in i A A ARAN AH In Chicago almost every form of crime is rapidly advancing. Three States now have Ballot Reform acts—Massachusetts, Rhode Island and | Indiana. Montana has signalized her approach- mg Statehood by the discovery of new gold mines. A French soldier has been sentenced to be shot for throwing a quid of tobacco in the face of his Colonel. The Scientific American asserts that nine-tenths of the material prosperity ot this American Union is due to inventors and their patents, The first experiment with the Aus- tralian ballot system in the United States | will be that which will be tried in Montana in October. The old men are on top in Japan. Under the new constitution of country a man must be thirty years old to be eligible for office. Funny, isn’t it, queries the New York ! Herald, that this great country with millions of acres of unoccupied land, must buy eggs from Germany and onions from Spaini The railroads are not making as much money as formerly, according to (ood- alls Sun. year the loss as against 1837 was nearly $24,000,000, Admiral Porter, of the United States Navy, says that with $50,000,000 at his command he could, in sixty days, put an improvised fleet in motion which would make short work of any foreign nation's commerce, the Washington 8 “Tastes Most people would prefer a Pole Says lar differ. i to a Chinaman. In the eastern provinces of Prussia, out the Poles, while talking seriously of importing Chinamen.” howe ver, New Orleans has set the peculiar ex ample of making her police secure in i their calling for life. The experiment, remarks the Washington Star, will draw attention from a dozen cities where the problem of getting a good police force has not been solved, The Cubans are greatly excited over the rumor that there is a plan in this country to buy their island. The Span. ish Minister of the Interior, however, declares that Spain will never consent to part with Cuba or any other colony for any consideration whatever, A Canadian paper wants to know why five million Canadians should pay more to be governed Americans pay. than sixty million The thirteen Cabinet officers at Ottawareceive $103,000 a year, while the eight Cabinet officers of the United States receive $64,000, The casting of plate glass is said to exceed in splendor and marvelous dis. play all other pieces of dustrial world, work in the in. There is about it such nervous rapidity of movement, such play of color, that the with the greatest enthusiasm and claims aloud with delight, beholder is inspired ex. President Harrison wasfifty.five years, seven months and fourteen old His grand. nan ever selected days when he was maugurated father was the oldest President, being in his sixty-eighth year. General Grant was the youngest, in his forty-seventh year. The average age of Presidents at the time of their inauguration is fifty-six years. General | Harrison is but little under the average President, in years at least, A few days ago a man got permission to experiment with an Egyptian em- | balming process on a cadavar at the New York Morgue. The body was placed in 8 zine lined box. A plate with a powder that looked like common clay ‘Was set on fire and placed inside the box. The cover was screwed on the Lox and the body was subjected to the process for six hours. The Morgue people pro- sounce it s success. The cost is fifty cents, In the largest jewelry shops in New York, where 53000 worth of gold is used | in a day, the gold is not weighed out to the workmen, and nothing but the hon. esty of the employes prevents loss. But while the gold is allowed to be exposed, states the Atlanta Constitution, tobacco has to be locked up because it has been found that the man who would not staal a grain of his employer's gold, would not hesitate to appropriate his neighbor's tobacco, At an entertainaent given by a mis- sion band at Toronto, Canada, one of that On 40,000 miles of road last | they are driving |! | at Findlay, Ohio. FILLING THE OFFICES Close of the Special Session of the United States Senate, Two Nominations Rejected and Eight Not Acted Upon Fifteenth Days Kominations James N. Huston, Chairman of the Re- publican State Committees of Indiana, to be Treasurer of the United States, Filis H. Roberts, editor of the Utlea (N, XY.) Morning Herald, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York city, | William ¥. Wharton, of Massachusetts, to | be Assistant Secretary of State. : | Captain George B. White, United States { Navy, to be Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks in the Department of the Navy, to {ll a vacancy. i | | | 1. Bradford Prince, of Banta Fe, New Mexico, to ba Governor of New Mexico, Louis A. Walker, of Helena, Mout, to be | Secretary of Montana, . James BE. Kelley, of Nebraska, tobs Re seiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb. George H. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, vies Zach. Montgomery, resigned. Drury J. Burchett, of Kentucky, to be Marshal of the United States {or the Dis trict of Kentucky The following confirmations were made by the Senate: Louis Wolfley, of Arizona, Gov- srnor of Arizona; C. 1. Ashley, Indian | Agent at Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Indian Ferritory: W. W. Junkin, Indian Inspector; | J. BE. Kelly, Receiver of Pablic Moneys at | Bloomington, Neiv: Ll. A. Walker, Secretary of Montana: J. No Huston, Treasurer of the United States; E Hoberts, Assistant | Treasurer at New k; E. H. Terrill, Min ster to Belgium; J Abbott, Minister to olombian; CU. A. Beohobey, Indian Agent at Fort Peck, and a large number of postmas- ters. Day's Nominations Fisher, of Chi ago, Hi. tobe As Commissioner of Patents, vice Robert resignod, Commander Bartlett J Captain, 1 Stateenth Robert J, Saatant I, Vance, Cromwell (0 be a Lisutenant-Commander George I urand to be a Commander, Lisutenant Uriel Sebires to be a Lieutenant Commander isutenant Mosse I. Wood (junior grade) to te a Lisutenant, Ensign James H. Glennon to be a nant Junior grade), Comma: ler John W, Phillip to be a Captain, Lie tenant -Commandsr Francis M. Barber to be sutanant Albert I Conden enant-ommander Listitenant anior grade, to be a Lieu tn Harry 8B Koapp to be a vor grade: Passed Awistant ali IL Stanton to be a Vay tant Paymaste Thomas be a Passed Paymaster ieutenant Harry K. White, Mark be a First Lisutenant w Senate foll ' at wu naster, Am vie 10 ya] LCarps, te Assistant firmed the WING DOM. go H. Shields, of Missouri, Attorney Ueneral; Drary J. Burshet he Marshal of Kentucky: Rober: J. Fishes be Assistant Commissioner © George B. White, to Ix of Yards and Docks: | Prince, to be Governor of New liam F. Wharton, of Massacha Assistant Secretary of Bate Sion A. Darnell, Attorney for the District Lisurgia Johan B. Henderson, of : i { New York: William Finckne Maryland; Clement Indiana; T Jefferson of Ma sach Williams H. Trescolt, of Sout Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania Pitkin, of Louisiana: Morris M Fasten, of California, and J. FF. Hansom, « Georgia, delagates to the Congress of Ameri can Nations to be held in Washington Novem ber The Naval prom dent were also confirmed Sear the close of business Vice President torton said: "As the present occupant the chair is about 10 vacate the chair for the remainder of the session, be desires to ava vmsell of this opportunity to express | grateful appreciation of the eourtesy and co leration which he has recived from every membe { this body. He desires also . ] at he shall find at the nox ale every Senator ia his Ith, and that be shall then tunity to resame and contive lations already established # then offered a resolutio # absmos of the Vics President My hosen President of the Senate pro lex) satis, to I» Norther ’ of Missour Corneal t. Blas ¢ Whyte Studebakes Coolidge, sotls na | SOF Lar : Jeun Gui one sont Int resolution waz pul by the Beoretary and agreed to without division, and then Mr Ingalls, escorted by Mr. Edmunds, had the oath of ollice administered to him by we retary and took the chair, expressing at the same tiow his grateful acknowledgment ennte for the renewed sxpression o Ne tO the ita yivden ¢ Sonate then adjourned sine die by » idence the same dale veh it adjourned four years ago, leavin wafirme |] less than a dows nominations among these only two of any impor that of William Whiteman to be Asso ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the erritory of New Mexico, and that of Bd ward Kuarsheed, to be United Htates Marshal of the Eastern District of Louisiana. The Senate's Work Summarized. OF the 30 nominations sent to the Senate during the special session by President Harri son the following were ro jected Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany. Isadore 8. Loventhal to "eo Postmatter at Modesto, Cal The following remained unacted upon (and therefore died) at the end of the session William H. Whiteman to be Associate Jus tice of the Territory of New Mexico Edwin |. Kursheedt to be Marshal for the Ke Colm "i | Eastern District of Lousiana, Postmasters — Kittrell 0, Halders at Minot, Dak. ; Carl C, Crippen at Eustis, Fla: Burt C, Drake at Gainesville, Fia.: Robert F. Hebout at Rushville, Ind. ; George KE, Nichol son at Ness City, Kan. ; Bamuel C, Moors President Harrison's nominations were contained in 34 messages, During the spe cial seswion of the Senate at the beginning of President Cleveland's tam be sent to the Capitol 418 messages. Eighteen of his nomi nations failed to receive coafirmation, but , there were no rejections. At the last session | of Congress during Hayess Administration the Senate failed to set on 106 of his nomi - nations, and rejected three—an unequaled STANLEY AND EMIN. A Report That They are Marching To. gether to the East Const, Advices received at Brussels, Belgium, | sixty-two years old, | Roberts to sucesed him | Treasury in New York. | New Haven, | of the New Haven Historical Society, carried | Foote, held Ly | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middie States, Noan SrenarLei,a well known contractor and builder of Bethlehem, Penn, committed suicide, Excessive drinking drove him to the commission of the deed, Ex-Presipext CLEVELAND has been ape pointed, by a New York Bupreme Court Judge, one of three commissioners of Esti. mate and Assessment in the matter of the High Bridge Park, Junge Arexaxoer MoCo, Treasurer of the United States, paralysis at his home in Brooklyn, Assistant died of He was Om the day before his death President Harrison nominated Ellis H, as head of the Sub. Tur Bt. David, a full rigged ship, reached Philadelphia from Havre, with the steward in irons, a hopeless lunatic; the first mate down with acute bronchitis, the second mate | a victim of rheumatic fever, and a seaman also suffering from a complication of dis eased, Howanp R. Bwirr, agent of the Mutual | Life Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn., | recently committed suicide in that city, | Financial embarrassment was the cause, A nia land slide occurred in Pittsburg, | completely covering the tracksol the Balti- more and Ohio railroad. Tuirves broke into the old State house at Conn., and sntering the rooms away the sword of Admiral the Society as a relic. It is a presentation sword studded with jewsis and precious stones valued at $5000, Tue change in the offices of the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer of New York will necessitates a count of all the moneys and securities in both offices, and will take at least four weeks to accomplish A MILE TRUST has been formed at Pitts burg. The Trost will handle all the milk, some thirty thousand gallons, which is brought to Pittsburg daily Abad Mave was found drowned in a spring on his farm, near West Band Lake, . Heo was sixty five years old, and is believed to have committed suicide American tragedian, was stricken with incipient paralysis daring his RPPEArancs “Othe at ester. N, Y.. and the performance had to go on without him, All hisdates for tae season have been anosiad Hoorn, the groat Tie Rhode Island State election resulted in no choles by the people on the general ticket, and the General Assembly will be salled upon to elect State officers of Pittsburg. Per EDWARD LNIETR ALLARD oniir & Boss a large n art ¢ furniture £ in antiques furniture whey was to rk house cabinet fury 2 3 . 1 wended costly artd ans and thirty yet to be to a State office elected borney Lyeners South and West, i strike of carpenters occurred at Bt louis at ¥ o'clock mn the morning Over 1700 men demanded sight hour is lavy's work, A FREIGHT tran plunged thr ing bridge over Hart's Creek, two tramps were burned fo wreck Jons B to coro swollen wagor stream, drowned, WitLiaxe Eobw a white man, who had the mail contract from Washburn, Da kota, to Coal Harbor. has been murdered by his indian wifa Jaxes C Carnovs, a Unoer, prominent in business, religions and socia! circles at Darton, Tenn, crazed by financial losses, af tempted 'o kill his family and himself. He and his wife were fatally injured Tie Koderack, trading schooner, was cruising between Graham asd Moresly Islands, Alaska, when five ssainen--two Americans, Henry and Anderson, and three Kanakas landed, taking some trinkets for barter with the Indians The Indians de molished the whale boat in which the sailors came ashore and then killed the five Hexay 1. Hoogte, Superintendent of the Electric Light plant at Fostoria, Ohio, was instantly killed by coming in contact with the current while repairing a dynamo Carcien (Democrats was elected Mayor of Chicago over Roche (Republican) by 10, 000 ma ority, Tux village of Mount Pleasant, Dakota, was almost entirely consumed by a prairie fire. Every business houses and nearly all the residences are destroyed. The 4 he together With about fifteen or twenty I ht ears and four large slavators, is gone Joss will be nearly $500 000, with very little insurance, and a hundred families were jofy homeless an utterly destitute, Tur first United States Court over held in the Indian Territory has just heen opened at Muskagee. Gexgnatl MoCoxxriy, of Osage, Kan, a prominent politician, has committed suicide, Lansing Lossing, treasurer of Green wood Townsh. p, Mich, is $150 short in his an. ugh a Ww. 1 death the vies, of Clinton, Me Grand River which was muoch with his wife and six irem in a I'he wagon was overturned in mid and four of the chiidren were . atlampted can county and is under arrest Mas Missin D, Movax has besa siscted Mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kan. The next City Comma] will 8% somaoss] entirely of women Fing de troval loos, on (eet of lumber at Hannibal, Mo, and at one time threat enad the destruction of the sntire city, A GALx in Baltimore unroofed many doing great damage, A coLLIsioN of two f t trains occurred at Nashville, Tenn, in which three men were instantly ki and weveral wounded held u xpress, Edward T. 8B. Winx, Deity ward Herriens on the Des M Ri lands in lowa made armed ors Momeiird eviction, and drove off the United tou Jtarshals and thelr men Gueaenat Jacon Suanre has Governor of the National Soldiers’ Milwaukee, Wis, and General Kilbnrn K suereads him in that position, Carraix RK. Lorn, Kates rowed out ne in nox Washington, Mason Mancus A Hexo, formerly of the United States Army, Iv dead, in his fifty. ifth year. For failing to go to General Custer's relief at the Big Horn massacre, Major Reno was dismissed the service in | Tur Navy Department has lesusd orders tor the following vessels to go at once to Samoan: The Richmond, now in Rio de Ia Plata, South America; the Alert, now in Honolulu, und the Adams, now fitting for | want the Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal | Tux reduction in the public debt during March amounted to $15,005,655 and for the first nine months of the current fscal year, £50,900,994, The total debt, less cash in the Treasury, is $1,114, 685,662 Cash or surplus in the Treasury is $54,000,500, against $44, OBE, 158 a month sgo. During March 1005 fourth-class postaas | Warn were appointed by the new Postmaster deneral; 420 were appointed to succeed post nasters who had resigned, and 5% to taxes { the places of others suspended or removed, | THe new Assistant Secretaries of the Preasury, Messrs. Tichenor and Batchsller, | took the oath of office, and began at once the | lischarge of their new duties i Tue White House was & scene of brillianey { at the reception given to the Princes and Princess Takihilo, of Japan. The Marine Hand rendered choice swlections of American { and foreign airs during the evening Presi- dent and Mrs. Harrison wers assisted in re peiving visitors by all the ladies of the Cabinet | pxoept Mrs, Blaine SECRETARY Srare peivedd information of the sale, by the Colonial Government to sn American syndicate, of the entire Jamajoa railway | ®ystem CotoxerL W Bra hanlucky, , has declined the Corean mission, to which be was nominated a few days ago by President Harrison Braixe has re 8) f £. DLEY, OX Tur contract for the coastruction of the machinery of the United States armored cruiser has awarded to N. F. Org, at 3 her Maine Palmer & Co... of Now esigned, grain payment, the nargest sa epen ied battle wilh Metteoma EXE the request will be ox; etaine fr gress pay nen A DiIsTY in Dut ir Tux Us been fine tives lendi Tur dered the Wolf to corvette for Samos (yor vi have or gunboat (rerman ” Taneibar B.S APRIL THANKSGIVING. The President Recommends Relig fous Services on Centennial Day. The following proclamation has been lssaed by the President A hundred years have passed since the Government which our forefathers founded was formally organised. At noon, on the ath day of April, seventeen hundred and vighty-nine, in men whose colonies to victory and independence, George Washington took the oath of office as Chief Magistrate of the newborn Republic. This impressive act was preceded at nine o'clock | in the morning, in all the churches of the | | city, by prayer for God's blessing on the | | Government and ite first President | The centennial of this illustrious event in | our history has been declared a general holi- | day by of Congress, to the end that the people of the whole country may join in com- memorative exercises appropriate to the day. In order that the joy of the ocooasion may he associated with a deep thankfulness in the minds of the people for all our in the and a out supplication to God 135 He ! i and Amerion to be ES | as we City of New York, and in | the presence of an assemblage of the heroic | patriotic devotion had led the j PRAIRIE FIRES, Eastern Dakota Swept hy astrous Flames, Villages, Farm Houses and Stock Destroyed. A dispatch from Scotland, Dakota, says: Another terrible prairie fire swept over the { country south of Scotland during the after. | noon, and its path was marked by the smouid- ering om bers of A very high wind prevailsd all day, and with the grass dry as tinders the terrific force of fire is beyond dew ription, At three many homes the | o'clock word was brought to town that the | prairie was afire nor of West Town, and immediately a bundred men started in teams 0 ward off the approaching Fames armed with Yrooms and sacks Arriving at Alfred UDrown's farm, two miles north, all bis barns, dairies and eattie sheds were one blazing Is, and the efforts of the crowd wers directed to | saving his residence and beating the fire out that would in a short time have swept down upon the town Brown's residences was saved, but all his household goods that had been carried out by the family were burned, One mile north of Brown's the fire burnad Henry Hagelfry out of every possession. His house, barns and stock were consumed, and he barely escaped with his family, Acros from Hagelfry lived D BR Tom imson, n Prosperous farmer, and everything about his place except his house was swent away. Five houses and several head of live stock were among bomen His wife was nt homes alone and could Jd property. By evening ti been exting hed, bus fire lusers ire Degran soi Lhenst : sent of north, burned up west of th for the two days Als Creek Uuraed anim the THE LA ——— BOR WORLD, are | a { M twes New Brpronn wen ying A THOU France, } Tour Gadedon, der {or NTAXA ty<Aiwo feet th . “A aetes to have a mill for § fancy onal SAND dock works at Mars ~ AVE PON wks have an or 00 cars | A GOOD many oo comerete and artifi « are being I= iit { STARVATION wage the story that « A BED PLATE weighing thirty thre was recently cast st Steclton, Penn tle workmen & ses from Berlin tons Ix the neglected mining district of Zacalpan Mexico, labor is paid $14 per month Wages are being redooed in New England woolen mills and new mills are starting up Ix Baltimore 300 women and girls get the average weekly wages of § for making over | alls A Viexxa man is making from red beechwood It can wwed, Parrensox, (N. J) slk weavers work till | silk mills are | ? o'clock at night, and starting. Drrawane Riven shipbuilders kave con tracts enough on band to keep them busy for two years, Tux New York Progressive Musioal Union has taken steps toward getting up a national srganization Tae 10.000 washerwomen of Paris have formed a union. They will demand seventy five couts per day. Ix Australia X70, 458% workmen, employed in L570 shops and mills, have their lives in mired against aocidents, Nassva (N. HH) tool makers have had to reduce wages five to thirty five per cont. to moet Westorn competition, Boning in the City of MeRico is mid to be so active that sone of the work has to be mspanded for want of brickiayers, Tue strike outbreak In Germany is so that it would appear to be an organ. the centers, { Habilities are placed at $200,000, good Jeather | wo padled or | LATER NEWS, 6, A. G, BrALDING, of Chicago, and his party of baseball players who left Ban Frandsoo last fall arrived in New York city after » tour around the world, Isaac Rica & Co, the dddest fish house in Boston, are financially embarrassed, Thelr The firm was part owner of the steamer Hayton Re public, was seized at Hay. The trouldes at Haytl are said to have had much 10 Go with the which irm's trouble, Dowss & Fison, shirt manufscturers of New York city, with large factories at James. Hightstown, N. J.. ling firm in the in the United States, have failed for $850,000 AT Frankfort killed his wif: burg, Bordentown and regarded as the Je brand tyes Ind, William Pray shot and and then shot hisaself through the head, inflicting a mortal wound. vival AT are Whit necting at Calhoun, Ky. J Ww riff of that thirteen yeu Hi Niu the comfensnd $1000 from restitution at once oounty ago he stole the county made Coumopone Besuax has taken command Island, Cal, Trosas Wasnnoron, folrteen years old, off near Charleston, W, of the navy yard at Mare was put Va He an engine returned and struck Engineer os on the hes with a pup bande, beat him to PgR then Er York al Joel of New ublican candid vember in the Me { gold have es ntain, Montana { a bank has dsappoarad w £106 (vy A xuw Chinese Mis . n appointed 0 Waskinston, His name is Tin Kook Yan He 2 a of sch hold gh rank as a member of the Imperial Academy of Pekin aan aarly attainments, and Tre President and Mr carrison enter Governor and Mra. Alger. of Michigan the First tained Assistant Postmaster-Genera) at the White and and Mrs Clarkson at House ASSISTANT Corasrin, of ainner SERGEANT-AT-ARNE ANNES the United States Senate, has just died of pneumonia. He had bem o Senate employe for twenty-five years Seonerany Wixpos ordered the dissnisan | of Captain Herbert Beecher, a son of Henry Ward Beecher, from the Government ser In 15855 Cleveland appointed Lina Ool lector of Customs at Fort Townsend, 1V ashing ton Territory Tux President made the followin; appoint ments: Eben E. Rand, of Maive io be Ap praiser of Merchandise in the District of Portland and Falmouth, Me: George O. Sturgiss, of West Virginia, to be Attorney of the United States for the District of West Virginia, and Hogh B. Lindsay, of Tennes soe, to be United States District- Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennosseo, Covoxxt. H. LL. Swonns, formerly Ser goantat-Arms to the Republican Nationa Committes, has been appointed Inspector of Furniture in the Treasury Department, Tix Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, sunt of Queen Victoria, is dead, aged ninety-two, Huspreos of houses have been destroyed by fire at Surat, India. The Jom Is placed Vice A RUSH FOR LAND. Many Thousands of Settlers Seek. Hompator is In Oklahoma.
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