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Professor Whitfield, the curator of the Department of (jreology; in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, has just received a new addition to his department. This, is a cast of one of the earliest mammal fossils which .science has yet discovered. The inter est in this specimen is j keen, owing to the fact that the fossil, is the skeleton of an animal which is regarded as the par ent type of all animals jof . today which are distinguished by haying hoofs. Its scientific name is Fheuatodus-primaevus.-. The fossil was discovered several years ngo in the Wind River of Wyoming Ter ritory, and was afterward i secured by Professor Cope, who learned of the cir- 1 : ' j i emastancc, ! The preservation of the janimal is re markable. It had apparently lain down to die m the clay, and the body rcmain in" undisturbed, the bones "were not k "scattered. In appearance the skeleton " is not formidable. The animal which is i believed to have been Ifulll i was grown, not when alive much larger than a sheep or a yearling calf. What ! first strikes the observer is its remarkable preserva tion. The smallest bone appears to be preserve 3. A;p.jc- 1 tlx animal sank down in 'the clay exhausted and went into its last sleep. The carcass was not disturbed, the bones Sverc mver-scat-tered and the skeleton was gradually, in the course of thousands; of 'years, trans formed Avith the suiroundins: earth into stone. The skull has some- resemblance to that of a horse, but I is-more of the general type of the rhinoceros.. jThere are no tusks, but slight protuberances which indicate an approach to them. The teeth have much the . fame charac ter as those of modern aiiinvils. Each of the four feet has five Ionr and slender - t ! toes, which have the general appearance of human fingers, except that each of the .toes is.. ..capped with a'.small perfectly shaped hoof, which is a copy in minia ture of a horse's hoof, j The animal, Professor Whitfield siys, fedjon plants and flesh, as it was best able to procure the one or the other. The cartilaginous portion of the skull at the mouth is wanting, but tho general 1 O structure is similar to that of the rhinoc eros, which has the long pointed li p .like the beginning of 'a trunk for the purpose pf better gathering jin the grass or foliage, while the teeth in their struc ture are adapted in seme measure to the tood of carniverous animals. If the animals of today had not then i - thciriappearance the ; Phehacodus must have been m the hafiU; of making Samoan House. George Turner describes a native Sam oan house as a gigantic beehive, ; thirty five feet in diameter, a hundred' la cir cumference, and raised from the ground by a number of short posts at intervals of four feet from each other all around. Tne spaces between these posts, which may be called open doors or windows all round the house, are shut in at night by roughly plaited cocoanut leaf blinds. The floor is raised six or eight inches with rough stones, then an upper layer of smooth pebblea, thea some cocoanut leaf .mats, and then a layer of finer mat ting. In the centre of the house thcro are two, sometimes three, posts, 20 feet long, sunk three feet into, the ground, and extending to and supporting the ridgepole. These arc the main props of the building. The space between the rafters the na tives fill up with what they call ribs, the wooa oi me orcau-iruic irec, spue up into small pieces, and joined together so as to form a long rod the thickness of the thumb running from the ridgepole dovrn to the eaves. All are kept in their places, an inch and a half apart, by cross pieces male fast with sinnet. or rope made out of cocoanut fibre. ' The. thatch is laid on with great care and taste; the long, dry leaves of the sugar-cane are strung on to pieces of reed five feet long;. they arc made fast to the reed by overlapping the "one end of the leaf, and pinning it with one rib of the cocoanut leaflet run through from leaf to leaf horizontally. The reeds thus fringed with the sugar-cane leaves hanging down three or four feet are laid on, be srinninjr at the caves and running up to the ridgepole, each one overlapping its fellow an inch or so, and made fast oho by one with sinnet to the inside rafters Upwards of a hundred of these reeds ot match are required lor a sinjrlc row running from the eaves to the ridgepole. Another is then made, and so on all round the house. Two, three or' four thousand fringed reeds may be required for a good sized house. The thatching, if we'd done, lasts for seven years. To select the sugar cane leaves and "sew" the ends oa to the reeds is the work of the women. An active woman can sew fifty reeds in a day, and three men will put up and fasten to the roof of the house some five hundred in a day. The great objection to the thatch is that in sales it stands up like a field of corn, and then the rain pours into the house. THE' SAMOAN DISASTER, ' Particulars About 4 the iVreek- ing of Our Ships at Apia. . Survivors Bring the Story of the ... ttreat Ualamitj.. i iirsjcr nad( his rii!ie he alsd i pej.-ial meals on snakes, frogs and the From the appearance of his feet ias:a flat-footed animal, but the toes rested on the ground and aided him i in cjlimbini? steen inclines, i ton as Euro-skele- paleontologists, regard this no of the most remarkable dis coveries of recent ycarp. A more ad vanced form of this animal was obtained some .years ago in France, and was the subject -of much speculation by Cuvier the naturalist. It was,' termed the Pal . eotherium, and was regarded as the an- .Several other discovered in cptpl form of the hdrse. peciniens have since been good condition, showing that the ani mal had reached the size of a deer, but its toes, were reduced to three or four. Professor Cope, as the results of his fctudiesj on the early charactefof. animals indicated in a paperj which he published in 1881. that the older form of thf. if ever found would 1881, auiiujus u ever iouna would possess those distinctive traits which are indl catfed in this specimen of the Phenaco dui, which he has since obtained. The stratum in whieh thn fossil was found belongs to the early Eoeene.or the lower Tertiary period, in the first of which the reifnains of mammals 'have been obtained. Tic time of their existence 5s. calculated by geplogisfs as anywhere between 400, 0q0 and 500,000 years ago) so small a inaftep of 100, 000 years either way mak ing utile difference I The Phenacodus Dr. Cope regards as the distinct ancestor Of the higher forms A Delicate Ocxn'ar Operation. It is not generally known that only 12 per cent, of mankind can boast of their eyes being geometrically straight, and the medical faculty has recently come to the conclusion that neuralgia and other kindred ills can be indirectly traced to this curious phenomenon. At. least, Clerk Carr of the Fifth Avenue Hotel believes that the violent paroxysms in his temples which he has had to endure since he was a boy were due to that cause. He has had several operations performed for relief, f-uch as the cutting of the muscles, to divert the eyes from the oblique position they assumed when he was born. There was only a slight improvement in the neuralgic symptoms, and so last Tuesday he consented to test the latest innovation in surgic il science, which removes all the surplus tissues and nerve chords, so that both eyes shall be poised on an equal plane. Dr. Ran ney performed the operation, and find ing that the left eye had become tipped from its true poUe, made an incision at the base of the pupil, which has left a suffusion of blood that coven the ball like a flaring sea anemone, but which re stored the equilibrium. Mr.' Carr told me that he was asked over a hundred times yesterday what was the matter, but he' was perfectly willing to advertise this valuable addition to modern sur gery, since he had not had an ache since the operation, and he wants all his suf fering fellow creatures to know it. New York Star. 0 la'r: animals. In succeeding" ages the rge j animals, like the elephant and jraffe, were developed from it tinri fha ffcreut surroundings and conditions tyl to the crrowth of luaritieradfi ani- I : r . o iiiuls like the bear, the carnivora like the ' Ifopard, andt the. lioh and hoofed ani mals, like the horse and deer, all of these tranches developing! some of the minor traits Which .Were nnsctpaeorl 'Yiv'Tin i1 V ' . i ! J" lype. When th6 newf building of r Ericsson Was Not Mercinary. As to the amount of money accumu lated by Capt. Ericsson during his long lifetime there has been considerable 'curiosity, but there is good reason foi believing that the sum was not large. That large- opportunities for making money were thrown open -. to him goes without saying, but to him money was always a matter of secondary considera tion, and he cared little how it came or where it went. He left many inventions in an unfinished state, but gave explicit directions to hii superintending engin eer, W.-F. Lasscoc, and secretary, S. W- Taylor, about carrying them to com pletion, besides providing in his will foi the financial aid for this work. Com mercial Advertiser. The steamer Alameda arrived in San Francisco bringing advices from Apia, Samoa up to March 80. The steamer stopped at the Sam oan capital and took off many of the shipwrecked sailors. Among those who came upon the Alameda were Chief Cadet Robert StocVer and Cadets Hibba, Decker, Wells, Cloke, Sackland, Le jure, Wiley and Logan, and Dr. Conlen, all of the Vandal ia. lieutenant Ripley came on me Aiameaa, witn tmrty men, but stopped Off at Honolulu. The hurricane which cost o manv lives at Samoa began about 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, March 16V and lasted until Sunday at a little after 5 o'clock in the morninsr.' . ine .Der, ine ttennan vessel, was the first to oe wrecKea. one broke up In pieces in a few minutes, only one officer and four men Deinar saved, lier euns. wmcn were or great weight, probably assisted in smashing her so qmciy. bnortly afterward the Adlcr (German) also drifted on the same reef a little further westward. She was lifted high and dry. and is now lying on her port side high and dry, only a few feet of her side being under water at high tide. In all twenty men wero loet from tne Adier. ine um tea btates steamer runac was the next on the list of casualties. It was observable from the snore tiiat she would not . be able to hold out. She was drifting toward the reef, and at about nine o'clock she headed for the shore and just touched the points of the reef with her rudder, which was carried away, together with her stern post. but. by the skillful management of the captain and of fleers they succeeded in beaching her on the sand, ureat credit is due lor the manner in which the Nipsic was handled, for if she had gone on tne reel a larger number of lives would undoubtedly have been lopt. As it is seven men wero lrowuxL, bat all would have been saved if they had stuck to tne snip. Early in the morning the Olga collided with the jSipsic, doing the latter considerable damage, carrying away her smokestack, steam launcn, wnaleboat and part of her bulwarks. On account of the smokestack being broken off the furnaces would not draw to keep a lull nead or steam on. ..Excepting for this ac cident tuo isipsic, which bad powerful en gines, might liave rode out the gale in safety. On Thursday morning tho Ripsic was suo- ceesruliy noated out to her old anchorage. ii or propeller is too much injured to be re paired in Samoa, and her rudder is gone. The Vandal i a was the raont unfortunate vessel of the United States Squadron. Sue drifted, about 9 o'clock, near to the Calliope and the Olga came into collision with both. The Calliope struck her with great force on the port, doing considerable ilomnge. The Van ualia still continued drifting almost in com pany with the Calliope, but the latter vessel, having lost nearly all her anchors, put full steam on and went steadily out to sea. The captain of the Vnudalia, seeing no hope of saving his ship, headed her for the nhore, and in endeavoring to reach the sandy bench unfortunately struck the reef, and filled and sank before she could beach, within about fifty, yards from the stern of tho Nipsic. The captain, paymaster, payclerk, lieu tenant of marines and many men were washed overboard. Tho vessel was com pletely submerged, and all hands had to take to the rigguig, where they remained until the Trenton was driven alongside about 8 o'clock in the night, when most of tho oftleers and crew got on tho Tren ton,exceptin Lieutenant Ripley, who jumped into the sea just before the mast gave way, and with great difficulty swam to tho shore. Ho then procured a whnlebont, and, with tho aid of Samoans, got a line out to the wreck. The loss of life in the Vandalia wero the com mander, three oflicers and thirty-nine seamen and marines. Tho Trenton, meanwhile, was gradually coming closer to tho land. She had her bridge ports broken in, which left an open ing, and tho sea came in groat quantities through this opening and the hawie pipes, getting into the fires. This was unf ortunatel r fatal to the chances of saving the Admiral s ship. Tho engineers were unable to keep up steam. All hands were ordered to the pumps, which were kept constantly going all day. About 3 o'clock the Trenton had drifted down toward the Olga, which vessel wasthen about If) yards from the reef. Both ships tried to avoid toiifh ing, but a collison was inevitable Tho Olga's bow struck tho Trenton on the quarter, opening a largo breach and doing other damage, and the Olga's lww was smashed. After the vessels cleared each other tho Trenton drifted still further toward tho reef, and one time held fairly well to her anchors; but at about 8 o'clock fho dropped down just clar of the reet and on to the Vandalia. Tho Tren ton's 6tern was aground. Sho was broadside on to the sunken vessel, and tho poor fellows who had been on tho andalia's yard about twelve hours got on to tho Trenton, Ixang as sisted by the Admiral's crew with lines and other contrivances. On Sunday morning boats wero busily en gaged all day in removing the men from the ship to the shore, which was accomplished without accident. All wero removed before night. On Monday 250 Samoans f romMataaf a's camp and tho men-of-war sailors were work ing hard . all day saving property from th Trenton, and several Samoans and sailors were also engaged working on the other ships ashore. No lives were lost. The Trenton is a total wreck. One of tho men was killed early in tho morning of Saturday by being crushed among tho timber after the collision. His name was Joseph Hewlett, a colored man. The Olga, after slipping her cables and get ting clear of the Trenton, managed to make headway against the sea for a short time, and hopes were entertained that this vessel, tho last left afloat in the harbor, would be saved, but within half an hour she was run into one of tho best positions for beaching in the harbor. Tho Nipsic is fitted up with the Vandalia's funnel. Her rudder and stern post are gone, propeller bent and twisted. The Trenton is hard and fast on the reef. Her bottom is full of holes and filled with water up to her gun dock. The crews have been working ten hours daily trying to save some of the rigging and personal effects and stores. The V andalia is totally lost. Noth ing can be saved from her. pearly every day since the wrecks of the German and American vessels bodies of the drowned aro being washed up, greatly de composed and nnrocognizablo. Only forty of our dead sailors' bodies have been found off Apia. Some of our oflicers and men attended the German memorial service, but not a German was present at tho American services. Admiral Kimberly shows that the Trenton could not have been saved, because the badly constructed hawse-holes allowed water to pour in and Mood the engine-room, putting ' out tho fires. He says the Trenton had all whn asked to help to restore order, begrod to be excused, saying be was afraid to Americana would attack the German sailors. He further requested that the American officers should take full charge. This was dano. and the American sailors were not allowed to approach the lower part of the town, where the Germans bad their beadquartera. ine next great question was how to get the news of the disaster to Amer ica end Europe. 'ra&K wuson was sent to Futuila Island, where he boarded the steamer Mariposa for Auckland, from whenee be tele graphed the news. The Calliope took on coal, and Thursday, March 10, after firing tairtm guns as a ealate to Admiral himir-riy, sailed lor Sydney. . Order was garjaraUy restored In Apia ia a fow days. A large force of Safnoacs soo ceeded In hauling off the Klpsic. - Tne Tren ton's sailors are temporarily Quartered in Vnte in the middle of the tiwu. The Van dalia's men are quartered near the American Consulate. The sarvivers of the German vessels are quartered ia the German Trading company warehouse. Most of the merchant vessels in the harbor at the time of the storm belonged to the Ger man Trading Company. Admiral Kimberly, commanding the Amer ican fleet was the last to leave the Trenton, hafiM-e&Bi: Hi saj4 t considered faulty ixxawucwi oc mo xtchhou's nawse-pipes as indirectly the cause of ber wreck. - Within a few days of the storm a condition of things resembling order had been brought about, ine marines and Uataafa's police had been actively at work in this direction. The Germans and Americans bold me morial services at different dates for the dead. At the German service Admiral Kimberly and other American officers attended. Only about one-fourth of the bodies have been recovered. Some of these were badly mutilated. It was difficult to identify them. or even to tell the nationality, and it was finally determined to bury all at one spot together. A body, thought to be that of Captain Schoonmaker. was found up the coast some miles distant from the immediate scene of the disaster. WASHfflGTOH .TOPICS. Neirs Notes and Gossip From the National Capital. LATER NEWS. A VOTE MUBDEEEE'S END. . FAULTS FULL OF MONET. Counting the Millions In the United . States Sub-Trcaaury. Assistant Treasurer Ellis II. Roberts has begun his official duties at the United States Sub-Treasury in New York, and as required by law there is to be an official count of all the money turned over to his charge. The count ot tho rash in the Treasury vaults was begun by fifteen' experts from astungton, under tho direction of Asattta Cashier J. F. Meliuo. of the United States Treasury. Tho work started with the count ing of the Paper money, gold and silver cortiii cates and United States Treasury noted. which aggregate about $25,0)0,ooo. fkido the paper money thero are floy.rtV.niiO of gold and $32,000,000 silver to be counted, in addition to United States bomU and other securities. The work ot counting this im mense sum ot money will occupy from threo weeks to a month, when the Assistant Treasurer will give his receipt for the amount m tne vaults. THE FATTEST WOMAN DEAD. Death' of Hannah llaltcrsby. tho 'FrcAk Weighing 800 Pounds. Mrs. Hannah Battersby, said to bo tho largest woman in the world, died a few days go at her home in Frank! ord, a suburb ot FhiladelDbia. She had been ailing tor sev eral weeks. Mrs. Battersby was Lorn in Vermont in 1S43, and was ot normal size un til her twelfth vear. Then sho began to develop, and at seven teen years of age she weighed &X) pound-. She married ohn Battersby, who traveled with her, exhibiting himself "as the greatest living skeleton." Mrs. Battersby, at tha time of her marriaxre. weizhed OS pound-. and of lata years her managers have claimed Amusing Scenes at a Dinner Given dj ine umnese mimsier. The dinner given by the Chlnoso Minister was in the nature of a compliment to the new Adxniiustration. .The Chineeo Minister gave his arm to Secretary Blaine, and escorted Llm to his seat at the table, which was direct ly opposite that of the Minister, each sitting at the centre of one ot .the long sides of the table. The Chinese Minister sat be tween Josticee Miller and- Blatrhford, and . Secretary Blain sat between Justices Bradley and Harlan. The dinner was thoroughly Occidental, so mucu so mat the two Mohammedans present, representing Turkey and Fersia. did full justice to tho wine course, and the Turkish Minister de parted so widely from his national usage as to appear wiinout ms xez. The reman Minister enjoyod himwif Im mensely, and afforded much entertainment to toe rest oi the company, iiors ot me Krintmatlons of the evening came from him. Obeerrins that two guests nee looted their snipe in ord or to carry on their conTersatioo, and that a servant was waitiug to lase uto plate away, he said farelicu.Uy: i ou not eat the bird, the bird Cy away." He insisted on talking luiglim, altnougn ne knows French perfectly, and his neighbors understood French, lie said in explaining his preference: 1 am American. I Lavo beauUf nl girl. very beauurui cin; sno teacii me rjigu.a long time. I rpeak KuglUh very good." In addition to this ne explained tuai lie understood Kngtih Lrrause he had Uwa in K-npiTHl, tie was aku now kxig newas there, and said eight hours, "llenty. too much," he added. At the close oi tue dnuu-r i.e said to an American guest, who had been laughing an 1 talking all tho way through the dinner: "Von not American. American have long fare, sit up straight, say nothing hke tbem," pointing to a group or tenaiorsana . wnn omc, who had cairn tunr way sxeaouv inrougu their menu without looking to tho right or to the left or exchanging a word witit anybody. in some caws because their netgubors spoke no English. After dJCner in the smoking room me min isters from China, Japan and Corea, who cannot understand each other's spoken lan guage, carried on a thrce-cornereil mnver- tion wiui pens ana taper, ior incir wmwn language is identical. Presidential I'otuiatcr. Tho Fmident lata in tlw afternoon ap pointed thirty-ix lYwidential prwtmait. Thirty were to CU vacancies cauA-d by do&th. resignations or terra expiring, axxi six to nil acanri.m causrd iy re movals. Among the appom tec are the f In lUiuoU Chicago, James A. Mantoon, Thomas A. Weaver; Alexander Stonec Danville. W. Jewell. Mi-wuri Clinton, J. P. Kansas Marion, Fred Springs, William March: Arg- t. liiM; Lawrence, L r . uooincK. lowing: Sexton; l'eoria. A. It. Schner. Baxter tine, D. Iowa West LiWrty, Jonathan Max on; Hhn andoah, T. N. Par. Penmylvania Ptinxa tawney, William C Tcrrcnce; 0rclo MilK David llamilton; Dunmore, Mi- Bridget Mooney. NEWSY GLEANINGS. y5 -uuseum of Natural History is com- ea, Professor Whitfield expects to ft ure for his department a complete col- "i.pn of foss.is showing the develou- Umit of these branches of animal life so a- f science has yet been Table to indi- Rte them. -'v'- j. rivunc. A Limit. She: "You are sure you love me?" Ho: "Love you? "Why, I am ready to die for you.' She: "When we're married will you al ways get up and start the kitchen fire?' He : "Er cr pray be reasonable, my dear." Epoch. steald on, but that her engines were not pow erful enough to save her. On the Tuesday following Mie disaster divers recovered the safe of tho Vandalia, which con tained $40,000. A rumor is current in Apia that the Ad miral and Consuls are endeavoring to ar range matters between Mataaf a and Tarrv asese, so as to induce them to' return to their homes until after the Samoan conference. There were somo disgraceful scenes at Apia, it appears, after the terrible disaster in the harbor on March 16. Some of the men rescued from the Ameri can and German war-vessels got drunk, and there was a good deal of feeling against the German sailors on the part of our men. Captain Fritz, the senior German officer. Italy has seventy-one vessels. Mrssissipn has 310,399 horses. ' Thc British nary has 337 vessels. A BiUC .syndicate has been formed. Thc Mexican Congress has opened. Loxoox has upward of 14,000 policemen. Wb have a standing army of 25,000 men. The Treasury of Quebec, Canada, is empty. Dickixbox Couktt, Kan., has a cat ranch. Thk stock of petroleum is 17,000,000 barrels. England's flour trust has fallen through. Natural gas is being found in Arkansas. The total Mormon population of Utah is 15-T,11. Italy has opened its universities to women. An immense pino-straw trust has been or ganized. Libby Prisox will soon bo removed to Chicago. Pi .tea pplx culture In Florida yields $400 per acre. - The cotton crop of 1SSS was the largest ever made. Chi.xa has only 193 inhabitants to tho square mile. The farms of Ohio are mortgaged for $375,000,000. The Russians are building grain elevators oa the lilacx bea. A Chisaxah has been lecturing in favor of prohibition in Minnesota. Socthxrx lumber manufacturers havo or ganized and put up prices. There was never a season more favorable for the flow ot maple sap. Six Juvenilo heirs and heiresses have been abducted within nve months. The output of lumber this year will be twenty per cent. loss man last. The range of observation from the top of tho Eiffel Tower is rorty miles. There are 13C5 foreign offices at the dis posal of the State Department. Railroad companies' statistics show that a very large business is being done. The revolt against the Germans in East Africa is spreading among tho natives. The premium on gold in the Argentine Re public has reached sixty-iour per cent. The logging season in the New England forests has bean an unusually snort one. Willi ah glass, of verndale, Minn., re cently ate five dozen eggs in thirty, minutes. Mexico's exhibit in the Paris Exposition wll include 12,000 specimens ot minerals of various kinds. Gsveral Boulasoer has made applica tion to the Swiss Government for permission to reside in Geneva. Several people have gone Insane at Vic toria, British Columbia, victims of the Salva tion army excitement. The tobacco crop of Kentucky, which Is now being put on the market, amounts to nearly 300,000,000 pounds. 'Several young clergymen have been caught stealing Dr. Ta Image's sermons, and new cases are reported almost dally. . - Two Vermont hunters trapped last winter. near 'Bradford, over 100 foxes, on which they received a State bounty oi nxty cents on a fox. The debt of North Carolina has been re duced from $18,377,000 to $U30LOOO. and the latter amount is now being refunded in new 4 per cents. Phosphate lands in South Carolina are boomine. Land that sold for $00 an acre six months ago is now held at from $JO0 to $nuO an acre. Three tracts, averaging from 300 to 400 acres each, have been sokt at prices rang ing from $00,000 to iu,uw. Itanks Ilcserro Agents. The Comptroller of the Currrory has ap proved tho selection of tho United StaUw National Bank of New York as reserve agent for the Third National of Syrarnse: al the select ion of the Third Nat ion! of New York for the First National of South Am! jot, N. J.. and for the Kirt National of Harrfcdurg. 11L: the Ninth National of New York for the First National of Canton. Penn. ; the Hanover of New York for the Central National of Philadelphia; tho National Bank of New York for tho First National of Sheffield, Ala.; tho First National of Fargo, Dakota, and the Pint NaUmal of Lampasas, Texas, alio thc Chare National Hank as reserve agent lor tne i mm rattonai of Detroit and tho Firt National of Mirvt, Iakota; tho Hanover National of M-wnw, Teohas F. BCAXLAjr. a piano manafao turer of Boston and Roxbury, Mass-, has failed for $300,000. The ferryboat New Eronrwick, wUea plied between New York dry and the Penn sylvania station ia Jersey City, was bvrned to the water's edge, earning a loss ot ICS, 000. WnxiAJ T. Mxxxix, aged nine, died at Fall FJTer, Mssa, of hydroTbotia, Tie was bitten oo March 17. and the wound was al lowed to heal without being cauterized. Gexkjux. Bjlxcel KxjrxiDT Dawsox, United States Army, retired, died at Orange, N. J, aged sixty. He was bom la Pecnryl. vaaia, and graduated at West Point la Jakes Fmx was fatally shcsaT Os wife at Butler, Perm. Mrs. PieUs was TeadL&g a book and ber hatband ordered ber to come to bed. She trefused, be struck her and the shooting followed. Before dying TteUt exonerated his wife, saying she had shot In self-defense. When Mrs. FMds appeared at the coroner's Inquest her face was rruuhed al most beyond recognition. The Standard Oil Company has purchased a controlling interest la the Ohio Oil Com pany, thus coming Into po irioo of the lima oil fields. It Is estimated that twenty-five lives were lost daring the recent prairie fires La Dakota, THJtl United Bute Pension Agent, Bar ger, of Col ambus, Ohio, has yost made the payment of the larreat voucher ever paid to a private soldier. PhUlp Flood. oC Elyria. is the beneficiary. He Is so be paid at the rate of $3 per month from Nov. 14, 2EC2; $25 per month from July 4, ISM; $31-35 from Jane 4, 1S72; $00 per month from Jan 4, 1574; $73 per month from Jan 17, 197 making a total ef $14,900. From this tim cn be wd be paid $73 per month. The National Academy of Science held a meeting at Washington and the foBowtcc; ckm were elected: PresUcnt, O, a Marsh, of New Haven, Conn, re-elected President for a term ot six years, and Prof essor F. P. Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution, Vice-President for a tianrar term. S crrxrrrrxrj trr Bell, ef the Fareia Mails Office, has received a comsnmkatiori from the postal authorities of Germany re cotnmeoding the estah&hsMCt ot sm post offices" for the distribution cf German- Ameri can nulls cn shipboard. Red Clocd, the tig Sioux Indian Chief, called on the Presidccjt accompanied by Agent Jordan, ot tb Rosebod Agency. Fro one hundred to one hundred and fifty fourtb-claas port .t titers are cow being ap pointed dally. Tax Preaidect made the foQowisg appoint ments: Robert P. Porter, of New York, edi tor ot Us Was, to be Sapcrinteodent cf Census; J. W. Cunningham to be Assayer ot the United Slates Assay Office, at Botae City, Idaho; CTCliam IL Calkins, ot Washington Territory, to be Associate Jostle cf the Supreme Court of Waddngton Territory; John B. Donnelly to be Marsha of the United States for the Eastern Dictrict of Ixxdsiana, and ex-Congressmta Edward 8. Lacy, cf Michigan, to be Comptroller cf the CurreacT. Cholera Is rptdemie la the Phllilppine Inlands. One thousand five hundred cmr are reported, of which 1000 have proved fateL While engaged In reroovirg wires and telegraph poles in New York city, tinder the rjperrliion of the Bureau of Encuabrsoces, two men were pubVd from three-rtory win dow and cim. Early, was instantly killed. W. M. CaLLXXDER, the President of the Newark (N. J.) Inflating and Waterproof- John II. Swift Hanged at Hartford 111 Sister's Unavaillnjg CSorta. John H. Swift, Las been tasgtd at Ilirt ferd. Conn-, for the murder of his wif. Tb execution was a very quiet oo, and the con demned man died qvWJj. The dead man's crime was cnmmittl on July 7, IS?. ben be shot Lis wif who bad mosnl to bv wnh him on account ot Lis diaK&te baUts. Psb bc attention baa bwn attracted to Snft's ram by the gallant Cf tt mad far hU U by his sirter, a young r W4 tecnr. Throe u ber effort a Testation was pKd by ti litltur rrwurauting the twctna to U tmpTMotnent tct Govrrnor Boikley vetoed It. UndaacM. the brave girl again went to wrvk and rorrlM tn tanag th rtrration nucd orr th OowwT'i vt by tb t- at. la the llau he t aUed, however, rotmc was carrvel out. - - and BITTSNBY A MONEY. A Princes Coins to Paris to hz Trratc 1 by Pasteur. The Paris CauloiM says that the Prior-- ef Sags a, a noted leader ot fashkn, was U'.tea a short time ago by a pet monkey, which has since died from tydrcbobia. The Priao, th pap" or, is about to vUit i'aris fcr Ux tutt'o ot potting benrif under th oar cf M. i'asteur. the noted brdrovboti mrprt. Idaho, and the Nntk-nal Bank of the lUL- ' ' . n .1 lie for the People's NaUonal cf Paola. Kan- big Company, Is mbaicg, with $400,000 of thecocpany s runos. sas. A Locllou by Wlodonu In reeponse to a letter received from J. O. Hague. New Ycrk, Secrvtary Wlivlom laa deckled that machinery belonging to foreign manufacturers, who d"ared to transport their entire plant to the United States, could not be allowed to enter free of duty, and that the transportation of workmen U com over with the plant would bo a violation of the tron tract Labor law. Emancipation Day. The colored people celebrated their emanci pation iu Washington with a large pnxed military, civic ami ira-if. 1 no 1 reflect. Secretaries Windora, Noble, Iroctr anl P.uk, Postmatcr-(eneral V anamaker and Attomey-CJeneral Miller reviewed tho parado from the portico of the White Hou Iublic meetings were held and addressed by Itev. w. l. iJcmck, 01 new loric, ana lion. Frederick Douglass. QUEER BAILEOAD WBEOK. Freight Train Sinks Into a Fallen-! n Coal Mine. A remarkable freight wreck occurred on the Cairo Short Line, two miles from Belle ville, I1L, the other morning. A freight train was running toward Belleville. The track was clear ahead, when suddenly, without any warning, the road-bed began to sink, and the engineer and fireman felt themselves rapidly dropping below the surfac of the rrounduig country. 1 bey jump! ior their lives, and - both escaped with a few bruises. Th engine and train went down a distance of ten fret and a terriSe wreck followed. The cars, engine and freight were smaahed and destroyed in the earth. As soon as the frightened trainmen could recover their wits, they lamM that the train was over Marsh's cral mine, and that th mine had caved it. Along the track for a distance of 100 feet the road had sunk from eight to ten feet. Two brakemen, who went down with the wreck, were iwiouilT hurt. A DEADLY MELEE. Four Men Killed In a Fight C. I ween Guards and lloomer. A dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark., tayt: Thc rush for Oklahoma I diminishing rapidly. Great destitution is sure to follow, and it is not unlikely that Governmental relief wUl bo invoked to provide for sufferers. Word has been received of a confiict between partio of tjoomcrs, cattle men and I3ikajaw lotk-eattho lord at CTitsholras cattle trtuL forty miles wet ot Uklahoraa City. The cattle men were taking several hundred ani mals from Frank Colbert's ranch, in the Chick asaw Nation, to Kansas, but the mounted lolico guarding the southern border t Okls- horna refused to permit them to um the Chi- holm trail lending through tne new territory A ficht enxued in which the cattle men wrru reinforced by a party of bnornersfrora Cko and Fanning Counties, Texas. One cf th guards, two cattlo men and one Ivmcr, named ueiss, were k.u-i in tne intav. Nxak.lv every wrt-lioonl vrain on the Chk-ajroL Milwaukee St. l'aul lUilroad ear. rit from five to a down emigrant ears filled with emigrants fur IakoU, a majority of whom are Germans. Th lUkota towns ranidlv ftltinjr up with stranger, and the live liest kind of a boom is looked for during th toming summer. AT Farmlngton, Penn., an ore mine, the haft of which Is 125 ft Wp, eared tn. Eighteen men were in the mino ami a down of them were partially covered with th fall ing taais. Richard Ettinger was crushed to death. There were twenty-five easrsof smallpox in Nantkoke, Penn. Tb discas arpeared to lie prealing In all directions. L. Bra Dro an Prix ex was inaugurated as Governor of New Mexico. Natural gas was turned into the pipes In Dsyton, Ohio, for th first time. Extra prea- lure was put on at the wells in Mercer Coun ty and the gas traveled through th pipes forty-eight miles to Dayton in twenty-Cv xdnutes. AT Mads tea, FU-. I ac Jones (rdem!) as taulted his four-yrar-oVl daughter with a beavy Iron bar, iTeaking every bone in ber body and killing her Instantly. Jones' wife, who attempted to interfere, also received fatal injuries. Perry Wise, a weU-fcaown ciuxen cf Brockton County, W. Va was felling a tree. when it broke acre the-stomp, demolishing the house, and killing histwif and three chil dren. A facxage containing $li,CO0 la gold myvteriouUy diapperod from the offio of the Northern racilk: Erpm Lompaay la Brainerd. Minn. Additiosal nominations by th PresJdViit: HarveUe W. Cooper, ot New Y ark. to t Appraiser cf MerrhandUe in the Dutrict ot New York ; Marshal J. CcrbeU, of New orx, to be Assistant AppraW of Mrchandi la the District of New York; Timothy Guy Pbclps to be Collector of Owtooa forth District of San Frsnwo; F. Soowatea UZX at Maryland, to be Collator of Internal Revenn for the District of Maryland, and John H. Coxxens, cf Rhode Idand, to b Col lector of Cuitocu foe the DurUict oCN export. R.L Tn E Mexican Government has accepted the invitation and will be duly reprtsented at the International Marine Ccjrdereno to beheld at WsAhington, Octoljer 1S. THE Town Council of Fdiaburgh, Scotland, THE LAB OB WOBLD. Tax iron Wad is very l&actiTe. A siuc bI3 is to be erected at Lyachocrg, A shoe factory is to bct at Raleigh, S.C Rx viral wlk dill are to be boCt la Pcs:j rylTtxia. The thrte labor stnkcs la Bosla, V. Y, ire rtiU co. Tee boaVry pirrartcrcrs are crowded with work. IT cxi art. la for ot a labor shortsga. Las fortaddea ecnJrraUon. Is Spartantbcrg County. S. CL, ther are eight cotton t&iUs m operation. Tcrrstxjrias. Ala-, er porta soon to bar a $100, OJ0 boot and shoe factory. Is Great Britain there are 23 Ua-fiat cilia, erapkrytzg ICO.O'J) baals. A central strikcf thetirwt-raSwsy era f loycs ta Mbineapolis Is Ujrtateoed. Karrr. ot Germasy, Is pcttisg cp a Ug mill to turn out dot war tuaterui. The of Wcaa arecrcAtirlg wilb a view to ttr.4ir.g for tigtxr wagea. OadAjrtxcn labor la making precjaratloa for th eighth boor strik next year. The Wba Ua plate makers bar abaa duod their a:tec4 to f era a trust. Nrw ExcLtrD shoemakers eoc'so to leave larre ottes fee country phkcea. Ksoxvills and NaAhvde, Tcca ar Ixo Ing up as great manuXactansg oecters. ' The rr-makir.g ladtissry throogboct lb Ututed Mates u txite. Tber are UCO Ci'.'.'.S. Tux Uazi rriatirg piint In tb world Is that prJd over by tb United States lnUic Printer. Poo a cotton, poor weather, high spewl make the threads break often sod tr.sk e the wearer's hie a bore. It b reoball that Fesuifvlvania wQ P- nropriate $00,0CO to Istrodace nsnnsl train ing la public schools. A GerhaS inaauf actcrer now vbitiag America asys America leads the world la tho La ot shoe rw-hlnery. A x expert wvaver can care for eifct fcjoxss ; be works la aa el! wi'di fear Ixsns before tim and four behind Lira. New York Stat Is maintaining 30 Idio. roavkts. many cf whom ar epea th very of insanity from lack cf week. Worc has beea reursd la sixteen eoUier-. les at UHkrabarr that bad been til for some time, setting to work GXJQ pecjio. NO MawKvchuwtU railroad wUl bir a un b signs a eoctract not to begin suit f da&ias ia ease be is injured. The strike cf the female feather-workers cf New York city f sited only after a V-ruggi' Almcc w.tboci paralkl ia tho birtory of strikes. Turx-Z U w'x! to K ceva wcnaa la lb Cu Wiieg d.-rrtmmt cf th watch fartery at . Waliham, Mta., able to do mca's work f or oro's joy. . rrmi jw'i li- workers an a3 orpcel to tcohiU:k. as tb bottle trslo boo of th Wrrrt and most luo-Ur branches c- their Industry. Kansas has been oLgd to break a rrii labor eoutract for the rather novel reai tbat she Las not enough avaHablo room la the penitentiary to fill it. James O. Batttrsov. tb. Inssrane mill kxiaire, of Hartford. Cooa was originaJy a mart4e cutter, and i sail to know more atout turjUc ccturg than say ether tsaa clire. has divided, by a vote of eight to five, tocon- fiT Ue freedom of the city on Mr. ParnelL A raaisB was rsgiajt at Bicxe, Wuag and BistriU, Hungary. Hundreds or persons were starving and dying. A "WHITE BOOE" iemed by Germany coo- tains a savage rrbuk by IMncjaBiiznarck ot Consul KnappjR, tb German Consul ia Apia, Samoa. rrinre-Bianarck conclude tb re port by declaring that Germany has nothing to do with th Internal aairt ot Samoa. Tb German mhion In Samoa Is restricted to protecting German citixms, and enabling them to develop their crsnmereial interests. , The Roumanian Pariiamect baa voted a credit of $3,000,000 for rtrengtheniag and In creasing th tortiZcmliaoM on th froc'-ier. MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO Patti charges more every yenr. Mart A s oersos It Improving very rapidly. Jcua Marlowe, the tragedienne. Is well Clara MorrXS tas recovered from ber re refit lilijJteflL. Halvisi. tb Italian trsgrdlaa, was bora in Mdaii. Italy. Tms (ra Uoum at Derby, If. IL, was re cently lirrvL Cogvt i iv. the roch cciroedlAa, is a clow itudent of history. A MTts ct Erangelirt Saza Small Is sing, irg in KngUh op-ra. Is vino's prout oct ot "Macbeth" ia Lco- (k Is rerkced at O a week. Little I dro Favstlerot U laying t rrnw-dvd bm in ban Fraorisro. - Victories Kar&oc, th French drs.rr.stld, ronten'.plates a vtut to this cocaar. A CatsrsE dramatle eoctpaay wUl be one ot the novelties la New York next ww . LmtA Tnoarsos, th burWwitter, Is to naak ber j-rmaoetj bom la this eocctry. Enwis Boom has entirely ncovwrwJ bU blth and mcmed bis tour with Mr. Bar rriL Baraa Jswett wO ftxJtmllj Join Ua Madiwa Sj-jats (New York) Theatre forrew next seJjnii. Km ma Arson's Inonro from br rente Is $7i. a year, and ber staging brters br VCin more. pHiLAir Lrtii a surrorU a rrmaot eoen- Iay ot jxiuvtrrU. and U lb only city la tb country that do. -Asotuxr AmfeVaa siarrr. Miss Jeaan Daowl. has mte a scoceson the cvorert 4alf M-m tt IkrUa. Mas. iVTTsa b now a drsmatic tefbvJ So is tearbuig a yoosg Udj, a tnee&trr c Lev eomfajsy, bow to act. Maxmielu's prcdacOoo of 'PJcbard IILi la Ieulon ot kncril. tb armor ako 14 lug arroaoUtie far $:a.0ua Antcix Bi-srvstu wt3 conMcrate'vti 1 f.flirih a&atrvrHU-T of hi CrX pvtw j, fcroanc 00 J uly sAl twit. The prruliar maWiy tkb U proaraUt 1 a trvaoy jktnw Is caJinl "It by a Ital dr?;-Lia oVx-ter. wbo says that tt Is a daxr rni and pJi xs ALwmm ot th Uiwuea. Da. JoACXia. tb famous vk4imtt tl I CfUrth annlrersary ot whoa pwtiie carw 1 was rrrrslly crrrd la Germany U rKXsth, W-extwil to iiT on a tey vW:a ti l a was Or years cC a1 arared before the pobSie as a wioirt fr ihm Lrt use ttjri jwi later. lit U rl la th prta cf LU.