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CBEATEH BEff YOBI fflHS1 The Consolidation Bill A^ain Passed by the Assembly. AN ANALYSIS OF THE VOTES. The Vetoes of Mayors Strong; and TVurster at So Avail?All the Tammany Members Except Two Against the Measure ?But Two More Votes Than Needed-? The Measure Sent to the Governor. Albaxt, N. Y., April 23.?The Assembly yesterday passod tho Greater New York bill ever the vetoes of Mayor Strong, ol New York, and Mayor Wurster, of Brooklyn, by a vote of 78 to G9. Seventy-six votes were seeded to pass it. The issue was in doubt tlD the roll call was over, and tho scene in the Assembly Chamber was intensely exciting. The bill was passod with the votes recorded against it of most of the representatives of New York and Brooklyn in the Assembly. The city of Brooklyn cast fifteen votes against the bill and only six in its favor. Of the deven Republican Assemblymen eight opposed the bill and only three favored it, and of the ten Democrats there were seven opposed to it and three for it. There wore twenty-five votes cast against the bill bv the a*nB&oan?n4<t*AO S\t /lift* Af WoTO Vfin/1 iuj;iTOruinm ui iun vuj w* ?v?? uuu eight votes in its favor. The twenty-five New York City votes against the bill were cast by two Republicans and twenty-three Democrats. The eight votes for the bill were cast by two Democrats and six Republicans. The bill was taken up at 11.35. A call of the Assembly showed only three members absent. Leader O'Grady of the Republicans had moved a cail of the House, and the absentees, with three exceptions, had been hunted up and brought to the bar of | the House. The three Mayors' messages wore read. Then followed speeches by Demoeratie Leader 8tanchfield, Wilson, of Brooklyn; Brennan, Waldo, Perkins and Bobbins gainst the bill, and by Austin. Ebbitts, Murphy, and at the close by Bepublican Leader O'Grady for the bill. These ended, the roll call came. The gallery was packed. Scores of men who had been for two days working like beavers for and against the bill, crowded the space behind the rail and held their breath as Clerk Baxter called the 150 names. So evenly did the voting run that It was not until the very end of the roll was reached that the result was known. r*th?v Knickerbocker : , fl LONG ISLAND CITY, BROOKLYN, 82,000. 1,020,000. Half of the members kept their own tally Bats and became visibly excited as the closehau9 of the result was seen before the call for absentees had been ordered. Just as the vote was about to be declared,Mr. mjmiu, ui ouuuua, uroateu uiuiuuuitujr ayprofcensions among the bill's supporters by rising and requesting that he be recorded to the negative instead of the affirmative. This would have reduced the affirmative o?e to 77, and might have led to further defections, with the result that the requisite Totes could not have been obtained. However, Mr. Goodsell, of Orange, was equal to the emergency. He gained recognition from the chair white the excitement was at its height and declared his wish to ehange from the negative to the affirmative. Immediately a shout went up from the bill's friends, and without delay the result was announced. The vote analyzed shows that these Democrats voted with the Republicans for the bill: Barth, Butis, Cain. Ebbetts. Guider, Kinne. Mlttnacht, Newman. Stahl, two of whom, Butts and Mittnacht, represented Tammany. Republicans who voted against the bill with the Democrats were Audett, Babcock, Brennan, C. J. Clark, J. Clark, Cromwoll, De Gruw, French. Hill. Hobbie, Housinger, Hortou, Ives, Kelsey, Koehler. Ljiimhupr. Mtirshull Vntt-fann MiUnr. TJi't on, Perkins, Post, Bobbins, Rounds. Sanger, C. 8mlth, Steele, Steiner, Storm. Wagstaff, Waldo, G. Wilson and Zimmermana. Those who were absent were Blatsdel!, of Erie; Carlisle, of Westchester, and Malone, of New York. ? Bio vote on final passage before it was sent to the Mayors was, 91 ayes and 56 noes. Out of a total of fifty-four votes in the two tiff cities which go to make up Greater New lork, forty opposed consolidation and fourte<m favored it. Feeder the terms of the Greater New York Ml!, the nine Commissioners^ to prepare legislation necessary to perfect consolidation must bo appointed by the Governor "with the advice* and consent of the Senate." J" Greater >'ew Y rk Bicyclists. It is said that there are in and around New York City 150 cycling clubs, with a combined membership of 80,000. The annual dues amount to about ?1,900,000 and the total aramber of miles ridden by these members is about 35.000.000 each year. Potatoes Bring Lltt'e Money. *The prico of potatoes has been broken and world's record made. In Columbus. Minn., choice white potatoes are selling at 1% cents a bushel. The starch factories are running and many potatoes are being brought in. Prices at the factories are good. > Lionizing a Cuban Patriot. ' ilr. Quesada, tho Secretary of the Cuban Committee at Washington, is becoming a Itreat pet In society, and some of the most fastidious and giddy women in town have taken him up and are making a lion of him. They give dinner parties and teas in his konor, they take him to drive on pleasant alternoons in their victorias, and they invite politicians to their parlors to hear him talk about "Cuba libra." Mr. Quesada isa handsome fellow, of tho Spanish type, about thirty years o! ajre, with large black eyes and a ferocious mustache. It is his first ?*xperi*nce in swa?g5r society, but he has the natural \-i"t of self-possession and carries hirn6elt very well. Prominent Peo;>!o. A memorial service for tho late Governor Creenuni^e was hciu in x>usiuu. Queen Victoria, while on the continent, travels as the Countess of Balmoral. The Prince of Wales is attain undergoing ' treatment for the reduction of his weight. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is regarded as the best amatuer cyclist in Washington. Duprez, once a famous tenor, is still living in Paris; he is over ninety yeurs of age. Probably the champion postal-card writer of the wor d is Mr. Ola stone. He uses over 4000 a year. It is reported that Li Hung Chang, Prime Minister of China, has given up his projected American tour, * . JERSEY FARMS DESERTED. * Cheap Land for New York City Poor pfearby. South Jersey farms are being desert?d as fast as those of New England. All over Cumberland, Cape May and Atlantlo Counties stand thousands of acres of unused farm lands and hundreds of vacant houses. The houses are falling Into decay, and the fields and orohards are overgrown with bushes. Even towns are deserted. Over In Atlantic County are the remains of the once prosperous town of Pomona. It is sparsely settled. Then there is the settlement oT Halbertstown in tho lower end of Cumberland County, which for two years has not had a mugie resiuum, i ae iowd was iounuou uj a company of New York capitalists, who expended several hundred thousand dollars In laying out streets and erecting houses and factory building?. In Halbertstown stands a handsome and commodious school house which never had a child within its portals. Fifty houses in the place are going to decay. The town has excellent railroad facilities? the West Jersey Railroad running right through it Its boom is exhausted. The place has been named the "Silent Town.' It is the town that will be sold entire, just as it stands, by Sheriff Thinn, of Cumberland County, in a few weeks. COLD PRODUCTION. Indications of a Larze Output (or the Year 1396. The Director of the United States Mint has received a report from Mr. John Daggett, Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint, of the production of gold and silver in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska during the calendar year 1895. The production of gold in California was $15,334,318, and of silver, coining value. $559,790. Gold in Oregon is placed at ?1,837,632 and silver at $15,192; in Washington, gold $373,148, silver, $141,000; Alaska, gold 32,328,400. silver $97,000. The increase in gold In 1895 over 1894 in Californ'a was $1,471,000. and of silver $302,450. In Washington tno increase of When He Reaches C NEW TORE, 1,885,000. gold was 8140,380 and of silver $128,480; in Alaska gold increase was $1,048,900 and silver $92,000. The gold output in Oregon in 1895, as compared with 1894, shows a decrease of $275,700 and an increase in the silver product of $4800. The report says that the indications are that the gold product for 1896 will largely exceed that of 1895. A CONVENTION TRAGEDY. Sheriff Kennedy Killed Wood and Wounded His Brother. Five hundred Democrats, at Montgomery, Ala., to attend the Democratic State Convention, were horrified by a traeedy at the depot. The platform was crowded at 7.80 a. m., when Bob Kennedy, Sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, stepped out with a doublebarreled shotgun and opened Are on two brothers, Percy and Mardts Wood, both citizens of Selma. When the brothers saw Kennedy they ran for a piece of safety, but before this could be reached Kennedy shot Percy Wood through the back, Inflicting a fatal wonnd. Mardls Wood drew his pistol and fired at Kennedy five times without hitting him. Kennedy reloaded hi? gun twice, firing in all five shots at Mardis Wood, shattering his right shoulder and breaking his left arm. ELECTRICITY ON THEIR WHISKERS. Wisconsin Men Have a Remarkable Adventure After a Storm. A remarkable adventure befell a party of Wisconsin men. According to one of them, H. 0. Tofson, who lives at Kilbourn, in company with Ole Tofson, Will Tofson, Jens Anderson and Eaimet Peterson, he attended a party at the home of Tom O'Connell About 2 a. m. the ycung men started for home. The rain had ceased, but the sky was still very cloudy and the night was black. Suddenly beads of electricity gathered on their mustaches and hair and a brilliant blueish ligftt streamed from their fur coats. They were terrorized. They brushed and struck at the mystic fluid, but for fully fifteen minutes they fought with it, and then it disappeared for a sh^rt time only to reappear. They were greatly relieved on reaching home, but still puzzling their wits to make out what had possession of them. Iowa Taxes Bicycles. 10wa oos passeaa 0111 iiamj uicjruioa wo | same as all other vehicles. Twins Wi h Different Birthdays. I Twins born to Mr. and Mre. Everhart, of Green Island, Mioh., last week, will, ifthoy | live, have the odd experience for twins of having a birthday apiece and celebrating on different days. One was born Just before j midnight and the other a minute or 90 after. Railways Adopt a No vol Rule. The Trans-Missouri Committee of the Western Passenger Association decided to place a joint agent at the various tourist terminal points, with whom passengers must deposit the return portion of their tickets until ready to star: for home. Kept SJ3?0 la Gold In a Tin Pall. Three we^ks ago Samuel Poiphor died nt Slateford, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He was quite a wealthy l'urmer. Two neighbors, William T. Roberts and John Irwin, whilo assisting In arranging his eff-cts for a public sale, camo across a tin pail in the wagon shed containing $2300 in gold. "Land of Kcd-CheoUod Children." Polk County, Missouri, business people are booming their ow.i favored locality by having printed on the envelopes thev send through the mails the legend: ''ThelandoJ the red-cheeked children." NATIONAL DELEGATIONS"! . Actions of the Conventions in Vari1 ous States, ) ???1 DIVERSIFIED MONEY PLANKS. ' The Republicans of Connecticut Meet at New Haven and Sclect an Unlnstructed Delegation?Tennessee Republicans Declare for McKinley?Resolutions Adopted in Maryland and Alabama. Only an hour's session was needed to transact ail the business of the Connecticut Republican State Convention at New Haven. it adopted a sound money platform, confirmed the eleotion of the delegates to St. Louis and then adjourned. The platform Is for a gold basis and sound money, for protection of the American flag everywhere, for upholding of the Monroe doctrine, for reviving American shipping and for caring for widows and children of Union soldiers. Of the delegates chosen it is said that a majority of them are for Reed, although uninstructed and unpledged. Tennessee For MeKinley. The Tennessee Republican State ConvenHls Full Stature. ifff^ -vJwfW if M.I&I r<\ f / GREATER NEW YORK,^ ^ With Outlying Districts, 3,430,000. ? i l tion held at Nashville was for McKlnley, protection and soundjmoney. Iron-clad instruc- ' tions were given for the Ohio man and, not ' satisfied with this, each of the candidates-atlarge was called out and a demand made for a personal pledge to carry ou^ the instructions to the letter. The pledge was given. ' Judge Lewis Shepherd, of Chattanooea, was Temporary Chairman and George W. Win- 1 steaa, of Knoxvillo, once a candidate for 1 Governor against "Bob" Taylor, was Per- 1 manent Chairman. The following delegates- 1 at-large were selected: H. Clay Evans, ofj i Chattanooga? James Jeffreys, of Camden;' t E. J. 8anford, Knoxville, and Ernest Cold- 1 well, of Shelbyville. ( ( Maryland Eepnbllcans Sleet. ( The Maryland Republican State Convention met at Baltimore. All the leading lights of the party In the State were on hand. Senator-elect WelliuKton called the conven tion to order. A. Barnes, of Worcester ] County, was ohcsen Temporary Chairman. t Attorney-General Harry M. Clabaugh was j elected Permanent Chairman. The election , of four dele/rates-at-large resulted in the t unanimous choice of George L. Wellington, ( James A. Gary, William T. Master and Rob- j ert P. Graham. For electors-at-large, Gen- j eral Adam E. King and J. Cookman Eoyd were chosen, liie platform, which was unanimously adopted, declared that: 'We believe In the gold standard upon which to base our circu- i lating medium, and are opposed to free and , unlimited coinage of silver until an interna- J tional agreement of the important commer- , cial countries of the world shall give silver a , larger usp." The platform also announced ' that the delegation to St. Louis was not in- j structeO. t Alabama Democrats. The Alabama Democratic Stato Convention at Montgomery adjourned after a two days' session. A platform wan adopted which favors the free and unlimited coinage J of silver and ffoid at a ratio of 16 to 1, ai 1 the standard money of the country, without < discrimination against either metal, and ( without the consent of foreign Nations. i The platform also calls for the repeal ol i tho ten per cent, tax on State bank issues, I and for tho government of the Stato b. j white men. The administration of Governo Oates was endorsed. Prnsldent Clevelan' was commenaea lor nis attitude on tne Mom roe doctrine, l)ut his financial policy wai condemned. The delegation to the National < Convention was Instructed to vote as a unil \ for free silver. W, J. Bryan for Preiliiar.t. ] Over 500 delegates attended the Nebraska Democratic State Convention at Linooln tq select delegates to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago. They shouted them* selves hoarse for free silver and W. J. Bryan, for President. In addition to advocating , free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, a resolution was introduced commending MrJ W. J. Bryan for President, and pledging tht} ! efforts of the delegation in his behalf. i Ohio Prohibltioulats for Free Silver. | The Ohio Prohibition State Convention at Find lay declared in favor of free coinage ai a ratio of 16 to 1. This ticket was name.: Secretary of State, Alvin 0. Crabtree, Springfield; Judge of Supreme Court, M. JJ Chase, Marion; Dairy and Food Commi.1-! siouer. Joseph Love, Gcshocton; Board o| Public Works, Charles E. llefT, Hamiltoni Electurssit-Larye, O. W. Ball, linos County] iind .1. W. Punflnlil Willnnchhv. - * 1 Iowa l'opuliste. The Populists made a better showing in their State Convention at l)es Moines than ever before in Iowa. General James B. Weaver was the Temporary Chairman, and made a speech that outlined the polley of the convention, which declared for free coinage. The attendance was the largest at any Populist Convention ever hell in the State, and there were more young and active men in it. Nearly four hundred delegates were present. Cyclone Cave for School*. Sohool directors in the district of Luverne, Iowa, have ordered a cyclone cave due at each of the school houses lu the district. NINE SAILORS DROWNEO. The Schooner J. W. Campbell Wrecked Off Long Island. Seven shipwrecked men were landed in New Bedford, Mass., by the tug Gladiator. The seven were all that was left of the sixteen members of the crew of the fishing sohooner J. W. Campbell, of Gloucester, which went down In a squall off Long Island. The men who lost their lives were all residents of Gloucester. They were Captain Robert Smith, John McGuire, Frank Sylvia, Thomas Rogers, George Ebler, William McAllister, Abel McCormey, George Draham and Charles Doherty. The fisherman was bound to the capes oi the Delaware after mackerel. About 8 p. m. the vessel was sailing along on her course with no indications of danger ahead, when, without warnins, a squall from the northwest struck her and laid her on her beam ends. Most of the crew were on deck. Some of them rushed- for the stern. The vessel plowed her nose under the water and the stern was raised high In the air. The rest of the men took to the main rigging, and this was the wiser course. Before the vessel righted she began to fill and sink and two minutes after the shock she went down head foremost. Those who were at the stern were dragged Tinder by the suction of the vessel, but tnose who had climbed to the mast were thrown so far away from the sinking vessel that the undertow did not effect them. In the darkness it was hard work for the ship wrecked men to see anything. At length one of them discovered a dory to windward, and all who could swim made for It. Near the dory was a seine boat, and bv lifting the dory upon the seine boat the men were able to free it from water. Then they Jumped in and tried to rescue others, but nothing but wreckage was seen. When the men were sure that nobody remained alive near the wreck, they began to row In the direction of land. The stars gave them a general Idea of the direotion. After a while they gave up rowing and waited for morning. About 9 o'clock in the morning the men saw the three-masted schooner JNorman, 01 uastine, iue., wuicu bore down on them and picked them up. They were put aboard the tug Gladiator and taken to port. A QUEER EXHIBITION. Flying: Machines, Kites and Aeroplanes to Be Shown In Boston. There will be a unique gathering of more or less visionary modern disciples of Darius Gnen at Boston next Ootober. There is to be held during that month a grand competitive exhibition of designs for and working models of airships, flying machines and aeroplanes, under the auspices of the Boston Aeronautical Association. Five valuable cash prizes, the amounts of which will soon be made public, as contributions to that end, are being solicited from the scientific men of the country, will be awarded as follows: For the kite showing the maximnm of lift to the minimum of drift in a breeze having a velocity of more than fifteen miles per hour. For the kite showing the maximum of lift to the minimum of drift in a breeze having a velocity of less than fifteen miles an hour. For the kite keeping its equilibrium through the greatest extremes of wind velocity. For tbe soaring machine la free flight, which, after gaining velooity, shall make the best courso, the excellence of the course to be judged by the maximum of length and the minimum of undulation. Energy may be given to the maohlne by carrying it to a height. / For the best self-propelled maohlne. SUFFERING IN ALASKA* Adventareri Who Went Therewith Little Aloney Are Having a Hard Time. According to advises by the sohooner Erjelslor, which arrived at 8anFrancisco, Cat., from Cook s Inlet, a few days ago, a serious state of affairs exists in Alaska. Sitka and Juneau are overflowing with miners, who jannot start for the gold fields on acoount of the ice and snow on the hills, and now comes Ihe news that Cook's Inlet is frozen and that :he miners who went up early are suffering jreat hardships. Provisions are plentiful, but the prices charged are exorbitant. Some of the men ire destitute and have not taken enough ?old to pay for a second-class passage to Paget Sound, much less San Franolsoo. The souotry is overrun with prospectors, and in iome instances the sufferlag of the adreaturers is heartreadlag. Spain Offers Cuban Reform. The Spanish Secretary of the Colonies will nake arrangements to put into effect the aw granting Dclltical reforms to the Antiles. These arrangements wi 1 probably go nto operation in Porto Rico on Juno land n Cuba on July 1. The Government denies bat the Washington Government prompted :his action. The speech from the throna >peningthe Cortes will contain a passage lealing with the reform. The Cabinet will lecide on the wording of the passage. Shot Dead at Her Sewincr Machine. Mrs. Charles GIvens, residing near White Pine, Tenn^ was shot and killed while siting at her sewing maohlne.the assassin havng fired through a window. Wesley Daron, iged seventeen* confessed that he was the nurdererand was instigated to the crime by 3. H. Givens, the murdered woman's hus)and, wbo promised to pay him for the Idling. Church Built of Sort Dedicated. In Smith County, Kansas, stands a church )uiltof sod taken from the prairies surroundng, which was dedicated by the presiding slder of the Methodist Episcopal Church. People traveled eight miles to witness tne tervices. A month ago the people of all delominations m?t, and with tht-ir own hands wilt a place of worsnip out of the only ma;erial which nature ufTorded. Children Killed by Lightning. Two persons were killed, two mortally inlured and two others seriously hurt by two Jolts of lightning which struck the dwelling 5f Andrew Olsen at Wallace, Mich. The 3ead are two of the Olson children, a boy ind a girl. The family was huddled in one room when the two bolts fell. The house took Are, but neighbors extinguished the Humes. Falling Rock Kill* Four Miners. Falling rock In the Eddy Creek shaft at Olyphant, Penn., killed four men. Tne victims are: Ralph and James Abbott, brothers, who lived at Throopj John McHnle, of Olyphant, and William Harvey, of Priceburg. The men were known a3 root miners, and were driving a tunnel when they were killed. Seven miners Killed and Six Injured. The Broadwater mine at Neihart, Montana, was the scene of an explosion resulting in the death of seven men and the injury of six others. The magazine, a room used for thawing powder at the middle tunnel of the mine, exploded just as the men were returning from lunch. Crespo Crushes a Kevolt. The Venezuelan warship Rivas returned to Laguayra with General Paredos on board triumphant. The uprising, which suddenly occurred in Nirgaata, was orushed and the leaders captured. The Labor worm. A building trades council Is being organized. Woolen manufacture employs 220,030 Americans. A mailers' union has boon organized in New York City. A workingmen'sclub house is to be erected in honkers, N. Y. In this country there are over eighty National trades unions. Trouble Is anticipated on the street railroads in Milwaukee, Wis. New York coopers' wages have been reduced ten to fifteen per cent. A steel plant, which will cost $1,000,000, Is to be erects 1 at Birmingham, Ala. ? ffEYLBR'S FIBITBOCHA" The Strongest Spanish line Ye Stretched Across Cuba. SOLDIERS SUCCUMBING TO HEAT, All the Available Spanish Troops Are Be ins Used to maintain a Wall of Mei Across the Narrowest Part of the Islam -?Value of the Barrier From a Mllltar; Standpoint?Hospitals Crowded. Havana, Cuba, April 21.?General Weyle has succeeded in accomplishing what Mai tinez Campos attempted in vain. He ha Dnllt a trocba across the Island ana icepr 1 intaot for two weeks. That the presen trocha is formidable even the Insurgents ad mlt, bnt they profess that it alarms them no at all. When Maceo passed through Havan province to the west, and Weyler statlonei 10,000 men along the twenty-one miles fron Marlel on the north coast to Majana on th south, he cabled to Madrid announcing tha the second in command of the insurgen forces was penned up in the western prov lnce. After staking his reputation on the abso lute impossibility of Maceo's crossing, h found that detaohed parties of from 100 t< 200 insurgents were getting through the lin at will. He then brought all the troops from othe }>arts of the island that could be spared eaving the eastern and middle province with forces barely sufficient for garrisoi duty, and practically suspending activ 'operations in all but the western province The concentration raised the force on tt trocha to 28,000, and gave 5000 more for us ,ln flying columns, acting in conjunctioi with those on the line. The troops were se to work erecting forts, digging trenches am building barricades. The work has been pushed night and day and the best trocha Spain has ever built ii Oubanow confronts Maceo. Through th ihilly country south from Marie redoubt [have been built for artillery upon every emi nence. Between Guanajuay and Artemisia, aloni the middle part of the line, fort3 and blool houses, with earthworks between, have beei constructed. From Majana to the soutl coast, through marshy land, is a broad ditch baoked by stockade, with block houses a intervals. CUBAN INSURGENTS RE! General Arolus, who 1b in command of th troops on the line, says the Insurgents can not cross without tremendous losses. Th troops are under arms night and day, bu though they have waited two weeks Mace has not attaoked the line. This faot has raised a question as to th value of the line from a military standpoint To maintain its strength at all points leave only a few thousand men who caj be used in aggressive opperatiom Maceo's own forces, with those of Banderi and Delgado, number about 15,000 men They have been in the hills around Leohuza fifteen miles west of the trocha, for twi weeks. Meanwhile, the main body of 8panisl troops holds the trocha. Maximo Gomez ha accepted the situation and has directei Maceo to remain in Pinar del Bio province Several large Insurgent columns have beei ordered into Havana province from eas1 One of these columns, number'-"? 6000 mei from Santiago province, has ved. and i now near Quivican, twenty .. js south o this city. Gomez says he is satisfied to have Mace remain in the western province, as it keep 25,000 Spaniards stationed on the line an prevents them from interfering with opera tlons in other parts of the island. Gomez i said to be willing to have the Spanish troop hold the line until the rainy season sets ii by which time they will find it a very ue healthy spot. Reports are already being n ceived of Spanish soldiers succumbing t the heat, and between the wounded and th Bicfc there are fully 15,000 now in hospital on the island. DISTRESS IN CUBAN TOWNS. Concentration of Population Adds to Dan ger of Famine. Havana, Cuba, April 21.?The situation i Cuba is hwart-rendlng. The poverty is a{ palling. Famine stalks through this nakec desolate land. The bread question will presently becom as important us the political question. Pre{ ?wiHniw fnr rplievluff the suffering of th non-combatants must soon be made. Wome and children from the interior continue t flee to the United States on every steamer. The benevolence of Americans will soo be tested or thousands will starve, for everj thing is being put to the torch, before Ion nothing will be left of a once smilln country but ashes. Reports come from all parts of the islan of much distress resulting from the concer tration of the population in the cities an the desertion of the fields. A letter from Cartagena says the peopl are in a terrible oondition. There is no wor for the men and little food- In Trinidad fls sells for thirty cents a pound and meat ha Increased two and one-half cents a pound In Sanctl Spiriras charcoa', formerly fort cents a bag, is now $1.40. All food has ad vanced equally in price. In Sltio Grand many families are living in tents erected 1 the middle of the streets. A Blow to the North Pole Story, A dispatch from Christiana says that th Governor of Yakutsk reports officially tha the Inhabitants of Ust-Yansk have not hear anything about Dr. Nansen, the Arctio ea plorer, who was recently reported to be re turning after having discovered the Nortl I Pole. The Governor adds that the Ivor a.v?i? tw seeicers on mo uuw oiuenuu uuuug eeo any ship between May and November o last year. Patriots' Day Celebrated. Patriots' Day, In commemoration of th battlo of Lexington. was celebrated wltl groat enthusiasm throughout New England Colored Hoy Lynched. J<yff Gardner, colored, about rwenty-om years of age, went to the home of Josepl Burrows; a few mlle? north of Narren. Ark. and found nobody there except the children He fastened the eldo3t girl with a rope an< then carried her to the Saline bottoms where she was kept for soveaal hours It was late in the afternoon before the tw< wero found. When the miscreant was or dered to surrendor he attempted to run am was shot in the leg. Though wounded hi made his escape Into a sage Held near by and It was some time before he was found On being captured he did not deny anything and only wanted to know what was to b< done with him. Be was lynched. The gir is in a crltloal oondltlon. . : -v, . {s : r ' < : -j:f. . , ; *;- " . . .OT * TWO NAME RUSSELL. 1 State Conventions in llaiiacbaittti and Khode Island Indorse Him. At Boston. Mass., Ex-Governor William E. ^ t Russell was Indorsed for the Democratic W nomination for the Presidency by the Democratic 8tate Convention. As he was also in- *r dorsed by the Rhode Island Democrats, Mr. 1 Russell starts In the raoe for the nomination i with two States at his back. * , John W. Corcoran, Chairman of the State ^ Committee, called the 12?6 delegates to or- te . der. John P. Thayer, of Worcester, was - bl ^ M g EX-GOVERXOIt BUSSELL. \ 1 (Named by Massachusetts Democrats as their ? t candidate for President.) i s? made Permanent Chairman. John E. Rus- ? , sell, George Fred Williams, J. W. Corcoran I* a and James W. Donovan were chosen dele- r; e gates-at-large to the Chicago Convention. " s The platform adopted declares for sound .- money and against free silver coinage, in- o! dorse3 the Cleveland Administration, do- B g nounces the Republican party for coquet- A k ting with the American Protective Associa- ti a non, ana presents jir. jtsusseu as a canai- n tx date. b< i. I tAt Providence, R. I., the Democratic State t Convention was not the tame affair It promised to be. When the name of General Olney ^ > P P I 'UL3ING SPANISH CAVALRY. e "~ n 9 Arnold was presented as the first delegate to I the National Convention an antagonistic p e movement was commenced. Richard R. t Comstock, Mile9 A. McNamee, George W. o Greene. Jesse H. Metoalf, James P. Van Alen, David 8. Baker, John H. Tuoker and John _ e E. Conley were elected delegates. The plat- L . form adopted Indorses President Cleveland, ? s declares for sound money and presents to ? a the National Convention William E. Bussell t( i. as "one who will make on ideal candidate a and an ideal President." I u t THE LOUISIANA ELECTION. ? j a Result* of the Vote for State and Manlcl- ^ 3 pal Officers. 3 The April election was the most exciting ? ^ and surprising ever held in Louisiana. The election was for both State and oity offices 8 n The municipal contest in New Orleans was a s between the Democrats and the Citizens' 11 League, an organization which set to work J to reform the city government, and which ? 0 nominated not only municipal officers ? f but members of the Legislature as well. Rea turns at midnight showed a majority for the I l" league of 9272 in a total vote of 80,000 counts ed. They indicated thar it had carried the v 13 oity by 14,000 majority, elected the Mayor, ^ Councilmen and other municipal officers, j( l' and every one of its candidates for 8enator ? J n muA _ ami XkBprtwemauve. xue uiu?i suipiuiu^ ic- j ? suit, however, was the discovery that New j ,? Orleans, which has 37.000 registered white j majoritv, has gone for Pharr, the Republi- c can candidate for Governor, by 300 to 1000 a majority, against 22.272 Democratic maority at the last election. The news from the parishes was meagre, r but showed heavy Republican gains nearly 3 everywhere. The early Indications pointed to a Democratic majority of 22,000, against t n 62,590 in the Presidential eleotion of 1892, d y. and 86,913 in the State eleotion of 1888. The p 1, vote for Governor is counted by the Legisla- c ture. e Inanelectionjdiffloultyat Amite Dr. Gosse, \ j- Populist candidate for Governor in Tangi- s e pahoa, and a Democrat named Wade were ^ n killed. o 0 Killed b.v Lightning. n Christian Anderson, a teamster, living at J r- Cassidy Park, just outside Greenwioh, Conn., % gave a family reunion at his house in honor 8 of the arrival of his mother from Denmark. * Fifteen persons were seated about the table ^ d atsupper at half pa^t 8 o'clock p. m., when a d k" bolt of lightning from a heavy shower passed ^ d throuarh an open window, striking Anderson and killing him instantly. The bolt struck 6 Anderson in the face. No one else was in- J ? jured. A widow and two children survive ? 11 the dead man. & a I. Connecticut's Oldest Woman Dead, y Mrs. Emily Robblns Talcott, the oldest ~ woman in Connecticut, dlei at her home in a n West Hartford. She was born in Wethersfleld on Christmas Day, 1790. n Baron de Hlr?ch Dead. ? p 9 Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the great nnan- => t cler and philanthropist, died on his estate at ^ d Presburg. Hungary, from a stroke of apo- jplexy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch. whose ^ t- full name was Maurioede Hirsch de Gereuth, h was born in Munich sixty-three years ago. y His father was a merchant in Bavaria, wlio, " it for services rendered to the State, was enif nobled in 1869. G f< A Woman Juror In Colorado. Judge Johnson, of the District Court. Den- q e ver, a.-cepted Madame Warren as u juror, ii i this being the first case of a woman sitting . on a jury in Colorado. is The St. Lawrence Over Its Hank. j, a Tho water in the St. Lawrence River rose ^ i higher than during the great flood of 1865, , the highest on record at Three Rivers, ii . Canadu. An Immense loss has been sus1 tained by farmers, barns being carried away, jj , and hogs, lumber and cordwood swept down i, the river In largo quantities. ,1 > e] - New Trial for a Murderess. 1 The New York Court of Appeals has granted 3 a new trial to Maria Barberi, sentenced to st ' death In New York City for killing her be, trajrer, Domlnlco Cataldo. In Its opinion D a the Court says that Recorder Goff's attitude fli 1 during the trial and his charge to the jury is were nnfair to the defendant. I el THE NEWS EPITOMIZEDWaihlnrton Items. Ex-Senator Edmunds was elected intof the International Arbitration ess which opened a two days' sessio^H|H^H ashlngton. _ Mr. Goodwyn, the Popallst contestant om the Fifth Alabama District, was seated1 r the House. |^B President Cleveland received a petition 9RS om the Bar Association of New York, ask-1 k him to favor the establishment of an in-; B rnatlonal court of arbitration. ^^9 An amendment to the Naval Appropriation 11, appropriating (25,000 additional for the; instruction of tide Kates in the causeway} :ros<? Wallabout Channel, connecting the ob Dock at Brooklyn. N. Y., with the Navyj |^B ard was favorably reported to the Senate] om tho Naval Affairs Committee. |H| A report from Miss Clara Barton, giving an. count of the gratifying progress of relief - B| ork in Armenia, was reoeived in Washgton. In the House the General Deflolency blili ie last of the great appropriation bills, was issed. j. /<HH Mr. Call presented to the Senate a petition B8 gned by L. L. Yarrell and A. H. Garland,. ;torneys for Mrs. Maybrlck, addressed to ie President of the United States, urging W9 lis Government to intervene In behalf or )H9 rs. Maybrlck. The petition is accompanied] Hlfl y a great number of printed documents andi itters from Individuals Interested in the' 4 ' :.'9i Thn newly found document submitted to1 HI ie Boundary Commission by Venezuela 1b! lid seriously to discredit the British Blue' OH ook. j In the United States 8enate Mr. Allen, of ebraska, accused Mr. Gear, of Iowa, of ut(ring falsehoods. Experts testified before the House Com- H| ilttee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce lat the building of the Nicaragua Canal acjrding to the plans and estimates prepared y the company was impracticable. Civil Engineer B. E. Peary, the Arctic ex* lM lorer. has been detached from duty at the ^H| rooklyn Navy Yard by orders issued by the avy Department and placed on the wait- V ig list. The President issued his annual Bering . aa proclamation, warning sealers from ply- J^H tg their vocation during the close season, ^H| om May 1 to August 1. The proclamation similar to those issued in prevkus years. President Cleveland has awarded a medal HH t honor to Brigadier-General Absalom ' H aird, who was Inspector-General of the BWI rmy up to time of his retirement from ao- HIH ve service. The medal is given for gallan- H| y in action in Jonesboro. 6a., Septem- BD ar 1,1861. HH Domestic. HB EECOBD OF TOT LEAGUE CLUBS. HH Per Pel BH Clnb*. Won. Loit. ct Club?. Won. Loir. ct hlladel .4 1 .800 Chicago...8 8 .800 I lttsburg..4 1 .800 Cincinnati.3 8 .600 Brooklyn..3 2 .600 St. Louis..8 S .600 Ueveland.S 2 .600 Boston.. .2 4 . 333 rashing'nS 2 .600 New York.l 4 .2C0 HI laltlmore.8 3 .500 Louisville.. 1 6 .161 The American National Bank of Denver, Mfl !ol., closed Its doors. MBI Extensive damage has been done to the Hflj rult crop of California by frosts. IH| The United States battleship Massachaetts In its run from Delaware Capes to Cape j !od proved even faster than the battleship ndiana Hfl Stocks opened lower on sales for London ecount. A false rumor was circulated oa tie other side that the Venezuelan contro ersv might break out afresh.' There was ood local buying, however, and the dosing rices were considerably higher. 9| W, F. Workman and Layman Williams. Hfl rominent citizens of Balelgh County, West 'Inrinla. drank carbolic acid for whisky, and led from tne effects. J. D. Buxton, cashier of the Minneapolis Hinn.) postofflcee, has been placed undei rrest for embezzlement. The shortage u bout $2100. H Paderewski, the pianist in New York City, |^H ave William SteinwAy $10,000 as a fund to stablish prizes for American composers. Edla Stimguist, Mrs. Burden's kifcohenlaid, was indicted, arrested and sent to tha HflB 'ombs, New York City, on a charge of com* lloity in the robbery of the jewels. Governor A. L Bo reman, of West Virginia, I H ied at Parkersburg. Starling Savage was taken from his bed it rving College, Tenn., by a mob of masked loonshlner.s, and hanged to a tree. The oomed man was suspected of being a spot* I H 3r for the United States Internal Revenue. Christ Union Church at Helleretown, 'enn., was struck by lightning and ourned 3 the ground. Loss, $12,000; insurance, H I9C00. Edward Pardridge, a noted wheat specuitor, died of Bright's disease in Chicago. 111. Insurance agents have been instructed to ancel Are policies on buildings In New York fleeted by the Raines Liquor Tax law. The Appellate Division of the New York upreme Court sustained the^ constitutionlity of the Percy-Gray Racing law. ^HD Field Marshal Yamagata, of Japan, sailed rom New York for Havre, on his way to fl^H[ loscow, where he will represent Japan at be coronation of the Czar. Three men were killed by an explosion in At Turner's Falls, Mass.. five children rere suffocated in a tenement-house fire. ,l?? a# Ana A a ra iima TltlKnlB ,UD UaLUCD iUU uvuu n?v our years old; Lena Dubois, seven, both hildren of Joseph Dubois; Rosie Boumter, HH )ubois's stepdaughter, a girl of thirteen: I osephine Coumartino. twelve years old, ana Jdward Coumartino. ten years old, children f Charles Coumartine. The children wen ,11 French. At Maitland, Mo., the Farmer s' Bank ws obbed by three masked men, who b!ew tha afe open and secured $1000 in silver. Baron Constantino de Grimm, artist, catoonist, journalist, soldier and bohemian. [led,at the age of fifty, in New York City, of meumonla, accompanied by a complication HHH if kidney disease. The First National Bank of Bedford City. ra., failed. Its capital was $50,000, ana urplus and profits $23,000. Its individual eposits amounted to $78,000, and tne bank wed $55,000 borrowed money. Thomas Brown, who was serving a seven ears' sentence for burglary in the Jackson HH Mich.) State prison, was killed while attemptif? to escape. The lawyers of East New Jersey have in? uced Chancellor HcGill to established a ranch court at As bury Park to accominc late the lawj-ors practicing in tbn territory etween South Amboy and Toms River. H Marquis Yamagata, the Japanese Field larshal, visited the City Hall, New Mty, and was received by the Mayor and the^^JH leads of various City Departments. Forelarr. Not**. . Daron von Hammerstein was convlcted^^^M nd sentenced in Berlin Mr. Chamberlain says England most lain paramount in South Africa. General Weyler has staked his whole cam?^^^^| aisrn on his trocha movements and is san^^K|B uine of victory within nine months. A special cable despatch from Havanaj^^^H ubn, says that Gomez Is marching tow&n^^^^f [avana prcvince, to make a demonstratlo^^^^^H 1 favor of Maceo. Princess Marguerite of Orleans was led In Paris to Patrice MacMahon. |HHH It is rumored in Madrid that the Spanish^^^^f Government is preparing to Inaugurate re^^^Bfl )rms in Cuba. The German Reicbsta? has called upon overnment to combat the practice of duel^^H^H H Leon Say, the French political economist^M^ The Fronch Senate refused tc vote [adagascar credits because of want of ience in the Ministry. Dervishes in the Soudan have been tg amons; themselves. '?v> BlH King 'M?nelek has defied Italy. Angere^^^^H y the Duke of Sermonela's speech, he risoned his enemy's envoy and peace negc^M^H| ations are off. The Negus considered Gec^M^^fl -al Baldissera's representative a spy in byssinian camp. A demand was made in the German Reicl^|^Hj| ag for measures to prevent dueling. The Municipal Council has again electe^H^H| r. Lueger, the anti-Semite leader, to the zo of Burgomaster of Yienna, Austria. Th^Hfl^H the third time that Dr. Lueger has be^^^^^H to .?