; Itir his docility, carried, her. 8he was a good looking, p'.nmp, red-cheeked maiden o: eighteen, draped in the Stars and Stripes., with not inartistic effect, a gilt star flashing Crom her blue turban and dark hair stream big down her back. Her escort was th< leader of the Phlladelphlans, Chrlstophei Columbus Jones. Jones was oa a coal-black stallion. Behind him was his secretary, Ciiaton, also on a black horse. After him was dragged a white bulldog, wearing a maroon blanket, labeled Coxey. The sixty Phlladelphlans, dragging their cart, brought up the rear. Most of the men carried tin cups or canteens strapped over their shoulders. Tn? soldiers of the army carried staves for ? weapons and all sorts of things for bunaera. They seemed to think that the great crowds which lined the famous avenue and which they saw ahead of them at the Capitol as thick as blades of grass were sympathizers in their cause. When, however,they attempted as an army to march into the Capitol grounds they were clubbed back by mouhted and unmounted policemen, who seemed to risp out of the ground everywhere, and when their leader attempted to makethe speech he came 700 miles to make he was eltowed down the steps and outside th<2 - - - " -4-1- .UA n.,nUAl grounds oy toe uapcwu wi mo bee. He was not arrested and ha was not maltreated, but he did not make the speech that be had come to make. Carl Browne attempted to "exercise his rights,'' as he expressed it, and in spite oi the warnlngsof the police he urged his horsa to jump the coping that confines the Capitol lawn, and resisted tho attempt of the officers to repress him. He was jostled and pushed, but not clubbed, an 1 finally he was arrested and thrown Into jail. At 4 o'clbuk p. in. he secured ball. Christopher Columbus Jones was also arrested. " . .As for the rank and file of the Commonwealers, they hung about tho Capitol grounds until the great sweltering crowds bad melted away, and then, under tho leac of Coxey, they marched away to their nem camp down in one corner of tho dumping ground part of the city, alonsslde of an old btacant canal, where they will remain, their leader say?, until the re-enforeomenis now marching from every corner of the Unite! States shall be bere in such strength ttjat Congress will be compelled to listen to tneir demands Tor legislation. Coxey Also Arrested. On the day after th? pirade of the Comnonweul Army in Washington, Command?; Coxey was arrested on .the charge of violation of United States statutes. His arr<>sl took place in the police court while lookins after the interests of his two marshals. Car Browne and Christopher Columbus Jon^s who had bwn arrested the day before. Th< threw men had a considerable array of Fopu list lawyers to defen I th?'m. their counsel in eluding R?presentHtives Pene >, of Colorado Baker, of Kansas ; Rem. of Nebraska ; IV>?n cf Minnesota, and Adjutant-General Tnrs nev, of Colorado, a brother of IiepreStnta live Tarsney, of Missouri The information 'charging Jacob S. Cose; with unlawfully displaying a banner or de v^ce was r2ad, and he replied, "Not guilty.' lne informations against tho three prisoner were alike in setting forth tho violation o the United States statute regulating the usi of the Capitol grounds. The Justice refused a deposit of $501 U cash for bail, and Messrs. Coxey and Jone were ushered back toward the cells dowj etalrs, but on representing that they couli give ball soon were permitted to wait on i bench behind the railing. Liter in the da Coxey and Jones were both let out on bail Frank Hume, a well-known wholesale gro:;f V 'j*. _ ( doing; business In Washington, but living ia ' i Alexandria County, Va., going on their fl i bonds. Browne was already out on bail, and ? bad elected to be trie! by jury. The trial of , the three men was postponed for a few days. ? s LATER NEWS. , Employed and unemployed workinsmen nnrl mnrtlnctrnmpn lwadfld in lartre num.- ? , bers to Union Square, New York City, and , tbero cheered strong demands for the abolition of the wage system. The Indiana town and city elections resulted generally fn Bepublfcan victories. AQ A be^besextative delegation of business , and professional men attended the hearing I on pending city legislation in the Executive Chamber In Albany, and urged Governor ^ Flower to sign the Rapid Transit bill and tae g so-called reform measures recently passes by the Legislature. q, Leopold Chexeau and Louise Fleaumann . " were killed and four others burned by the i ^ explosion of c. tank of benzine in Jolly <Sr fr Sons' dyeiDg establishment in East Twelfth ' street. New York City. I *e | ov The Republicans elected their full ticket, th with the exception of one Councilman, Id 6{ the municipal elections at Louisville, Ky. jr The nomination ot Thomas E. Benedict to th be Public Prlnl&r was favorably reported. C03I1IISS:0>"eb OF LABOR WaiGHT ShOW3 in ot his ninth annual report that the total num. I ro ber of building and loan associations in the Q< country Is 5333, of which 5598 are local and 240 national. cc Colombia's Government, by seizing a lot ol arms beforehaud, stole a marc"! on m the politicians who liad planned a revolu- to tion for election day. ri Enormous sawmills of the arsenal at Mou- d( rillon. France, were burned. Loss, SI.250000. ? A bepbesextative delegation of business fa and professional men attended the hearing & on pending city legislation in the Executive ^ Chamber in Albany, and urged Governor Flower to sign the Rapid Transit bill and t je as so-called reform measures recently passed w by the Legislature. MJ Leopold Chexeau and Louise Fieaumann is were killed ani four others burned by the ^ explosion of a tank of benzine in Jolly <fc Sons' dyeing establishment in East Twelfth he street, New York City. J th The Republicans elected their full ticket, of with the exception of one Councilman, in th tho municipal elections at Louisville, Ky. g* The nomination of Thomas E. Benedict to be Public Printer was favorably reported. (1c Commissioner or Labob Wbioht shows la 00 his ninth annual report that the total nam. .. i. * ..v.. as oer 01 ouuuing una iumi assuvmuuiu tu iuc ^ country is 5333, of which 5598 are local and wj 240 national. tu Colombia's Government, by seizing a lot ot arms beforehand, stole a march on gj the politicians who luvd planned a revolu- ba tlon for election day. lto Exorstocs sawmills of the arsenal ai Idou* r( rillon, France, were burned. Loss, 61,250* in 000. th $7 THE OASHIEE'HOODWINKED. * - Mi TVro Robbers Smoothly Loot a Conaecticut Bank. ne ? -??' - ll-Wi. WV tffftS ?onS vU A UOnUK uaj 11^'Ui uau*, *wt/v*j ? ? mfttedln the offloe of Che B. E. 8pencer Banking Company of Thompson- ra vllle, Conn. Shortly before 12 o'clock two thl well dressed young men drove up to the j?!J banking house. Stopping the hore? la ( front of the door, one of the men alighted and entered the bank and Informed Cashier pV R. D. 8pencer, wbo was alone at the time, 5j that he was wanted outside bythe man In the ~r carriage. Mr. 8pencer, the cashier, Is the , father of B. E. Spencer, the President and principal owner of the bonk, and ia nearly l. sixty-five years old. Suspecting nothing he went outside the bank to meet the r: ? J mnn #n f h A P. BUppVSCU UUOlU^wi 1UUU m MW ?? ^ riage, who Immediately engaged him In conversation. Mr. Spencer forgot, In , his anxiety to oblige a supposed costomer, that he was leaving an entire stranger V* In the bank alone, with the safe and money drawer unlocked. Thl3 IS what the men had g' evidently counted upon, for during the few ? minutes Mr. Spencer was absent from the in- , side of the building, the man left Inside had _< not been Idle. With deft hands he removed ve svery greenback from the money drawer and rault that he could get sight of and then stuffIng his pockets as full of sliver and gold th pieces as he could sauntenpd outside the th door and waited for his pal to cease talking i jit with Cashier Spencer. Then he entered the ! ra carriage with his pal, and bott\ after tipping their hats to the old cashier, drove rapidly ! ?way toward the southern end of the town. | eD Cashier Spencer, upon returning to the j ra building, did not notice anything wrong at I first. It was not until he went to the money ' pj drawer to look over his cash on hand that he , discovered the robbery. He then rushed to m the door with the warning cry of "Stop, ' ro . . ... .? II A .v.-. ; tnieir Due wscuvctou mav IUD uiuu uuu gg made good their escape, disappearing as . jumpletely as though the earth had swallowed thorn. I n WcfW was sent to the Police Headquarters *. a( the town immediately and also to Preel- ! dent Spencer, who hurried to the bank to H learn tne full extent of the loss. After a care- i ful examination it was found that about | ?>1300 was taken from the bank. The rob- | ' bers drove a piano-box top buggy and large ( W sorrel horse. A It Is evident that the robbers started from hi Springfield, Mass. About 9 o'clock a man appeared at Eastman's stables, on Water street there, and asked for a horse and buggy tn< to go to Thompsonvllle. About 1 o'clock "* the rig appeared, driven by two boys, one do about fifteen and the other eighteen vears Ei old. The horse had been driven very hard. The boys said that they lived near & the South End Bridge. They were at work f In the garden in front of the house when the j rig appeared and a man called to them. At the same time he and another man jumped I out and asked the boys to take the team to Springfield. It was thought that the robbers p crossed the bridge to Mittlneague or some nearby railroad station, where they took a Ie train. j re ; CHILDREN BURNED, i" | The Mother Discovered Fire Too Late ' _ r to Save Three Lives. j T Three young children of Mr. and Mrs. T 1 Philip. Schneider, who live near the 1 outskirts of Scranton, Penn., were burned | to death. Mr. Stfmelder was not at home and his wife, while in the gar- fD den, discovered flames bursting from " the house. She attempted to enter the house w and rescue the children, who were sleeping | in their rooms. Sharp tongues of fire re- I pulsed her, and before any one could reach ftI the slumbering children, the walls of the , building fell. | The chawed remains of the children were ; R : found in a pile of smoking timbers in the i I cellar. They had be<ui burned beyond rec- , ; ogn,llon* i A : BON KILLS FATHER, j vr The Latter Assaulted the Former and Broko Furniture While Drunk. fl] Jay Seymour, of Burr Onk, Mich., was 5 shot dead by his son a few nights ago. Tho !". father came homo Intoxicatod nnd began h a !>masi)injr tho furniture His sixteen-ycarJ I old son triod to pacify him, but his father , i assaulted him aud tho boy shot him. ; IT j r-*CTABATioxs are Demg made for a grana ? National Musical festival to be held at Madia son Square Garden, New York City, on Jane 1 23, at which there will be 10,000 singers, s Among the guests present will be President > Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Governor and c 1 Mrs. Flower, Chauncey Depew and other P i prominent persons. 0 i FATAL LANDSLIDE. IX SQUARE MILES SLIP INTO A CANADIAN EI7EE. [ei^and Yf omen Rush Panlc-Strlcken to Escape Burial Under the Ruins of Their Homes?A High Waterfall Wiped Out?Immense Damage to Property. Canada has never known such a landslide i that Which occurred at an early hour, a w mornings ago fn the little village of St. Ibans. The district is far away from railay or telegraph stations. St. Albans is about eighteen miles north of . Anne de la Parade. Its citiz3ns were vakened by a terrific noise, as if an earthlake had taken place. The ground beneath ,e house shook until windows were shatrea. The cause was soon discovered?six [uare miles of land had actually slid away om Its foundation. To say that a panic ensued is to use a mild rm. The citizens want wild. Farmers ran it to avoid being buriel under the ruins of elr homes, as they believed the ground was >ing to give way beneath them. At the upper end of the village, three miles om the parish church. Is a curve formed bv e River St. Anne, and close to the curve is waterfall 150 leet In height. The ground lmedlately staying the formation of the fall 1 the right side gave way. ani the earth and oks filled the deep gap of the falls, burying arrwl nnln mill, which was situated under >ath, and Mocking the course of the stream. The stream, which was very rapid on acmnt of the melting snow on the mountains id adjacent valley, spread over the adjolng farms, and thus brought over a baily idermined embankment, causing the latter slide under it and roil into the bed of the ver, filling it up. The huge bowlders and earth crashed >wn on seven houses, completely burying em. The residents In the neighborhood id that only one house was occupied, but me declared that three of them contained milles. In one house the family of Mr. authler, a well to do farmer, was asleep, authier, his wife and two children and a rm hand were crushed or burned to death. The latter is thought to have been the case, smoke was seen to ascan\from the rocks here the Qauthier house was burled. Very tie earth fell, and the rock now on top of e bodies is only about fifty feet deep, but in blocks. It is likely that the building, bich was of wood, took fire, and the entire mlly was cremated. This second and fatal slide occurred three >urs after the landslide at the waterfall, hole farms have been destroyed, with elr stock and fsjjm. jjroduce. The old bed the St. Anhe River is now levelled, and e river runs miles from where its course y before. The St. Albans, 8t. Caslmlr and . Anne bridges were carried awav. The district is very wealthy in lumbering orations. The aotual loss is very hard to itermine, bat it Will not be less than $600,0. ? a? $ iuimeu?*3 irtwjia ui ituiu ua>o uoou oumou far as Ave hundred yards without in the ist disturblngthe trees or vegetation, while Ithin a few hundred yards earth has been rned over as if by a mighty plow. Thousands of carcasses of cattle, sheep id horses floated down the St. Lawrence ver Irom St. Anne's to Quebec, and the ,nks, even in out of the way places were led wtth persons almost frantic with fear. The boomfl and wharves owned by J. A. )ussoau were carried away and were floatsr down the St. Lawrence. These, with ousands of trees and lumber aggregating '5,000, caused great excitement in shipping rcles. The rush of water from the Laurentlan juntalns is such that a disaster has been ired fcr many years, but no one ever earned of such a calamity as this. Busiss came to a standstill in all the towns and llageo. This was caused by the carrying say of the three bridges. They connect trnships and municipalities, and the water shed down the rivers at sach a speed that 9 most daring would not attempt to relld the bridges or even to put up temporjr ones. Old residents said that the damage wopld ach at least 91.000,000. At Desc&ambauit, ?nt Neat County, eight dwellings, bnriw d stables were buried under the masses of St and earth. Several acres of wood dispoared under the ground, or were uproot. This part of the country is now entirely anged, and- no one could recognize it. lere was a waterfall 150 feet high and the nfes of the river below were very steep, rw the fail has vanished and a large field s appeared in its place. rhe farms and land which were totally Ined belonged to Prosper Darveau, Joseph idy, David Gauthier, Samuel Gauthier, leslme Groleau, OaeBsime Tessier, Jossph uvageau, Philip Leveque, Pierre Lavlgne d Antoine Grothe. One of the saddest incidents in connection th the affair is the death of Prosper Darau. With a family, consisting of his wife i d ten small children, he reached safety, ;er a hard struggle over the spot between Q clldii unrl t-nrra flrmtt ITLs farm IT.19 neilt e line from whloh the earth broke, and the tie ones, aided by their father ana mother, n for the farther fields. Here in the darkness and cold they spent e night. Darveau showed signs of weuklng of the brain early In the morning an1 pldly became so mucn affected that he laid >wn, and in a few minutes he died. The ight of the family was terrible. The disaster means an entire change in tha ap of the countf, no less* than six miles of ads and the courses of three rivers beln^ changed that it is impossible to place em. AJMEB EMMONS BUNCOED. e Threw Away $5000 on the Toothless Old Tin-Box Game. James Emmons is a wealthy farmer of hitehpuse Station, in New Jersey. few days ago two men came to i house and said they had valuable farm Mtgages to sell cheap, as they needed sney lo pay ? nocu wumu vri? uuc. The mortgages pnrported to cover Huntern County farms of which Emmons knew, nmons went to the bank at Somerville, ewout 85000, and returned home, where e men were waiting. They promised to company him to Flemington to have the insfena made, and Emmons gave them the aney. They put the mortgages Into a tin box, lloh taey locked, keeping the key. They ,ve him the box and went, promising to rern In the afternoon. Instead Emmons reived a letter containing the key. The letter ad: "Open the box, but don't tell people. i?y will think you a fool." When Emmons opened the box he found in two blocks. ' HE ST. CHARLES BURNER he Famous Hostelry in New Orleans) Destroyed by Fire. Fire -was discovered about 11 o'clock p. m. . the St. Charles Hotel, the largest and best )tel to New Orleans, La., and the structure as completely destroyed In an hoar. Many of the guests had retired and were roused with difficulty. One man, a guest i the hotel, was fafaliy burned and another tally injured by jumping from the thkiory window. The (Ire at the hotel started in the kitchen id ran up the baoK elevator to the fourth id tlfth stories, which were soou in flames, n effort was made to notify the guests nnd irvants, but it was not entirely success:UI. Several persons were seen atafourth-story iu low surrounded by flames anl Koeticuiting wildly to the people below. The clothing of one of them cnught fire, ad with a scream he sprang from tae vvinovv, falling on his head on the pavement, illing him. Nearly all the clothing was burned from itu ana the body blackened lroin the flames, ) that it was unrecognizable. The others who were near him disappeared t tno same time. The hotel was built in 1S5C, at the cost of a liiliou collars., and was for years the lln-sc l tae South. It was valued at ?550,'JOJ lou^h it cost *1.000,000. The British War Department ordered from hicttgo a sample lot of 50i) tons of com* ressed fodder for horses, :i coinbinaton oi its, corn anl chopped hay. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Two Hungarian laborers were Kiiiea m a mine at Plymouth, Penn. Tehee children of Philip Schneider were burned to death in a fire at South Scranton, Penn. William C. Gtieen brained Hattle Beebe at Adams, N. Y., and then cut his own throat. The woman was instantly killed and Green died shortly after. The double crime was th.e result of Green's insane jealousy. Bake Examinee Junsox closed the Harlem River Bank-, New York City, pending an examination of its affairs, He says it has been losing mon9y and it was decided to wind up its affairs, but the depositors will be paid in full, he thinks. Both houses of the New York 8tate Legislature adjourned; Governor Flower gave out his veto of the Blanket Ballot bill, and declared he would not sign the measure. Seventy-two horses wore roasted to death In a Are which destroyed Richard Fitzpatrick'a stables in New York City. Loss, $50,000. Henbt Newman & Co., dealers in clothiers' supplies, in New York City, made an assignment, with liabilities of $1,500,000,and nominal assets of 61,900,000. rWooTT-r t-ho mi?prfthlf> weather 15.000 Deo pie attested their love of baseball by attending the opening game at the Polo Grounds, New York City. New York defeated Baltimore, C?C. Inspector hclauohlnr captured a gang of tire-bugs in New York City who have been swindling Insurance companies by burning down stables and roasting horses. The Scandinavian and Finlanders1 Emigrant Company. New York City, assigned with assets of $50,000 and liabilities 8100,000. Gustav A. Gronlund, its President, left the city. South and West. The Rev. C. E. Butler, an Episcopal clergyman, was found hanging to the bedpost in his room at the Lockner House, Fort Meade, Fla. His wife and family were absent at Atlantic City, N. J. At last the World's Fair buildings, Chi cago, uave ut;t;u uispuscu, ui. xuey woio sold outright to Graff & Co., house wreckers, for 687,500, and will be torn down immediately. H. W. Ooden, Democrat, was elected to Congress from the Shreveport (La.) District td flfl the unexpired term of Senator M. C. Blanchard. His majority was about 5000. " The small-pox scourge reaohed the worst stage in Chicago, 111. The records showed 202 cases'of small-pox at the pest house, and the corps of physicians investigating suspected cases reported a score of new patients. Flotd Radaeauoh, a farmer, twenty-fout years old, living near Big Springs, Ohio, banged two little children and himself because of family troubles. Chicago, since its school census of 1892, has added something over 100,000 pupils to its population. Two years ago the school count revealed the presence of 1,438,010 dwellers within the city limits. To-day there are between 1,500,000 and 1,600,000. xhe worm sr air siocsnoiuers aro ro f?et a tea per cent, dividend. The Fair had a cash balance of $1,450,000. The dividends to be paid are: City of Chicago, $300,000; Columbia Museum on stock transfer. $150,000 : stockholders, $410,000. There mainlng $400,000 will be held by the Treasurer. Washington. SzcBET.v.nr Gresham received a cable message from Minister Thompson, of Petropolis, near Rio, announcing that tne restrictions upon cipher telegrams had been ilnally removed. Tliis was taken to indicate the firm confidence of the Brazilian Government in Its own security, and the Insignificance of the revolutionary sentiment remaining In the country. . ^ Ma. Jahtis, appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to All the vacancy In the Senate caused by the deatti of Mr. Vance, wa3 present in the Senate chamber and took the oath. In taking it he held up his left hand, his right arm being disabled. Geopqe feasrw T&aiy, attracted by the notoriety surrounding theCoxey movement, delivered a lecture at Washington without securing a license. He was arrested for violating the license lecture ordinance. The charge against him was dismissed. The total strength of the regular army, according to the War Department's statistics, is as follows : Cavalry, 6474; artillery, 8885: infantry, engineer and other branches - 1? i n no.-> TKa thtx Ul (11(5 9VrYlUt}| X uu w* ?uo drilled militia in the various States added to this number makes a total of about 130,000, and the estimate of the officials is that the whole number of men qualified for military duty in the United States is about 8,000,000. Judge Beadlet overruled the motlou for a new trial in the Breckenridge-Pollardcase. Mas. Johx T. Mobgax, the wife of the senior Senator from Alabama, died at her residence iu Washington. Mrs. Morgan took to her bed about two weeks before, and buffered from a complication of diseases. Fbanc Hatton, editor of the Washington Post, died at his Uome in Washington. He was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in April, 1840, 1 u m.ia n nrtnfnr'u Huvil tf\ aUU 111 U13 UU) uyuu w na c tv-*. v?v... his father, Richard Hatton, who published the Republican in Cadiz, Ohio. The Stato Department received a cablecram from the United States Cousul at Libertad, Central America, announcing that a revolution had broken out In the western part of Salvador. Tbcxtox Eeale. ex-MInlster to Persia, and Harriet, youngest daughter of the late James G. Eiaine, were married in Washington. Foreign. Dr. Moxtaxdo, the Chief Medical Director of the Spanish Government, who was sent to Lisoon, Portugal, to inquire into the character of the plague now raging there, declares the disease to be Asiatic cholera. Hexdrick De Joko, suspected of having murdered two women he nad married, but convicted only of obtaining money under false pretenses, was sentenced in Amsterdam. Hollan d, to four years' imprisonment. Cholera prevails in Portugal, Austria, France and Russia. Mat Day processions were forbidden In Austria. A>3ir2.VL Da Gajlv and 252 of the BrazilInn refugees were rescued from the Portuguese transport by friends while the guards were asleep. Gbkkck has been visited by anothereartnqnake, felt from tho island of Syra, off the wisteru shores, to Zante, off the west coast, and doing incalculable damage. Owi.io to the defeat of the Government at the recent elections, the Dutch Ministry has resigned. Pbesiuext Peixoto's fleet captured Parana^ua, the last of the Brazilian rebels' forts offering no resistance. It was reported, but not confirmed, that fifty persons had been drowned by the collapse of a pier at Brlala, a Roumanian town on the Danube. The Foreign Minister at Athens informed the Greek Charge d' Affaires at London that 400 persons were killed by the recent earthquake In Greece and 20,000 rendered homeless and destitute. THE PUBLIC DEBT. An Increase of Nearly 91),000,000 Duriiig the Past Month. Tho moniuly debt- statement shows r. net increase in tno public dobt. less cash in tho Unite! States Treasury, during April of 6*,030,599.23. The interest bearing debt inirjasi I 6100, 450. tho nou-interest bearing debt decreased 62090 and tho cash in the Treasury decreased 6S. S32,23'J.2S. The total cash In tho Treasury wat 67J0,S2G,UU0.1J. The no Id reserve whs 6103,00).000. Net onsli balance, 625,C97,785.93. There was a <lecre:isj in gold coin an 1 bars of 60.203,587, the total at the close being 6170,192,437.(53. Of silver there was an ii? crease oi 61,307,253.91. The orange? of Salt River Valley, in Arizona. have be^n awarded a llr^t premium at tho Midwinter Fair, wher-) they came in sliarp competition with the entire Statoof California. The threatened hostilities between Pern and Ecuador have been smoothed over. The row was over the boundary question. ~ RIOTING IN CLEVELAND, THE CITY OVERRUN BY A MOB OF STRIKERS. Factory After Factory Entered by the Leaders of 4000 Men and Slade to Shut Down?The Police Make Many Charges, and Finally Put the Rioters to Flight. The disorders which besjan at Cleveland, Ohio, with the May Day demonstration o? the unemployed culminated nest day in open riots. There were three separate con. urciS UOlWtrcu puuuo nixu IUU tivioioTroops wore placed under arms to respond to a call in case of an emergancy. A dispatch from Cleveland says: A crowd numbering 6000 or 7000 men assembled in the public square and started out on a mission of destruction. Every window was broken at the Variety Iron Works on Scranton avenue, and the entire force of men working were driven out. At the Upson Nut and Belt Works windows were broken, machinery smashed and the men driven away. Twenty-flve men were driven from the Church Furniture Works. Police were then hurried to the scene from all.available sources. All the reservo police, including the mounted men, were ordered out, and many arrests were made. Intense excitement prevailed in tne southern part of the city. The mob, after moving up Jennings avenue, re-formed, and were a?ain and again re-charged by the police. Tiie rioters had meantime raided a scrap-iron yard and armed themselves with pieces of iron. They were In a fj-enzv of excitement, and were constantly urged on by their leaders to resist the officers. At this juncture a large reinforcement oi police arrived on the scene, ana anotner chaige was made on the mob with drawn clubs. The crowd showed flght only for a moment, and then the ranks were broken and the men scattered In all directions. The police meantime had used their clubs to such effect that many of the rioters were laid low. The patrol wagons wero loaded with prisoners and hastily sent to the nearest staXlon. Many of the men threw stones and other missiles at the bluecoats from the Abbey street bridge. They were forced away, however, and ran like sheep, making occasional stands to resist the power of the law. While a part of the mob were fighting the police at Faulhaber's others made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a mall train on the Nickel Plate Road as it was passing that point. The train slackened speed In order to not run down any of the fellows, but sped on Its way unharmed. Among the rioters arrested was Tom Moore, a full-fledged Anarchist, who at the daily meetings of the unemployed has urged the adoption of anarchistic methods. He was only landed In a patrol wagon after his head had been laid openI by a policeman's club. a ?iariL-a Ka.l Konn hrnlran nn tha larger part of the crowd started across the Abbey street bridge, with the police close behind them. On reaching the west side they scattered in every direction and the police returned to the stations. The mob was composed entirely of unemployed foreigners, mostly Italians and Poles, who have been daily haranged by the labor leaders to organize. An organization with from eight to ten thousand members has been effected within a few days. It was this organization that gave the May Day parade, and, encouraged by the slight resistance with which they were met then, they started out again. Their purpose seemed to be solely ona of riot and destruction. Mayor Blee issued a requast to the Cleveland Grays, an Independent military organization, to be ready to respond to a call to arms on short notice. In complianoe with this the Grays ware placed under arms at their armory. Lat&r four companies of the Fifth Begiment were ordered unler arms. The Mayor Issued a proclamation warning all persons from congregating in the streets or parks and prohibiting meetings being held In Monumental Square. NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION. Falling Off hi Some -States But. creasing In Indiana. Owning confinement of the.consumption of natural gas to domestic use te-notedin the annual report of Speoial Agent Joseph. D. Weeks of the geological surrey. The only State In which Its use for manufacturing purposes Increased In 1893 is Indiana. The total value of natural gas consumed in the country in the year was $14^346,250, against $14,800,714 in 1892. Higher prices charged for the gas in 1893 was the cause of the decrease. The greatest value of the pas consumed in any one year was $22,629^875, in 1888. Since that time there has been a gradual decline, with an aggregate of about $8,300,000 less ior last year than 1888. All States show a falling off in valueol coa* or wood, displaced by the use. of gas. The amount of this reduction In Pennsylvania was $420,000; in Ohio, $48,000, and Indiana, about $1300. The reported number of feet of pipe laid increased duttnj; the year to 11,989,657 in Pennsylvania. 5,720,373 in Indiana and 1,404,098 in Ohio. The largest prodoction of the gas in Pennsylvania was $19,282,375. in 1888, since which it has fallen to $6,488,000. Ohio shewed the largest falling off in production for the year. For 1392 the amount was $2,136;000, while in 1893 it went down to 91.510,000. The most important gas field in any Stats is shown to be in Indiana, whose estimated area of producing gas territory is about 25,000 square miles. Whilst the supply is falling far below the demand in other large eas fields, it is declared to be well sustained in Indiana, and supplies are being obtained from the State by factories located in other " * ?a tv-vyl rtf gas territories, 'ine vaiue in mo jhuuuw consumed in the State in 1893 was $5,718,000, against 84,716.000 in 1892. Gas consumed In Kentucky was valued at $68,500, and in California, $62,000. Reports show that In addition to the three States mentioned tho gas is found in commercial quantities in New York. Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, West Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, Utah, South Dakota, New Mexico. Tennessee and Wisconsin. SENATOR STOCKBRIDGE DEAD, HePaseed Away Suddenly at the Residence of His Niece in Chicago. Francis Browne Stoffkbridaje, United States Senator from Michigan, died in Chicago, 111., a few minutes after 7 o'clock p..m. Tne end came suddenly, although the Senator had been confined to his bod almost all the time since going to Chicago from Washington, April 2. He died at the residence of bis niece, Mrs. James L. Hou(?bteling, Astor and Banks streets. His wife, Mr. and Mrs. Houqhteling, and a nurse were present at the deathbed. Death was caused toy anginn pectoris. Senator Stockbridge was born April 9, 1326. in Bath, Me. He wa3 educated in the common schools, and went to Boston when he was seventeen years old to clerk in a wholesale store. When he was twentyone he went to Chicago and started a lumber yari. He soon became manager of a big lumber company. In 1830.hu moved to Michigan, and started in the lumber business at Saugi atuck. It was in 1S74 that he moved to Kalamazoo, which he made his home. Therj be continue-.l to build up his lu:uber enterprises. He acquired large interests in St. Ivnace aud Black River in Mackinaw County an I became one of tlif> members of the Menominee River Lumber Company. He also engaged in iron mining i:i the Menominee country, and in addition went into manufacturing in Kalamazoo. His political career began in 1869, when lie was elected to the Legislature. In 1671 he was eleoied to tho State Senate, l'resideni Grant appointed him Minister to The Hague, but he declined the place because of the poor health of Mrs. Stockbridge. He was Irequently mentioned in connection with the Gubernatorial nomination. He was a lifelong Republican. He was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Omar D. Couger, and took his seat March 4,1SS7. He was re-elected In 1S93. a :<ecknt iaw passea in Kussia compels o-xufrs of vessels to place them at the disuosal of tho Government in event of war. FITTY-THIBD CONGRESS. The Senate. 89th Day.?Speeches were made by Messrs. Vest. Dolph and Wolcott denouncing Mr. 1 Allen's Coxey resolution. Mr. Higgins spoke against the Tariff bill, devoting hta speech almost entirely to a review of the Hawaiian question. Thomas Jordon Jarvis was sworn in as Senator from North Carolina to succeed the lato Senator Vance. 90th Dat.?The SeDate met under its new order at 11 a. m. The Tariff bill was im mediately taKen up. air. AiaricncuanenKeu the Democrats to take a vote on the measure at 3 o'clock, and when his challenge was accepted by Mr. Harris he withdrew the challenge because It had not.been accepted immediately. 91st Dat.?Mr. Harris moved that the Seaate proceed to the consideration of the Tariff bill. In response to a request by Mr. Allen, to allow some business on the calendar to bo taken up, Mr. Harris remarked that the disposition of the Tariff bill was of vastly more importance The question was taken on Mr. Harris's motion, and it was agreed to. Speeches were made by Messrs. Hale. Harris, Sherman and Dolpb. At 3 p. m. Mr. Dolph yielded the floor, when Mr. Cameron offered resolutions on the death of Representative Lllley, of Pennsylvania. Eulosries were delivered by Senators Cameron, Palmef a^d Chandler, the resolutions were agreed to, and the Senate adjourned. 92d Dat.?Cross-flre debnte on the tariff occupied the whole day. Mr. Turple, in a speech, accused Mr. Aldrich ol telling three deliberate lies, and Mr. Voorhees -declared the income tax would not be stricken from the Tariff bill. 93d Day.?For the third time in five weeks the Senate met only to hear the announcement of the death of one of Its membersSenator Stockbridge, of Michigan?which occurred at Chicago. The meeting of the senate naa Deen postpoueu irum n u to noon, so 83 to give Senators an opportunity to attend the funeril of Mrs. Morgan, wife of the Alabama Senator. The Michigan Senator's desk and chair in the outer row of the Republican seats were covered with black cloth. The usual resolutions were offered by Mr. McMillan, and were agreed to. They provide for a committee of seven Senators to attend the funeral at Kalamazoo, Mich. Senators McMillan, Frye, Washburn, Cuilom. Jones, of Arkansas; Gibson and Blanchard were appointed. 94th Day.?The bill for the suppression of lottery traffic through national and interState commerce and the postal service was discussed by Messrs. Vest and Hoar. Messrs. Squire and Lodge spoke on the Tarifl bill. The House. 111th Dat.?Mr. Cooper offered a bill t? provide for the free coinage of silver dollars of value equal to gold dollars. The question of fining absentees caused a lively debate, which consumed the remainder of the session. 112th Dat.?The House disposed of all the private pension and relief bills?twenty-five In number?reported by the Committee of the Whole from Friday night sessions, so ' TWa Qnnofo rPCH lar IUI3 acoaiuu.?xuu lutlon was agreed to, appropriating 810,000 for the employment of additional clerical force in the library, made necessary by the operation of the Copyright law. Nearly all the remainder of the day was spent upon the private calendar. The House took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session being devoted to private pension and relief bills. 113th Dat.?The Army Appropriation bill was taken up and general debate thereon exhausted. It was considered a short time by paragraphs for amendments, when a point of no quorum was raised. The lack of a quorum being officially demonstrated, at 5.35 the House adjourned. 114th Day.?The resignation of Mr. Caldwell, of Ohio, was received and filed. Senate bill appropriating $7000 tor the reconstruction of the Government bridge over the Niobrara River, Nebraska, was passed. A resolution requesting the Fish Commissioner to inquire into the alleged destruction of fish In the Wabash River by the flow of oil was agreed to. The Army Appropriation bill was considered, a few unimportant amendments to it agreed to, and the bill passed. 115th Dat.?Mr Dingley called up the bill reorganizing the accounting branch of the Treasury Department, abolishing the offices sVwmrv+,.niw ami T>?nutv Second Comptroller. ?he House made it the unfinished business. The -House then adjourned out of respect to the memory ot the late Senator Stockbridge. 116th Day.?IIr. Bell introduced a joint 1 resolution to provide for the appointment ol a committee to devise means for the employment of tho idle men of the country, to restrict immigration, start up the mines, increase the currency, and to prohibit the issue of interest-bearing bonds, without tho. authority of Congress. The Dockery Commission bill was passed. Before adjournment the House entered upon the consideration of the Elver and Haroor Appropriation bilL HANGMAN'S DAT. BVur Men Legally Executed for Theh Various Crimes. Hangman's day saw several legal executions. At Washington Thomas Crumpton, a colored man convicted of the murder of an. other colored man in a drunken quarrel, was hanged in the jail ot the District of Columbia on the same portable scaffold on which Guiteau and a number of other murderers have suffered the last penalty of the law. One of the other prisoners adjusted the noose around the criminal's neck and placed the black cap on his head. Another of thp 1 guards-pulled the trigger that sprung the trap. Two strands of the rope, which was a three-quarter inch affair, broke, causing the hanging to be a bungle. Guards bad to catch Crumpton and raise him slightly while a rope was passed about bis body In order to relieve the strain upon the single remaining strand of the original rope. The man's neck was not broken and he eave no signs of strannulatjon. His heart did not stop beating lor fully twenty-five minutes. At Fuyetteviile, Ark., Samuel F. Vaughn was hanged in the jail yard. His neck was broken by the fall, and he was declared dead In twelve minutes. He had to be carried to the scaffold and held in position while the noose was being adjusted. He did not speak, and was half dead when the trap fell. Vaughn was a hired assassin, and shot Andrew Gage from ambush. At Manassas, Va., Ben White and Jim Robinson, both colored, were hanged in the Jail yarn lor crimmauy iissiiunuiK mu nui? men. On the scaffold, After the knots bad been adjusted, White asked for a few moments to pnty, and while engaged in prayer the drop fell. The necks of both men were broken. GREAT NORTHERN STRIKE. Strikers Gain Nineteen-Twentletks oi Their Demands. The strike on the Groat Northern Railroad, which Involved its 5?KX) employes ou its 3700 miles of line, an.1 which suspended traffic, both freight and passenger, for two weeks, is I over. This was accomplished by adjudication of the claims of the employes and the road rather than by arbitration, the court belnq a joint committee of the representatives of leading business organizations. This committee was organized at a conference of .St. Paul and Minneapolis business men, held in the former city. President , Hill, of the Great Northern, at on'1-' ex> pressed his willlu^n-'ss t-> leave the settlement of the strike iu the han Is of tries.* m^n. The strikers agreed to meet Mr. Hill Ce/ora the committee. The result of the conference, which laste I until late in the evening. Is that the striti ?rs i pain uineteen-twentteths of the points ma le. President Hill conceded, without ar^ua-.on:, the restoration of the wag~*s of tftu engini eers, liremen. --on luctors, brakemen, boileri makers, trickru.-u, section neu and black; smiths. Tuo reduction in the eases oi these i men was ten per cent. Tae committee took | up the eases of tho car-iuspectors. ear-rei pairers. oilers, operators, etc. iu the3 > e u *s i tho wages of the niea Wera also practically i restored, there belu^ only minor points o.' i difference, on which tbvro could be no serious disagreement. i Tnfi chlorine pas tragedy at Cornell College, Ithaca, N. Y., has been Imitated at Lawrence, Ivan., where tho participants of a lenior class banquet were nearly suffocated by bromine gas introduced into the room. - EiHT LM8 FOE Offi ' TTiRKTttT.Ti EETEIBDTIONTOB' A LOUISIANA MUIDEE, cvn? WnM Mfin IiTnehed for tb0 Boyce Assassination in Madison Parish?Long Hunt for the Murderers In the Swamps?Sheriff's Fosse Overpowered. Four more of the colored men who were connected with the murder of J. B. Boyce in Madison Parish, Louisiana, were captured by the Sheriff's posse and, as was expected, were lynched soon aftetward. This murder i has already resulted In nine deaths, that \ of Boyce, the white overseer who was first killed, and eight colored men who have been killed In retaliation. Harris Will* lams was shot, and Tom Olaston, Dave Hawkins, Sam Slaughter, Shell Claxton, Pomp Claiton, Scott Harvey, and Tony McCoy have been lynched- Of these, the first three were lynohed on Sunday night, and the other four immediately after their capture as related. The killing of Boyce occurred a week before and ever since then the posse had b?en hunting for the colored men who were supposed to have taken part In the affair. The posse was composed of 200 white men, half the total number of white men in Madison Parish, where the colored people are twelve to one. The whites split up into half a dozen parties and scoured the entire country. The murderers were supposed to have taken refuge in the triangle swamp between MUliken's Bend and Omeira and the river. A.11 three places were watched, particularly the river, to prevent them from escaping Into Mississippi. Bloodhounds were obtained to track the men, but the scent was cold. After several days' hunt, the Sheriff dismissed most of his posse, bat fifty men remained on duty. However, the scent was taken up by the docs, and it was evident that the pursued men had been cornered in Buckhorn woods, a compara threly small swamp. The Sheriff called for reinforcements, and 200 men responded. The gang were found in a cabin between the woods and river. They had made arrangements with a colored man to take them across the river, and would have* succeeded in escaping to Mississippi If it had not been for the prompt action of the posse. The posse surrounded the house and called for the owner to come out. He played deat and would not answer, and he was told if he did not come out and surrender the men the officers would Ore on the house. He still refuse 1 to answer, and a volley was fired in the roof of the cabin. The owner came out and said the fugitives were nor there, and that he did not know where they were. The posse then sea.*ched the premises and In the loft of a small crib in the yard four ot the fugitives were found huddled together? Pomp Claxton, Shell Claxton, Scott Harvey and Tony McCoy. They were arrested, and Sheriff McClellan4 deputized twelve of the posse to take them to Tallulah. The captured men were without guns, having tnrown them away In their flipht when pursued by the bloodhounds. They scat cereo, aau vmy wgnuci nuut IUDJ ? were caught. S As the Sheriffs deputies, with the prison- H era, got near Mllliken's Bend an effort was M made by a crowd to take them away, but the H deputies resisted and got as far as tho H Sherly place, about two miles from Talfa]q?, I when a crowd of about two hundred men M met them aud overpowered the officers and H took the four murderers to the Crescent H place, where the four men were hanged on H a tree about one hundred feet from the place H where they killed Boyce. H The executions were conducted very B quietly, the people living in the vicinity knowing nothing aboat them until next H morning, when they were surprised to find H the bodies of the foar men hanging there. ^9 There were twenty-six colored men in all on the Crescent plantation who were suspected of complicity with tho killing of Bojwe. Eight have been killed, one Is at Bi large, and seventeen are prisoners in the BR parish Jail. MB PROfflNCTT PEOPLE. 9 Attjlv g. THTB214.5 Is eighty yearS old , Bfl >Fn_a, u. S. Geast has an wnnwai incom? Of $24,000. K The Astor family is going in extensively ^B for llternry pursuits. gjfl Mea George W. Chtlds will make herper- ^fl manent home in Washington. aa The composer of "Nellie Gray," James B., Paine, is now Professor of Music at Harvard. H| Sesatob Calvik S. Bbicz, of Ohio, wears out a watch chain in about two years by con- HM smut!} LLajjwnufc- 11. __ James A. Garfield, a nephew of the lata HE President Garfield, baa been elected a justlce of the peace for Jamestown, Mich. A World's Fair souvenir quarter, Inclosed in a silver case, has been sent to the Queen Regent of Spain by Mrs. Potter Palmer. Hn The late General Sl^eum's fortune is esti- H mated nt 31.000,000. He was ot his death the KM richest of all the generals of the latB war. MB Pbesidext Habbis, of the Maine State Col-^H lege, is said to be the youngest college preeident in the country, being only thirty years HH of age. 9BB The betrothal of the Czarowitz and Prin-^H cess Alis of Hess is regarded in Gepmany as a voucher for Germany's frlendsnip for HH Russia. m Johs Jacob Astob has written a novel which he glorifies electricity as thq controlling force in tha world at the close of th*^H| twentieth century. MM Rev. H. Wellesley Wexsey, who has been^H appointed by Qaeen Victoria tutor and ernor to the Duke "of Albany, is a lineal dd>^Hj scendant of John Wesley. HB Eight years ago President Cleveland's^^! wealth amounted perhaps to 350,000. Now^^l his property, as estimated by the assessora'^^f boots of New York, will amount to over aHB quarter of a million. QBE Lv a letter, inclosing a contraction, to^H r??dla/ttf a* f'rto a ean*?lnmnn nf d^mo-hhs rrcsiucui jjiav\j* tuv cratlc Clubs. President Cleveland says alfln members of the party should labor to save it^^H from the disgrace of faUure to rediem ItsMH pledges. fifj Rev. Fbask De Witt Talmaoe, a son ofl^H Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, recently preachedHW his farewell sermon as pastor of tne Olivet^gjffl Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia. He hasHB accepted a call to the pastorate of the Second^^H Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, PennThe new British Premier has much yo'uth^MB ful freshness of feeling and manners. Whei^^N walking out, hand in hand with two of children, he seems more, it is said, like lively elder brother of the two youncster^^M than the great political head otEugVand. fl^RC The oldest veteran of the Civil War no^^^H living is said to be Rudolph Eelker, who born December 1, 1803, and enlisted a^^B Pittsburg, in August, 1361, as Quarterraaster^HH Sergeant in Company II, Fifth Regiment o^HI Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is living Evans'City, Butler County, Penn. BHfl Judge White, Mr. Cleveland's irewly ap^|B pointed Judce of the United States Suprem^^^f Court, will be forty-nine years of age iHR November. He is the youagest Judge iH| that tribunal. Chief Justice M. W. Fulle^^H is sixty-one, Judge Harlan is sixty-oue^MM Judge "Gray is sixty-six, Judge Brewer i^^B fifty-seven, Judge Brown is flfty-eight^^B Jud^e Shims is s:xty-two, Judge Jackson i^^H sixty-two. and Judge Field is seventy-eight^BH KILLED AND HANGED. H Work of an Oklahoma Vigilance Cora^BB nilttce on the Texas Border. Vigilance committees, which had bee^Hflj tniling an organized band of horse thievt^^^B nearly ail week in Oklahoma,surrounded bandits within a few miles of the Texas lln^^^B The baud conslste I of seven men. and in tb^HH fight which followed five of the thieves wei^HH killed outright an i tho remaining two cajH^H tured and hanged. Secretary Lamokt has Issued an ord^BH reducing the force of clerks in the War D^^^B part meat from fcrty-nlne to twenty-seve^^H| saving tho Treasury 825.000 a year in sa^|H| aries. This action was taken, as stated in h^^^H order, after tho Secretary had satisfied hi^HH self that the work of the office can be Melently performed by a reduced force ^^^B clerks.