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V* 1^ V ■i t . i ACROSS WIRES. An Interesting Budget of For eign and Domestic fteivs. Prince of Wales’s Eldest Son to Wed Princess Victoria of Teck. The principal topic in English aristocratic circles is the engagement of Prince Albert Victor to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck. On all sides the utmost satisfaction is ex pressed, and there is no doubt, says a Loudon special, that the match is a love affair to a far greater extent than the majority of royal marriages. No definite date has yet been fixed for the wedding, but it is the general belief that it will take place shortly. Society is on the qui vive in regard to the event, which will undoubtedly be one of the grand est ceremonies that has occurred in recent wears in England. t\. © Washington held, in an opinion just ren dered by Justice Field, that a tax levied by the State of Maine on the gross receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway Company ol Canada for the privilege of exercising its franchises within the State of Maine was legal and constitutional and was not con- tra-y to the- provision of the Constitution prohibiting the States from regulating in terstate commerce. A Building Society Suspends. The Portsea Island Building Society, of Portsmouth, England, has suspended pay ment. The society held securities amount ing to about $3,50J,090 in a bank connected with the organization. Workingmen are the heaviest losers, hence the suspension is causing much excitement about Portsmouth. Fifteen Crushed to Death. An overweighted brewery collapsed at Pinneberg, Germany. Twenty-eight workmen were buried be neath a mass of debris, and fifteen of them died before the rescuers could reach them. A Fire Chief Killed. John Unchrich, Chief of the Fire Depart ment of Sandustcy, Ohio, was killed a few days ago by falling from the hatchway of the propeller R. E. Schuck while making an inspection of that boat. PRIItCE ALBERT VICTOR. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, K. G., Duke of Clarence and Avondale, com monly known as “Collars and Cuffs,’^is the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, and is ' therefore in the line of direct succession to the throne of Great Britain. He was born on January 6, 1864. In 1877 he entered the navy as a midshipman and passed two years on board the Britannia. In 1879, with his brother. Prince George, he went to the West Indies on the Bacchante; and in 1880-’8i. still on the Bacchante, the two Princes trav eled around the world to South America, Australia, and the Cape of Good Hope. In October, 1883, Princf^ Albert Victor went to Trinity College, C&mbridge, and studied there until the summer, when he went to Heidelberg; in 1884 he went to Aldershot to study “military science,” and in 1885 was made Lieutenant in the Tenth Hussars: in 1888 he became Captain, and in 1889 became Major; in 1890 he was raised to the peerage by thentitles of Duke of Clarence anu Avon dale, and Earl of Athlone; in 1883 he bad been “invested” with the Order of the Garter. The cuffs which have given to the Duke of Clarence and Avondale the name by which he is generally known are not apparent in the portrait, but the collar is, very much so. V THE PRINCESS VICTORIA OF TECK. Princess Victoria Mary, or to give her her full name. Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, is the anly daughter of His Highness Franz Louise Paul Alexander, Duke of Teck, G. C. B., and Her Royal Highness Mary Adelaide Wilhel- mina Elizabeth, Dutchess of Teck aud cousin *f the Queen. She was born May 26, 1867, tnd is therefore twenty-four years old. She has three brothers, one of whom is a Lieu tenant in the Seventeenth Lancers. Thirty Men Drowned. The most serious of all the disasters that have resulted from the late storm in England Is tbe wreck of the British ship Enterkin, Captain Sinclair, which was bound from Hull to Brisbane. She was caught in the itorm while bound down the Channel, and was driven upon the Galloper Sands, off Ramsgate. Thirty lives were lost in this disaster, every person on board except an apprentice boy being drowned. The Enterkin was driven ashore almost broadside on. After she had struck, a part of the crew succeeded in launching a boat, and got clear of the ship. They headed shoreward, but were almost immediately thrown into the sea by the swamping of their boat by a high roller. Every man who was in the boat was drowned, al most in sight of his comrades on the wreck. Shortly afterward the ship, which had been standing on a comparatively even keel, was struck by a tremendously high sea. She keeled over, throwing every person aboard of her into tbe water. Only one of them, the appentice boy, suc ceeded in gaining the weather rigging, which was just awash. Here the lad re mained throughout the night, drenched and almost frozen. Next morning a fishing smack sighted the wreck and bore down to it. VVith much difficulty a boat was got alongside the Enteruin, am the boy was taken off Chief Joel u. .uayes Dead. Joel B. Mayes, Chief of the Cherokee Na tion, died at Tahlequab. Indian Territory, at 6 o’clock a few mornings ago. Joel Bryan Mayes was born in the Cherokee reservation, Ga., October 20, 1833. His father was white and his mother of mixed blood, being de scended on her paternal side from Janies Adair, an Indian agent under George III. Joel was removed while a boy to the Cherokee reservation in Indian Terri tory. He graduated from the Cherokee Male Seminary in 1S5S, and taught until the Civil War, when he enlisted in ths Confed erate army. He held the position of quar termaster during the war. He returned to the farm on Grand River in 1865, and was made County Commissioner and Chief Clerk to the Cherokee Court, a dual position he held for many years. For two years he was County Judge. While hold ing the latter office he was chosen Associate aud subsequently Chief Justice of the Su preme Court. He became chief of the Cherokee Nation in August. 1887, having been elected after a close right. The Dynamiter Identified. A Boston dispatch says that no doubt is longer entertained there of the correctness of the identification of the Russell Sage bomb thrower with Henry L. Norcross, tne note woker, of Somervule. The evidence is re garded as complete i by the letter which ha left to h is mother, stating that he was going to New Vork to get $1,291,099, and that if he was not successful he should kill himself. Norcross’s parents admit the identification and the opinion of many of Xorcross's ac quaintances corroborates them. They are not disposed to talk further :or publication, but let the public know that they are no longer in doubt as to the fate of their son. Among those who have followed the case most close;y the evidence is regarded as final to the degree that nothing more satifactorjr n desired or couid be aske I. They say that the case has in that reso'ct passed into his tory. No doubt is entertained tnat Norcross was insane. Important Railroad Decision. The United States Supreme Court at Bostou’s Share of Immigrants. The number of immigrants arriving at Boston, Mass., from transatlantic ports dur ing the fiscal year just closed was 31,5-56, thirty-five less than for the same period last year. THE LABOR WORLD. Chicago, 111., has a co-operative bakery. Great Britain has 13,009,000 wage-earn ers. London (England) compositors have a haU. Indianapolis, Ind., has a Sewing Women’s Union. In Germany glassblowers are paid only once a year. Alexandria, Ind., is to have a plate glass mill to employ 2000 men. Queen Victoria, of England, has sixty housemaids at Windsor Castle. The Massachusetts law prohibiting the fin ing of weavers has been declared unconstitu tional. There are about 26,000 waiters and bar tenders in New York City, of whom at least 17,000 are voters. Street car conductors in Berlin, Germany, receive only sixty-two and one-half cents for a day’s work of eighteen hours. About one hundred union men are now imprisoned in Australia for alleged violence during the sheep-shearers’ strike. The Childs-Drexel Fund for the Home for Aged Printers amounts to about #60,000 at present, 845,090 of which has been spent on the Colorado building. The Chinese coolies imported by the land barons of Eastern Prussia to replace the emigrated peasants, have refused to do the hard work imposed upon them, and many of them are on strike. A number of prominent women in Wash ington have formed an association for the purpose of training colored girls and women in the duties of house servants, seamstresses, laundresses and cooks. James Burns lately said at a labor de monstration that the trades unions’ effort to obtain an eight-hour day was a failure. The trades themselves cannot and will not en force it, so the only hope is through legal enactment. A labor paper, entitled the Revolution, has made its appearance in Japan. It first came out secretly under the name of Liberty, and was produced by means of the hecto graph. The newspaper is printed from types made In England. The shipbuilding firm of William Cramp & Sons, at Philadelphia, Penn., employes 3901! men. The value of the ships at present uuder construction at that place is $14,400,000, and the premiums earned by this firm by excess of speed in Government contracts has been #318,724. Brooklyn (N. Y.) unions request the city authorities to give or erect a building to be used for the wants of labor, as, for instance, a building wher^ibor unions can meet and also establish arjnployment bureair where persons out oi^rorKcau ‘tie TUnflauefreill- ployment. Incomplete records show that for the jear ending June 30, 1890, 869 brakemen were killed and 7841 maimed while engaged in coupling cars; and that the total number of employes killed during the year was 3451 and the number injured 22,390.' The full re cords would raise the figures twenty-five to thirty per cent. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Chicago has 1930 policemen. Japan has forbid opium smoking. Yale is to have the cap and gown. There are now 6300 horses in the 2.33 list. The Argentine Republic has a locust plague. 8now blockades are stopping trains in the Dakotas. There is terrible suffering from famine in Mexico. Smallpox has become epidemic in Yuc atan, Mexico. There are snow drifts twelve feet high in North Park, Col. The Government renorts of cotton and grain are not encouraging. Ground on the Pan-American road has been broken at Victoria, Texas. Heavy apple crops are reported in Mis* souri, iowa, Nebrasica and Kansas. Scarcity of fish has closed many of the sardine factories along the Maine coast. Rain has not fallen in Hidalgo, Scapota and Starr Counties, Texas, since April. The pro iu^t of the three beet-sugar fac tories in California this season is over eight million pounds. The number of American students at the Berlin (Germany) University is reported far beyond precedent. Piracy is rampant in Tonquin,China,and not even military officials dare venture more than a short distance from any of the forti fied ports. About thirty per cent, of the competent men in the United States Life-saving Service resigned during the last fiscal year on account of insufficient pay. In Queensland,' Australia, a sound horse can be bought for and in some parts of New South Wales horses are so over-plenti ful that they are got rid of by shooting. The highest rate of yi?ld of corn, as esti mated by the Department of Agriculture, was in New England, from thirty-five to forty bushels per acre. In the South the range is from eleven in Florida to twenty-five in Maryland, while in the surplus corn States the figures are as follows: Ohio. 33.7; Indi ana. 32; Illinois, 31.2; Iowa, 36.7; Missouri, 29.9; Kansas, 36.7; Nebraska, 36.3. TENNESSEE’S ARMY. A HEW WAR SECRETARY. The President Names Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia. Sketch of the Career of the New Cabinet Officer. \ H q>\.M STEPHEN B. ELKINS. President Harrison has named Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, Secretary of War, to succeed Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, who has taken ex-Senator Edmunds’s seat in the United States Senate. Mr. Elkins was born in Ohio in 1841 and ah an early age moved with his parents to Missouri. After going to the common schools he went to the University of Mis souri, from which institution ha graduated with honor. He studied law immediately thereafter and was soon admitted to the Bar. In 1863 he turned his eyes to the far West and joined the expedition of Territorial officers bound for Arizona and New Mex ico. Ex-Governor R. C. McCormick, who was then Governor of the new Terri tory of Arizona, headed the ex pedition. Ever since that time he and Mr. Elkins have been bosom friends and have offices together in this city. Mr Elkins settled in New Mexico, and began to prac tice law. It did not take him long to learn howto speak fluently and write correctly the Spanish language. In a few years he had the largest law practice in the Territory, and was considered a rising voung man. His popularity increase 1 so rapidly that he was elected a delegate to Congress in 1873, and re-elected in 1875. Secretary Blaine was Speaker in Congress when Mr. Elkins ar rived in Washington, and from that time dates their firm and uninterrupted friend ship. He also met at the Capital Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, and in 1874 he married the Senator’s eldest daugh ter in Baltimore. It is said he made a great deal of money by investments in silver mining in Colorado. Later te bought an interest in the coal fields of West Virginia, and has his home at Pied mont, that State. His wealth comprises property in New Mexico. Colorado and West Virginia. He spends a great p»rt of his time in New York City, whence he directs his vast business interests. In the campaign of 1884 Mr. Elkins superintended operations for his friend, Mr. Blaine. His conversion to the Republican party took place in 1870. Mr. Elkins looks like a typical Westerner. being over six feet high, broad shouldered and well proportioned. His face is always cleanly shaven and exhibits a firm set jaw and well rounded cheeks. His complexion is ruddy and he gives one at a glance the idea of great physical strength and mental ac tivity. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is seventy years old. Russell Sage was once a school teacher in Vermont. Queen Victoria’s ^pnjy^ghters now 'Tfllmmiuri 1 'll 91 j.titilWWjl 1 " a* It Numbers Only Sixteen Men, but Gives Promise of Growing. Tennessee has a standing army. At pres ent it consists of only sixteen men, and is sleeping in nine tents, but gives promise of growing. The army is bivouacked on Capitol Hill, Nashville, waiting orders to march on Brice- ville. The array arrived there from Mem phis the other day. It dispersed itself over the city during the morning, but late in the afternoon came together again and gathered at the Capitol. The State officials are not very talkative, but it was learned that these sixteen men have been sworn in service for one year, and that it is the intention to swear in altogether 150. They will be regularly equipped as soldiers, and fifty men will be placed at each of the branch prisons at Coal Crock, Briceville and Oliver Springs. Theodore B. Flegler, an old sailor of the Monongahela, now living in the Sol diers’ Home at Norton, Conn., is to receive #39.000 as bis share of prize money won by Admiral Farragut’s squadron during the war. to one. Speaker Crisp keeps order with a beau tiful new gavel made of Georgia pine inlaid with gold. The Grand Army of the Republic in In diana will probably erect a monument to the late Governor Hovey. Gladstone, since middle age, has grown two inches shorter, while the increased size of his head forces him to wear a much larger hat. The Czar of Russia was married on the birthday of the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales was married on the birthday of the Czar of Russia. The anniversary of the death of the Prince Consort, thirty years ago, was observed by Queen Victoria by memorial services in the Royal Mausoleum at Windsor. Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College, declares that in his opinion Dom Pedro, the late ex-Emperor of Brazil, was the best practical geologist in the world. It is only a few years ago that F. T. Du bois. now Senator from Idaho, with a salary of $5000 a year, was trying hard to get a twelve hundred dollar clerkship in Wasuing- ton. Mrs. Taylor, of Little Washington,Penn., is known as the Oil Queen, because she has accumulated a fortune of #3.000,1)00 by per sonal investments in the Ritchie County fields. Sir Edwin Arnold says that there is a cu rious little brown birthmark on the poet Tennyson’s neck; a spot that looks as if a drop of wine had fallen there and stained the skin. Young Congressman BAiLEY.of Texas, is is nearly six feet tall. He wears a broad- brimmel slouch hat. His manners are, it is said, good enough to do credit to a Chester field, and he can converse as wittily in pri vate as he can speak persuasively from the stump. Sir John GoRST.the new British Postmas ter-General. early in his career edited a newspaper in the Waikato District of New Zealand. But in the course of a war the na tives attacked and ransacked his office and converted his type into slugs for their rifles. As if to add insult to injury they peppered Sir John himself and nearly killed him with some of this ammunition. A DISGRACED OFFICIAL. Forced Resignation of Michigan’s Secretary ot State. In response to an emphatic demand from Governor Wiaans, of Michigan, Daniel E. Soper, Secretary of State, tendered his res ignation, widen was promptly accepted. This is a sequel to rumors that have been current for some days, and took shape by the riliug of charges against Soper by the Mayor of Lansing, the most important of which was that of selling and appropriating to his own use the proceeds of fifty sets of Howell’s Annotated Statutes; the giving away of several hundred copies of the Mich igan Manual contrary to th? law; of demand ing, on penaltv of dismissal from office, if refused, the sum of #000 from his deputy as compensation for his appointment to the office, and extravagant purchases sf sup plies at a loss to the State. When confronted with the charge^ by the Governor Soper acknowledged their truth. Daniel Monroe, formerly Sheriff of ' Monroe County, Mo., a defaulter, on his i deatube 1 in Texas, has confessed to the mur- i der of Christopher McAllister, a young I farmer of Missouri, for whose murder a ' Sweia^named Anderson was lynched. TAXPAYERS IN A RIOT. A Repetition of the Scenes ot 1884 Narrowly Averted in Cincinnati. The bloody court house riot of 1884 came near being re-enacted at Cincinnati, Ohio, a few mornings ago. A crowd of taxpayers crushed into the County Treasurer’s office to pay their taxes and avoid the penalty. The bills being delayed, made it impossible to take all the money presented. One man shove f a revolver under the nose of the receiving clerk, threatening to shoot if the money was not accepted. The crowd outside became riotous, throwing stones through the windows. One man was hit and knocked insensible, while two women were crushed nearly to death. A large police reserve was called out, and by vigorous measures the rioters were driven off. THE Eastern and Middle A collision occurred on the I 1 Central near FishkiU, N. Y., in which engines were completely wrecked, the fit- man of the express. John Smith, of AlbarJ - , was scalded to death and the engineer, Ja Kelly, of Albany, fatally scalded. The Alleghany Valley Railroad was if r ~ chased at Pittsburg, Penn., by the Per ay 1- vania for $3,000,000, the latter assumj*ff the bonded indeotedness of #23,000,000. Mrs. Amelia Spiess blew out ter brail? with a pistol at Lancaster, Penh., because her mother threatened to put her husband out of her house. i The Irwin (Penn.) Bank faffed to open. P. S. Pool & Son, propnetorstiave made an assignment. l Daniel Hand, a philanthropist, whose princely gift to the Amei <ca Missionary Association for the education of the colored I eo >le in the Southern StaUg attracted a good deal of attention a few ye^rs ago, died in Guilford, Conn., of old a>e. He was ninety years old in July last. The Drexel Institute of Ar^^jience and Industry, founded by Antho^Kj. Drexel, the banker, was dedicated Penn. The building was er of $600,000, and Mr. Drexel with $1,000,000. Edward H. Cole, the cashier of Nyack, N. Y., home after beins absent fo: a deplorable condition wreck and his mind i recognize his weeping Ray Richards and sixteen years, of E drowned while skating, his son Horan, and A! of Machias, Me., were^ in? Hadley Lake in Edward M. Fie Field, has been indici in New York City foi degree. Field is said 000 by a forged bill ol Rear Admirai United States Na^y, home in New R^lgh Y. Death was •'due was born in Trpy, N. 'aged were ntley, ley, alt e cross- Frus W. land Jury the second ired $118,- Patterson, enly at his Island, N. failure. He cbruary 8, 1822. Srmth ami West. The Virginia Legislature in session at Richmond r--elected‘John W. Daniel United States Senator without opposition. On one of the leading thoroughfares in Chicago, 111., a few nights ago five daring highwaymen suddenly surrounded one ot Uncle Sr-fll’s biggest mail wagons, and at re volver poitit forced the postal employes to throw out fseveral sacks. Hester Lewis and Levia Shields, two colored wonien, were killed, and two colored men serious^- injured by the collapse of the Twin Bdyoy( Bridge, near Natchez, Miss. A boy had his arm broken. The party was on the briclge with a four mule team when the structure fell, carrying them with it. Ex-Gowerxor a. P. K. Safford, of Oregon, ided a few days ago at Tarpon Springs. ^which town he was the founder. for over a year. He was it about fifty-four years ago. occurred near Alder- dght and passea- i a fireman named lamed Burnett. f red at Dudley, demolished and in McGovern e had born in Arai son, W f er trai «yons A railr Iowa Engine were ins The anti^^^^^^PPUH-lottsry wings the Democ^^H^PPyiof Louisiana held separate con^rnicras ifl Baton Rouge. A passenger train) from Kansas City Mo., was wrecked just^outh of Cherry Creek Bridge, Kan., by the displacement ot a rail, owing to decayed ties. [ Twenty-six passen gers were injured, threU of them fatally. John L. FERGUSON,Ja bookkeeper in the National ;Bank of Kansas City, Mo., was arrested and sent to jafil for embezzling $20,- 090. • . John C. Davis, prominent in church af fairs in YV'ilmingtonTpL C., has been ar rested on a charge of ojbtaining $103,003 un der false pretences. The boiler in Collettb, sawmill at Ridge- ville, Ind., exploded, ladling three men and ta)ly iujuringtmij^^:sr SiTmueCgSm! dent of the American by the Birmingham (Ali.) Convention. A railroad accident, at Buck Tunnel, Leadville,Col.,resulted in killing four track men. Two colored prisoners m Live Oak, Fla., suspected of killing P. D. Parramoreof Val dosta. Ga., were lynched by a mob. A tramp was lynched at Emmett, Nevada County, Ark., for assaulting Miss Bettie Mc- Gough, a school teacher. ederation of Labor Washington. The Brazilian Government has asked thef State Department at Washington for an extension of time for the ratification of the treaty of arbitration recently concluded between Brazil and the United States. The President approved the report of the Examining Board in the case of Commander Augustus V. Kellogg, United States Navy, who was therefore placed on the retired list with furlough pay. The President sent in the following nomi- br United States Circuit Court jt^^^^vVilliam L. Putnam, of Maine, for th^^^H Judicial Circuit; Nathaniel Ship- Connecticut, for the Second; George [, of Pennsylvania, Third; Nathan ‘est Virginia, Fourth; WilliamH. Sixth; William A. Woods, of Warren Truitt, of Ore- les District Judge for the gon. Dis T mit ricul Fina: man: Affai and E! Posto: Affair The roe, of Board Charitol Repr informei not acce merce C Super Porter' three yea aud linger Assista! from Was for the sal street, Nev minimum p bs sold is $4] the buildin L new Custom The Navy Di ward securing for use in case a come necessarv bf the leading Senate Com • kropriations, Allison: Ag- |ek; Commarce, Frye; (Foreign Relations, Sher- fffairs, Dawes; Military I Pensions, Davis; Privileges kller; Public Lands, Plumb; Post-roads, Sawyer; Naval appointed Elbert B. Mou nt, to be a member of the Commissioners, vice John ed. ve Culberson, of Texas, nt Harrison that he would tion on the Interstate Com- u. nt of Census Robert P. :est daughter, Alice, aged in Washington after a long OSS. CRETARY CROUNZ issued u the official advertisement e old Custom House in Wall ;, on January 20, 1892. The for which the property will 130, the purchaser to rent he Government until the se is completed, efcartmeut has taken steps to- t 'ansports and coaling vessels war with Chili should be- FIFTY-SEC0ND C( In the Senate. 5th Day.-In the reaaseml Senate at noon Vice-President i before the Senate a number ot documents, chief among them Tr^ .. 1116 8i goal ise The Preadent sent in the entire, cess appofntments additional to th« already submitted. The list inch postmasters and a large number of a. navy appointments and appointmei promotions in the revenue marine service The introduction of bills was resumed, being presented. Among them were to rect monuments to General U. S. " and Martha Washington, te> oi 6 « permnent Census Bureau, to repeal law . 'rohibiting ex-Confederates froV— entering the Army and Navy s of the United Staves, ad a -^ainber of important merchant marine and shipping bills. Proposed increased pension legisla tion received several accessions, including a bill pensioning all soldiers who fought in Indian wars. Two additional bills were added to the list of Chinese restriction meas ures. 6th Day.—The Vice-President announced the appointment of Mr. Morrill as Regent of the iSmithsoni&n Institution, to fill a vacancy Mr. Sherman presented remonstrances of several yearly meetings of Friends in Indiana against the traffic in in toxicating liquors and firearms in Central Africa Among the bills introduced and referred were the ollowing: For the purchase of a site for a building for the Supreme Court of the United States. For a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, in Washington, and tbe removal of the Naval Monument to a new site. To authorize the erection of bridges over the Hudson and East Rivers at New York. For fortifications and other seacoast defenses. To reorganize the infan try of the army and increase its efficiency. Providing for the adoption and use of a uni form standard automatic car-coupler aud regulating the operation and control of freight trains used in interstate commerce. 7th Day.—The opening prayer was offered by Rev. Joel Swartz, D.D., of Gettysburg, Penn. The President sent in the nomina tions for United States Circuit Judges, as provided by Section 1, Chapter 517, United States Statutes at Large. Among the other papers presente J and referred were numer ous memorials against the Sunday opening of the World’s Fair The annual report and copies of the bulle tins of the Bureau of American Republics were presented and referred There were memorials introduced in favor of woman suffrage, of promoting the efficiency of the Life Saving Service, aud of the election of United States Senators by the people. 8th Day. —Mr. Manderson presided over the Senate as President pro tem The Standing and Select Committees were an nounced The nomination of Stephen B. Elkins to be Secretary of War was received from the Presi dent and referred to the Committee on Mili tary Affairs——Hill’s credentials as Senator from New York were filed After speeches by Mr. Turpie, of Indiana,in favor of choos ing Presidential Electors by the popular vote, and by Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, on the sil ver question, the Senate went into executive session. The revolt in suppressed. Thb in expelling the all be reinstate- The fishing in the Firth of vere snow squa her crew were The steamer for St. Nazai France, and her, twenty in drowned. The Quebec missed trom of Angers. Foreign. Sao Paulo. Brazil, has been insurgents had succeeded local officials, but they will nack Osprey was wrecked ray, Scotland, during a se- The five men forming rowned. rince Soltykoff. from Barry e, was wrecked off Brest, •very person on board of 11, except the captain, was anada) Cabinet was dis cs by Lieutenant-Governor W. Hauser Ivas elected President of the National (Jounmi of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, and, therefore. President of the Swiss Confederation. Mr. Hauser was for merly Chief of (the Military Department,and comes from Zurich. Minister RiJbot has recalle 1 the French Consuls in Bulgaria, because of the expul sion of a Frenqa newspaper corresponaent; that country id strengthening her garrisons. The German Reichstag adoote 1 the com mercial treaties with Austria-ilungary.Itily and Belgium-J Emperor William his made Chancellor vol Caprivi a Count for his suc cess with the w-eaties. A destitu - B worpan. who had been put out of her hoje, throw herself and her baby beneath a tnfi in Chester, England. Boto were killed In the House. 4th Day.—The House met and adjourned for four days after Speaker Crisp had an nounced the following committees: Oa Accounts—Messrs. Rush (Md.),Cooper (Ind.), Dickerson (Ky.), Moses (S. C.), Seer ley (Iowa), Pearson (Ohio),Quackenbush (N. Y.), Griswold (Penn.) and Cutting (Cal.). On Mileage—Messrs. Castle (Minn.), Crawford (N. C.), Kendall (Ky.), Caldwell (Ohio) and Flick (Iowa). 5th Day.—In the opening prayer the Chaplain invoked the Divine protection on members of the House against the assaults of the insidious disease now pervading the land The Speaker announced his Com mittee on the Rules as follows: The Speaker, Messrs. McMillin (Tennessee), Catch- ings (Miss.), Reed, of Maine, and Burrows, of Michigan. Mr. Oates offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a standing committee on order of business, to consist of fifteen mem bers Mr. Taylor, of Tennessee, rising, said that it was his mournful duty to an nounce the death of his friend and colleague, (he Hon. Leonidas C. Houk, who died sud denly from accidental poisoning at his home m UVi itt thni, as a mark ol respect totnewnemory of the deceased, adjourned. FIVE STRIKERS KILLED. A Colorado Town Terrorized by Aus trian and Italian Rioters. A strike at the mines of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company, at Crested Butte, Col., has resulted much more seriously than was at first anticipated. About 500 Austrian and Italian miners employed at these works went out on a strike because pf a proposed reduc tion of wages by tbe company. Since the men went out they have refused to allow the company to bring in new men, have stopped the pumps and fans at tbe works, allowing them to'ffil with gas until there is danger of the raises blowing up, and have paraded the stve^y'Seavily armed, threatening death to aiqkone who should at tempt to assist the company in any manner. Sheriff Shares, of Gunnison, arrived there with a pose of twenty-five men for the pur pose of taking possession of and guarding the mines. No sooner had, they alighted from the train than they were attacked by about two hundred armed Sicilians and Austrians, who began firing wita their rifles. The Sheriff held his men lor a mo ment and then ordered i.hem to return the fire, which they did with deadly effect, kill ing five strikers. They were all Italians. George Simonici and Matt Grahak, Austri ans, were lat&lly wounded. After the firing the miners retreated and the Sheriff’s posse marched up the hill and took possession of the mines and threw up redoubts. "The German Minister ot the Interior na? stated that the importation of American pork will again be stopped, if trichinae are found in it after its inspection ia America. THE MARKETS. 00 @ 25 @ 70 0! 5 50 @50 00 ~ 8 50 4 5 @ 4 00 4 @ 6}^ — @ 5 25 - 35 @ 5 60 05>^@ 1 07% 02%@ * 51 NEW YORK. ‘ Beeves 3 10 Milch Cows, com. to good.. *.30 00 Calves, common to prime... 3 Sheep 4 Lambs 5 Hogs—Live 3 Dressed Flour—City Mill Extra .Patents Wheat—No. 2 Red Rye—State Barley—Two-rowed State... Corn—Ungraded Mixed Oats—No. I White Mixed Western Hay—Good to Choice Straw—Long Rye Lard—City Steam Butter—State Creamery.... 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Butter—Creamery Extra.... — Cheese—Part skiins — <4 5 15 1 01 (4 1 01% 57W<4 58 — <4 41 48 <4 50 — <4 29 8 (4 9 2001 siding sleepiz The< sleepers thrown &g train second siding for following is a' J. H. Curtis, of car; H. J. Manu^ dining car; J. Wi fireman on the freif. found in the wreck < Seventeen persons^ The train was running miles an hour. The and day coach passed ovS train parted in the rear of^ the dining car and two slee| over to the north track force. The accident happen! end of the long siding which main track. The broken rail about forty rods east of tl used by the freights east! The freight train was standing siding with the engine almost up’ switch. The dining car of the wrecke jumped to the side track and ran into!^ freight engine, which telescoped the car hi a length. Little was visible of the enginl besides the cab and tender. The scene at the wreck was frightful. The sleeping-?ar Arden lay on its side in a ditch. The Delphos sleeper was upright but badly wrecked, and the Parisian dining- car was in a similar condition, just as the freight engine had' telescoped it. In the front end of this car the coolcs were busy getting breakfast, and when the crash came H. J. Manuel and J. H. Curtis were in the kitchen at work. Manuel was caught by the locomotive and the boiler and some timbers aud was literally roasted alive. His cries for help were piteous. He lived about half an hour. Curtis was also buried in the wreck. He was not rescued for over an hour and was bon ibly bruised and scalded. He died shortly after being taken out. Both men lived in Chicago. The fireman on the freight train was caught between the tender and boiler and killed. His name is J. Wulf, and his home is in Fort Wayne, Ind. The body of a man crushed beyond recog nition was found under the dining car. In all, about thirty-five or forty persons were injured. Everything possible was done by the rail road officials to alleviate the suffering of the wounded, and they had a full corps of physi cians on the ground in a short time after the accident. The track was torn up for a dis tance of thirty rods east of the switch, and traffic was blocked until 2 o'clock-that after noon. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Madman Harvey’s Tragic Work in South Brooklyn, N. Y. A frightful tragedy, the work of a mad man, shocked South Brooklyn, N. Y., a few days ago. In revenge for what he fancied was a plot to rob him of his liberty he started out to murder an entire house hold. He succeeded in killiug a friend whom he had known for vears, in wounding two others, and in forcing his sis ter and her baby to jump from a window to save their lives. Then he laid himself calmly down on a bed and sent a ball from a forty- two calibre revolver crashing through his brain, killing himself instantly. The murderer and suicide was Michael Harvey, who, until less than a fortnight before, was an inmate of the Flatbush Insane lum. The victims of the mapiac were, beiCcfe hlaself shot and killed; Samuel Dickinson, shot in the right arm; Mrs. Dickinson, shot in the right hand; Mrs. Catherine Duffy, Harvey’s sister, badly injured by jumping from the window. Harvey was about thirty-five, a single man and a boiler maker by trade. Until a year ago he was known as an indus trious, quiet workman. About that time he began manifesting symp toms of insanity, complaining of spirits who harrassed him with homicidal suggestions. His relatives began to fear him, and in March last he was placed in Flatbush. He proved a mild and tractable patient, and Dr. Fleming considered him fit to be given a conditional release in charge of his sister, Mrs. Catherine Duffy. Some days after his release Harvey had a bad spelL Mrs. Duffy telephoned to the Flatbush Asylum that he was dangerous, and she wanted him taken away and locked up. She no sooner received word from the asylum that her brother would be taken away than she sent for some ol his old friends to bid him good-bye. Harvey greeted them coolly, though in no apparent aggressive mood, and at noon all sat down to dinner. Mrs. Duffy sat opposite Counerton with one of her four children in her arms. Har vey ate heartily but rapidly aud before the others Lai finished he arose and went into the little parlor. In a moment he reappeared, his eyes glistening, his face livid with rage. Behind his back he had his right baud, and in it gleamed a nickel plated forty-two calibre revolver. Connerton made a spring at the madman, but he was late. With demonic glee Harvey laughed as he sent a bullet through the man’s brain. Connerton reeled back dead. The madtnau then fired three other shots in quick suc cession. One struck Dickinson in the right wrist, another struck Mrs. Dickinson in the right hand. She fell, and as she did Harvey fired at her again, the shot failing to take effect and just grazing the head of one of Mrs. Duffy’s children. Dickinson rushed for the window an l jumped into the yard, three stories below. Airs. Dickinson followed him, and after her jumped Mrs. Duffy with her baby in her arms. When she jumped from the window the madman quietly closed the window, went into the kitehen, picked up the body of Con nerton, which was on the floor, and placed it in a chair and then went into the room, threw himself on the bed and, putting the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth, he liter ally blew off the too of his head. EXIT VOLUNTEER FIREMEN, The Force, to Which New Orleans Paid $ltM>,OOOa Year, Goes Out. The New Orleans (La ) Volunteer Fire Department, the last of the large volunteer fire systems in this country, no longer ex ists. A paid department has taken its place. The Volunteer Department has had a pros perous career of sixty-five years in that city. It was entirely separate from the city government and made contracts with the authorities to attend all fires for $19(9,- 000 a year. It owned its own property, en gines, horses and houses. These will be sold to the city. The Volunteer Association will close its official career in very good financial con dition, for it has otner valuable property, beside its paraphernalia for extinguishing fires, and will have several hundred thousand dollars to its account. It will keep uo its organization as a social and charitable society, using its revenues for tne care and support of widows and orphans of members of the volunteer force, and for the payment of a life insurance as the members drop off. The four branches had thirty-six en gines and 5(909 members, active and exempt. The change to a paid department has been recommended for some time by the insurance companies, but was not very popular with the masses. French physicians advance the theory that the disease prevailing as an epidemic throughout Europe is not really influenza, but a malady of a typhoid form. The num ber of its victims in Galicia alone is re portal at over 30,030, and it is spreading, or rather breaking out, here and there as if subject to no law. worth $2(THRT^IcrintroduJ I in your neighborhood atj I deliver the above suite at i , depot, all charges paid, FOR ONLY $] [ When the cash comes wi BESIDES this Suite, I many other Suites in Poplar, and all the po I running in price from th| to hundreds of dollars for Special Bargaii Is our elegant Parlor pieces, walnut frames, m E lush in popular colors, lue, old gold, either in I combination colors. Thl j for #40.00. I bought a li| [ them at a bankrupt sa hence I will deliver t| Suite, all charges paid nearest railroad depot, tpp ! sides these suites 1 have a great many I other suites iu all the latest shapes until styles, and can guarantee to please you.! Bargain No. 3 ■ Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re- [ duced from $9 to #7. All freight paid. Special Bargain No. 4 Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove, trimmed up complete for $11.50, all charges paid to your depot; or a 5- bole range with trimmings for"#^. Besides these I have the largest st<T of Cooking Stoves in tne city, inclf ing the gauz; door stoves and ransj and the CHARTER OAK S1QV| with patent wire gauze doors. I j delivering these stoves everywhere,! freight charges paid, at the price of j ordinary stove, while they are superior to any other stoves made, particulars by mail. 109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to , roll, $5.50 per roll. 100) Cornice Pfl 25 cents each; 100 Window Shal 3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigii at 37% cents each. You must ■ your own freight on Cornice Pol Window Shades and Clocks. Now, see here, I cannot quote everything I have got in a store taming 22,603 feet of floor rooal ; sides its annexes and factory in auC part of the town. | 231^1 shall be please I to send anything above mentioned, or will i my catalogue free if you will say saw this aavertisnnent ia The ai( Recorder, published at Aiken, 23f~No goods sent C. O. D., or consignment. I refer you to the ecf and publisher of this papjr, or to banking concern in Augusta, or tol Southern Express Co., all whom kf me personally. Yours, etc ; L. F. PADGET 1 DYER BUILDING. 805 Broad Si AUGUSTA, G. Proprietor Pad gett’s Furni| 3 ■ Stove and (larpet Stores. Factory, Harri son St.