DANIEL MANNING.
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Death of Mr. Cleveland's First
Secretary of the Treasury,
Xhe Funeral Attended By the
President and' Cabinet.
Ex-.reretary of the Treasury, Daniel
Manning, died on Saturday at the residence
of his son in Albany. He passed away peace
fully in presence of his family. Immediately
rn reoeint of the news in Wash-
inrtrn. President Cleveland issued an
-.ler directing that the flags on
all public buildings in the Capital be dis
nlaved at half mast, and also sent a message
of sympathy to Mrs. Manning. Secretary
Fain hild ordered that the lreasury building
he draped in mourning for ten days, and tnat
the Department be closed on the day of the
funeral, liovernor tun and many otner
prominent people sent messages of condolence
to Mrs. Manning.
Mr Manning was born in Albany in 1531,
and at the age of eleven years became the
office loy in the Albany Allan; atterward
merited into the Aniua. He steadily rose
rhrouzh the grades of "devil," printer, fore
man, reporter, editor, business manager to
nil interest in the paper. In lST.i Mr. Man
ning became President of the Argus
Publishing Co. In IS 4 he also became
President of the National Chemical Bank of
Albany. Mr. Manning was hrst known
prominently in politics as the intimate friend
. -i - m j i
and trusted adviser oi air. inaen,
and later was mainly instrumental in
securing the nomination of Mr. Cleve
land for President. Mr. Manning
entered President Cleveland's Cabinet as
Secretary of the Treasury, but was ultimate
ly comielled to retire on account of ill
health. Alter his retirement Mr. Manning took
a. trip to Europe, and upon his return
accepted the presidency of the West
ern National Bank, a newly formed
financial institution in New York. A few
weeks ago, feeling poorly, he went to Albany
for a rest, but gradually grew worse, until
at last his deatli became a foregone con
clusion. Mr. Manning was married for the
second time in 1SS4. His first wife died in
1NS2, leaving four children.
President Cleveland and his Cabinet at
tended the funeral of Mr. Manning at Albany
on Tuesday. Private religious services were
held in the presence of the family of deceased
at his son's home, and later there
was a public funeral at St. Paul's
Church, conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Rose, Bishop Doane, of the Protestant
Episcopal Dioceso of Albany: the Rev. Eli
phalet Nott Potter, President of Hobart
College, and eight other Episcopal clergy
men of Albany. President Cleveland and
the members of his Cabinet were
assigned prominent places in the church.
Governor Hill and the State officers, Mayor
Thacher, of Albany, the Common Council
and city officers, and many other people of
note were present.
The pall-bearers were Manton Marble, R.
W. Peckham, Senator Gorman, of Maryland;
Charles G. Canda.Sidney "Webster, Conrad N.
Jordan, Erastus Corning, Roscoe Conkling,
S.W.Rosendale, Sam. J. Randall, John H.Van
Antwerp, and Pascal P. Pratt. The burial
was in the Rural Cemetery. After the funeral
the President and the Cabinet returned, to
Washington.
A NAPHTHA EXPLOSION.
Pour Persons Killed. Three Missinj;
and Twenty Injured.
An accidental discharge of 14,000 gallons
of naphtha in one of the main sewers at
Rochester, N. Y. , on "Wednesday, produced
the most sensational and uncommon disaster
that city or any other ever experienced.
Soon after three o'clock the heavy stone
covering of a manhole of the Piatt street
sewer was blown off by a terrific explosion,
and then almost immediately another
explosion occurred beneath the Clin
ton Flouring Mill on Mill street.
The upheavals were followed by
sheets of name that burst out with great fury
to a hight of sixty feet. The Clinton mill
took fire first, and the flames spread quickly
to the Washington mill and the Jefferson mill,
These three mills and contents were de
stroyed, involving a loss of $200,000. The
first explosion was followed quickly by others
along Mill and Piatt streets, and at several
Ioints en West avenue, m iking over forty in
all, and extending along four miles of sewers.
In each case the manhotes were ail blown to
pieces,and in many places flames shot up and
continued to burn fiercely for several minutes.
The explosions were so violent as to hurl
rocks into buildings and against pedestrians,
causing a panic throughout the whole region
traversed by the sewers.
Four persons were killed, three reported
missing and twenty badly injured. The cause
of the peculiar disaster was an attempt to
pump the naphtha from the Vacuum
Oil Company's tanks through a two-mile con
duit to the Municipal Gas Com any's works
near the center of the city. The naphtha
became ignited aud exploded.
HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.
A Colored Man Kills His Wife, Six
Children and H. mself.
The murder of seven people and the suicide
of the murderer has furnished Wrth county,
in Southwest Georgia, with a s.natior
Nathan Reid, a negro, livu unuappdy with
his wife. Reid murdered his wife and six
children and then tired the house, which was
entirely destroyed, neariy cremating the
corpses within it.
After the crime Reid cut several gashes in
Ms throat with a knife; but apparently find
ing this too painful a method of end ng his
me, he leaped into hi well and wis drowned.
His bloo 1-stained bladi was found oa the
curbing of the welL It is believed that his
mind was temporarily unbalanced.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Faster and Middle Star.
Massachusetts is sending pauper immi
giants back to Europe by the ship load.
A New York syndicate with $20,000,000
capital will build elevated railroads in
Chicago.
A GorzaxMEvr steamer was dispatched
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to search for
the mammoth raft lost while it was being
towed from Nova Scotia to New York.
A fire in the business section of Pittsburg,
jrenn., damaged property to the extent or
Six miners were terribly burned" by" an ex
plosion of fire-damp in a coal mine at Ply
mouth, Penn.
"Bill" Smith, a negro in Philadelphia who
made a practice of stealing boys clothing
and leaving them naked, has been sentenced
to seventeen years imprisonment.
Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden, the well
known geologist, died in Philadelphia.
The discharge of five train crews and env
ployment of non-union men by the Reading
Railroad at Port Richmond, Penn., caused
a strike.
Earthquake shocks have been reported
from New Bedford, Mass., Newport, It. 1.,
and other points in that region.
South and West.
Heavy blizzards and intense cold have re
sulted in much suffering in many sections of
the West and Northwest. Four people are
reported dead in Clark County, Kansas, from
tne cold, while near Dighton, in that State, a
woman and her two children are known to
have perished.
Weeping Water, Neb., has been almost
totally destroyed by fire.
Baltimore oyster pirates defeated a party
of city officers in a naval engagement with
snotguns.
Five bond robbers and incendiaries in jail
at Tompkins ville, Ky., were taken out by a
mob and lynched.
The sheriff and two deputies of Norman
County, Minn., while attempting to arrest
the Hohnadel family, were set upon by the
husband, wife and tour sons and severely
beaten. The two deputies were fatally in
jured.
Georoe Williams (colored), was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of a
fellow convict.
Washington.
Senator Stanford, just before the Senate
took its holiday recess, made the fourteen
Senate pages happy by presenting each with
a nve-dollar bill.
Congressman Seth C. MoFFATT,of Michi-
an, died in a Washington hospital a few
ays since, of blood poisoning, the result of a
carbuncle on his face.
Four Territories Montana, Washington,
Dakota and Utah want Congress to admit
them as States.
Confirmations by the Senate: Samuel
T. Williams, of Maryland, to be Secretary of
.Legation in Brazil, and U. S. Straus, Min
ister to Turkey.
A statement has been nrenared at the
Pension Office which shows tnat the average
length of military service of soldiers m the
last war who have during the last three
months been granted "invalid" pensions is
two years, four months and thirteen days.
The average length of service of soldiers
whose widows have been granted pensions
during thesame period is two years and
eighteen days. The service of sailors in the
navy for the same period averages one year,
ten months and three days.
Senator John Sherman denies the state
ment which has been extensively circulated
that he had withdrawn from the Presidential
race.
Foreign.
The German Crown Prince's physicians
are once more hopeful of a recovery.
Baracoa was swept by a huge wave, and
many houses were destroyed.
Father Matthew Ryan, promoter of the
plan of campaign against the British Gov
ernment in Ireland, has been sentenced to
one month's imprisonment.
There are ominous rumors of an alliance
formed between England, Germany, Austria
and Italy for united action against Russia in
case of war.
Harry Dennison, a Canadian hunter,
found a nude man in a hut, half starved and
almost dying. The man had lost his way,
and for twenty-five days had subsisted on
bark and snow.
An explosion of dynamite in a Nova Scotia
granite quarry killed four men.
Several earthquake shocks have been felt
lately in Lima, Peru.
An immense locomotive just completed at
Paris is expected by its builder to accom-pl-sh
a spe?d C ninety-three miles an hour.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK. 51
Beef, good to prime 6
Calves, common to prime.... 5
Sheep
Lambs 5
Hogs Live 5 60 5
Dressed
Flour Ex. St, good to fancy 4 50 4
West, good to choice 3 10 5
Wheat No. 2 Red SU
Rye State 56
Barley State 82
Corn Ur graded Mixed.... 60
Oats White iState 37
Mixed Western 36
Hay Med. to prime 75
Straw No. 1. Rye 75
Lard City Steam 7 85 8
Butter State Creamery.... 26
Dairy.... 19
West. Im. Creamery 17
Factory 14 gi
Cheese State Factory 10
Skims 7
Western HK
Eggs State and Penn 24
buffalo.
Steers Western 3 25 3
Sheep Good to Choice 4 10 4
Lambs Western 5 25 65 5
Hogs Good to Choice Yorks 5 55 5
Flour Family 4 75 5
Wheat No. 1 85K
Corn No. 2, Mixed
Oats No. 2, Mixed 36
Barley State. 75
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6
5
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85
75
20
90
58
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BOSTON.
Beef Good to choice.
70
Hogs Live.
Northern Dressed.... 6t 14
Pork Ex. Prime, per bbL . . 17 00 (2 17 50
Flour Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 4 95
Corn High Mixed. a 56W
Oats Extra White 36 S6f
Rye State " 60 65
WATKRTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef- Dressed weight 7 1i
Sheep Live weight 4 4
Lamb 5 53
Hogs Northern 6 6i
PHILADELPHIA
Flour Penn. extra family... 3 75 3 87f
Wheat No. 2, Red 87 8?
Corn State Yellow 56 55V
Oats Mixed SS 38f
Rye btate 52X(3 53
Butter Creamery Extra... 30
Cheese N. Y. Full Cream.. 12 Vipf
A YEAR'S NECROLOGY.
Prominent Men and lVomen
Who Died in 18S7.
A Long List of Celebrities of Va
rious Kinds and Degrees.
A list of the people of note who died be
tween December 26, 18S6, and "December 26,
1S37, is given below -
National Celebrities Aiken, ex-Governor
William, of South Carolina; Astor,
M rs. John Jacob; Barron, General Robert
1., Confederate officer; Bartlett, Governor
Washington, of California; Blackburn,
ex-Governor Luke, of Kentucky; Bod well.
Governor Joseph R., of Maine; Cleveland,
Hon. Chauncy r, ex-Governor of Conneeti
cut; Clark, Freeman, ex-Comprroller of the
Currency; Cregan, CaptainMichael, the fa
mous New York politician; Cilley, Colonel
Joseph, of New Hampshire: Connor, James
M., type founder, of New York; Chandler,
Hon. William, of Connecticut; Dean,
Henry (lay, ex-Chaplain of the
Uninted States Senate; Dodge, J. Wesley,a
well-known inventor, of Maiden, Mass. ;
Fowler, Professor O. S., Phrenologist.
Gibbs, Ex-Goveinor of Oregon; Gardner,
Captain William, Inventor of the Gardnei
gun: Holley, Ex-Governor A. IL, of Con
necticut; Hill. A. B., President of the New
York Stock Exchange; Hunter, Hon. R.
R. M. T. : Halliday, Ben, of ponv express
fame; Kallock, Rev. Dr. I. S.;"Kimmel,
William, of Baltimore, ex-Member of Con
gress; Leavenworth, General Elias W. , of
New York ; Lawrence, General Albert Gal
latin, of Newport; Manning. Hon. Thomas
C. ; Manning, Hon. Daniel; Miller, ex-Governor
William R., Arkansas; Moody, Rev.
Granville, of Ohio, known as the '-fighting
parson;" Morrill, ex-Governor Anson P., of
Maine; Mitchell, Hon. Alex.; Moffet Seth
C, Member of Congress from Michigan;
Newton, General R. C, of Arkansas; Po
land, Hon. Luke P., of Vermont; Preston,
General William, of Kentucky; Palmer,
General George W., of New York; R03S,
ex-Governor William H., of Delaware;
Roach, John, the famous ship-builder;
Reed, Hon. Isaac, of Maine; Rounds, S.
P., formerly public printer; Rainey, ex
Congressman Joseph H. ; Sprague, Isaac,
the living skeleton; Smith, lion. William,
ex-Governor of Virginia; Stevens, General
A. F., of Nashua, N. H. ; Sargent, ex-Senator
Aaron A., of California; Smith,
Francis C, of the New York Weekly;
Travers, William R., New York stock
broker; Taylor, John, president of the
Mormon Church; Upchurch, J. J., of
Missouri, founder of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen; Weston, George M.,
librarian of the U. S. Senate ; heeler,
ex-Vice President William A.; Wolfe,
Catherine L., of New York.
Untied States Army Clarke, Brevet
Major General Henry F. ; Duncan, Brevet
Brigadier General Thomas; Dunn, Briga
dier General William McKee, retired; Em
ory, General William H., Retired; Eogan,
General Thomas W. ; Hazen. General Will
iam B., chief signal officer; Krzyaznowski,
Brigadier General Valdemir, one of the
Polish revolutionists and an officer in the
civil war; Marcy, Brigadier General Ran
dolph B. ; General William Penn; McAlis
ter. Colonel Jonathan; Mcllrath, Major
James P.. of the secret service; McLaugh
lin, General Napoleon B. ; Potter, General
Robert B. ; Powell, Lieutenant J. S., of the
signal corps; Rickets, General James B. ;
Ropley, General Roswell S.; Smith, General
Thomas Kilby; Stone, General Charles P.
United States Navy Craven, Rear Admir
al Thomas T. ; Cushing, Paymaster Milton
B. ; Danenhower, Lieutenant John Wilson;
Greene, Rear Admiral Theodore P,, re
tired; Commodore Charles, retired; Gard
ener, Lieutenant Commander Thomas M. ;
Johnson, Commodore P. C, commandant
Portsmouth Navy Yard; Lull, comman
dant Edward P.; Mullany, Rear Admiral
J. R. M. ; Nicholson, Rear Admiral J. W.
A. ; Truxton, Commodore William T. , re
tired. Distinguished Foreigners Allsopp, Sir
Henry; Brinz, Professor Aloys, German
i'urist; BoeTzenburg, Count Arno, formerly
'resident of the Reichstag; Ballantine,
Sergeant, the noted English advocate;
Boaet, Rear Admiral of the French Navy;
Boucicault, Mme., of the famous Bon
Marche, Paris; Browne, Sir Thomas Gore,
English officer; Baker, General Valentine
(Baker Pacha); Bresford Hope, Rt. Hon.
H. J.; Cherif Pacha, formerly Prime Min
ister of Egypt; Czarloryski, Prince, Aus
trian politician ;Depetis, Augustine, Italian
Premier; Dalhousie, Lord and lady; Gor
don, Admiral George Thompson, English
officer; Hy merle, General, Vienna, dis
tinguished military writer; Iddlesbergh,
Earl, British Minister foreign affairs;
Jessopp, Hon. Thomas, Suffield, Eng,.
known as 'the steel king;'1 Jachmann.
Vice-Admiral of the Prussian Navy; Katoff
Michael N., Russian, editor; Krupp,
Frederich, famous gun maker: Lyons, Rt.
Hon. Richard. B. P.; Lonng Gen.
W. N. (pacha) ; Marie, Princess of Wurtcm
burg; McArthur, Sir William, ex-lord
mayor of London ; Metcalfe. Maj. Gen. Sir
Charles; Prince Chung, father of the Chi
nese emperor; Pellissier, Phillippe, distin
guished French general; Smy the, Gen.Wm.
J., English officer; Sternberg, Biron, Rus
sian general; Stern, Baron, English finan
cier: Tabley, Baron, ex-treasurer of the
queen's household; Werder, Gen. August,
Prussian officer: Wagiadalee, Sha, ex-king
of Oude; Wolverton, Baron.
Literature Andrews. Jane, of Newbury
port, Mass. ; Brassey, Lady, the well-kno xn
traveler and author: Cobb, Sylvanus, of
Hyde Park ; Craike, Dinah Maria Mulock;
Crawford, Isabella Valancy, Canadian
author; Domet. Alfred: Durny, Jean Vic
tor, French historsan; Dekkar, Edward
D., Dutch author; Esquiros, Mme., French
novelist; Fleury, Alfred A., French author;
Feval, Paul, French author; Grant, James,
the novelist; Hewitt, Judge Oscar, Conn.,
Jeffries, Richard. English writer; Laighton,
Albert. of New Hampshire; Lazarus Emma.
Marlitr.E., French novelist; Marston, Philip
Bourke. the blind poet; Powell, Thomas, of
Frank Leslie's editorial staff: Peterson,
CharleJ., of Petersen's Ladies' Magazine.
Palmer, Be v. Dr. Ray; Saxe, John God
frey; Taylor, Benjamin F. ; Wood, Mrs.
Henry, English novelist.
Art Amorling, Frederich, Viennese painter;
Belleus, Albert E., French sculptor; Cola,
M. A., French historical painter; Edward,
Moira, miniature painter to Queen Victo
ria; Gallart, Louis, Belgian painter; Guil
laumet, GustaveA.. French painter: Hof
fer, the German sculptor; Hanson, Peter,
landscape artist, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Kram
skoi, J. N., Rusnan painter; Keyser, Ni
caise, Belgian painter; Lazerges, Jean R.
H., French painter; Moffit, John M., Eng
lish sculptor; Murer, German painter: Ou
dine, Euarene A-, French sculptor: Rous
seau, Phillippe, French paint t: Shaw, Miss
Annie C. ; Vischer, Frederick T., German
art critic; Volmering, Joseph, of New
York.
Music Couppey, Felix, Freneh musician;
Caracciolo, L.uigi, Italian composer; riup-
?i Filippo, musical critic of Milan; Henri,
Tofessor Eugene H.. of Providence, R.
I.; Lind. Jennv (Mme. Goldschmidt)
Noyes, Miss Abby A.; Oates, Alice, the
opera bonffe singer: Pasdelonn. Jules E.,
French composer: Rmenyi, Kduard, the
Hungarian violinist; Ryder, TP.; Salvi,
Matteo, Italian composer; Stoepel, August,
of New York; Strakonch, Maurice; Volck
mar, Profsssor Wilhelm, Prussian com
poser; Wolf, M-, of Pari.
Edccatiox Avery, Profeswnr John, of Bow
doin College; Barnes, Thomas Spencer,
Professor of logic; Hopkins, Rev. Dr.
Mark, of Williams College; Hitchcock;
Presiient Roswell D.,of Union Theological
Seminary. New York: Lyford, Professor
Moses, of Colby 'University; Mark bam,
Professor Albert, of Wisconsin; Olsney,
' Professor Edward, LL. Dt. of Ann Arbor,
Michigan; Peanon, Jonathan, of Union
CoIWe. 'ew York: Roote, Rev. Eleazer.
founder of Carroll College: Short,'Profewor
Charles, of Columbia College; Tustin, Rev.
Francis W., Bucknill University, Pennsyl
vania: Wary, Henry, for thirty years
President of Gerard Co!l-ge: Whit. ex
President John B., D.D., of Wakeforest
College, North Carolina: Webb, Profesor
J. R., of Michigan; Wheeler, Professor
John H., of the University of Virginia;
Science Appo'zer, Baron Theodore von,
Austrian astronomer; Baird. Irofessor
Spencer F. ; Cameron, William, explorer
and geologist; Caulfield. Richard; Eads.
Captain James B. ; Fairfield, Francis Gerry,
Hayd n, Dr. Ferdinand V., Iliiladelphik;
Xirchoff, Gustav R., German naturalist;
Pott, A. F., German philologist; Wagner,
Professor, the African traveler; Whit
worth, Sir Joseph, the famous engineer and
gun maker; Youmans, Professor E. L., ed
itor of Popular Science Monthly.
Law Ashe, Associate Justice Thomas S.,
of the Supreme Court, North Carolina;
Blackwood, Judge J. W. , of Rhode Island;
Berrv, Judge John M.,of Minnesota; Brad
ley, Joseph H., of Washington. 1). C. ; Cart
ter Chief Justice David K., of Washington;
Cameron. Hon. Sir Matthew, chief justice
of the Court of Common Pleas, Ontario;
Harris, Judge John W., of Texas; Jackson,
Judge Janie-, chief justice of Georgia;
KnowJes, Judge John P., of Rhode Island;
Lawson, Rt. Hon. James A., of the Court
of Queen's Bench, Ireland; Lochrane,
Judge A. O.. of Gorgia; Ritchie, Judge
John, of Maryland; Soule, Hon. Augustus
L-, ex-judge of the Massachusetts Supreme
Court; Speed, General James B-, ex-United
States attorney general: Woods, Justice
William B., of the United States Supreme
Court; Walbridge, Chief Justice, of Mani
toba; Young, Sir William, ex-chief justice
of Nova Scotia
Theology Binney, Hibbert, bishop of Nova
Scotia, Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward: Cain,
Bishop Richard Harvey, fourteenth bishop
of theM.E. Church; Curry, Rev. Dr. Daniel,
of New York; Eliot, Rev. Wm. Greenleaf ;
chancellor of Washington University, St.
Louis; Greene, Rt. Rev. Wm. M., bishop
of Episcopal diocese of Mississippi; Harris,
Bishop William L., of Nework; Kohr,
Bishop John, of Pennsylvania: Lee,
Rev. Dr. Alfred, first bishop of Dela
ware; McGettigan, Most Rev. Daniel,
Catholic archbishop of Armagh and pri
mate of all Ireland; McGrave, Very Rev.
Matthew A., vicar general of the Catholic
diocese of Wilmington, DeL; O'Reilly,
Bishop-elect James,of Kansas: Pitkin, Rev.
Timothy C, eminent Episcopal divine;
Post, Rev. Dr. Truman M., the father of
Congregationalism, Missouri; Potter, Rev.
Dr. Horatio, retired bishop of the Episeo-
Sal diocese of New York; Quinn, Rt. Rev.
Igr. , vicar general of the archdiocese of
New York; Randi, Cardinal Lorenzo, of
Rome; Wimmer, Archbishop Boniface,
Penn.
VIedicine. Aranyi, Professor Luis, Hun
garian anatomist; Clark, Dr. Alonzo, of
of the New York College of Physicians and
Sureeon3; Carnochan, Dr. John M., of New
York;Farre, Arthur, M. D., F. R. S., cele
brated English surgeon; Langenbeck, Bern
hardt, famous German surgeon; Perry, Dr.
WTdiam, of Exeter, N. H., oldest graduate
of Harvard.
A BROKEN EAIL.
Vearly Three Score I'eople Hurt On
a Wisconsin Railroad.
In the heart of the great pine forest be
tween Fairfield and Phillips, Wis., on the
Wisconsin Central road, the passenger
Vain that left Ashland at 7:30 p. M. was
wrecked a few days since by a broken
rail. When the broken rail was encountered
it threw the sleeping car and first and second
class coaches from the track, the baggage car
and engine remaining on the roadbed. The
rars were well filled with passengers, and but
few escaped without injuries of more or less
importance. There were sixty passengers
aboard. M. Montie, of Butternut, Wis., at
tempted to get out of the window when he
fell and was caught under the car
and crushed to a jelly. Conductor
C. H. Greenfield, who was passing
through the train, was caught in the
debris and held a prisoner between two tim
bers. His injuries are internal and a broken
leg. They will probably prove fatal. Thomas
Mooney, of Ashland, was terribly bruised, but
will recover. Thomas Schneider, of Ashland,
has a frightful gash in his head and is badly
scratched. A Mr. Clemens, wife and three
children,of Duluth, are all badly bruised. Mrs.
Sulliran, wife of Conductor Sullivan, received
serious injuries on her head Her little baby
was thought to have been killed, but was
found under a bundle of bedding in the sleeper
unharmed. W. B. Baker, of Bancroft, had
three of his fingers amputated. John M.
Dillingham, of Ashland, was slightly hurt.
The train was running at a high speed, and
the cars ran into the woods and were piled
in a heap.
PROMINENT PEQLPE.
Alaw Arthur, son of the late ex-President
Arthur, is traveling in Egypt.
On the 10th of March next the Prince ol
Wales and his wife celebrate their silver
wedding.
Not one of the four Presidents of the
French Republic since its origin in 1870 wai
born in Paris.
M. Tirard, the new French Premier, it
sixty-one years old, and at one time was ir
business as a wholesale jeweler.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has a
hobby in his Jersey cows and Percheron
horses. His butter costs him about $2 a
pound.
Sam Small announces that he has given
up his labors as an evangelist, and is now a
preacher in the Methodist Church South at
Washington, D. C.
George W. Childs, the Philadelphia edi
tor and philanthropist, possesses a table s- r
vice worth $ a clock that cost 13,000,
and 20,tXX) valuable autograph.
Samuel Spe.vcer, who has just been mad
Presiient of the Baitimo e and Ohio Rail
road at a salary of $iS,00 a year, was a rod
man earning a scant salary on'y a few year
ago. He is not yet forty y ears oLL
Harvard is the college best represented in
Congress. Counting her law school gradu
ates. Senator Brown, of Georgia. Central?
Cogswell and Coliins. it has fourteen men.
Yale has nine; Michigan University th
same number.
Daxiel Stosemax, who has just been re
ceived into the Wahish County (Ini.) Lunatic
Asylum as a patient, prefers grass to an v
other food. He chews a cod like a cow.
LATER NEWS.
Mas. Axkie O'Neill, a widow, was re
turning home from work with two of bar
Ihree children when they were struck by aa
txpress train near RhineclifT, N. Y. All
three were instantly killed.
Johtc Silbt, a former brakeman on tin
New York Central Railway, who lost both
legs by an accident, has bad a verdict of
135,000 damages affirmed by the Court oi
AppeaU.
The bi raft which was lost white being
towed from Nova Scotia to New York ba
gone to pieoea A United State tteamtft
ftent to search for it found herself in th
midst of a vast number of floating timber
evidently th remnants of the great raft,
which had broken up and was no longer
menace to commerce.
The schooner Mary O. Coll ini, of Phil,
delphia, has gone to the bottom with hm
CaptaLi and three of her four seamen.
Joh.x J. LittljlTox, editor of the .Vof umol
7kntr, the leading Republican newspaper la
Tennessee, was shot near his home in Nash
ville by John R. Banks, a prominent Repub
lican, and seriously, if not fatally, wounded,
The two men belonged to the opposing fac
tions of the Republican party in Tennessee.
Eight men were frozen to death at Pan
Handle City, Texas, during the recent cold
spelL
Sevex victims of a family named Kelly,
who murdered wayfarers stopping at theix
house in that portion of the Southwest known
as No Man's Land, have been unearthed.
The Kellys have fled with their plunder.
Traix robbers stopped a train in the Indian
Territory, but were foiled by a brave ex
press messenger, who barricaded the doors ol
his car and refused them admittance. Tbs
robbers left after firing many shots into th
car.
W. W. CORCORAjr, the Washington philan
thropist, has just celebrated his ninetieth
birthday.
Accordino to press dispatches, prepara
tions for war are actively going on ia
Russia.
A band of Mexican robbers have been
sacking towns in Mexico an I committing
terrible outrages. After a skirmish with
troops the bandits retreated to the moun
tains. President Cleveland's Jubilee present
to the Pope, consisting of a beautifully en
grossed copy of the United States Constitu
tion, has arrived in Rome, with a letter of
congratulations.
Kino Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Inlands,
has quarreled with his Legislature, and thi
people are reported on the eve of another
revolution at Hawaii.
A revolution has broken out in Guate
mala The revolutionists, under ex-Preai-dent
Cos tana, have been badly defeated.
The Philadelphia schooner Samuel Mc
Manemy has been given up for lost, and
there is no longer any doubt that she baa
foundered at sea with all hands eight in
number.
Two passenger trains on the Long Island
Railroad collided with terrific force in Brook
lyn. Seven persons were seriously injured,
one or two perhaps fatally, aud many more
slightly hurt.
A contemplated great strike of the Read
ing Railroad employes was given up after a
portion of the men had gone out, and work
was resumed everywhere along the road.
Mrs. Saraii G. Ewino was mangled to
death by hogs in her barnyard at Shelby
ville, Ind.
A monkey overturned a lamp in the
Coliseum Theatre at Iron Wood, Wis. The
fire that followed laid nearly the whole town
in ashes.
William Stance, Sergeant Ninth United
States Cavalry, and a very strict disciplin
arian, was ambushed by soldiers and killed
near Crawford, Neb.
Senator John Sherman in a letter to the
Buckeye Club, of Springfield, Ohio, an
nounced his intention of voting against the
confirmation of Mr. Lamar as Supreme Court
Justice.
President Delano, of the National Wool
Growers' Association, has issued a" circular to
the wool growers of the United States calling
for organization to resist any proposed abo
lition of the tariff on wool.
A fierce storm has raged over the whole of
Greece. Twenty-five vessels were drirea
ashore and wrecked in the Gulf of Patraa
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Henrt Irvino lectured in Philadelphia
recently on Burbage, Betterton, Garrick and
ivean.
A
new play entitled "In Chains," is being
;ten for Mrs. Langtry by Mr. Frank
written
Rogers.
Modjeska will go to Poland next season,
and may play there, as well as in Germany
and Russia.
A posthumous opera of FIotow, entitled
"The Musician," has'been produced, with fair
success, at Hanover.
It is said that even the Czar of all the Rus
sias has become interested in the "Mikado,'
and that D Oyley Carte's company will visit
St. Petersburg and give opera there.
Clara Morris has accepted a new emo
tional drama by Clinton Stuart, and will pro
duce it at the New York Star Theatre during
Easter week. The piece has not yet been
named.
PkUFUS C. Hartranft, of Philadelphia,
has one of the largest and most complete col
lections of old American plays in existence.
There are more than twenty thousand distinct
titles in his catalogue.
Clara Morris is having a successful sea
son. She has a new play in rehearsal, and the
fact has been divulged that the has just
bought $4,500 worth of new gowns. The
profit of her tour thus far have been very
Wge.
It is said that Hofman, the wonderful boy
pianist, ia paid by his father one penny for
each piece he play in public, or two jnoe if
the select on be extra dirticult. He is proud
of his earnings, and carries them about with
him in a purse stowed away in the pocket of
his knickerbockers.
Clarence Sterseirgek, a financier of
Wall street, has written a comic o ra which
he calls "The Jolly Students."' an i which ha
inten Is to produce in New York during the
month of February. Mr. St-rnU-rrer pro
poses to give the entire reoeip'-s from the
production of his work to chanty.