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THE SENATE SPECIAL SESSOIN
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WHAT IS BEING DONE BY THE HIGH-
ER BRANCH OF CONGRESS IN
=ESSION AT WASHINGTON.
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Moxpay.—The following nominations
‘were sent to the ~enate by the President to
day, together with several of less import-
ance:
nee:
Bamuel E. Morss of Indiana, to be consul
zeneral at Paris.
C. W. Chancellor of Maryland. to be con-
sul at Havre.
Allan B. Morse of Michigan, to be consul
at Glasgow.
George I. Parker of New York, to be con-
su! at irmingham.
Samuel I. Fisher of Massachusetts, to be
assistant commissioner of patents.
Kelix A. Reeve, to be solicitor of the
treasury.
Will:am H. Seamen of Wisconsin, to be
United States district judge for the Eastern
district of Wisconsin. .
Albert B. I'all of New Mexico, to be as-
sociate justice of the supreme court of the
Terntory of New Mexico.
Felix A. Reeve has for several years been
assistant solicitor W. H. Seaman is a warm
friend of Senator Vilas and one of ihe ablest
lawvers of his State. 8. F. Morss is the
well-known editor of the Indianapolis *‘Sen-
tivel.”” He was the leader of the Cleveland
faction in Indiana and through his efforts
the Indiana delegation was turned from
Gray to Cleveland at Chicago. Allan B.
Morse was Michigan's candidate for vice-
president at Chicago and at the last State
election was the Democratic candidate for
governor. George F. Parker is a close friend
of President Cleveland and during the cam-
ien he wrote the life of the I’resident. S.
. Fisher has for years been principal ex-
aminer in the patent office.
The following nominations were confirm-
ed: Silas M. Lamoreaux of Wisconsin to be
cominissioner of general land office; Hor-
ace H. Lurton of Tennessee to be United
States circuit court judge for the sixth cir-
cuit; John E. Risley to be minister to Den-
mark.
The senate in executive session to-day dis-
cussed the question of making public the
treaty with Russia. A majority favors
publicity, but the sticking point is as to
what part of the correspondence shall be
given out and as to the vote. Remonstran-
ces against the treaty are coming iz and its
opponents will seek to secure the interven-
tion of the President.
Mr. Sherman gave notice that the Repub-
Iicans would fight an attempt to elect
officefs. Mr. Gorman said he thought it
best that the compromise should be accept-
ed. The senate adjourned.
Turspay.—The resolutions for the elec-
tion of officers for the senate—William R.
Cox of North Carolina as secretary, Richard
J. Bright of Indiana as sergeant-at-arms and
Rev. Milburn as chaplain—coupled with
conditions that they shall not enter on the
discharge of their duties until the 30th of
June next, up to which time the present in-
cumbents are to remain in office, were of-
fered in the senate to-day and went over
until to-morrrow. The case of Senator Roach
of North Dakota was brought before the
senate in the shape of a resolution offered
by Mr. Hoar directing the committee on
privileges and elections to investigate the
allegations of criminal embezzlement and
to report the facts and what is the duty of
the senate in relation thereto. This resolu-
tion went over until to-morrow, the senate
adjourning after a session ofonly fifty-five
minutes.
The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the senate to day.
George D. Dillard of Mississippi, to be
consul general of the United States at
Guayaquil.
Ezra W. Miller of South Dakota, to be
attorney for the United States for the south-
ern district of Dakota.
Dr. Joseph H. Senner of New York, to be
the commissioner of immigration at that
por v:ce Col. John B. Webher of Buffalo,
1¥ned
George D. Dillard is a resident of Macon,
Miss, and a native Mississippian. He is a
Jawyer and served in the Confederate army
during the war. A
Dr. Senner is one of the editors of Otto
Ottendorfer’s paper, the Staats Zeitung. He
yromoted Mr. Cleveland's interests through
ihe columns of his paper and on the stump.
Dr. Senner has made a study of the immi-
gration question. le has tiaveled exten-
sively, is familiar with the languages and
customs of the people who come to our
shores and is, therefore, so his friénds s3y,
peculiarly fitted for the position. As. his
appointoent is a personal one Dy the secre-
any of 2 tregsury jt foes not have to re-
ctife Tonfirmatich by {EE séngle, ;
>. Wepxrgray.—The séhate held oniy a
wcTy short session to-day, at which matiers
of importance were discussed but nothing
final accomplished, when adjournment was
fag seem
a AUREDAY.—To-day’s session ¢f the Sen-
ale was devoted .lmost wholly to the debate
on the question of the admission of the Sen-
ators appointed by the Governors of the
States of Montana, Wyoming and Washing-
ton, alter the legislature of those States had
adjourned without making regular elec-
tions, After an executive session the sen-
ate adjourned till Monday. .
The president Po day sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Tuomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, to be
ambassador extraordinary plenipotentiary
of the United States to Great Britain.
Jamas D. Porter, of Tennessee, to be en
voy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
vary to Chili.
Junies A. McKenzie, of Kentucky, to be
minister to Peru.
lewis Baker, of Minnesota, to be minis-
ter to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador,
Pierce M. Young. of Georgia, to be
minister to Guatemala and Honduras.
Edwin Dun, of Ohio (now sccretary of le-
gation at Japan), to be minister to Japan.
To be consuls of the United States, p> AL
Shaffer, of West Virginia, to Stratiord, Ont,
Harrison E, Williams, of M ssouri, to Vera
Cruz; M. P. Pendleton, of Maine, to Pictou;
Theodore M. Stephen, of Illinois, to Arna-
berg; Wm. I. Towns. of Virginia, to Rio de
goueiro; Claude Meeker, of Ohio, to Brad-
ord.
Newton B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be secs
ond secretary of the legaiion of the United
Brates at Paris.
Join M. Reynolds, of Pennsylvania, to
assistant secretary ot the interior, vice Cyrus
Bussey, resigned.
1 awrence Maxwell, Jr, of Ohio, to be
solicitor general, vice Charles H. Aldrich,
resigned.
Joun I. Hall, of Georgia, to be assistant
attorney general, vice George H. Shields, re-
signed.
iirst on the list of nominations to-day,
and tirst in distinction in long public ser-
vice and in diplomat ¢ experience, was
Thomas I*. Bayard, and it was by unani-
mous opinion declared fitting that he should
bie the first of the Anibassadors created by
the last Congress. He was born at Wilming-
ton, Del., Oct. 29, 1828, and, although his
training was for a mercantile life, he later
studied and adopted the profession of law
and entered the bar in 1851. In 1885 he re-
signed his senatorial seat to become Secre-
tary of State in President Cleveland's cabi-
net. Since his retirement from the cabinet
Mr. Bayard has engaged in the practice of
the law. His nomination was ut once con-
firmed without any reference.
James A. McKenzie was one of the co-
teries of inimitable Kentucky humorists
who include Proctor Knott and Joseph
Blackburn who represented that state in the
Forty-seventh Coogress. He is 53 years old,
and while he was educated as a lawyer, he
saw fit to follow the primitive occupation of
a farmer.
James D. Forter, who succeeds Patrick
Kgan, is a resident of Paris, Tenn. where
he is at present engaged in the practice of
law. He has also served with distinction
upon the bench and enjoys a reputation
Pierce M. B. Young was a Major-General
of cavalry in the Confederate army and was
; distinguished for his services in that cause.
General Young was educated at West Point,
but was born and has lived all his life in
the South and is a large plantation owner.
In the nomination of Claude Meeker, of
Obio to be Consul to Bradford, England,
the President acknowledres the services of
a newspaper man. Mr. Meeker isa young
man of not more than 33, who came into
prominence 10 years ago, when he entered
the profession as a newspaper reporter in
Columbus. Subsequently he went to Cin-
cinnati, where he has been chiefly connect-
ed with the “Enquirer.”
Newton B. } ustis, of Louisiana. to be sec-
ond Secretary of the Legation at Paris, is the
son of Minister Eustis.
Theodore M. Stephen, appointed Consul
at Annaberg, Germany, is a Lutheran min-
ister at Austin, Ili., a native of Indiana, 40
years old. In the campaign of 1892 he was
chairman of the Campaign Committee of
the Lutheran churches of Illinois, and _ as
such was brought into intimate relations
with ex Representative Cable. upon whose
Jecommendation his appointment was
made.
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NOMINEES CONFIRMED.
Pictures of Three ot Cleveland's
New Appointees,
JAMES B. EUSTIS,
James B. Eustis, apvoointel Minister to
France, isa native of New Orleans, La., an
is fifty-nine years old.
THEODORE RUNYON,
Theojore Runyon, appointed Minister to
Germany. is sixty-two vears of age anl a
resident of Newark, N. J.
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WADE HAMPTON.
Wade Hamp.on, appointed Railroal Com-
missioner, was born in Charleston, 8, C.,
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THE CONDITION OF BUSINESS.
It is Fairly Good,and Failures Decidedly
Less Than Same Week a Year Ago.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade
says: The fact of largest influence in the
record of the past week has been increased
distribution of goods. The stringency often
seen about April 1 does not appear here, nor
are other money markets more close; but
while imports greatly exceed exports, 1it is
not safe to calculate that out-goes of gold
will not again disturb confidence. Hence,
the break in important speculations has its
hopeful side.
Instead of rising after the close of the
Lancashire strike cotton fell off 3c, which
may accelerate exports, though stocks of
American cotton in Europe are still a third
larger than usual ai this season.
THE BUSINESS BAROMETER.
Bank clearings totals for the week ending
March 30, as telegraphed to Bradstreets, are
as follows:
New York.............. $603.298,437 9.5
BOSONS co ia, . 84,788,279 5.0
Chicago... vc... coda los 83.032,208 7.3
Philadelphia .... . 66,877,637
ot bed bd bf bf bf et peg
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St. Lonis........ eo 22.175,471 1.1
San {Francisco ........... 14,945,349 7-1
Pittshurg........c....... 12,911.030 3.3
Baltimore.... = .......... 12,729,577 2.5
Cincinnati... .... 0.000 12,504,900 2.5
Cleveland................. 5,228 994 13.8
(I indicates increase, D decrease.)
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—A CARRIER PIGEON, which possibly came
from the lost steamer Naronie, alighted at
Norwick, Conn., where it died of starvation.
The Santa Maria at Porta Rico.
The Columbus caravel Santa Maria reach.
for being one of the ablest lawyers iu his
Hate.
¢d Poria Rico on Saturday.
THE WORLD'S FAIR CHARGES.
AN EXPLANATION TO THE
PUBLIC,
Plenty of Drinking Water Will be Fur-
nished Free. No Fees For
Other Conveniences.
The following address has been issued
by President Higinbotham of the world’s
fair at Chicago to the public:
“Because of many misrepresentations
and misstatements relative to exposition
management and affairs being in circula-
tion through the press and otherwise, both
in this country and abroad; and in reply to
many letters of inquiry or complaint
touching the same matters, it seems advisi--
ble that some official statement regarding
them should be made to the public. There-
fore, 1 respectfully ask that the widest
publicity be given to the following facts:
“1, The exposition will be opened in
readiness for visitors on May 1.
* “2. An abundanceof drinking waler,the
best supplied to any great city in the world,
wiil be provided tree ts all. The report
that a charge would be made for drinking
water probably arose from the fact that
hygeia water can also be had by those who
desire it at 1 cent a glass.
*3. Ample provisions for seating will be
made without charge.
“4. About 1,500 toilet rooms and closets
will be located at convenient points in :the
buildings and about the grounds and they
will be absolutely free to the public. This
is as large a number in proportion to the
estimated attendance as has ever been pro-
vided in any exposition. In addition to
these there will also be nearly an equal
number of lavatories and toilet rooms of a
costly and handsome character, as exhibits,
for the use of which a charge of 5 cents will
be made,
5. The admission fee of 50 cents will en-
title the visitors to see and enter all the ex-
position buildings, inspect the exhibits and
in short everything within the gr .unds ex-
cept the Esquimaux village and the repro-
duction of the Colorado cliff dwellings. For
these as well as for the special attractions on
Midway plaisance a small fee will be charg-
ed,
“6. Imposition of extortion of any des-
cription wiil not be tolerated,
**7. Free medical and emergency hospit-
al service is provided on the grounds by the
exposition management.
‘8. The burean of public comfort will
provide commodious free waiting rooms,
including a spacious ladies’ parlor and toilet
rooms in various parts of the grounds.”
COLUMBUS CARAVELS.
tment. a
The Spanish Models of The Santa Maris,
Pinta and Nina Bkip Over the Crests
of the Waves ina Most Alarming
Manner.
A dispatch {rom Norfolk, Va., says: One
of the United States sailors who was detain-
ed to cross the ocean in and of the caravels
sent to the Worlds Fair by Spait said that
bis only wonder is that Columbus ever suc-
ceeded in getting over here at all. The ves-
sels were built as nearly as possible to con-
form to the pictures and descriptions of the
pubilshed from time to time, but there were
no plans of well authenticated models to
aid in the calculations, so the resulting ves-
sels may or may not be on the same lines
on which the originals were built,
Even ¢he Santa Maria, which is larger
than the other two, only succeeded in mak-
ing a little more than 25 miles a day against
only a moderately fresh headwind and not
a particularly lumpy sea, although she
made a much more favorable showing with
a fresher wind. : :
The accommodations aboard the Pinta
and Nina were only sufficient to call for a
detail of two officers and eight sailors to act
as their crews during the ocean trip.
The men-of-war towing them were ena-
bled in smooth water to make about eight
knots an bour.and even then the light, frail
craft would skip along from the crest of
one wave to the tip of anofber in 2 most
astoundingly vey iter. 7
When the seg Would rise {he scudding
and pilchirig addad to the incessant rolling,
and made them more than ever uncomfort-
able and menacing to limbs and body. The
Americans were relieved when the caravels
were left behind at Havana. Nobody envies
the Spanish officers the getting of these ves-
seis to New York, especially if there shoud
by any chance be a heavy wind or sea on
the way up.
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ANOTHER CRISIS IN FRANCE.
A Vote on the Liquor Law Construed to
Be One of a Want of Confidence
and the Ribot Cabinet
Resigns.
A dispatch from Paris says:--Anotber
crisis has arrived, but not on the ’ana-
ma issue. The Chamber of Deputies on Fri-
day by a vote of 247 to 242, decided to retain
the liguor law amendment bill as part of
tue budget, although the Government ex-
pressed iiself as firmly opposed to the
amendment, which increases the burdens of
the liquor trade.
Upon the vote of the Chamber being an-
nounced, Premier Ribot adjourned the ses-
sion until Y o'clock in the evening. After a
somewhat long consultation the Ministers
proceeded tothe Elysee and tendered their
resignation to President Carnot. The Pres-
ident had a long interview with the mem-
bers of the Cabinet, and urged them to re-
consider their determination.
His arguments were in vain. It is rumor-
ed that M. Develle, Minister of Foreign
Affairs in the Ribot Cabinet, will be asked
by President Carnotto form a Ministry.
The Ministry that has resigned held office
for only about 11 weeks.
Among certain of the political groups
there are not lacking those who charge that
the downfall of the Government was due,
not so much to the decision of the Chamber
to retain the obnoxious liquor amend.aent
as to the apprehended complications grow-
ing out of the acceptance by M. Ribot of
the offer of M. Andrieux,” ex-Perfect of
Police to place Arton, the Panama go-be-
tween, under arrest within a week if the
Government would give him authority to
do so. It is openly charged in some quar-
ters that the Government was afraid that
Andrieux would fulfill his promise and
that the revelations Arton would be com-
pelled to make, once he is in custody, would
prove fatal to the minority.
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Heavy Judgement Against a Newspaper
Judge McPherson gave an opinion at
Rar-isburg, Pa., in the case of the Com-
monwealth vs. The Philadelphia Press
Company, to recover rebates paid agents of
John Bardsley, on the contract for printing
the mercantile appraiser’s lists. He ordered
judgment to Bbe entered against the‘ ‘Press’
for £10,731 83. Other Philadelphia papers
will be made to refund a similar amount if
the Supreme Court sustains the decision of
the lower court.
Bullet Proof Cloth for AustrianSoldiers.
The Austrian War office has accepted the
bullet-proof cloth invented by Herr Syland.
er engineer resident in Paris. The cloth is
a third of an inch thick and is said to be
much more pliable than that prepared by
Dowe, the Mannheim tailor.
LATER NEWS WAIFS,
DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
At Previncetown, Mass, the fishing !
schooner Ada K. Damon came:in. In the |
snow storm of last Tuesday she lost six of
her crew.
The lace window curtains in St. Cather-
ine’s Church at Charlestown, Mass. caught
fire during service and blazed up furiously
frightening 300 women and children who
were present. They were panic-stricken
and a stampede took place. One women
was fatally injured by being trampled on.
Two lives were lost by the sinking of a
canal boat at the foot of Thirty-seventh
street, New York, on Thursday. Joseph
Williams, 54 years old, one of the crew, and
Mabel Carman, the infant daughter of the
captain, John Carman, were drowned.
At Mt. Holly, N. J., during a game of
base ball Frank,the 11-year-old son of Amos
Aaronson, was struck in the head by a ball
batted by Frank Garberino and rendered
unconscious. He was taken home, where
he died of concussion of the brain.
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; WASHINGTON.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell on Thursday appointed, 188 fourth
class postmasters, and of this number 85
were to fill vacancies caused by removals.
The largest number appointed from any
one state was 45 in Indiana, which involved
11 removals. In Kentucky there were 24
appointments and six removals, In Ver-
mont there were 20 appointed and 10 remov-
als, In ‘West Virginia, 14 appointed and 11
removals, and in Wisconsin, 10 appointed
and five removals.
Assistant Secretary Bussey rendered an
important decision in the matter of the
claim of Joseph P. Smith for an increase of
pension on the grounds of disabilities, in
which he over rules the action of the com-
missioner of pensions in allowing an attor-
ney’s fee of 810. "The claim for an increase
was made under the act of June 27, 1890,and
the assistant secretary holds that all such
claims should be trea‘ed as strictly increase
claims whether new disabilities are claimed
or not, for which a fee of only $2 can be al-
lowed. Itis said that probably 200,000
claims will be affected by this decision.
The new regulations for the government
of the navy provide, among other things,
against naval officers serving as correspond-
ents for newspapers.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell on Saturday appointed 107 fourth
class postmasters. Of this number 15
were in Indiana, 14 in Kentucky and 11 in
'ilinois,
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LEGISLATIVE.
An anti-scalper bill, introduced in place
ot the one stolen, has been passed by the
Minnesota Lower house.
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FOREIGN.
McManus & Sons, bankers, of Chihauhua.
Mexico, have suspended, with liabilities of
$1,000,000. The cause of the suspension was
land and mining speculations.
Bralia, the principal port of Roumania,on
the lower Danube. a town of 300,000 inhab-
itants, has been nearly destroyed. by fire.
Loss will be fully 1,00(,000 francs.
A villa at Leabruce. in Galacia, Austria,
occupied by two families named Abramoicz
and Rybinski, of six members each, was en-
tered recently by burglars and all the in-
mates robbed and murdered. No arrests
have yet been made.
Four thousand houses have been burned
in the suburbs of Manilla, Philippine Is-
lands.
FIRES.
At Galena, Md.. fire destroyed 20 frame
suildings out of 150 in the fown, causing a
loss of $25,000. The town has no fire de:
partment.
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CRIMES AND PENALTIES,
At Macon, Ga., Louis Lewis, a negro, was
nanged for the murder of his wife. The
crime was committed in September, 1890.
[Lewis had three trials. He died protesting
his innocence.
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CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Based on the price coal has brought at the
mines during the past month, which was
£2.58 2-10, the Schuylkill Coal Exchange ha
fixed the rates of miners’ wages and mine
laborers at 3 per cent above the $250 basis
for the last half of March and the first halt
of April, a redu ction of 2 per cent on the
previous month.
Notices were posted Saturday in the ma-
chine shops of the Westinghouse Air Brake
Works at Wilmerding, Pa., announcing a
reduction of from 10 to 50 per cent. in the
wages of unskilled machine workmen. The
reduction means a cut of from 40 cents to
£2 50 per day, as the wages of the men run
from $4 to ¥5 per day.
About 300 painters at Jackson Park, Chi.
cago, threw down their brushes and quit
work because a 5-cent increase in their
wages was not forthcoming. The regular
down-town wages for painters are 32} cents
an hour, while men at Jackson Park have
been getting 35 cents. Later the men on
the manufacturers’ building concluded to
demand a raise to 40 cents.
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CHOLERA ADVICES,
St. PETERSBURG—Cholera has made its
appearance again in this city and it is
known that fatal cases are of daily occur
rence, although the authorities are pursu-
ing a policy of suppression and withhoid
from the public all information as to the
spread of the disease. Very disquieting ru-
niors have been received from the interior,
and the Minister of the Interior is taking
action which indicates that the Government
must possess special information of the
gravest character.
Viexxa.—A Vienna physician, sent to
Southeastern Hungary to report the pro-
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gress of the situation, says the cholera is
spreading rapidly in that region At Peter-
wardein it is especially virulent. The vil-
lages of Zaluzze and Kudrynge, in Galica,
have been isolated.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
White Star steamship officers in Liver-
pool say no person named Olsen was on
board the lost Naronic. The bottle story
from Norfolk, Va., is considered a fake.
The quarterly statement of the Southern
industries show that for the first quarter of
1890 the new industries established exceed
those for the first quarter of 1892 by 198.
‘Ihe inquest on the death of George W.
Haight the gatekeeper of the prison at Jack-
son, Mich, was concluded Friday. The
jury found that Haight was poisoned by R.
Irving Latimer, a convict, and that the
Poison was procured through the careless-
ness of Clerk Tabor and Night Captain Gill
of the prison.
The late General Kirby Smith was buried
at Sewanee, Tenn., Friday, with military
honors. The Nashville regiment of Infan-
try, a battery and several delegations from
Confederate Veteran camps were im attend-
ance.
AFL LIST OF DISASTERS
MANY PERSONS KILLED.
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Hotel Fire at Bredford, Pa.; Mine Dis-
aster at Shamokin, Pa., and Other
Terrible Accidents.
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The Higgins House, a three-story frame
structure opposite the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg depot at Bradford, Pa., was
burned at an early hour Saturday morning.
Three lives were lost, and several injured
by jumping from the windows. Those who
lost their lives are N. Havin, an engineer; a
machinist named Parks, and a woman not
identified, supposed to be Eila Coe. A
Swedish girl, employed as a servant, is
missing, and it is feared lost her life. The
fire spread to adjoining property and caused
a heavy loss.
The loss on the B.,, R. & P. company’s
building, freightotfice. effects, papers, etc.,
amounts to $10,000. The entire loss of the
company, including fréight cars and liabili-
ties, will be about $30,000; insured. IL. L.
Higgins, hotel, cigar factory etc., $15,000.
light insurance; J. H. Bartlett, 2,000: D,
Lundegan, $1,000, no insurance: J. . A. Kd-
SS 31,500; J. A. Waldo, $1,500; Leroy,
As illustrative of the irony of fate the
Bradford #ra’s leading editorial Saturiay
morning started out by saying: ‘‘Bradford
is remarkably fortunate in its experience
with fires in the last year.” The writer
went on at some length to point to Brad-
ford’s immunity from fire losses, saying
among other things: ‘‘Evervthing in the
city conspires to safety from fire.”
A MINE CAUSES THE DEATH OF 10 MINERS
An awful explosion was occasioned in the
Nelson shaft, Shamokin, Pa., by a miner's
lamp. Ten men were killed and the inside
Pine are a mass of flames. The names
of those killed are cs follows: James Bren-
nan, aged 21, single. Michael Brennan,aged
28, single. Nicholas Dolen, wife and six
children. John Robel, aged 25, single. John
Burtt, married. family large, small child-
ren. John Ryan, aged 35, single. Fred Gin-
ter. aged 25, single. Krank Shupes, aged 22,
single. Joseph Garey, aged 45 married.
Joseph Batrox, aged 28, single.
The mine wiit have to be flooded in order
to extinguish the fire, and this will throw
1,000 employes out of work. Thirty mules
died of suffocation. The mine is owned by
J. Hangdon & Co.. of Elmira. The fire
started in a small wooden structure about
20 feet from the bottom of the shaft. A
careless Hungarian was filling a burning
lamp with oil when the explosion occurred.
TWO MEN BURNED TO DEATH,
A disastrous fire occurred at Clarksville.
Va. Ten stores, hotels offices and tobacco
houses were burned. A large quantity of
leaf tobacco was also destroyed. A high
wind was blowing, and there were no
adequate means to stop the flames. Two
colored men were burned to death.
TWO MEN BURIED ALIVE.
At Ensley, Ala., whiie five men were
excavating for the purpose of constructing
a foundation for a stack the walls caved in.
Three were rescued, but Anderson Coliier
and John Dorsey were buried alive. Their
crushed bodies were recovered three hoars
later from under 12 feet of earth.
: FOUR BLOWN INTO ETERNITY.
At LaComa, lowa, a boiler explosion oc-
curred. Henry Kinnis, aged 60 years, and
three sons, Henry Kinnis, Jr., John Kinnis
and Peter Kinnis, were killed. How the ex-
plosion occurred is not known, as all who
were present were killed, \
DEATH ON A LAKE.
By the overturning of a sailboat on Lake
Ponchartrain, New Orleans, La.,four persons
—Mrs. Mary A. Kelly, ‘Misses Agnes and
Mamie Flinn. ber nieces. and Miss Effie
Kelly—were drowned. Several others who
formed the party narrowly escaped a simi'ar
fate. The party. consisting of ten people,
had gone out to Milneburg a pleasure resort
on the lake shore, for a picnic. In tacking
the yawl upset. William G. Merzeinceh, one
of the party, saved four of the occupants of
the yawl, and two others were saved by his
companions. The four victims of the acei-
dent sank before their eyes.
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"A NEW CABINET.
France’s Latest Savior is Named Me-
l'ne.
M. Meline, the new French prem’er, paid
& round of visits to statesmen, seeking co-
operation and seems to have succeeded.
Four members of the last cabinet join
him.
Saturday evening M. Meline announced
that he had selected the following cabinet:
M. Charles Dupuy, icinister of the inter-
ior.
M. Jacques L. Trarieux, minister of jus-
tice. :
M. Raymond Poincarre, minister of fi-
nance.
M. Enger - Spuller, minister of education.
M. Francois Viette, minister of public
works.
Admiral Rieunier, minister of marine and
of the colonies.
M. Albert Viger, minister of agriculture,
General Loizillon, minister of war.
M. Develle, minister of foreigns affairs.
M. Meline, is a lawyer and was born in
1838. During the siege of Paris he was ad-
jutant to the mavor of the first arrondisse-
ment. Jn 1881 he was appointed minister
of agriculture.
During his term he founded the order of
merit for agriculture. In 1888 he was nam-
ed president of the chamber of deputies. In
politics he was an opportunist. He was the
iramer of the protectionists’ tariff, which
bears his nan.e. The new cabinet is regard-
ed as an interim ministry for the purpose of
passing the budget and winding up the sea-
son.
Meline’s success will be the triumph for
advocates of high tariff,
—A Giant is included in a consignment
of Belivian Indians for the World's Fair,
landed in New York Saturday. His name
is Jose Mamani, he is 9 feet 10 inches in
height, 25 years old and weighs 418 pounds.
He is said to be the largest man in the
world.
—ill eat
—Josern Lroyp HAH, who in 1880, fail-
ed for $300,000, dragging the Grocers’ Bank,
of New York, down with him, and who
was subsequently sentenced to four years’
imprisonment for forgeries aggregating$125
000, was arrested yesterday for stealing »
loaf of bread valued at eight cents.
The Sharpshooler’s Story.
During the winter of 61 my company
ocoupied two islands in the upper Poto-
.mac, where they did constant picket
duty, having their posts and ‘‘dugouts™
along the entire south shore of the fsl-
ands. The following incident occurred
e few days after our return from that
wearied forced march of seventeen miles
along the slippery tow path to Edward’s
Ferry to the assistance of the uafortu-
nate Colonel Baker of the California re-
giment at Ball's Bluff, where, as you
know, we arrived too late to afford relief.
Our men were feeling very much dis-
gusted ou their return over the unsuc-
cessful result of their march, so that the
sight of a rebel picket on the opposite
shore was the sigoal for the simultaneous
discharge of a dozen rifles, and you may
be sure they kept themselves well ont of
sight. We were equipped with the Ea-
field rifle, warranted to kill 2¢t. 1000
yards, and in this respect had greatly the
advantage, and had few casuaitles to
record on our side. The distance from
shore to shere was about 800 yards.
There had been for some tims consider-
ablerivalry among our men as to who
was the best shot, and when off duty
they were allowed to practice on a range
at a target.
Ope morning a Confederate officer,
evidently on his rounds inspecting his
pickets, had stopped at a house probably
100 yards back from the shore, and was
engaged in conversation with a woman
standing on the porch. The First Lieu-
tenant of our company having command
of the lower island, after carefully ob-
serving the officer through his glass,
quickly sent for four of his men who
bad the best record as “‘crack shots,” *
and selecting 2 rifle for himself the five
stretched themselves behind a log on
the river bank and deliberately ‘drew a
bead” on this unsuspecting victim.
They fired by a prearranged signal from
the Lieutenant at the same moment, and
saw, with no more apparect concern
than if they had dropped over a rabbit,
both horse and rider fall together. A few
weeks afterwards, whea our reziment
crossed over and captured Leesburg just
after the rear guard of General Hill's
army had left it, we found the wounded
iofficer in the house before which he had
‘been shot as deliberately as a hunter
would have shot a bear. I believe every
jone of those five men was sincerely glad
of two things, first that they did no#
kill their game, although he lost hisleg, !
and second that none of them knew in
this instance who was the best shot, cee
bullet only hitting the man, while every
one of the other four struck the horse. —
Pittsburg Post.
A Dog Story.
John Christ, of Shamokin, Pa.,
swned a dog which was getting old
and had outlived its usefulness. In
order to rid the animal of its suffer-
ing without much pain he beshought
himself of dynamite. He boiind the
dog to a tree in the yard, the dyna-
mite was attached, and, after apply-
ing a match to the fuse, the owner
made haste toget out of the way. He
started for the kitchen, but the dog
broke loose ard started in pursuit.
Both crossed the threshold of the
door when an explosion occurred.
The dog was blown to fragments,
while Christ, strange to say, escap:d
without a scratch. :
Small-Pox in Wall Paper.
‘Many years ago a person was sick of
small-pox in a farm house in the country
town of Groton, acd after the patient
recovered the dwelling was fumigated
und repapered. Ira Chester and family
now dwell 1n the house, The paper was
removed a week or so ago, and presently
Mr. Chester's daughter was stricken with
small-pox. In the opinion of the phy-
sician the germs of the disease were
dormant in the walls of the room.”
The above clipping from the Cincinnati
Enquirer makes good the claims of sapi-
tarians, that all disease germs rind a hid-
ing place in wall paper, with its vegetable
paste to hold it on the wall, and its
animal glue to hold its colors; that
these, to say the least, are not the *
best materials with which to cover
so much space around us as the walls in
which we live and sleep, and that paper
aud glue are great absorbents of mois-
ture, of which every person throws off
a certain number of ounces in exhala-
tions every day, and that such decaying
material as glue and paste gives off de.
letericus gases in such small quantities
that we do not discover them, though
those who study it can smell it in most
rooms papered, and especially where a
number of layers of paper have been
pas ed upon each other.
8 initarians claim that these cond tions
bave mote to do with our ill health than
weare aware of; that cuch a state of
things in the room in which we live af-
fects us more for better or worse than
does a change of climate; that it would
be cheaper, at least, to try a change of
room or cne coated with some necn-de-
caying material, before going to the ex-
pense and trouble of a change of climate.
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