ih I AEC works of th ‘that from De puddlers would bx 75 per ton. In 186t at. the works to pud work that they are nov the ‘Knights of Yabo! are moved {from Phila given by Secretary Hayes. It It the stand taken by Chief Justict the Homestead treason cases. Iron Compuny blast fur. Hellertown, Pa., wis blown’ ou , throwing fifty men out'of cimploy He lars limestone quay, employ ry, Mass, has increased the ployed, except the spinners, 7 pel cent. The shiuners vere given 4n increase bara “legislature providing for an annuity $500 a year for Mrs. Davis. widow of Jef {fetson Davis, during her life. | : “Pervonai. ExSecretary Blaine is araduall) I0oVeR: : ; from his recent illnesss, + Jros : i At Raleigh, N. N. Ca eight. stares; were hum ed. Loss, 340, 000; Lalf insured: : = Folieal : “ A Prohibition bill has been introduced in he Bouth Carolina Legislature. § i; AY GOULD DEAD, hid % —— EA of the Career of the Great Railway Magni Tay Gould, the. great financier and railway magnate, died at his residence in New York City, Friday moriing. Teath resulted from hand r which he has long. a the seri- ousness of his condition being Kept from the public. ? sday-Gould was born in Ric ts county, N. N: Y., May 2; iyeals Were spent ¢ on his: atiary farm, oil. The Joli 5 have been’ running wu : for over 10 year ; morning's session of the di of the Circuit Court at St. Lows, absolute divorce were granted space of two hours. Thisis the Fi i ‘ever granted in s0 short @ A Railroad Conphin i and the local jauthorities will ‘begin a system of in and about Wi ashington ‘cost in the neighborhood of 82, they are completed. Gourley, of Fitishors, ‘Pa, Gowithi | the ise i ministers, of the Depeament Him to close all the city’s disorder. ! and char ofall insti doors show peni- e to Sa cof Eugene inaugurated in Representatives. d at Montgom. ‘gession of the of office was - Justice Stone. The | his inaugural “ad mad Faraiitiens. London, ‘Gon. rear of the Boston express resulting in a complete wreck Niles. stood at his post and to ‘He was crushed be wreck will die, disobedience of orders twe collided on the East Tennes near Jackson Cily, Tenn. Both 20) stock vars. were wrecked, a of cattle killed and one'or twe lives. Conklin and wife, Edward Blan: wife, and Mrs. Maggie Pitls were Erie Railroad at Elmira, N. Y.in and were struck by the westbound. rain. All'were instantly killed: Conklin, who was terribly .in Crime. and Penalties. © Three masked robbers entered the saloon of J. ¥. Vailz, in Chicdgo, Sunday night. ‘and after boiding up the crowd, ‘riled the ; money draner. They then proceeded tothe saloon of Jobn- Campbell, which was crowd: ed with customers, and repeated the attempt but was attacked by John Cane, whom ‘they fired upon and fatally Somme ‘and a then sade their escape. 5-year-old murderer was banged at Ma con, Ga, His nsme was Thomas Ball, and ot an “officer dead. nie Adoms, of Little Rock, - has confessed that she murdered her husband b. She wanted to get him ont of y 80 ‘she could marry George Wil: the man. who { urnished the revolver. an i | Washingon News: stat collections of internal revenue first four months of the present fis. p Jere $06,258, 020; an increase; of ; ; 15% compared with the collections during the corresponding, period of the last fiscal years. ¢ The Hecretary. of the Anterior has sent telegrams of dismissal to 29 special agents ot the General Land ‘Office, el action Was s made necessary. because of, Indufficient Pe iremon Ger Had ray sxtimed 4be duties of the Assistant. Secretary of the Treasury. The President ha 3 delegated 10) him the power to sign, Tres) r warrants. 8 Secretary is ! Ganioreiat i we 1 City bank, ‘one of the Fish Iv ds came and and stocks until he own- ed more miles of railways than any man inthe United States. By purchasing railways at low faures,ex- tending them aud improving their facilities Mr. Gould likewise increased their x alues, and this was the secret of his rapid increase in wealth. 'At37 yearshe was estimated to “be worth $5,000,000. ‘Last year his wealth was put at from $110.000,000 to $150,000,000, DIVISION OF THE ESTATE, ! The valuz of Jay Gould's estate is various ly estimated at from 4 $75,000,000 to $115000,- 000. ‘Jobn Terry, who bas. been: closely al- lied with Jay Gould for many years, and ‘whois therefore perhaps best able to give authentic information on the subject, told a reporter that the estate at the present ‘time was worth $100,000.000. Washington Connor estimated the te at $75.000,000. ‘Jay Gould's annual income was estimated at 000, He stated, some two years ago, at it was a seriony business. matter with im how to invest his annual income. .In disposing of his estate, Mr. Gould put his Missouri’ Pacific, ‘Western, Union and Manhattan interests into a fund for the ben- edt of his family; George Gould: is’ one of the trustees for the division of the property. It is estimated that from 000 000,000 huve been appropriated in the will to be distributed for charitable purposes; 4 per cent, of the entire estate will go to George Gonld and thie balance is distributed equally among the réniaining children. By Mr. Gould's ordersy the estate is 80 Bouna up 1s to forestall afl interference with his late interests in the three principal holdings mentioned, which, according to his own statement made about six months ago. constitute nearly ofie. halt of his entire es FINAL ELECTION FIGURES. [+= ILLINOIS OFFICIAL PIGTIRES. SeaikeripLD, ~The State poard of canvas. sers complet ed the canvuss of the official vote of Iilinoisas follows: President, Cleve-' land, 426,281, Harr son, 399,988, Weaver, 22,207, Bidwel', 25.807, Kor governor, Alt- geld (Dem.) 425,497. Fifer (Rep) 402 659, Link (Pro) 24, 684, Bainell (Pop. ) to. 247; .ONE HARKISON ELECTOR IN KANSAS. . " TopekAa.—The State board of cunvassers’ count shows the election of nine Weaver electors by majorities RYeraging 4,387, and ohe arrison electo by <1 injured who were from Porter, Judge | A hh Ais, Drwfillar, “of * probaoly. fqtally hurt; Mr. Page, of Greenville, Mass, / ored men, names known, were bruised consiaer Th They. were 10 the Missouri ‘Pacitic Y at, St. Louis and are considered’ probably fatally others’ received ‘sume hurt. ; Buveral, scratches? I'he cause of the wieok is su pposed fo be ithe giving away Of ues, allowing jue rails to spread, i Eo hE SEVEN COMETS AT A TIMER are Now Visible, Aorording to Prof. & a- * coby, of Columbia. } According to Prof. Jacoby. of colambis. College; there are mow rio less’ than seven comets visible. This; he says, 5,80 far as he has had any information or experience, the | largest nitmber on’ record. ‘They are all telescopic comets, however,” he said. “They are the Holmes comet; which has received so much attention of late: Freeman’s comet, which is the latest dis¢overed;8wift's comet, dicovered last summer; Winnecke's ‘comet, &n old one which appears regularly atinter- vals of five to eight years: Denning's comet, anotliér new one; Brook's comet, ahd-Barg- ard’s comet, which ig still another new one and so indistinct as to be barely visible with the large telescopes. it was discovered throug): the'agenecy of pliotography by Prof. Barnard: ‘Astronomers are watching Freomati's comet with great interest. At first it was gery closé to Molnics' comet, and traveled in the same dirzsction. It was discovered November 24 by Prof. Barn at Brizhton, Evgland. Cloudy weather has so lar pre vented us frem faking an observation of the new comet. Astronomers surmise that Free man’s comet iS a fragment of Biela’s comet, whi ch disintegrated about bU years ago. We are anxiously awaiting a clear. njeht, so that we may take an observation and termine whether its orbiv is the same as that laid down for Bien s. The comet at first supposed to be Bie'a's, and which was. dis [orered by Prof. Holnies, has been found be elitirely new, aud bas been christened after its discover, Itis now diy cutal gued, and its oront is established. I think a great deal too’ much was said and written about the Holmes comet. © It is now moving stead: ily away from usin an orbit that will take it at least seven years to travel around the earth. It will neyer c me near us. We were unable io take observa’ions last Sum day hight, when showers of meteors were expected, because of the cloudy weather. The metecrs seen last Week are wadoubledly A . ‘deuris of the Biela comet, such as is met with eacly time the earth ¢rosses the orbit of the lost comet. The new cumetdiscovea by Fréeman, isiraveling in a southerly direct tion, 80 Tar a8 we have received reports. At the last observation from which we have heard, it was still in tie constellation of Andromeda, and, 80 far a8 could be delur minded was traversing the indentical track laid down for Biela's comet. x pas EVEN CORPSES UNSAFE From the ‘Ravages of the Thieves Who Now Beem to Own Chicdgo, . | The thieves now infesting Chicago have Thursday night they entered the office. and carried off a big cl Then they got into where the bodies are laid and took a pair of trousers off the corpse of a negro, who com- mitted suicide a few days ago. They "also took the shoas off the feet of gnother corpse and carried away a large amount of clothing which had been taken from the unknown | dead, and which was kept for the purpose of ‘possible identification. There is no clew to the thieves. =A daring gang of burg begun to rob the ge in the City Morgue," k. | Iamvisited the little town of May Fair, siz miles out, and robbed the residence of three | wall-knowg, citizens, the. postoffice and ‘the village store. The {otal ies, it is believed isin the neighborhood. of $5,000. The thieves used n wagon to ear, ! , hel inboory, HEA "ana, bicause of the bourty. an . water for dmount of robber: © were by his side; : The invalid fovurite first riser of was usually were ona tamily, INTERN AL Gauging Kields : . Weighing A of the Mr. “of report just 8 Lagt year: it yielded $15 ibn bas been 2.80 per . Was 2.88 icra There hias been tilleries, and the relaxation of reganl to these has given much trouble and facilitated rand The adoption b of his | ‘recom: ; y Congress - mendation to Riepénise’ with the regauging of spirits after. Teciincation, J bas effected 8 Distusing the angen a in the method of taxing spirits by weighing them, instead of : gauging them, he says: "The fact has been demonitrated that gauging “by ‘scales has yielded an average of one fifty-sixth of Mote Ber gutlon package than gauging weig ‘the producto of o of oleomargarine has in- crease l from 3 over 400,000 000. oe oelomargarine progue ing States sre IUinois, which paid taxes dt the rate or 2 cents per pond to the amount of $368,000; Kansas, $142,000; Connecticut, $106,000; Ohio, $78,000; Nebraska, $45,000; and Pen nsylvania, ; The nirmber of licensed sngar growers, i under the bounty law last year, were 4, of whom 727 made sugar from. cane, 4.240 +from map. le trees and 13 from. heets. and sorghum, The mapel sugar prod Je chiefly con ned to the a Fn Sean though there are several hundred ror: Boa > , b iriofuass nithe number of sbiiers, operating principally small dis- the law with. unds a month to. ‘an increase that at the'end 908 valid “The Novem- ber and t 3 Mr ‘ble rep conference have markets.’ B diminish mewhat affected all lliere are ed activity in Boston registered in New York, Pennsylvania and | Ohio. The Commissioner states ‘that many-: thousand dc!lurs have: been jnteed in im mn Louisis e licenses jssusd for maple Sugar pking next year having increased to 6,1 He estimates the amount of ‘bounty that ai ‘have to be paid proved sugar naking machin out next year for sugar of al nds | 8b 0 CLEVELAND'S GAME BAG FULL. The President