e. Two Men Instantly La Third Sariously Hurt. np z, Jan. 4 —An explosion of nitro- resulting in the almost utter an- of twomen and a team of horses, very serious, perhaps fatal injury of ‘man, occurred at the nitro-glycerine ne of the High Explosive Co., of , on the farm of James MeVay, a distance from Willow Grove station, rday. The concussion of the explosion vere that windows were shattered Oakdale and Walker's Mills, the latter being seven miles from the scene of the on, Glass was shattered in about every house crockery fell crashing, but as there was much there to break, the damage was "hough hills and rolling woodlands § ween the magazine and Mec- he shock there was severe. No 3 were brokeu, but doors flew open ock and pictures fell from off the g was confusion in the whol Vild and demented, Thomas Irwin nd roaming through the fields with of wood sticking in his leg and his ddled like a pepper box. hen cap- be was running around in a circle and 3 ra- e became rational and told the follow- guess I am the only man who ever went & nitroglycerine explosion and We had only moved the magazine a ort time ago, and wanted to put it in bet- “shape for the winter. Saturday John r, Thos. Keenan and mysslf went u n the afternoon. There was only hy cans, or about 120 quarts, of nitro- ine in the magazine, The horses and the road from the factory nnopin with a fresh supply. We had utting on ' clapboards to keep out tre Just a few minutes before the explo- had gone down the bank about 20 or below the magazine to cut some stakes, ‘others were still inside. What happen- ext I do not know. was thrown with le force, and when I awoke I was eeding from a hundred wounds. I but er the awful Prine, and then every- g was blank until I came to myself here P ospital. I did not even ‘hear the of the explosion. examination of Irwin's body showed jones were broken. The only piece of 8 magazine which could be found was cking in Irwin’s | His watch was safe, was almost imbedded in his side and outline, even to the ring, was stamped re. He was chitin dozens of places by of tin. His home is in Boliver, N.Y le is 30 years old. When the remains of Thayer and Keenan : Eathered there were a scant five pounds both. A little paper sack held all that ‘mortal of both men. The largest piece three joints of a backbone and next bub three toes from which even the es bad been blown away. uliar ure was that the flesh was bloodless and dry, M the moisture forced out by the awful Although the cause of the awful disaster will never be known, it is supposed by Irwin that Keenan, who was a new hand, let a can the deadly stuff fall. Lo. WILL TELL NO TALES. 'wo Mute Victims of a Bloody Gang of : Thieves. Williamsburg, Ohio, Jan. 4.—The most sensational crime in the history of this sec- ion of Ohio was unearthed here, almost by accident. A series of thefts, small but an- joying, have been puzzling the police for gome time. Saturday, as the result of an pltercation, George Snider and. Willis Fry- aan were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. On their persons were found ar- joles that connected them with the thefts. hey confessed, and Fryman asked to be taken tothe house of his aunt, Mrs. Mary Gra- Arrived at the house, Mrs. Gravis was d dead, her face and hands being orribly mutilated. In her house was nd large quantities of stolen goods. In- * | been told of the child's story. Thursday the child had been found dead in the | shot in the head. It was given out she been accidentally shot by a stray bullet by some one celebrating New ~ Year's . The police seaached the Curtiss house ‘and found much plunder. It is believed ‘that both woman and child were murdered. mab is ready to lynch the two suspects. éw Year Murders in New York and St. : Louis. w York, Jan. 4—The first murder of the new year was perpetrated in Harlem early day morning. A drunken man was ylaid, beaten, robbed and then thrown into the river. His slayer is Henry Turner, rs old. He declared first the murder e work of a gang of thugs, but later essed that he himself was responsible he old man’s death. Louis, Jan. 4—John Studler celebrated first day of 1892 by murder. He and yGleitz had a quarrel in South St. and Studler picked up a stone and @Gleitz on the head with it, fracturing +. Gleitz died a few minutes later, murderer is in jail. TEN BURNED TO DEATH. rrible Fire in a Boarding House in LALA California. Francisco, Jan. 4—Elmer S. Hofford yester, N. H., F, B. Tucker, of Sacra 0, and E. W. Foster, of Sanford, were 0 death today in their boarding it Banford, Cal. T.C. Hammond, a was fatally hurt by jumping from d story window. He died later in Six others, whose names are un- were fatally burned. The fire was the expl osion of a coal oil stove in rding house. adjoining dwellings were als ASHINGTON NOTES. 10f Statistics, in its monthly the imports and exports of the sports that the total value of merchandise from the the 12 months ended 1891, was $949,022,185. The ‘was $819,372,480. atistics reports that ved in the United ovember, 1891, ng November The Methodist church | a & Few Items of Interest to the Wage= | Earner and Others. = The employing job printers of Pittsburg areconsidering a plan to establish a school for job printers. They would be able to draw on it for labor, if established, in times of strikes. The leaders of the striking printers in Berlin and at Leipsic have intimated to the masters that the men are willing to resume work unconditionally. Thirty-three moulders employed by the Malleable Iron Works and Elbel & Co., at Canton, O., are out on a strike. The trouble originated in adispute about working a day after Christmas and men wanting their pay Christmas eve instead of on Saturday. The company then discharged them alland took them back as individuals under a 10 per cent reduction of wages. This reduction has been contemplated some time, and leaves wages thesame as they were four years ago when the advance was made. The N. & G. Taylor company have com- pleted arrangements for the erection of what will be the largest tin plate = mill in the United States, The daily capacity will be 1,200 boxes. The strike of the Indiana miners was declared off by the Delegation Convention which met at Indianapolis. The convention was ostensibly to provide more fully for the wants of the idle miners, but actually it was destined to be a test of strength between the two factions, on8 desired to keep up the strike till the end, and the other to wind up the strike and return to work. No other national officer was present except Vice President Penna. There was much excite- ment when a motion to declare the strike off was put, and the debate was heated and acrimonious. A strong minority fought against the strike being declared off. The vote was 17 to 11 to end the strike, and the great strike of the Indiana miners, begun with the approbation of the national officers, was officially revoked. A resolution delar- ing all existing contracts with the operators in force was adopted, and hence the scale in existence at thetime of the strike, and which the operators claim the miners broke faith on, is once more reinstated. Conserva- tive estimates the loss resulting from the strike at $1,750,000. Nearly one half of the sum comes out of the pockets of the men, or rather was never put in them. A gocdly portion of the remainder shows up in the greatly decreased earnings. A number ofthe old employes of some of the large non-union printing offices returned: to their work Monday, having separated themselves from the union. The Northumberland, England, miners have rejected, by a vote of 8,720 to 2,889, the proposition to advocate the. passage of a measure providing for a legal day’s work of eight hours for boys. All of the employes of the San Antonio & Arkapsas Passenger Railway company operating service struck, locking up the entire system of 600 miles of road. The trouble dates back to the discharge of Con- ductor O'Brien by Supt. Sands for an alleged violation of orders. FOREIGN FRAGMENTS. Interesting News By Cable Boiled Down to Brief Notes. Instead of giving a court banquet to his nobility during the opening of the new hall at Lacken, the King of Belgium dedicated the building with a supper to the 500 work: men who built it. Each man was presented with sweetmeats, a bottle of wine and a sum of money. : Another boy has died frcm the effects of injuries received during the panic in the theater at Gateshead, on Saturday night last. : The king of Sweden has a severe attack of the grip. Five men escaped from the prison of Montpellier, Paris, France, after strangling the warden and a prisoner Who refused to join them. Thousands at Russia’s Samra prison are down with typhoid fever. People of Teheran-appeatto the Moslems to exterminate Christmas in their midst who use tobacco while the. natives are for- bidden to use it. The clerk Guggenheim has been found guilty, and sentenced to 16 years in the gal- leys and the loss of his civil rights for 10 years, of embezzling 790,000 francs from his employers, manufacturers at Nancy. While hunting on the Isle of Wright, the Duke of Gonnau zht acdidently. shot Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. The Prince will lose the sight of an eye. TRAINS SNOWED UP, Serious Blockades on the Santa Fe and Atlantic & Pacific Roads. Albuquerque, N. M., Dec. 31.—Both the Santa Fe and Atlantic & Pacific roads are troubled with, serious snow blockades. ' No Eastern mails have been received here over the Santa Fe for four days. The passenger trains are in the blockade in the Ratan Mountains and in the level stretch of coun- ytry in the vicinity of Springer. Advices re- ceived here are to the effect that as fast as the snow was shoveled off the track it would be soon covered again to a greater depth by the drifting of the snow. It is also learned that a number of engines are off the track in the blockade. The snow blockade on the Atlantic & Pacific is between Grants and Chaves, about 100 miles west of the city. The snow storms in the mountains are reported to be something unheard of for severity, and stories of great suffering among the villages in the mountains are in circule tion, SOIENTISTS DENOUNCED. By an Iowa Coroner’s Jury for Causing Death by Neglect. Burlington, Ia., Jan. 4-=The coroner's jury inthe case of the boy, Clarence Lay, who died while under Christian Science treatment, brought in a verdict neglect and censuring his parents roundly. They denounce the practice, and ordered the coroner to bring proper action against the ‘scientist’ in question, Miss Vande- ‘water, ; 5 : of gross | 50 ARTIS FLED, BURNED AT THE TWO TOWNS Scene of the Mssacre. Chiness Insure gents Utterly Demoralizad. London, Jan. 4.--According toa private letter received from Peking the number of Christians killed in the uprising in Eastern Mongolia was 500, while the rebels have burned two towns near the scene of the massacre. The insurgents in the district of Fukien are now utterly demoralized. The leaders have taken flight and concealed themselves. Chenkup, a prominent leader, with his son, is attempting to make his way to the coast. The advices state that > the trouble in the North is apparently over, but as a matter of fact no one knows definitely what has heen going on there. The London Mission Societ sentative, Mr. Parker, at work r neighborhood where the uprising had 7its origin, since which event no word has been received from him, and anxiety is felt regarding his fate. The rebels still hold Daku as their headquarters. : A dispatch from Shanghai received to-day states that, notwithstanding the punishment recently inflicted by the Imperial troops upon the Mongolian outlaws who committed so many depredations in Larchuria, lawless bands are again marauding in the northeast- ern part of China. Itis reportedthat iese bands have destroyed a number of the temples in that section of China, but n religious or political importance attaches ¢ the movement. It is believed that it is not a preconcerted ri-ing against the Chinese authorities: In fact, the dispatch of to-day sa that the matter is partly due to agrarian troubles, the Mongols being land owners, and that the marauders inlude a large number of Shan Tung farmers. > dea pai CHILI HEARD FROM. She Is Hastening the Baltimore Investi gation as Rapidly as Her Slow. Going Laws Will Allow. Washington, D. C,, Jan. 2—Senor Montt;’ has its repre- in the very Secretary Blaine. The Minister laid . before the Secretary the following translation of a telegram from Mr. Matta, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, bearing on the inquiry into the trouble in the city of Valparaiso between the Chileans and the sailors from the Uni- ted States steamer Baltimore: SanTrago, December 31, 1891. To the Minister of Ghile, Washington, D. C. From the summary of proceedings it ap- pears that the strugele commenced between two sailors in a tavern atthe Ward Arrayan; that it was continued in the streets with the accession of numbers of inhabitants and transient parties from the streets called ‘‘Del Clave,” “San Frarcisco’’ and: “Alamos.” The disorder continued and extended to the streets ‘‘Del Arsenal” and ‘‘San Martin,” where the police force succeeded in restoring order. All the North Americans except two state that the police did their duty, and from the voluminous proceedings it appears that the Court has done and is doing its uty. : ; ‘Whenever the Prosecuting attorney ren- ders his opinion, and the time for producing evidence shall have expired, sentence will be given, establishing who and how many are the guilty parties, who may only | presumed at present. Wlioever they may be they will be punished. The legal proceedings are being actively carried forward to their proper termination. MATIA. This government has never. asserted a right to interfere with ordinary judicial method of other nations. It is, however, watchful to see that customary judicial methods are followed, regard of course being had to the extraodinary character of the offense and in the meantime making provision for the always possible occur- rence of some untoward event such as undue delay and final response not consistent with the dignity of the United tates. BRUTAL MURDER IN PITTSBURG. Allegheny County’s Murder Record for the Year. Pittsburg, Jan. 2.—Caspar Tomascki, a Pole, died at his home from the result of injuries inflicted by John Janoski at a party Christmas night at the house of Natz Ko- bacasco on Manor street. The murder is one of the most brutal in cr’ ninal annals. According to the dying man’s deposition, Janoski hid in the dark hall and waited for his victim. When Tom- ascki walked out Janoski hit him in the head with a rock, knocking him down. Then the infuriated Pole jumped on the stomach of the prostrate man and literally stamped the life out of him, This is the fifty-eighth murder in Alle- gheny county during 1891. Coroner Mec- Dowell attributes the frequency of murders to the past laxity of the administration of the law, and the influx of convicts and mur- derers from foreign countries. The majority of the crimes have been committed by nat- uralized foreigners and aliens. The most brutal murders have been the work of Foles and Italians. During the year there have been 34 sui- cides, most of them caused merely by men- tal depression. GRIP BOUND EUROPE, People Dying Off by Scores in Continen. tal Cities. London, Jan. 2—Influenza is epidemic in the eastern part of the county of Kent. In Dover the authorities are attempting to stamp out the disease by a rigorous appli- cation of health laws. It is generally conced- ed by the medical authorities that influenza is a contagious aisease. In the city of Canterbury so many people are ill with influenza that many : business establishments have been compelled to close. An epidemic resembling influenza is causing ravages among horses at Normanton. At Vienna Prince Alfred, grandson of the Archduchesss Marie Louise, once the wife of Napoleon I., is the latest prominent victim. He died to-day. At Berlin, the Portuguese Minister, Marques de Penafiel, is also a deceased victim. he Even Cuba has not paaped, In Havana many of the most prominent people are down with the disease, although so far there have been but few fatal cases. A cable dispatch from Rome says: In Milan influenza has caused 73 deaths in one day and in - Lucca 17 deaths. Cardinal Rampolla, the Papal Secretary of State, is confined to his bed. PRINCE HOHENLOHE DEAD. The Innocent Cause of the Grest Fran- co-Prussian War a Victim of the Grip. London, Jan. 2—Prince Victor Hohenlohe died from influenza here today. He had been suffering for some fame from cancer. Prince Victor, as the candidate offered by Prussia for the vacant throne of Spain, was the involuntary cause of the war between France and Prussia in 1870, the Chilean Minister, had an interview with | be :| overproduction FIRES rs AND FAILURES. The tweedand woolen firm of Mills & McDougall of Montreal, filled. Liabilities; estimated, $250,006, principally” owing in Canada. 2 At Plainfield, Ill., the business part of the town, consisting chiefly of wooden buillings, was destroyed by fire. At Aurora, Ia., nearly every house in the village was burned. Loss, 35,000; partially insured. A fire at Farmerville, La,, destroyed the entire business portion. Loss, $50,000; in- surance, 25,000. “ At Waverly, Ill, Fleming's drugstore, Wemple Bros.’ bank, two glothing Stores and several smaller concerns were burned. Loss, $0,000. : & At Hutchinson, Kan,, the Myton : Baldwin block were consumed. J.D, #Wemn- er, dry goods, lost $80,000; the Knights Tem- plar and Masons,. $10,000, and the - building was worth $50,000. 4 Lowenthal, Livingstone & Co., of San Francisco, have failed, with ‘liabilities of about $220,000; which is nearly all due ta English firms. A fallin theprice of ship- ing and in the value of salmon is said to have caused the failure. The Tyrone bank, at Tyrone, Pa., failed to open its doors Monday Morning and there sas great excitement there in consequence. The hotel at Sugar Notch, owned by Thomas Roach; and three dwelling houses, were burned. Loss, $10,000." The guests ot the hotel escaped in their night clothes. One-half of the business houses of Wav- erly, Ills., were destroyed by fire Christmas eve. The water supply was totally ' inade- quate, and the loss will be about $75,000, with partial’ insurance. Fire broke outin the buildings 525 and 527 South Water Street, Chicago, occupied by half a dozen firms as commission $50,000. THE CONDITION OF BUSINESS. Reports as to the Volume of Holiday Trade Mainly Satisfactory. R.G.Dun & Co.’s Weekzy Review of Trade says: The old year has closed with a little more than the usual holiday dullness in general trade, but reports as to the volume of holiday trade are mainly satisfactory. A Philadelphia improvement is seen in the iron business, and reports from the West are encouraging to dry goods dealers. At Pittsburg pig iron is stronger, finished iror in better demand, and the glass works all ir operation. AtCleveland there is larger inquiry for rolling mill products, but gen- eral trade is inactive. However, there is more demand forirom, = | 18 At Chicago the receipts of wheat have doubled in comparison with: the same week last year, and in corn, rye, dressed beef and wool the increase is a third, but decrease of a third in hides and a quarter in oats. It is plain that the South is the one ob- stacle to the general progress: at present, the cotton beidz the cause, It must be'added that the gredtly increased ‘houses. Both buildings were gutted; loss, ‘production of iron has made it very low, and thus strained the resources of many new and costly works at the South, = while the bottom has gone out of many gpecula-, tions in real estate. a BBE RAE On the other hand, the West is peculiarly favored hy an enormous foreign demand for crops, which would otherwise be depressed, because the largest ewer. known. The money marketicontinues well'supplied : and undisturbed... a 5 # " The annual statement of tailures in 1891, just completed, shows an increase over last vear of 1.366 in number, the total in the United States being 12,273, against 10,97 in 1890, but substantially no increase appears in the amount of liabilities, $189,868,638, against $189,656.964 last year, so that the average of liabilities for each failure is re- duced from $17, 4 6 to $15,471 for the past year. In the Middle and Eastern States lia- bilities have decreased largely, but at the South have increased from to 45,000,000 in amount, and the proportion to the number of firms in business Is 1 to in the South, against 109 in the Middle States, and 129 at the West. LOVERS MEET DEATH. & Falling Wall Kills Two Young People at South Bend, Ind. South Bend, Ind., January 4.—Eiward Spohn and Mary Zigg wera killed here by the falling of a wall. The eouple were soon to be married, and, while taking a stroll, were passing the grounds of the Birdsell Manufacturing Company, which are sur rounded by a brick wall 22 feet high. With- out warning the great mass of brick and mortar fell on the lovers, completely bury- ing them. Miss Zige was instantly Killed, and Spohn wasso badly crushed that he lived but a few moments after being remov- ed from the debris. A MURDEROUS YOUTH. A Philadelphia Boy Kills One Policeman and Badly Wounds Another. Philadelphia, Jan. 5—Last night Officer Elmer E. Findley, while standing on the corner of Fourth and Commerce streets, noticed a man cominz out of the twine and yarn house of Coyle & Coyle, just across the way. Theofficer hailed the man and thén attempted to place him under arrest. The result wasa struggle in which Findley was shot and almost instantly killed, and sub- officer John J. Nesper was almost fatally wounded. The name of the burglar who did the shooting is Robert J. Cascaden. Heis a boy only 18 years of age. ’ DYNAMITE BOMBS EXPLODE. Two Men Blown to Pitces and Another : Fatally Injured. : Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 31—Four boxes of dynamite bombs, used in blasting at Scoon - maker’s stone quarry,in Wauwatosa village, five miles west of this city, exploded, blow- ing Butlitz and William Walker to atoms. John Ralalsky was fatally injured. The two men killed were in the act of loading the blasting pump when the explosion occur- “ved.” Theconcussion demolished hundreds of windows in Wauwatosa and a number in his city.” § A Policeman Killed by a Burglar, Philadelphia, Dec. 30—Policeman E'met E. Findley was fatally shot by an unknown burglar, aad his fellow ‘officer, John J, Nesper, was shot in the left wrist by the same man. Notwithstanding his injury, Nesper succeeded in holding the murderer until assistance came, ‘when he was taken to the station house, Findley died soon being admitted to the hospital: Fl ‘national Press association, died at his after ‘Happenings From Ocean to Ocean Told. in a Brief Way. Henry Parnell, son of Major T. F. Par nell, ex-United States marshall, shot and instantly killed Dr. Reeves, superintendent of the lunatic asylum at Austin, Texas. Young Parnell was formerly an inmate of the asylum. : Natural gas hag been struck on the farm of R. B. Coddington, near Blouat, S. D; It was found at the depth df 2,000 feet, ~~ Bernard Mahan, a glass blower, died in a dentist's chair at Pittsburg, from an. over- dose of vitalized air, administered = by a dentist. On examination Mr. “Mahan's physical condition was found to be normal, and his death was wholly due to: :the “gas administered. © . Lewis F. Mortimer, of Chicago,is accused of wrongfully abstracting $42,000 belonging to the National Gapital Savings, = Building and Loan Association of North America. The jury in the Hastings, N. Y., wreck rendered its verdict, holding Brakeman Albert Herrick guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and Augustus Ossmany, | train dispatcher, ‘as accessory. ' The New York Central was censured for employing: incompetent men, and Station Agent has. Delancy for not finding out the cause of Brakeman Herrick’s appearance atthe station. : In New York harbor a ferry boat collided with a tug. The boiler of the tug exploded, throwing four men into the water. The tug sank and one man was drowned. A telegram from Boston says the grip is rapidly spreading over Eastern Massachu- setts. Four thousand cases are reported fron Lynn. The leader of the gang: who robbed the Adams Express Messenger Mulrennan on the ’Frisco road at Glendale, a suburb of St. Louis, on the night of November 20,is under arrest in that city, a female accomplice is also in custody, and the capture of the: remainder of the gang seems only a matter of time. The leader turns out to be Adelbert D. Sly,a noted ex-convict from the Missouri penitentiary. ; The Prudential Insurance company . of Boston, Mass. doing fire insurance business, has decided to wind up its affairs and has reinsured its risks in the Home insurance company of New York. Rufus Crosby, a wealthy banker of Valley Falls, Kans., committed suicide by hanging William Semby, a colored murderer, es- caped from the Trenton, N. J., jail. Gross carelessness is charged. A whole family named Delaney, consist- ing of four people, of Atchison, Kans.; have been wiped out within a week by some mys terious disease, 3 ohn din 8 Jacob H. Wight, one of the best known tobacco merchants in Baltimore, committed suicide at his residence. Wight had become ‘melancholy = through Continued sickness. The family fear that Mrs. Wight may not survive the shock. Stephen H. Bell, who mnrdered his wife in Fairfax, Vt., December 26, 1889, ‘was hanged in the state prison at Windsor, Va. Miss Amanda Thomas, of = Spring, O., committed suicide at San Diego Saturday night by shooting herself through the head. 111 health ‘is the cause assigned. Mrs. Martha Moore committed suicide at Minneapolis, Minn., by pouring kerosene oil over her clothes and then setting it on fire. She had been suffering from melan- cholia caused by the death of her husband. Train Dispatcher Ossman aud Brakeman Herrick. who were held responsible for the Hastings accident on the New York Central, surrendered to the coroner at Yonkers. Both were at once admitted to bail. Alfred Oman, aged 22, assistant cashier of the San Pedro, Col., bank, shot and killed himself. He was married Christmas day and had just returned from. the wedding trip. No reason for the suicide is known, Mrs. Catherine Reiliv, a widow 75 years old, of New York, was burned to death in her rooms by her clothing catching fire from a stove. # E. G. Standiford, president of the Inter resi- dencein Chicago, of typhoid fever. The body of Isaac Sawtell, the New Hampton murderer, was stolen from State officers at Glen Falls;"Saturday night. It is believed to have been taken for di-section by some medical society. Mrs. Saltwell, the murderer's mother, threatens to sue the officers if the body is not recovered. A car containing 10 non-unio whom the Western Union tele pany was sending South to' take the places of strikers, ‘was broken info ab Texarkana, Ack, and three of the men were killed. TWO MEN MURDZRED. The One Arrest:d For ths Crime is Only 22 Years of Age. Fort Smith, Ark., December 30—The brutal assassination of two men on Thurs- day night, near Wilburton, Choctaw Nation, hasbeen developed by the arrest of George L. Longley, at South McAlester, I. T. Three men traveling in a wagon were seen Thursday evening going into camp near’ ‘Wilburton, The next day two stock hunters found the bodies of two deal! men near the camp, their faces horribly" ‘mutilated. The wagon was followed, and the arrest of Long- ley while trying to sell the wagon and team on the streets of South McAlester, resulted. Longley was jailed here yesterday. THAT ALLEGED INDEMNITY. The United Stater Has Not Agreed to Pay for the New Orleans Affair. None of the official of the Department of State at Washington have any knowledge of any agreement made by this Government with the Government of Italy to pay an in- ‘demnity on account of the New Orleans affair, as reported by correspondents at Rome. So far as can be learned the corres- Yoiigence on the subject between the two overnments, which was interrupted by the recall of the Italian Minister, has not been | 1; “publishes its usual annual : No. 2 red. w | CORN—No. 2 yellowear.. = Mixed track aid in the United States: during the year, According to the figures here given there have been 4,003 miles of new railway. con- structed between January 1, 1891, and Jan ary 1, 1892, which brings the total mileage of the United States up-to 171,108. This | a decrease of 1,574 miles from last year's figures, or the smallest mileage built during ‘any year since 1885, when only 3,131 ‘niles of track were laid. This. decrease js quite evenly distr over the country, each group of States show: ing a decrease, with ea soaption of Ne York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary- land, which show an increase of 53 per cent. over last year, and fhe largest. mileage con- structed uring any ear since 1883.. The | six South Atlantic’ States have’ ‘laid amount of new track, 1,096 miles, and the six New England States the smallest, 50 miles. ba | R45 The State of Pennsylvania heads the list with 253 miles, and is followed in order by: Georgia, Washington and South: Caroling, with 244 miles, 220 and 219 miles respective: ly. No frack oe daid in the State pt Connecticut, aware, Mississippi or tortor of Arizona, ‘The State SI. K arrsas, which laid 1,526 miles in 1886, 2,102/in 1887, and 508 miles in 1888, has laid less than two miles in 1801. Among ‘tlie other ® States which have laid smail amounts are Mary= ‘land, three miles, and Rhode Island, mil ATROCIOUS ARABS. < Horrible. Mutilation: and = Butchery o “Prisoners at the Slege of Yemen. Vienna, Jan. 2—During the ten: weeks siege of Yemem by the Arabs the town w under bombardment daily, while a terribl famine prevailed. L 3 was driven back naked with nose or ears cut off or otherwise mutilated, the insurgand chief declaring that he would convert the Yemen Jews to Islamism or extirpate them, When the Turks relieved the city a general butchery of prisoners occurred on ‘both resi bie Four Men Killed in a Collision. « Chillicothe, Mo., December 30.—By a mis. take in train orders a disastrous collision occurred between two freight trains on the Hannibal & St. Joseph, seven miles east of here resulting in the death of the train men and wounding of others, The dead are: Engineer Busbee, Fireman Barry, Fireman Price, Brakeman Gilmore. Brakeman Bell was taken from beneath a pile of debris and isso badly injured that he cannot live, while Engineer Hannan has received infer: nal injuries. Eleven cars were wrecked. The wreck'caught fire and many head of cattle were slowly roasted to death. The Grip in Indiana. Portland, Ind., Jan. 2.—Portland has a grip epidemic. Out of a population of near- | 6,000 at least one-fourth are affected with it. In Seymour, which has less than 7,000 in=:" habitants, there are over 2,000 cases ofthe : grip, and there have been a number of deaths directly or. remotely due to that ma- lady. FIFTEEN SAILORS DROWNED. Two Steamers Collide and One of Then Goes to the Bottom. pe 3% ‘Antwerp, Jan. 4.—The Nordland, ofthe © :% Red Star line, and the Chidwell, of Chilio collided here last night. The latter vessel '' was sunk and 15 of the crew lost. It is charged that the crew of the Nordland show- ed much cowardise. - MARKETS, PITTSBURGH, BUTTER—Creamery Elgin..$ Country roll CHEESE—New Ohio fall cream New York..... Nn =8 EGGS 5h - POULTRY—live Chickens, ® pr live Spring per pair live Turkeys, ® 1b.. GAME—Rabbits per pair Wild Turkeys ...... Pheasants per doz. . Quail per doz...... DUCKS—Live, per pair _ .... POTATOES—Choice per bu... SEEDS—Clover, western ...... TIMOthY .... conver sares Blue grass... ...u. cides - Millet.. 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