———————————————— A LOST ON RIVER AND RAIL Passengers Perish in Wrecked Steam | boat and Pullman. AN OHIO PACKET BOAT SINKS. The Longfellow Crashed Into a Dridge During a Fog at Cincinnati, and Sev: eral of the Passengers and Crew Were Drowned Fatal Rallroad Accident to Vestibuled Palace Cars at Scotland, Ga, The and boat Longfellow struck the channel span of the Chesapeake Bridge at Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati New Orleans packet n her way down the river at 7 o'cloe: a. m. and sank within three minutes I'hree passengers and six of the crow were drowned, four persons were injured, and four on the day after the tragedy were miss. ing. The passengers and crew numbered hundred. F badly Injured. Most by the towboat Ho helping the Longfellow through a dense fog. Those known to drowned David Aldridge, Rome, N. Y.: Mrs, Ault, Dayton, Ohio; John LL. Carter port, Ky., first clerk of the Longfellc Chauvet, barkzeeper of the Longfellow: James Miller, porter, New Orleans; u wn gir sixteen years old Those missing were Dr. Anderson, w man physician, New York City; W, J. Ault, Dayton, Ohio; — Readon, deckhand, Cin cinnati; William Walker, xas, tender on the Longfellow; unknown deckhand. The Longfellow was started in tow of the Hercules Carrel. When the boats were about fifty yards above the bridge, the Longfellow became unmanageable and in a few minutes she plunged against the bridge. She was cut in two. The forward section sank almost immediately, and the stern part remained afloat a few minutes, The Carrel stood alongside and took off as many of the passengers and crew as possible, The body of the sixteen-year-old girl was recovered at Troutman's, about eight miles below Cincinnati. She wassupposed to have been an invalid from New York, who was on her way South attended by Dr. Anderson. When the force of the shock was felt, the colored roustabouts made a wild rush for the Carrel, tramg passengers under foot their rush f about one our ware ued ules Carrel that was persons of them were res to plok her way have heen 1 are WwW, J. Now rus nKn ling rors resisted Skidmore, wi ' & PArtYy « n the lead of f passer treatment, amon i was aboard the L | riends off, Mr. wes his party, and + 1» the rous their charge for the Carrel he rea 1 that he must fight for the lives of the ladies and his own. Catching up a life preserver he one of the colored men down, and he his friends aboard the Carrel, he returned to the Longfellow to see if he could offer any assistance to others, He then saved two chil dren and two n w, after which was only time to save if before the boat there aims who was {f Poor at Aldridge, ned, was the Superint N.Y. He probs back to the ife safely to the Longfellow was t ti, and named the U. 1 ze was 6178, its leny 2 bulit was 291 feet, and its beam wag forty-iwo ut two years ago it was lengthened thirty t. and singe then bas been making regular trips. It wa® valued at $22 500, and was in. gured for $12,800. The boat carried 500 tons of freight, mainly insured at Pittsburg. Amung the items were 000 threshing ma. chines, { actors WN X wreck. =K ~ after se 1876 at Cin- Schenck. It Mother and Daughter Killed and Mem- bers of Roland Reed's Troupe Injured. At Scotland, Ga., the Fl train going south was wrecked bj ered switch. Tha train consisted o Pullmans, mail and express car. One oaches was occupied by the Roland Company and the had a full ¢ ment rida vestibuls { thor f passengers. W. Subors, of Pie New Miss Yor) Isadore *hila at a great ytnen {rom JAPAN'S MOLTKE. General Has Been Appointed Minister of War, Yamagata, the Great Strategist, The Central News correspondent in Tokio says that Marshal Yamagata, who left the grout on account of illness, has ed Minister of War been appoint General Yamagata, whose military skill had earned for him the title of the “‘Japan- esa Moltke" before this war with China be- gan, planned the brilliant eampaign in Korea, although he did not join the First Army until Ping-Yang had fallen, After that he led the Japanese into Mapchuria and re mained with the army until he was called home some weeks ago. He was or had been ili, and it was giv art that the Emperor wanted to lat him re ruperate and to consult with him regarding the war. But it was whispered that Count Oyama's jealousy was really at the bottom of Yamagata's return. Oyama, it was said wanted the glory of capturing Port Arthur thraw down the Portlolio of War, took com- mand of the Becond Army and headed Yamagata off. Coal Operators Yield to the Strikers, Several coal operators in the Pittsburg dis- trict, engaged im supplying the local mar ket, granted the sixty-nine-cent rate de manded by thelr striking miners, President Cairns, of the Miners’ Association, in sum- ming up the situation, stated that 15000 men were actually on strike; over 1000 were receiving the prices demanded, and about 4000 were working at the old figures, Swindled Out of $30,000, J.onis Foot, an Englishman, representing a British syndicate, has been swindled out of about $50,000, by two American mining srospectors, who salted a non-paying mine n the district west of Zacateens, Mexico, and #old it to the Englishman for $100,000, One-half of the amount was paid down in eash and the Ataericans immediately left the eountry. A Minister Drowned, A special from Tavares, Fla, says that the v. br. Joseph B. Cottrell, of Russellville, iy. was standing on a hall sunken barge on the shore of Lake Dora when he was eoized with an attack of vertigo, to which be had been subject. He fell into the lake and was drowned Fifty New War Vessels, ‘The increase of the British naval budget is due to the size of the shipbuilding pro- gramme for the financial year. This pro- gramme calls for four first class, four second olnss and two third clas cruisers, twenty torpedo boats sad twenty torpeds destroyers, | por bu { *ont | than last March {ina large mons | South { ambra, but it OFFICIAL CROP REPORT, Estimates of Corn and Wheat Remaining Inthe Hands of Furiners. The crop report of the Dapartment of Agri- culture for the of nsists privcipatly of estimates of the distribution of orn and wheat, the stocks of the merchantable nnd unmerchantable, port is based on county estimates centage of last vear's product remaining in first hands, obvious errors and {nconsisten- hes of statement being corrected and differ month March ¢ remaining in the ! hands proportions of farmers, and The re. of the per. ences harmonized, Al grain in the hands of farmers, including amounts remaining over from previous years, are embraced (no the ose | timates given, The corn on hand, a 475,504,450 bushels, « Inst crop. This proportion h but four times in the last ten y onsumption of corn for eight mon unusually small which fact is explained by the large amounts of wheat fod to stock. The aggregate sold from farms to go be vord county boundarie 162, 454,640 bushels, r 18.4 por cent, of the oro I'he proportion nerchantable is or 82.4 per cent. The v rehant able corn average 38.6, making an aggre 129, which is 246,000 war valustion of the estimated, ¢ r 39.2 EAL tir IRregates shel estimated rs ands is 7 f the last am y, O00 O00) bust and is explanation I'h 12.000 000 shat large ind other k. Returns fi N Dak tate unprecs > Orres rth ind ind Kansas indi- MOON WAS ECLIPSED. Che Phenomenon Three Occurred on Thane and Lasted and One-Hall Hours, The total eclipse of 1 advertised t ‘or astron mers ana the sky was obscure | rented satisfactory Exactly at 7 v att} ite arrived bright ur the riare sur: WORTH IS DEAD. ® he Famons Man Dressmakers Passes Away » Suddenly in Paria, . mking line | FIRST INCOME TAX RETURNS. Shirteen of the Sicty three Districts Will Give the Government S68%05.39 wr in thirteen of vashington, ! shusetts, $1367.46; First Hlinots Dis 1651.53 Sixth Indiana, #20503; | Indiana, $146.91; Third Iowa, $87.22; | Fourth lowa, $104.84: First Missouri, $522.34 First New York, $588.27; Fire! Pennsylvania, $1400.58; Second Tennessee, $87.22, West Virginia, $201.02; First Wiscoasin, $104.54, Second Wisconsin, $154.24. Total, $6805.39 On this basis the returns from the sey teen districts yet to be heard from should swell the total for February to nearly $5000, | The returns for March, it is thought, will | foot up well towards $1,000,000 It is pre dicted that April will yield #1.500.000 and May betwean $2,000,000 and #3.000.000, with the bulk of collections yet 1 com» in the month of June, AV the large corporations, it is thought, will hold off their payments until the last week in June, #0 as to make thelr returns coincident with their semi-annual dividends, ! iow Lid 1] Victovions Rebels in Pern, a despatel from Lima, Peru, says that the insargents defeated the Peruvian troops fn « battle near Gabanillas, Three hundred Gov eranout soldiers wore killed, Killed at a Crossing, Mra. Thomas Allen was instantly killed at a crossing in St. Joseph, Mo., and Gertis Al en, her nineteen-year-old daughter, wae dangerous'y hurt, and Miss Martha Deacon eleven yearsold, was fatally injured, They were struck by the fast mail while coming bom from church, The Oldest Woman in Connecticut, At Norwalk, Coun., Mra, Peter McClusky familiarly known mse “Aunt Betsy” cele brated her 106th birthday, Mm. MeClusky | can | the aot A Spanish Gunboat Attacks the American Steamship Allianca, PURSUED TWENTY-FIVE MILES. The Spaniard, Evidently Looking fm Cuban Fllibusters, Fired In Response of Alllancs, Which Colors---The to the Salute the Showed American Makes a Stir at Washington, An unknown Spanish gunboat fire aoross the bows of the Columbia line stean:. | ship Alllanca steaming te from Colo tween Cape Maysi in Cuba and Cape Nicho son in Haytl, A the on March 8 as the latter ward this yst be similar shot brought war between (he United States and land in 1512 The ship was threading her way through the Windward the statement of others on Passage, and, according her mmander and yourd, was well clear of the league, when a Bpanish was lylag inshor The Allian | them three times ns the man-of-war near, that being 8 Customary pays ts a na the bs, Stare sted her colors and salute ting up paoiard’s rom her bow gun the Allianca, was ret to direct attention inder than y to the Spaniard, t be dipped again fing ast Crossman, then \ attention to the ’ an 1 mated and arbitrary command to he A few minutes later the Spaniard sharply to starboard, the glint of one big bo was seen for a moment then the ve wreathed in a ol BOOK® Before the whizzed town the water at wrhetied ¥ guns BOL WAS shot silo was, was! struck tt 1K waler #8 Ameri Immediate Inquiry to Be Made and Hepa ration, Doubtless, Demanded, LI ties In Cu y explanation of Captain of the Spanish firipg ape the Ape a, satiod iplomatic y ensue betwpen the Saocrptary (Greahinyg Sa IEpTY retina git pimasil on the ee i ' Ww the Spanish auth furnish a § of the WHEAT FED TO STOCK Feeding the Crop Ransas, Nebraska, m Towa and Missouri. The Secretary of Agriculture lending { Omaha, Forty n irom a facturer and business man « the result of during a recent Kansas, as to yak for the wheat crop In that and the extent to which wheat has been fed 4) stock by Kansas farmers. He found the receipts of wheat in Kansas City to b eraging from two to five cars per day by ym parison seventy-five cams per day a yoar ago all reported large quantities of for feeding purposes, One miller, indeed, reported that ground more wheat for feeding purg than for bread A number Ars Phe sorted that they had fed, fond Fatty one-half of the wheat ralas Concluding his letter this says: “In Kansas, Nebraska, | tion of Missouri I should estimate tween 33% per cent. and ff last year's crop had bees ‘ farmers continue the sent ratio 1 one-hall of last year's crop wil stock.” nis obser tris the State of the present outl Niate d nn Millers wheat gr had pO LILIVOKALAN! SENTENCED Hawall's Ex Queen Gets Five Years’ Time prisonment and a $5000 Fine, Ex-Queen Hawaii, ceived her sentence at Honolula on F 26at 2 p.m, Pattu, accompanied by the ex-Queen's Intimate friends, Mr, and Mrs, Charles B. Wilson, visited the apart ment in the Executive Building occupied by Mra. Lilluokalani Domizis for the purpose of reading to her the sen anos passed upon hes by the Military Comm’~sion for the erime of misprision of treason as modified by Presi. dent Dole, Mrs. Dominis moved to rise, but at Major Pattu’'s request remained seated during the reading of the sentence, Khe manifested no emotion. The commission had imposed the full penalty of the crime, being five yours imprisonment at hard labor and $5000 fine. The President had modified the sentence by remitting the labor, ILilluokalani, of ro bruaary The President's alde, Major Major Mcleod and Newsy Gleanings. Tar business outlook is good, Crorena Is raging in the State of Minas Gerons, Brazil, Svicioes in Bt. Petersburg, Russia, last year numbered 445, ° Ir la estimated that 18.000.000 bushels of wheat will be fed to live stock in England this year, Ir has practically been decided to hold an International Mining Exposition in Denver, Col., in 1806, Tusar are twelve women candidates for is the oldest parson in Connecticut and rm tains her faoulties to an exceptional degree. «twelve out of 198, Nowy | wae | § URIBE. vu canns ing | inquiries | with fifty to | places on the London School Board this year . THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Frices of Country duce Quoted in New York, 1 MILE AND CREAM During the past week the sold at an average of 40 quarts, The 2140. per quart, net to the ships Receipts of the week. fluid milk, gal Condensed milk, g Cream, gals platform #1.3 thange pri about xi Cronme rye! Firsts . Thirds to seco Blate Mn | pring beans, ¥ crate Spied. .o0.uu... , OEATY, Winter 2 Patents No.2 RR Patents WHEAT SUPPLIES This Canada Since January | The reports of Bradatrect A Large Reduction in Country and avaliable sto Canada have | beginning been reduced n of one year ago prt wl The 1}! New York Time 127.000 000 120 0 Jan, 1 Feb, 1 March 1 The decor untains was n 15.000 110 5468 000 RA { the Rocky M i Canada, Eur was 184,753,000 419.000 on Feln Mageh 1. The world's fallen, therefore, at since the beginning corresponding period was 6,000 000, and in 1503 it than 4,000,000, f than the deere ta little my SPANISH CRUISER SUNK, Eelioved to Have Voundered With Board OF Tangier, It was believed at Gibraltar that the Span ish Reina Regente foundered off Tangier, Morocco, during the recent Bhe had a crew of 420 officers and men Ploces of one of her boats and semaphore flags were reported to have been pleked up along the shore near Couta and Tarifa, The Reina Regente had just conveyed the returning Moorish mission to Tangier, She loft that port for Cadiz and has not been heard of since. The cruiser Isla de Luzon of the Spanish flost safled from Algeciras in sonrch of the miscing Reina Regente, but it was then believed that she certainly had gone down with all on board All on cruiser gale St. John's Realing Fleet, Twenty steamors, two Joss than last year, salied from Bt Johns, Newloundland, to sngage in the seal fishery, They take, as their crows, 4000 men from different parts of the island, and the seal fishery, if success. ful, will, in about three weoks, give employ- ment to 5000 more men, and thus help to tide over the hard times, which weigh so heavily on the colony. Sammer Weather in leeland, Recent advices from Iceland state that there is neither ioe nor snow at Rejkavik, and that the weather is as mild and warm as summer, ORRIN BELLGERENTS | | | | | The Wars and Rumors of War That Crowd the Cables, THE COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION, General Nodzu Crosses the Lino Ho and Defeats an Army of Ten Thousand Men w=Colombian Insurgents Hepulsed at Boco Del Toro and the Bandit Garza Killed «France and Venezuela. Advices were received at Panama landing of an armed expedition and d battle at Boeo del Toro, ( rebel expedition came Costa Rica, and was the notorious Mexican Garza. Casts revolutionary Catarina He had with him Lieutenants P reira until six « killed who in tur n was killed The Japaneses Cross Into Manchuria and Win a Great al News Victory. rrr The Ce lent in T I Was an 5 a lin-Ka Nodeu reported that his army, with the aid of iret division, had at- acked the Chinese at Tenchantal (on the wost bank of the Lino 0, ANS tiles west of old Nivchwang The Jag mm three directions Tra EF ne fro® tl be . The Cuban Revolution, Cuba indicate at the revo. end, {arganillo of Carlos and members capture of jeved, o central will, iti me n roant the ISUrgenis Lae France Threatens Venezuela, The French Government has instructed the commander of the cruiser Roland, sta- tioned in Guiana waters, to proceed at once to La Guayra, Venezuela The commander of the R his vessel at the disposal of Ripert Monclar, the received his passports fro Dr. J. Gill Fortoul, the Venezuelan sentative in Paris, iand i= to place the Marquis de Minister, who esident Crespo Tranot res ris. rer » has received his passjo The Madagascar Expeditio It has been found that fully fifteen cent, of the men drafted in France forthe Madagascar expedition are physically unfit for the arduous service, and their places are being filled. Already it is apparent that the campaign will cost §25000000 instead of $13,000,000 Cartridges for China. The Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, Conn., shipped 2,000,000 car tridges to the Chinese Government, Since the beginning of the hostilities the company has shipped 20,000 stand of arms to China. An American Wins the Bessemmer Medal. Henry M. Howe, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1871, has received a letter of congratulation from Bir Lowthian Bell, of England, with the information that the Bessemer medal for the year 1805 has been awarded to him, This medal, given by Sir Henry Bessemer, the noted inventor, for those who have most benefited the metallurgy of fron and steel, is conferred once a year by the British Iron and Steel Institute upon that man most noted for his investigations or inventions, To Lay a Pacific Ocean Oabls, It has been learnad that the International Pacific Cable Company, which falled to get a National charter from Congress, will go ahead with ita project of connecting San Francisco, Honolulu and Yokohama by oable, and will act under = Calliarnia charter, A Cyclone in Alabama, A syelone three miles north of Brewton, Ala, cut a swath a ball a mile wide through the oountry. da soveral dwell houses and tearing to picom » school ohurch building. | library | Crear. | # year, and this is to be ! raliroad | tions, will move lengthwise for & con- per | — \ ———— SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Pneumatic saddles are more com: fortable if ridden half-pumped. The southwest wind is the most prevalent in England. It blows on twice as many days as any other. A blow on the head seems to cange a flash of light in the eyes because light is the only impression the opt: | cal nerve is capable of receiving. The pneumatic vaccination shield is | a circular tube of rubber, fully in- | flate 1, which surronnds the vaecin- | ate rpot and protects it from hart. Chicago is to have a great scientific 1 + under the bed I'he bequest yiel John 1 al 1 the prineinal urntouchs Lhe committee the examine ’ L8H to the i y 2 ’ a scheme for the conversion of Paris in to a seaport by the canalization project. In a paper read before the scientific COLTER stated that 000,000 years will slip around of the earth, which chamber appointed f the Deine has rejects I the at Paris it was re the mountains « re decreasing in Ppear. A drug .v Will award mbers of the Pharmacentical Ass tifies the largest number LL smell, : An Arm welief that English chemist named it as his 1 a ever takes ! Asserts ical ti in the of being decom posed and that therefore ienomena are electrical, presence of some The first sailing vessel t by electricity is a Spanish vessel. She is fitted throughout with incandescent lights, the power for the ing furnished by an furnishes also power when load Cargo Lg f 1 of electric ‘‘an empers Congress given to if Ampere elucidated rr fal iesism of We “4 Marie who trie curren from east to west, 1 f+} fiAKs Of 140 | what has not | f aniatt Of auieling 3 8, Lis proposition: ; the ain h wor san absurdi ~ sans re I—— - Lp — vr Creeping oi iron Rails, i fi. HC iE) — 8 well-understood fact that rails, under certain condi- § Is siderable distance, to gravitation and and push of the whee trains. Where the t= This in doe pazily partly to the jar Is of passing avel ] 18 all 2 ywn grades, ngiy apon descent f the heavy lo- hrow the rails be thas making them creep upward from both sides of the grade. It has been said that one rail creeps faster than the other, and that other sient Unquestionably, one rail does sometimes creep ahead, but this is owing entirely to the fash jon of handling. The line-rail, as it is called, receives the most attention and is, as a rule, much more securely fas tened than the gauge-rail, consequent ly the latter is more likely to get out it were, there are magnetic or reasons for the fact. | of bonds. —New York Ledger : sti — . No Beginning to History, It is more than forty yearsago since I was much impressed by bearing Pro fessor Sedgwick say in his emphatic manner: “Geology knows no begin ning—knows no beginning!” 1 was very young then, and the words came upon me as a new revelation for which I was not prepared. Mr, Cadaverous was my guide and mentor days, and I wen! to him in my ver plexity. “Is it true? What does he mean?” “Quite true, my friend. Reach what point we may in the past, there is always something behind it “Then it is true of history?” ““Yes—of history! History, too, knows no beginning! Yet be it re membered that history knows many beginnings. Abraham's start from Ur of the Chaldees was one of them. Mo- hammed’s Hegira from Meocea was an- other, and a third was Caesar's first campaign in Gaul.” Ninteenth Cea- tury. in those ——- a — Too Many Servants for Comfort. Sometimes the more help the less work sccomplished. A family living in the New Jersey suburbs kept eleven servants, but finally took to voarding because the lady of the house was threatened with general prostration from the labor involved insuperintond. ing he household. — New York Sun, Plowed Up a Watch, General E. W. Price, of Keytes. ville, Mo., recently recovered a hunt- ing-onse silver watch that he lost in 1856 while riding through the woods, A colored boy plowed it up néhr the spot where 1% was lost. New York Post,
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