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The book is written in plain every -day English, and is tree from the technical terms which render most doctor books so valueless to the gener ality of readers. Only i(lc postpaid. Gives a com plete analysis of everything pertaining to courtship, marriage and the production and rearing of healthy families; together with valuable recipes and pre seriptions, explanation of botanical practice, cor rect use of ordinary herb-. With this book in th.' bouse there is no excuse for not knowing whai i i lo in an emergency. Send postal notes or postage stamps of any denomination not larger than 5 cents. BOOK Pt'B. mVSK. 13 I.nirti St., N. Y. ( . THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Three United States internal revenue gangers have been arrested in New York city, and two other indicted for extorting money from merchants on the ground of ex pediting the gauging of spirits. At the inquest in the cases of the five men killed at the National Line Pier. New York city, a verdict of accidental death was ren dered. Richard Johnson. on of the victims, was shown to have left three widows. Ex-President Cleveland urged ballot reform and Henry W. Grady discussed the race problem in the Soutii at the banquet of the Boston Merchants? Association. A cave-in occurred at Randy's coal mine, near Butler, Penn.. killing an unknown man and fatally injuring Frank Hauff, both min ers. Dr. E. C. Ki-rBEE. State Superintendent of Public Schools of Pennsylvania, has died at Lancaster, aged fifty-nine years. Warren I .el and, Jr., the well-known ho tel proprietor of Long Branch, N. J., has made an assignment of ail his property to Joseph McDermott, a lawyer of Freehold. The liabilities, including mortgages, are $163,000. The injunction obtaine 1 by the electric light conijanies, of New York city, restrain ing the city from interfering with their prop erty was dissolved, and preparations were at once made to cut down defective wires. The State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, which met at Harrisburg, Perm., decided in favor of giving farmers tne same protection enjoyed by manufacturers and against com pulsory education. Two brothers, John and Alexander McKel lar, aged twenty-one and twenty-seven years respectively, were buried alive by the cave-in of a sand pit near Caasonville, Mich. The Huron mine office and boarding house at Hancock, Mich., has been burned, and two Finnish women and one child perished in the flames. A joint resolution was adopted in both houses of the Legislature at Richmond, Va., urging Virginia s Senators and Representa tives in Congress to vote for holding the World's Fair at Washington. Three magazines, containing ten tons of nitro-glycerine, were blown up at North Clarendon, Penn. Three oil derricks were wrecked, twenty-live thousand barrels of oil burned, and windows shattered for a dis tance of a mile around. Loss $70,000. The American Federation of Labor in ses sion at Boston made provision for a strike fund in preparation for the demand for the eight-hour day on May 1. Another man has been killed by an electrie shock in New York city; and a vigorous onslaught was made on the over head wires by city officials, with the result that the town was left in comparative dark ness oy night. A flood in the Conemaugh River carried olf several bridges and did other damage at Johnst wn, Penn. Three men were killed by a coal train running through an open drawbridge over the Overpeck River near Hackensack, N. J. Miss Etta Durgin, of Dover, N. H., while walking on the track in the railroad yard, was run over and killed by a shifting train. South and West. Tightman McDermed. a school teacher, and his wife have been drowned in the White River, near Shoals, Ind. The Indians on the Great Sisseton Reser vation, in South Dakota, have voted to sell 1,000,000 acres of land at 5 per acre, throw ing this large tract at once open io settle ment. A WORKING train on a logging road ran into a washout near Whitesboro, Cai., and was badly wrecked. The engineer and sec tion hand were killed and the fireman badly scalded. Several houses were swept away and one man drowned by a cloudburst in Santa Cruz County, Cal. . rain had been falling all over the State for eleven days, and the Sacra mento River was alarmingly high. The First National Bank of Abilene, Kan., has suspended. Liabilities, $110,000; assets from all sources, $300,000. In a deserted cabin on a ranch not far from Coolidge, Kan., the dead bodies of a man and his wife were found, who had evi dently been murdered for their team of horses. Thomas Riggle, arrested at Canton, Ohio, confessed to burning his father's house to im plicate his elder brother, so that he would be sent to prison and Thomas would inherit his father's wealth. Louis Witkowsxi, Mayor of Starke. Fla., was shot and instantly killed at Gainsville by Albert Thrasher, of the law firm of Ash ley 6c Thrasher. The shooting took place in the office of the law firm. Diphtheria has been raging at the little town of La Grange, Mo. A dozen deat hs oc curred. Many persons left the town. The public schools closed. Will Cafjdlv. a white man, was lynched near Cleveland. Term., for an assault on a seven-year-old girl. John Martin, Ambrose Donnelly and Bert Sheldon, all little boys, broke through the ice while skating on a mill pond at Iron ton. Wis. Martin and Sheldon were drowned. Bill' E aston, alias "Black Bill;" ';Jackr' Powers and a conductor on the Northern Pa cific Railroad were arrested at Tacoma, Wyoming, for smuggling opium. They are the leading men of a gang of smugglers who have been giving the" authorities much trouble. W. C. Shuitleff, of Waterloo, la., has been appointed to the position made vacant by the defalcation of Cashier Silcott. The South Carolina Civil Rights law, which provided that the same accommoda tion must be furnished for both races by railroads, hotels, theatres, etc., has been re pealed by the State Legislature. Thomas Spooxer was hanged at Port AI- j leu. La., for the murder of Seth Sevearingen, and Carter Williamson for the murder of his I - . T-v "W ne at uorseyvme. Lia. A boiler at Randall Brothers & Co."s sawmill. Covington. Tenn.. exploded, com pletely demolishing the building and killing Fireman Jones and Mr. Stewart, one of the lirm. Two of the employes were seriously injured. Harry Walters fell into a vat in which he was boiling maple syrup at Union Springs, Ala., and was scalded to death. So serious has the epidemic of diphtheria in Canton District, W. Va., become that the County Board of Health has directed the erection of a large hospital in the afflicted district, and will send a competent staff of physicians to take charge of it. Many deaths have occurred. Was h i n r t on. President Harrison, accompanied by Private Secretary Halford, ha.': -etumed from Chicago. The Treasury Department is informed that the Government of Venezuela has restored the import duties on corn, rice, bern; and peas, which were planed on the tree list ast June. Adjutant-General Hastings, of Penn sylvania has reported to the War Depart ment that the National Guard of his State : com orises GU6 commissioned officers and 7S I - - . . 1 T . M enlisted men. and that tne total numner or men in the State available for duty i.s609.90T, The Pan-American Congress held a short m union at which the committees to have c harge of the different subjects to be consid ered by the Congress were apointed. Secretary and Mrs. Blaine and their son. Walter, went to Baltimore to attend the dinner given by General Feiix Agnus to Mr. i and Mrs. Emmons Blaine. President Harrison. ex-President Cleve land and Justice Fuller will participate in the centennial celebration in New York city of the first sitting of the United States Su preme Court. Franklin B. Gowen. ex-President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, com mitted suicide at Wormley's Hotel. Washing ton, by shooting himself in the head. He was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer. Foreign. A COMMISSION has sailed from France to ; inspect the Panama ('anal. raE grazinan .Minister or Foreign Affairs sent by cable to the Portuguese Minister , of Foreign Affairs a formal request that ! he would proclaim the recognition of the : Brazilian Republic. ! Robert BROWNING, the poet, has died in I Venice without any suffering. He had been ! dl but a short time with bronchitis. i The American Legation at Para has de : cided to demand the trial of Moussa Bey for ; the murder of a missionary in Crete. It is decided that a conference for consid ering the subject of the federation of all the Australasian colonies will assemble at Mel bourne in February. The influenza which has been epidemic in Russia is spreading through Germany. The administration of justice in the courts is sus pended, because all the Judges are down with it. It is proposed to close all the schools, especially at Dantzic, where at least half the children are affected. Three little bovs broke through the ice while skating at Port Hope, Ontario, and were drowned. An artillerv officer and a sailor have been arrested in St. Petersburg or complicity with an attempt on the life of the Czar of Russia. The mangled body of a woman supposed to be another of ''Jack the Ripper's" vic tims, was found among the ballast of a ves sel which arrived at Middesborough, Eng land, from London. During the progress of an anti-Semitic meeting at Vienna a riot occurred between the Radical German Nationalists and Austrian Conservatives. Five of the parti cipants were injured. A Portuguese force in Africa, under Serpa Pinto, picked a quarrel with a savage tribe called Makololo. and butchered hundreds of chem. A WESTEEN GOVERNOR. Horace Boie, Successful Candidate Fox Gubernatorial Honors in Iowa. HORACE BOIES. Horace Boies will be famous as the first Democrat elected Governor of Iowa. He was a Republican until a few years ago. In j the last National campaign he worked and j voted for a Democratic President for the first I time. Mr. Boies was born in Aurora, Eric County, New York, December 7th, 15S27, and was educated in the common schools and academy in that town. He was admitted to j the bar in November, 1852, at Buffalo, and practiced in that county for fifteen years. ! He was a member of the New York Legis ! lature in 1858, and moved to Waterloo, la., in April, where he has practiced his pro fession ever since. He divides'his time be tween farming and the practice of law, in both of which callings he has been highly succcessful. GOVERNORS IN COUNCIL. For a Monument to Commemorate thi Declaration of Independence. The Governors of Pennsylvania, New Jer sey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire and Arizona were present in per son, and eleven other States were represented by proxy, at a meeting held in Washington to petition Congress lor the erection of a memorial monument at Philadelphia to Com memorate the Declaration of Independence and the one hundredth anniversary of Con stitutional Government in the United States. Governor Green, of New Jersey, presided, and delivered an address giving a history of th.' present movement, which, he said, was started as far back as 1852. After a general discussion a draft of a bil! was adopted to be presented to Congress. It donates ten acres in Fairmount Park. Phila delphia, lor the monument, provides for a com mission comprising one citizen from each State and Territory and thirteen citizens oi Philadelphia, and asks Congress for an ap propriation to erect the monument, the amount being left blank. E0ASTED TO DEATH. Electricity Claims a Victim in Ohio. Edward Dalton. foreman of the improve ment gang of the Lake Shore Railroad, who resided at Elkhart, Ind., met a horrible I death ai Toledo. Ohio. He was engaged in repairing a skylight in the roof of the old Union Depot, and in some manner fell upoi an electric wire on the roof close by. Ilis clothing was dampened by the drizzling rain which had been falling all day. and he was immediately prostrated by the heavy cur rent. He lay there for half an hour before the current was shut off. When picked up it was found that he was terribly horned and swollen, literally cooked. He was forty years of age and leaves a family. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. In the Senate. 7th Day. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported back the bills heretofore introduced by him to promote the efficiency of the enlisted force of the navy; to amend sections ISM. 153t and 1531 of the Revise 1 Statutes, relating to the navy; and for the relief of sufferers bv the wreck of the United States steamers Trenton and Van dalia, and the stranding of the Nipsic, at Apia, in the Sanioan Islands, and they were placed on the Calendar.. .Mr. Hoar intro duced a bill for a statue and monument to James Madison, and Mr. Call a bill author izing the President to open negotiations with Spain for the acquisition of the Island of Cuba. . . .The Senate proceeded to the House to participate in the ceremonies commemo rative of the first inauguration Washington as President. of George sth Day. Among the petitions, resolu tions and memorials presented and referred, were three res luti'ns of the Massachusetts Legislature, in favor of a federal bankrupt law. of an international convention in refer ence to steamers crossing the Grand Banks, and of a pension Jaw giving a pension to every honorably discharged Union soldier and sailor. . . .Petitions from various parishes in Louisiana in favor of a national election law were presented by Senators fngalls, Sherman and Evarts. ... Bills were intro duced by Mr. Butler for the emigration of persons of color from the Si luthern State-; by Sir. Davis to establish the Tenth Judical Cir cuit Court: by Mr. Gorman for an Inter national Exposition at the National Capital in 1892, and by Mr. Stewart for the free coinage of both gold and silver, and the issue of coin certificates, to circulate as money. . . Mr. Call presented the joint resolution of the Florida Legislature in favor of a national ship canal across the Florida peninsula and Mr. Gibson offered a resolution (which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Re lations), instructing that committee to in quire into the expediency and practica bility of acquiring or setting apart territory for the occupation of negro or colored citi zens of the United States Executive session. 9th Day. Among the bills introduced were: By Mr. Berry To requhe the Su perintendent of the Census to ascertain what per cent, of the people of the United States own their farms and the number of farms under mortgage. By Mr. Eustis Appro priating $1,200,000 for a public building at New Orleans. By Mr. Cockrell To create the office of Assistant Secretary of War. and fixing the salary attached to the office at $4500 per year, and by Mr. Ingalls Author izing the Secretary of War to furnish artifi cial eyes to persons who lost their sight in the United States service The Vice-President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War transmitting the re ports of that Department on the war claims of the States of California and Nevada. 10th Day. Among the bills introduced were the following: By Mr. Evart !To au thorize corporations to become security in certain cases in the courts of the United States. By Mr. Pierce Appropriating $150, 000 to provide for a survey for the purpose of irrigation of the State of North Dakota. By Mr. Petti grew To open all abandoned military reservations in the State of South Dakota to homestead entry. By Mr. -Mitchell Appropriating $150,000 for the develop ment and encouragement of silk culture in the United Slates, anil Mr. Regan To pro vide for the irrigation and settlement of the arid lands in New Mexico and Texas. The bill appropriates $25,000 for the pur pose of defraying the expenses of the survey, location, maps. etc. . . . Mr. Mitchell offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the Postmaster-General for estimates of the cost of extending the free delivery system to towns of not less than 3000 population and $5000 gross revenue, and also to town-, of not less than 5000 population and $7000 gross revenue, and Mr. Chandler offered a rcsolu tion. which was laid over, calling on th Secretary of the Navy for information as to whether unauthorized organizations exist among naval officers for purposes not mere ly literary or scientific; whether any of them have been organized for the purpose of influ encing Congressional legislation, and whot ti er money has been paid or contracted for to influence legislation. ...A numb-' of depend ent pension bills, referred to the Committee on Pensions, were discussed, and a sub-committee appointed to consider them audreporl to the full Committee at its next meeting ....A communication from the Prcsidenl recommening a further extension of th limiffor the continuanceof the Internation al Maritime Conference for two month! from January 1. 1890, was presented and re ferred. In the House. 5th Day. On motion of Mr. Bayne. of Pennsylvania, a resolution was adopted directing the Clerk to inform tlie Senate that t he House was in session and ready to proceed with the centennial ceremonies. At the re- quest of the Speaker, the members then re- j tired to the seats assigned to them, and upon the arrival of the Senators, together with I the President, Vice-President, Cabinet mem ; hers. Supreme Court Justices, etc., the j ceremonies in commemoration of the in j augu ration of George Washington, the first ! President of the United St ates, were carried ; out, Vice-President Morton occupying the Speaker's chair. fiTH Day. A resolution was adopted call j ing for a committee of five to investigate i the authenticity of the so-called ballot box contract, which has appended the names of ; several Senators and Representatives, and I which was published during the recent cam -I paign in Ohio. Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, i who offered the resolution, said his name was attached to the contract, and that it waf I a forgery. Mr. Breckenridge. of Kentucky, j made a similar statement. . . .The committee ! investigating the recent defalcations of j Cashier Silcott, of the House Sergeant-at-I Arms' office, made a prelimnary report. 1 stating that the shortage was $70, 706.96, and ) condemning tiie manner in which the Ser- geant-at-Arms conducted the affairs of his I office. 7th Day. After considerable discussion as to whether the clause in the President's Message relating to coast defenses and forti fications should be referred to the Committee on Appropriations or Military Affairs, the House, by a rising vote, decided in favor of the former . . . The Ways and Means Commit tee was granted leave to sit during the ses sions of the House. . . . .V bill wa passed ap propriating $150,000 to meet a deficiency in the appropriation for public printing and binding, and ."iO. 0 to meet a deficiency in the appropriation for the Census Bureau. . . . A resolution was adopted instructing the Resolutions Committee to take up the Clayton-Breckinridge contest in the Second Ar- 8th Day. Mr. Tracy introduced the fol lowing bills: To refund duties paid b the State of New York on arms imported in lriy. To enforce the eight-hour law ou ( Government premises. Constituting the port of Albany, N. Y., a port of immediate transportation . . . .The session lasted only thirty minutes; in order to avoid attempts at obstruction it was found necessarv to adjourn. William K Vanderbilt. the head and center of that family of millionaires, is mi athletic-built, boyish-looking man of radiant complexion with a brace of unpretending side-whiskers and the most complaisant of manners. He dresses tolerably, and is not dull. LATER NEWS. Jonx Heniher. ag- 1 atghty-fivi wfa tumning from church at Cbicag . a . I by a train at a grade croaatag sad ... itani j killed. Word ranched Washington that tfa Of Representative Joseph Gasman, of 11 , had dropped dead at her hosssj la Csu . j 111. Upon receipt of the news Mr. ( aai I was completely overcome and t. k the 1 train for his home. I CaPTAJX LOBJDOBO B Si!Kr.;:: . f ing Sea fame, has haofl appointed t hi , the Revenue Marine divssV n at Wash in Thx United States Snpreme Court bss -cided that the law taxinj; telegraph I ; is uac. !:t;tutioaa!. Tvexty-five Bfou Indian I L ar . .. at Washington t o consult with Sect I u Noble upon their agreement to cede tb land in the Dsdcotas to the Gtovernxm . Pkesidknt Hakhison through Ss j Blaine telegraphed his congratulati ds . Henry M. Stanley al Sansibar. TilE Japanese Minister to this country n.i been called home by his Government A shock of earthquake hn-- !: felt i Granada, Spain. At one theatre, which u fnll of people, the audienoe became panic stricken and $'."d from the building. DuBora a fog in London eleven xt- . were drowned by waikmg Into the ri . i r .ia!s or docks. The Braslhan receipts from customs an 1 $ cise for the first half of December are $430, 000 more than during the sa:u" period Five prominent Mormon officials i a Lake City, Utah, have been arrested, eharg with conspiracy and mis appropriation public funds Five men entered the express office ai Brownswood, Texas, knocked wn t i i - ei press agent and robbed th :af. Two brothers, Swedes, named Bergiund were instantly ki!l"d in the Clevelan . nitu near Ishpcming, Mich., by th unaxp ted explosion of a bias. . Av election in th Firs C Ior I Lkitin Church, Kansas City, Mo., ended in ;i i Two men named Benjamin and Km'gh fatally cut and a number of otb ': hurt. Frank Hurjsv, a Chicago tra 'iing met It. E. Smith, a traveling man of L ville. at M. Sterling, K . and deinan ie : eui apology for a remark made about hi wife In reply Smiths! t him fatally. George Guenther, agad seventy, ..." St. Louis, Mo., wan fatally beaten by his - ill Fmil. T1k hoy bears a had reputati u, and is only seventeen years old. Tne ijuarrel arose ver the refusal of his mother to t tish him with nn ney. Six bridges ou the California Southern Railroad have baen wash'3.1 ou! a - ; .. lad Canon, Cal., and th storm there has lone 1200,000 damage. The delegates to tha Pan-American Con gress visited New York city, an 1 wore on tained by the Mayo;- an 1 prominent citizens. A BOILER exploded al the Cambria Iron Works. Johnstown, Penn., and Engineer Henogan was roasted to death by escaping steam. The President has nominated Fohn IV Ja cobus, a prominent New YorL city llepn li can. to succaed General McMahon, a. Mar shal for the Southern District of New Y rk. There is a famine in the Austria? provin f Galicia, and peasants arc killing th ir horses to save the feed. Bushirte, the noted Arab who le i Hi m surgents in their revolt againsl the Govern ment of Zansibar, East Africa, and who was captured by villagers of Magatlta and ban le I ver to the authorities, has been h mg L A ;-R. iclaj; ation lia been is . ! l ! visional President Fonsaca, declaring all rcigners shall be considered citize; of , i srazu alter tw rears resiuenca n m . .. ept. but shall nol b eligible for Presilont. The ship Reporter, Captain a. Spa tl I ag, f Newbnryport, Mass., bound from tl ug Evi ui i to N x oris with a Kener; total Io3s in the China Sea. TS cij ..hi ind crew weresaved. Tu ship was ' it $50,009. The Moorish Government has - to Washington demanduig the recall of msul Lewis. Great excitement prevails i'i Tan siers owing to his a -lion relative to th einir f a case containing firearm-. Thi: bark Tenby Castle has be re ike ' u Holyhead, England. Eleven persons w lrownod. THE LABOR WORLD. Vermont monument marble is being faipped to Australia. Goverxob Ladd, of Rhode Island, was printers1 devil years ago. HrNPKKnr; of carpenters will be employe 1 in rebuilding Lynn, Mass. The Labor press genera II v indorse the Brotherhood of Ball Players. The plumbers and tinsmiths of New fl av n. Conn., have ad pt i the nine h ur rul Labor Cokmissioxek Lastji of Minn - ta, favors compulsory education in that Sta:j It is not permitted in Switzerian i to im pel employes to work at night in factories or mill;. Seve.hai. New York onions use Australian system of voting when els officer-;. The Knights of Labor haire raise I their per capita tax from twenty-foer centi a j .. to forty cents. Within six years the Brotherhood of l ar penters has paid out WT'.'pioO m death, dis . bility and sick benefit. Oi'T of the W, strikes that cecurr d in England and Scotland last year 'JoO wer - -cessfnl. The rest were failures. CI'.akmakees Uvro.N No. 144. of New V citv. has raised money for the Union e; . -makc-s who suffered by the Lynn hr-. President GOlTIB, of the A n -: Federation of Labor, says that psrsonallj is not in favor of restricting immigra:. ..