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CHINA AND JAPAN! Cause of tbe War Between the Two Nations of tbe Far East. I DISPUTE OVER KOREA. Both Combatants Want to Sway Its Future Destinies. A Rebellion iu Korea Leads to a Row . Between Its Two Neighbors Regarding Their Respective Interests in That Country?Naval and Military Strength of the Belligerents ? The Little "Hermit Kingdom" and Its Queer People. The queer little kingdom of Korea has been terribly stirred up for over three months. A rebellion broke out there after the King put som e of his enemies to death. The/obels were remarkably successful at first, njid in on? battle wounded and put to death over 500 of th? Korean King's troops. Later the rebels surrendered; but before that came about Japan and China had become actively interested. Japan has many subjects among the population ol Seoul, the chief and capital city of Korea, and fearing that these subjects would not be properly protected, marched 2000 soldiers into the capital. The King of Korea did not like the action of the Japanese Government and sent to China for helo. As soon as Japan learned of this she hustled more troops into Korea, until Japan has now more than 20,000 soldiers in various parts of the country, besides a strong naval force in the waters around the peninsula. Th* Korean Government having got mora than it bargained for frantically begged both China ??nd Japan to go away. Instead of obeying the Korean King, "both invaders havt? begun fighting each other. Japan claims to have the right to plase Jorcfs in Korea under the treaty of 1882. In tbe treaty it is expressly stipulated that troops may be quartern! at the legation in % ' ^ wyellow (i SEA MAP SHOWING ltELATIYE POSITION Seoul whenever deemed advisable, and no notice or request on the pert of Japan Is necessary. Count Olcuma, a Japanese nobleman, in a published letter, says : "It was Japan that first opened the hermit kingdom to the benificeut influence of modern civilization. Japan also introduced Korea to the world mm >r> 1 n H onon,! Mn f Stutp. Such hfling the honorable relationship in which Japan stands toward Korea, It is the former's* duty to lead the little kingdom along the paths of civilization, and help it to grew in prosperity ad power. Thus Japan's dutv is to suffer lio other power to retard the progress or en'danger the independence or Korea." . A well informed authority, in tracing the trouble in Korea, Bays: '-The rising of the people was precipitated by the murder of fcirn Ok Kiun and the butohery of his lather, Widow and daughter and the other members of hi lamiiy to the fourth generation. This TEE KISO OF KOUEA. tragedy and Its savage vindication by the Slog not only fanned into flame the anger of the Korean party, of whom Kim Ok Kum was the leader and the idol, but touchcd the honor of the Japanese under whose flag Kim bad felt protection and of whioh country he was a prominent subject. "While the Japanese Government was considering in Parliament question after question directed to them by the members as to what they proposed to do In the Kim Ok Kiun n atter, the people of Korea showed them the way out of the difficulty by rising tn rebellion under the leadership of Kim's younger brother, Kim Paug Kiun, whom they released from prison, where he had been thrown after his brother's murder, although he had no knowledge of nor had be taken any part In it. Recruits flocked to the banner of the rebels, and their leader oon felt himself strong enough to march upon the oapital. ''In hta alarm the King sent (as he had ten years before, when King Ok Klun himself threatened the overthrow of the throne) to China tor aid. Nothing was further bom his thoughts than to apply to Japan, yet Japan promptly stepped in and insisted upon giving ft. China diplomatically accepted the situation, and while hurrying troops to the scene professed entire satisfaction with having the aid of her island neighbor in the restoration of order. Then Korea, alarmed at the turn of events, suspiscioos of both, and fearing Russia beaides, pleaded with Japan to be let alone. "The occasion was ripe for 'protectors,' however, and Japan, on being a9ked to withdraw her troops and warships, answered that it could not. Now Japan has thrown down the gauntlet direct by demanding ol Korea that she terminate her amicabk relationship with China and accept Japan a= her protector." The situation, moreover, is hopelessly mixed, for a half dozen European nations are involved. Russia is most vitally con cerned, for she has been scheming to gel control of Korea for nearly twenty years The Siberian Railroad has its eastern ter minus at Yladivostock, a few miles from th< northern sea boundary of Korea. If Russia eon Id extend this railroad through Korea tc the southern extremity, the Czar would b( la a much better position to act on the ag gresslve with Asiatic nations in case of in ternational strife. Japan and China are pretty evenly matched in naval resources. Japan has in Korea now according to the latest cables ten warships. Eight of these are modern iron and steel vessels, and two are old wooden sloops of war. Japan's total warships number thirty-two, with a tonnage of 76,000. and a combined horse power of over 95.000. China has forty-six warships, with a total tonnage ot 68.000. and a combined horse power of 72,000. Japan is supbriot to China in having dono considerable with torpedo boats and other modern inventions, while China has given comparatively little attention to these lines of warfare. ,L\ ? LI HUNG CHAXQ, VICEROT OF CHINA. In gunnery, navigation and tactical evolutions China is the equal of Japan, for she has specially engaged foreign experts, and has sent her most promising officers to Europe and America, whence they have returned after going through all the necessary courses. Japan may not be aware of China's real strengt n as to heavy ord nance. Fran k Carpenter, in a recent letter, described in detail China's gun factories. According to Mr. Carpenter, who is an authority on such matters, China is manufacturing guns which are second to none in the world. Japan has to buy most of hers. In the military strength of the two nations thero Is a vast difference. China, with its 360,000,000 of people, can easily put a million of soldiers into the field, white Japan, with its 41,000,000 of population, hits an army which in time of war will aggregate only I about 250,000 men. The Japanese soldiers, however, are better equipped, more energetic and mora thorougnly organized than their Chinese opponents. Korea is probauly the queerest little king. .^%\j^k^?ST0C>S r Jv *** 0F : OF KOREA TO CHINA AND JAPAN. dom in the world. Though but little larger than New York State, it has a population of between 8,000,000 and 20.000,000, and an al'leged censu<? taken in 1881 places tho population at 16,227 885. The principal cities aro Seoul, the capita), on the River Han ;Kieng, Tsien. Piengyang, on the Tutong River, ana Hienhinif, on Broughton's Bay. Korea has no standing army, but every male citizen ! for a portion of each year acts as armed police. The kingdom secures freedom from molestation by paying annual tribute to China and Japan. This tribute Is entirely voluntary on the part of the Korean Kin?. The Koreans speak a language very similar to the Japanese, though the more educated speak andwrite Chinese, and are followers of Confucius. Most of the people, however, are Buddhists. There are about 20,000 Roman Catholics in the kingdom as a result of the efforts of Catholic missionaries, who have labored there since 1632. In 1882 Korea negotiated treaties with the United States and several European countries. Notwithstanding this Korea is about as iar backward to-day as ever. The people are very primitive and densely ignorant. They are consequently fearfully superstitious. The Koreans are proud of their antiquity. No influence can move them to change their slovenly white cotton garments for anything more modern. A correspondent writes: "They Insist on squatting on their heels when they work in your garden, while they use the short handled, awkward Korean hoe of the past ages, Instead of the civilized imnlement of to-dav. This squatting posture Is a favorite one with them. We see Ion# lines ot squatting men by the roadside, in the hot sunshine, resting; thoy seem to be perfectly happy, in a half comatose condition, with watery eyes, after a surfeit of rice and pickle, dog chops and soup of garlic, strings of meat and dough, and some indescribable white lump3, neither flesh no fish, bread nor fat, that cause a gagging sensation when you feel them upon your tongue, and they slide down your throat as though they might be lizard or snake. This leaves a fierce "burning behind it, and your eyes fill with tears ; you plunge a brass spoonful of rice into your mouth to put out the fire of red pepper. "The art of acupuncture is practiced largely among the Koreans, and in the most reckless, unskillful manner. Ye Babang has a painful knuckle-joint, probably a sprain. Though he is a convert to Chris I TARUHITO A3ISCGAWA, COMMANDER-IX-CHIE? t OF JAPAN'S ARMY. tianlty, a flno Chinese scholar and teacher, he hail this suffering joint punctured deeply ' in three places with Jong needles. Now, i after three days, it is inflamed so wo fear [ lockjaw. Needles are often pushed into the i bowels and stomach as far as the length of f the hand without the least regard to the i situation of the internal organs, to say nothi ing of the quivering nerves. Sometimes these needles are roasted in the lire and taken r out rodhot and dipped into the medicine, > the heat and medicine giving added agony. "The young man Mar was sick. It was t decided that som* spirit was disturbing his . head, so they burned the top with a hot - iron, but he grew worse, and the most j learned of the wise men deolded that the i only remedy would be a medicine made of a > linger of his only brother. The devoted ) brother submitted to have his finger cut ofT, - In some way it was pulverized, so the sick - man swallowed R?we never knew with what result." / AT im urn abrhmT LATE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TELE&KAPflIC NEWS. A Mob in Quebec, Canada, Attacks Three Protestant Mission Houses ?Kansas Farmers in <ireat Distress ? Murderers Hanged ? A Fatal Bee Sting. A French Eaptist mission has recently been established in Quebec, Canada, with Its headquarters in a building on Bridge street, not far from its intersection with St. Joseph street. The Lelecteur, a French newspaper, contained a reference to this mission and erroneously styled it the Salvation Army. That night a mob estimated at 5000 persons gathered round the place and began throwing stones at it. The attack was a fierce one, and windows and doors soon yielded to the shower of stones. f The missionaries were without any means of defence and were held prisoners until alter some time a force of policemen came along and cleared the crowd away somewhat. The mob left the Baptist mission and went up to the building at the corner of George and Riohelicu streets, which is now occupied by the French Episcopal mission. This ninni V<w trim buttered bv stones, the win dows being destroyed. Before the time that the police came up the rioters had moved on to the Salvation Army barracks on Palais Hill. Another broadside of stones was fired and the property of the army sustained considerable damage. The eirls who occupied the place were obliged to flee. The police ngain arrived too late to make any arrests, and hearing that the gang had again made for the Grande Ligne Mission House on Bridge street, they started in cabs for that place, where they arrived just in time to prevent a second riot. The streets were oloared as thoroughly as possible and the missionaries were then escorted to their home by the police. A similar disturbance led to serious results a few Sears ago. Local papers say that if the poce are unable to cope with the rioters and to preserve the peace and protect all law-abiding citizens in worshiping according to the dictate^ of their,own consciences, they should say so at once, and the military will be called out to do it for them. Impoverished Kansas Farmers. T. C. Henry, of the Colorado Land and Emigration Company, has just returned from Central and Western Kansas. To a press representative he said: "Many counties in the western third ot the State of Kansas have already lost fourflfths of their population, and in some, county organization cannot be maintained. The condition of the people is appaling in many districts. I saw hundreds of teams going eastward with loads of household goods thrown hastily into hay wagons. "The oondition as compared with former droughts in Kansas is without a parallel. formora hnvA hfltm able tO procure Ioahs on their farms to make up the shortage in crops, but novr they have no equities left, and if they had. the loan companies wilt not let out a dollar on Kansas property. ' There is no new corn, no vegetables, little stock, horses are worth nothinsr, and in the central eounti&s, where there is a little wheat crop wheat is worth but thirtytwo tjents a bushel. The people are literally impoverished and the business men are in doubt, the same as the farmers. "Up to three weeks ago there were the finest prospects for a good corn crop. It was almost made and larmers obtained credit on the strength of it. Three days ot hot winds burned it up, and now they havj no possible chance to pay." Killed His Brother. George Richardson, a prominent farmer of New Diggings, Wis., was waylaid and murdered while riding home from Galena. 111., by his brother Mark. Thero had been ill teeling between the brothers for years n/l ?hofnmrauriwii?ml In a disDUte about their father's estate. Mark's grain yard was fired by an incendiary, and ho blamed his brother. Mark left home to meet his brother on the road and%hot him dead when hoapproached. The murderer then went to Beiton, surrendered himself and was taken to Darlington Jail. Cholera Spreading iu Russia. In the six days immediately preceding August 4th, there were 4313 fresh cases of cholera, and 240 deaths in St. Petersburg, Bussia, In the six days preceding July 28th there were 159 fresh cases of cholera and Ighty-three deaths in Warsaw. For the Department of Warsaw the reports for the same period record 394 fresh cases and 213 deaths, j All these figures cover only the reported cases. Two Murderers Hanged. Harry F. Johnson was executed in the jail yard at Allentown, Penn. The crime for which he was hanged was the murder of his own child. Bertie May, aged four years, on July 25, 189S. The drop fell at 10.24. His neck was not brofcen and death resulted from strangulation in 1114 minutes. Henry Manfred, who shot and killed George Och<s, the husband ot Mrs. ucos. uurmy ? Bcuffle, was hanged at Pottsville, l'enn. Coxeyites Hold Up a Train. A freight train on the West Jersey Railroad was held up at Mays L inding, N. J., by a band of twenty-five Coxeyites. The "hoboes" stubbornly fought the train crew, but wore finally subdued. Threo of them were arrested. Recorder Gouldey fined them $25 each and imposed a aentence of thirty days in jail. The Coxeyites were en route to Atlantic City in charge of Carl Brown. Family Burned to Death. The farm house of S. 0. Ostensou. of the town of Dover, about oight miles north o? Willmar, Minn., was burned to the ground at 2 o'clock a. m. Mr. Ostenson and four childran lost their lives in the flames. Mrs. Ostsnson narrowly escaped cremation, but is crazed over tho awful event. Reveals a Counterfeiter. Lisrhtning struck the house of Mrs. Frances E. Cowles at Liberal, Mo. When neighbore rushed in to help save the goods they stumbled upon a counterfeiter's outfit and a pile ot bogus 9ilver halt dollar?. Mrs. Cowles's son was arrested, charged with being the owner of the spurious coin, and was bound over in the sum of 81000 to await trial. A Bumble Bee Kills a Mau. William Beam, a farmer, near Grand Rapids. Ohio, was instantly killed by a bum ble bee stinging Dim on tno tempie. no was on top of a wheat stack pitching wheat to the threshing machine when be came upon a bumble bee's nest and ran his fork Into It. Pleasure Seekers Drowned. William Lockharr, aged sixteen, son of ex-Alderman Lockbart, and two ycuug daughters of William Simmons, of Fall River, Mass., were drowned while boating in Assonet River. Two Childrcu Burned to Denth. The dwellings of Georgo Johnson, near Lodi, South Dakota, was burned with two children. The supposed cause of tho fire was the explosion of a gasoline Btove. TWO BROTHERS HANGED, A Double Legal Kxecution at Canton, Miss. A double hnnging took place at daylight at Canton, Miss. Tho two Scott brothers, colored, wore hanged in the jail yard at 5.33 o'clock. The crime for which these two men were executed was ono of unusual atrocity. In October, 1893, they were bound over by a justice of the peace to await the action of the Grand Jury upon the charge of burglary. Norman Hopson was the principal witness against them. 8hortly afterwards they enticed Hopson into a swamp, choked him to death, weighted his body down with irons and threw it into the river. Three months later some colored women, while Ashing, found the body. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle State9. Russell D. Host, said to be the leader of a gang of counterfeiters of Treasury notes, was arrested in New York City by Government agents. Db. Judson B. Andrews, Superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Buffalo, Is dead. Alexander Newburoer. a jeweler, at No. 1317 Broadway. New York City, was murderously assaulted in his store by a man who gave his name as Edward Williams. His object was robber}*, Dubino a severe storm at Oswego, N. Y., r young lad named Eugene Clark, aged fifteen yeare, was friehtened to death by the thunder and lightning. In NewYork City, Joseph B. Hunt, a decorative painter, crazed by Illness, shot and killed his wife and then put a bullet Into his own brain. Car No. 83 of the Brooklyn Bridge, containing several passengers, jumped the track and fell over upon the northern driveway. It was badly wrecked, but no one was injured. John Doxohue was drowned while trying to swim across the East River, in an effort to escape from. Blackwell's Island, New York City. The grand stand on the Philadelphia baseball grounds was burned, the flames spreading to adjacent property and causing particularly heavy damage to the stables of the Omnibus Company General. South and West. General Andrew Jackson's grave, at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn., was found partly opened, as if would-be robbers of his dust had been frightened off in the night. Benjamin F. Tofts, Chief Postal Clerk of the Bock Island Boad, a trusted man, was arrested at Chicago by Inspector Stuart, charged with robbing the mails. His stealings, it is said, amount to $10,000. Three httndred men went to work in the Pullman carshops, Pullman, 111. AiElkhorn, W. Vn., Anderson HolHdar, a white man shot at Bob Calloway and missed him. but the bullet passed through the head of Wesly Cobb, killing him instantlr. Ho!liday was arrested, but a mob ol 300 armed colored men took him into the woods and handed him to a tree, and then riddled his body with ballets. A* election was held In Tennessee for five Justices of the 8upreine Court. Judges of the Criminal, Chancery and Circuit Courts, and all county officials, as well as membera of the county courts. The vote polled wa3 generally light. It was thought on the morning after the election that the Democratic ticket had received 15,000 majority. Fibe which started in Huston Miles k Weeks's lumber yard, at Detroit, Mich., caused a loss of more than {50,000 and the' death of one firemen and the serious injury of five others. Eugene McCarthy, pipeman of Engine Company 19, was killed. The United States revenue cutter Michigan, which struck a rook on the Canadian side of Lake Erie, near Bar Point, was released by the assistance of a tug and lighters. The business portion of Lake View, Mich., was burned. Loss, $130,000. Soobe8 of spectators were injured in a panic caused by a fire at the Chicago League ball grounds, where a game was in progress. It put 10,000 people in panic , almost caugh 3000 and caused 500 to get tangiei up in a v?unho^.roira fart na Ajtebican Bail-way Union officials, feeling that Tiolence lost th?m the strike, caused the arrest of W. P. Hall for lending a mcb nt Chicago. The Chicaeo and Eastern Illinois is removing Its shops from Brazil, Ind., because of the city's sympathy with the strikers. Fbost was reported in a number of places in Brown County, Ohio. One farmer declares that he wrote his name ia the frost on a board fence. The like of this has not been reported for years. Ex-Governor Blair died at his residence in Jackson, Mich. Austin Blair, the war Governor of Michigan, was born in New York in 1818. and went to Michigan in .1841. John, aged thirteen, and Charles Moore, ngect eighteen, brothers, were drowned in the Ohio Btver at Toronto, Ohio, while skiff riding. Democrats carried Alabama against the Bepubllcan-Populist fusion and elected William C. Oates Governor. It was ?stimated on the morning after the election that the majority for the Democratic State ticket was over 11,000. The Legislature is also Democratic. Washington. Ttir Prpaldnnt nominated Commodore Erben to be a rear-admiral. Ministeb Guzma.x, of Nicaragua, was pre- j sented to the President as the accredited i Minister of Salvador. Br order of Attorney-General Olneythe great suit against the Soathern Pacific Railway Company was dismissed. The President appointed Minister to Chile James D. Porter, Judge of the Middle and Eastern District of Tennessee, Vice Ex-Postmaster-General Key, resigned. This leaves a vacancy in the Chilean mission. Jud?e Porter was Assistant Secretary of State during Cleveland's first term. Stbin-oeitt provisions to prevent the immigration ot Anarchists into the United States were agreed to by the Senate in the bill to restrict immigration which passed that bod)". A caucus of the Democrats of the National House ol Representatives was called on the tariiL Foreign. The trial of Santo Caserio, the murderer Af Ppuaf^nnf fStrn At at Lyons, France. The Newfoundland Legislature was opened; the Government has a majority of Ave over the Whltewayites. Titebe were thirteen deaths from cholera | In the Netherlands and five in various parts of Germany. The members of the Wellman Arctic expedition, reported to! e lost, were alive and well on June 17. A pleasure-boat, laden with excursionists from Barmou:^, capsized on the Muddach River, Wales. Tea of the passengers were drowned. Db. Cornelius Hebz, the Panama lobbyist, has been sentenced in Paru to live years In prison. Uwcoxfibmed dispatches from Shanghai stated that auother engagement had been reported oil the Korean coast, in which three Chinese waratilps were captured by the Japanese. The rebellion in Peru is spreading. Fighting has been renewed on the Mosquito Reservation. General Cacf.res has taken his seat as President of Peru. The Vigilant led tho Britannia over the whole course of fifty miles at Cowes, England, winning a great victory. The Nicaraguansaro in possession of Bluefields again. Gbaxd DccnEss Xekia, daughter of the Czar of Russia, was married to Grand Duke Alexander Michallovitch in tho Imperial Pa!?f? at Peterhof. In Switzerland, Elle Largo, a French Abbe, fell irom a prectploe on mount saivator, near Lugano, and was killed. A clergyman named Davidson and bis daughter, ascending St. Luc on mules, were sruprised by a fall of rock, and the daughter was killed. The Vigilant defeated the Britannia and Satanita in a race around the Isle of Wight, England. NEW JAPANESE MINISTER, Shiuichiro Ivurino to Succecd Gozo Tate 110 at Wushington. A telegram was received at the Japanese Legation, Washington, announcing tho appointment ot Mr. Shinichiro Kuroino. Chiel of the Diplomatic Bureau of the Department for Foreign Affairs, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. Mr. Kurino was ono of the students who was sent to this country by the Government of Japan as soon as that Government decided upon the policy of sending her young men abroad to pursue the course of studies in corteges and universities of Europe and America. LATER NEWS. Fabheb John Michael, of Sliver Creefr, N. Y., fell from his aeat on a harvester and was UteralJy chopped to pieces by the knives He was discovered by one of his threi daughters. A dabing attempt was made to hold up 9 Lake Shore express at Kessler, Ind., when a similar attempt succeeded a year ago. Deputy Sheriff Wilson's confession in volves prominent county officials, including a Sheriff, in Colorado in the tarring ani feathering of Attorney-General Tarsney. Dbacght threatens the Iowa, Kansas an< Nebraska coin crop. Corn jumped sevei cents in ten minutes on the Chicago Boari of Trade amid great excitement. Corn li worth more than wheat. The House Judiciary Committee voted against the bill to admit Japanese to citizen* ship. Democratic Representatives met In caucu? and decided to leave the tariff conferees fre< to continne their efforts to reach an agre? ment with the Senate. Fbancis H. Undehwood, United 8tatei Consul at Leith, Scotland, and a well-known j author, died. The town of Stowe, Vt., celebrated its J hundredth anniversary. An oration wa3 delivered by ex-Governor Henee. The Scott Stamp and Coin Company, | New York City, having been robbed of from $25,000 to $50,000 in foreign stamps, dis cover and arrest one of the thieves. Or the crew of forty-six of a New Bedford (llass.) whaler, wrecked of Alaska, nine were-drowned, six died of exposure, fifteen drifted away in a boat and sixteen survived after resorting to cannibalism. Cashieb Hexby A. Gardner, of tho Second National Bank of Altoona. Penn., has gone with $20,000 ot tho bank's money and and a woman not his wife. Albert m. Todd, of Kalamazoo, was unanimously nominated for Governor by the Michigan Prohibition State Convention. The North Carolina DemocraticStateConvention met at Pvaleigh. E. A. Doughten was made Permanent Chairman. Chief Justice James E. Sheppard and Associate Justices Walter Clnrk. James C. MacRae and Armisted Burwell and State Treasurer McD. Tate were nominated by acclamation to succeed themselves. Gbasshoppers are destroying the corn crop in Tennessee. President Cx.evela.xd directed Secretary of State Gresham to send a formal note to Minister Willis approving his course in recognizing the republic of Hawaii. The Senate in executive session rejected the following postmasters nominated by tho President Jonas Shays, at Oswego. N. Y. Treadwell B. Kelium, at Babylon, N. Y. Thomas H. Manion, at Herkimer, N. Y., George F. Van Dam. at Thomkinsvllle, N. Y. The Eastern and Western forces of topographers of the United States Geological Survey have been consolidated for convenience of administration. A bomb exploledin the Hebrew quarter of the city ot Corfu, Greece, killing seven persons and doing considerable damage to property. It is said that the efforts of Russia and England to bring about peace between China and Japan have failed. CASERIO TO DIE. Carnot's Assassin Sentenced to the Guillotine. BASTO CASEBIO. Santo Caserio, who assassinated President Carnot, of France, on the evening of Frfc dav. Jane .24, was found guilty at Lyons and sentenced to death by the guillotine. The Court gave these questions to the Jury: "Did the prisoner, Santo Caserio, assassinate President Carnot, and was the crime premeditated?" The jury retired at 12.05 o'clock and were absent just thirteen minutes. They returned to court and presented an affirmative answer to both questions. Caserio, who had been in the meantime removed from the court room, was brought back and the jury's declaration was read to him by M. Vidor, the Registrar. At the announcement of the verdict the superoilious grin which Caserio has worn most of the time during the trial disappeared like magic, and his face blanched. Attorney-General Folchier demanded the immediate imposition of the death penalty. There was silence for a moment, and then Judge Breulllac pronounced the sentence, that the prisoner be put to death by the guillotine. As the sound of the Judge's voice ceased Caserio pulled himself together for a moment he was almost limp?and in a feeble voice exclaimed: "Vive la revolution!" Two gendarmes seized the condemned as sassin, and 89 they hurried men out 01 taa room on the way to his cell he did not forget to shout, In a voice somewhat stronger than his last utterance, the meaningless words employed by all Anarchists convicted of oapltal crimes: "Courage, comrades; vlve l'anarohie!" With a view of bringing the case before the Court of Cassation on appeal, M. Debreuil demanded that the records of the court mention Judge Breuillac's charge to the jury at the opening of tire session, and to this demand tn? Court assented with reservation. SENATOE'S SON KILLED, Thrown From His Horse and Dragged About the Yard. William Patton Daniel, the eight-year-old son of United States Senator John W. Daniel, met with a fatal accident at Lynchburg, Ya. Ho was on a horse in the yard oi ,u? ??oai(!Anr>? whfin the animal IUO (JI.UUIV* O turned suddenly a;id in a second the boy was hanging with his head on the ground. The horse dashed ofT and drairced the little fellow around for sixty feet. The Senator ran into the yard and boro the frightfully bruised boy into the housa. Although all that medical skill could suggest was done Iw died at 11.10 that night. The highways leading eastward through Nebraska and Kansas are already thronged with disheartened settlers, who have abandoned their homes and are hurrying towards Iowa and Missouri for relief from the almost unbearable heat. A similar scene has not been witnossed since 1873, when the hot winds almost depopulated Western Kansas. Thr suit arising out of the theft of valuable painting from the studio of Professor Lanbaoh, in Municb, Bavaria, has become so interesting that an admission fee is charged for reserved seats at the trial. Two of the aocosed, one of them a nephew of the artist, have committed solcide, FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Sanaie. 166th D^jr.?The Susar Investigating Committee reported. Mr. Chandler's resolution calling for the investigation of j the Columbia Coal Company as affecting | the tariff sohedule was discussed. 167th Day.?The New Mexico and Arizona I Statehood bills were reported. The General Deficiency bill was passed. The River and Harbor bill, reported from the con, ferpes. was agreed to. 168th Day.?The Senate passed the bill to taxbank notes. Private pension bills were passed, to the number of thirty-seven, and there were several other unimportant bills also passed, one of them making the city of Oeala, Fla.. a port of entry. 169th Dat.?There was a long discussion over Mr. Chandler's resolution of inquiry Into the history of the Dominion C03I Company of Nova Scotia. The Anti-Anarchist I hill woa nnocaH on,) conf The conference report on the River and Harbor hill was resubmitted and agreed to. 170th Day.?The consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill was completed and various unimportant bills were passed. 171st Dat.?The Senate held a three hours' session, in which a number of minor bills were passed. The conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to. Tie House. 190th Dat.?The House adopted the majority resolutions of the Committee on Elections, unseating Mr. Funston (Republican), of Kansas, and giving the title to the seat to H. L. Moore ( Democrat). The vote stood 146 to 87. Unimportant routine business ionsumed the remainder of the day. 191st Day.?Only routine business was transacted. 192p Day.?The conference report of the Indian Appropriation bill wa3 discussed. The Rivar and Harbor bill was recalled from conference for correction. Mr. Johnson presented the memorial of the Central Labor Onion of Cleveland. Ohio, prayinar for the impeachment of United States District Judge Ricks, of Ohio, and it was referred to the Judiciary Committee. 193d Day.?Only business of minor importance was transacted. 194th Day.?Several bills appropriating money for public buildings were passed. 8enator Hill's Anti-Anarchist bill was noneoncurred in. PROMINENT PEOPLE, The German Emperor Is composing an opera. Gladstone has declined the latest invitation to visit the United States. Repbesentative Hitt, of Illinois, began public life as a correspondent. Pbksidext Casijiib-Pebieb, despite his name and his enormous fortune, belongs to no club. The Pope, among his many accomplishments, can speak English, German and French fluently. Rev. Db. Thomas Hanlon has now been the leader of the Bible class at Ocean Grove, N. J., for seventeen years. Queen Victobia is the only European sovereign who has a grandson in ihe direct line of succession to the throne. Genebal A. J. Pleasantox, originator of the blue glass theory, died tit his home in Philadelphia, aged elghty-3ix years. The "Golden Gould," as the English no* term the son of the famous American financier, has given a great boon to yachting. It is the boast of the Khan of Khelat that since he has been on the throne he has killed 3000 men and women. This is an average of une ever/ uvo uuia an ius juiu wuuu. It Is said that William Waldorf Astor, of London, is losing SG000 a week on his Gazette and Budget, and that he has Already lost about $250,000 on the Pall Mall Magazine. Ex-Pbzsident Habbison received $25,000 for a four hour argument In the district court of Indianapolis the other day on behalf of the owners of a street railway franchise. William Waldobf Abtob, who has become a British subject, has been nominated for Justice of the Peace of Middlesex County, England. It is said that this is a step to a baronetcy. Of the Governors of forty-four States and six Territories only three are bachelors. Tour have been married twice and three have entered the matrimonial state thrse times or more. The little son of the young Duchess oi York is to bear, it is said, the title of his great-great-grandfather, the Duke of Kent. Queen Victoria's desire to revlvaher fathor'3 title is well known. Johx Fiske, who has recently completed a school history of the United States, has b9en made a LL.D. by Harvard University. "America's greatest historian" is what the Chicago papers call him. As a lecturer General Lew Wallace is fa3t taking the place that Schuyler Colfax had in the Western heart. His manner his hearty, his voice deep and sonorous and his diction pleasing and easily understandable. Geobqe Du Matjbiee, who, after beins: known for so many years as an artist and caricaturist, has suddenly acquired new distinction as a writer, is now sixty years old. He was educated in France, but his career has been essentially Eagllsh. Sehatob Ransom, of North Carolina, ha3 made but one speech durlag his fifteen years of service in the Senate. Before he was sent to Washington he had the reputation in his own State of being a flue orator. He gave up being eloquent on account of u tendency to heart disease. GOVERNMENT FINANCES, ? f V Af A110.ftflK.aS2 ? n VttBU uatauvo w* Gold Reserve $45,024,393 Short. Tho regular monthly statement ot the public debt, just Issued by the United States Treasury Department, shows that the aggregate on July 31, 1894. was $1,644,806,240, as against $1,632 253.636 on June 30, 1394. This apparent Inorease is owing to the increase la the issue of certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, are offset by an equal amount ot oash in the Treasury. The Interest bearing debt amounted to $635,042,590, an increase for the month of $700. The debt bearing no Interest was $379,950,470, a decrease ot $54,215. The increase in certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, are offset by an equal amount of cash In the Treasury, was from $615,355,820 on June 30, 1894, to $616,972,329 on July 31, 1894. The cash in the Treasury is $774,201,768, against whioh there are demand liabilities amounting to $655,136,414, leaving a oash balance of $119,065,352, of which $54,975,607 Was gold reserve. The increase in the casfc balance during the month was 41,480,915. EARTHQUAKE IN SJLULLI. Great Loss of Life and Immense Damage to Property. A. dispatch from Rom'e says that a terrifla earthquake shock occurred ia Sicily. Many people were killed, and immense damage was done to property. The earthquake centred iuthe Province of Catania. The towns of Fieri, Aci and Pisano were destroyed, and great damage was done in Zerbati. Pea nisi aad Zaffarana. Fifty persons were killed in these towns, and scores wore severely injured. Hundreds of villagers fled from their homes into the open country, ubanauuing everything. The Government officials sent supplies and sur^i.-ous to the distressed districts. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Jealous .Jenkins Shot Three Women, '1 hen Killed Himself. In a flt of jealousy. Wid Jenkins, bagsaga master at Chariton, Iowa, shot Mrs. Eliza Murphy, his landlady, and her two daughters ami then committed suicide. He was enamored of Julia, tiio younger ! daughter, an'i jeaious cm iub imrruuuua K?... her by another man. In words with hor mother ho becamo enragnd. Ho shot hor. hunted up his sweetheart, killed her instantly, fatally shot her sifter Johanna, who was with her, then shot himself. Mrs. Murphy and Johaaaa were tatalfy Injured. WORDS OF WISDOM. Rascality runs many a dead heat. A mean man seeB himself in the dark,' A surgeon's kr.ife wounds in kindness. Oppression makes swords of bread knives. A rich boor mistakes a parlor for a hog pen. There is no bad way of becoming a good citizen. JDon't fall downstairs in your haste to rush into print. Don't get above your business; it may do the same by you. It is harder to write a good advertisement than a poor epic. Historians can testify that all nations have short memories. Tn a mnon mi'nil o Jtarrrw mar llTAAfl more hatred than an injury. Some men have to step on the tack before they can see tho point. Galileo has notyetsucceded in teaching bigotry that the world moves. The goody-goody folks can tell you where to look for all the bad news. No man ever yet had money enough to buy either taste or good breeding, A cynic may be defined as a man who knows that he is not to be trusted. There is a big difference between a? anapproachable and an irreproachable man. Even the eyes may bear false witness. Under some conditions men see double. The world has no use for the kind of editor who mistakes added insult for manly apology. Men who would be insulted if accused of breaking their word do not hesitate to break some faithful, loving heart. Honor is a queer quantity. There are conditions under which a gentleman feels bound to shield sin by committing flat perjury.?Chicago Herald. ?^ The Penguins Feeding. The appearance of the keeper with nis pan 01 live guugeuu ib w? Ngutu for sudden and intense excitement in the cages. The ' penguins wave their little flippers and waddle to the door, whence they peer eagerly down the wooden steps leading to the pool; the cormorant croaks and sways from side to side, and the dartera poise their snaky heads and spread their batlike wings. At the water's edge the pengains do not launch themselves upon the surface like other water fowl, but instantly plunge beneath. Once below "water, an astounding change takes place. The slow, ungainly bird is transferred into a swift and brilliant creature, beaded with globules of quicksilver, where the air clings to the close feathers, and flying through the clear and waveless depths with arrowy speed and powers of turn1 Al llig Xttr ^rctlicr tuau 1U auj Auvnu form of aerial flight. The rapid and steady strokes of the wings are exactly similar to those of the air birds, while its feet float straight out level with the body, unused for propulsion, or even as rudders, and as little needed in its progress as those of a wild duck when on the wing. The twists and turns necessary to follow the active little fish are made wholly by the strokes of one wing and the cessation of movement in the other, and the fish are chased, caught, and swallowed without the slightest relaxation of speed, in a submarine flight which is quite as rapid as that of most birds which take their prey in mid-air. In less than two minutes some thirty gudgeon are caught and swallowed below water, the only appearance of the birds on the surface being made by one or two bounds irom the depths, wiien the head and shoulders leap above the surface for I a oAflnnd ond diKArmear. | ~ Any attempt to remain on the surface leads to ludicrous splashing and confusion?for the submarine bird cannot float; it can only fly below the surface. Immediately the meal is finished both penguins scramble out of the water, and shuffle with round backs and drooping wings back to their cage to dry and digest.?Spectator. A Novel Mud.Baih Treatment, There is nothing particularly enticing in the sound of "mud baths,"and those who have tried them at Homburg, Germany, and other places find them not agreeable as experiences, however efficacious they may be as a treatment. At most spas the process issimply that of pouring mud into one's bath, but at some Italian baths to which the fashionably sick are turning, a traveler who has taken them fln/ic that, thev are quite different. The mud, in a very hot and almost dry form, mnch of the consistence of S brick clay, is applied lo ally to those B parts of the body which are affected. I The patient lies on a straw bed, on I which is placed a sheet. The attend- I ant having ascertained the suffering I parts, daubs them to the thickness of I several inches with the mud. The in- I valid, covered with a hot sheet or I blankets lies for half an hour, perspir- II ing freely, then gets into a hot sul- II phur batb, is thoroughly cleansed, SI rubbed dry, and returns to a bed ar- Bj tificially warmed, where the perspira- I tion continues for an hour or so I longer. This treatment is repeated I almost every morning for about twen- I ty days, and is of great value in all Bj manifestations of rheumatism. The I mud is dug out of a mountain a few II miles from the spa and brought to the 9| establishment and allowed to soak for II several years in tanks of boiling sul- if phur water until required for use.? | New York Times. I The Grotesque Seahorse. jgj One of the most grotesque creatures n in existence is the seahorse. Not only H is this true of its quaint shape, but H especially queer are its habits. Wo- fi men who are interested in the rights H of their sex should provide themselves M with seahorses and study their pecu- fl liarities. The male of this animal H takes entire charge of the business of H incubation, while the female wanders H away wherever she pleases. The H father carries the eggs around with H him in an abdominal pouch provided 39 for that purpose until they are H hatched. They are a great trouble to H him, but he attends to the business in S a most exemplary.manuer.?Chicago H Herald. -I