rooms for paintings, the gallery for water solors are in form and perfectly Hghtod, wWalnscoting snd Irieses show Tux Gladstone Ministry was defeated in fhe British House of Commons on McLaren's pmendment to ths Parish Councils bill, the amendment being carried 147 to 126, the satuary court and recuangular Fhe stairs, the heads of THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States A BIG MIDWINTER FAIR. FATAL FLOODS IN JAPAY | LATER NEWS, HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST AND MANY TOWNS RUINED. The Rivers Overflowed Their Banks fn the Southern and Middle Prov- Inces— All Citles Along Them Were Submerged in Twenty Feet of Water—Much Distress. The steamer China brings to San Francie. eo, Cal, news of frightful loss of life and the greatest destitution by the floods in the soutnern and middle provinces of Japan. At Toyoo the water rose twenty feet and sub- merged all the houses in the town. At Min- omua the water attained a height of thirty foot, sweeping away many houses. It was still worse in the neighboring prefect of Ekayema, where, at Kawabe, the river rose eighteen feet and broke down a great eme bankment, carrying away 200 houses. About one hundred persons are unaccounted for, The police station was demolished and the chief killed, Going northward the storm beat with vio- lence on the Island of Sado, where it broketo pieces six vessels in the port of Yebisu and nine others at Sulsu, whereby four sa men lost thelr lives, At Tovama-Ken it carried away forty-eight houses and broke down the roads at Bhing-Minato, but happily without any loss of life, At the city of Toyama eighty houses were carried away and 1000 are under water. The Yoshino rose twenty. seven feét in Tokushima-Ken, many houses ware demolished, and the embankment burst in many places, In Kawabe and the neigh. borhood 400 houses were carried away, while a similar number of houses have hesn Woy away at Kuboya, At Tanoura, over 4 in Buzen, a lazge number of junks and fishing boats were smashed to pleees, Reports of the greatest loss of Hie come from Futakata-Gun, in Hy go-Ken, where a mountain side gave ', burving two lages and killing fifty pe in Kuma were damaged and all ti Tice expor own At both entrances to the port were shattered Oita harbor is half of the houses ars den Junks have b and Mt, serious da: burst it gen, Way + nlint to splint destroved, and a iishad Tt ast ashore an ve way, | ) The I'su twenty win gover Crows wer: crying for help NEWSY GLEANINGS, 18 (Hw) f the (Chiness I'nite : Francisco an in Ants in 14 000 New rallis imported land sont $180 Tne Soldiers sion at Harris! onte the prog digent soldiers’ orphans at 8 bin ( ne rep Rrippe IS raging in virnlenes, that people were dows t in very serious for Hr nigh water on the Elk River. in Maryland, tormed numerous ponds after the flood recoded y f big fish were loft in these poole, and as dried up the gr I was vered with dead fish, A Seaway horss in Baltimore, Md. , dashed again a lady the sidewalk, rebounded fell, voke Gis log and was shot The tered fled | wdy wan nemisted into a drug store near instrial nt Fg 4 } vast quantition o MAAN the latter on by, was found mot to be hurt, and walked | me, ———— SHOT THE MURDERER. A Boy In Alabama Kills the Assassin of His Mother and Sister, ¢ Fpecial despateh from Riverton, Ala,, says tit a man wearing a mask entersd the | house of Mra, Davie thers, Mes, Davis was reported 10 have considerable money in the bouse, The woman straggled with the rot bee, and he shot hor through the heart, kill. Ing Ler uistantly, Her daughter ran 10 her Assistaner, and was also shot und killed, The man was robbing the house when Mrs. Davis's Sixtesn year-old son returned hots, He saw the dead bodies of his mothur and s'ster lying on the floor and the murderer ramsaoking a trunk, The son fired three bullets at him, sach of which took effect, death ensuing almost Instantly, The Ron left the threo bodies [ying whores they fell and notified the authorities, The robber Is wkoowa ia the vialnity, { New York Clty, | hundreds of the players of this country and | art, in comn | niversary of Edwui Booth's sixtieth birthday | ‘made an individual A Mass-uerrize was held in Brooklyn, N., Y., and a committe appointed to push the work of punishing those responsible for olece tion frauds in Xings County, AMERIcA's greatest comedian, Joseph Jaf ferson ; Italy's groatest tragedian, Tommaso; Balvini, and the leader of the English sts X Honey Irving, were the principal figures in’ the Edwin Booth memorial services held in the Concert Hall of Madison Square Garden, With these were joined others distinguished in other professions, in ree, in society, It was the an Goverxon Frowsu Ravnalde und Blwasd W appointed ex-Judge Rhoarmwed en nec let : Fea S | Inthe prosecution of the men accused of | election frauds in Kings County, New York of Bates College, suspended because with a freshman LTur sophomora class tewiston, Me, has been lhe members interfered iterary meeting. Tur United States cruiser Columbia, on | her preliminary trial trip, off Bostor, made | an average spead of 22.84 knots an hour, and the This rate twenty. her the of makes rovered seven knots at four knots an hq fastest ship afloat, ur, Jomux Jonsson, the colored conviet who, on April 17 last, murdered two follow prisoners at Auburn (N, Y.) Prison, was successfully electrocuted at that institution a few days ag F. B, large of Thurber, Wh Tavaner, the senior member of the nd well-known wholesale grocery firm innd & Co,, New York City, nssig t for tho bene sruditors m favolvod Is #500 - 1 y recaly ware appointed by J fit of O08) I'w idee irews, st of the Wethors- died of f= Grand Army uth and West, Washington. ites Rupre art t late Olney Ass {reneral ief-Justice Fuller made addresses Dunrxa the past year there wore 408 good railway in which ten kille i. 3 x seriously and aperinten des worn slightly injure as A. White In Ine President de t of the Examining ad ding that { Custo nin mt Harris heen an active Demoeratio poll Asx Wrenner intter of of Customs to carey the ast of Cone in aid of rid’s Falr Prise Winn Exposition to be held st New York Olt NTE were taken at Washington to bogie the erection of 4 monument to meek the birthplace of Washington, st Wakefisld, Va Tue President appointed D. M. Kilpatrick of Louisiana, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Now Orleans in place of Andrew Hero, Jr, and John D, Stocker, of Georgia, Survevor of Castoms it Atlanta Gn, Tur President returned to the White House after spending ons day on private business in New York City, gerany Ham: instract) RTANT Np ms | oul the We Foreign. Nix parsons were killed by the oxplosion of a shell In Russia, M. Guonoigviron, the Rervian Minister to France, was stabbed while dining at the Boullion Duvai restaurant fa Avenue Op ", Parts, His assailant is a crank named Lay. tor, Ar the Birtle (Manitoba) Indian sehool, three girl pupils there, ranging from seven to thirieun, were drowned while crossing « eroek in the school grounds, Ww. SUnkicins blew over the Frisch af, a y East Prussia, Many fishing boats were lost. Eighteen persons were drowned. | tin, of Sin Rongnr B, D, Monten, British Ambag- sador to Prussia, is dead Manseirres, rapes, was thrown Into fy state bordering on panic by an attempt 10} blow up the house of General Mathelin, Con mander of the Fifteenth Army © PN, Whe thas his headquarters in Marseilles, Tue Provisions! Government of Hawall submits a statement of abuses in Govern. ment under Kalakaua in justification of the overthrow of the monareny, Ax anarchistic reign of terror prevails in Bpaln, more outrages being reported Tur settlement of the differencos between Afghanistan and Great Britain bas been eluded. CON Tue marriage of Archduke Joseph Augus- Austrian, and Princess Augusia, of varia, took place in Muniah, rE ——— PROMINENT PEOPLE, Ex-Govesson Cranres H Hampshire, is dead, Berry, of New tunyanp Kivrixo has applied fer member. ship to the Society of American Authors, Jupar Riemann Pankes, of Virginia who presided at thetrial of Johh Brown in 18 A is dead, Goveaxon Russene, of Massa he will res: lern huselis, says ne the practice of law when his expires, Banox Korxioswanren, the Vienna basal r, I. He was a popular philanthropist w a fortune of $20,000,000 His i more “Manx Twarx" looks old fuzzy l white and A Cae wt p iin : J! s with hi DY, the of revival mq evangelist aries winter o ABOR WORLD, me reqadeing 500 in manufacturing 1 shona Ww sahinery 100 + ’ : i n pe and Members of lo fn fo dis Ine } Parliament of 4 } es 1} Lx (BR 1] wage rad Septen ber | workers have thirty-eight per F'wexrv-mivr window paral ion, and foe b BEON ne 1 fart are kaddor bi ries w in itiding ales busy mis Tite scale of the Fis Union ing to Amalgamated men. allows a WaARes ranging from twenty to per rent A FREIAAT train passed Bakersfield. Cal, with 250 unemployed workingmen on board They were looking for wok. and proceeded East, and on any intend to go to New Orleans ALL the Germans working in the French mitior districts, loeluding those employad in the factories at Bohirmack, have heen dis missed, They are mostly Alsatians living st Hehirmoek, inhers aonord ut In twenty five fr DARING BANK ROBBERY. Mounted Men Shoo. the President and Carry Of Loose Cash. Three men well mounted, without attract ing any special attenty 8, rode leisurely into Milton, Oregon, the other afternoon, and dismounted at the door of ths bank, Twe entered while the thinl stood guard outside and held the horses, President A. Haopaon, Cashier N. A. Davis and Assistant Cashier Willlam Hopson were in the bank at the time, The first intimation of the coming of the robbers they had was when two shots were fired by the intruders before making any ver bal demand, Both shots took effect in Presi. dent Hopson's body, inflicting paintal Hes wounds and feiling him to the floor, The revolver was held 0 close 10 the head of Cashier Davis that the concasston knooked him down. The robbers then demanded money from William Hopson, He handed them jusy of counter change, containing $25, Taking this they immediatoly Mithout Gi attempt to get the sash In the vault, Tho notes of the shots spread the alarm and within five minutes an semed and mounted powse was in pursnit, but all (races | were lost after a short distaioe, BUILDINGS NOW GOING UP IN SAN FRANCISCO, Great Diversity in Styles Expected to Novel Effect The Main Bulldings Described — Special the Fair Oriental The five Midwinter been planned, a Features Exhibits, main bullding of the California Internnt| wition have wen boaolldte ba ne A —— They are t« ted in Garder Ban Francisco: a paralielogran will be an and a number fountains, The Inrgest building | signed for mi tures and Page Brown, of Ban Fran LE Its dimensi ‘overing 101,784 squ butiding is M« taresque effect Chey will be grouped around of whic} feet in there neight roamanted thst 4d Je fares A ole ihern Uh righ pel Lab Ee - Bespensane vewvrerrrrreer | AAaaaaaa ra UV THE MASTUPAY ’ ANY and Agricaltueal Building, designed by Ban uel Newsom, and which #8 now under o~ straction with the others of the group this instance tha architect took for In the foundation of kis we 'k the old Spanish mis. | sion style which in #0 characteristic of Cali. fornia’s early history, With this he has com bined more than a tinge of the Romanesque The great dome of this building, behind and above the arched entrance, will carry a sec. ondary dome on Me crown. It will be 101 feet six inches In dismetor and ninety feet from the ground to the lantern, Round the dome on the outside thers will be a roof gar. den, the background of which will Save s perien of plaster figures In low relief, not cherubs of Raphael or Michael Angelo, but ninvcenth century cherubs of the Kate Greenaway order. The extreme length of bullding will be 206 foot six inohes and the grontont width 199 feet, REMINUSUENT OF 01h savpy. Ome of the smaller bn Udings 1s the Pine. | OC, MaDougal, | Arte Ballding, designad by 0, The design 18 consplon ysly Egyptian. Bphlaxeos are placed at the bass of » grass terrace, mounted on high » ddextnle, Ind woos which pedestals are brord steps forty feet in length and sight in number, leading to the level of the entrance to the front vestibule, Thais vestibule Is sixty fost in length, thirty: four feet wide and forty .olght feet to the huss i fhe s proannd, "hi ba h Fhe nrowning a Architectural Produce al of THE VINE boasts and birds fsder the irapoed patiery, the [the grand fate is gallery o pnited by Enns radl of whi THE A i Fobol LCT s Fea (RRITTIT NERY H k : red i Ta Frrreereeey ~ 4 bassanas i J the f ih vin raat Hawailen | southern sew Fith native life feature the x position an oloctric Nght tower 270 with an elevator ransing to the height of 220 feet, The base of the tower Will occupy a space fAfty fost square, and the first gallery, nightly foot from th ground, will have a seating capacity of 200. There will be three other gallories above this, the topmost within six feet of the pinnae dle, Lit will be a powerful searchlight, . — - Trkne has boon sold 100 sores of the old Welwtar homestend at Marsiiivid, Mass y Ine | cluding the old oheervatory on Black Mount, Ton doods show that Danlel Webeter pats {dhasad part of the property in 184. Tho | Boston woman who oss bought the land | eovatad it on sosount of its histories] sesh. ations, whisk she wiches (4 san wrasnsend - — | mT Toe Iurgost fish cameht in the Colusa [ River 20 far this season wae a surgeon measuring eleven fost five Inches long ar 4 weighing 105 povads, which was landed at ! Ruappton, Wash. a week or range. The | head Alone wolghed 156 pounds, nd the ah yelled 427 pounds of sdible meat, tc. coutm—— Tue Kara Son is free of and Dr, Naosen's gon bak» Bud pro: poet of reaching the North Pole, ai Ves 0 } in islands « will lod in ral oun ds will be bod wd nda, The fl 56. Md sory in i i In | Tur steamship Yarn and Yarmouth Steams fp ( 1 oFlint & Co, of wenty of President Ped New Yor | am padd ie $320,000 Tue Edgewood Female ie Institution at Madi ¥ ithe Domini ut 875 000 we Harjo Hagin Mig Ie PROCLAIMS | Mello Names a Ge mm of D ns Emperor ands THE PATENT Condition OFFICE. Its as Shown by Commis sioner Seymour's Report. wer of Patents Sey ir annua i the Interior ATONE Pane for lette registered. 1 withheld for 1 n-payn Vi etlers patent w inthe Us of the $4,270 805 1883, —— AMERICA THEIR HOME, Of the 15.408 October Immigrants Many Could Not Read or Write. The total amber of Immigrants landed at Ellis Island. New York 15.408 rend ; 1787 cond not write, while 1726 sould neither rend Bor write, Classified aceon. ag to corupation, 102 im migrants Looonged to the lmarned profes sons; IME wore skilled laborers ; 5881 be. !vaged to various trades, and the rest had no occupation. The total amount 5! monday brought here by these Huture American oitisens was $503. $8. The number of immigran's returned was ninety four, of whom seventydwo were contrast laborers, twenty-one were paupors, and one was a conviet, KILLED HIS BROTHER. Was Afrald He Would Whipped If He Told, While busting near Peoria, IIL, Rudolph Bomhole. aged fifteen, was aecldentally killed by his young brother Harry, who told a story about the fatal shot having besn fired bye without onus, The country was posse in search of the luring October was Of these newcomers 1842 could not He fin
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