Gladstone's Secretary for Scotland, says we may read books, but we must read newspapers, There is said to be a distressing amount of lunacy in Ireland, the number of cases per 100,000 of population hav. ing increased from 249 in 1880 to 3506 in 18901. The demand for Percheron horses for export is so great that the purity of the breed is threatened, and a stud-book has been started in France by which the pedigree may be preserved and the race kept up to the standard. About the last logging that will be done in Michigan, Wisconsin and other lumbering States, to Woodworker, will be that of reclaiming the millions of feet of sunken logs which now lie in the streams of those States, according the There aré fourteen colored female teachers in the public school service of New York City. Two private kinder- gartens and several day and evening schools are also supported by colored women, These are all taught by colored in the public school service of Brooklyn ap- teachers. The colored women proximate twenty. In the other cities there are very few colored women teach. ers, It may be of interest to the supporters of the early closing movement to know | that, according to a little pamphlet is- | sued for the guidance of commercial travelers, 632 towns in the United King- | dom recognize the early closing move- | There | is no early closing day in Liverpool. In | ment in some form or another. Manchester they close on Wednesday at two. Glasgow is marked as a town where they close daily at 8, General William L. Cabell, of Dallas, Texas, sends to the Baltimore Sun a roster of the surviving Generals of the | Confederate Army, compiled from the | most reliable data to be had to October 1, 1892. The number of general of- ficers of all grades appointed and com. missioned was 498. One hundred and two rose to the rank of Major-General and twenty-one rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General. General Joseph E. six Major-Generals, twenty-two Brigadier-Generals ported dead since January 1, 1891, Johnston, and are re- One hundred and sixty-six Generals survive. | The Hartford (Conn.) Medical Asso- | ciation has adopted a resolution depre- system. The growth of this system, great during the last few years, ties which provide their members with medical attendance for a small fee, ranging from fifty cents to $3. One society got the doctors to bidding against each other, and finally secured the vices of a doctor in good standing for 87} cents per capita. who go into this sort of thing claim that it is remunecrative and that their con- nection with a society brings them out- side practice. The superstition about the number thirteen being unlucky is put to multi. | plied test in the new twenty-five-cent | On one side of the coin there dre no less than ten repetitions of the number thir- teen. There are thirteen stars, thirteen letters in the ecroll held in the eagle's beak, thirteen marginal feathers in each wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen parallel lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, one claw, thirteen leaves on the branch in the other claw, and thirteen letters in the words ' There hasn't seemed to be anything unlucky in the thirteen original States nor in the thirteen stripes on the flag, and now it remains to be seen if the man who bis pockets full of these new quarter dollars will be unlucky. The President bas received a lotter from William Hosea Ballou, of New York, urging him to ask authority of Congress for the issuance of invitations to the various mariuve Nations to join with the United States in appointing delegates to an international conference for the amelioration of the condition of animal in shipment and quarantine: to formulate and recommend international laws for the punishment of steamship officers for cruelty of animals at sea, and to make steamship companies liable to damage to shippers for wanton destruc. tion of and injury to animals in transit; to recommend new quarantine regula. tions to replace those which at present require the cruel sinughter of cattle in quarantine before they have recuperated from long voyages and while still suffer. ing from seasickness; and to suggest ways, menus and regulations by which the lives of more than ten million dollars’ worth of animals now aonually destroyed pieces, notes the Now York San. thirteen arrow heads in ‘‘quarter dollar.’ gets © st sea may be saved, Sir George Trevelyan, Prime Minister snnual | | asually are. ser- | It is said that Massachasetts is the only State in the Union which provides, by act of Legislature, that banks may pay checks for a certain time after the death of a drawer, The New York Tribune is convinced that ‘it is only rich, happy, healthy and youthful Americans who become pessi- All others are filled with the nope of a good time cothing.” mists, The estimated wealth of the United States—that is, the value of all lands, buildings, railways, put at $64,000,000,000, The amount of money of all kinds is estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury to be $2,108,130,002, ete, —i8 According to an official report of Cap~ tain von Francois, the dromedaries which have been introdoced into the German territories in southwest Africa in connection with the parcel.post ser- vice have more than fulfilled the expec. tations that had been formed about them. The Iron Industry Gazette complains that inventors are not, in these days, do- ing much that is important mn the line of ironworking machines, Do they, asks the editor, consider these machines too nearly perfect to offer a profitable mar- gin for work? Any practical ironworker can give the inventor an idea of improve. ments that are possible. The inventors ought not to turn from so important a field as this. It is not yet closed by any amecans., the Boston Transcript, that some of the na- There is fear in England, learns tive birds—one observer says thirty-two varieties of them—are in a fair, or rather a foul, way towards extinction. Some of the indigenous plants of the A country vicar recommends, as a means Isles are also “disappearing. WO save the birds and plants from destruction, that the be among the children in the schools. awakened He suggests that a system of prizes for es. says on birds and plants would be use. love of natures ful, and expresses a hope for a revival of the May festivals, with the proclamation of an edict by the May Queen cruelty to animals. against Southern influence is strongly enlisted in behalf of the Nicaragua Canal, states the Boston Cultivator. short cut for Southern cotton growers to It will make a market their product in China and Japan, in both which countries the industry of cotton spinning has become very active, . * i | The loag voyage around Cape Horn hurts ciating the so-called medical contract | our market for cotton in the far East, | sad it may be all that prevents Chinese notes the New York Tribune, has been | In | swamping Hartford alone there are twenty socie- | and Japanese cheap cotton goods from American markets, despite high duties. It is indeed a hari thing to escape competition with men who are willing to work for a few cents per day, | and ingenious as Japanese and Chinese It is likely whea they car ‘ot our raw cotton more cheaply that | both the Chinese and Japanese markets _ | The physicians nome will be wholly supplied with the products. The Detroit Free Press admits that ar. rests for offenses and vices are undoubt- edly increasing, but, maintains that in offenses are decreasing. Thousands ol arrests for breach of the peace take place in our cities where the same offense would hardly be noticed in the country. Thus, in Massachusetts, in 1850, persons were arrested for drunkenness, and in 1885 the same offense . 1860 and 1885 five years between the erimes against persons aud property de- | creased forty-four per cent. though the commitments for vice had greatly in. creased. Police strictness Las increased, but crime has steadily decreased. There were not six times as many drunken peo. ple in 1585 as in 1850, but it was six times as dangerous to the drunken mao to be seen in the streets of our cities, The most difficult problem of astron. omy becomes simplicity itself when com. pated with the extraordinarily complex agents that are in operation even in the meteorological simplest pheaomenon, We can tell you precisely where the moon will be at noon next Christmas day, or for that matter, where the moon will be at noon on Christruas Day in the year 1894. Bat who ean tell what the temperature will be at noon next Christ. mas Day on London bridge! No scien tilc man could venture on suzh a prophecy. He knows that he bas no data to go by. which are in operation is so great that the problem becomes ol a highly complex pature, There is, however, a certain mathematical principle which applies in this case. It does not, indeed, enable us to predict the actual amount of any meteorological element, but it ap rears to demonstrate with all desirable fullness that there must be definite laws govern. ing the changes of the different metooro- logical vlements il only we were able to discover them The number of csuses 3000 | 18,000 were arrested for | But in the twenty. | AT HOME AND ABROAD The Latest Intelligencies by Telegraph and Cable, Desperate Attempt of Masked Men to Rob a Train. A desperats attempt at train robbery was the Chess. No. 4, was It was made a few nights ago, just ns peake and Ohio vestibu'e train, pulling out of Huntington, W, Va, about 11 o'clock and the train was just getting well under way, when the doors of the day cars wors thrust open and three masked men armed with pistols entered and called upon the passengers to throw up their hands, Two of the passen- gers solzad one of the robbers, throwing him down and attemping to disarm him In the scuffle, one of the pas sengers, a German, from Cincinnati, who with his wife was on his bridal tip to Europe, was mortally wounded, the ball en tering his abdomen. Another passenger, Peter Drake, of Cincinnati, was twice wounded, one ball entering his leg and an- other his arm | up, pulled the bell cord, | and jumped ! Theso men acted like nos Meanwhils Ticket Collector Zingley was | trying to secure a pistol, which he finally | succeeded in getting in the baggage car, and | returning opened fire on the robbers, empty - | fug ali of the barrels of the pistol, | again returned to the baggage car, securasd | another pistol, and began firing. | mean time the robbers had torn off their He In the in intense children train was fainting, masks, and the whole excitement, women | screaming and everybody who could seeking | shelter under the seats, The robbers, seeing that stopped the darkness. It or two of them were is not certainly known, of in the their game was the train off in thought that one wounded, but this | ness, Highwaymen Plunder a Town, Twilight was just gathering when a couple of heavily-armed men, dressed like cowboys and wearing masks made ) its vias, rode into the town ing. They forced thelr Christensen'’s saloon and and made the proprietor em He handed the robbers pistols, F women y taking a drink and treating every visitors rode to the street proposed to rob the post fo behind the window told them money on hand, and they The pair robbed another sal cery stores much as they ha one sen's Eight or ten citizens who cas at to sod what was going on were held up on the streets. By the time the robbers wers ready to leave, there was a small posse ganizsd, The highwaymen did not for a fight, and rode off in a burry, g south with bullets flying after them y were al there was wont of A Tornado's Work, A dispatch from Summit, Mise, saye that a tornado passed two miles above that town at 9:50 o'clock in the morning of the Rev. 8. BR. Young, a Baptist minister, was demolished, and the buried in the ruins. HKelisl parties were or. ganized at once and a sear made for the victims, who whan mbiad, wer found to be badiy injured, The fol is a list of the victims: Killed old daughter of Willian Fresman a colored woman, name unknown, colored boy, not ideatified, Ten ware injured, The wide, was extr w ng A six -year- Jored; and a persons th of the tornado was 30 yards ore pine trees were uprooted bouse of 8. A, Lower was completely strovel and his bousshold effects scattered for miles wote Rouavier Resigns, { M. Clem In consequence nosau's letter ublishel in the Figaro ting M. Rouvier, the French Finance Minister, with the Panama scandal, the latter calied upon President Carnot at the Palace of Elysee and handed in his resignation Finance portiolio Shortly after M. Hoavier's visit to Presi dent Carnot it was offically announcsd that the Finance Minister's resignation had been acospted and that M. Tirard, ex- Minis of Finance and at present representing France at the Brussels Monetary ( . had been appointed to succeed | COTY TIN the of the aleren Workmen Near Starvation, A mass meeting of unemployed workmen bas been called to meet at Champlain Mar ket. Toronto, Canada, About 40 0 men are without employment and on the verge of starvation, Resolutions will be passed at the meeting asking the local goverament to | begin the proposed public works proportion to our population crimes and | " Drowned While Skating Harvard A and Eliza Vandenburg, were drowned while Mass. Corley was clerk for a local drug- ist and was studying medicine, Mis Vane burg was a teacher in the Lenox Uram~ mar School, PRICES ON THE FARM, What Producers Get for Cora, Wheat and Other Prodaots, The December statistical returns to the Department of Agriculture relate to farm Corley, aged twentydour, aged twenty-two, skating at Lenox, | prices. The average value of corn is 20.9 | cents per bushel, depressed by the surplus of the previous crop and esrly distribution, It is 80 to 70 cents in the Eastern States, 43 to | 66 in the Middle States, ranging from 47 to 65 in the cotton States, 42 in Ohlo, 40 in In. | dans, 37 in lilinois, 3) in Missouri, ® in Towa, 81 in Kansas, and 29 in Nebraska, his | in lighter in Nebraska than for any year sinon 1853, except 1887 and 1800, and in lowa | in the same time the present average value has been exceeded only in the two years named, The average price of wheat is 09.9 conts, The next lowest price was 64.5 conts in 1884, Io 1884 1857 aad 1800 the average wasa cent or two below 70, Last year it was 31.9, ‘Che principal State prics are: Now York, 85: Pennsylvania, 81; Virginia, 76; Gorgia, W; Texas, 5; Kentucky, 67; Ounlo, 64; Michigan, 00; Indiana, 61; Illinois 04; Min. nesota, 61; Towa, 69; Missouri, 58; Kansas, 1 Nebraska, 50; South Dakota, bi; North Dakota, 51; California, 70. The average valus onts fs 3L6 osnts, nearly the same as last year; rye 01.8 cents; barley, 47.2 coats; buckwheat, 544 Li ; i - i way busi | The house | occupants were | all | Ihe | do- | | United States | by the House, and the Committee of ! and he expects 10 assume Dis | March 3 | Hotee lists | 1566, & | soldiers on fariouzn, $24 | accepted the office of Minister to { land THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Tre New York Yacht Club decided to ac cept Lord Dunraven's challenge for a race for the America's Cup. WinLiaw Horewerr, nged eight years, died of bydrophobia at his mother's home in Trenton, N. J. About nine weeks before the boy was bitten by n stray cur. AT the request of Adjutant-Genoral Por- tor, of New York, the United States (ov- ernment bas turned over to the First Naval Battalion of Now York City the old battle ship New Hampshire, which will be used by the battalion as an Armory 4 Tue biggest load of ste FAge passengers that ever came Into any port in this coun try arrived at New York a few days ago on the North German Lloyd steamer Stuttgart from Bremen. Bhe carried 29638 "The Jigent previous number on one ship was pat Tue first 60.000 of souvenir half the pew Columbian dollars were shipped a few days ago from the United States Mint in | Philadelphia, The first delivery of 10,00 coins left on the 9:50 express for New York City. The remaining 50,000, including the $10,000 very first impression, were signed to the Bub-Treasury at Chicago On AX American syndicate, with hea lquar- | ters in New York right to collect republic the the City, has the customs of San Domingo, purchased revenues of South and West, : Tue Cincinnati Presbytery, by a vols of thirty-one to twenty-seven, decided to sus po Professor H, P. Smith, convicted of ieresy, from the ministry Artur W, Wuorniseau canceled fasting engagement in Cleveland, Ohio cause tlie interest was shown in him More than threo hundred places « ness wore closed 1a Omaha, Nab, to employes an opportunity to attend B Millie's revival exorcism, Thousands his bee give Fay hiav | professed conversion A BOILER exploded in Swift's rolling mill ar Newpor:, Ky, killing two tramps aud inily wounding two Herman sisling and George Ras FOOT K nan, gr Vivir an winters out to Os ion Park, Minn t , 8 few nights ago. Tux Kansas Board of Canvassers issued a certificate of election Campbe the | ilist elector WAS oon tested on the gre clerical err Toey make all ws VP plot und of a Kansas whose on the elect i u LECTORAI Wyoming is: Harri 1, Si Weaver, vole in 154% Joy Bunss, the murderer of Maurice Higring bas been hanged at Missoula, Mon official count for Tuw been idaho has compieted by ! the Secretary of Ntate, as fo Weaver, 10.43); Harrison, S79; Me Rapublican, for Governor, lows { el bins 1400 plurality Washington, Tre Senate confirmed the following nom inations P. 3 of Nsw Hamp shire, Eavoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzssriand; G. M. Lam bertson, of Netraska, Assistant Secretary the Treasury: M, RB. Hose, Ohilo, As _— Commissioner of the General Land - Ax investigation ol the condition of the lreasury has been of fared Wars Cheney, and Menns has begua the work, Ixpiax CoMMissioXER MORGAN las a cepted the position of Corresponding Sscre- tary of the Baptist Board of Home Missions, i pew duties on Sponsrany Caoanres FosTeEa sant to the of claims allowed curing the fie cal your 1802 and paid from the indefinite appropriations, ax follows: Pay of two and and three-year vountesrs , $775,541; bounty | to volunteers, their widows, and legal heirs, bounty under the act of July 2% 0.796; commutation rations to in Southern States and to 150, $304 § 5 ol prisoners of war the nomination of Tus Senate confirme 1 | James W. MeDill, of lows, to be luter-State i Com merece Commissioner Ex-GoveERxon CHENEY, of New Hat- shire, called on the resident and formally Hwitzer. He was commissioned, and took the oath of office, Taz milicary post authorized by act of Congress approved May 12, 1582 to be es tabtished at or near the city of Helena, Montana, will be known and designated as Fort Harrison, in compliment to the Presi. dent o! the United States KECRTTARY has sent to toe House an estimate of defi ciency appropr: ang on aggregation §507.. 970 on account of the postal service, BY a unanimous vots of all the members present the House Committee on Elections decided to report io favor of Edward Scull, the Republican sitting member from the Twentieth Pennsylvania District, in the contest brought for his seat by Thomas Greevy, the Democratic contestant. Foreign, Brx proprietors al British weekly papers were arraigned at Bow Street Police Court in London chargad with violating the lottery law by the “misdn: word" competition, by which people wire lod to participate in gambling by sending jo answers. Toe de- tendants were fined, Just cx 8rROXG has been appointed Chief Justics of the Supremes Court of the Domin- fon of Canada. Axornen mill as been started in Ham bure, Germany, for the purpose of grinding Indian corn exc usdvely. This je the thira mill now runving there which grinds noth~ ing but Indian corn from America. Larmax & Co, of Dandee, Scotland, mann. facturers of buriane, have fated for #1,250.. 000 and they owe $200,000 in the United Htntes, Foun cases of cholera bave been recorded in Hamburg, Uermany, since December 12, Presipest Hexngavx has been re-elected President of Syn Domingo for the third time, receiving 178 votes out of 600, James SLavix, alias McMahon, was hanged at Cornwall, Canada, for the mur der of Constable J. i. Davey on September 5 last, M. Cranes Ame Mantz De Lessers, son of Count 10 Lossow and M. Marius Etienne Fontane, nod M. San-Leroy have been arrested in Paris by direction of thy | French Minister of Justion, M, Hou for their allege! covnection with the Pan ama Canal frauds, A TORNADO passed over the town of Orel Russia, Several uf the suburbs were devas persons wer Touiidings an Finas, official satistios of the cholera ep. fdemic in Russia have just been fesuad, to thes # thers have | after { and mes or tue Treasvay Fosren | MANY COLLIERS KILLED, | A Disastrous Explosion in English Coal Mine. an Horrible Bcenes Witnessed the First Rescue Parties, A fearful explosion occurred a few davs ago, at the Bamfarlong Colliery, Wigan, y England, and not less than fifty lives were hought on the morning after to have been The men went to their work as usual after the been inspected in the usual way, They bad not been at work long when an explosion shook the earth for a great dis. tance, and a cloud of smoke shot up through the shaft into the air, A multitude roshed toward the mine, ani thy greatest excite. went prevailed, The flames spread to the engine house at the head of the air tunnel, This stoppe | the pumping of air into the mie, and added n lost, that morning, and colilery had greatly to peril of th " the pit, The fire was not » o'clock that afternoon. Some little time the bodies of twenty of the miners who had been suffocated the noxious gases goneratel ia the mins were brought te the surface by the rescuing parties, Though the work was ex tremely dangerous, the exploration of the workings was continaed in the hope that some of the miners in the Pit at the time of the explosion might have safety, where they would approach of the rescurers, The rescus parties report horrible the mine, In the main roads the twos and threes, as the men fell, faces « ward and heads towar | the entra shalt. Large secti roof and havecollapsed, Amoag the ru mangled bodies and half-burne ruins have blocked many part therefore the men sear were unas 10 give any a vumber jos ' Wit § Lhe ME WOO Were |} iviued unti 3 by reached places of ting tt De awa scenes in bodies lie | ’ ’ Mis Ol in the of er T—— ABOR WORLD. I HE iron branche Hi NESTEAD, Po nn., call n to belp its starving the country Ix the manufacturing world there in won dertul activity in all directions Sixce July the Internationa! Typographi- eal Union ha« gained 2X Tur Bald turning out pew mem bers in Works at Philadelphia sey ory Losers are OCOmOtives peer WosK., PL ELEPHOSY ographetrs io CU Eris hioag typewriters y talk about and sten- organiang unions Fruxca unionists designate men w the places of strikers as “‘stranglers gleurs Tux Eight H an ancy par law has o nse of Ir * Kittel ens have concerns in th , and the annua country capac TEAnE» made to il trades in Sry am nen of Lowmisville, Ky doct fares and maih attending to the rus France, the workmen nel the dismissal of ex who had been elected mincd but refused to vote mis Cipai ( abor interests Fi Ma recent report of the Factory In. Ld fa : pt tor of Pennsylvania it appears that in «48 workshops inspected there were 129 553 CLUS women, and 20,688 children be- tween twelve and sixteen years employed THoMas Riprey, the veteran in service | on the ratiroads of Pennsylvania, will short. ly celebrate his fiftieth year in raflroad ser- View He began his railroad ¢ areer on what IS BOW a pars of the Philadelphia and Rend. ! fag Tox Australian labor unions are agita- ting for a law prohibiting the importation of contract labor, more particulariy that of Polynesians, Asatics, Kussans, Poles and Hebrews, West Australia is now more Asi- atic than Caucasian, THR wile of John Barns the Lwmdon Inbor leader, is said to be always with him in his work for the laboring people, While her husband was out among the men during the great dock strike she was often working twenty-dour hours at a tims haading out ra- tions to the hungry women and catidres THERE are 160,000 working girls in Berlin and how they manage to keep life in their bodies is past uaderstanding, Of this nobis army of martrys, 70,00 are sawing girls, They recive fron fifteen to seventy five cents a day for their labor, and they are blithesome, patient and submissive, au) some of them are happy. SURURSRIRRRT N— THE SECRET SERVICE. Connterfeitors Detected and Treas. nry Robbers Canght, A. LL Drammond, Chief of the Secret Bervice D vision, has made his annus re port to the Beeretary of the Treasury. shows that 554 persons were arrested dur. ing the year for dealing in counterfeit mosey, The representative values of coun. tarfeit notes and securities captured was $L120.520, The report recommends addi. tional sifeguards against counterfeiting, ine cluding an tion for the trauspor tation to the y at Washington of paper currency unfit for circulation, A stron z arguiaus wm made against thi frau ing pm of mutilating and acing United States notes and coine, Mr. Dram: mond refers to the discovery and frustration his officers of an attempt to rob a United tes Nub-Ureasury, and the additional saleguards resulting from such discovery for tne security of Government funds, The luvestigation of a frauds by ofloors of Nation! banks has ressivel care ful attention by the wweret services asd es pecially the failed Palindelphin banks, Jt line resulted in the discovery of many assets under the names of “overdrafte' which hon Blgigy 8 arettOr saan to ww which hie describes as one of the most out. suscesslul fraud the low It | CALENDAR FOR 1893, FART Jadu) 2 ERE EEN ICR 151s Ale a2 | 22 TV 20 | 2.30031 1%} erst Bob. 1 1.00 1) 2 8 aff 5 6 7) #f 9100111 Aeg.. [120311 61160 16(17 181} 8 v1oliihz (102) 2 28124. 25 B114115{16/17/1% 19 er NZL ZL 23ND 5 3 Ids BE I 7k 10 202 22] | A LY of | “i HEE 4S ST LS = Bie Burch {2 4 ee — hod S¥5 a Re ey No pri | RK “ah ag $10011213] 14/151 161708 1 21 ~3 3 08 LER Ji 5 Bn 8 eam RE SN Nay. BRE Shem 4 5 6 1 111218 14) 1 LR i200 1 31 4 6 | {10113112 181141516 1920/21 14 {7% 1920 2112228 {25,2527 28, 2 | 124,25! 26 77 RIL | | i 31... ECLIPRES POR 1808 In the year 1503 there will be two Fo ~hoth of the Sun. 1. A Total Eclipss of the 0:82 delock in the for invisible in North America, visible in South Ameries, Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and parts of Europe and Asia 2. An Annular Eclipse of the Bun, October 9 at 3:17 o'clock in the afternoon, invigible here, visible in Western North America, Pa cific Ocean and South America THE FOUR Run noon, April 16th SEABONE, Dex i Mar, June 2 Kant pt Winter begins 1862 Zl,an Bpring ' 18038, Bummer “ Deec.28 trog MORNING 1 May 2 LANETS March 10th, tting then just after the Sun May 21, August 25th, December 1# then just bel the Sun Saturn 2th, Mars, May 21st. Jupiter, N 184 Venus December Gth IGBTERT Jaly 15th N or 1ot, m re CHURLHE DAYS AXD Beptuagesima Sund Sexagerima dund Quinguagesims SUDOAY . comme. ¥ Ash Wednesday... . Quadragesima Sunday Mid Palm Sun Good Frida Easter Sunday Low Sunday Rogation Sunday , Ascension Day. Whit Sunday Trinity Sun ny Corpus Christi, ...... First *unday in Advent Chivvistenas falls on M De wn Day falls ss — SENATOR GIBSON DEAD. He Expires After a long Iliness at Hot Springs, Ark BOAY ” aur rat ml uesiay. SENATOR RANDALL L. GIRSON Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, died a few afternoons ago at Hot Springs, Ark | At the time of his death Mr. Gibson was surrounded by the members of his family. He passed away as though he had merely gone to sleep. He had been confined to his bed since November 12 sines which time his death hai been expected daily. In socordance with his wishes it was decided te take his remains for burial i to Lexington, Ky. by the side of his wife {| who died several years ago. The fuseral train bearing his remains left for Lexington next day. Randall Lee Gitson was born at Spring [| Hill, Ky., on September 10, 1832 received his education in Lexiagton, Ky. in Terre Bonne Pa~ish, Louisia at Yale and in the Law Department of the Tulane University | of Louisiana. In 1855 he refusad the Secre- | taryship of Logation to Spais. He acted { as aide to the Governor of Louisiana at the commenosment of the Civil War, and took a prominent place in the Confederate army. was selected to the Forte-third Congress District, but ha however, a | from the Second Con | was not admitted, Pp 8 Democrat, taking his seat March 4 1888, In 1888 he was reelecte!, his term of office rusting aati] March 8, 1805, A NEW SWISS PRESIDENT. Dr. Charles Schenk Elected —Sketoh oer Aad in
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