The grip is pronounced by a Vienna physician of high standing to be mias. matic in character, In the last five years the number of Methodist churches in Chicago, Iil., has been doubled. The hat also doubled and one million dollars added to the church property. membership The New York Commercial Bulletin says perhaps there is no greater test, and no better evidence of the general activity of business throughout the country, thao the earnings of the principal railroads. A county in New York State is ¢ on sidering becoming its own insurer against fire. One argument used that the county having $100,000,000 of property is is more responsible than most of the insurance companies. The San Fiancisco Chronicle opines that the cultivation of a peaceful dispo- sition is not calculated to inspire respect in such countries as Chile. “Had been as truculent 1a our dealings with we fifth-rate countries as Eazland,” it be. lieves, ‘‘the speaking of the Yankees and their navy Chileans would not be with contempt.” The new monitor Miantonomah, wit! ol rapid fire weapons, will prove a formid.- four ten-inch guns and a fine lot able antagonist to any but the very heavi est foreign ironclads, observes the San Francisco Chronicle. Btationed right place she could keep a wh of cruisers from entering and ing close to New York harbor. The proposition to have President, which w United States by the of 1812, transferred Columbian Exhib tion, is to approved by the offi i, suggests the Transcript. The old the West India Dock near London, an although she makes an excellent ship for the nominal headquarters of British DAVY officers who are assigned to duty in Lon- eat drill ship as well, she is totally unable, because of don, and an excel h or ad vanced age, to cross the Atlantic. The chief figures of the chie officer ot the Prefecture of Police show that lunacy has increased in Paris, France, in the last sixteen years some thirty per cent. the prevalence of two morbid types, gen eral paralysis and Alcoholic insanity is twice as prevalent The incaease is due to alcoholic insanity, Almost due to this now as it was fifteen years ago, a third of the lunacy cases are disease, and ths tende come more violent and to show a more marked homicidal A dr pecularity of it is that it descends to the childrea of its victims. The extreme use y of it is to be. aractier. fulocss of many of the candidates for the guillotine must have been observed of late years, and probably to be found in alcoholic sanity, the explanation is in- I —— — If the Prince of Wales persists ia his reported intention of marrying his chil. dren into English families, observes the Ban Francisco Examiner, he will give his Bouse a new lease of popularity that it needs. tive, is to marry Princess Mary of Teck, His brother, Prince George, Is said to been gaged to the daughter of an En Dake. The eldest daughter is the wife of the Duke of Fife, and it reported that the second daughter is to marry The British has shown a good deal of irritation at the marriage of Queen Victoria's children to In the | brave old days when England was made, Eoglishmen add Eoglishwomen were good enough for royal blood to mate with, and the English people appear Albert Victor, the heir presump. who is practically an Eaglish girl. glish is an Eaglish nobleman, nation the little royalty of Germany, to believe that the policy is a good one to- day. At last it has dawned upon the people of Northwestern Olio, announces the Pitts. burg Dispatch, that their supply of nat. ural gas is almost exhausted, dent have they been in its performance that the nature of the discovery is almost otartling. To-day not more than one. tenth of the manulactories in North west. ern Odio are supplied with natural gas, At the same time the supply for private consumption bas been so decreased that many a family has tossed the gasburner into the back yard and returned to hick. ory snd coal. Many others kept con. stant supplies of coal on hand ready for emergency at any time, Coal is also brroed with the gas when itis low by » majority of the consumers. Since gus was first used for fuol here the pressure has decreased over 350 pounds, Ths vol. ume, however, is sufficient for all the drains upon it. The trouble is that the [pressure is too weak to force the gas to the burners, It lies sluggish and dor. mant in the mains, or in a state of inertia An the rock sad wells, So confi A ROYAL FUNERAL. Obsequies of the Late Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Impressive Ceremonies at Sand- ringham and Windsor, The funeral of Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, who died at Sandringham Hall, took place in London and Windsor, England. The funeral cere monies commenced at Sandringham (Lon. don) Parish Church, where the body had been lying since the day after the Prince's death. The religious services there were confined to the members of the Royal Family and to the household of the Prince of Wales, The Prince and Princess of Wales and her daughters, the Princess Louise, the Duch- ess of Fife, the Princess Victoria and the Princess Maud, were present. Prince George of Wales, the heir presumptive since the death of his brother - looking quite delicate, as did also the Princess Victorias May of Teck, were also there, At the Sandringh Wolverton was in waiting to Stati Lhe route from San ation was lined with cuit to more s { w in witnessed at S The road to the mmeral yaity than that this morn; serv ingham nN was y the » 2% eg, n nA f the npanied i oars passed the outekirts London at 2 o'clock. the request for privacy made by the Royal Family being everywhere respected : . 4 While the train was conveying the body of the 1Mke to Windsor minute guns were fired from the warships and forts thr out Great Britain and Ireland wi constant booming In addition to the fir tH NeAr.y every were tolled during Was on its way to In London t All the { Back forty of the male ports int on the streets muitary fashior fag is at half mast hborhood , th ng the guns burch steeg [3 r { Windsor the scene oe The ow r ran dd was a most gloomy ast and threatening h at or sar Winds rape or bLiack cloth, as opened throughout the upon thousands of pers went fr London a \ elsewhere to Wind. or main th ighfares were kept ear by a strong for of tr Dolio who had n ‘ 1 ops and § §id most perfect ay ses In, lraped with * A Mh 14 wan Thousands mm The Oo mamntaining ne A np bers of the mmons and from the | CArTiage bearing the rem PROOF Lex St wrge's Chapel by a tach from the Tenth Hussars Prince of Wales's Own. the regiment in which the ead Prince held the rank of Major, coffin was covered with the Union and upon it was placed the bushy of ate Duke, together with his sword and (¥e nent I he Jack the wns The dead man's charger was lod bebiind the gun carriage. Foll wing the body were all the personal attendants of the dead Prince and the household of the Prince of Wales Rervices memory of the Duke wers | held that same day in all the European eapitals. In Berlin the Empress Augusta | and Empress Frederick, the later of wh wr | it the sunt of the Duke, many other members | of the German Imperial Family and a num. ter of royal perscnages attended the services held in that city, in ———e. ANTHRACITE COAL. ————— The Year Just Closed the Largest the History of the Trade The official statistics o production for | Philadelphia, from the mines for the year to hav 44, 440,598 tone The year was the greatest in the history of the trade and the production exces led that of 1800 hy 4.000, vol tone The product in the different distriots was Sehuyiuil, 19,741,959 tone: Lehigh, 0,957 808 tons; Wyoming, 91,99 299 tons Thess res do not include coal consumed at or about the mines, which consumption probably amounts to 5000000 tons an nually, The total Jrofuction of anthracite coal since the Lohigh Coal and Navigation Com. ry began to market it has Leen TSA. 004, in | ite coal Just made public Fenn., show the { the anthra “1, at shipments ¢ been MURDERED HIS BETROTHED, Inexplicable Crime of a German Sclentist His Salcide Follows, Dr. Brodmann, director of the chemical laboratory in the University of Berlin, Ger many, killed his betrothed Margarethe Meyer, and then committed suicide Dr. Bredermann was forty-two years ol, while the to whom he wis engage! to be And who has now met ber death hin hands, was only eighteen years of age. 0 motive oan be conjectured which would comaision of the double THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Two children of Arthur Bisort, of Rox bury, Mass., died from the effects of drink ing from a flask of whisky they found in a closet, JUDGE EARL was appointed by Governor Flower, of New York, to succeed the late Chief Judge Ruger of the Court of Appeals, and Deputy Attorney-General Maynard was nominated to fill the vacancy caused by the cievation of Earl, CHusToraer Pearse Canc, the well known painter and poet, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass, aged eighty. Tre Connecticut Legislature met at Hart ford; the House adjourned for a week. Mme in Now York City destroyed the Springler Building, Numbers 5.7 and 9 on the west side of Union Bquare, burned out six firms and caused an estimated Joss of £750,000, The adjoining building, oocupled by Tiffany & Co,, jewelers, was badly dam- aged by water, Hrentano Brothers were damaged to the extent of $100,000, mostly by water. Louis Rheims, millinery, lost wi, O00 Davip Doramus, aged ninety-two yoars, died at Closter, N. J, of grip, and Arrange ments were made for his funeral, That morning his wife, also aged ninety-two, died of the same disease, and it was settled that she should be buried with her husband, THE jury in the suit of Senator Quay against the Pittsburg (Penn) Post returned a verdict of guilty AN unexpected explosion of an uncovered blast in New York City killed two worcmen, injured three others and damaged a number of houses, causing a great deal of excite ment in the street, Somebody's carelessness causod the accident PERINTEN DENT PIERCE, of the New York State Insurance Department, ort severely censuring the New Y gin Company's offlosrs 1 agement, but declaring the conc solvent St sued a South and West, WaBAsH train ran into one members of the ( near Forest Park. M a sleighing pa Kisinture, Were ire hall Lagisiaty ne 1 vent fash mixed tr ar Chuthr Jacoh Smith a William Canes H Bates Neaator passeng } Were instantly FIBSONY was Assembly (renera unex pir of the late Sen AT Camdes hated § hanged { | las Nd. C. ( infanticide A Ravwoxp and Whit going West, and a passen gor East, collided at Blue Water Four traiamen we wmbe special trai train going New Mexiod re Killed re recently killel nea ER moose which they Washington, M ns f the Presi Hannu state d 5 gay WO WOT A the dinner was Marin never EXT AND line rding ng establishes 14 in honor of the Cabinet The played an ] wautiful d : rations Ban ANE Was wom Tammany ask the Dem \ 3 Sew A Bo dele ited Wash it 114} x place {or holding the National RETARY and Mrs. Blaine jor party at Was dent and Mrs Ny gave mgtoa in hb { Harrison man Mitts Npeake Alrman Fou \EPFRESEXTATIVE Roarn Texas, has written a letter to resigning his ly ston as Ch Commitipe on interstate and meros Tax Senate Election the Florida coutest recommending that Senator Call ted to retain his seat Tue portraits ex-Speakers Galusha A Grow and Samuel J. Randall, painted for the State of Pennsylvania, were presented to the Hous Ww Stone and thea hung. During a part of th proceedings ex Speaker Grow o uplel » seat with the Speaker pro tem BRECRETARY OF Srare Boaixe bas is structed Minister Lincoln to confer with the English Goverament on th pusstion of au Interpational conferences of the sliver question Rev. Dn. Scorr, the President's in-law, cslebrated his ninety second day at the White House, BEORETARY Braise lnstructed Minkstes Egan to urges the Chilean Government t« hasten tx reply to our demands in the Balt more affair L. N ign : by Representative 4 father birt! Foreign, Taene has heen fighting at Kallasdash Persia, arising from a revolt fomented by Perdan priests on the tobaceo question, The local troops were defeated by the insurgents, Hghty soldiers and 200 rebels being killed and more than one handred wounded I¥ the French Chamber of Deputies at Paris Minister Constans struck a | ty In the face in the resulting disorder there were several personal encounters, ani at least two duels were arranged, Tur mail steamer John Elder was wrooke | In the Ntraits of Magellan, among her pas. ngers were several refugees, who esonped from Valparaiso through the assistance of the American Legation. They will be re turned to Chile, Tie Logislature of Mendoss, Prasil, has deposed the Governor of that provines Tur United ta break wounded, National Government sent a omission, th full powers to restore or. Tir French Sovernment has Dolgaria's note of apology for the in the Department of France, an avalanche AT Dig alle, Beine Inferieure, and injured twenty persons. Mixer Bannos Luco in re ly to ques tions at Banti 0 sald the trouble between way of amicable settlement, CHICAGO GETS THE PRIZE. The Democratic National Convention Will Meet There June 21. The Democratic National Executive Com. mittee in session at Washington selected Chieago I,, as the meeting -placs for the The date for the convention to open was set at June 21 Fifteen ballots were taken shoose the convent Ma city, Iu the afternoon executive session Mr. Kerr formally resigned his claims to repre- sent Penusylvania, and Mr Harrity, the new committesman, was declared the suc. possor of W, L, Scott, deceased. The Mone tana contest was settled by de aring C. A, } Broadwater the regularly accredited com- tmitteeman from that State There was a tremendous crow { ab wt the Arlington when Chairman Brice called the convention tO order at noon The orators for New York City were Colo nei John R., Fellows, Comptroller Myers and James Breslin Each of these gentiemen made a fine speech Chalrman Bri | would be allow: its claims William M. Ramsey was the first speaker, am directed.” sald he, the name of Cincinnat this nation Ohio save next Democrasic National Cony ention, to stated that each city enty minutes to present "to present to you It is in the heart give us the wi and a g oa you victory in "2 Indiana, and Charles irman of the State Com fly in favor 1 tf { ention, a good pla and we will pladg ’ tate i Ladianapo- nroinus Milwaukee, 21 Detroit, 1 Fifteenth and last was Milwaukee, 18, Kansas City, : Detroit, 1. NEWBY GLEANINGS. BERVIA is ravaged by diphtheria COAL costs 883 a ton is Corn weather in tie Tux trouble on tinues THERE were last yomr beallot Mt ys Venezuela Texas killed the Mexican been fou NATURAL Laks City NEarLrox Capital of Guate | gar has Utah, paving sad ne THE German, Rok bstag appr XX for the Chicago World's Fair THERE are now nearly five t of railroad in peration in Mex Tir manufacture of beet ing large proportions in N THE postoffics and ments in Spain bave hoot Oven Xx range troes | Mexico last year y plaatefs fr | Dia | NEAR Caspar, Wyoming, a va { coal bas been foun wit IXPFLUESZA Is interfer ng with the poy of the season at Fren h and Italia resorts AEArF 3 Tasks grap ai we wat t i Just ben ug winter fave newr Warrens Fiznck fires, heating the earth white been lound near the surfs burg, Mc Tux bankrupt al ireat Dritain aod Ireland were 234 an IN | CONTRIBUTIONS amounting to #4 | Tor missionary purposes were made in Great | Britain last year, Mavor Marranws estimates that 8 | Mase, wiki ness $12,000. 000 for this running «x penses THERE are Fruswis | recent osnsns, 10 280 875 | 10.855. 87 Ustholios CHantes H Avonon, of Chicago, TI. has accepted the office of Solicitord streral of the United States, to sacceed William H Taft, BoCiaLisTs continue mufficiently trouble ome in Belgium to keep the police active and] make the Royal Government a trifle un tay Tie United States railroad com pankes with one accord wffer to transport all grain festined for relief of starving Russians free of charge Tie Government has bought from the | Shoshone Indians thelr reservation lands to | the extent of 1,100,000) acres for fifty five tents an acre, Tur Government engineer of British Hon | duras estimates the value of the mabogany trees of the colony now ready for the market at §#230,000 000 | basin sae LER | a a in according to the Protestant and “Ootoxet” Pregerr Newsox feclored), “the taliest man on earth” died of typhoid crushed three buildings, killed two women Chile and the United States was in a fair DOWD, THE SLASHER, Police Arrest (he Man Whose Razor Cut Baven Throats, Inspoctor Byrnes has suce ocded at last in laying hands ou the man Who has been cut ting the throats of drunken people in the streets of New York City recently, On his own confession, the man be charged also with the mur der of John Carson, the broken down lawyer, found lying in a hallway the other morning with a frightful gash in his throat, The prisoner's name Henry G Dowd, He was born in Liverpool forty-one Yoars ago, and has spent the last fifteen years of his life begg ng in New York City, He was caught red-handed, in the very act of killing a man at ten minutes past J o'clock in the morning, The latest victim of the slasher's razor is Henry Miller, or Mueller, of No. 326 Cherry street, and the slasher himself is Henry RK Dowd, of No. b4 New Chambers street As far as the police can learn, Dowd b gan bls career of homivi le on the night of the 20th of last D sont bar Milnes that time he has run wild through the Fourth and Eleventh Precinets in the early hours of ths morning, and seven victims have fallen under his murderous razor, partial will is The second cutting January 8 and the police Eldridge Street Polics Stations were vinosd that a man was running through lower portion of the Fourth Ward, bent on deeds of blood, and thev turned all their energies Wo his captur Inspector Byrnes was called on to the bunt, and every from until dawn twenty policemen in clothes, and detect Central Office had paraded the Lope making just I Bo made For a week vain, t case occurred on of the Oak and OO) the aid In midnight citizens from the the wa night twenty vos in 2H] efforts were if every two their t igh It seemed as cutting Killed lawym street was guarded, the } slasher ’ oh a Larystie wasn't a Germas It because | couldn't ately afterwards deni had killed Bim. After this be refused to say anything more and was taken back to his osll Dowd reg It, ING BURIED, MANN Grand Obsequies the Cardinal Archbish wp of W estminster Green Cath his soul The ory were At? Brothers Linck ~ ineral ceremonies and most prolonged KE in iressad in the mo thei tered the LT packed Ly a buodred te ness of the ATTY —— NINE KILLED, Huns Into a Sleighing Party With This Result [ the weighing accident whic h oo ew nights ag ’ 81 the Farah street the Wabash Railroad, in St Eive the number killed as nine P eieven seriously injured, The party was « $ posed of twenty-two mbers of a social organization who were tor an evening's drive and were struck by a special train chartered by a loeal Le gon of Honor lodge The train was m wing at se twenty dive miles an hour, with the tender ahead, the engineer being unable to see the party until fairly upon them Two of the horses were killed and the oe. cupants of the sleigh thrown in every dire thom The dead and injured were promptly at. tended to, all being conveyed to the depot by the train and from there sent to the morgue and hospita! All the dead but one have been identified, SOUDANESE DEFEATED. They Lowe Hundreds in Desperate Fighting Against the French. The sxpetition sent out by the Preney Government, under the command of Colona! Humbert, against the tribe of Bamory in the French Soudan, Africa, to punish them for their gots of lawiossness Joota Me mts of TEE LABOR WORLD. Bwrrzenrasn will bave an International Labor Congress Brooxryx (N. Y.) bakers dated their unions, Tag steel rail makers of this country now bave orders on hand for 600,000 tons of rails, Banta Fr rallroad employes have refused 10 baudle Ireight coming off an Oppoition road, Mare German glass workers get but twenty-four cents and the women eighteen cents a day, have consol Tux Pennsylvania Cox pany emploves west of $400,000 monthly IX the beet sugar district of Germany the men in summer earn but thirty-five cents a day nnd board themselves pays to its Pittsburg the sum of Tre Canadian Parliament is to « bill prohibit men from the MEXICAN bri klayers can bricks in a day of « leven American ear lay 2500 hours Bricgray apprentices In Mass., are no Pp itted to range Journeyimen until they are twenty of age e Waces in hands re sived mulder a M oe working the importation of United States, only lay 500 hours, while an aday of nine ont mn, as full One your Field twelve 1m of #1 vary greatly minimum « and one half Disa day os maxim a day ’ OTrTERSEN (Go strike after BRADLEY DEAD. Court JUSTICE The United States Supreme Loses a Member Bradles A ats preme Court of ia few dav ro at his) fo { general lity Albany Coun He was of Englis astor was a mem! ernor Eaton's family in New sarily as 1650. His father was a farmer, and his mother Gardiner, who came { an fan bor in Berne, March 14, 1 Hix varitest an oy 3 Bradley was Up 10 the f age he worke1 unt ood, and in hi He twenty time tered of and in 18% fecided vy antered th of Newar In 1S he ny for practised was highly suc vation to the and advil PRE 8 an Ahad : tor i bo ad writing In him in} the he headed the Now toral ticket President Gra of the Unite March, 18 orn cireuit t appois 1 States He wasn i Nalweguently ! tion of Justice he was the Third circuit, embracing Iprem ssigoed 1 Rtrong Bradley took ANY ORs and out o the Constitution o are found Supreme Court reporty. He was exw noted for his knowledge of patent law for his aptitude for comprehending cated mechanioal devices offered as exhibit nn mits arising under our laws on that su! Jat In January was made a member of the Electoral ( ommis slon, and was one of the majority in the vote { sight to seven which gave the contested Southern States to Mr, Hayes Justion Bradiey's wife was a daughter of Chief Justice Hornblower, of New Jerses They were married in 188. The Justios leaves two sons and two daughters A MAD MOTHER'S ACT, Kissed Her Children and Then Ira tally Killed Them A dreadful tragedy bas occurred at Not tingham, England. Mrs, Margaret Cast ngs, who was engaged in the millinery business, has been overwhelmed with do mestic troubles and became demented. The other morning she took her two children, one after the other, in her arms, kissed them tenderly, and then with a hammer bast in thelr skulls killing them both The wretched mother, spattered with the brains of her children, afterward cut ber own throat With a razor and expired by their side, FIGETING IN DAHOMEY, A Native Force Repuised by a French Garrison, 850 Being Killed, J Gatioe part in arising out of the Civ nt amendments His lnmes of ally and nited States opinions forty » 1K 3 M in i8ds JURIO) nra Hey
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