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BUCK 1MB ABSOAD. t THE SINGULAR PLAGUE NOW RAVAGING CHINA. Symptoms Tbat Attend the Pestilence Which May Spread Over the Whole Earth?The Home of the Disease and the Chinese Method of Treatment. The records of tbe State Department at Washington make It evident that the singular plague now ravaging China is the BlackDeath or Plague which devastated London in 1665. It had Its origin In Yannnn, a Chinese province where it is endemie. The Catholic missionaries there noia tnac 11 is a pesnience emanating from the groan--!. As it slowly rises all animals are <lrowne?l, so to spoak. In its poisonous flood?the smaller creatures first, and man, tallest of all, last. Its approach often may be foretold from the extraordinary movements of rats, which leave their holes and run about the floors without a trace of their accustomed timidity, springing continually upward, as If trying to jump out of something. The rat3 fall dead* the poultry, pigs, goats, pontes and oxen successively. In man Its approach Is indicated by minute red pustules, generally in the arm-pits, but occasionally in other glandular regions. If plwnty of pustules appear th? case is not considered so desperate as when they are few. The sufferer is soon seized with extreme weakness, followed in a few hours by aj*onIzin? pains in every part of the body. Delirium shortly ensues, and in nine cases out of ten the result is fatal. It often happens that the patient suddenly recovers to all appearances and leaves his bed, but in such cases the termination is always collapse and death. As soon as a case appears the Chinese desert the afflicted, leaving him in a room with a jug of water, peering in the windows at intervals and prodding the victim with h long pole to ascertain if life is extinct. In the country the corpses are not buried, but laid #ut to decay in the sun, poisoning the air for io I If? around. The disease is known in Yangtzu (under the name buboois fever), in Laos, Siam, in B.irmah and in Queyoho, China, where it has prevailed for years. Never before, however, has it made its way to Canton and to Hons Kong, whence It may spread over the earth. One reason for attributing its origin to miasmatic influences is that it always appears upon the planting of rice in May and June. It penetrates by caravans and travelers to the uplands and becomes more severe by fall. Sometimes it passes over certain communities in its line of progress, only to return later on or the next year. Whenever it appears the v?."ople desert their homes and crops and fl >:> to tents in the hills. In some provinces tin* population Is deoimated and wnole families disappear. Dr. J. F. Payne, in the Encyclopsedia Brit.innica, says that the plague is a specific febrile disease transmissible from sick to healthy persons, aoeompanied by gladulnr swellings and sometimes carbucles. In the milder forms swellings of glands occur in t-'io armpits, groin, neck and other parts, which suppurate. The severe plague begins with a-^ue,'the patient becomes distracted an 1 staggt rs about. The temperature rises '.o 1M and 107 decrees Fahrenheit, gladul&r swH i uj;, carbuncles and hemorrhagic spots appear. In all plague epidemics cases occur In which death sets In within twentyinnrlmnni The nature of the soil has little iaiiurnce on plague, but a moderately high temperature Is favorahie. The disease is unknown in the tropica. In Northern countries the disease is generally checked by the cold weather. Bad sanitation Is favorable to plague. No special line of treatment has proved efficacious in checking it. But by hygienic measures a locality can be made unsuitable for the spread of plague. In the Middle Ages Europe was frequently visited by plague, which was called the Black Death. The Great Plague of London, in 1665, from which nearly 70,000 people died out of a population; of about halt a million, was not an isolated phenomenon, but was v preceded by a series of smaller epMemics, the last of which occurred in 16W-1664, in Amsterdam, when 50,000 people died. The disease.has always shown a tendency to spread", but by a law not yet understood eacn epidemic is liable to a spontaneous and sudden decline. 'In the eighteenth ceotory the plague was very prevalent In Europe, and visited Constantinople, Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Italy and I'rance. In 1815 Europe was panic-stricken because the, plague had ap peared in Noja, oa the eastern coast of Italy. This was its last appearance in t"iut country. , The epidemics in Egypt bet w sen 1833 and 1845 are very important, because the disease iiras then almost for the first t- me scientifically studied by skilled physicians, chiefly French. It was found ;o De less contagious than reported. The last outbreak of plague in Europe was in 1878-9, on the banko of the Volga. It was very virulent, and at Yetllanka, out of a population of 1700, there were 417 attacked and 362 died. The epidemic prooably took its rise in Astrakhan, in 1877, and was no: brought from Turkey by Cossacks after the war, as was popularly supposed. But the conditions under whicn miasmatic forms of plague are spread are as yet unknown. Plague has baen observed in Cnlna since 1871, in Yunnun and at Pakhol, a port in the Tonquiu Gulf, since 1882, where it is .said to nave prevailed for at least fliteen years. In Yunnun it is endemic and at Pathol it occurs nearly every year. BAYNE A SUICIDE. The Ex-Representative Crazed by Fears of a Lingering Death. Temporarily crazed by fear of a lingering death from consumption. ex-Representative Thomas M. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, placed a loaded pistol to (he right side of Ids head at Washington and pulled the trigger. He died instantly. Mr. Bayne's death occurred in the .bedroom of his residence, No. 1629 Massachusetts avenue, a fashionablo quartet of Washington. No ono was with him at the time he committed the deed. Tiiomas McKee Bayne was born in Allegheny. Penn., Jtme 14, 18SG. ' His remote ancestry was Scotch and Scotch-Irish. His early education he acquired in the common sohools of his native city, and in 1353, at the age of seventeen, entered Westminster College, a Presbyterian institution. His health failed him after t wo j-ears'study and he gave up his bobks. devoting himself to a course ol physical trailing. When the war broke out he was reading law. He left his h=gal studies and raised a company under the first can ior inree-year voiunteets, ana jomeu the Union army in July, 1362, as Colonel of the 13Gth Pennsylvania Volunteers. During the term of its service he was in command in ail its operations, and led it in the momorab!e battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellocsvilie. He was admitted to the Bur iu 18G6. In 1870 ho was olected District Attorney ot Allegheny County, and held tho office until 1874. He as clected to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He refused another nomination. He was married in May. 1873, to Miss Ella R. Smith, of Pittsburg. ' His tastes and habits were those of a student to a degreo unusual in a man of affairs. He was a man of largo pecuniary means, and early In his Concessional career purchased a Una country place In Edlevae, near Washington. FAIR EDIFICE GONE, The Delaware Building Towed Away on the Lake. The Delaware Building at the World Fair Grounds. Chicago, has been moved to Wolf Lake, Ind., where it is used as a club house. It has purchased by the Wolf Lake Hunting and Fishing Club. It was placed on rollers and moved down to the lake shore at Jackson Park, where large scows were anchored to receive it. By mean3 of great skids the building was rolled down on the scows. It was then firmly lashed in place, and two tugs towel the prido of Delaware to its destination, twelvo miles away Thohas J. Baetkb, of Kansas City, Mo., shot two bullets into his brain the other day. The surgeons removed a portion of his skull and considerable of his brain; but the H'.ji Is sensible, and Is likely to rdcovar. ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle Str.tes. Jakes B. Carpenter was hanged nt Mifflliitoii, Penn., for the murder of his father, James J. Carpenter, at Port Royal on December 10, 1893. The latter was a blind huckster. The immense boiler in Gosler & Co.'s saw mill at Deloys, Penn., blew up. Fireman Joseph Pickey and his little daughter were killed, the mill was demolished and the boiler was thrown seventy-five feet. Burglars cracked a safe and got iway wtth 820,000 in Government bonds, the property of the Milltown (Conn.) Congregational Church. trn c nli n/ifn *4 'v v \ inL uv.m:uci;iou) i.; ouuu^o xxilaiv JO short $10,000. August Henke, the bank's accountant, disappeared on the di covery and has been found dead. The great T-shapod buihiing fronting on Elm,. Pearl and Dunne streets, New York City, occupied chiefly by Vernon & Co., the wholesale paper dealers, went up in flames and smoke. It was a $425,000 blaze. AT a meeting of miners in Pennsylvania a majority of the men favored a settlement on terms which were proposed. Ebastus writ a v. ex-partner of r. G.. Dun A Co., was found guilty, at Now York City, of forgery in the second degree, fhe jury made a strong recommendation to mercy. Under the verdict he could receive a sen tence of not less than Ave nor more than ten years. Yale won the college baseball championship from Princeton at Eastern Park, Brooklyn, N. Y., by the score of 9 to 5. Five noted burglars were arrested by CeniTal Office men in New York City. They all have long careers of crime and are accused of working the recent series of burglaries in New York City and Brooklyn. The coal strike in Central Pennsylvania was declared off, as a result of District President Bradley's conference with the opora tors. Settlement was reached OQthe basis ot forty cents per net and forty-five cents per gross ton. Striking coal minwrs overpowered deputies and blew np a fan house with a bomb In Tarr Station, Penn. The United States protected cruiser Cincinnati went into commission at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn. The ceremonies attending the function were brfof. Walter Thing and John Eagan,. of Lynn, Mass., disobeyed their parents and went swimming; both were drowned. Eight persons were injured at Riverside Station, N. J., where a train dasbed into a trolley car. The flagman Was talking politics and freight cars obstructed the engineer's view. Jamt.s Fobshay, an old resMent of New York City, crazed by grief for his dead wife, shot and killed his youngest son, then blew. out his own brains. Central Pennsylvania coal operators rejected the compromise which their committee made with the miners at Altoona. A large number of miners in various districts resumed work. Goodwin & Swift, electric railway promoters of New York City, made an assignment ; liabilities from $500,000 to 6750,000. Bunker Hill Day was celebrated in Boston, Mass., end Hartford, Conn.. South and West. Minebs' conventions in a number of coalmining districts voted to return to work on the basis of the Columbus agreement; the blockade on coal-carrying roads in Ohio was broken. Govebnob Stone, of Mississippi, has pardoned ex-Treasurer W. L. Hemingway, sentenced December 1, 1390, to Ave years in the penitentiary lor failure to turn over to his successor in office $315,612.19. Addison Eeest, of Frederick, Md., was killed and stripped of all his clothing by a lightning bolt. The Alabama miners voted to-continue oa strike; two bridges were blown up. Washington. Chables E. Sill, a former employe of the Carnegie Company, testified in regard to armor plate frauds before the Investigating committee in Washington. Pbestdext Cleveland, accompanied by Captain Evans and Dr. O'Rellley, left Washington for a trip down Chesapeake Bay. Reports of several hnndred nlates exam ined by the Chairman of the Armor Plate Investigating Committee showed that at least ninety per cent, of the plates made by Carnegie were undertroated. The Sasar Trust Investigating Committee at Washington began the examination ot Senators. Attobnet-GexebaIi Olset has ordered Baits against the Central, Union and Kansas Pacific Railroads, to recover an aggregate of over 8171,000,000. Sexatob Qcat admitted in bis examination before the Senate Investigating Committee that be bad speculated in sugar stocz. Senator Ransom said his son had speculated in the stock and Senator Test said that Senators Gorman, Brice and Smith insisted o:? granting tbe Trust's demands in the blli. To all of the twenty thousand and odd money order postofflces in the United 8tates the Postofflce Department is sending the new form of money order blanks. Senator Gobmak was examined by the Senate Investigation Committee. rvutmodobe John W. Easbv. United States Navy, died in "Washington- aged seventyfive years, Ke was an inspector of Government gunboats during the late war, and subsequentlv became a naval constructor. foreign. ^ A cablegram from Seoul, the capital of Korea, reports that the rebels have been overcome and peace has been restored. The United States steamship Baltimore, ordered to Korea to protect Americans, is in Korean waters. Loud Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, is dead. All opposition to the peaceful succession of Abdul Aziz in Morocco appears to have subsided and the new Saltan has been peacefully proclaimed at Fez. Carlos Ezeta, the deposed President of Salvador, sent a request to President Diaz to Intercede at Washington for the refugees on board the Benniagton. Kepoets from Santa Anaa, Brazil*- indicated that a mob had possession of the city and was sacking it. Richard Cbokeb, ex-loader of Tammany Hall, reached Queenstown, Ireland, on the Umbrta; he said he had gone abroad for his health, and would remain there indefinitely. Moee than seventeen hundred persons have perished at Hong Konjj, China, of the plague and 80,000 of the inhabitants have fled from the city. Osaxovkajt, an outlaw chief, has attacked the British military post at Kuala-Tenebeling, India, and killed nine Sikhs, seizing the arms and ammunition, and plundering trading boats. The Wear Valley, in Hungary, ha3 been munuarea. ihuuu aamu^e utw oeen uone. There was a sharp conflict between students and troops at Naples, Italy; many on both sides were wounded. Drocoht in the Province of Entre EI03, Argentina, has killed two hundred thousand head of cattle, one hundred and fifty thousand sheeo andtwenty thousand horses, the whole being valued at three millions in currency. The University of Cambridge. England, has cooferred the degree of LL.D. on Captain A.lfred T. Mahan, of the United States cruiser Chicago. HARVESTERS DROWNED, They Were Going Home From Ireland to Scotland. A passenger boat returning to Westport Quay, Ireland, from Achll Island, with eighty harvesters, to bo shipped to Scotland, capsized, probably beoause it was overcrowded. Thirty bodies wore reeovtred. The uumbef saved was not yet known. The drowned vrore young people of both sexes, inhabitants oi Achll Islsnd, and were accuatomed to migrate each year to England and Scotland. The people of the island are extromoly poor. The disaster was due to an attempt to turn the boat without lowering sail. Most of the victims were kept under water by the Bails, which were fully set when the vessel went over. The thirty bodies were brought to Westoort. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE. A Splendid Structure to Connect New York and New Jersey. The President's signature to the New York and N?w Jersey Bridge Company's bill put that dual concern In the way of proceeding with its project without further delay. The whole scheme has been under consideration for years and both the New York and New | V" I NSW TOBK AND NEW JERSEY E Jersey Legislatures havo passed acts creating commissions to locate the bridge and its approaches. i The bill provides for the sanction of the Secretary of War, through his engineers, of the plans of the company. The present plans, as prepared provisionally by Engi- < neers Thomas C. Clarke and Charles B. ' Brush, provide for aspan of 2000 feet with a ] clear height above the spring high tides of ; 150 feet. There will be width enough for i six tracks, and upon reaching the New York ( MY MINERS KIM"" FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIREDAMP IN AtJSTEIA. It Was Thought That Fully Two Hundred Men Perished by the Five Shocks ? A Rescue Party Devoured by Fierce Flames ? Pathetic Scenes Witnessed. Five distinct explosions of firedamp oo curred In the coal mines of Count Lariscb at Karwln, Austrian Silesia, during the night. Two hundred miners were killed and others entombed. The first explosion occurred in one of the pits of the Franzlska mines at 10 o'clock. Of the large number of miners at work there 120 were killed. Almost immediately afterward there was an explosion in an adjoining pit. This was followed by several others, the most serious being in the Johann mine, inwhioh eighty men were killed. At 6 o'clook next morning a rescue party went down into one of the pits. The fire was spreading in all directions, destroying the ventilator shafts. The rescue party were caught by the flames and perished. Large crowds of people, many of them the wives, children and other relatives of the dead miners, congregated about the entrance to the shafts. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the Are had not abated, and men were set to dosing the pits with brick work. It was then thought that all the bodies in the mine had been burned. Only twenty of the men injured by the explosion were got out of the mines. 8everal nf thnm rlvlnc when brought to the sur face. The rescue party which was lost oon- I elated of ten men. Count Larlsch visited i Karwln and superintended the efforts to save the men and extinguish the Are. In 1835 there was a fire In the same mines. It lasted eight days, and mining exoerts say that this time it will continue to burn for at least a week. KILLED BY LOCUSTS. Little Georgie Pavek Was Stung by a \ Swarm of Them. 1 The first death this season from the sting of seventeen-year locusts occurred in the mountains back of West Point, N. Y. The victim is George Pavek". the- ten-yearold son of John G. Pavek, who holds the position of funeral service clerk on the military post at West Point. The Pavek family live in the mountains, six or seven miles southwest of the military post, and George was one of several children. He, with others of the younger members of the family, wandered out on the mountain from the Pavek residence. Locusts had been remarkably numerous and very destructive in that vicinity for several days. Tho children had not gone far when they were set upon by a big swarm of the insects. Little George was bitten upon the hands and face. The children hurried homeward, but on the way there the bitten boy's face and hands and his arms began to swell and become discolored. A physician was sent for but did not arrive for some time. In tho meantime little George suffered terribly from the effects of the poisonous stings. Medical aid was un? availing and he died during the eveninz. WIFE, CHILD AND SELF* Made Desperate by Hunger, a Hoosier Borrows a Gun and Ends AIL The grown Bons of George Brock found the bodies of their lather, their mother and their youngest brother In a secluded houow near Gordon, Ind. The bodies were inclosed in a rude pen, built by Brock to keep the hogs from devouring them. The fact that the pen had been built shows that Brock had planned the murders carefully. He persuaded his wife and boy ta leave the house with him, on the pratens? ol going to call on the mother of Mrs. Brock, who lived a short distance away. When they neared the hollow where he had erected the pen. Brook shot and killed his wife and son with a gun he had borrowed from his brotherin-law, and then dragged the bodies inside the pen. There were evidences of a struggle between the husband and wife, before Brook killed her. After covering the heads of his two victims with sacks, Brock lay down on the ground beside the body of hi3 wife. By the aid of a wagon spoke he touohed off the gun. His head was blown off, and was found some distance away. He had been made desperate by poverty and hunger. PEAKY RELIEF PARTY. The Departure of the Expedition for theArctic Region. Tha members of the auxiliary Peary party, who will go to North Greenland *.o bring DacK toe Aronc explorer uuu uia i?mnj associates, after their year in high latitudes, sailed from Brooklyn by tho Bed Cross steamer Fortiu for NewfouadlaaJ. The six members of the party, un ter the charge oi Henry G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, went aboard tho vessel at Robinson's stores. The only Brookiyn member of th-> pary is Herbert L. Briduiaaa, u personal friead of Lieutenant Peary. His wife, Mr-. Helen Bnrtiett Bridgman, accomp initH liim as fnr us St. Joans, Newfoundland. From that point Mr. Bryant's party will proved by th<) mailiag steamer Faleoa to Bowdoia Bay, North (rraealaaii, where tho P-jary expedition passed the winter, where Mrs. Peary ana some other members of the party, i: is expected, will bo fouaJ. The party is equipped with saowshoes, a whaleboat, sleeping-bags, ice-axes, and other articles needed for Arctic travel and comtort, and tho necessary weapons. Chile Wants Gold. The Bureau of American Ropublics is advised that the Chileaa Government has issued a decree ordering all customs duties to be paid in gold. Fortt-five Coxeyites have been sentenced to jail for sixty days for seizing a train in Heron, Idaho. They will be distributed among the various jails of the couutj-. shore at or near Seventy-first street a viaduct will take trains down to Thirty-eighth street, cn a line between Eleventh and Twelfth avennes, thence the viaduct will curve oast and reach a grand depot filling the space from Thirty-seventh to Thirty-ninth streets, from Eighth avenue to Broadway. This station will be 400 feet by 1300 feet in plan, and the drawings show a grand and roomy hotel facing on Broadway for two blocks. The grado of the two-mile-.ong viaduct ? . * BIDGE ACaOSS THE HUDSON. will be forty feet to the mile. The basement of the station will be lofty in ceiling, owing i-n tho alont* of th? ??ronnd to Elcrhth avenue. It wiil be utilized for trucks and other loml vehicles. In all fifteen .present railroads will bo connected with the bridge and its approaches. The New York and New Jersey Bridge Company expects to build the bridge in four years after the completion of tile prelimlniries, and the oost Is estimated at $40,000,)00. DEATH OF JUDGE PHELPsT* Fatal End of the Malady Which Baffled His Physicians. JfelL WILLIAM WALTEB PHELPS. Judge William Walter Phelps, ei-Mlnlstei to Germany, died after a lingering illness a few mornings ago at his home at Teaneck. near Englewood, N. J. The exact nature ol Judge Phelps's ailment was never definitely stated by his physicians. It was generally believed that he was suffering from pulmonary trouble, complicated by typhoid fever. He never enjoyed a robust constitution and it was known that he inherited pulmonary weakness. William Walter Phelps was born In New York City August 24, 1839. His earliest ancestor In this country was William Phelps, a brother of the John Phelps who was private secretary to Oliver Cromwell. John J. Phelps, the father of William Walter, mado a large fortune in business, and was the organizer and flrstpresldent of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. William Walter Phelps was graduated Irom Yale College in 1860, and three years later re 1 I .Un ?# T T TJ tka r>nInm. U?ivou iuo uo^ioa ui uu.iii aw tuv bla Law School. Entering active practice he became counsel for the Bock Island and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroads, the United States Trust Company and other corporations, before he was thirty years old. He was an enthusiastic Republican, and had been the successful counsel for his sister's father-in-law, William E. Dodge, in his noted contest for a seat in the House of Representatives; and in 1872 he was elected fto Congress from tho Fifth New Jersey District, in which he resided. His opponent was A B. Woodruff. Mr. Phelps's independence caused his defeat at the next Congressional election. The district in which he had been elected by 2715 majority chose his opponent by seven votes. In 1881 President Garfield sent him as United States Minister to Austria, where he was very popular. He resigned after Garfield's death and was elocted to Congress from his old district, continuing to serve through three successive terms. He was named by President Harrison in March. 1889, one of the three Commissioners to adjust with the German Government the complications in reference to the Samoan Islands. The success achieved by the commission in its conferences with Prince Bismarck was attended by the treaty which Mr. Phelps brought back on his return. In the following June he was appointed Minuter Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the German court. Mr. Phelps was appointed by Governor Werts in February, 1893, one of the judges of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. Soon after his graduation at Yale he married a daughter of Joseph E. Sheffield, the founder erf the Sheffield Scientific Sohool, at New Haven, and his family consisted of his wife, two sons and a daughter. The elder son Is Captain John Jay Phelps, who was named for nls grandfather and received from him 8100,000 as a special gift Sheffield Phelps, the second son, has fine talents, and among his other accomplishments is that of a poet. He has adopted journalism as a pursuit. The daughter. Marian, was married Junel, 1893, to Dr. Franz von Rottenburg, of Berlin, Imperial Under Secretary of the Interior. Mme. Von Rottenburg resides in Berlin. TKIES TO KILL CRISPI. Anarchist "Marat" Fires at Italy's Premier in Rome. Premier Crispi, of Italy, was shot at while driving from his residence in Rome to the Chamber of Deputies in a closed carriage. The carriage was turning from the Via Gregoriana into the Via Capolecasa at 2.28 o'clock when a man, apparently loitering oa the sidewalk, put his hand to his breast, drew a revolver ana ansaea into tae street almost up to the carriage. He then lifted his revolver, took a short aim at the Premier and llred. Slgnor Crispi was nninjared. Ho promptly sprang out of his carriage with the inteatiOD of seizing the would-be assassin. The latter, however, was almost immediately seized by the people attracted to the spot by the report ol the revolver. In a moment the neighborhood was crowded with excited people vowing vengeance. A rush was made for the assassin, who was struggling with his captors near th<* Premier's carriage, ana he would undoubtedly have been lj*nched bad it not been for the prompt iirrival of the policemen. The miscreant who tried to kill tho Pro v?lnn tifno wifh nnnvnroH tn fha nearest police station alter arrest/There he Wave the name of 1'aola Lew, anil sai'i he Isa joiner. He la also known ;ts "iliiruc.'' CHINESE PIRATES WHIPPED, Thirty-two Killed In a Fight and JIany Drowned. A band of pirates with eight junks planneJ to attack Tanchi, a walled village in the district of Hslnning Quanglsung, China, The villagers, learning of the intention, procured the assistance of some Yamen runner^ and soldiers, so that when tHe pirates arrived they were surrounded by a force of 500. There was a desparate fight, in which thirty-two pirates were killed andjthree captured. Three of the junks were seized, and many pirates were drowned while trying to escape the rest of the squadron. Eight villagers were wounded, one mortally. 1 THE CRADLE OF VICTORY. * A PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION AT DOBBS FERRY, N. T, Marking: the Spot Where the Final Overthrow of British Rale Was Planned by Washington and Rochambeau? An Address by VicePresident Stevenson. At Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., the New York Society of the Sons of the American Revolution laid the base-stone of a monument at the old Livingston mansion to mark the place where Washington planned the Yorktown campaign. The day chosen for the celebration was the anniversary of the formal adoption ot the stars ana stripes as roe unuea staieg flap. No efforts were spared to make tbt occasion a memorable one. Early in the morning a flood ot gay streamers and flogs was displayed from the houses of the village, and at 10.30 o'clock people began to gather at the Livingston house, where the literary exercises were to take place. The society and its gnests, accompanied bv the full marine band from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and a detaohment from tbe Naval Battalion, left New York on the 8tarin Line steamer Howard Carroll from the foot of West Fortyfourth street at ten o'clock. On board the steamer were more than 1000 persons, including Vice-President Stevenson, Mrs. StevensoD, and Miss 8tevenson; Miss Herbert, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Herbert, Mrs. Lavinta H. Dempsev, grand-niece of 81r Guy Carleton; the Bev. C. W. Delion Nichols, Lieutenant 8eers, Rear-Admiral Gherardi, General Ewlng, General Thomas Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, Captain Mason, Miss Buoll, LieutenantColonel H. 0. Cook, Archbishop Corrigan, Archdeacon Tiffany, Admiral Benham, General Horace Porter. Captain Frank Ross and Governor Werts, of New Jersey. On the arrival at Dobbs Ferry the company was received by the Local Citizens' Committee of Ninety. Out in the middle of the river the Miantonomoh and the Lancaster, gayly bedecked with hundreds of bright streamers, fired a salute as the guests landed. With the arrival of the gue3ts occurred the procession of the school-children of Irvington, Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry and Hastings, more than 1000, led by the Seventy-first Regiment Band of New Ycrk. In front of the Livingston house, at 12 o'clock, they sang tho National anthem. Earlier in the day there was a parade of firemen from various towns of West Chester County. The literary exercises began at one o'clock In the following order r Invocation, by Arohdeacon C. C. T'iffany, who took the place o' Bishop Potter, who was unable to be present. An address of welcome followed Riven by B. 0. Bradley, and was responded to by Colonel John C. Calhoun. Next followed the presentation of the deed of the site of the monument Dr. Hasbrouck then accepted on behalf of the citizens the site and deeds of the gift. Chauncey 1L Be* pew followed briefly. Vice-President Stevenson then delivered his address. While tiw Vice-President was. finishing his address a salute of seventeen guns was fired from one of the gunboats lying off the dock. Then a letter from M. Patenotre, Frenck Ambassador to the United States, was read. Historical addresses followed by General Horace Porter and General Stewart L. Woodford. Archbishop Corrlgan then gave benediction. After the literary exercises were finished, luncheon was served to the Invited guests at the Westminster School by the citizens of Dobbs Ferry. The site on which the monument Is being erected Is about 200 feet in front of the his totic Livingston mansion, now occupied by T^?- .Tnsonh JTasbrouck. The monument will be of srray Maine granite, and It was ex- J pected that it would be completed by July 4 next. It will be about ten feet high, with a flat J top. on which ultimately it is proposed to place a statue of Admiral Comte de Rochambeau, who had his headquarters there with Washington in 1783. The monument will bear the following inscription washington's headquabtebs. 'Here, August 14,1781, Washington planned the Yorktown campaign, which brought to a triumphal end the war or American Independence. "Here, May 6,1783, Washington and 81r Guy Carleton arranged for the evacntion of American soil by the British. "And opposite this point, May 8, 1783, a British sloop of war fired seventeen guns in honor of the American commander-in-chief, the first salute by Great Britain to the United States of America." The base stones are two in number. On the upper will be the names "Washington," "Rochambeau." in large letters. On the lower will be the inscription: "Erected June 14, 1894, by the New York State Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Old Glory's Birthplace. Interesting ceremonies were held at Phil.^oinhia Pann (n thn Council Chamber in historic old Independence Hall, in commemoration of the adoption by Congress on Jnne 14, 1777, of the flag made by Betsy Ross from the design submitted to her by General Washington as the National emblem. The commemoration of "Flag Day" was the result of the efforts of the Pennsylvania society of the Colonial Dames of America, and the exercises In the State House were under the auspices of that society. The Idea of the celebration is to foster and instil patriotic feeling in the minds of the younger generation, and in furtherance of thia more than five Hundred school children, girls and boys, were | present In the morning,and were addressed by Mayer Stuart, Herbert W8l.sk, Dr. Edward | Brooks and Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, a greatgranddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. Each of the speakers related tales of the country's greatnesfe and the heroic deeds of its sons and daughters. The exeroises wer? concluded by the presentation of a small United States flag to each of the children present. "Flag Day" will be observed annually thereafter. Observed la New York, The National, State and municipal flags ware displayed on the City Hall ami manv Sublio and private buildings in Nov? York itr, la commemoration of the 117th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the National ensign. QUINTUPLE TRAGEDY, John Kauflmann's Shocking: Crime Caused by Despondency. A quintuple tragedy startled Cramer Hill, a suburb of Canden, N. J. John Kauffmann, a Bavarian, fifty yeara of age, cut the throats of his wife, Roslna, and his three children, twin boys, aged five years, and an infant, a month old, then hanged himself. Kauffmann was a comparative stranger In Cramer Hill, having moved there from Trenton five weeks before. He was in destitute circumstances, and had been oat of work for some time. He Is thought to have committed the deed out of sheer despond* ency. He rented one-half of a double frame house, the other part being unoccupied. No sign of life was visible about the place after 6 o'clock on the morning of the tragedy, ?"Tjn h /-* fVlfl ATlf! WilCU i'XIO. Uauu.uuu n^iu >v received bread deliverer! by a baker. The fact that the shatters remained closed | excited the suspicions o! Frank Hartman, anl he communicated his fears to Justice of the Peace Schmidt. Tiie lattsr wont to the house, and pulling opeu tha shutters saw in the dim light the body of KtufTarian hanging by tbe n<?ck b?tW3en the double doors on tha first floor front room. Further investigation showed the body of Mrs. KaulTmann on a bad in the middle room of the first floor, clasping her dead infant In her arms. Up stairs In another room were found the bodies of the five-year-old twin boys, with their throats cut from ear to ear. The husband, wife and three children comprised the entire family. Mxss Clara Barton and the Bed Cros3 staff have closed the Held of relief at Eeaufort, S. C. The Sea Islands, with their population of 35.000, after nine months" of nard work, are left in a condition to support themselves. The cyclone of August. 1893, destroyed over 2000 lives, devastated 15,000 acres of land, and ruined 6000 cabins. India ranks third among the countries of the world for wheat production. It total 1 wheat crop last year was 203,000,000 bushels. WIMAN SENTENCED. To Servo Five Years and Six Months In State Prison. EEASTCS WIXAN. Erastus Wiman, th<?quondam philanthropist and millionaire of Staten Island, convicted of forgery In the- second degree, was sentenced to Ave years- and six months in State Prison, by Justice Ingraham, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, New York City. Good behavior will reduce his actual sentence to three years, eleven months, fifteen days. General Tracy and Lawyer Boardman, of Mr. Wiman's counsel, were in the room when Kn v\?!af\na?i nnr? Kin PAno an/1 a. IUO P&IOVUG& UUU UH KTJMO OUI UMV> U whispered conversation between the convicted man and his lawyers followed. As soon as the court officer had called the court to order, General Tracy arosw and moved for a new trial. He said that his motion was based on three grounds: First, that the court had mischarged Lhe jury; second, that the verdict was contrary to law, and, third, that the verdict was contrary to the evidence.The motion was denied, and General Tracy then argued for a light sentence. He called attention to the verdict of the jury recommending the prisoner to the mercy o~f the court, and also to the fact that Mr. Wiman had made as complete restitution as possible, by turning over not only his own . property, but that of his wife, to the Arm of R. G. Dun k Co. Lastly, General Tracy asked that Justice Ingraham consider Sir. Wiman's former good character, and also his family. At the conclusion of General Tracy's speech the clerk of the court called: ' Erastus Wiman to the bar." Mr. Wiman arose and the clerk asked : "Have you anything to say why the senttence of the court should not be lawfully passed upon you?" For answer Mr. Wiman shook his head. Justice Ingraham then addressed the prisoner: 'The duty I have to perform is extremely painful, and one I would be glad to be rid of. The law does not punish for vengeance. It Is not to gratify R. G. Dun or his associates, but the very existence of society requires that certain acts shall not be committed. In this case there is not presented a single act of misdoing under some great temptation. For a lone period you constantly appropriated the funds of your business associates, and after that committed forgery. Mr. Dun so trusted you that he did not examine your accounts, and you violated a trust as well as appropriating the money of others. Every word in your letters produced here shows that you knew you naa no nj?at to ian.e mu money you did. On the other hand, the jury have strongly recommended mercy, and I am always glad to have the assistance of the jury in cases of this sort. I am also asked to consider your age, your former good character and your family. I have taken all these things into consideration. The sentence of the court is that you be imprisoned for five years and six months in State Prison." At the conclusion of the sentence Mr. Wim?r> was taken back to the Tombs. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. 130th Dat.?The consideration ot the Tariff bill was continued. Messrs. Lodge, Teller. Hoar and Piatt spoke in opposition to free wool. 131st Dat.?Several amendments to the wool schedule of the Tariff bill were defeated by small majorities; Messrs. Dolph, Carey and Proctor spoke against free wool, and Mr. Kyle in favor of it. 132d Day.?The Senate disposed of the woolen schedule and nearly all of the silk schedule of the Tariff bill. 133d Day.?The last two schedules of the Tariff bill proper were passed. During the discussion Mr. Hill, of New York, moved to place coal on the free list. It was defeated, only seven votes being cast for it. 134th Dat.?Rapid pro err ess was made with the free list of the Tariff bill, twenty momic hoinir ritannspd nf. The Finance Com mittee sustaineil its first defeat. It came at the close of the day's session, when there were more absentees on the Democratic side of the chamber than was consistent with assured victory on that side. The subject of it was quicksilver, which the committee had ?laced on the free list. On motion of Mr. erkins, it was placed on the dutiable list at seven cents a pound. 135th Day.?Mr. Jones moved that twenty, sis paragraphs of the Tariff measure as reported from the Finance Committee be eliminated, and In the absence of objections thi* was agreed to. These twenty-six paragraphs comprise the so-called administrative feature? of the Gorman compromise. Consideration of the free list was finished. Mr. Allison introduced a joint resolution re questing the President to negotiate a treaty with the Government of Great Britain providing that for a period of twenty-five year? all differences or disputes between the Governments of the two countries that cannot be adjusted by diplomatic means shall be referred to arbitration. ine nuusc. 150th Day.?There was considerable, disorder in the debate on the Indian Appropriation bill. Sir. Johnson, of Indiana, assailed Mr. Holman, and came near to blow3 with Mr. Maddox, of Gsorgla. The bill was not disposed of. The House passed a deficiency bill to .provide money lor the payment of dismissed employes of the printing office. 151st Day.?The Indian Appropriation bill was considered all day. 152d Day.?The provision of the Indian Supply bill to remove the Inaian supplies warehouse from New York to Chicago was , defeated. The bill was then passed. 153d Dat.?Consideration of the Hatch Anti-Options bill was begun. The House i passed the joint resolution to exrend the , appropriations of the year en ling June 33 I until the appropriation bills for the coming year are passed. I 154th Dav.?The Secretary of the Interior was directed to sell at public auction 100.003 acres ot pine land la the Chippewa Reserva- j tion, Minn., and to surrender to the city of ( Newport. Ky., for park purposes, thu old ] site-of tho Newport Barracks. The day ( was chiefly soent in general debate on the , Hatch Anti-Optiou bill, speeches against it , being delivered by Messrs. Coombs and Aldrich, and a speech in its favor by Mr. Sib- , ley. I 155th Dat.?The debate on the Hatch Anti-Option bill was continued all day. THEEE THIEVES LYNCHED. , Purmprs' Venzcauee Wreaked Upon Horsestealers lo Kentucky. Seventy-five farmers of Mason County. Kentucky, hanged Archie. Burt and William Haines, colored, who were said to have been stealing horses and sheep. Two of the colored men lived at Gallipolis, Ohio. Later, it was reported ttiat the victims had been terrorizing the vicinity. They were seen stealing by several stockmen, wuowero compelled to move on at the muzzles of revolvers. This enraged the people of the neighborhood, and they concluded to orgauizo a lynching mob. with tho above result. As a result of the privileges extended to Chinese exhibitors by Congress in connection with the Midwinter Fair. San Francisco, Cal., it is sfcited that fully 230 Chinese laborers have gained admittance to the country, and are doubtless now registered. Baltimore, not to be outdone by Boston j and Philadelphia, has decided to follow tho 1 example of those cities, and the park police 1 in that city are now mounted on bicycles. I LATEB NEWS. A. cloudburst washed away an entire field of growing grain in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Jcdge Johx M. Cruitp committed gniolde at his residence, in New London, Conn., by the use of a shotgun. Mr. Crump was Judge of the Common Pleas for New London County and editor of the New London Day. He had been In falling health for several weeks. A STOKii raged with great fury In the suburbs of New York City 4 James Cards was killed bv lightning at Weehawken, others were knocked unconscious in othe? parts of New Jersay, and much damage was done to churches and buildings of various kinds. James Flanagan, a lineman, was killed near Bergen Field. He was up a telegraph pole when lightning 9truck It. Five grooms and jockeys were hurt and nine of Mr. Bawley's race horses killed In a railroad wreck at Stillman Valley, ILL Loss, over $10,000. Admiral Eebex astonished the Navy Department by cabling that $10,000 will be needed to repair the Chicago's boilers in Antwerp, although before the warship left here they were guaranteed for eighteen months. ? j?$j\ Secretary Herbert approved the finding of the Columbia Court of Inquiry, which j n?1.2. utjuaurou ouiuun iui uui uciug vu i the bridge when passing Bulkhead Shoals and for not slowing down. This closcs the matter. The President returned from hlstripdotm the bay and held the usual Cabinet meeting. He was much benefited by the trip. The party did no fishing, the Maple being kept under way all the time. Neab San Pedro. Mexico, two children < were murdered for $3, which they had got from a pawnbroker on household goods. The nine Yale athletes to compete against the Oxford men on July 14 left New York City for England on the steamship New York. Vebjioxt Republicans nominated S. A. Woodbury for Governor. Sidnej: Plcjcheb. a colored man, beat a colored boy to death near Berlin, N. J.t threw the body into a creek and claimed that he bad been drowned. Caz.trobiiia Republicans nominated M. M. Estee for Governor and declared for free coinage of silver and woman suffrage. An incendiary fire in a coal mine at Lewisburg, Ala., imprisoned fifty new miners. Four were instantly killed. f The Senatorial sugar inquiry came to a halt for lack of witnesses. Pension Commissioned Lochren estimates a surplus of $25,000,003 ou account of pensions for tho fiscal year. The Portuguese Minister, Senhor Thomas de Sonza Roza, who has represented his country iu Washington since December 20th, 1989, presented his letters of recall to President Cleveland with the usual formal courtesies. The steamer Neath Abbey, of Swansea, has been waecked off Nash Point, England. The captain and three sailors were drowned. The Anti-Lords Conference at Leeds, England, called on the Government to introduce a bill to deprive the House of Peers of veto power. Ex-Pbesident Loeem., of tho rebel government of Brazil, ha* been executed by shooting. TIE KEARSABGE FLAG, Relics of the Old Warship Given Back to Uncle Sam. The ensign and compass of the old United I 8tates frigate Kearsarge were returned to the United States Government at the Stock Exohange, New York City. The day was particularly apropos for the event, as it was just thirty years before that the Kearsarge sunk the Alabama off Cherbourg, France. The procession marched in through the Broad street entrance at 11 o'clock, headed by Vice-President Thomas, of the Exchange; Captain Hussey, Daniel T. Worden, Fred Adams and C. W. Manry. They marched up to the President's rostrum, and Chairman Mitchell suspended business and called the brokers to order. Vice-President Thomas introduced Captain Hussey, who Is a member of the Exchange and an old sea captain. Captain Hussey, in a few patrlotio remarks, formally presented the relics to th? Government on behalf of L. Schepp. Captain Elmer, of the Navy Yard, who served on the Kearsarge for six years, accepted them for Uncle Sam, and made a brief address of thaoks. Lieutenant Morell and a quartermaster stood by his side. L. Schopp then made a short speech, expressing the pleasure it gave him to be tha means of restoring the old flag to the Gov ernmenr. The ceremonies, which occupied bat twelve minutes, concluded with the singing of '"The Star-Spanglel Banner." Mr. Scbepp, besides being a member of the Stock Exchange, is an importer of cocoanuts and a ship owner. He has a gang of men on the Boncador Keys, who gather the cocoanuts and turtles and ship them to tho Port of New York. It was waile pursuing this occupation that Mr. Schepp's men recovered tne ensign and compass of the Kearsarge. They were brought to New York on one of Mr. Schepp's ships, the Frederica Schepp, named after his mother. SUNK BY AN ICEBERG, A Fishing Schooner and Twelve Lives Lost. The schooner Bose, of %hlch Henry Gossa was master, bound from Spaniards' Bay,. New Foundland, to Labrador, for the summer fishery. with crews numbering flfty-flve persons on board, struck an iceberg off Partridge Point in a dense fog, and sank in ten minutes. The Iceberg being low and flat, lorty-three persons managed to climb upon It. fh? ot-har twelve, eieht men. two women md two boys, sank with the veesel. The survivors consisted of twenty-seven men, line women and seven children. But for Ihe accessibility of the iceberg none of them would have been saved. The body of on? woman was recovered. Soon afterward the crew of the Irene, which was passing, heard their cries, and took off the castaway?. YOUNG- PEOPLE DEOWNED. rerrible Disaster to a Holiday Party Id Samara, Russia. A dispatch from Samara, the capital of he Russian Government of that name, says hat while p. party of ycung paople were ra-urnlng from a tete on the River Jok fortylve were drowue l by the sinking of the erryboftt which was carrying them acro33 ho water. The boat was leaking anil overcrowded, 'ally seventy people being on board. The icissengers, alarmc 1 at the rapidly rising vater within the ferryboat, became panicUricken, causing the boat to take in more rater. When near Bugulme the ferryboat sank, ind then commenced a terrible struggle for Ife. The drowning people, few of whom rould swim, clutched frantically at each >ther in their efforts to keep themselves ibovc water, but forty-live out of the seventy vera drowned. The manager of the Church Emigration Society of London says that notwithstanding the decreas > in the total emigration to Canada this year the number of families applying for assistance is 9teadily increasing.