SWEPT BY A GALE Terrific Storms Throughout Yirginia and Maryland. as — The United States Ship Pensacola Sunk at Norfolk, A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says: Thunder and lightning, bail and snow and a bowling gale were what the people in this vicinity were treated to the other day, This continued all day and changed at 10 o'clock at night to a regular cyclone, the wind blowing upward of fifty-four miles an hour until 5 o'clock that morning. The wind came from the northeast, and blew into the harbor and ite tributaries a tide which, at high water was eighteen inches higher than ever recorded before, 4 The United States ship Pensacola sank in drydock, where she was being prepared for sen. Her sea valves had been opened for in- spection and another one was being cut. The tide flooded thedock and she filled with water, and, getting off her keel, sank before she could be got in position again. A diver will have to bo sent down and her valves stopped up and the ship pumped out. The Simpson Dry- | PROMINENT PEOPLE, Kina Jonx of Abyssinia is dead, Tur Pope is a very fine chess player, Seorerany Wixpox is worth 85,000,000, Bexaron Sraxrord is worth $40,000,000, P. $5,000,000, EMPEROR Franz Josey is to visit Berlin | about the middle of August. Tue Empress of Japan has abandoned her | Intention of visiting this conntry, Tue Prince of Wales has accepted an invi tation to dine with Mrs. Bonanza Mackay. MuraT HAaLSTEAD, editor of the Cincinnatd Commercial-Gazette, is a sufferer from ery: sipelas, Mrs. Ameria Rives.Cuanren, the author ess, Is just twenty-six years old, having been i born in 1863, BrssManrck looks pale and haggard and has | grown ten years older in appearance in the dock was flooded and the damage may reach | $40 000 The lower part of the city was flooded by the tide, and fire broke out on Water street, caused by slacking Hme on the wharf of John ©, Gamage & Son The block, with the exception of & Co's, commission mer flames. The old Cotton Ex r, containing about 800 bales a warehouse of J. WW. Perry about 000 bales were totally coal containing stroved. “Jost build- and he dealers, often lumbe cole ii nears equal Hundreds of barrels of su ther goods are ruined. Duri ifs of the Opera Hous and mm iwellings w Virginia natured 44) iced el trains os wore oe wm of the It com: wir valled at with thander by rain, hai high wind Al wind showed ne the storm 16 Worst st aaond, Va i itning, ud was fol yw, augmented by o'clock the snov sont, and ; denoted ral throughout the furious snowstorm and blizzard vailad at Winchester, Va. all day, falling to the depth of fourteen inches, as much as has fallen during the entire winter yeloek, while o snow was falling idly, a loud clap startled the oi very high all day. Telegraph wires down in directions. This is the «= storm this late in the season for years The storm in Washington badly interrupted electrical communication and workmen were busy all day repairing damaged telegraph and telephone wires. There are 54 poles down between Alexandria and Fredericks. burg, Vi The barge Sunrise, bound from Norfolk for New York with coal, was towed to a buoy in are Bay and anchored by the tug B ree during a heavy gale. At midnight e barge foundered. The Captain, his wile wd two childron and one seaman were Jost ‘oyle was the only survivor of the #) « wore all verest wreck boat drifted ashore near the Governmont pier. He was picked up in an exhausted condition by one of the crew of the Lowes Life-Saving Station A dispatch from Baltimore says: Reports coming In from tie in the Stale show the storm to have been a very peculiag one and rain was accompanied by thunder and much damage was dome Near Mount Airy rain began to fall is torre ontinoed until at about 2 Fr. ¥ when the In some places it was from eight t deep. A terrific gal of wind was blowing, and the snow was blinding A singular feature of the storm was that while the snow fell there ware con tinuous peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning. From Knoxville down the tele graph poles and wires were strewn in al directions. Throughout the State nearly al the wires wore down. On the bay the wind blew a gale FIRE IN SAVANNAH. Baildings Burned, Causing a Loss of $1.500,000, The fire which r business houses and dwellings at Savannab, Coyle, in the of unten mT n ne snow and lightning pts and snow began y tem inch ify contly swept a number of Ga. out of existence, was the most extensive in the history of the city The doubtedly over §1 50,000 The fire broke out during the evening and rapidly assumed proportions of a eonflagra tion. The local fire department was nad quate to cope with the Games and the Mayor of Atlanta was asked by telegraph to send all the firemen he could spare, That half of Savannah was not swept from the face of the earth ks little short of miracn- lous. The halt of the conflagration after it had burned out the Independent Prosby- trian Church and its chapel to gether with three adoria dwellings, was not due to human orts, because at that point not a single engine or stream of waler was available against the destruction The total number of bulldings burned is esti. mated at fifty Mes 8 un four-story brick build arsenal of the Ravan were destroyed, The fire also swept along the north side of , and the new brick y Guards Battalion, last twelve months, Tue Emperor of Austrian has given orders that his dead son's name shall never again be spoken in his hearing. Tar late John Bright had on his study a portrait of Gladstone, coln and one of Washington, the walls of one of Lin STONEWALL JACKS s widow isnow livi in Randolph County, '.. with her fathor, who is ninety-one years of age KiNG ALEXANDER, of well-built boy, takes much interest ADMIRAL KIMBERLY r Pacific squadron, § ON but awk in nat age, six feet in b quick in all his NEWSY GLEANINGS, 5 at Russia has 158 + AX ioe trust is the iatest, Fromipa has fresh pineapples Proyot Ix America there LovisviLie § Fro oe ND peace Pens lo Samoa, are X00 000 Jews ral gas % a pound andy a day. Are InCTeRsr of pipe lines in in the New with streets be abandoned in Bin Shae « matey trotting t 8 neral oll § Helle fly is destr entral Hlinois the wheat Gas wells are being Mougtaine' slope struck along the Rocky Fanyuns are paying high prices for seed wheat in the Northwest A BOON is on prices of real ALi on oases In been quashed by Judge Woods inthe City estate are high of Mexico and the elect Indiana have IT costs two cents per car per mile to run electric cars in New York city Ix five yours there has been colned In gold FIL TT5, 000, diver S050 002. 000 ORR THOUSAND locomotives and steamers are now operated by petroleum Exarrsu and German bankers are gobbling | up gold territory in South Africa No Russian lable to military service is {| permitted to leave that country nov The Independent Presbyterian Church, a | FrLompa has sent 2.000000 young orange trees to California since last September Ture Indiana Legislature refuses to allow | natural gas to be piped out of the State Houth Broad, from Whitaker street to with. in one house of Bull street, the structure left | being a large brick residence owned by Dr, Daniel Hopp, ——— THE PARNELL COMMISSION, Bir Oharles Rassell Makes His Open: Ing Speech for the Defense The Parnell Commission resamel its sit ting in Londen. Bir Charles Hussil opened the case for the Parnsilites, He declared that the testimony of the 310 witnesses produce! by Attorney-General Webster, leading coun. wel for the Times, was irrclevant, He ad. mitted that crime prevailed in Ireland to a Ax Australian experiment of shipping ranges to London pr wed very succes ul Tiere will be about ninety vacancies this your at the United States Naval Academy In . go the last soven yoars Atlanta, Ga. has pat nearly $1,000,000 in her streets wwWere Tur Spiritualists of Boston recently cele brated the forty-first anniversary of modern i spiritualism Neanty two hundred thousand barrels of apples are lying unsold in the northern part | of New York, ALABAMA the first Postmaster ap pointed in the thern States under the now administration, ¢ Trorring begins to be recognised in land. A teack for it is bo De established ots out of Liverpool, A iy trust ls being or Eogland, men are up pln from abroad T+ Tue Chinese are roady to build 650 miles of A deiitheen, 180 oonthas T. Barsxus began poor and has now | { dent and Cabinet at in, | THE BIG CELEBRATION, Completed OMolal Programme of the Exercises. The following is the official programme of the Washington Centennial Celebration ex orcises at New York: Wednesday, April 17. —ormal opening of the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraite in the assembly room cf the Metropolitan Ugera House, at 8p, m, Monday, April 20—Arrival of the Presi ] 11 o'clock, A. M,, al Elizabethport, where they will embark at i onve for New York city on the United States | steamer Despateh, Governors, Commis. sloners and other guests will embark at 9,80 o'clock, A, M., on the steamer Frastos Wiman at the ferry slip foot of West Twenty third street, and proceed to Eliza bethport and to meet tha Despatch and ao. company her to the city, The steamer Sirius will also accompany the Despatch, The line of United States war ships, yachts | and steamboats will be formed in the upper hut and after saluting will follow in this order: 1, President: 2, Governors and Com nissioners; !, other guesta, On arrival at he foot of Wall street, a barge manned by ihipmasters from the Marine Society of vow York, Captain Ambrose Snow, cox: waln, will row the President ashore io will then be received by Chairman William G, Hamilton, of the Committee on tater. The Presidential party will be scorted to the Equitable Building, where a ollation will be served and a reception given, This will consume the time from 2 intll 4 o'clock, After the reception at the juitable Building the President and Gov rnors will procesd to the City Hall, under ilitary escort, where there will be a public ecopli wn in the Governor's room, from 4 to OCiors In the urs the Centennial Ball Nervices of thanksgiv ng in the churches of New York and hrougvout the « niry at nine o'clock A. service of thanksgiving will St. Pau { rch at nine of h the resident will attend A ative Centennial tale place on thu front Treasury Building scenes of guration ceremony April the ex | will co [ praye: by the lev Dr. BR. B, Storrs, a hin Greenleaf Whittier, an oration Chauncey M. Depew and an address resident snd benedict) Rev i Auvgus Archbishop of y After theses oxer evening « Tuesday, April i, wii the comme will south the on or ti) $8’ am LY by by Harr "i Most M Line ow wrk. sarade Aa jor 1 companions of the Loyal | f the Grand Army Broadway to W Fifth avenue to | The reviewing stand w mt Square and Twenty fourth sty From 5107 « kK a reception will be riven the President by the Art Commitise at the Loan Exhibition rooms in the Metro tan Opera House, At clock rw the anquet will occur Wedneslay, May ivie parade Wodnesday htion The Industral and May Shoe of the Loan Ex —— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Marmion GERMAN opera is to be pr BOOTY 8 has been dramatised winoed in Boston oe $5 $i Lotta’s mothe is worth CRABTREE (TY) REHAY Afr Miss Joan the com an singer FLOENE ON rt : mn wer Marusn, t pis for a twelve wooks e actress, has made HINnmer n Flay” gan in the antamn of haye boon re Jonx Dury, lesa of the New York Stand ard Theatre and an old ager, did Presi will be given at Ober 150. The text teed time recently of paralysis Miss Many Axpensox has sailed for Eng land will probably resume ber American tour in October Fanny aM Oo Davexronrr, the actrés, who was pe time very obese, has reduced of Banting In Japanese theatres females are Ophelias, Juliots and Perditas are played by men with shrill falsetto volo Maungi, the baritone, is to receive $100 O00 for forty performances in Buenas Arye, while Patti is to be paid $180,000 for singing thirty times in Bouth Amorion Hannrer Mum, an ex English actress and a fine dooking young woman, was lately are rested in London for attempting to enlist as & private soldier in the British army Nronon Massy, the famous tenor, at his recent benefit In St Petersburg, Rossa, re colved so many presents that twenty-four sorvanis wore ed to carry them from the opera house to his hotel CATELIX, a once Conwnrros Matarw as “the Father of American Drama” merican households, died recently in New ork vity, In the seventy-sscond A wx Vox Burow Is in New York the first time since 1875, he and [4 | reporter i two doors from | son acd two daughters, and they wers I which mw four of the | theatrioal man- | Khe was much improved in health and | her | weight from 315 pounds fo 168 by the system | not | allowed to act with men, comsogquently the | Fool Drovssd ; Lave A REJECTED NOMINEE, Murat Halstead, Whom the Renate Refused to Send to Germany. | | i “BUTTER WEEK. | - p—— |A FESTIVAL WHICH PRECEDES LENT IN RUSSIA, A Time of Unresteained Feasting and Frolic-8Scenes at the “Balsgan” or Car. nival Fair, The Russian festival of “Maslenitza” (Butter Week) is aways a time of riotous | | frolic and feasting, a time to eat as much | butter as possible before the coming of | Lent, on the principle of the sick man | who, having long been debarred of sal i mon by his doctor, no sooner heard the i doctor's reluctant admission that his case Murat Halstead, nominated by President Harrison for Minister to Germany, and re acted Ly the Senate, is one of the best-known He was but moved to 154 He be- an office-boy and than became a Later he entered Farmers College, and continued to contribute to the news papers, He worked on several papers after leaving college, and in 1854 became a mem ber of the firm which owned 1} Cincinnati Con ial, a paper afterward consolidated with the Gaselle, Mr. H ead has for on Hepublican § s bins y figures In American journalism born in North Carolina in 1550 Cincinnati with his parents in gan life as Ley years been a ugn many olitics, alth ’ of remarig hie Anges ised General A And Was op He was oriti [-TORN TAHITL Hur TEMPES The Society Islands Swept by ricans and Torrents. March at Tahitd, wind and » said to SIRIVIN lands isiand, and enlire.y sub Le Were evel RIT ta im the rerished and ANNIRILATED HER FAMILY, A Despairing Mother Destroys Her self and Threa Children Mra Margaret Kivlsin and } r thre dren wer srnad to deat nt rh Wis bouw is a small Milwaake early oe moraing EL] aad two story Walnut with ber children, occupied the three lower floor. Upstairs an old ned lawrence Jung lived with his swak ened about o'clock by the =» snoke ned to come (rom the room below The son got up and goiug onteide saw smoke pouring from the lower rooms. He smashed im oa window ut got 80 response, and then turned in a fire alarm In the middie room on the lower Boor. the floors of which had been tightly closed. the charred bodies of Mra. Kin'ein and two sons, John and George, aged six and four years re goectively, wares found. Later the body of frame ling treet, Mrs Kinlein rooms on the man n pFihe infant son Richard, aged two years, was | found in the basement, a hole having burned through the floor, through which the body bad fallen. Theres was every indication that the mother had deliberately burned herself and ber children to death by building a fire beneath the bed in which they all slept. Mrs Kinlein loss ber hush wl about a year ago. THE MARKETS 14 FEW TORK | be RET : Mileh Cows, cots. to good Calves common 10 prime Flour-City Mill Extra. .... Patents Wheet «Na 2 Rye State cau Barley « 'wo rowed Nate, Lors-Ungraded Mixed... Osta No. 1 White “ee Mixed Westar. ...... Hay~No | PIPER Straw. long Rye Jard~City “team Butter tigin Creamery... Dairy fair to good Wet, Im. Creamery Factory . haa NAY Choose State Factory... ... Hicimse Light, Wertern., cover ives Eggs—-Btats and Penn. ..... BUFFALO heap Mad um to Goold Laue Fair to Good, ....... Hogs—Good tot holos Yorks Flour Family. ....coomiiee Wheat No, ¥ Northern. .... Corn-Na 4 Yellow, ....... OntaNo. 2. White. ........ Earley State A EEE EEE coe Cee auras 288 BO0S55655ASSA0E8FE4EARERS < : gas faze R33 g S883 8Lsa8e I PR - — ow » - e288 J=2:P - a RE | : Fhannn ELEY CEs ssnanansinsneniinen 23 2 JT lt wns hopeless than he shouted to his serv- | ant: ““John, up quick 1” most feature Fair, Russian bring salmon, some jut is characteristic the “Balagan,” which, al zh towns aavantage on the Admirality Plain at is or common is seen to the be Moscow Yeters Red Bquare at the ot. with ti helmets, a tere asf tea, devon pernicious the surround guide t a wrong smock frocks and French nt Finnish kerchic The entertsinn motives throng Theatres, bled wena K topkr ts provided for this itself up n ith varied as peep-shows, dancing as Care ROUND THE “‘samovan.” loge, and white-bearded fortune-tellers, who, while professing to read the future, toep #F very sharp eye Mpa the present, de. Here, 8 musician | you yawn! A MOUKNTEBARK. mostly holiday-making lovers——are shook ing on their toboggans with ringing shouts of glee. There swoops a dashing young of ficer, hardly more than a boy, whose dard eyes dwell upon the fresh bright face of the young girl beside him look no mistak lad! happy while 3 lusts we enter an enormous amphi with staring atures of ter battles, PRAT red : Melodrama, with a Poor ith which there i» well In pis mbats and « panto 1d whole busine Aha dum Wintergreen Flavoring. ' i to flavor cor suse it i x hic? Us ol Tw f the to ws SOTYE Kn of « andy tox and instead nsidered twigs used by dis- astonishingly This is what makers of creams you Ik ewing nthe os ( andy ver Knows wl en mgh RI — Build Up His System, —— Dr. Schmerz The trouble, Mr. Tyem, is that you don't take enough exercise.” Mr. BE. Z. Tyers— ‘Awl confess | jon't go in vewy heavy on athletics, | doctaw What could you wecommend as 8 mild exercise to begin on?” Dr. Schwerz—Hm! You might dretch your arms over your head when wsPuch First Shadow of Spring.
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