A —————————————— FATAL ANDDRSTRUGTIVE| “2 ov LIVES AND PROPERTY LOST IN SEVERAL FIRES, The Walls of a Huge Furniture Store Collapse In Detroit and Six Fire- | men Killed—-Flerce Flames at Buchannon, W, Va,—The Hinck- ley Tragedy-—Blaze in Nashville, Fire was discovered in the shipping room otf the basement at the back of the furniture store of Keenan & Jahn, Detroit, Mich., at 7.80 o'clock a, m. There were sixty em. | ployes In the building, and most of them | had great diMoulty In escaping. The bulld. | ing, an old fashioned five-story briok, was soon gutted and the stock ruined { by the Court of Appea At 9 o'clock tha frout wall of the buflding | tumbled Into Woodward avenus upon a | number of firemen, up simultaneously from the throats of thou. sands who were in the street, and then there was a orash like an earthquake, The alr was filled with dust and sheets of flame and smoke, The first man taken from under the debris | was Lieutenant Michael H, Donoghue of | Chemical No. 1. He was dead. The next body found was that of Richard Dely, pipe man of Engine No, 9. He was lying unde two fron columns and his head and baok were rightfully crushed, The next dead maa to be taken out was Plpeman John Pa gel of No. 9. He was crushed by the tum- bling wall, Frederick A. Bussey, a specta~ tor, was t c | as taken to Grace Hospital and dled, | placed in the field wm New York Oity by Mike Gray was taken to Grace Hospital where he was found to be so badly in ured about the head that he may dle, Mike Boyle, plpeman of No. 9 was buried {n the ruins and killed, These are the Injured. O'Rourke, of Engine No, 8; Plipeman PF. 8tock, No. 8: Pipeman C, Cronin, No. 8, The aggregate loss on huilding and stoek is estimated at £80,000, Fully insured. Lieutenant Disastrous Fire in Buchannon, W, Va. Just after midnight fire broke out in the Kiddy Furniture Building on Main street, Buchanoon, W. Va, The fire spread rapidly and by 2 o'clock the Kiddy Furniture Ballding, Stockert's feed stores, White, Carver & Brothers’ hardware store and building and a halt dozen frame dwellings along Maln street were in ruins, hour more Pifer's drugstore and two big three-story blocks opposite wore in flames, Help from Weston was called for and ar rived at 2.80, and by 8 o'clock the flre was under control Twenty bulldings, including all on both sides of Main street from F, 0, Farnsworth's buliding to Dr. J. N. Brown's block, were burned out. The origin of the fire is thought to be incendiary. £89,000, insured for less than half, While the fire was in progress Frank Neeley was shot by some one in an alley and seriously wounded, The Fire That Burned Hinckley, A paper fled in the District Court at Min- neapolis, Mina., charges that an employe of Laird & Boyle, who owned a saw-mill, set it on fire, and that this was the beginaine of the conflagration that burned Hinekley. The paper Is an answer to a suit broaght by Laird & Boyle against Wisdom & Cannon, who also own a milint Pine City, and with whom there were negotiations pending for an ex- | ohange of property, Fire in Nashville. Fire at Nashville, Tenn, destroyed the Young Men's Christian Association bulldicg, The Banner editorial rooms, which were | build. agether with the flies paper. Loss, £100,000; rR THE LABOR WORLD. Taz tin plate factories are all shutting down. Tex THOUSAND tons of new steal ralls have been ordered Ly the Baltimors and Oalo. Taz chances of securing empl sald to be better in Western cities East Eiont hours will be the offizlal day's work in the shops of the Pennsyivania Raliroaa until March 1. Prx¥srLvaNiA directors have under eon sideration a plan to make Saturday a half holiday the year round. Every trainman iald off by the Pennaeyl. vania owing to depressed business has been re-employed on full time, Tre International Typogeaphisal Union held its forty-second annual session at Loa- isville, Ky., with 125 delegates praesent, Wirriax Herrick, a machinist of Indian. apolis, Ind., has fallen heir to a fortune of £300,000, leit by a relative in Eagland. Mivr operatives numbering 20,000 in Now Bodiord, Mass,, wera advise! by their lead- ers to accept a reduction and end the strike, Tur employes of the Parkesburg (Penn) iron works, 300 in number, have been noti- fled of a reduction of ten per cent, in their Wares, temporarily in the fourth story of the ti Lore Lurie pd library of th partially insured. yymoent aro Gan io the r has been discoversd that by a blunder on the part of the Legislature of Michigan, of 1993, the conviet contract labor of that State has been abolished, Westerx Pennsylvania fron men say that the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, and not Alle. gheney County, is now the chief iron-pro- ducing sommunity in the country, | Wrraix the past decade the sweater shops | have muaitipliad in New York City from seven to ten hundred ; Chicago has nice hundred, while Philadelphia and other cities have their share of them, Geaxaxy adopted a system of compulsory insurance of workingmen against accidents | some twenty years ago, and its results have i been such as Jto thoroughly vindicate its practical usefulness, Breronts from nine Western States show that many factories have resumed or in. creased thelr foroos sine the new Tariff law wns enacted, and that both wholesale and rotall trade has greatly improved, Tre biggest strike that New Bedford, Mass. ever had is practically anded, Ths strike lasted eight weeks, and daring that time much more suffering was eandared by the idle operatives than will be ever known, A WEETING was recently held in West. bala, Germany, for the purpose of organs ng Christian workmen, both Protestant and Catholle, into trades unions in order to counterbalance the effect of the socialistio anions, Wersn manufacturers are so anxious for the return of tha British tin-plate workers who went to the United States that they have offered them free transportation, in ad- dition to guaranteeing them smploymeat, it they will return, Tur strike among the shirtmakers of New York has brought out some appalling facts, The av w earnings of the women employed in the factories is from #8 to #2 per week, A girl must sew four collars or four shirt sleeves to make a cent, At a meeting of the Weavers’ Unlon, held at Fall River, Mass, it was voted to make another strike allowance to members, amounting in all to about $4000, It was also voted to stay out of the mills until present indientions In the market are changed, or the manufacturers offer a restoration of Wages, Hines July 14th, 1800, the sum of $28,077 has been paid out by the union on necount of breakdowns and strikes, RE — Jose, IL, Is booking & fine of #100 a nfiaiint sath of the six railroads which day rough the place, because th. not [5 obey an ordinance Tor the Merkin the In half an | The loss will amoun: to | A cry of horror went | | Charles | Bohmer: for Coroners, John B. 8hea and | Jacob A. Mittnasht, | the recent ( | as “O14 Antwerp," | Straction of the entire group was threatened, | | The flames wore extinguished after a block : TOMIZED, 1le States. nh dafeatod tha rk by a seorsof le Cup. The Now Eastern and M Taw Now York Brash Baltimore nine at New 16 to 3, winning the T Yorks won four games yguocoession, Hexny W, Annorr, aod sixty-aoven, and his wife, Mra, Mary Abgtt, aged elxty-two yoars, diod at Naw Brunglok, N. J., within six hours of each other. Tre State Convent! Domoarats, at Boston, ing tiekat 1 Por Gover: for Lisutenant-Governo ton , for Searatary, Cha for Troasuror, Tames 8, tor, Alfred 0, Whitney | eral, Henry F, Hurlburt Couxrry Srupesr Tgon, sentenced for contempt by Justice bea, at Ithaea, for refusal to answer all postions relative to the chlorine outrage, - ordered released of Massachusotts inated the follnw- , John E. Russell ; Charles F, Strat. a A. Do Courcey; innell ; for Audi. or Attorney-Gien- Many Kreaser was thot and killed by Frank Bezeck, at Olyphht, Penn. The girl had refused to marry Fgeok. Lovis Kessren, of Bffalo, shat and killed County, N, Y. Evenerr DP, Wnererg, of New York City, was nominated by thi shepard Demoerats for Governor against Tgvid RB, third ticket was completed by Indorsing Lockwood and Bgwn, The State Democracy, at {ts Cousy Convention, nom- Inated the Committan f Saventy's tlaket for Now York City, with tig substitution of Ed. | ward J. H. Tamsen yr of Otto Kempner | for Sheriff, and Dr, Ax O'Meagher for Coroner, Tue following oity 84 sounty tioket was arson instead of Dr. Tammany Hall : Por Mayor, Nathan Straus; for Recorder, Prodergk Smyth ; for Presi. dent of tha Board ofAldermen, Aungnstus W, Pators ; for Judes !f the Superior Court, H. Traax: for Sheriff, Tar funeral of ex-Jovernor Andrew G. Curtin took place ®t Ballefonte, Tare police of New Tork City attacked a gathering striking cloakmakers and elubbad many of tham severely. Tae flat-hottomed goeamer Majella bottom up on the Rhala Island tween Matunuok Deash and Point Judith, She foundered In the terrible gale and her erew of six men wont down with her A rar at Boston, Mass. nliary origin, 19 Inmates, sight of the grouad, lows: Doad, of los in a teanom SU DDO pe vas to sualtieg wore H les Swentaen, tt vears old; William Morially fajured, August John. roars old, cut and burned, ‘rederick Caulter, terribly bruise South and West, Areraxnen Rroman: wns hung hy a mob murdered Mra, Wyllie far ner, 4 t{llal in the Illinois Steel ¢ ve seriously injured by the explosion of a steam pipe. The dead are William Mller t} ¢ years old ; John Holstro . B. Sparrow, The ree of the injured was considered dou'stful, Nonra Dakora, portions of South Dakota, and the northern border of Minnesota were buried under a heavy fall of snow. Joux T. Carranax, the first of the Boodls | Council of New Orleans, La., convicted of criminal bribery and corruption in offies, was sentenced to flve years in the State | i Penitentiury and 850 fine, | Taz twenty-third anniversary of the groat fire was celebrated in Chicago. Tue twentieth asnoal convention of ths i Amerisan Bankers’ Association was held at | Baltimore, Tux American Dabanturs Company, of Chicago, falled, with Habilitiesof $1,500,000, Prorosep amendments to the Nationa | Banking law, designed to secure as elastio currency, were adopted pankers’ Assos by the American ation at Baltimore, Craxpy Moone, rested at Balls, Te ing tha fast no sons were | He has conte : Ax explosion oeot Keithstburg, IIL, killiog Harvey H, Smith. Tuner men were killad and onsinjared by the explosion of a bolier ia Ho ige's saw miil at St. Louis, Mo, ag» twelve, was are , charged with wreok- no which savera! pore ne probably fatally, Williaa Walters and Washington. Tax fall term of the 1 paned at Washing ng present, ited States Supreme m, all of the Jus. Tre Prosi lont Appo BR. Morganto tha C Bubsistense, in place nted Colonal Michas! missary General of { General Hawking, | resigned, Tae Department of State has received from the Chilean Goverament the full amount of the awards made to Ameri nllean aims Commission, aggregating more than £350.000, Tre President has appointed A, D. Oar | den United States Marsual for the Distriot of West Virginia, vice 8 8, Vinson, resigned. Witrrax B, Sxrrn, of Elizabeth, N. J... an employe of the Bureas of Engraving and Printing, was arrested by Andrew MeoWill Iams, chial clerk of the Secret Service, for stealing 50,000 two cent postage stamps from the Bareau, ) Foreign, Fax started at Antwerp, Belgiam, fn the | buildings on the Exhibition Grounds, known and for a time the de of seven houses had bees burned, Ax Anarchist plot embracing all Italy is | sald to have been discovered, | Mixisren Dexny has warned the Ameri | cans in Pekin that the city will certainly be attacked by the Japanese; a Japanese squadron was sighted off Che-Foo. Tren was a report in Yokohama that the Japanese liad captured Che-Foo ; a second Japaneses army is sald to be advancing upon Monkden, Duntxa a fog a freight train running over A crossing near Chertram, Kent, England, struck a wagon full of hop.piekers, eight ot whom were killed and five badly injared, Boxz thirty lives wers lost {n the storm In Newfoundland waters, and about fiity ves sols are ashore there, It was reported that the Ozar of Russia had pymmia, Professor Leyden was sum- moned, Faaxce, England, Rosia and Germany have agreed to form a quadruple alliance to protect foreigners in China and to put an nd to the war between that country and apan, Tur Portuguese at Liurenzo Marqu Africa, wera Eamon in by 80,000 Kars’ the latter burned many jouses in the sub urbs and murdered seventon persons, FROM THE SANE BEAM Two Murderers Hangs at Unlon Springs, Ala. Ames Myson, for the medor of Dudley Carrey, and Jackson Hick, for the murder of James Drool, were hmged at Union Springs, Ala, at 12.40 o'alore p. m, Both were colored and wes Langed from the same beam. Both profesed religion be fore ascending the py | the summer at his out-of-town house, Baver- | ly Farms, but towards the latter part of his | stay began to grow feeble, and this was se. | afflicted | several times in recent his wife and then himsf at Holland, Erle | | death Dr, Holmes came back Irom Beverly, Hill, and the | | to | fact, | But a few days ago a change was noticed { that boded ill, William | Penn, | {| Oliver Wendell Holmes was burlad at Boston, const, ho. very | | held, and then the noted writer i danger point, wm by | OLIVER WENDEL HOLMES THE “AUTOORAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE" DEAD. The Famous Poet Passes Away at His Home In Boston-The Story of the Life and Writings of the Kindly Philosopher—The Last of New England’s Yditerary Titans, Oliver Wendell Holmes diad n fow after noons ago at his eity residence, 206 Beacon street, Boston, Mass. The news was a shock to the friends of the venerable poet, though it did not become generally known at the e¢lubs and hotels until a late hour, He spent contuated by an internal trouble which has him for five years, Bo wis this trouble that at ears the deathwateh en days before his serious wis placed on him, but was not afterwards able to go out of doors, though nothing serious was feared, and his eighty-five years searing sit lightly upon him, In to all ho seemed cheerful, Bo serious did his condition to law, but never practised, and later took up the study of medicine, He spent three ears in hospital study, and practised in Edinburgh and Paris, and in 1886 he received his medical decree, In that year he pub lished his first volume of poems, He always continued to make medicine his profession, but early made Jterature his diversion, and as a poet and author became known to the people. He assopted the pro- fossorship of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth College in 1880, and later prac. tised medicine $n Boston, where he mar- ried Amelia Leo Jackson, daughter of Judge Charles Jackson of the Massachusetts Su- preme Court, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. In 1847 Dr. Homes was made professor of anatomy st Harvard, s chair in which he continued until 1882, when he resigned, and was made professor emeritus, Dr. Holmes wrote forty-two works on medi- eal subjects and lived to see many of his early ideas of medicine, which at first met with condemnation, scespted by the leading physicians of the world. Speaking of this indignation which was raised by his famous epigram that if all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea it would be all the better for mankind-—and all the worse for | i . penters, was nt work half way down the shaft | ealking up holes in the side of brattios, which the fishes, And then he laughed quietly ss he remarked that now most of the profession practically agroed with him. In 1857, when the Atlautic Monthly was started, Lowell asked Dr. Holmes to contribue to it, 80 began the *‘Autocrat at the Breakfast Table" essays, which obtained immediate popularity, and the success of the magazine was assured, fast Table” (1860), and “The Poet at the Breakfast Table" (1878), followed, and then appear a consultation of physicians was and his household realized that he had resehed the He did not lose conscious ness and seemed cheerful, All the men ™ of the amily, including his son, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, were at , and to ail the aged post made his earthly fare- well, His eighty-a0th birthday celebration inst August was a memorable affair, and observant men felt at that time that he would never reach another, Heart faliure was the immediate cause of Dr, Holmes's aeath, though he has been slowly falling for the iast four or five years, An asthmatic the belside | diffienaity also assisted in the final breaking down of the aged “Autoerar™ Jemides Judge Holmes there worse at the bedside al tie end Judge Holmes's wife and Edward J. Holmes, nephew of the post, a—— Oliver Wondell Holmes wat born In Cam- bridge, Mass, on August 29, 1809. His father was the Rov, Ablel Holmes, a clergy- | man of Cambridge and an historian, who ia said to have made the first attempt at writ. ing a history of this country in his “Ameri. ean Annale” His great-grandiather was John Holmes, one of the old Paritan stock, who settisd In Woodstock, Conn., about 16688, Oliver Wendell Holmes inherited his father's Htarary instinet and very early began to write verse, At ool lage he became the editor of the college maga eine, and at age of twenty-one, the year af. ter his graduation, the agitation over the an. nouncement of the intended destruction of the old war frigate Constitution began and he wrots the well-known poem, ‘Old Iron- sides.” which was published in the Doston Advertiser, Ho became famous at once, He had struck a popular note, and the tide of public opinion set strongly sgainst the destruction of the vessel As a boy at Phillips's Academy Holmes transiated the “Eoeid” After graduation from college he turned his attention at first TWO HUNDRED BLOWN UP. Explosion at the Barracks in Granada Kills Many Men. A dlspatoh to the Star and Herald, from Granada, Nicaragua, says “A terrible catastrophe has occurred here, The military barracks have been blown up and a whole quan of the city has been i A . o number of dead fs estimated as 200, The number of wounded is Stoll grates but no exact sstimate is yet obtal [Ny — EE A A ARABS BADLY DEFEATED. 1he Congo State Overcomes the Slave Ralders Near Lake Tanganyika. Serious fighting has occurred in the Congo Stihe between Belgians and Arabs, One story hag it that after a truce had been de- slarad the Belgian troops surrounded the Arabs and shot them down, granting no open gg a wagon) surrounded and most of OLIVER WENDELL ROLMTS after long years eames a number of papers in the same vein in the new Boribner's Magazine, “Over the Teacups,”™ which aposared a few years ago, was made the oo easi®R of the announcement by Dr, Holmes that it “yould probably the last of the series, Dr. Holmes was a sociologist, though he was not often recognized as such, In the only two novels which wrote, “Elsie Venner” (1861) and **The Guardian Angel” 1868), his skill in dealing with social probe lems was shown, “Eisie Venner™ was a curious study In heredity, When lee tures “wore popular, forty years ‘ago, Dr. Holmes was ia demand on the form and was ever full of philosoph fan, Whittier paid tribute to Dr, Holm more sober verse, and buta little while ago Dr. Holmes relerred publicly to “my friends Whittier and Bryant,” whom he had out lived, Of other wall known men who were Holmm's classmates there were Seba FF. Smith, author of “Amerie oni" James Freeman Olarke, William Ellery Channing, Benjamin Plerse, Benja- min RB. Curtis, and Chandler Robins, Dr. Holmes at one time established a summer home in Pittsfield, Mass, while Hawthorne was living at Lenox, a few miles away, Of late his summer home has been cottage at Boverly Farms, a ploturesque place on Boston Bay, not far beyond Salem, Dr. Holmes's son, Oliver Wen dell also, was born in 1841, and was ap- pointed a Justios of the Massachusetts Bg. preme Court in 1882. Among Dr. Holmes's works are memoirs of John Lathrop Motley and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Antipathy,”" “One Hundred Days in Europe,” and in poetry: “Urania,” “As. tren ; the Balance of llusions™ * Many Keys," and “The Iron Oate™ though * be he and “San and Shadow™ are ranked with it by the pablia, Shay” is known to every one, - ——— JAPANESE TAKE WI-JU, Chinese Detenders Drivea Across the Yuloo River, A dispatch to the Central Nows from Tokio says that a detachment of Japanese eavalry and infantry attacked and routed a fores of 2000 Chinese at WiJu, and that the place remains in the hands ot the Japaness, The Centra! News correspondent In WiJa gives further details of the battle, He says thatthe Japaness forse had been greatly de. layed in its advance by the badness of the roads. The heavy guns could be brought forward only slowly, and the troops were compelled often to walt for supplies, Pioneer troops had to be used re edly 10 make roads passable, When the main Japanese column reached Yung-Chon, a short distance south of WiJu, there was no sign of the enemy. Four days later the scouts who had been sent out toward Wiida Nepored that a small Chinese foro still occupied the olty, The strength of the enemy was estimated At about 2000, A stro body of in fantry and cavalry, supported by artil. Jory, was thrown forward at ones, Chi. neso offered little resistance, They retired before the first attacking party and eventu- ally broke and fled across the Yaloo, The Chinese loss was hardly more than 100 killed and wounded, The Japanese line of com. Bunleation Is now complete throughout Oren, It is reported to the Japanese ofaolals In Tokio that 10,000 Chinese troops oceupy the north bank of the aloo River, where , hey have completed eight batteries and are . more, Commercial | workman, { Is the rule, when doing this work. | men to use lanterns, but in this cas~ the rule { was disregarded, and naked lamps were sub. “The Professor st the Break- | ina “A Mortal in | Al- | he Chambered Nautilus" was the | Doctor's favorite poem, "The Volosless™ | PERISHED IN THE MINE GREATEST FIRE IN THE AN- THRACITE COAL REGION, Seventy Men and Boys Face Death at Shamokin Because One of Them Disobeyed Orders—-S8ix Saved ina Bucket—-The Property Loss 1s $700,000 The most disastrons mine fire In the his. | tory of the anthracite roglons of Penneylvas i nis started at the Luke Fidler from the naked lamp Five persons were killed, colliery, Shamokin, ef a They | wero: Irwin Buffington, carpenter ;: George N er. olmes recalled the storm of | . 4 d recently Dr, Holme | Brown, miner ; Michuel | Anthony Cobert, driver boy; John | laborer, uzofiskis, Inhorer ; Grlerze, Buffington, with a number of other sar. connects the shaft with the alr passages, It for the stituted, Detecting a leak, Buffington placed his lamp to the draught, and the flame {mmedi- | ately saught the boards, which were saturas- ed with oll, and was taken into the air | chamber, Realizing the awful consequences | of his not, the man «l | bottom of the shaft to notify the workmen ones started for the employed there of their danger, his compan. | lons, in the meantime, rushing up the shaft to safety, When BuMngton had notified the work- men Lelow he stopped to exchange rubber boots for a pair of shoes, and the delay In dolng this cost him his Buffington staggered to within thirty feet of the door of the passageway, which led to the open alr, bat here he was overcomes by smoke and fell, His body was found morning. The other bodies wers | mine, Michasl Golden, One of the inside ¢ Me wos at the bottom ©f the shaft alarm was given, and he at one men working in No. 8 slope, Wore performed a lke Ployed in No. 2 slope, of an opening by which reach a new shaft, and the seventy men emplo the mine Golden which was safely reached nearly flied with smoke The iron bucket used to } holds about six persons, in response 1c iven by those bel ist Whe next filled, and xX an w i. 3 ] ¥ 15 " — Nearly ten trips had been mad lissovered t} ing, among the id Edmonds and Harry ALT in get. wher 3 The traveling he shaft was then better sucoess, although the so strong hall way to safety, Evans, who #8 but a boy, gave out, an! save his young comrade from =a certain death, Edmunds picked him up and suo gended in reaching the open alr Two miners, whose names conid obtained, seeing that escapes through the old tried Ke Was very When nearly » not ba shaft was impossible, and that their retreat | in the direction of the new one was covers] with smoke, groped their way back further and succeeded in reaching In safety an pening which oame out on top of the n- tain, Several other men ran toward the Coal Run workings and made their escape in that direction, Somebody suggested that a party | formed to go back and rescue them was clearly seen that the course woul suicidal, so it was abandoned, and the sul. ferers wore loft to their fate, When all who cot surface and rorkmen, in additior , Were missing of the disaster reached eld and Shamokin men, womer a, who had relatives working at . rushed to the scene and soon the alr was flied with the lnmentatians of those who pought their dear ones The fire had been scarcely started a min ute before up thron ashent of lame twenty minutes the fan house was a 1 ened cinders, The flames t eroating havoe with the workl and in addition to the timbers, wh nearly all on fire, the beds of wunthracite were beginning to ignite, and the whol mine in the vicinity of the bottom of the shaft was soon a set hing urns The Bhamokin Fire Depart pouring water into the mine within an hour after the fire started, but without any per. oaptible effect, Outside Foreman Pranch Kohlbreaker, accompanied by a number o men, went inside to see If it was possible to get out the thirty mules, and it was not un tll Kohlbreaker and several of his panicns had been overcome by the smoke that the plan was given up. All the animals are dead, One thousand men employed at the Lake Fidler Colliery and another thousand were given employment at the Gimiet and Hickory Ridge collieries, These men will be idle for many months. The iatest plan adopted by the officials to quench the fire is by pump. ing all avallable water into the mines, and thus drowning it out, This, however, will take months to accomplish, and it Is sate to n the report oom | say that this valuabie coal operation is prac “The Wonderful One Hoss | fr tically ruined, entailing a loss of about $700,000, THE COLUMBUS RELICS. They Begin Thelr Homeward Jour ney to Cadiz and Rome. The Columian relies loaned to this Gove ernment for display at the Chloago Pair by the Pope, the King of Spain and the Duke of Taliyorand commenced thelr homeward journey a few mornings ago, when they wera taken from the basement of the State ment, at Washington, and pinoad on board the Norfolk steamer under the supervision of Horses L. Washington, who represents the Government, Lleutens ant Pendioton and four marines guard the rolles. They. wers deliverod on board the Detroit at the Norfolk Navy Yard next day. There were nine large boxes, one of them a mosale whioh wed three others w Fa his | | service of the bank of two batehes of life, i aR, Western Reserve Uni frantio signal | yw the enginesr began to | | Gainsborough flaring | toque or widow's cap. Among the last to escapes from | | No. 3 slops was a Hungarian, who excitedly i 10ld the men at the bottom of the new shaft. | ing to be hoisted that there wers thres or | {| tour fellows overcome by the smoke while | getting out of the workings, and that they | were nearly dead | which blossom, when | ward, i Mrs. Bobert Goelet, of New York, io'said to pay taxes on $3,000,000, The favorite daughter of the late Professor Helmholtz, of Berlin, is the wife of the eminent Dr. von Siemens, Mrs. C. P. Huntington has the cost- liest ruby in this conntry, snd Mra, Marshall Roberts Vivian the best eol- lection of pearls. Miss Mary E. Wilkins, the New England author, says: ‘“They call me a fad, as though I were a new plaid gown or a Queen Anne house,” Isabella 11, of Spain, has now been in exile for twenty-four years, her long-suffering subjects having sent her into enforced retirement in 1870, A King's Daughters circle in San Francisco is composed of eight Chi- nese women, two Japanese, two Syri- ans und their two American teachers, Buit has been entered against a Bos- ton architect who built a house and forgot to put any closets in it. The prime mover in the legal action is a woman, The clerks of the Bank of England are holding angry meetings of protest against the recent admission into the women clerks, The lovely litap, willy-wally pose is t | no longer in great demand in these n the | Bthiletic days, when every girl rides, | drives and fences, and disports herself like 8 young Amazon. Miss Annie Thomson Nettleton has resigned her position in Vassar College - | Yo become presiding officer of Guilford Cottage at the Wo n's College of the versity. By a recent ordinanee of the So 1% ?“, | fish University Commission the uni- versities are empowered to throw open to women such bursaries, scholarships and fellowships as they may see fit. The Empre linquist which x68 of Austria is a great Her latest study is Greek, she now speaks and writes fluently, although six years ago she was ignorant even of 2 that language, " : the alphabet of Miss Catherine Power, of Jackson, | Miss. , 18 Preside nt of the Mississippi Woman's Press Club. ter of Colonel J. IL. She is a daugh- Power, of the { Clarion Ledger, and is associated with him in his business, Mrs. Myra Gaddings, of Liverpool, England, has invented a reversible bonnet. It is so constructed thst it ean be changed in two minutes from a brim to a dainty The Bennett rose is Mrs. Alfred Btevens's favorite flower, apropos to it was intro- duced in this country, $10,000 was paid for it, the highest price ever | known in the flower trade. In New York there are more than a | moore of ‘trained janitresses’”’ who are able to command $400 a year and up- The first woman janitor began her work about two years ago. She took care of an apartment house, Russia's Cross of St. George is given only for bravery on the field of battle, but the Order has one woman mem- ber, the ex-Queen of Naples, who won it by her gallant defense of Gaeta, the last stronghold of the Bourbons in Italy. Made birds will outsell the natural models. A pair of wings or a tail and head only presuppose the body. These are in many cases plucked from the feathers of chickens, and ean be worn even by a member of the Audg- | bon Society. sunt began | x The physician in charge of the | Woman's Hospital in Soo Chow, China, is Dr. Anne Walter. a Mississippi woman. There is no country on earth now where the placky American woman is not doing missionary work | of some kind. Mrs. Green, the nurse who had been | attended the infant Prince, lately re- ceived from Queen Victoria a raby broche; from the Duke and Duchess a diamond and sapphire oue, and from the Duke alone a gold one containing a lock of the baby's hair. Abdul Aziz, the young Sultan of Morocco, does nothing without con- sulting his mother, who is a woman of tact and talent. After the discovery of the recent conspiracy at Fez she persuaded him to spare the lives of the culprits of lower rank and to par- don his brother, who was involved. The bang of old has almort disap- peared, the nearest approach to it be- ing » half-inch fluffy fringe worn straight across the forehead by the girl whose brow is so expansive that she dare not completely uncover it, sud who adopts this fashion as a sort of compromise. But this bang is so light that it scarcely makes any difference whether it is curled or not. Miss Maury, a relative of the well- known physicist Maury, has remained jeoe of original research Boyd observatory in econ-
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