Disasters, Accidents and Fatalities. Mary Stanton, a pretty young actress ied at New York. A post mortem exami- ‘nation showed that her death was caused by excessive cigarette smoking. Miss Staston came here last winter from Cincinnati, O. It is said that she smoked a dozen packages ©f cigarettes a day. Two little boys named Nieman were Burned to death in their home at St. Louis. ‘Their parents had locked them in and went visiting. It is supposed the children found ‘Some matches and set the house on fire. XE. D. Campbell, a professor in the Ann Arbor. Mich., University, while at work in the chemical laboratory, over. a glass re- ‘ceiver containing hydrogen and oxygen, the 8as exploded and both his eyes were de- Stroyed. His eyes were removed by the surgeons. At Iron River, Mich., an eHlerly Polish Woman, named Mrs. Martin Falorski, was arrested and looked up in the small frame structure used as a jail, where she was left alone for the night. Next morning the jail was found to be a heap of ashes, in which was found the charre¢ remains of the ‘woman, At Saginaw, Mich., tne bodies of Mrs. Hattie Ormond and her nine-months-old ‘son were found in a cistern at the family yesidence. It is presumed that the drown- ing was accidental. Mrs. Ormond was only eighteen years old. Washington News. Part of the Star newspaper building was burned. Loss by fire and water; $25,000; in- sured. Sixty printers escaped with diffi- culty. Secretary Elkins directed the Department ‘Quartermaster at St. Louis to send immedi- ‘ately 300 tents to the Mayor of Columbus Miss. for the benefit of the sufferers from the recent floods. The vessels to eomprise the Behring Sea fleet during the coming sealing season are ‘the Mohican, the Adams,the Ranger and the Yorktown, two revenue cutters, the Corwin and the Rush and the fish commissioner's steamer, the Albatross. England, it is un- derstood, will'send three gunboats to assist n police duty. The Thetis will not be taken away from the submarine cable survey work. Allthe vessels areto be under way early in-May. ‘The New Orleans affair was finally and tisfactorily settled. The United States government has paid to the families of the victims the sum of $25,000. The diplomatic lations between Italy and America are aestored. ~ Secretary Foster requested the resignation «of John E. Milholland, chief inspector of the ammigration bureau at New York. A letter has been received from Represen- tative Springer, at Virginia Beach, stating ‘that his condition continues to improve and he has gained twelve pounds since he left Washington. ‘The condition of Mrs. Harrison is much The House Committee on Postoffices and Postroads completed its appropriation bill Hor the next fiscal year. The bill carries an appropriatson of about $80,000,000, against $77,921,222 appropriated for the current year. “This is about $323,400 less than the estimates submitted. Minister Albert G. Porter, who is now ut Indianapolis, Ind. received a telegram from Secretary of State Blaine instructing him to seturn to Rome. Minister Porter left for “Washington. He expressed much satis- Faction af the settlement of difference be- tween this Government and Italy. A bill was reported favorably to the House #0 declare all Indians citizens who have attended school ten years at the Govern- anent’s expense, provided they are 21 years of age. President Harrison proclaimed the exist- ence of an international copyright agree- fment with Germany. Capital, Labor and Industrial, A new organization to be called the In. ternational Federation of Machinery trades ~ awas organized in Chicago, witha member- ship of 50,000. . Beaver Falls (Pa.), merchant tailors have 4 signed their journeymen’s scale. New Orleans street car companies, to pre. went a tie-up, have conceded the demand of drivers for a reduction of their working day 17 to 12 hours at the same wages— mion workman at the Piqua (0.) tin mill ‘on strike. ‘A majority of the Durham, England. jiners now on strike have again voted to tinue the strike. United Mine Workers of district 17, est Virginia, have prepared their scale to resented to the operators on May 1, and to the national executive board for ‘and the firm is securing hors to Ata meeting at London, the Durham ners on the third ballot reiterated their ans 0., have gal wines, 10 take stock in the joint The Lily White State ican conven: n was held'at Dallas, Texas. A full State : ticket was named, headed by Andres Jack- son Houston, son of General Sam Houston, for Governor. Up to date every county in Wisconsin that has chosen delegates to the State convention has selected men known to be followers of ex-President Cleveland, and the party lead- ers now say it is practically certain he will have a solid delegation from that State in the national convention. The State Executive Committee of the Georgia State Alliance met at Atlanta, Ga., and unanimously passed a resolution de- manding that all counties which have in- dorsed the People’s party movement must rescind such action promptly or surrender their charters. The colored Republicans of Maryland, in mass meeting at Baltimore, demanded that they be given four of the sixteen delegates to the Republican National Convention. The Michigan Republican State "Conven- tion met at Detroit to choose delegates to the National Convention. Of the delegates at men next. No instructions were given. v The N. C. State Republican Convention met at Raleigh. James H. Young. colored, Collector of the Port of Wilmington, was chosen Temporary Chairman, and address- ed the convention. John B. Earles was re- elected Chairman of the State Hepublican Executive Committee. The whole ticket was nominated. The Wyoming Democratic State Conven- tion which met at Douglass. Six del and six alternates were elected the Chicago Convention. The delegation was uninstructed, but favors D. B. Hill for President. The Republican Stats Jonvention of Florida met at Jacksonville and elected delegates at large to the Minneapolis con- vention. They are instructed to vote for Benjamin Harrison for President. The N. C. Republican State Convention met at Raleigh and elected delegates to the National Convention, after resolutions #n- structing them to vote for Harrison first, last and all the time had been adopted by acclamation. The Republican State Convention of Seattle, Wash., elected delegates to Minne- apolis. The platform adopted indorses the administration of President Harrison. Crime and Penalties. In a fight between four negro train rob- bers and a posse of officers at Birmingham, Ala., one of the robbers, Tom Wright, was killed. The other three after a desperate chase and fight were captured. Miss Mary Anderson,daughter of a promi- nent citizen in Webster "Grove; St. Louis, She had previously received a letter from her lover which had a depressing effect up- ‘on her spirits. Louis Harriot, the murderer of Mrs. Leonard, was hanged at Freehold, N. J. Elijah Haley, of Philadelphia, crazed by dyspepsia, killed himself by cutting his throat. ; George Gerry, a variety actor at the World's theatre, Boston, Mass., shot and fatally wounded a young women who had been living with him as his wife. John Yates and Lester Coke both loved the the same girl, who lives near Cove City, Ga. Yates removed his rival by stabbing him .to the heart. The murderer isin hiding. Financial and Commercial. The movementto form a trust of the glass factories of the Ohio valley in opposi- tion to the United States combine has fallen through A Saginaw syndicate has bought a timber tract on Ottawa river, Canada, expecting to cut therefrom 500,000,000 feet of pine, for $800,000. Another Saginaw firm has pur- chased almost as valuable a tract. The Lehigh Iron Company,of Allentown, Pa., which failed a few days ago for about $300,000, has assigned. The St. Paul, Minn., German Fire Insur- ance company made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors on account of insuf- ficient business. Its stockholders are the only persons who will suffer, and all obli- gations will be met in full. The St. Paul German Accident Insurance company is not affected by the failure, The New York Interstate Bank went into ‘voluntary liquidation. All the depositors have been paid in full. The directors of the Southern Lumber Manufacturers Association have raised the price of yellow pine lumber 50 cents a thou- sand, to take effect on May 1. Legislative. In the provincial assembly the bill pro. viding for thre admission of women to study and practicelaw in Ontario passed a third reading. Senator Canton’s Congressional reappor- tionment bill passed the N. Y. Assembly without amendment—ayes 66, nays 59—and the bill was signed by the Governor. The bill al'owing women to vote for all State officers, including the governor, passed the New York assembly by 69 votes. ‘Phil’? Wissing of the Eighth district opposed the bill in a speech so vile that it made the wo- men, who had gathered to hear the debate, cover their faces to hide their burning blushes of shame. Every sentence contain- ed'a double meaning. When Wessing ceased Col. Webster demanded that his language be expunged from the record. A dozen members were instantly on their feet to second the demand and a motion to ex- punge was carried in thunder tones. In the New York Senate a bill was passed fixing the wages in New York City for la- borers at $2 a day. Mortuary. The casket containing the remains of Walt ‘Whitman, which, since the day of his funer- al, has rested upon the trestles on the floor of the tomb in the cemetery, was on Satur- day placed in the cript prepared for itand hermetically sealed. Hon. Alexander Mackenzie died at To- ronto, Ont. He was born in Perthshire, Scot!and, in 1822; and came to Canada in 1842. In business he was a builder, and then the publisher of a newspaper. In politics he was a Liberal. He first entered | parliament in 1861, when he was elected to | the united parliament of Upper and Lower Canada for the Lambin division. large, all are Alger men first and Harrison - committed suicide by poisoning on Tuesday. |' Miss Amelia B. Ed the lecturer and nei Birt London.” was 61, years of age. Senator Stephens, representing the Bed- ford division of Quebec, Canada, is dead, aged 78. He was a liberal in politics. #After an illness of only two days, Judge John McMichael expired at New Castle, Pa. He was elected in 1884, and was one of the best and most favorably k aown law Judges in Pennsylvania. > Fires At Leavenworth Kan., four stores. Loss, $1000,000; nearly tovered by insurance. At Orange, Tex., several saw mills, a store and residence. Loss $63,000; insured. The main building of Clark university for colored students, near Atlanta, Ga., was de- stroyed by fire. Loss estimated at "810, 000, The paper mill of Z. & W. Crane, of Coltsville, Mass., known as the government mill, and where all the United States bank and treasury note paper has been made for thirteen years, was burned. The loss will be $125,000; insurance, $75,000. The City mills, Flint, Mich., owned by J. E. Burrows & Co:, which were well stocked with flour and grain, and G. A. Cartharin’s elevator, adjoining, were burned. The total loss is over $35,000; insurance, $8,000. The Weather. A terrific storm of wind, snow and hail is raging all over the West and Northwest and the prospects are that great damage will be done to fruits and cereals. Trains are delayed and telegraph wires are down in many localities. It has snowed hard over the greater portion of Minnesota, - North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Towa, the depth ranging from four to eight inches. Snow fell to-day in Dublin, in the Mid- lands and in the South of England. At Boone, Ia., there are nearly 18 inches of snow on the level. Sleighs are out and the sleighing is good. A terrible snow storm blocked the railroads for 30 miles south of Albert Lea, Minn. Drifts were from 6 to 10 feet deep. Three inches of snow fell at Newark, N. J. Much dmage has been done in the farming section. Political. The result of the electionin Newport. R. I., makes the complexion of the next legis- lature 66 Republicans, 31 Democrats, with 11 assemblymen to be chosen. James H. Manning, Democrat, was elect ed Mayor of Albany, N. Y., by over 5,000 majority. The entire Democratic city ticket was elected yesterday bp over 5,000 majority. The Republicans gained two in the Board of Aldermen and twe in the Board of Supervisors. Sanitary Items. Eleven more persons afflicted with small. pox were discovered in overcrowded tene- ment heuses in New York City, where hundreds have been exposed. The health officials fear that the dreaded disease may become epidemic. Two cases of typhus fever and one death from the disease occurred at Providence, R. 1. Thereis reason to believe: that the dis- ease will spread. Turf News. At the annual horse show day at Gratz ‘park, Cincinnati, O., over $1,000,000 worth of thoroughbred and trotting stallions and hackney horses were on exhibition. Among the visiting sta'lions were two hackneys™ be- longing to John A. Logan, of Youngstown, O. R.S. Strader bought from Charles Moore the yearling filly Ora Clay, for $1,000. R. B. Metcalf has bought of W. W. O'Donnell, Le- banon, Tenn., the chestnut filly Preference, 3 years old. She Crops. Peach prospects are uninjured from the late cold snap in at least some Indiana counties. The Michigan crop report says the wheat plant has sustained no material injury. There is an average decrease of 23 per cent. in the cotton acreage in the Southwest. Judicial. Judge McPherson handed down an opinion at Harrisburg, Pa., declaring the accident jnsurance plan of the Philadelphia Inquirer a violation of the insurance laws and ex- cluding it from continuing it. Railroad News. In the Lehigh Valley shops at Wilkes- barre, Pa., many hundreds of workmen are reduced to half time until further orders. Personal. Ex-Senator Evarts, of New York, is suffer- ing from an effection of the eyes which is incurable and he may go totally blind. Miscellaneous, William Smith, of Chicage, accused of holding his little daughter, Kittie, against a hot stove and burning both her arms so that amputation was necessary, was acquit- ted. The armless child resolutely refused to incriminate the father. “His defense was that she was subject to fits, and that the affair was an accident. James W. Cooper, who served on the jury in the Schneider murder case at Washing: ton, D. C., died on Tuesday. The long con- finement and consequent mental strain had affected him, and when he was discharged hehad lost over 30 pounds. Twelve specimen sheep from Bushire, the principal entrepot of Persia, on the Persian gulf, have arrived at London. They are consigned to the agricultural department at Washington, D. C,, by Truxton Beale, the American consul general at Teheran, to whom they were sent from Bushire. A revival in the African Methodist church at Corsicana, Tex., has been so successful that it has attracted members from other churches. This aroused so muc h ill-feeling that someone burned the Methodist church and parsonageto the ground, Many ar- rests have been made. Bombs Thrown Into a Procession. Capiz, O., April 18.—On Holy Thursday there was a public procession of worshipers, the priests bearing religious emblems and relics. Everybody in the procession was passing slowly along, without the least thought of danger, when suddenly two petards directly into the procession. confusion and excitement the villains ‘who threw the petards made their escape. = A number of the precessionists were more . or less injured by the explosion, but fortu as killed. nately nobody . was well-known men in the crowd of onlookers threw two } Inthe | UBLE WITH ITALY ENDED. The vs. Pays Over: /125,000. Francs &a Indemnity for ned Italians. “Diplomatic | ns Re- new ed. WasmiNGTON, Aptil 16.—A settlement has been arrived at between the United States and Italy respecting the lynching of the Italians at New Orleans. The following correspondence on the subject,is sufficiently 1 et ; SEpisnBIory DEPARTMENT OF STATE, } ‘WASHINGTON, ApH 16, 1s Marquis Imperiali, an des Affairs of Italy. Sir. Loongratulate you that the onli ex- isting between t! ho Unlled States and Italy, growing out of the lam le massacre at New Orleans in , is'about to be terminated. The ouch an injury there should the: aisastion on of Linas ee and oP Re ta oid d frien ions ot the el tes and Italy may be resto othing untoward may ever again occur to Jhat Bo as harmonious friendship. I avail myself of this occasion to assure Jog that Jour Drolonsed service, at this capital as Ch des Affairs, has been mar] Ss you gratert and nd acceptablo to ment of the 5, to renew Be you the assurance of my high Consideration. MES G. BLAINE. ASHINGTON, April 18, 1892. gis Exoellency Tames of . Blaine, Sterctary of’ mm Mz. SECRETARY OF STATE: —You were Plea inform me by your note of to-day that th i derad Government: Jad 4 decided to pay to tals by Nay indemnity th of 125,000 Li to be distri ed by the Itall ku Goveranient among the families pra imsof the Madsa- 1. in the city of expressed hy Bi ident woul tan end ncident to hi h that de, Sy occurrence a Sp -e, and ride would Tien fly re ont Detween the two:coun- s woul ree ah pe the la. he y the President in os fees a r last, and after having fails ly Lapprock WOr ora yegre etand censure he Chief ire Hitars of the So ie reccommendations ory wisdom Govern t of His ty is n ad that the UO) nited States acknowledge that it is thelr solemn duty, and at the game time a great pleasure, to pay an indemnity to al ’s Government does not hesitate to ac- pt this indemni y, mon ut-projadic e to the Jd Charan ‘which it may be proper for the partiés to ake, and, Sih the re Ee obtained suf. Sent, 1 1tsces 9s no Sgn Lghy. the relations betwee: which relations choald ents Ot should z not again Ll age hav on ally been in the Bath apd, as as it is to be hoped tl t they will ever be, e Sure the foregoing to your knowledge, in Yor of the authorization given me by His Excel- lency, the Marquis di Rudini Pres dent of the Council, Affairs, ie honor lomatic relations be- tates are this moment ave LA oeloncy 4 ab tne a tween Italy and the United fully re-established, ten moreover in obedience to instructions te inform you, that poSding he Minister's feturn to oe Capital, Ihave e of the oval 1 Legislation, in ‘the ey of Fi d'Af. Be Pleased to accept, etc., IMPERIALL The money which was paid to Marquis Imperiali, was taken from the fund which is usually appropriated for the State De- Dartiwens to be used in emergencies and for ial and extraordinary purposes, such as i ® preseht. The fund for the current year amonnted to ,000,and has been drawn upon in addition to this $25,000 ‘for ‘expen- ses at Santiago and Val raiso during fhe Chilian controversy, and to meet expen Sontiected with the Bering Sea negotia- ions, Rome, April 16—The newspapers this mornin contain editorials on the settlemen of the New Orleans difficulty. They are unanimous in expressing satisfaction with the terms offered by the United States gov- ernment, and the acceptance of the same og Italy, andthe hope is earnestly exprassan that the friendly relations now resumed will dever be interripred | in the future. dependent of the republic of Brazil. Smallpox is still raging at San Salvador in spite of all efforts tocheck it. Fire at Nogoya, Japan, March 22, destroy- entailing a loss of $350,000, A Russian ukase has been issued prohi- biting even the naturalized foreigners from settling outside the townsin Volhynia or tc possess real estate in Volhynia unless they embrace the religion of the Orthodox Greek church. Cholera is spreading at an’ alarming rate in Punjaub, British India. Anna Sainio, wife of a professor at the State college at Tavastehuns. Finland, who was charged with having murdered her hus- band, has been found guilty. The courl sentenced her to be beheaded and ordered that her body be afterwards burned. The woman is only 22 years old. She was marri- ed to Prof. Sainio in 1889, and has one child An epidemic of black smallpox is raging in Poland, especially on the Gallician fron- tier. |The disease. is very fatal, most of those who are attacked dying on the third day. Cholerine in a virulent form is raging in the Nanterre penitentiary, France. Fifty two convicts died last week. The empress of Germany has forbidder the ladies of the Berlin court to read Frenck novels. She has dismissed two maids o1 honor for joking with the emperor. Baron Fava has received orders to return to his post at the Italian Legation at Wash- ington. EXPRESS ROBBERS AT WORK. They Hold Up a Passenger Train Near New Orleans, Securing About $2,000, New ©Orreaxs, April 16.—A passenger train on the Illinois Central road was held up by robbers bétween Arcola and Tan- gipopa Sieions, and the express car rifled of about $2, . When train arrived at Hammond sta- tian a stranger jumped aboard the engine, and drawing a pair of pistols on the engi- neer and fireman ordered them to go ahead, which they did. The train was scheduled to take a siding at Independence to allow another train to pass, and when that point was reached four other robbers got aboard he engine... As soon as the ‘southbound ttrain had passed the robbers forced the en- gineer'and fireman to goto the express car and compel the messenger to open the door. He refused to doso, but an entrance was effected nevertheless, and while some of the robbers held the passengers in check the others compelled the messenger to open the safes, from which they secure 1 about $2,000 and made their escape. None of the pas- sengers were molested. A Sheriff and . posse aided by bloodhounds are tracking the fleeing robbers. “Burrendered to United State Troops. . DEXVER, April 18—Word has been received "mere that the cattlemen who were besieged ‘released by the United States troops, who “disarmed them and took them as prisoners to Fort Mekinney, 7 it is “lution offered by Mr. Si ville, §llachi 3, Of ed the temple and tower and 1,300 houses, by rustlers at the L. A. Ranch have been 1 constitutional jon of Senators b; $e aif ihe le, pending which Mr. Cameron ca Dae session on the alleged betrays] of Senate secrets by Senate employes a the House to-day the Followin bills : To make West Point, Va., a rt of entry and delivery; anthorizing She: ashington and Oregon Bridge Com- any to construct a bridge across the Colum- pe river; repealin hs ~-of last session allowing the Secre War to léase a pier at the mouth of | The Chicago river, Chis cago. This being District Day the House proceeded with the consideration of bibls relating to the District of Columbia, TurspAY.—After Joutine business the reso. tewart in ‘relation to te thle purchase of silver and the coinage of standard silver dollars having been fen and amended (on motion of Mr. Sh by inserting the words ‘‘and a detal state ment of the amoun t purchased each day.” sMr. Stewart addressed the Senate on the sub- ject. After a lengthy debate the joint reso- Iotion for a constitutional amendment was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and the Senate having passed a number of bills on the calendar adjourned. The session of the House to-day was with- out special interest. Mr. Allen of Mississip- pi,asked unanimous consent for the present eonsideration of a joint resolution a rating $50,000 for purchase und distribu-, Fon tence stores to the sufferers from pik overflow of the Tombigbee river and its tributaries. | Mr, Kilgore of Texas, objected, and the resolution \ was referred. “The House then went info committee of the whole (Mr. O'Ferral, of Virginia, in the chair) on the urgenc Jeficiency appr mas tion bill, and soon after adj ed, WEDNESDAY.—In the senate Mr. olph, from the Committee on Forei Relations, ‘reported back the House bill for the abso- lute prohibition of the coming of Chinese into the United States with a substitute. After discussion the bill, with the substi- tute, was placed on the calendar. The. Senate then proceededed to consideration of bills on the calendar—disposing of the principal ones as follows: To: reorganize he artillery and infantry of the army and to increase its efficiency.” Passed. Authoriz- ing the Secretary of War to cause an explor- ation and survey to be made of the interior of the territory of Alaska. Passed. House bill to establis: the several in of artillery, cavalry and infantry of the army. Passed. Forthe ex- amination and promotion of enlisted men of the army to 2 e grade of second lieuten- ant. Passed. > pravide for fixing a juni- form standard x classification and ading of wheat, corn, oats, barley and sye. Pass The Senate then proceeded to executive business, referring to the appropriate com- mittees a number of nominations as well as a comminication receiv from the Presi- det, and then a; journed. 4 Bbof After passin a bi. inting right of wa throu the ny ey to the Cay klahoma and Gulf Railroad company, the House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Shively, of Indiana, in the chair, on the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Bou- telle, of Maine, moved to amend the para- graph for the increase of the navy by 0 viding for two ast, sea-going coast-line pisceont of rout a0 000 tons of a ceeding $4,000,000 eac rine action, 3 Committee rose and the House adjourned. TaURsDAY—The Senate early in its s session went to the calendar and padsed a large number of bills. Among them were: A bill appropriating $500,000 for the erection of an itional wing to the National Myseu ‘Washington; a “hill eltending gree x livery totowns of 5, oo inh 000 annual postal tal nde *FripAY—The House today accomplished nothing whatever in the way of legislation. Numberless bills ported for the erection of public buildings, and the House then went into Commit! ) the private calendar. ‘Not being able to malke any headway the House adjourned. Sarurpay—The Senate wasmot in session. After the disposal of routine bus the Hoilise wend into mmi whole, Mr. Bhively.ot 1 ian. on the naval-appr dleton, of hCoA, tion made b the bill the ¢ Hanes for hen i of one grmed cruiser, and also Mr. Brutelle's amendment for the gonstriction of two battleshi ips and torped . "Pendin further discussion the committe TOSe an the House adjourned. pe Ql eee. > THE LAST SAD ACT. The Bodies of the Hill Farm Mine Vie tims Recovered. ness to-day of the Uniontown, PA., April 13.—The last three : of the Hill farm mine victims were found in’ the main slope to-day. Two bodies were found yesterday and one, that of Barney Maust, was found a week ago. All the bodies were badly decomposed. Maust’s body was identified by the coal checks in his pocket. : The presence of checks or other articles on the other bodies ‘were all that led to their identification. The bodies were placed in rough boxes and after being viewed! by Coroner Holbert and his jury they were quietly interred. The names of the six men are as follows: " James McCune, aged 32, left a widow and one child; Peter Eagan, 26 years old, left a widow aud five children; William Hays, aged 21 years, unmarried, his is ‘the trap- per boy whose lamp fired the gas); Milwon' Turney; 26 years old; left a widow and ‘two children; Joseph Bigley, 30 years old, left a widow and ¢hildren; years old, left'a widow, but no children. emai A rite IT COST NINE LIVES. The Moosic Powder Mills, Near Wilkes: barre, Blown Up. ‘WILKESBARRE, PA., April 14.—A frightful explosion of powder Gompletery demolished the mills of the Moosic Powder Company to-day. The shocks were felt over a radius of 40 miles, and thousands of people in sur- rounding towns rushed out of doors, think- an earthquake had taken place. Eight men were killed and one fatally} in- jur The dead are: John ‘Aaron Coolbaugh, Bdward J. Vand rberg, Caradog Reese, Allen Smail'and George Allis. The loss will reach $20,000. ’ The explosion occurre in the packing room, wheére 800 kegs of ‘der were stored at the time, moh weighing'25 pounds. Its believed by those 1-ft, who opened the mills, that the accident was caused by fric: tion from one os the rollers, but this is all that will ever be known about, it. Ir ———————————————— Forty Natives Killed OALoUTTA, April. 18, ~The Lushals, who have been harrassing the British line of communications between Lungle and Dam- agiri, attacked the British camp at Tuichohg on Aptil 6. After four hours’ fighting they were repulsed with 40 killed. The same party attacked Capt. Shakespeare’ 8 column on April 7 and the Talthuama stockade on April 9. The Lushais were defeated on each occasion. ounded. lineal promotion throughout or 35. Barney ' Maust, 29 bons, | aniel Carey, Moses Tucker, : The British had pont five WORLD'S FE} . Fiscoxsix will have a 880,000 A 100-7247.05D bearing orang San Gabriel, is one of the “the Ro vote of the | OSTRICH eggs, nei is A nn prize competiti Pb maa oy Caps tolong. South. frat sent to Chicago next’ Ew HAMPSHIRE, which claims to be “Seer of ects Swi has ap, tely to erect wiss chale Wor s Fair Building. SH A NUMBER of owners of Steam yachts | New York intend to utilizes them port -and their friends to t R. 8. idl of Newburn, N. C., claims= to have fragments of the chain which re— strained Columbtis when he ‘was in prison, god he intends to.exhibit them at the J. C. Calhoun, of New York, says he ieces of the house in San “Domingo in which: es was imprisoned and’ he hss similar di : lal ete CoMissToNER ALEXANDER Roms to the effect there will be a fine exhibit of the m tapestries, Columbian relics, and other ures of the Vatician which been on ‘exhibition. He further reports th the Ethnographic Museum of Rome mbian ‘antiq THE Missouri World's Fair Board has f warded to Chicago ning tree trunks to.c poss three of the eolumns of the rusticc Dido aretind he £2 r i trunks are ca specimens o white oak, = oak, ash, cy, = and ory n has also — of timber al ns Great Western ilway of wir exhibit in the Rate, 984. The Habiicies Suage contracts already made are $4,602,724. - fave been £6,252, A ns the ent m. stock Ax bi tional Gamiraiest more is needed; including $700,000 for~ awards, sd An Ancient Austrian Custom. ae VieNNA—In compliance with ‘an: anciensic | custom, Emperot Francis Joseph on’ Holy at the Imperial Palace. This custom is. an imitation of the washing of the feet of the: disciples by Christ, and has been followed” by the emperors of the house of Hapsburgs from time immemorial. ' After thé cere mony the Kaiser presented to each -of thes, old men a purse containing 30 pieces of sik. ver, accompanying the gift by a few” kindly words. i em sag TERRIBLE FIRE IN TOKIO. : . Six Thousand Houses Burned and 500% : i Lives Lost, i Loxnox, April | 13.—Dispatches frgme : China to-day say that great ‘damage tow property and a heavy loss of life has re-. sulted from a fire in Tokio last Sunday.. Itis reported 6,000: houses were | destroyeds and 50 lives lost. There are also a number of persons missing. Pa Three Ohio Machinists Killed. Liya, O., April 14.—A violent _explosi took place to-day i in Hardy's machine sh by which three men werekilled. A piston. head brought to the shop for repairs = was+ put into the furnaces, and the heat converte ed the water it contained into steamn. The~ furnace was blown to fragients. W.Henry,. Frank Josett and Dave Hogan were struck: by the red hot fragments and almost in-- stantly killed. Flood Bufferers Housed in Tents, Government tents were received here fcon=1 signed to the Mayor, who is distributing them to those made homeless by the TeCents : flood. Stub Ends of Thought. Measures ) ‘Masters Mind. Murders ) ‘Give a man an inch and he will. take an ell, but not of toothache. Lo We oftener suspect a man of vicer than of virtue. ; His thoughts hung upon his words: as beautiful pictureson hooks of gold. : Age should make a woman beauti- ul. - If life were twice as long we prop ably would not be twice as good. © We learn to love with easy teach Mouth : ing % is really easier to pay a bill thao to shirk it. z A rich man may have all the pleas-- ures in life and still there is ju much for the next one. . m To be married Is Bot alway to bo~. erried. He Thursday washed the feet of 12 poor mems Covumsus, Miss, April 18.—Four hundred
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