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■ J* THE BIG BRITISH STRIKE. ‘Oyer 300,000 Stop Work in the « English Coal Fields. Eailroads and Factories Crippled by Lack of Fuel. A dispatch from London, England, says? The majority of the coal fields in Great Britain are idle. The grand total of men at ptay is about 450,000. In Durham the men to the number of 80,000 are on strike against /reduction of wages, but in all the other dis tricts the men have simply decided to takes week, fortnight or even three weeks’ holi day in order to restrict the output of coal. The collieries of Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, North Wales and other districts ■ are idle. The miners of Scotland. South Wales and Northumberland are working quietly. The miners of Durham are holding en thusiastic meetings, and have resolved that mnder no circumstances will they yield to the proposed reduction. This movement on the part of the miners ,has caused the greatest disturbance in the British labor world, and in the manufactur ing centers, that has been known since the American Civil War when so many hun dreds of thousands of the cotton operatives of Lancashire would have starved out for a “boundless charitv. The Miners’ Federation has led in the strike movement. It claims the exclusive honor of having forced the miners’ wages iforty per cent, above the rates of 1888. The advance was wrung from the masters in successive driblets of ten per cents, and five ;per cents. The last installment of the forty per cent.—that is to say, the concession of fifteen per cent.—made little more that a year ago, was given in three sub-instail- ments. The minors outside of the Durham district say that the present movement is not against :the reduction of wages, but to prevent the reduction of wages at any time in the fu ture. They are afraid from the way that ;the owners of collieries have been outbid ding each other for the custom, especially of large corporations, a general reduction oannot be far off, and they have adopted this method of raising prices. The latest cablegram in regard to the ctrike, received just before this side of the paper went to press, stated: Flintshire, in Wales, appears to be the only place where the order of the Miners’ Federation to leave off ■work has not been obeyed by the members of the association. The latest estimates of the number of miners who are now idle place the figure at 350,000. Owing to the closing down of other inhustries because of the strike fully 200,000 men in other employments have been thrown out of work. The full effect of the strike will not be felt immediately. In many cases manufacturers who have large coal stocks will endeavor to tide over a week’s stoppage, but if the strike exceeds a week in duration their supply will soon be exhausted, and they will be com pelled to shut down. Fifteen thousand coal miners are idle iu North Staffordshire. Un less they resume work in a few days the pot teries will be compelled to close down, throw ing 50,000 men out of work. The miners who have stopped work are observing the “strike” purely as a holiday. Large numbers of them are taking advan tage of their idleness to leave the districts in which they work, and to visit friends elsewhere. There is no excitement what ever. The Northeastern Railway will withdraw 380 pv ; «enger trains from its li ies because of lac*, of fuel, and will reduce work in its workshops four days a week. The London gas companies report that they have coal enough to last a month. The Shipping Federation is preparing to meet the London coal porters’ refusal to unload foreign coni. Agents of coal firms are negotiating in France for supplies from Pas-de-Calais companies. Cargoes of coal are being shipped from Ant werp. Tjbe dock laborers in London and Antwerp /are not allowed to know wnence the coal cjime or whither it is going. In the Leeds district the strike is severely felt. Nearly jail the large mills and the iron and stestfttrks are reducing the numoer of their or suspending work altogetb er. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The Attorney General of Pennsylvania has filed at Harrisburg a bill to test the le gality of the Reading leases. Laceyvtlle, Wyoming County, Penn., is almost wholly wined out by fire. The Rhode Island Republicans met in State Convention at Providence and nomi nated a ticket headed by V. Russell Brown for Governor. The steamship Missouri sailed from New York for Russia. Stowed away under her hatches were 5,000.000 pounds of breadstuff s, the voluntary offerings of the American people to the starving peasant* of Russia. This, it is estimated, will he sufficient to save and preserve 20,000 people for one year. The boiler of engine No. 303 exploded on the Catawissa branch at McAuley, Penn., killing two men and injuring three others. Frank Jeyrille, of Altoona, Penn., threw a lighted lamp at his wife Mollie and she was roasted to death. Chares Shaw, of Portland, Me., widely known as “Steeple Jack.” while repairing the spire of a church at South Livermore, fell from the top and was instantly killed. The Secretary of the United States Treas ury, Charles Foster, returned to New York from his trip abroad, much improved in health. The restriction on the anthracite coal production agreed upon in New York has commenced. The largest collieries in Penn sylvania are being shut down. The heaviest snowfall of the season de layed traffic considerably in New York City. The Supreme Court of Connecticut de cided the case of the State against Con troller Staub in the State’s favor. The carrier pigeon loft at the United States Naval training station at Newport, R- 1., which was established three or four years ago by officers of the station since transferred, has been abandoned, as the Government failed to become interested. Fred Mil ley, a mill watchman of Pitts burg, Penn., killed his wife and himself. His wife was jealous and upbraided him. The new British bark Windemere, bound from Milford Haven in ballast for New York and Calcutta, ran ashore at Deal Beach, N. J., about a mile north of Asbury Park, during a blinding snowstorm. The crew were rescued, but the ship and cargo will be a total loss. A FIl/ND JjTEANGLED. His Death Hastened by the Hangman Palling at His Legs. - Frank Schneider, who with his wife, as saulted and murdered many servant girls, has been executed at Vienna, Austria. ^Bcbnjider was gibbeted after the Austrian He was entirely broken down as he was led from the cell to the scaffold. As he saw the stake and spike, from which be was to be hanged, rising above it, his Bslbrfr faca ‘turned a greenish hue, anI JSi ncd almost to be carried to tne spot. Ine staki il the top of it a spike about six inches long. i- There Were three steps to lift the doomed 'criminal up. He was lifted to the spike, smd the back of his neck held cloce to it. Then a cord was passed around his neck, fasten ing it tightly to the spike, and he was strangled to death. « To hasten his end the executioner pressed bis arms around the mouth and nostrils of the dying criminal, while one assistant held And pulled Schneider’s arms, and another pulled his }egs, The wretch died in fot minutes. The bpdy was the stake. South and 1 West. A severe blizzard, accompanied by a heavy fall of snow, prevailed throughout Southern Illinois. Walter A. Snyder, an insane clerk in Tiffin, Ohio, shot aud seriously wounded two of his employers and a fellow-clerk, and then killed himself. Senator David B. Hill, of New York, made an address before the Mississippi Leg islature, at Jackson, iu which he advocated the repeal of the McKiuley tariff and Sher man silver laws. Professor Clarence O. Dockery, aged twenty-seven. Principal of the Alexandria (La.) Business College, engaged in a friendly scuffle with P. Gallagher. Dockery’s foot caught in a bracket and he fell to the floor and broke his neck. Senator Hill, of New York, spoke to a big crowd at Birmingham, Ala. At the conclusion of his address, James W. Ridg- way, District-Attorney of Kings County, New York, made a brief speech. In the evening Senator Hill and his party were the guests of the Hill Club at a banquet. Sena tor Hill and his friends them left for At lanta, Ga. Delegates to the Republican National Convention were elected by the Iowa State Convention at Das Moines. They were un instructed. Senator Hill, of New York, spoke at the banquet of the Hibernian Society at Savan nah, Ga. Reports from various points in the West show that winter wheat was less hurt than might be expected, and the crop may reach within fifteen per cent, of the phenomenal one of last year. While officers were conveying Heflin and Dye, colored, murderers of an old woman in Farquhar County, from Warrentown to Al exandria, Va., they were met by a crowd at Hgymarket, who overpowered them end ' ‘ rs to the woods near by -Ttf' lyncESaihem. During a quarrel at Rosebury, Oregon, A. Hansbrough, brother of Senator Hans- brouzh, of North Dakota, was stabbed and killed by Nicholas Jones. The heaviest snow storm of the season prevailed in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. “ The Rev. H. D . Benjamin,of Portsmouth, Ohio, hanged him self while suffering from dementia. The extensive tobacco factory of Liggett & Myers, in St. Louis. Mo., was damaged by fire to the extent of $345,000. etch died in four left suspended COTTON OVERPBODOOTION. Report of the Statistician of the De partment of Agriculture. The March report of the Statistician of the Department ot Agriculture shows that the production of cotton of the world ex ceeded the consumption more than a million and a half of bales in 1890, and further greatly enlarges the excsss in 1891, glutting the markets, increasing visible stocks dur ing the past year more taan one million one hundred thousand bales, and reducing the Liverpool price of middling upland from 0 l-10d. in January, 189), to 4>gi. in Janu ary. 1892. It states that in two years this country has produced au excess above normal re quirements of more than two million bales, and indicates a heavy reduction in breadth as the only possible remedy, otherwise the agriculture of the South will suffer worse than Western agriculture ever has. It declares that the Cotton States must be agriculturally self sustaining; that new crops must be introduced, as the agricul tural population has outgrown tne capacity of cotton to support it. A CRY FOR FOOD. Twenty Million People Dying of Star vation in Russia. The following piteous appeal has been cabled from St. Petersburg to this country by the committee of American citizens sent to Russia: If the American people knew the extent of the suffering in the famine districts of Russia they would everywhere com to tee rescue. Twenty mill ions of people are affected and in danger of death trom starvation. Typhu* fever is rag.ng in many provinces, and horses and cattle are perishing of hunger. Does this not appeal to the hearts of those able to help? Russia is deeply grateful to the American peoole for what they have done. Thediscribut.ou of supplies is under the di rection of tue Amer.can Minister and an ex cellent committee. Nothing will ue wasted. Every particle of food will be properly dis tributed. Help us! Rudolph Blankenburg, A a Drexei, Jr., Alexander VV. Biddle, Committee. in in AN IDLE GUILLOTINE. First Execution iu Switzerland Twenty-Four Years. The first execution that has occurred Switzerland since 1868 took place the other day at Lucerne. The culprit was an Italian named Gatti, who after assaulting Mile. Degan, a teacher, murdered her. He was executed by the .guillotine. Washington. President Harrison issued a procla mation declaring the higher rate of duties under the reciprocity clause of the tariff act iu force on Deducts from Colombia, Hayti and Venezuela. The fifth birthday of Benjamin Harrison McKee, the President’s grandson, was cele brated in the White House. The full Ma rine Band was stationed in the corridors playing selections for his thirty boy and girl guests. They caihe laden with pr&enis. CSkPTA, oi Brooklyn, N. Y., “hXs Been appointed State Railroad Commissioner of New York by Governor Floweret a salary of $80)0per fS&r. Secretary Elkins issued an order creat ing for the War Department a Bureau of Intormation such as the Navy Department has long found of the greatest usefulness and profit. Dr. Mott Smith, the newly accredited Minister from Hawaii, was formally pre sented to the President at the White House. The Senate, in executive session, con firmed the nomination of Judsoa C. Clem ents, of Georgia, to be an Interstate Com missioner, vice Bragg, deceased. General Porter. Minister to Italy, has been ordered to return to Rome, and it was announced as probable that Minister Fava would return to Washington. After five hours spent in secret session the Senate confirmend the nomination of Will iam A. Woods, of the Indiana District beneb, to be additional Circuit Judge for the Seventh Federal Circuit. Seven other of the new circuit judges appointed under the provisions of the Evarts act of March 3, 1891, were then eonfirmei without opposi- tlDD Secretary Elkins issued an order de tailing Colonel Robert Williams, Assistant Adjutant-General, to special duty in the newly created Division of Information. The President sent to the Senate the nom ination of Charles S. Aldrich, of Illinois, to be Solicitor-General, vice \V. H. Taft, re signed. Secretary Elkins has amended Army regulations so as to provide that no person under the age of twenty-one years shall be enlisted or re-enlisted witbont the written consent of his parents or a legally appointed guardian. The National bank note circulation is now $161,000,000, an increase of nearly $20,000,000 since July last. The President signed the commissions of the nine new Circuit Judges and ordered that they be forwarded to them at once, sc that there may be no unnecessary delay in their entering upon the discharge of tueir functicns. Lerdo, within Foreign. Typhoid fever is raging at Villa Mexico, 220 deaths having occurred ten days. Sir Henry Bouyerie William Brand, Viscount Hampden, lor thirty-two years Speaker of the British Housa of Commons, is dead. Four of the crew of a pilot boat which foundered near Atherfleld, Engianj, were drowned. Adolph Guenzburg, of St. Petersburg, the leading Hebrew banker ia Russia, sus pended payment. There was an explosion in Paris, France, attributed to Anarchists, in barracks in which several hun I red soldiers were sleep ing; the building was badly damaged, but nobody was hurt. The steamer Indiana, from Philadelphia, carrying provisions for the reliaf of the famine sufferers in Russia, reached Libau. Tax correspondence between Secretary Blaine and the Canadian delegates to the recent conference at Wasnington was transmitted to the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa. An avalanche occurred at Belluno, Italy, by which eight persons were kiliel and con siderable property destroyed. Abraham Wanola, found frozen near Winnipeg, Manitoba, was lost in a snow storm four days, during whica he carried a neighbor, Mrs. Rainage, nntil she expired. In the British House of Commons the Irish members made a strenuous attempt to sscure a separate Irish exhibit at the Chi cago Fair; it was voted to give $50,000 for England’s exhibit; the Folkething of Den mark appropriated $06,000 for the Danisd exhibit at the Fair. General Rkina Barrios was inaugu rated President of Guatemala with much ceremony. The country is in perfect peace. John £L Steuart, United States Consul to Antwerp, Belgium, died a few days ago at Paris- He was oue of the oldest officers in the Consular service. In President Grant’s first term he was appointed Consul to Turk’s Island, San Domingo. The identity of the Liverpool (England murderer and his victims has been dis covered. He is Frederick Deeming, a member of a good family residing in Birken head. England. At Duisburg, in Rheinish Prussia, the boiler of the tug boat Heinrich, plying on the Rhine, exploded. The deck of the tug boat was shattered. Six men, including the captain, were killed. A threk-stoby house in course of erec tion at St Petersburg, Russia, collapsed. Thirteen workmen were killed by the fall ing walls. There have been 775 deaths from yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during tae last fortnight. The crews of twenty-three steamers have been attacked by the fever. A butcher shop in Fulham, London, Eng land, was burned, and four occupants of the builaing perished ia the flames. It was stated in Berlin, Germany, that General von Caprivi, Imperial Chancellor, had tendered his resignation at the Cabinet meeting as a result of the protracted contest on the E mcation bill, which, as Prussian Premier, he has championed from the first. THE LABOR WORLD. The Crede (Col.) miners get $3 a day. There are 30,000cash girls in New York. Siemens steel is to be manufactured in India. Great Britain produces 10,000.000 tons of furnace slag annually. A forqk and gun company at San Fran cisco, Cal., will employ 4000. The European Powers have taken meas ures for the relief of the unemployed. The shoemaking business in California is controlled almost entirely by Chinese. It is said that there are 5,000,000 women in Germany who earn their own living. The New York Central is soon to build car shops costing $500,000 at Buffalo, N. Y. Many iron and steel furnaces iu Pittsburg, Penn., are being cooled off, owing to the overstock. There exist in P.ussia no laborers' associ ations comparable to the traie unions of other countries. Mr. Winans, the Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction in Kansas, was formerly a bricklayer in Atchison. He built his own fortune. Railway schools for children of railway employes are maintained by the railway companies of India at a very small expense to the pupils. A statistician has estimated that every worker in an American factory consumes over $93 worth of American agricultural produce in a year. The workmen employed to dig out the ruins of a cheese factory destroyed by fire at Pittsburg. Penn., struck for higher wages because of the bad smell The wheat harvest in the Argentiue Re public this season is said to be so great that much difficulty is being experienced in ob taining labor to gather it. In Germany 27,485 children between twelve and fourteen years workod in the factories in 1890; in England 86,499 under thirteen years were employed. Working days are of very unequal lengths iu Russia, varying from six to twenty hours, the average given in the re port as an estimate being not less than twelve hours. The rule is so indefinite, Jjgweyer, that jkere is never any claim of overtime possible. Interesting information upon the un willingness of the working class to subscribe in early life for an old-age pension is afford ed by a great English firm of cotton spin ners. They offered to subscribe $5000 to a pension fund on condition that the work people subscribed upon an acturial scale, but this proposal was rejected by a vote of more than two to one. Much suffering has been caused in Queens land by stagnation of industries. In one day 400 women and children besieged the Labor Bureau in Brisbane begging for re lief. The crush was so great that many fainted. Husbands have gone into the country seeking wmrk, leaving their fam ilies destitute, and the women and children are dependent upon tjie Government for food to keep them alive. CALAMITY AT SEA. Seven Sailors Asphyxiated on a Cattle St earner. Seven men out of fourteen who slept in the forecastle on the steamer Navarro, waich had sailed rrom Boston, Mass., for London, England, were found dead in their btldksthe second morning out. These men are P Mc Cabe, J. McDonald, J. Gourke, William Smith, E. Gadistein, E. Perquin and A. Ford. The men were buried at sea Their seven companions had a narrow escape from the same fate. The Navarro was compara tively a new steamer of 2515 tons register, commanded by Captain Goiooechea. She loaned 404 bead of cattle an 1 a general cargo. In addition to the crew she carried four teen cattle men, one boss foreman and two refrigerator men. The fourteen cattlemen slept in the fore castle in rather close quarters. Cattle men do not go aboaru a ship, as a rule, in the soberest condition, and the first day at sea has generally a dis quieting effect physically. The Navarro’s cattle men were of the ordinary variety. The first night at sea came, the cattle were fed and bedded, and the cattle men then sought the forecastle, The weather was cold and stormy, the men tired and sleepy, and some one sug gested that a fire be piled high with coal. This was done, and some one else c.osed the portholes. None of the men noticed the fact of ventilation until too late. The quality of the coal on the Navarro was un utterably bad. One by one the men dropped to sleep, aided, doubtless,by the gaseous atmosphere. As the hours roded on the gas became denser, ami the men in the upper bunks were enveloped in its deadly embrace. In the morning, as the men did not appear at the usual hour to attend to the wants of the cattle, the Captain ordered them routed out. The boss cattleman and some of the crew entered the forecastle and were almost overcome by the deadly at mosphere. Tney found seven men dead and seven almost dead. CULTIVATION OF HEMP. A Census Bulletin Showing the Acre age and Yield. A Census Bulletin shows the total acres of land devoted to the cultivation of hemp in the United States in 1889 to have been 25,054 acres, and the production of fiber 11,511 tons, valued at $1,102,602. The average yield per acre is 1029 pounds and the average value per acre $44.01 or $95.79 per ton. Kentucky pro duced 93.77 per cant, of the total hemp crop of the country. Illinois produced 4.83 per cent, and the remaining six States from which hemp was reported had an aggregate yield of only 161 tons. Although the crop of 1889 was more than double that of 1879, hemp production is re garded by those engaged in it as a declining industry, a condition which they attribute to foreign compe rition and to some extent to their own lack of improved machisery for breaking and cleaning the fiber. COLLIERY HORROR. Scores of Men and Women Per* ish in a Belgian Mine. Fire Follows an Einlosion Cuts Off All Escane. ana An accident occurred a few days ago in the Anderluis Colliery, near Charleroi, Belgium, which resulted in a great Joss of life. Two hundred and thirty-Tonr men were working in a gallery 400 feet below the surface, when there was a terrific explosion of fire-damp. Forty of the miners escaped by means of the second shaft and sixteen others were rescued, having received probably fatal injuries. The cage and the ventilator at the mouth ot the pit were shattered by the explosion. The de struction of the ventilator added an element of great danger to the situation. The explosion occurred at 8 o’clock in the morning. The shocit caused by it resembled an earthquake, and the ground for a large area in tbe region of the colliery rocked and trembled for several seconds. Houses were shaken to their foundations, windows were smashed, and crockery and ot.ier arti cles of household ware thrown about and broken.. Almost before the tremblings caused by the mighty explosion had entirely died away the people began to rush from their dwellings, and crowds of excited men, women and children flocked to the mouth of the pit Almost every family in the place had a relative or friend among the men employed in the mine. As soon as the deadly fumes which had been rushing up the shaft in stifling volumes had been dissipated, and it was thought that the pit could be entered with some degree of safety, a willing band.of hundreds of brave men volunteered to descend into the abyss and begin the work of rescue. The shock of the explosion detached huge masses of rock aud earth and the galleries are so blocked with the debris that it was im possible to approach nearer than one hun dred yards to the place where the great body of the miners were working. Besides the dirt and rock the carcasses of forty horses blocked the approach to the lower gallery, and these had to be cut up and removed before the rescuers could proceed The cries and prayers of the crowd were redoubled as the men at the windlasses in response to the signals of the rescuers began to haul up the limp and blackened forms of from thirty to forty of the miners. The vic tims were either dead or badly injured and the face of each was fearfully disfigured. A great sheet of flame must have swept through the mine, as the hair, beards and eyelashes of all the unfortunate men had been completely burned off, and their bodies were badly burned. Among the bodies recovered is that of a fourteen-year-old girl. That she suffered indescribable agony is shown by the young face, which is so horribly distorted that it cannot be recognized. The blackened fea tures are swollen almost beyond all sem blance to humanity. After it was found that the fire was gain ing in strength a consultation was held be tween the mine owners and the engineers, and it was decided that as there was not the slightest doubt that everybody in the mine was dead the only course left open for them to follow if they hoped to recover the bodies was to flood the mine. Preparations were being made to carry out this plan, but before any water could be pumped in cries of “Fire!” were heard on all wides, and at three o’clock the flames ascended to the pit’s mouth and sparks were scattered iu every direction. A few minutes later an immense column of flame shot through the ventilat ing shaft, piercing the thick clouds of smoke that were overhanging the shaft. The sight was grandly magnificent as the mass of fire shot upward, but it meant certain death tor every person in the mine This fact was fully recognized by the onlookers, and tbe wailing and shrieks of those near the pit’s mouth increased in violence as the lurid flame tore their last faint hope from them. In the meantime water had been com menced to be thrown into the burning pit. Betore it had descen ’ converted into tremendous ro the horror of the si The scene has seldol in the mining disasters' etruction of the build 1 proceeded without op[ o’clock only tbe walls were standing. All the heavy machinery at theTSioutb of the pit was destroyed and fell crashing down the shaft. This acted as a damper against the flames ascending the shaft to the sur face, and thereafter little fire could be seen, but it could be heard roaring and seething through the galleries far below the surface. The calamity has crushed the entire £bar]?roi district. Nothing is heard save lamentations for ’the dead. Many of the women who have lost theif only support have become hysterical through grief and the doctors are busy attending to them. In some cases all the surviving members of families still surround the blackened pit’s mouth, attracted by the very horror that has rendered them without a head. The Minister of Public Works has ordered the distribution of relief, and the work is now being carried on. By official computation of the number of victims in the Anderlues tragedy, it appears that there were 234 men and females in the shaft, of whom 154 are dead, eighteen in jured and sixty-two savea. BLIZZARD IN THE SOUTH. distance it was escaped with a hicn added to In. : ever been equalled If Belgium. The de- kgs on the surface Isition, and by seven The Fruit Crop Greatly Damaged by Snow. A howling norther with a heavy rain swept over all Texas. In an hour the ther mometer fell from seventy to thirty-four degrees. The clouds were heavy with an occasional fall of raia. Fruit and early vegetables escaped, but there is no doubt of everything being in imminent danger. Peaches, plums, apricots and pears were in bud or mil bloom, while market gardens everywhere were far advanced. At 10 o’clock in tne morning the northern hurricane culminated in a storm of sleet, snow and ice. Fruit trees, covered with full bloom, were coated with ice. There was hardly any hope that anything would be saved. It began snowing and sleeting and con tinued all day. The groun i was covered by about three inches of snosv and sleet and the fruit crop was destroyed around Jefferson, Texas. Untold damage will result. Six inches of snow fell at Little Rock, Ark., the heaviest known for years. Great damage is reported to the fruit crop every where. The snow reached such a depth at Mem phis, Tenn., that the electric cars on all the lines were unable to run. It was the heaviest fall of snow in that part of the country for many years. — ■ ——■■■. . «■ YOUNG GIRL LYNCHED. She ami Put Poison in th^ Coffee Nearly Killed a Family. The lifeless form of a colored girl was found dangling from a tree on the road lead ing to Rayville, La., a few mornings ago- It was identified as that o*. a fifteen-year-old servant of W R. Helmor, who resides on the Greenville place, twenty miles from there. The girl became offended at the action of a colored man, also employed in tne house, and m seeking some mode of revenge she de cided to put poison into his coffee. She put the ’ oison into the coffee intended for the family meal. About nine persons drank the concoction anti eleven had a very narrow escape from death. The girl acknowledged that she in tended to kill the man, and she did not care particularly who else suft'-ered. That nigat some parties started oat to bring the girl to the jail v at Ravville, but they had not proceeded fair before a masked party overtook them and strung the girl up to a tree at the first crossink. “Buckskin Jennie,” a) conspicuous character among the Indian trjibes about Del Norte, Cal., is dead. She was thought to have committed a number of nkurders among her own countrymen and the whites, but the crimes could not be traced to (her. Jennie would shoulder a rifle and go oei the warpath with as much nerve as any of Vher brothers and was as quick on the trigger as any of them. FIFTY-SECOND 00NQBESS. In the Senate. 52d Day.—Mr. Vest’s Postoffice Buildings bill was passed House bill to amend the act to provide for the performance of the duties of the President in the case of the re moval, death, resignation or inability both of President and Vice-President, was re ported and placed on the calendar. It pro vides for the succession of the Secretary of Agriculture after the Secretary of the'In terior Senate joint resolution authoriz ing the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at the World’s Fair such books, papers, docu ments and other articles from the library of Congress as may relate to Christopher Columbus and the early history of America was passed. 53d Day.—The Urgent Deficiency and Military Academy appropriation bills were passed Mr. Berry introduced a bill for the adjustment of the rights of the Indians in the Indian Territory, with a view of hav ing that Territory admitted as a State. Re ferred Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to increase the facilities of the Postoffice De partment for obtaining the use of buildings for postoffice purposes. 54th Day.—The House bill ratifying the act of the Arizona Legislature, appropriat ing $30,000 in aid of Arizona’s exhibition at the World’s Fair, was passed Mr. Hale, reported a bill for the construction (by con tract) of three battle-ships, two armored coast defence vessels, five gun boats and eight first-class torpedo boats Mr. Peffer introduced a bill to create a pension fund by an income tax on millionaires to give idle laborers work on public improvements. 5oth Day.—In the temporary absence of Vice-President Morton, Mr. Mandersoa, President pro tern, of the Senate, occupied the chair Mr. Frye reported the Senate bill exempting American coastwise sailing vessels, piloted by their licensed masters or by United States pilots, from the obligation to pay State pilots for services not rendered. Calendar Mr. Peffer introduced a bill to establish an electrical experimental station to determine whether electricity can be used in the propulsion of farm machinery. Re ferred to Committee on Agriculture. 56th Day.—Mr. Casey reported a bill to establish a uniform standard of wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye. Calendar Mr. Hawley introduced a hill appropriating $50,009 for a pedestal and statue to General W. T. Sherman in Washington. Referred The calendar was then taken up, and several minor bills were disoosed of. In tbe House. 57th Day.—Senate concurrent resolution was agreed to authorizing the joint commit tees on printing to ascertain the most suit able site for a new Government Printing Of fice in Washington The floor was then ac corded to the Committee on the District of Columbia, aud a number of local bills were passed—The House then went into Com mittee of the Whole (Mr. Wilson, o! West Virginia, in the chair) on the Army Appro priation bill 58th Day.—The debate on the Free Wool bill was continued, speeches being made by Messrs. Coombs, Walker, Scott, Clupan and Dockery. 59th Day.—After the transaction of some routine business, the House went into Com mittee of the Wnoleand the discussion of the Free Wool bill was resumed by Messrs. Sayres and Bryan. (jOth Day.—Half an hour was con sumed iu determining who should be the author of the digest of the rules for the P resent Congress. The struggle was be- ween Mr. Smith, the former journal clerk, and Mr. Crutchfield, the incumbent. Mr. Crutchfield was victorious The debate on the Free Wool bill was then continued, speeches being made by Messrs. Payne and Ellis. 61st Day. —There was a colloquy beeween Messrs. Williams and Walker concerning tae latter’s speech The debate on the Free Wool bill was continued The evening ses sion considered private bills. NEVSY GLEANINGS. Maryland is full of wild ducks. There are over 5600 silos in Wisconsin. The great lakes are open for navigation. Yellow fever is raging at Brazilian ports. The financial condition of Italy is im proving. The number of postmistresses In the coun try is 6335. Salt Lake City, Utab, is having a natu ral gas boom. The Tiber has inundated the lower parts of Rome, Italy. cotton trade has al- THE B|ngal (India) most ‘collapsed. Two armed U nited States cutters are tc be placed on the lake-. The Yaquilas Indians, of California, are again on the warpath. The annual revenue from salt in tbe East Indies is about 835,000,000. The foot and mouth disease is spreading among the cattle in Belgium. Greece is reported to be in a state of pop ular excitement bordering on revolution. The plot to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey has been traced to Russian sources. The Southern California orange crop is a total failure owing to frost and heavy winds. There are at present thirty-four vacancies of cadetships at the Annapolis Naval Acad emy. General O. O. Howard, who is making a tour of Mexico, says the Garza insurrec tion is a small affair. A “whale back” steamer 500 feat long, to carry passengers, will be built for the World’s Fair, Chicago, III. The Governor-General of Canada issued a proclamation enfranchising the Indian population in British Columbia. Eight German publications have been suspended for commenting on Emperor William’s Brandenburg speech. A second army of locusts from Chile has been frozen to death in its attempt to cross the Vica Mountains into Bolivia. Distress by the drought is increasing in India. In many disti’icts the water is fail ing and the condition of cattle is serious. Fostmastee-General Wanamaker of fers a gold me lal to the railway postal clerk in each of the seven divisions who makes the best record in 1892. According to official reports,no less than fifty-two schooners have cleared, or are about to clear from Victoria, British Co lumbia. for the purpose of capturing seals in our forbidden territory. The Senators and Representatives who went to Kentucky to attend the funeral of the late Congressman Kendall were com- E elled to ride twenty-five miles through a finding snow storm over a mountarin road and wade through streams in weather so cold that their fool was frozen. Their fives were often in peril. GRAND DUKE LUDWIG IY. The liuler of Hesse-Darmstadt and Son-in-Law ot Victoria Dead. The Grand Duke Ludwig IV. died a few nights ago at Darmstadt. Three of his daughters and Prince Ernst Ludwig, his heir, w ere at his bedside at the time of his death. The city is in mourning. In the English quarter, where the Grand Duke was especially popular, manv houses are draped. The Grand Duke Lulwig IV. was the nephew of his predecessor on the throne of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was bora on Sep tember 12, 1837, and married in 1862 the Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria. She died six years later alter bearing him five daughters and one son, the present Grand Duke. Iu the war of 1866 he commanded a brigade in the Hessian contingent, and in 1S70-7I the Twenty-fifth Infantry division of the Ninth army corps. He distinguished himself by his bravery at Gravelotte and in the fighting on the Loire. In June, 1877, upon the death of his uncle. Grand Duke Ludwig III., he ascended the throne. In 18S4 he married Frau voa Kole- mine, nee Countess Czapska, but was di vorced from her shortly afterward. He was liberal in his political views, and desnite his tendency toward Englishmen and English ways, was a much more popular ruler than his son is likely to be. KILLED BY BOBBERS. Mexican Bandits Capture a Sate With 10,000 Silver Dollars. One of the heaviest and boldest robberies ever committed in Mexico took place a few days ago near Durango. C. W. Brittain, manager of the Vacas mines, left Durango for the mines with 10,000 silver dollars in an iron safe in a wagon. He was accompanied by J H. Herndon, a young American, and three Mexican guards. When within seven miles of Constancia, fifty-five miles from Durango, about twenty-five men rode up from behind and commenced shooting. Juan Castanaeda, one of the guards, was killed, and Herndon was severely wounded. The fire of the bandits was returned by Mr. Brittain and his guard, and one of the roo bers was killed. The lash was put to the horses, but the robbers gained rapidly on the wagon, taking it and the money captive. Mr. Brittain es caped into the chapparal with Mr. Herndon in nis arms. They made their way to Con stancia, where they notified the military authorities. A detachment of troops went at once to tbe scene of tbe robbery,but when they arrived at the spot they found that the safe had been broken open and robbed. Ice harvesting operations oa the Penob scot in Maine, are over for (he season, and it is estimated that about 890,009 tons have been housed. The ice is thinner than usual, ranging from ten to fourteen inches iu thickness, but in excellence of quality this ivear’s harvest was never surpassed. It is 'likely that all holdings will be disposad of at from $1.25 to $1.75 per ton, and tuat will be paying business. The crop will furnish cargoes for about five hundred sail of large schooners. A Virginia City (Nev.) youth was recently detected in the act of snooting an arrow, with a cigarette attached, through a broken window m the rear of the jail to some boys who were imprisoned therein. (S?2 05 @ - — @ 29 — (4 29 — & 26 25 @ 26 22 @ 24 19 @ 21 25 @ — 22 @ 24 19 @ 21 21 @ 23 19 @ 20 17 IS 21 @ — 181* @ 20 17 (£ 18 — @ 21 16 @ 20 CtviNG to continued drought the Bolivian It is wheat crop is a failure. It is feared that great distress will prevail all this yeaf throughout the Republic. THE MAEKETS. — - ■ — Late Wholesale Prices ot Countrj Produce Quoted in New York. 12 BEANS AND PEAS. Beans—Marrow, 1891, choice.f2 09 Medium, 1891, choice..., 1 75 Pea, 1891, choice 1 75 @ — White kidney, 1891, choice 2 20 (if 2 25 Red kidney, 1891, choice. 1 85 @ 2 00 Yellow eye, 1891, choice. 65 @1 70 Lima, Cal., per bush.... 1 60 @1 75 Foreign, medium, 1891.. 1 65 @ 1 70 Green peas,ISOLnar bush.... 1 32W@ 1 35 1801, bagsiHA....^ 130 @ — 1891. ScotcB^. — @ 1 35 BUTTER. Creamery—Penn, extras Elgin, extras Other West, extras State dairy—half firkin tubs, fall ends, extras H. f. tubs and pails, Ists. H. f. tubs and pails, 2ds. Welsh tubs, extras Welsh tubs, Ists Welsh tubs, 2ds Western—Im. creamery, Ists. Im. creamery, 2ds Im. creamery, 3ds Factory—Fresh, extras...... Fresh, Ists... Fresh, 2ds Rolls—Fresh, extras Fresh, 3ds to Ists CHEESE. State factory—Full cream, white, fancy 125/ Full cream,colored,fancy 12 125/ Fuller, good to prime.. 11 @ llVj Common to fair 9%(g> lOJj Part skims, choice 10 (® — Part 8kims,good to prime 8>£@ 95* Part skims, com. to fair. 6 8 Full skims 5 Pennsylvania—Skims — (as 3 EGGS. State and Penn—Fresh...... 14 IVestern — Fresb, fancy Fresh, fair to good Southern—Fresh, per doz.... Western—Ice Bouse Limed, per doz.,.,, FRUITS AND BEKR1ES- Apples—King, per bbl Spitzenberg, per bbl 2 09 Baldwin, per d. h. bbl.. 2 00 Greenings, per d. h. bbl. Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca tawba, 5 lb basket..... Western N. Y., Concord. — HOPS. State—1891, choice, per lb.,. 1891, prime 1891, common to good... 1890, choice, per lb 1890, common to prime.. Old odds LIVE TOULTRY. Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn., Western, per lb Chickens, Western Local, medium to prime Roosters, old, per lb........ Turkeys, per lb Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penn., per pair..,. Western, per pair Geese, Western, per oair.... Southern, per pair Pigeons, per pair DRESSED POULTRY—FRESH KILLED. 14 @ — — © 14 — © — 13; j — © — — @ — -FRESH. — — 2 09 @ 3 50 200 © © 2 37 200 2 25 8 @ 20 & ““ 24 ® - 23 © 23 18 © 21 17 © 18 12 © 16 6 © 8 13M© — @ 13/j 12^(0/ 13 — @ 13 8 © — 13 © Wi 85 © 1 25 80 © 1 00 1 37 @ 1 75 • 1 25 @ 1 37 45 @ 59 Turkeys—Selected hens, lb. 15 @ 16 Mixed weights 13 © 14V4 Young toms, tair to prime 12^@ 13^ Old toms 11 © 12 Chickens—Phila., per lb.... 17 © 20 Fowls—State and Peon , par lb 13 @ 14 Western, per lb 13 © Ducks—Jersey, per lb — © — State and Penn., per lb. — © — Western, per lb 10 © 15 Geese—Western, per lb 5 @ 10 Capons—Phila., extra large. Phila., small to medium. 21 © 22 17 © 20 W estern, fair to fancy. 16 © 29 Squabs—Dark, per doz 300 © < 3 50 POTATOES AND VEGETABLE?. Potatoes—Jersey, bulk, bbl.. 75 ig 1 12 State Rose and Hebron, per ISO lb 1 25 @ 1 31 State,other kinds, 180 lb. 1 00 @ 112 L. I., in bulk, per bbl... 1 62 @ 1 75 Sweet potatoes. Jersey, bbl.. 159 (g 3 0G Cabbage, L. I. per 1(X> 2 00 Onions—Connecticut,red, bbl 2 25 Orange County, red, bbl. 1 75 Orange County, yellow. — Eastern, yellow, per bbl. 2 25 Eastern, white, per bbl. 5 09 Squash—L. I., marrow, bbL. . 300 .20 00 . 3 75 . 6 50 t or* ©212 © — © - © 8 00 @ 1 09 © 1 25 © 75 © 75 @6 00 © 500 © 2 09 @550 @45 00 © 8 50 @ 6 69 @ 7 50 @ 5 59 @ bX L. I., Hubbard, per bbl.. 1 00 Turnips, Canada, per bbl.... 60 Celery—Fla., per doz. roots. 60 String beans, Fla., per crate. 4 00 Lettuce. Southern, per bbl.. 1 59 Tomatoes, Fla.,per bush crate. 1 00 LIVE STOCK. Beeves Milch Cows, com. to good.. Calves, common to prime.. Sheep. »*•..».•«.• .......... Lambs Hogs—Live Dressed GRAIN, ETC. Flour—City Mill Extra...... Patents Wheat—N o. 3 Red.......... Rye—State Barley—Two-rowed State... Corn—Ungraded Mixed Cats—No. 1 White Mixed Western Hay—Good to Choice... Straw—Long Rye Lard—City [Steam FURS AND SKINS. Eastern <£* Southern d) Sortn ivtJiCrn So jU \C23t e r.i. Black bear 820 <>'>@3) 09;i 9 (X)3?2) 0> Cubs and y’rliags 5 09© 1-5 09 4 6 00© 7 09 4 99 5 09 5 10 © 5 25 1 02}4 93 98 53 s 56 493* — 39 363* 75 85 — © 65 06.15© CO .2* Beaver,large.... Beaver, medium. Beaver,small... ■ Mink, dar<i, fine. 1 Mink, brown.... Red tox 1 Gray fox Raccoon, each.. Skunk, black.... 1 Skunk halt strp’a Skunk, striped.. Skunk, white.... Opossum, large. Opossum, :ned -. Muskrat.’ spring Muskrat, winter. Muskrat, fall 3 50© 59© 50© 60© 59© 99© 59© 20© 79© 35© 15© 30© 15© 16© 11© 7a 09© 09© 3 59© 1 1 1 I 0)© 70© 59© 29© 70© 39© 00© 69© 39© 13© 25© Padgett WILL PAY THEFREIGHT ■ SAY! DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU Can buy any article of FURNITURE, Cooking Stoves, Carpets, Mattings, Window Shades and Lace Curtains, Cor nice Poles, BABY CARRIAGES, Clocks, Mirrors, Pic-| |tures, Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Chamber| Sets, Mattresses, Comforts, Blankets and a thousand and one articles needed in a house delivered at your depot at the same pr ce that you buy them in Au-I jgusta? I CARRY EVERYTHING You need, and can quote you prices that will sat isfy you that I am giving | a dollar value for every] dollar paid. Special Offer No. I To introduce my business i neighborhood in tne quickest manner, I will ship you one Be Suite complete, consisting of Or stead, full size and high head Bureau with glass. One Vv ash i One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat Chairs, One Rocker to match, well worth $20; but to introduce my goods in your neighborhood at once I will deliver the above suite at your railroad depot, all charges paid, FOE ONLY $16.50, When the cash comes with the order. BESIDES this Suite, I have a great many other Suites in Walnut, Oak, Poplar, and all the popular woods, running in price from the cheapest up to hundreds of dollars for a Suite. Special Bargain No. 2 Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven | pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in plush in popular colors, crimson, olive, 3lue, old gold, either in banded or in I combination colors. This suite is sold for $40.00. I bought a large number of | them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago, hence I will deliver this fine Plush Suite, all charges paid by me, to your nearest railroad depot, for $33.09. Be- J sides these suites 1 nave a great many other suites in all the latest shapes and styles, and can guarantee to please you. Bargain No. 3 Is a Walnut Spring duced from $9 to $7. Seat Lounge, re- All freight paid. E 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- hole range with trimmings for $15. Besides these I have the largest stock of Cooking Stoves in the city, includ ing the gauze door stoves and ranges, | and the CHARTER OAK STOVES! with patent wire gauze doors. I am delivering these stoves everywhere, all freight charges paid, at the price of an ordinary stove, while they are tar superior to any other stoves made. Full j particulars by mail. 109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to tbe roll, $5.50 per roll. 1009 Cornice Polls, 25 cents each; 100 Window Shades, 3x7 feet, on spring roller and frigued, at 37>^ cents each. You mu^t pay your own freight on Cornice Poles, Window Shades and Clocks. Now, see here, I cannot quote you everything I have got in a store con taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be sides its annexes and factory in another part of the town. jgsf“I shall be pleased to send you anvtnirig above mentioned, or will send my catalogue free if you will say you saw this aavertisement in The Aiken Recorder, published at Aiken, S. C. JgT'No goods sent C. O. D., or on consignment. I refer you to the editor and publisher of this paper, or to any banking concern in Augusta, or to the Southern Express Co., all whom know me personally. Yours, etc.; L. F. PADGETT, DYER BU1LDIH8, 805 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA., Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture, Stove and Carpet Stores. Factory, Harrison St.