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FATAL RAILROAD WRECK. One Section of an Express Train Crashes Into the Other. More Than a Score of Persons Killed or Injured. Six persons have been killed and about twenty injure 1 in a railroad accident on the Lake Shore road at Bay View, nine miles from Buffalo, N. Y., by the Chicago Express breaking in tw^ and the two section 3 then coming into collision. The killed were: Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, of Rochester; Mrs. J. D. Baucus, Rome, N. Y.; J. Swan, the colored porter; John W. Flynn, of Canton, Ohio, and John T. Power, of Pittsfield, Mass. _ The two sections of the wrecked train ar rived at Buffalo about 4 o’clock in the morn ing with the dead and injured. The bodies were placed on trucks in the baggage room and the injured were removed to tne hospitals or hotels. Pullman Condnctor Fest said the steam coupling broke in pulling ont of Dunkirk, leaving them without steam. When near West Hamburg he made the startling dis covery that the train had broken. He pulled the air-brake cord and found that it would not work. He ran to the third car and found the air-brake there also useless. He was just turning the brakes when the crash came. The first section had, on finding that there ‘ the second sec- crashed into it. Ho _ , _ they went in and saw five persons pinned in the smoking room of the ear Qalena, and they helped them. Their escape was almost miraculous, as they got out with slight ipjuries. The collision japimed the Galena right under the passenger coach in the rear, which was thrown on top of it. Of those in the Ga lena two were killed, nine injured, and one unknown man escaped. One man was killed in the passenger coach, an Italian, name unknown, and J. Swan, the colored porter of the Galena, was thrown thirty feet into a ditch and killed. Both legs and arms were broken, his chest stove in and his head smashed. Porter Waldron, (colored) of the Auburn, and Conductor Fest got out the axes and went to work to free the imprisoned passen gers. The Galena was split into kindling wood, and nothing remained of it except the trucks and one side. The wreck started to take fil e, when Porter Waldron dashed into the wreckage, and at much danger to him self succeeded in extinguishing two lamps in the sleeper which were Haring up ominously. But for this timely action a number of per sons would have perished in the flames. One of the saddest incidents of the acci dent was that which befell Jos. D. Baucus, a bright young lawyer of Saratoga. A week ago Mr. Baucus was married to a handsome young lady of Home, N. Y. The happy couple had spent their honeymoon in tne West and were returning home on the Ga lena. When the accident occurred the young lady was pinioned in the wreck. Her body was horribly bruised and her skull badly crushed. Her husband was injured about the legs and head. She was brought into a sleeper and the surgeons set about mending her wounds. Portions of the skull had to bj taken out. The bridegroom was stretched out on another seat, two doctors working over him. Every few minutes he jumped up to get a look at his wife. The doctors re strained him by keeping him constantly in- tformed of her condition, but the suspense [was too much for him. He jumped up and Jbrushing the doctors aside, folded his arms about the dying woman’s form. “She’s .cold,” he cried m despair, and he glanced up for a look of disapproval from the physicians, who stood by. “No, she’s living yet.” answered one of the doctors. The de votion of the broken-hearted husband was touching in the extreme. He refused to be led away, and clung to the side of his uncon scious wife, kissing her bleeding lips and urging the doctors on to further efforts. But medical skill proved unavailing. The wife died as the train was slowly routug into But- falo. Mr. Baucus is completely prostrated. r E. E. Stewart, of Rochester, with his wife and eighteen-months-old baby, was in the ich when the crash came. Mr, Stewart baby was unin- itiing4u-4h%armg P crying “Mamma, The ladies took her away and the oiwmv caild fell asleep. - ? THE^IN^OFBRIDGES. i. Opening; the Great Structure Over » the Firth of Forth. The great railway bridge over the River Forth at Edinburgh, Scotland, has just been opened by the Prince of Wales with great ceremony. Many eminent engineers and railway directors were present. An im mense crowd of spectators witnessed the ceremony. The day was observed as a holi day in Edinburgh in honor of the occasion. The Forth Bridge has been styled the King of Bridges. It is big enough to be added to the wonders of the world. It far surpasses not only in utility, but in its structure as an engineering feat, the Eiffel Tower. The cal culation has been made that one of the three cantilevers of the bridge, with its connecting girders, if set up lengthways on end, would Be very nearly the same height as the Paris tower. r The latter only contains 7500 tons of iron, Viiile the Forth Bridge has absorbed over 50,000 tons of the finest steel that could be procured. It was begun in 1883, and has taken about seven years to complete. The bridge proper is just over a mile in length, but there are viaducts on each end connecting it with the high ground, and these together add half a mile more to the length of the work. The height of the spans above the water is 150 feet, allowing for the passage of the largest vessels. To attain this height, and yet to have the necessary strength, the can tilevers tower high above, and they required . £>.,,,I’c I 'athCtrlfal an elevation as high as St. Paul’s Cathedral. A comparison between the Forth and other great bridges of the world is as follows: Length, Grcateet span, feet. feet. Forth Bridge 8,091 1,710 Tay Bridge 10,780 245 Niagara Bridge 8O0 808 Landore Bridge 1,760 110 Crumlin Bridge 1,800 150 Britannia Bridge 1,511 460 Brooklyn Bridge 5,862 1,600 The two great arch spans of the Forth Bridge, 1710 feet each, are beyond any span before attempted. Each is 110 feet w-ider than the central span of the Brooklyn Bridge. It has cost, or it was estimated to cost, $10,- 000,000 in money. In human life, up to Sep tember, 1888, including five drowning cases, the fatal accidents in connection with its con struction amounted to fifty-three, while the total number of accidents non-fatal up to the same time was 543; an army of workmen, numbering at times as many as 4500, have been engaged most of the seven years in build ing the gigantic structure PROMINENT PEOPLE. Dr. Knorr, of Germany, has made $1,- 000,000 out of anti-pyrine. John D. Rockefellkr, Secretary Tracy and ex-Senator Platt were schoolfellows. Joseph Biggar, the Irish Home Ruler, left the bulk of his estate to his son Joseph. Cong ressman Anderson*, of Kansas, says that Jay Gould is the brightest man in Amer* ica. William D. Howells, the novelist, is said to shrink from having his portrait pub lished. Annie Besant, the well-known English Socialist, will shortly make a visit to this country. Chief Justice Comets, of Delaware, is the possessor of 6 feet 3 inches of stature and a robust intellect. The Order of Commander of the Legipnof Honor has been conferred by France upon Perry Belmont, of New York. Chacncey M. Depew is said to travel 500 miles on an average every week. Besides this, he takes an annual trip to Europe. Representative Reybcrn, of Phila delphia. the successor of William D. Kelley in Congress, is several times a millionaire. General Benjamin F. Butler is said to be able to quote the Bible more freely and more accurately than any other man in pub lic life. Andrew Lang, the English criti*,seriously discusses the probability of coming to this country and making his permanent home in New York. _ THE HEWS EPITOMIZED. - Eastern and Middle State*. The Venango House and a number ci other buildings were burned at Venango, Penn. Officers of ocean steamers which have reached New York within a few days report meeting immense fields of ice and an unusual ly large number of icebergs off Newfound land. Chalkley Leconky, charged with murdering his niece at Camden, N. J., has been acquitted. A fire at No. 393 Broadway, New York, caused a loss of nearly $300,000. Several persons, including Battalion Chief McGill, were Injured. The West Jersey Presbytery at a meeting in Camden, decided in favor of revising the Confession of Faith by a vote of 32 to 16. Expert thieves attempted to rob the Elk County Bank at Ridgeway, Penn., but they were frightened away and escaped, leaving their tools behind them. Town Collector Chadbourne, of Ox ford, Me., is short in his accounts from $3000 to $4000. The town will call upon his bonds men to make the deficiency good. Showman Barn cm's circus and menagerie arrived at New York a few days ago after a long sojourn in England. James Lennard was killed and Thomas Owens fatally hurt by the premature explo sion of a blast in the colliery of the Ply mouth Coal Company at Plymouth, Penn. By the explosion of a box of dynamite in a contractors tool house at Pittsburg. Penn., David Hayes was instantly killed and Will iam Soddy fatally injured. At the Rhode Island Democratic State Convention in Providence John W. Davis was nominated for Governor, Captain John Waters for Lieutenant-Governor, and the rest of the 1887 ticket was put in nomina tion. The pottery works of Thomas Haddock & Sons, at Trenton, N. J., have been totally destroyed by fire. Miss Anna Putnam committed suicide by hanging at Danvers. Mass. Although worth $25,000, she was harrassed by the fear that she would become destitute, and took her life in a fit of despondency. Challenges have been sent from New York to the Earl of Dunraven, owner of the Valkyrie, by the owners of the Katrina and Shamrock for international yacht races in this country in the coming summer. Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, Seth Low, Henry E. Howland and Joseph H. Choate, at a public meeting in New York, spoke in favor of extending that city’s free circulating library system. Eight freight cars were thrown from the track near Carlisle, Penn., and wrecked. The funeral of ex-Governor English took place at New Haven, Conn. Many promi nent people attended. Reuben Eisenhart, foremen at the Cam eron Mine, Shansokin, Penn., which bad been on fire for several days, was overcome by black damp while in the mine, and died soon after being taken out. William Bucknell, the phia philanthropist, died of agd^of seventh-nine years. noted Philadel- apoplexy at the He gave $142,000 to Bucknell College,' about $525,000 to Bap tist churches and missions, and probably $500,000 more to charities of various kinds. The Belgian steamer De Ruyter, Captain Webster, from Antwerp for Boston, went ashore at Lighthouse Point, Mass., in a thick snow storm. The crew of twenty-seven men got ashore safely. South and West. Two drunken men at Chicago held Count Leon Albert, a German nobleman, up against a wall and amused themselves shooting at him. One bullet went through bis silk hat and another made an ugly scalp wound. Mbs. Mollie Smith and her two sisters, Miss Julia and Emma Barnes, three promi nent and highly respected young ladies of Saybrook, 111, hava^ been lodged in the county jail. They were suffering from the wildest and most affecting emotional in sanity upon the question of Christian science. August Groth, a brewer, out his wife’s throat with a razor at Stillwater, Minn., and then committed suicide, Fred Jacobs, 16 years old, was stabbed to the heart at Vicksburg, Miss, by Ellis Adams «*v> th « r bqy, and dtofr imVrtly The bod killed a was found hanging to the railroad bridge Iltenaba, Miss. The lynchers are unknown. Twenty masked students of Kalamazoo College, Mich., seized Professors Ferry and Trowbridge, bound them hand and foot and left them, in an open field, two miles from the college. Two schoolboys became involved in an al tercation at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and George Patterson struck Edward Traulman in the head with a stone, killing him. Alderman Charles Hillcock, of Chi cago, was found dead in the street near his home. Death resulted from apoplexy. The Virginia Legislature has appointed Commissioners to meet with a committee of foreign bondholders and confer over the set tlement of the State debt. At a recent election held at St. George, W. Va., Mayor Miller was elected, but failed to qualify. The City Council then appointed D. 8. Minear, whereupon Mayor Miller quali fied. Both claimed to be Mayor, and the re suit was that no laws were being enacted or‘ enforced. Eowfi? Cowles, editor and proprietor of the Cleveland Leader, has died in that city, aged sixty-five years. Whit e Henry Greenlee and his wife were away from home their four children wete burned to death in their cabin at Eupora, Miss, William H. Pope, teller of the Louisville City National Bank, has absconded with $60,000 of the bank’s cash in his possession. The Exposition buildings and street car barns wer* burned at Plattsmouth, Neb. The loss is heavy. Heavy floods have caused much, damage along the Ohio River. At Cairo, 111, the river was fifty miles wide. The convention of the National League of Republican Clubs has been held in Nashville, Tenu. A reception was given in the League’s honor by Governor Taylor and the Legisla ture at the State Capitol. UriTED States Senator Allison has been re-elected by the Iowa Legislature. The Apaches went on the war path in Ari zona. A freighter was murdered hear Point of Rocks and ranches were being abandoned. United States troops started in pursuit of the Indians. The banking firm of C. L. Lewis & Co., of Winchester, Ind., has failed. All the county officials had deposits at the bank. President Joseph STANLEY.of the Broad way and Newburg Street Railway of Cleve land, Ohio, has died from injuries received while jumping from one of his own electric motors. Mrs. Katherine Drake, of Zanesville, Ohio, was burned to death. She waseighty- fotir years of age. and her clothes catchimr fire from the grate she was too feeble to call for aid. R. R. Donnelly & Sons, printers of the Chicago City Directory, one of the oldest printing and publishing houses in the West, have tailed, with liabilities aggregating $100,000. Raimund Holzhay, the notorious train robber, now in the penitentiary at Marquette, Mich., for life, tried to murder a fellow con vict and was shot and seriously wounded by the warden. An English syndicate has bought the F. W. Wheeler & Co. shipyard and dry dock at Bay City, Mich., for $3,500,000. Washington. After a long fight the Senate has confirmed the nomination of ex-Governor Henry C- Warmoth to be Collector of Cus toms at New Orleans. Eleven Democrats and three Republicans voted against confir mation. • The delegates to the Pan-American Con ference have been invited to make a trip through the South. The President has approved the bill to in crease pensions of soldiers and sailors totally helpless from injuries received or diseases con tracted while in service of United States. A court of inquiry was appointed to in vestigate charges of cruelty and oppression made against Commands’ B. H. McCalla, commanding the United States steamship Enterprise. Commander McCalla is also charged by an American resident at Ber muda with disgraceful conduct at that place. The President providing for an War. approved the 1 Secretary Foreign. While a Progressist meeting was being held at Koenigsberg, Germany, a crowd of Socialists stormed the hall, ana a sharp fight ensued. The police arrested a large number of persons. Four persons were killed and fourteen in jured in a train wreck at Carlisle, England Rioting took place at Setubal, Portugal, and the military fired into the crowd, killing two and injuring twenty others. The great railway bridge over the River Forth, Scotland, was opened by the Prince of Wales. A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia, says that Henry George was welcomed at the Town Hall by the Mayorof the city. The Czar of Russia has received a threat ening letter from a woman who signed her self “Tchebrikova.” The writer said that unless he modified his reactionary policy he would meet the fate of Peter III., Paul I. and Alexander II. The French and Dahomans have fought a second battle in Africa, the natives being beaten with heavy loss. Major Wissmann, the German officer, attacked and routed the Arabs in East Africa. Several Nihilists were arrested near the Anitchkoff Palace, in St. Petersburg, where the Czar and imperial family are residing. Rudolph de Guehry, a school teacher, aged fifty years, was arrested at Kingston, Ontario, for assaulting pupils, and was being conveyed to th* Pembroke jail when he was seized with spasms and died. Hungary and Austria were visited by violent snowstorms, which practically sus pended railway travel in every section. Abraham Lincoln, son of the United States Minister to England, has died in London after a long and painful illness, The President of the Transvaal, South Africa, has been insulted by a mob and the flag of the Republic tom down. A shoe factory at Weissenfels, Saxony, has been destroyed by fire. Seven of the employes lost their lives in the burning building. BURNS) Fatal Disast< Wayne on the ilroad. Three Lives Lo md $100,000 Worth of Prop y Destroyed. A wreck that causAhe death of thres men and resulted in t estruction of prop erty valued at $100,(X as occurred on the CRISP. Fort ort Wayne Rail- io. The names of Cowan, engineer. tersburg, Va. Lewis. Stewart and John I for the natives at “ ‘ ™ tv*,* LATER NEWS. A notable auction sale of trotters has just taken place in New York. Eighty-seven horses belonging to L. J. Rose, of Los An geles, Cal., brought $235,945. The stallion Alcazar sold for $25,800, and the two-year- old Voodoo brought $24,000. The town of Casey Hill, Penn., has caved in. The family of Thomas Kelly were in jured by their house toppling over. Many other buildings were wrecked. The town was over an abandoned mine. The damage to property will reach $60,000. John Pew, the founder of the house of John Pew & Sons, the largest firm in the American fisheries, died at Gloucester, Mass., aged 82. A cold wave, with a temperature as low in places as twenty-five degrees below zero, preimiad in New York State and New Eng- •n«t. Is explosion occured at the Armstrong furnitare factory, Evansville, Ind., starting a blaze, in which three boys were burned to death. The village of Liberty, Ky., bas been con sumed by fire. Loss $40,000; no insurance. The village had a population of 325. A freight train was derailed near Ci^co, Cal., and twenty-one beef cattle were killed. The American wire, rod and nail mill of Anderson, lud., has been burned. The loss will reach $100,000. About 300 men are thrown out of employment. By the caving in of a sandbank several railroad laborers were covered up near Pe- Stewar Dawson were taken out and Archer Griffin was got out alive, but fatally injured. The private banking firm of Belloc Freres, San Francisco, Cal., has made an assign ment and closed its doors. The Sheriff says that the liabilities, as far as known, will amount to $500,000. Felix Kempf, the first man legally exe cuted in Kanawha County, W. Va., since the State was organized, was banged at Charles ton in the presence of about 2000 people. J. C. McGregor, reading clerk of the Ohio State House of Representatives, died at Zanesville of diphtheria. Mrs. McGregor died a week previous, immediately after the death of four children, making six deaths in the family within a little over two weeks. While trying to cross the river at John son’s Island, sixteen miles above Knoxville, Tenn., three boys were drowned. They were in a frail boat, which capsized. The snb-committoe of the House World’s Fair Committee had a conference with the Chicago delegation, and went over part of the Fair bill. The President sent to the Seqfue the fol lowing nominations: William M. Marine, to be Collector of Customs at Baltimore, William D. Burchinal, Surveyor of Custom! at Baltimore; Milton G. Urner, Naval Of ficer of Customs at Baltimore; Cecil J. Kars ner, Appraiser of Merchandise at Baltimore) Alfred C. Barwick, Collector of Customs ai Burlington, N. J.; Edward C. Duncan, Col lector of Customs at Beaufort, N. C.; Jobr F. Patty, Naval Officer of Customs at New Orleans. Serious differences arose among the Portuguese officials at Mozambique. Four hundred imported soldiers from Goa, whe are British subjects, refused to drill or dc military service. Dr. Raimondo Andueza Palacio was elected President of the Venezuela Republic. It was stated that the Portuguese Minister in London had failed in his negotiations for the settlement of the African territorial dis pute, and that he would return to Lisbon im mediately. C0LLECT0BS AND CONSULS. A Number of Nominations Received and One Confirmed. The President sent to the Senate the fol lowing nominations: To be Collector of Customs—L Edward P. Dennis, for the Eastern District of Maryland; Joseph E. Lee, District of St. John’s, Florida; Daniel P. Booth, District of Mobile, Ala. Consuls—William Burgess (N. J.), at Tun- stall; Herbert Wolcott Bowen (N. Y.), at Barcelona; Frederick W. Catlin (N. Y.), at Munich; William R. Estes (Minn.), at Kings ton, Jamaica. The Senate in executive session confirmed the nomination of Henry C. Caldwell, to be Judge of the United States Court for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, vice Brewer, ap pointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. THE NATIONAL DEBT. Its Present Condition and Reduction Last Month—Cash in Treasury. The following items are taken from the public debt statement for February: Total debt—Principal..... ... .$1,594,149,186 Interest .#.... 7,564,656 Total $1,601,718,842 Total debt, less available cash items 1,067,304,114 Net cash in the Treasury 82,75^584 Decrease of debt during month. 6,159,486 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1889 42,090,091 Total cash in Treasury as shown by Treasurer's general sc- count T 622,673,615 Pittsburg, Chicago road, near Lakevill the victims are: J| Alliance, Ohio; Har ^flalthouse, fireman. Alliance, Ohio, and u*d Miller, brake- man, Marshallville, Freight train No. 95n running in several sections, and at Laket i the third section broke a coupling, and tJ letached portion of the train, consisting a dozen cars and three tank cars filled th gasoline, came to a stand. The com tor and brakeman of the third section id they at once started back to warn tl the fourth section. They ran for half a mil* placing many tor pedoes on the track. Bi the warning was not heeded and the ti i, running down grade at the rate of thi r miles an hour, crashed into the third ection, ploughing half throngh the detach* portion. As the collision occurr the tank car ex ploded with a noise that uld be heard for a mile away, and, the blaz ; gasoline spread ing, the wrecked cars w e soon enveloped in flames. The three men who we killed were in the cab of the engine of the f rth section. Their bodies were burned to afisp in the flames that raged fpr two h cars, gondolas loaded box-cars filled with meri trains, and all this fierce a fire as ever wreck. The flames rolled up along the track, and n day. Awakened by tank cars and alarnu fire, farmers hurried to wreck from every directid. No one could approach within a hundi i yards of the burning mass, however, nd the charred bodies of the victims were lot taken out for several hours. So intense as the beat that the bell of the engine tosef ion No. 4‘ melted and the metal was encrust . upon the boiler. The rails for several bun red feet were all twisted out of shape and tl ties burned. The trainmen of section To. 3 say those of section No. 4 must have b( a asleep, It is believed, however, the warf.ng was not as timely as these men claim. Oil and gasoline >ke and coal and idise made up the was fuel for as after a railroad quarter of a mile as changed into ilosions of the fierceness of the e scene of the SEAL FISHERIES LEASED. A Now Company Get* khe Privilege at an Enormous . dvance. Secretary Windom has ararded the lease for twenty years of the es lusive privilege of killing seals on islands of St. George and St. Paul in | bring Sea. The award goes to the Nortln American Com mercial Company, of W t York and San Francisco. The principal i-bckholders in the new corporation are J. Liies, a furrier, of San Francisco; D. O. Millie of New York, and Lloyd Tevis, of San Fi icisco. The company to which . e contract has been awarded was by far th highest bidder. The Alaska Commercial C impany, whose lease is about to expire, paid a rental of $55,- 000 and a royalty of $2.62 { for each skin taken. The North America l Company pat in three bids. The first was in agreement to give $55,200 a year for .weity years as an annual rental and to pay a revenue tax of $2 on every fur seal taken. In addition to this, however, they offered—and it is on this un expectedly liberal bonus that the Secretary j bases his award—$7.62>£jon each seal. The j company also offered a tunus of 50 cents on each gallon of ?oal oil mcule from seal taken | from the islands. I | The grand total of tlie North Amerian Commercial Company’s Md for the right to catch 100,000 fur seals in jlAlaska yearly runs 9 up to the enormous figure of $32,500,1 and adding the ^f^Joil bounl the provisions which i,ooa ity and red to be made Eel?’ the final Al -view $25,000 000. On tbte' basis of 60,000 seals yearly it will still reach the gratifying sum of $13,100,000, or nearly twice what the Territory cost. The Alaska Commercial Company has obtained from the Russian Government a new twenty years’ lease of the seal islands on the Russian side of Behr ing Sea. Hiiherto they had a monopoly of the seal catching on the seal islands both of Russia and the United States. A DEED FOB $22,000,000. A Wealthy Pittsburger Transfers His s Property to His Son. Ex-Judge Thomas A. Mellon, of Pittsburg, Penn., aged and feeble, bas filed a deed with the Recorder transfarring all his vast real estate—$22,000,000—to his son, Andrew W. Mellon. Judge Mellon owned property in almost every ward in Pittsburg and Alle- f ;hanv. He is said to have had more than 000 dwelling houses, besides a large amount of unimproved property. The transfer also includes considerable i West. Mellon real estate in the far The personal property of Judge is divided among his other children. THE NATIONAL OAME. A New York State League has been formed. Sam Crane has been appointed Captain of the New York League Club. Gore, of New York, says the League re duced his salary $lt)00 last season. Captain Ewing thinks the Cincinnati team will finish second or third in the League race. The New York League Club is bringing suits against nearly all its players on last year’s team. The Central Labor Union, of New York city, has indorsed the Players’ League, and its members will support that organization. The National League will be fairly strong in one department—catching; but as an offset the pitchers in the aggregate are weak. One of the best pleas that the Players' League has yet made for public support it the splendid staff of umpires they have se cured. ’ Pitcher Keefe is training the Princeton College pitchers, and Riley, the Columbus third baseman, is looking after the othei players. A corps of trainers will shortly go to Eng land to thoroughly train a number of base ball teams. The men will be all good amateur players. Anson, the Chicago League Club’s Cap tain, puts up at a first-class hotel in Florida, while his players have to be content with cheap fare. Hutchinson, of Chicago, is considered by many the speediest pitcher in the League or the profession — faster, even, than Ned Crane, of New York. • The Pittsburg League Club will play ex hibition games at home, and will make no Southern trip before the opening of the championship season. The Harrisburg (Penn.) Club, which won the Middle States championship last season, has been reorganized, and a strong team will be put in the field to play all comers. The Players' League will open the season on April 21 and close on October 4. The Eastern clubs and the Western play the first series of games on their respective grounds. The Players’ League sent a communica tion to President Young, of the National League, in session at Cleveland, suggesting the formation of another national agree ment, of which the two organizations shall be the principal parties. Director Appleton says the men who have gone South with Manager Mutrie will not compose the team the New York League Club will put in the field and are simply ex perimental material out of which the club hopes to develop a good man or two. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company re ceives a subsidy of $900,000 a year from the Pacific railroads for maintaining transcon tinental rates of freight against the shippers of Oregon and California. The Chinese Government has been mass ing troops on the Siberian frontier, as an early attack by Russian forces was feared. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 50TH Day.—Hr. Mitchell offered a resolu tion, which was agreed to, instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to considp- the advisability of advancing the Turkish mission to a minion of the second class, with a salary to the United States Minister of $12,- 000 Mr. Dolph introduced a bill authoriz ing the Secretary of the Interior to establish such rules and regulations, and to provide such penalties as he may deem best, to secure the regular attendance of all children in Alaska where schools are maintained by the Interior Department... .The bill to establish uniform salaries of $5000 for United States District Court Judges was passed — Mr. Spooner spoke in opposition to the Blair bill. 51st Day.—A joint re-olution for taking the census in Alaska was passed....A re solution offered the previous day by Mr. Voorhees in regard to the lease of the fur seal islands in Alaska to the North American Commercial Company was reported back adversely from the finance Committee.... The relations of the press to executive sessions were discussed. 52d Day.—The message of the President, making known his approval of the agreement made with the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota for the cession of their lands, transmitting the report of the Commissioners, and recom- mending an appropriation to complete a sur vey of the lands, was presented in the Senate, read, and referred... .The Blair Educational bill came up for debate, and Mr. Plumb spoke in opposition to it. 5Sd Day.—A number of private bills were passed... .Mr. Wilson introduced a bill pro viding that the charge of desertion against any soldier who served in the late war shall be no bar to his right to pension, when it can be reasonably shown that the disability on account of which he claims pension was in curred while performing actual service in the volunteer army....In executive session the consideration of the “leakage” of secret session proceedings wascon tin tied. 54th Day.—Mr. Hale spoke against the Blair Educational bill, and Mr. Blair de fended it... .The public building bills on the calendar having been reached, the following were passed: For Sterling, 111., $50,000; Oak land, Cal., $300,000: Cheyenne, Wyo., $150,- 000; Chester, Penn., $100,000; Helena, Mont., $400,000. ; passage of a few pri- Cutr " ' In the House. 56th Day.—After the vate pension bills, Mr. Cutcheon called up the Senate bill providing for an Assistant Secretary of War. Passed—yeas, 128; nays, 100... .The contested election paso of Feather- ston against Cate, from the First Arkansas District, was considered. *57th Day.—The contested election case of Featherston against Cate was taken tip.... Bills were introduced by Mr. Owen appro priating $35,000 for the erection of a monu ment to the division of regulars at Gettys burg Representative Kinsey reported favorably from the Committee on Military Affairs his bill appropriating $200,000 to be gin the reconstruction of the military post at Jefferson Barrack?. Mo. 58th Day.—Consideration of the contested election case of Featherston against Cate, of Arkansas, was resumed. The debate had not concluded when the House adjourned. 59th Day.—By a party vote of 147 to 138, the House decided that W. H. Cate, the sit ting member from the First Arkansas Dis trict, was not elected a Representative in the List Congress, and then decided, by a vote of 145 to 135, thatL. P. Featherston was elected, and be appeared and took bis seat. 60th Day.—The greater pdrtion of the day was consumed in a discussion of a bill for the compulsory attendance of witnesses before registers and receivers of land offices, but no action was taken A number of public buildings appropriation bills were passed. 61st Day.—Mr. Haugen, from the Com mittee on Elections, reported a resolution in the Alabama contested election case of Threat against Clark. The resolution, which Was unanimously reported, declares Clark entitled to retain his seat. It was adopted ... .The Speaker laid before the House the Senate bill referring to the Court of Claims the claim of W. E. Wood bridge for the use of his invention of projectiles for rifled cannon. After some discussion the bill was defeated—yeas, 111; nays, 128.... About fifty private pension bills were passed. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. i said that the Buffalo Bill show will re- j London lor”larbriet season m May. Miss Thomas, of Cleveland, musically educated at Milano, is to make her debut in opera in June. The French authorities have forbidden the production of Mme. Bernhardt’s “Pas sion” play in Paris. Among the many attractions that Pierre, the new capital of South Dakota, promises itself, is a $150,000 theatre. Patti and her company arrived at Denver after a thirteen hour delay by Colorado storms. The diva was suffering with a chest cold and fever. The almost complete score of the opera “Tannhauser,” written and signed by Wag ner, has ’ een discovered in the ruins of the Zurich Theatre. A new tenor, Tolpi by name, has been dis covered in Venice, and great reports of the sweetness of his voice come from Italy, where he is now singing. The niece of Mme. Christine Nilsson, who hoped to become a great prima donna, has abandoned her plans, having discovered that her voice is inadequate. Herr Eduard Strauss has signed an en gagement at Vienna with an American im- pressario for a three months’ tour with a complete orchestra in the United States dur ing the coming season.’ Seats for Joseph Jefferson's recent per formance at Atlanta, Ga., were sold at auc tion without his knowledge or consent. He did n ■'t feel that he was entitled to the prem ium money, some $600 in all, so he distributed it among focal charities. Signor Salvini has the reputation of hav ing fewer intimate friends, outside the circle of his own countrymen^than any other for eign actor who has visited these shores. The reason given is not that he is unsocial, but that he is unable to speak English. The London County Council contemplates imposing a license on variety artists with many remarkable restrictions, the infraction of which will involve the canceling of the license. A large and stormy meeting of act ors, managers and music-hall loving people was held. The theatre which the authorities of the University of Pennsylvania have decided to erect will be used for all public lectures given under the auspices of the University, for concerts and for the performances of classi cal music. It will cost $75,000, and the organ which will be constructed about $35,000. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The premium on gold in Buenos Ayres has risen to 164 per cent. They are about to build a new Masonic temple in Chicago, at a cost of $3,090,000. Turkey has declined to accept the Belgian scheme for the suppression of the slave trade. The large smelting organizations of the United States have formed a Trust with s capital of $25,000,000. It is now proposed to dig a tunnel undei the Detroit River in the interest of the Ca nadian Pacific railroad. Leprosy is spreading so rapidly in New Caledonia that 3000 of the natives and many of the convicts have been attacked. State Tf.easurer Noland, of Missouri, has been suspended owing to the discovery of a shortage of $32,000 in his accounts. Virginia has begun to take steps to ascer tain bow large a proportion of its taxable property is owned by colored people. The epidemic of influenza is slowly ing its way down through Mexico and \ u- catan to the Central American States. Leagues have been formed in Rio Jan- 1 erio, Bahia. Para. Santos and Pernambuco. Bzazil. to boycott British in favor of Ameri can goods. Ohio is to have a new oil company _ com posed of wealthy capitalists from Chicago, Milwaukee and Pittsburg, with an estimated capital of $50,000,000. Alabama papers are calling attention to the wanton destruction of mocking birds in that State. Large numbers of them are shol every spring and summer. According to a statement just issued by the Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts there are forty-one State banks in the State, hav ing an aggregate capital of $9,316,500. Repor* i concerning the prospective wheal crop in the Western States are encouraging. Only Michigan and Wisconsin complain of A BAM BOBBER KILLED. His Pockets Full of Money and $1000 In His Boots. Shot by a Policeman as He Was Trying to Draw Eis Pistols. Telegraph Operator Taylor, of Meriden, Kan., heard the words, ‘T*i a slick un,” ad dressed to him by a stranger the other night while he was receiving messages at the rail way station. He paid no attention to the re mark until he had completed the message; which read as follows: “To the Sheriff, Meriden, Kansas ; “Hicks & Gephart’s bank robbed this evening of $3000. Robber unknown. De scription as follows: Blond, light hair and moustache, blue eyes, 5 feet 11 tall, medium weight. Sheriff.” The operator looked up, and nearly lost bis breath when he saw standing before him the man described in the dispatch. He did not reveal the fact of the recognition, but merely a creed with the stranger fiat he was a “slick The stranger inquired the time of the un. next train for Atchison and asked where ha tor it. The operator ere the “slick un” Xing, requesting could put up for the directed him to a hotel, w cook a room without regibv^^u.^, * that he be called at 5 o’clock in the morning, in time for the Atchison train. Policemen Smith and Summerfleld. who had also received instructions from Valley Falls to arrest any suspect, were informed by the operator of the presence of the stranger at the hotel. Arming themselves with Win chester rifles, they went to the hotel, waited under the man’s window until 12 o’clock, and then, going to the office, acquainted the pro prietor with their intention to arrest his guest. A bell-boy was sent to the stranger’s room with a message that it was time to get up to catch the Atchison train. When the stranger descended to the office he was confronted by the policemen with Win chester rifles pointed squarely at his breast. He never quivered, but looked inquiringly around. “Throw up your hands,” Smith said.’ The stranger seemed to realize his situation then, but instead of obeying he thrust his hands into both side pockets of his overcoat to draw the revolvers which only a few hours before had intimidated Cashier Cohn, of the Valley Falls Bank. As the stranger made the motion toward his weapons, both Winchesters were discharged instantly at his breast. The stranger fell dead with one bullet through his heart and another through the right The Coroner was notified, ancjrtJefore'hbon a verdict was returned exoneneting the po licemen of any criminality ini the death of the bank robbe being their excuse. No scare' outlaw’s person was made uni Cohn’s request a search was stolen money recovered. In his boots were found jfcwo packages of greenbacks of $500 each. < The balance of the' money had been distributed among bis various pockets. The ■ outlaw was positively identified from a t-egistered re ceipt dated at BurlingtoiL, Kan., as one Robertson. The mor»er receipted for had been payable to R. C.iSmith at Ot tawa, Kan. In Robertson’s froefeet was a watch with the initial “R” engrraved upon it, and a foot rule bearing the saLae initial. stranger entered the bank at four fr’clock and asked Cashier Cohn, who was busy inside the railing verifying the clerk’s accounts for the day, that he be allowed to wait tthere for the arrival of Dr. Gephart, President of the bank. The Cashier granted hifa request. A little later the stranger remarked that he was suffering severely from yhe toothache, laced his hand upon his flai verification of his remar that he be allowed to sit by the railing. Again the casJ nothing, granted the request. The stranger occupied his til the cashier, having concl entered the vault to lock up books. When he turned he gazed into a brace of revol' his head .bv^the wno oooiiy requ< over $10,000 on penall med in the vault. The aving a .used i -self-defence of tho dead at Cashier and the m -bound face and requested te stove inside suspecting ier. i quietly un- hiswork, le money and e the vault levelled A MODEL L0W-00ST HOUSE j Description and Expenae of * Small and Inexpensive Structure. (Copyright by the Author.) t Carpenters and builders are good fellows who perform an immense amount of skfilfuT work for insufficient compensation. They are hard names if a knot the sis^jof a pin-head appears in an otherwise structure. They are abused for a in a roof after a furious cyclone few shingles instead of leveling the house to the ground. They are blamed for «u uncou- trolable spring in the cellar and so on, with out rhyme or reason, to the end of a long; chapter of complaints. ' J ' But there is one serious accusation against Fancy for a moment common place boxstrt ■ vant traveler sees from a >/ beauty of form and color. Then . that with about the same materials,! about th* same cost for labor thate might have been all the fanhy i It seems sometimes that tbfe enc offense referred to calls for reotion. I The cut given herewith shows what have been in many a now unsightly borhood except for the (dry goods box signer. A small and inexpensive structure' presenting an attractive appearance from. 1 every point of view because it shows lines and’ “breaks” that please thp eye and appeal to’ the imaginatf Below will' 'desanpti.au of' Size of St 26 ft.; depth Height of ' found a somewhat detailed- i: Extreme width (front), 31 ft. 6 inches, i: Cellar, ? ft.; first story,’ 9 ft.; second story, 8 ft. ' { Materials for Hxterior Walls: Foundations, stone or brick; first story, clapboards; sec-: md story and roof, shingles. ! Interior Finish: All rooms finished with, white plaster and soft wood trim. Stair-: ease, newels, rails and balusters, nard wood.- Exterior Colors} »ody 'of first story, pale, yellow; casings ot doors and windows, cor ner boards, water table, cornices, bands and) at Is, on penalty of being prisoned in the vault. The cashier par leyed for a time, but finding himself wholly at the mercy of the outlaw, with death by suffocation in the vault as the only alterna tive. he handed over all the money in the big cash drawer, amounting to about $2800. The robber pocketed the money, locked the front door of the bank, made his exit from the rear door, locking it after him, and made bis escape. He neglected to take the front door key with him, and it was only a minute before the cashier relased himself and gave the alarm. The whole town turned out in search of the outlaw, but he had made good his escape. Telegrams were sent by the Sheriff to the authorities of the surrounding towns, notify ing them of the robbery and asking them to arrest all suspicious persons. The outlaw fled to Meridan, Kan., fifteen miles distant from the scene of the robbery THE “UNLOADED GUN.” A Father Shoots His Four-Year-Old Daughter Dead. Wilfra Sikes, of Waterloo, N. Y., intendeo to spend a day hunting. In preparing foi his trip the night before he took out bis gun to clean it.‘ While thus engaged his four year-old daughter Mabel, a bright little girl, came into the room where he was at wort and commenced her childish prattle. Hei father good-naturedly told her to go to hei mother in an adjoining room, and playfuuj pointed the gun toward her to hasten hei steps. Mr. Sikes did not know that th! weapon was loaded. To his horror a louq report followed, and in the next instant the child lay on the floor a corpse. Tbl top of its head had been blown off. Thi father is heartbroken. Trouble has broken out in Oklahoma owing to alleged efforts to colonized the new territory with sufficient colored people to ena ble them to run the Territorial Government. first: veranda posts and rails, wul side walls and roof,silver stain; oil white with yellow panels, blinds, __ yellow date; sashes, dark green; brickwc red. Accommodations: The principal rooms, and their sizes, clobets, etc., are shown byj th* plans given herewith. In additionj there is a cellar under.th* whole house with; an inside and an outside entrance thereto, < and the garret loft is floored to providw storage room. finished with, oil in natural colors. The? “swell” front and the “swell” side increase, the sizes of important rooms and give variety 1 and interest to the exterior. The front parapet is roofed with tin level with its top; at the sides and rising a little in the center to; carry off rain and snow. To the observer on THE MARKETS. 10 NEW YORK. Beeves 4 00 Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 Calves, common to prime... 2 80 Sheep 5 00 Lambs 3 00 @ 5 25 @45 00 @ 4 00 @ 6 50 @ 7 00 Hogs—Live 4 20 @ 4 40 Dressed 5 7 Flour—City Mill Extra 4 35 @ 4 50 Patents 4 65 @ 5 25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 88% @ 89 Piy e—State 57 <3 g* Barley—Two-rowed State... 46 <3! 50 Corn—Ungraded Mixed...*. 25%@ 37% Oats—No. 1 White — 31 Mixed Western 27 (A 30 Hay—No. 1 75 80 Straw—Long Rye 75 @ 80 Lard—City Steam — @ 5.80c Butter—State Creamery.... 13 @ 19 Dairy, fair to good. 15 @ 22 West. Im. Creamery 9 @ 21 Factory 6 (A 18 Cheese—State Factory 8%@ 11% Skims—Light...... 4 <a 9 Western 7%@ 10 Eggs—State and Penn........ — <£$ 16 BUFFALO. Steers—W extern Sheep—Medium to Good.. Lam ip—Alt ibs—F; air to Good 6 65 @ 5 61 @ 90 Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 Flour—Family 5 Wheat—No. 2 Northern..... Corn—No. 3, Yellow Oats—No. 2, White Barley—No. 1 Canada BOSTON. Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 4 Corn—Steamer Yellow 36 @ 40J< Oats—No. 2 White I... 31 @ 85 Rye—State 60 @ 62 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dressed weight 4 @ 6J< Sheep—Live weight 3 @ 5k Lambs 6 @ 6% Hogs—Northern 4k @ 5 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Penn, family 3 40 Wheat—No. Corn- Oats—Ungraded' Potatoes—Roee Butter—Creamery Extra.... Cheees—Part skims.......... lt—k enii. xaxxwy. ••••••» eat—No. 2, Red,March.. i—No. 2, Mixed,March.. i—Ungraded White-.... @ 8 75 SECOND FLOOR. the ground the of enclosing the ; has the appearance: Boor of a balcony. 1 o ay. Cost: In the neighborhood of the city of, New York, where were are no unusual diffi-, culties in excavating and no unusual expenses in transporting materials, $1500. It is well,; perhaps, at the outset of this series of designs, to say that no estimates will be given here that have not been proved by actual con struction. It is always difficult, but not im possible, to let the contract fora small house at the right figure. Most contractors prefer larger work, and the high bids of a few of them easily discourage a man of small faith. But the determined man who submits com plete drawings and specifications to all (if necessary) reputable builders in his neighbor hood usually succeeds. R. W. Shoppell, Architect. THE LABOB WOBLD. Ohio miners complain of dull times all over the State. The Weekly Pay bill has been passed in the New Jersey House. Colored men have been taken to Dana, Wyo., to fill the places of strikers. Many surgical-instrument makers are out of employment, as business is quite dull with their trade at present. A bureau of immigration is to be £§tab- * ' i Minnesota, but the organizations of ite are opposed to it. ft five hundred laboring men held a mass meeting at Toledo, Ohio, in the interest of the eight hour movement. A bill making the counterfeiting of union labels a criminal offense has been introduced in the Legislature of Massachusetts. Coal has been discovered iutii* mountain* up Deep Creek. Mont., and work will be vig orously pushed as soon as the weather settles. The Sailors’ and! ing to a statement Reid, has 5000 members in the port < York. Boston capitaiiste have bought 3300 acre* of land in Lexington County, S. C. Large pottery works for making whJte table war* will be erected there. All the moulders employed in represented in the Iron Founders’ A •trade at San Francisco. On* vre thrown out of work, l Firemen’s Union, aceord- by Secretary George W. embers in the port of New 622,673,615