MEE LATEST
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from his recent illness. Senator Quay is not
yet quite well enough to beat his seat In the
| Senate chamber, although he is rapidly
gaining strength.
The House committee on agriculture au.
thorized a favorable report to be made on
the Paddock pure food bill which passed the
Senate some weeks ago.
‘When the House convened at Washington
Tuesday evening the hall was filled with
X iid smoke, occasioned by a fire in the folding
Capital, Labor and Industrial,
The strike of the conductors and trainmen
« ‘on the Canadian Pacific Railroad has been
settled sooner than most of the sanguine
have anticipated. Arbitration will be the
means resorted to, and pending a decision of
arbitrators the men will” return to their
Guties, the company having agreed to rein-
state them.
The switchmen on the Memphis and
Charleston yard struck at Memphis because
Superintendent Pegram refused to reinstate
two of their number, who had been dis-
charged without cause by the yardmaster.
The strike may become general and involve
the nine yards of that city,
Philadelphia bosses have conceded car-
penters their demand for a nine-hour day at
$2 a day.
A strike of cabinet makers has begun at
8t. Louis by the employes of four of the
largest firms in the city. Three hundred
and fifty-five men are already out, and the
trouble is spreading.
One hundred and fifty cigar makers are
on a strike at Peori, Ill., for an increase of
I from $1 to $4 a thousand for making cigars.
Tuesday night a dozen of the strikers badly
beat the foreman of one of the factories.
A printers’ strike is impending at Wil-
liamsport, Pa. The men want more wages,
which the newspapers decline to grant.
A contract for one year was signed at Du-
quoin, by the mine operators and miners,
and work is resumed. Thirty-five cents a
ton gross will be paid for the first six
months, and 87} cents for the second period.
Drivers will receive $1.60 and $1.75 per day
of nine and one-half hours. Full time shall
“be worked Saturday, and the miners paid
« weekly.
Notices were posted at the Spearman,
Mable, Alice, ‘Claire and Sharpsville (Pa.)
furnaces. and also at the Shenango and Ma-
honing Valley furnaces, notifying the em-
ployes of a reduction in wages of 10 and 15
cents, to take effects April 10,
The strike of printers employed by the big
8t. Paul firm, the West Publishing Com-
pany, has ended by 2 compromise.
The Reading Railroad Company has shut
down the Jersey Central shops at Ashley
Plains, Pa., until further notice. Over 700
shop men are made idle and 200 outside
hands.
Great excitement prevailed in Minersyille,
Pa., when notice was, given that miners’
wages would be reduced 20 per cent. This
will go into effect April 1.
The boys employed in the Phenix Glass
Works, at Phillipsburg, Pa., went on a
strike, and work was suspended. The dis-
charge of a boy led to the strike.
Sixty-eight carrying-in boys at Reed &
Co.'s glass works, Massillon, Ohio; have
struck for an advance in wages, and have
put the blowers out of work.
Disasters Accidents and Fatalities,
Sarah Brice, a colored woman living near
Arsadia, La., locked her three children in
her house and left them for a few hours.
The honse caught fire and the children were
burned to death.
Frank Radell, employed in Lambert's
barbed wire mill at Joliet, Ill, fell into a vat
of vitriol and was horribly burned. His
injuries are fatal.
An Ohio and Mississippi passenger train
was run into at the crossing at Odip, Ili, by
an Illinois Central freight train. The coach
struck, which contained 22 passengers, was
demolished. Seventeen persons were
slightly injured.
John Everett, farmer, aged 96, Port De-
posit, Md., drowned himself in a watering
trough. Worth $60,000 and feared blind-
| mess,
A train jumped the rails and was over-
turned while going around a sharp curve
near Park City, Utah.
in the cars, most of whom were injured,
several, it is believed, fatally, The accident
was caused by the outer rail being too much
elevated.
‘William Leppert, Elwood Elliott, John
Cassell and Della Points, were killed ina
boiler explosion at Fredericks, 12 miles from
Dayton, O.
While Mrs. Henry Lards, of Adrain,
Mich., was cleaning a carpet in one of her
rooms with gasoline, a stove burning that
fluid in an adjoining room exploded. Her
4wo children were burned, one dying soon’
after, and the other is not likely to recover.
Mrs. Lards was also fatally burned.
At Dubuque, Iowa, Michael Smith, his
wife and eight children were poisoned by
, eating beef affected with lumpy jaw. The
mother and one boy are still very sick, and
may die, but the others are out of danger.
An explosion at Fredericksburg, in a mill,
killed four men and injured several others.
Patrick Doyle, a desperado, who has kill-
ed seven men.in 10 years, was shot and kill-
ed by his 9-year-old son at his ranche near
Big Muddy, Mont. The boy deliberately
shot the father while the latter was chop-
ping wood. The cause is not given.
By the falling of a number of arch pieces
and timber in the Belt Line tunnel near
Baltimore two men were fatally and several
seriously injured. :
As a heat was being blown in the convert-
ing mill at Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'s Home-
stead, Pa., Steel works, a crust which had
accumulated upon the converter, fell off. In
dropping it broke the hydraulic pressure
pipe by which the vessel is controlled and it
turned over, scattering molten steel in every
| direction. ' Nine workmen were injured |
__andone of them, Antony Scuffel, ciel Sat
~~ urday night. Albert Williams, the foreman
: and Arthur McGuirk will probably not re
lwo Ypover, The others seriously hurt are: Peter
‘Woods, John Gwinn, Frank Able, James
Baird, John Shields and Thomas Hardy.
Thirty people were |
room, caused by a lighted cigar being
thrown among the documents. Thisis the
third occurrence of fire this session and the
fifth fire that has occurred in this portion of
the building within recent years. Several
hundred books were destroyed and a few
engravings. The damage will probably
reach about $10,000.
President Harrison sentto the Senate the
following nominations to be United States
District Judges: William XK. Townsend, of
Connecticut, for the District of Connecticut:
John B. Rector, of Texas, for the Northern
District of Texas; John H. Baker, of Indi-
ana, for the District of Indiana.
The sundry civil appropriation bill of last
year carried an aggregate appropriation of
about $38,000,000, while the bill of this year
amounts to only a little more than $25,000,
000, being in the neighborhood of $13,000,
000 less than the act for the current fiscal
year. ‘thelargest cut made is the items
making appropriations for public buildings.
With reference to the world’s fair the com-
mittee makes available the balance remain-
ing of the appropriation of $1,500,800 here-
tofore made by Congress. A sub-committee
is going to Chicago to visit the fair and in-
vestigate expenditures, and until its report
is received nothing further will be done in
the matter of world’s fair expenditures.
7 Crime and Penalties.
Frank McKeen. a Chicago laborer, was
arrested for pounding his wife to death with
his fists. The cause was drunkenness and
jealousy.
John Corley, a gambler, was ejected from
a restaurant at Coulee City, Wash. He was
intoxicated, and began firing at the proprie-
tor and waiters. Charles Pascoe was killed
and Pat Egan seriously wounded.
Mrs. Bessie Howard, aged 26, was killed
by her husband, William, during a fight at
their residence in New York City.
Joseph L. Tice, the wife murderer, was
resentenced at Rochester, N. Y., to surren-
der his life in the electric chair at Auburn
prison during the week of May 16.
A stabbing affray took place in the East-
ern penitentiary at Philadelphia. Keeper
James Bloomer was seriously cut by an in-
mate and is likely to die. Two other keep-
ers were also cut but not dangerously.
At Molina, Ga., Lee Blount, one ‘of Pike
county’s prominent farmers, shot to death
John L. Barks,a wealthy neighboring plant-
er. The tromble was over an old trade.
August Arndt, targetkeeper on the Tole-
do, Ann Arbor & North Michigan road, set
fire to the house of E. Hammer, where his
wife and babe were stopping. The inmates
escaped. Mrs. Arndt had left home to es-
cape from her brutal husband. Later in
the day Arndt met his wife, and shot her in
the shoulder. He attempted to kill his
child but did not succeed, and he then shot
and killed himself.
Burt T. Arnold, a guard at the Simonds
Manufacturing Company's stove works at
Long Island City, N. Y., was murdered Sat-
urday night by the men who are on a strike
at the establishment.
Financial and Commercial.
Seventeen more judgments against James
R. Keene, the Wall street operator, aggre
gating $53,000, were satisfied of record.
Executions for $135,000 were entered
against the Lehigh Iron Company at Allen
town, Pa. Stagnation in trade is the cause.
I: 0. Grothe & Co., Montreal cigar manu-
facturers, have assigned. Liabilities, $80,-
The American National Bank of Birm-
ingham, Ala., has gone into liquidation.
The Cumberland (Md.) Steel and Tin Plste
Company, a reorganized steel concern, will
build two mills, with a capacity of 1,000
boxes weekly.
E. C. Buchanan & Co., grain dealers and
brokers, at Memphis, Tenn., made an as-
signment. The assets are $81,000, and the
liabilities $160,000.
The Balckaw-Vaughn Steel Company, of
Yorkshire, England, has failed. Liabilities,
$1,000,000.
The American Bobbin Spool and Shuttle
company, of Woonsocket, R. I., assigned
for the benefit of its creditors.
Railroad News.
There are named 470 railroads which pro-
pose the construction in 44 States and Terri-
tories of no less than 28259 miles. This
includes only such enterprises as have lines
under survey or construction. All the
States and Territories are represented in
the list except Rhode Island, Kansas and
Nevada.
The traffic managers of the several rail-
roads in Mexico have united in an effort to
secure the adoption of a national standard
time.
The Lehigh Valley officers now under the
control of the Reading are to be removed
within a week from Bethlehem, Pa., to Phil-
adelphia. Clerks are notified they may
hold their places if they move, too.
The Sioux City, Chicago and Baltimore
Railroad company was incorporated at the
first named city. The proposed new lines
will give the Baltimore and Ohio, the
Missouri Pacific, the Santa Fe and other
lines valuable Iowa connections.
Scalpers are selling tickets from Los An-
geles to New York for from $18 to $25. All
the railroads are conniving at the ‘reduc-
tions. .
Mortuary.
Arthur Goring Thomas, the well-known
writer of operas, was killed at London by
being run down by a train on the Metropol
itan railway.
At Philadelphia, Prof. D. Hayes Agnew
died, passing quietly away. Dr. Agnew was
born ‘in Lancaster county in 1818. He
ranked among the most eminent surgeons
of his time, and in the pursuit of his great
ealling, and as a contributor to modern
medical literature, he had won a name tha
HE 4 will adorn the pages of history. He came
Washington News, in closer touch with the American people
Senator Cameron’ (of Pa.) has recovered |in the autumn of his career asthe consult i
ing surgeon of the late lamented President
Garfield.
H. E, Clark, senior member of the Ontario
legislature for the city of Toronto, while ad-
dressing the house, suddenly sank in his
chair stricken with heart disease and died
shortly after the attack.
Ario Pardee, one of Pennsylvania's great-
est coal operators, died in Florida. The im-
mediate cause of his death is thought to have
been heart failure.
Fires
The business section of Gainesville, Ark.,
was destroyed. The fire originated in the
postoffice from a defective flue. = Total loss,
$35,000; insurance, $11,000. >
Fire swept Dunlap's island, Mian., burn-
ing Patrick Flaherty to death and destroy-
ing seven buildings valued at $25,000;
insurance, $6,000.
At Alto, Tex., 28 buildings in the business
portion of the town were burned. Loss on
stock, $75,000; buildings, $30,000; insurance,
$40,000.
The Braddock, Pa., Glass Works, at Ran-
kin Station, were destroyed by fire with
$25,000 to $30,000 worth of goods waiting
shipment. The total loss is $70,000.
At Akron O.,the knob and wood works of
Baker McMillen & Co., were burned. Loss,
$50,000, insurance $35,000.
At Omaha, the five-story building occupied
by the Omaha Hardware Company at 920 and
922 Jones street. Loss, $200,000.
At Philadelphia, Bromley’s mills. Loss
fully $400,000; insurance about $325,000.
Also H. O. Wilbur & Son's chocolate factory.
Loss, about $200,000; well insured.
5 Legislative.
The New York Senate passed the World's
Fair bill, appropriating $300,000 for the
New York exhibit with assembly amend-
ments providing for closing the exhibit on
Sunday. The vote was 22 ayes to 4 nays.
The Towa House defeated the Gatch High
License bill this morning, the vote being 52
to 46 for indefinite postponement of action.
New York Legislature is considering a bill
for the abolishment of imprisonment for
costs of civil actions or other debts.
A bill was introduced in the British
Columbia Legislature to increase the per
captia tax on Chinese immigrants from $50
to $100.
The Missouri Legislature adjourned sine
die. One of the last acts of the house was
to pass a resolution indorsing “The Man of
Destiny, Grover Cleveland,” for the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomination.
Political,
Roger Q. Mills was unanimously chosen
United States Senator by the Texas Legis-
lature.
The white primary elections at New
Orleans to select a: Democratic State ticket
show that Murphy Foster has beaten
McEnery for Governor by from 3,000 to
7,000.
Colored men have been chosen judges of
election in Hiawatha, Xan. g
Secretary Worman has called © upon the
Democratic societies of Pennsylvania, to
hereafter celebrate April 13th as Jefferson
Day, that being the date of the Democratic
patron saint's birth.
Judicial. -
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ‘declared
:he Assembly, Senatorial and Congressional
apportionment made by the last Legislature
to be unconstitutional. . :
The Circuit Court at Cincinnati has decid-
ed thatthe wages of all necessary employes
of an insolvent firm are preferred claims.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court at Phil-
adelphia made an order fixing April 18 on
which to hear arguments on the constitu-
tionality of the ballot law, which is laid
before them on the appeal of Herman de
Walt and others from the decision of Com-
mon Pleas Court. 4
Turf News.
The once famous race horse Dick Ed-
wards, claimed to have been one of the
first horses to trot a mile in 2:40, dizc at the
Eclipse stock farm. at Roslyn, L. I. The
horse was 43 years old. Before he was re-
tired from the turf he lowered his record to
2:22. Mr. Dureyea, owner of the farm, will
erect a monument over his grave on the
farm.
A New York horse breeder, just home
from California, says that Senator Stanford
refused $125,000 for his four-year-old colt.
Advertiser, 2.16.
Convention News
The Virginia State Republican Committee
has fixed upon Roanake as the place and
May 5 as the date for holding the State Con-
vention.
The Republican State Convention will be
held at Cleveland on April 27 and 28, and
the temporary Chairman will be Hon
Charles P. Griffin.
Personal.
Daniel 8. Lamont, ex-private secretary of
Grover Cleveland, is lying dangerously ill at
New York.
The Rev. Joh Jasper, the celebrated col:
ared preacher, was married in Richmond,
Va,, for the fourth time. Jasper is 80 years
of age and his bride 59.
The Weather.
Blizzards prevailed the past few days
throughout Northern Illinois, Minnesots
and the Dakotas.
A cyclone swept over Illinois
and did much damage.
Religious.
The Wyoming Conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal church in session at Wilkes-
barre, Pa., voted against woman representa-
tion by a majority of 51.
Saturday
Miscellaneous,
The body of the woman found in the
Passic river at Newark, N. J. has been idon-
tified as Miss Libbie Bteckle, aged 385, of
Reckaway, N. J. It is supposed that she
was robbed and murdered.
John Sously, a farmer near South Bend,
Ia., was troubled with a sore eye. An
oculist found that a grain of wheat had
lodged there, sprouted, and forced its
growth between the scalp and skull. The
wheat was removed and t@ansplanted in a
hotbed. .
The body of Mather B. Dawson, who was
drowned in Hutton: Lake, mear Laramie,
Wy., was found and identified by the cloth:
08. Dawson's life was ingared for $120,00C
and $15,000 was expended in the search for
the body. ;
Twenty ex-convicts from Italy were de
tained at New York, They admitted that
they were liberated felons, and will be
promptly returned.
The steamer Touraine from Havre to New
York beat the record, makingthe tripin €
days, 23 hours and 30 minutes,
While pallbearers were carrying the re-
mains of the late David C. Austin, of Water-
ford, Conn., from the hearse to the grave the
bottom dropped out and the body fell to the
ground. Several women fainted and a little
girl went into convulsions. -
Two colored women on a farm in Georgia
fought recently, and one was bitten slightly
on the finger. Her arm has become go badly
swollen that she must lose it to save her life,
a blue-gummed negro is as poisonous as that
of the most deadly rattlesnake.
"BEYOND OUR BORDERS,
The Belgian Government has introduced
a bill to punish dynamiters. ;
More bodies were recovered from the An.
derleus pit at Brussels, including the remains
of several female miners. The fire in the
mine is extinct and overations to clear it of
the debris of the recent calamity are rapidly
proceeding. >
The Marquis of Coraselice, a well-known
Spanish nobleman, has been murdered in
his room at Granada, Spain. He had been
shot dead with a pistol. . The assassination
is surrounded with mystery.
The little town of Immenhausen, in Hess
Nassau, about nine miles from Cassel, has
been devastated by fire, and a great part of
he town laid in ashes. The fire destroyed
no less than 100 houses, and of the popula-
tion, little more than 1,000, several hundred
are homeless.
The explosion of a barrel of benzinein a
drug warehouse at Amsterdam killed six
persons and injured 27, some of them fatally.
Four hotises were destroyed.
The Berlin Tajeblatt states that Emperor
William is suffering from inflation of the
cellular tissues with air. Whether pulmo-
nary or not is not stated.
The Australian Deposit and Mortgage
Bank, at Melbourne, has suspended.
The first vessel of the Newfoundland seal-
ing fleet has returned with 18,500 skins.
In a non-political row between Columbian
soldiers and civilians at Palpa, five persons
were killed and 14 wounded.
Striking miners in Durham, England,
stoned the engineers, who refused to quit
work. :
Six train wreckers were caught by the
Rurales tearing up spikes this side of Leon
of Central, Mexico. They were immediately
shot.
and the United States was signed at Paris by
M, Ribol, the foreign minister, and Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, the American minister.
The Committee of the Chambers of Depu-
ties having the matter in charge has added a
clause to the dynamite bill imposing the
death penaity ‘on persons . convicted of
depositing explosives in the streets.
Portugal and Holland have ratified the
Brussels treaty to suppress slavery.
One thousand cabmen in the employ of
six Paris companies are on strike.
Owing tothe German Government's orde:
refusing to permit Russian Hebrews to past
through the Fatherland. the frontier town:
are swarming with sick and starving emi
grants, ihcreasing the tpyhus. :
HE WAS JACK THE RIPPER.
Deemirg, the Melbourne Murderer, Con.
fesses the Crimes.
MELBOURNE, March .28.— The murderer
Deeming confessed he killed his wife and
four children at Rain Hill, near Liverpool,
and murdered and mutilated ‘the last two
unfortunate women whose dead bodic¢s were
found in Whitechapel.
The Argus, which prints the confession,
says Deeming doesnot admit his connec-
tion with any others of the Whitechapel
atrocities, but it is believed very generaily
that those crimes were his and he will event-
ually confess them.
Descriptions of the Whitechapel murderer
correspond. nearly « enough with Deem-
ing’s appearance to lend additional force
to the common belief here concerning the
latter.
The police investigation into Deeming’s
career in Australia leads to the revelation
of other murders with which there is strong
reason to believe he was connected.
THE TREASURY'S CONDITION.
Foster Says There Is $64,000,000 in
Excess of Gold Reserves.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster said, in
discussing the condition of the treasury,that
there was nearly always $24,000,000 in dis-
bursing officer's hands, and that was practi-
cally current funds,for while the treasurer's
balance might show only a net balance
of $30,000,000, the subsidiary silver and
money in national banks actually took
the place of the money in the hands of dis-
bursing officers, leaving at all times $31,000,
000 in available funds over and above the
$100,000,000 gold reserve. Counting the $23,
000,000 in subsidiary silver, and the govern-
went money in ‘national banks, the total
available assets, exclusive of the $100,000,000
gold reserve, would be $64,000,000, rather a
comfortable sum for a rainy day.
Big Consignment of Flour for Starving
Russians. :
MinyeAPoLIs, MINN., March 26.—One
hundred and seventy-five cars of flour, con-
taining 22,000 barrels, were sent out in eight
sections by the Washburn Crosby Company
mills, to the Russian Relief. Association of
Philadelphia. The Association bought this
flour for Russia. The trains were gaily
decorated with flags, bunting and mottoes.
They will run into Philadelphia in one sec
tion if possible, pulled by eight engines. A
great reception willbe given it when it
arrives at its destination, = The steamer
Conemaugh will carry it to Russia.
Raiiroad Disaster Near San Salvador.
Sax Francisco, March 23.—A train was
ierailed yesterday at Sonsonato, 50 ¢miles
southwest of this city, on the Acajutla Rail-
tond. Thirteen persons were killed and 3!
wounded. Itisthe most terrible railroad
disaster that has ever happened in Central
Ameriea. ; :
{| derson, President pro. tem. of
the attending physician says that the bite of.
| disposed of, the Arm
The new extradition treaty between France
FIFTY SECOND CONGRESS.
Morton the chair was occupied by Mr, Man-
0 r pi y
Among the papers presented and referred
yas a fmemori from. the Stjsens « of Phiia-
elphia in mass meeting asking 1
refuse all Ans for the Colombian
exposition, ess coupled with the restric-
tion that the gates thereto be absolutely
closed on Sunday. A memorial to the same
effect from the State of Mississippi was pre-
seuted by Mr. George. Mr. Morgan offered
a resolution, which was agreed to, request-
ing the President to communicate to the
Senate the items of taxation. imposed by
the law of the Republic of Colombia on
products of the United States imported into
Colombia, and which the President has
found and proclaimed to be reciprocity un-
just to the United States, and also to send
copies of the correspondence on the subject.
Senate bill to amend the statutes so as to
prohibit the introduction and sale of intox-
icating liquors into the Indian country was
taken up, amended and passed. 'A number
of minor bills were also introduced, when
she ate adjourned. 3 a
n the House, after routine business was
appropriation bill
and the Free Wool bill were discussed until
adjournment.
UESDAY—In the Senate the
bill for the relief : of set-
tlers on public lands, which had been
discussed and voted on yesterday, was again
taken up and it was d. The bill to
improve the navigation and to afford ease
and safety to the t and commerce of the
Mississippi river and to prevent destructive
s was then taken up as a special order
and passed. It appropriates $18,750,000 for
the improvement of the Mississippi river.
Adjourned. i
In the House the great silver debate oc-
zupied the entire session. Mr. Bland opened
the debate. Williams of Mass:, and Harter of
Ohio, argued in favor of the minority report
on the Bland bill for the anti-silver Demo-
crats; and Mr. Taylor, of Tllinois, followed
mn opposition to the Bland bill. ynoz, of
Maryland; Hopkins, of Illinois; Deforest, of
Connecticut; O'Donnell, of Michigan; and
Covert of New York, opposed the bill; while
Eps, of Virginia; Crawford, of North Caro-
lina; cock, of Michigan; Bowers, of
California; Wynn, of Georgia; and Lewis, of
Mississippi, spoke in favor of it.
‘WepNEspaY—In the Senate to-day, the
Vice President presented a ° pe-
:dtion from Benjamin C.
Harris, of Maryland, on behalf of him-
self and other citizens of that State, asking
Congress to secure compensation for the
slaves taken by the general government or
smancipated by a State Convention at the
nstance and desire of the general govern-
ment. The army [puropHation bill was
presented and refer! the Committee on
Appropriations. The Indian appropriation
was taken up for action. Without action on
the question the Senate adjourned. <
In the House the debate on the Silver
bill filled out the day, and was continued at
1 night session, although only a corporal’s
ruard.of members attended. e speeches
were in the main a reiteration of the argu-
anents of yesterday. The principal speaker
>f the morning session was C. W. Stone of
Warren, Pa., who opposed the bill; and the
main Speech ‘of tha &vening pession was
ielivered by Henry Cabot Lodge. a
TaurspAY.—In the Senate a resoultion
inquiring into the number of leased build-
mgs occupied by the Government was dis-
sussed and referred. At 1: o'clock, oh
notion of Mr. Sherman, the Senate again
went into secret session on the Bering Sea
matter. wl :
In the House probably no mors memora-
ble scenes will be enacted in the Fifty-
second Congress than those which formed
part of to-day’s record. The tug of war was
reached at 5 o'clock when Mr. Bland moved
that the previous question be ordered on
she Silver bill. The battle then began and ’
:he vote was 80 very close that both factions:
were afraid to'push to a final = issue.’ The
motion to table the bill was defeated by a
tie vote, and from that on until 12:35 Fri-
day morning it was one filibustering motion
ifter another. “At 35 minutes after mid-
night the House adjourned, thus conclud-
ing the special order and setting the bill
back to the place it held when it first
came from the committee.” This kills it,
for the present at least, and probably for
this session.
Fripay—There was a much larger attend-
ance of Senators than usual at the opening
of the session. The morning business was
hu=jed through in a perfunctory way, and®
mess than half an bour after the journal
had been read, the Senate, on motion of Mr.
Sherman, went into secret session?’
The calm in the House to-day after the
storm last night, was most refreshing.
There were thany corrections to be made in
she journal an zcord. Representative
ageary of California introduced in the house
1 bill to prevent the use of substitutes for
fops or pure extract of hops in. the manu-
facture of ale or beer. The House then
went into Committee of the Whole on the
private calendar. : ;
SATurpAY—The Senate was not in session.
[n the House funeral orations in memory
of the late General Spinola, of New York,
were delivered, after which the House ad-
journed as a further mark of respect.
REBELS BURNED ALIVE.
Eight Hundred Put to the Sword and
Six Hundred Tortured to Death
b¥ Fire.
Sax Fraxcisco, March 28.—Advices from
Shanghai give details of a recent terrible
slaughter of rebels by the imperial Chinese
troops. After numerous engagements with
the rebels, troops to the number of 2,000
charged a rebel encampment in the Chin
Chang district. Christian churches were
used as outposts for the rebel army. After
a bloody engagement lasting two hours, 800
out of 2,400 rebels were put to the sword.
Upwards of 600 others of the rebels were
captured and burned alive in a huge fire
started by the troops.: All of the rebel
leaders were beheaded in the presence of the
prisoners. The total loss to the government
troops is only 5 killed and 40 wounded.
More than half of the rebel leaders have
been slain, and their ranks have been
broken up and dispersed.
WALT WHITMAN DEAD.
The Aged Poet Passes Paacefully Away
at His Home in Camden, N.J.
CaMpeN, N. J., March 28. —Walt Whit-
man, the aged poet, died here Saturday
morning.
‘Walt Whitman followed the unconven-
tional in poetry. Whatever music there is
in his verse arises not from the jingling of
rhymes, bot from the simple language of
nature. Inearly life he was a street car
driver and his soul was touched by the
daily scenes he witnessed. The ay of a
helpless wife or the despairing sob of a
helpless woman were themes for his first
efforts. Old line poets declared he was not
of them and that poetry was not in him.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, ‘the banker
poet, says he was ‘too anatomical.”’ 'Whit-
man was not born to fortune nor cared for
money, for in his old age he was nearly
destitute. Sir Edward Arnold, upon visiting
‘Whitman, paid his work a high tribute by
saying that future generations will recog-
nize him as the greatest poet of the age.
— i,
A WOMAN CHIEF
Chosen “0 Command the Six Indian
i Nations.
Syracuse, N. Y., March 28.—Harriet Max-
well Converse was installed as chief of fhe
Bix Nations, New York State Indians, at
Onondaga reservation. This is the first
time in the history of North American
‘honor, ~. it
Indians that a woman has received such an
Moxpay—In the absence of Vice President |
[THE WIE GES UP 7S DEAD
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RECOVERY OF BO!
Hill Farm Mine at
Have Been Found s Water in
Flat No.® Only Two Which
Can Be Identified. oh
DuxBAR, PA., March 25.—The Hill Farm:
mine is yielding up its secrets at last. After
months of searching, of fighting fire, water
and death damp, the almost superhuman
exerlions of the rescuers have brought to
the light of day all that is mortal of the
miners who perished on that fateful June
15 day two years ago. ” Shove
Wednesday the first bodies were found.
They were a mass of putrefaction. For:
nearly two years the dead men lay in the
water and debris, while close at hand rag
great fires that shriveled the flesh on th
bones of some before it had time to decay.
It is doubtful whether the 2)‘ men who went:
into the Hill Farm mine on the day of the
explosion and never came out alive will ever’
be positively identified. Sodan
The disaster at the Hill Farm mine at
Dunbar, Pa., occurred on the morning of:
lives by an explosion of fire damp. The
mine had been condemued by Mine
tor Keighley three weeks before; . Hie
For days and days the comrades of those
svho were intombed did all. that was in
human labor and intelligence to liberate:
those sup to be alive. Relatives and
friends crowded around the pit's mouth.
Men from surrounding mines” gathered by:
undreds to assist in the work of rescue, but.
it availed not. Not one of the entombed
miners were taken out alive.
Yesterday the air current was turned into
fat No. 9, and in the afternoon Buperinten-
dent Hill and his men, taking-their lives in
their hands, entered i and found 23 of the
29 entombed bodies, and this completed the
remarable search began almost two years
3g0. At 4:30 o'clock they stumbled over
the first body. Mine Depecter Duncan:
told the rest of the story as he received it
from Superintendedt Hill. It is as fol-
ows:
It was exactly 4:30 o'clock when we found
the first body. = We had to do quick work as
the air was Forint. In a few minutes we:
found all the bodies. They were all lying
within a few fect of each other. They were
pretty well preserved but, of course, un-
recognizable. We knew the body of the
ittle trapper boy John Devaney, when we
ound it, on account of its size. He
been working in No, 8 flab but had run dowme
nto No. 9 slong wih the 15 other men who:
were Rorking there. We spent but a few
minutes in the fat, only long enough to
count the bodies. i
The chamber of death is 4,200. feet below,
the mouth of the mine. Itisa long narrow
place, and part of the walls and roof have
caved in. Not a ripple disturbed the black:
in which the dead men were resting.
sannot be laid to their long resting place too
Soon. ha 3 da $i Fete A
tees ts THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS, :
tomed miners; Daniel McCashion, Robert
McGuill, Richard Bigley. Elmer Dewey,
James Sheargn, John Devaney, Patrick
Delvin; John A. Joy, Martin Cavanaugh,
Daniel McCune, John Cope (father), Andrew
Cope, Jr., Peter Egan, Patrick ‘Cahill, Wils
{iam Cahill, David Davis, 8r., Thomas Da-
ris son), Joseph Bigley, Thomas McCleary, =
William Hayes (the boy whose lamp fired:
the gas) Patrick Courtney, John Oourtney,
John Mitchell, Daniel Smith, John McClea-
1y, Charles B. Maust, John B
vid Hay and Milton Turney: +
Duxsag, Pa. March 26—The remains of
the 23 victims of the Hill Farm mine were
ned Thursday 4,200 feet under the su
ace. Karly Fri ay mowing before the
ajght had fled the bodies were brought out.
of the mine for the first time in two! years;.
They were buried before noon in the Cath~
slic graveyard. . a
IN ASHES, THOUGH NOT BURNED. :
. The fires in the mine did not burn the
podies of the 23 miners... Yet they have
hirned to ashes. The water and slime. in
he depths have done the work. On not a
tingle DY are the lower arm left. ‘A few.
re without feet. When the bodies were
pulled from the mud by the undertakers the
temains collapsed. A stream of water was
pumped up from the flooded dip to wash
the bodies. As the air and water touched!
ihe bodies thev fellin likea punctured
oy balloon. One body crumbled to a
pulpy mass. In this case the words ‘‘dust
shou art, to dust thou shall return.” have
been literally fulfilled. This body has com-
pletely collapsed and the sname is not:
nown. Most of the so-called identification.
has been largely guess work. s
GATHERING OF THE WIDOWS.
Thursday a solemn gathering took place:
at the residence of Father Maladey, the
Datholic priest. It was composed of the
widows made so by the disaster. It was the
wdvice of the priest that the women wait un-
il to-morrow beforing trying to see their
bushands, as it could do no good to wait ab
‘he mine. The priest, who is a young man,
made an affecting address and every woman.
“here wept. Then they went to their homes»
earfully waiting the morrow. :
THE JURY IN THE MINE. ;
Thursday J.F.Holberte,the Fayette county
Joroner arrived, and after much . trouble
tecured a jury. The Coroner and the jury
‘hen went into the mine to view the 23
bodies from which the water had been lift
id. The descent caused great suffering to.
‘he party, as they were unused to the intense
seat such as still pervades the mine. ' It is-
40 degrees down there, caused by hot steam
pipes and the after-effects of the great fire:
which raged for months. ' The party de-
scended to the flat where the bodies lay.
first they found three together, .one being:
1 boy. A little farther on lay seven men ali
m a heap,. Three of them grasped tools
ind dinner buckets in a he clasp.
Beyond this group but a few feet lay an-
ther group of seven and near by six more
men. One man held in his skeleton fingers
i knife aimed at his heart. Another lay
with a big stone under his back, The latter
vas broken. He had evidently fallen and
broken his back on the stone. Two boys
were clasped in each others arms, the faces:
of each buried on the breast of the other.
The jury viewed the scene by the flickermg
dght of mine lamps and, after inquiring
tbout the finding of the men from the com-
pany officials present, ascended. The jury
madean investigation and a verdict” of
leath by suffocation was rendered. \
The bodies found are supposed to be
‘hose of John Mitchell, Daniel Smith. John:
cCleery, James McCleary, Peter Delvin,
John Cope, Andrew Cope, James Shearin,,
Elmer Devoy, John Devanny, Richard Bigs
ley, Daniel McCastinon, John Kiernan,
artin Kavanaugh, Patrick Cahill, John
courtney, Patrick Courtney, John Devanny.
Ir., Jamies X. Ivy, Thomas Davis, Daniel
Davis. James McCune and William Cahill,
Bix bodies are still to be found, those of
William Hay, Peter Eagan, Joseph Bigley,
Milton Turner and Barney Naust. They.
Are SuUpposé to bein the dip about 200 feet
from the edge of the water. The latter is
eing slowly reduced. Some argue that.
bodies were burn Ta wit
Kearnan, Da~
NoShort Hours For Englishmen.
Loxpox, March 26—In the house of com-
mons to-day a Liberal member moved the
second reading of the miners’ eight-hour-
bill. He said the measure would affect 581,-
bn men. The bill was'rejected by a vote of
212 to 160. : py
IT is only those who. do not. know
God who boast of their own 200d
ness. 5 3 . hd : |
Tune'15, 1890. Twenty-nine miners lost their
1 :
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