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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Iowa
Engine
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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.
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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.
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The Navy Di
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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.
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siding
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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.