THE NEWS.,
i ' J M. Miller, a broom dealer,' of Terra
;Haute, Ind., has been swindled out of $l,C00
!n a deed to property, purporting to1 Lave
been executed by John D. Chestnut, who is
Jan imbecile, end never executed such a
Ipaper. The wages of puddlers in the iron
, works of tbo Schuylkill Valley hae been
increased to 3 ,75 a tort. The "lare bnrn
of U"M Eckert, in Lancaster county, Tit.,
;was turned; lossjf.,000, -A stormMvept
'over Newberne, N. V ; destroying S. ll.
, Cray's pu'p factory; killing one employe,
and injuring eight others. Many houses
.were unroofed, and trees and fences blown
down.; -Pauline Cowith aged; eighteen
years was shot'and fatally wounded in New
York by George Cbingo, an Italian, I eoause
the refused to marry him. Char.es Mont
gomery, a prominent hotel man iri Ban
Francisco, has been swindled out of $30,0.0
t7 a young man wbora ha took in business
with him, The late J. Warren Merrill,
of Cambridge, Mass., has left handsome be
quests to lptiat mi-sions, and educational
institutiona Charles B. Wigton, secre
tary of the Giahiorau Iron Company of
l'hiladelpbia, has bem arrested and placed
Under bail on a chjrge of-forgery. The
Standard Oil Company has subscribed 100,
WO to the World' Fair fund of New York.
The governor gentrai of Cuba di d ims
having aided the s.riking cigarmakers of
Ly West A baud of thieves have been
rotbing stored in Delaware towns A
I reight conductor and a brakeman wascruob
id by the ears near York, Pa. Fire did
uma umna-a on ine tentu noar or the V esi
ern Union's main building in New York
city. Sirs. Nathan Strang, of Moiberrille,
Micb., whiJe temporarily insane, compelled
her daughter to swallow a dose of paris
green and then committed suicide. - Frank
.Foster of Gloucester, Mass., attempted to
shut off an electric light wi h a wet iron
gaff and was instantly killed. John , R
Williams, aged thirty-three years, died of
hydrophobia at Marblehead, Mass The
Lawrence Bank of Pittsburg, has closed its
doors. In a fight in a caboose on a freight
train, in Ei6t Kentucky, .J. B. Gray, a car
penter was killed.- Tbe Chicago Oas Trust
has obtained absolute control of 40,000 acres
of fas lands in Indiana. William Bogh
and Frank Berger were kiile 1 by a prema
ture explosion of a blast in a stone quarry,
near Catasaaaa. Fa
.nark ICIn?, who hickeu liTs wire to rtoitli
at Hazleton, Pu.,. was sentenced to six yea s
in state prisoa- Henderson, "Hull & Co.,
of Philadelphia, obtained a verdict of J28.50J
against the Heading' Railroad, for destruc
tion by fire of their sish factory, caused, ns
they alleged, by sparks from a passing loco
motive, -A man named E.igel shot and
killed Sophia Hoth, a waiter girl in a hotel
'at Elgin, III., because she refused to marry
him, and tben committed su'eide. Ivan
Pavint the Russian literateur, renounced in
fidelity, and was received by baptism into
the Baptist Church of Minneapolis. A
Kansis judge decided that a hotel bar is not
a dram shop. The Southern Lutheran
Seminary will be located at Newberry, S,
C. -The West Virginia Grand Encamp
ment, L 0. O. F., met at Wheeling and
tTi'rycfajiT on ma rcnnsyivania ituiroaa
was "derailed at Pittsburg and took fire, sev
eral passengers being badly burned. Gov
ernor Fleming, of Florid i, has transmitted
to Secretary Blaine the complaints of the
Key West Board of Trade "of the Spanish
consul aiding and inciting the striking' cigar-
1 makers.- The first news in a year trom the
United States government surveying expe
dition in Alaska has been received at St.
Louis Lv the father of John McGratb.
The heavy rains of the last few days have
caused great destruction to railroads and
private property in Pennsylvania and West
ern New York. Tto Susquehanna,' Juniata,
Scbuylkill, and other streims have risen al
most to the J uue flood marks, and a number
of small towns are inundated. Several
bridges on the Northern Cantral have been
destroyed, and on the Pennsylvania's main
'line, the Reading and the Erie Roads the
damage is considerable. Along the coast a
severe easterly gale and high seas smashed
things, the greatest damage being done at
Long Branch. -The . vault of the county
treasury at Manhattan, Kas., was found
empty, J. M. Fortner, the treasurer, having
gooe to Canada with toO.COO.- John Mc
Brlde, president of the Miners' Progressive
Union, has called a convention of the miners
o( Northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Penn-
lylvanfaand West Virginia, at Indianapolis,
Dicemb.T 18.- -Robert Crockett, a no
torious counterfeiter, was captured in St.
Joseph, Mo. -The Fidelity Company's
ilate proptrty at Bargor, Pa., has been sold
to the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
for $G5,5Q0. rThe American society of Me-
rsbanical Engineers opened its annual session
In New York. Six huodred men belong.
Ing to Deacon Richardson horse-car com--pnnies
in Brooklyn, N. Y., went on a strike.
-Rev. Harry Nichols, pastor of li Metho
dist church, in Houjatonie, was expelled for
Im'moratity. The mineral water spring
wmrs of tbe country hive" organize I to
if cure protection from foreign manufactured
mineral wa;ers. The civil service com
mission has made a report, to the President
concerning lb action ot toe Uld uomlulou
"Republican League of Virginia members of
1 which are charge! with soliciting by circu
lar money from government employes for
election purpose , A commission appoin to
ed by Secretary Whitney last January has
recommendtd that a government dry dock
be built at Algiers, opposite New Orleans.
At tbe on hundred and twenty-first
annual batqust of tbe New York Chamber
of Commerce" speeches were made by Mr.
Cleveland, Secretary Noble, Justice Miller
.nt mlicr. Win. W. Converse, aired
fifty-eiiit years, president of the Winchester
'Repewt Arm! ".mpany. ' oj of c s ; :ir of
HA70G OF THE WATERS
The Heavy Rains Cause Disas
trous Floods. . . '
Kail tray nrldjrw Washed Awy-A
Landslide Wrecks ft .Train- the
Ocean vAlo, on a Tear -Mvrocp
injc Into l.onj Brniicli
Toniin Inundated,
J he entraor Jinary rainfall of tbe past few
dsysat Elmiry, N. Y., has raised the streams
hereabouts and done much danage. The
Chemung river threatens to overflow its
banks. Many houses in the lower part of the
city are surrounded by water, and th people
are greaily f lightened. An engine and five
cars on the Tioga Railroad were wrecked by
a landslide near Covington.
All the trainmen jumped, and Engineer
DJaney, of Elmira, had a leg broken. The
Northern Central Railroad is blocked. There
are many wabbou s, and several bridges are
reported soue between here and Williams
port. At Watkins, on this road, the water
that poured through Watkins Glen washed
out a bridge and many lest of the roadbid.
There is a big laudsiid-s ut Rithboneville,
an I also onj u.?ar Hoi nellsville. .
Th-j Lehigh Valley trains are not running
on schedule time. None has arrived, and i(
auy do come, they cannot go fustier than this
city.
At Liwrenceville, WestSeld and Harrison
Valley, over tuePe.i.'isy.vania line, tbe water
is f uUy as high as iu June. Tue wuol of
Cowauequt Valley is suumerged. At Wa
verly, N. Y., tue wat?r is tnreo feetde-'p in
the rail way fetation, and ibo trucks are pued
with gravel. Tue Eiie trcicic is i-overoJ ut
Wed?burg, and ail the way to Elum1 ihj
traorcs ars under water. Au uniueer bad to
waUo ahead of h s engine in tue inundated
places to aacertaiu if bid truia could ii o jet d
in safely . At Coi uuig tuo E ie trcss are
suuiiiergtd ami covered witu gravel, and t;.e
river is .-till liiins.
Long Branch, N. J. The storm here do
veiupcU into a . urtuus easterly gale Large
quantities of driftwood aaT other wrtcKage
et.e being washed against the large oceah pier
and tc has b.en luund necesbary to kewp a
gang ot men at work to prevent tbe floating
uuiuers from coiltCwiug about the pntugsof
tbe pier. . Hundreds oi people buve gathered
about the end of tbe pier ail day, watcaiug
the fury of tue storm. Many washouts have
occurred iu the roadway alon Ocean aven ue.
Atone point th entire roadway for a dis
tance ot one hundred feet is washtd away.
WitjuiAMSPURT, Pa. A, ten o'cIock t. 1I.,
the rivtru..d recbei over ft. lean teet. At
Clearfield it was to jour and a half feet, anu
was at u standstill at last accounts. Lycom
ing creek was witbiu two of the June mark
at Cogan Station. Bridget oue, two, eigbt,
eighteen and nineteen, ou tbe Northern Cen
tral Railway, have been curried a ay, and
ail trams have been abandoned. The Phila
delphia and Reading are running trains to
ILoutgcmery, using the tracks of tbe Pnila
delphia and Erie. The bridges at W est Mil
ton and Muucy, ou the Reading Road, have
broken, as well as the bridge at Montgomery,
on ttie fniladelpftia and Erie Road.
Canisteo, N. Y. For the last two days It
has milieu steaddy at times in torreuts.
Tbe water of Canisteo river has backed Into
the c ty, and tue streets in tbe lower portion
are changed iuto running streams two and
Hi ft e feetuesp. Tbe river is still rising rap
idly. During the great flood in June ttie
Cty Hall was undermined, and a portion of
the building fell. Siuce tbea it has been
partially reouilt, but th water has been
washing rgtinst toe foundation, and some
tears are telt tor the building' safety.
Houses near tbe crieks are floods. I. It is
rumored that Hornellsville is partly inun
date 1. Railroad tratlio is at a standstill, no
traits bavi.ig arrived, and no mail lias been
received. ,
Watsontown, Pa. Two spans of tempo
rary trtBtling ot thu Montgomery bridge on
the Philadelphia and Erio Railway were
moved several ieet and a number ot braes
swept ironi under Item. The Niagara ex
press West was stop pi d here and all passau
gers taken back to Sunburj'. No trams can
pass over the bridge lor twenty-four hours,
and if the water rises much higher tbe time
may be still further extended.
DISASTROUS FREIGHT WRECK.
One Man li'IIcct, Tw o Kn Jnrcil. and the
Money Losst Very Ureal.
One of tbe most disastrous I reign t wrecks
in the history of the Northern Central Rail
way occurred at Middletown Ferry, Fenn.,
between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. Two
see ions of fast freight, laden with tterisha
ble goods consigned to parties in New York
State, were running at a rapid speed, when
the machinery vl tbe locomotive of tbe tlrst
section was broken. Tbe engineer siopptd
to fix it and tbe fi itnan was sent back to
warn tbe second section. The engineer of the
second section, however, did not heed the
warninz. It is alleged tie wax asleep and ran
1 y tbe flagman, dabbing into tbe rear of the
first heccion wild an awful crash.
Captain Haines, coi.dueter of tbe fi st sec
tion, saw tbe otberti-aiu bearing down ou
bim and jumped from the eabois.', at tbe
same time calling to Euiil Lasbey,, the rear
brakeman, to save himself. Latbey was too
late and was caught in tbe crash and instant
ly killed. Haines escaped. Engineer Ap
pelio, of tbe rear tram, was badiy injured,
and the fireman, wboe name could not be
learned, was slightly hurt.
Over thirty cars were crushed to pieces
and the perishable I reight ou both of ibe
trains will be los. , Four cars were burned
and one locomotive wrecked.
- '1 be loss can not be i sti mated.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra, $4. 50
?4.C5. Wheat Southern i"ultz. fc3afc4;
Corn Southern White, 42a43 cts. Yellow
42a42c. Oats Southern and Pennsylvania
25a!Kcts. : Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania
5-.'a53cta. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
Vi 5 Ja$13 W;Straw-Wheat,7. 5 Ja$3.5U; Butter,
Eastern Creamery, rJa:J5c.,uear-by receipts
OalScts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, ll
allj cts., Weetern, lualO cts: Eggs- ZA
a25; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la3.00, Good
Common, 3 00a4 1)0, Middling, i;5a7.00 Good
to fine rod,Sa9; Fancy, lOali
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, -2.50a$ J.S5:Wheat-Nol White 84 ,V
aS4Ji ; Rye State. 51 Bh'i)4 ;Cor n Southern
Yellow, 43i43K Oata- W nite,State2T ja8h.
cts. ; Butter-Suvte, l'ia','4 ct. Cbeese-dtawj,
SValO cts.; Eggs 24a 24 )g' cts,
'Philadklphia Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25n4.75: Wheat Pennsylvania and
Soutnern Red, iJOJaW)'; Rye-Pen nnvlvania
5.i50et3 : Corn Southern Yellow, t lj42cta
Oats 2SVs"a2l) cts.; Butter State, Jya.o eta.;
Cheese N. Y. Factory, 9a'JJj' cts. - Eggs
State, aia23 cts. -
CATTLK
Baltimork Bfpf, 4 12a4 25; Shoep $3 00
nS 00; Hops $4 2.Yi 1 W. -
Inkw Vom; Hf.,r f5 00a7 on;Sheep43 50
fiT, f,0; H' - !' ''1 1 S)
'ft E '-MTY- " -i 5'i ' ,10);
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Ben Butler has entered his 7 2d year.
M. Do Lsseps will bs 84 years old on the
l'J.h of tbis month.
' John Tyndall, father of the famous scien
tist, was a carpenter by trade.
The Khan of Khiva intends to make a tour
of Europe, beginning with Russia.
Anna fCitherine Greta's new novel was
dasoed oil almost without stopping.
Eujene Field is collecting his pom into a
volume, to be published by himself.
Mrs. Sbawbo?ozw, wlfeof thi chief of tb.9
Chippewa Indiann, is over 100 years old.
' King Luis of Portugal gave the copyrights
of bis literary works to charitable institu
tions. . E Iwin Arnold, author of "Light of Asii."
never sat for his photograph uutil quite re
cently. Mrs. Sarah Chaplin Rock wood, of Cort
land, has reached tbe remarkable age of 1U4
years. .
Rose Hartwick Thorps wrote "Curfew
Must Not Rinac To-Nigat" when sba was
under 17, She is now 3 J,
Louise Ch indler Moulton was an on'y
child, and a mined hers -If in makingup stories
and telling them to herself.
Miss Frances Willard wants to prohibit
smoking in postoffijes and other plaoes con
trolled by the government.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson tsurnett is siowly
recoveriug from her recent accident. She is
not yet allowed to see visitors.
Lieutenant-Colonl BasilJackson,whodiel
recently In Herefordshire, waaone of tbe last
four survivors in England ot the battle of
Waterloo. He bad reached the age of 04
years.
The King of Bavaria smokes 100 cigarettes
every day and is so fond of seeing blazi that
aach fine he lights a cigarette he sets off a
box of matches just lor tbe fun of seeing
them burn.
The oldest living Yale alumnui is J. D.
Wickham, D. D., of Manchester, Vt. Ha
graduated in 1817, th sam year that tbe
Hon. . George Baucroft, tb- o desc Harvard
ilumnus, graduated.
Henry George is a thickset, bald-headed,
Independent mannered man with a full beard
and an extensive, but peculiar knowiedgs of
the law as by statute established. He is a
first-rate orator of the open-air kind, witu no
taise modes' y, and keeps his right hand se
curely buttoned up In the breast of bis Priuce
Albert.
Baroness von Glumer.who was In her youth
Miss Frances Bartlett, daughter of United
States Naval Commanaer Bartlett, and mar
ried a wealthy Cuoan planter, who died year
ago, now livei with her second husband near
tue City of Mexico, and writes in one of the
eadmg daily pap.rs in the Mexican capital.
She i- the heroine of Edmund C Stedman's
poem ot "Tbe Diamond Wedding."
W . P. Edison, an e'd.er brother of tbe great
inventor, lives a tew miles from Port Huron,
Micb. He was born in Milan, Ohio, flfty
ei iht years eg , und went to Port Huron in
1S54. He was actively Identified with the or
gan zttion ot tbe street railway system and
was superintend mt of the road for many
years. He has elso been interested in vessel
and steamboat property there.
One or the three American sculptors who
received honorable memtion at tbe Pari Ex
position this year was Miss Tbeo Alice Rjg
gles, daughter of Mr. C. W. Ruggles, of
Brockline, Mass. Mies Ruggles is unly
igbteen years of age. Sue painted at the
age of eleven, began to take lessons in mod
eling at the uko of fifteen, and was admitte 1
to the Paris balon of l!8 at the age of sev
enteen.. Joe Jefferson is a m-dium-szid, slim-built
man witb smiling blue eyes and the moss
warming of in uiuem His faca beams with
good nature, but does not betray the (5 iyears
belonging to it. He also lives in his work '
yet he believes iu tbe virtues of rest and
takes a two hours' nap every afternoon. He
can only do one thing at a time, but be can
do that thing better lb in mont men; and in
his leisure moments he trifles witb water
color painting and saiuon fishing,
IN A BURNING CAR.
Horrible AccKIrnt to a lVnnsy. vania
Express Train.
An accident to Hie Eastern express on the
Pennsylvania road at Pittsburg, Pa., nearly
resulted iu a terrible holocaust.
As it was; a large number of persons were
injured, one of them fatally au J six others
quite seriously. The accident happened in
tue city yards near Seventeenth street about
7.25o'c ock iu tue evening.
Thi express which ett for New York at
7. 13 P. JVi. wasp. ooeedui,i through tbe yards
at the rate of ai.cuu eight miles an nour.
VV hen near v.-ut -rath street tne third car,
or smoker, Jeit the rails, and after being
pubed a distance of alouc 100 feet turned
coujplitaiy over.
A. most simuiianeoudy with tbe upsetting
of the cot.cn tire broke out at both ends and
m tbe ceniro of the car. Between 4 J and 6J
stcond class passengers, iucuding a number
ot women, were in tue car, and the scjue fol
lowing was of the wildest kind.
Men trampled over women and fought their
unfortunate) brothers in their eagerness to
esoapi cremation. Thi crash ot breaking
winuows and the shrieks oi these imprisoned
in the burning cur couid be heard a iong dis
tance. Fortunately, tb trainmen and the crews
from other trains were close at hand, and
the flames were extinguished before they had
ga tied much headway, Tbe passengers who
bad not already escape through the windows
were then removed. It was iouDd that whi a
nearly everyone in the cir had been cut or
bruised, only one, Joseph Brucser, of Chica
go was fatally injured. .
When tbe car was upset be was seated near'
the stove, and it was tui own on top of him.
Ue was so tightly pinno i down th it ll was,
some tiuii befoie he could bj extricated.
Meanwnile he was bein slowly burned to
deatb, and when taken out fiaally one side
was burned to a crisp.
The physicians say he will die. Six others
were badly but not dangerously hurt.
The cause of tbe acciu-ut la not yet known,
but it is thought thi rails sproud. All thu
passenger but Brucker ana the six others
were aoie to proceed on their journey a, few
hours later.
DEMOLISHED BY THE WIND.
A Factory Blown Down and Many Eui
lloyea Injured.
A fearfnl stoi ui struck Newbsrn, N. C,
coming from the southwest. The plate and
pulp factory of S. H. Gray, ia whicb there
were sixty bands, was leveled to the ground.
Oue employe was ir.Ntantly killed, another
mortally wounded and eight others injured.
The factory was valued at SOJ.UOO. Tbo
damage to tbe house and stock ii estimat ed
at S,u00; tj machinery, not yet known. 'Ibe
wind blew a perfect hurricane, vmrodflriie
ii'iDses, blowing down chiuinfy.4, trees ami
TRADE OF THE WBBL
f
UnfavorableAVeather Producas
a Slight Dullness.
9Irnp.v Eay and Ktilroad Necaritles
Stvonj Increase In Wheat Ci
parts Iry 4oods Prices Ntroiig
Except in Men's Woolens.
Special telegrams to BradttrceVs point to
only a modjrat degrei of activity ia gen
eral trade throughout the country. This is,
in part, a seasonable coaiition, thoujh un
favorable weathar has bad some inflience.
Tha marketing of sugar and of cotton Is
q-iite rapid. ,
The output of Louisiana suiar is reported
to be less than last year. Holiday goo Js are
sailing freely. Hos and cattle are weak and
lower. Arrivals of the former at interior
joints are h?avy. Dressed hos are off '
cents. Lard aud port are about steady, i'u
mild weather checcs Biles of c ml, and those
of dry goods, boots and shois at Western
centres b ive fallen 'M as well.
Money at Nw Yot fe is steady at around
6 per cent, on call, with considerable demand
lor time loans at the 8 una figure. Foreign
exchange is firmer on increase inquiry.
Gross earnings of 14) railroads for Octo
ber and forteu mouths, specially reported
to Bradntreat's, shows for tbe month a gain
of .15.4 per cnt over Ojtob.-r, 16$S, and for
the ten inoutus an increase ot 10.4 per cent,
with au increase of 1.8 per cent in aggregate
milage.
Pries of breadstuff are all higher wheat,
IJiilMc; co"1' H'Hh aud oats, laljc.
F.aer speculative puicbases of wheat aud
increased cfearauces last we-k served to
ttimuiate wheat iu the fac3 of freer receipts
at ail points, lre stocks on passage and
weaker cab.eB. Unfavorable weatber affected
race pts of corn und oat. R e advanced In
part uu the export movement and word that
Gorman and Russian rye crop advices are
uufavorabte.
. Tha exports of wheat (and flour as wheat.)
both c just, for the ix days, aggregate 2,591,
53 1 bushels, Hgainst ,131,331 m tbe previous
wek and 2,02S,018 bujhals in the like week
la-t year. Tb? total shippei abroad July 1
to date is 33,057 3 M, agan.se 4,566,000 iu a
like portion of 1333. The buitc of tbe in
creased movement is from San Francisco,
Baltimore .and New York.
Retlned sugar bas been in better demand,
with granulated 1-103. higher. Raws were
Also iii better demand, end left off firm at
last week's figures. Tue domestic consump
tion of su;ar lor the yeir ending October 31
is S5.6J0 tons less thau last your, Z)4 P-f cent.
Tbe country is said to b "bare ol stock of
reUned."
8'rongar cables, with buoyant Eoi'Opean
offee markets, stimuiated trading, ai dpr.ces
udvaacad 4'alc.
Dry goous pricos contlnus strong at New
York and Boston, witb an upward tendency
in brown greetings and woolen dress goods.
The general demand compares well witb
previous seasons, except in men's wear wool
ens. Bd weather has cheoxed distribution
by jobbers, liaw wool is unchanged. Tbe
repoi t of the Agricultural Department fore
shadowing a probable gain in cotton yield of
3 per cent over last year depressed prices of
options.
The business failures throughout the coun
try durin seven diys number for tbe United
States 235, and for Canad t 3 , or a total of
265 as conrwed with a total of 257 last week
and 261 tbe we.'ic previous to the last. For
tbe corresponding week of last year the fig
ures were 237, representing 205 failures 111 tin
United States aud 33 ia Canada.
CABLE SPARKS.
, Mr. Boyle.editor of the London Chronicle,
and tli j Earl of Mount Cashed are dead. ..
The bands employed on the steam craft in
tbo Clyde rier at Glasgow have gone out
on striK-1, '
A number of E ulan?ists assembled in tha
Place la Concorde, but were displaced by
tUejoliC'.
Tin United States steamer Enterprise ar
rireJ at Torquay, and proceeded ou a cruise
in tbe Euglisn channel.
The Glasgow and Middlesborougb pig-iron
market still displays-great aotivity.aud there
is a general rise iu prices.
Mr. H-nry Lia, of Philadelphia, has been
nppoinud a corresponding number of the
Munich Royal Academy of sciene.
Emperor William basconforred thedecora
tioucf tleorthrof tbo Red Eagle on Sais
Pasha, Turkish minister of foreign affair
The Russian Military authorities are test
in? a new riflt whicb .s said to combine tbe
best fea uns of thy repeating and Berdan
rifliF.
A Repu' Hj bas been declared in Brazil,
and D0111 Peito, the deposed Emperor, has
tai.ed from Rio Janeiro for Lisbon, Portu
gal. M. Barbey, the new French minister of
marine, has sent orders to the dockyards to
hasten work 0:1 the warships now in course
if construction.
The Emin Pasha relief committee will in
struct C.pt. Wis mann toaispatch with all
possible sp.ed a caravan to the relief of
Henry M. Stanley and bis party.
Advio sfrom Zanzibar state that flying
c jinmni in the coast districts of Usambara
and Usegura stormed the lortified camps of
th Arabs and scattered tbe hostiles.
Th Rome Fan'u'la lays tbat Vatican cir
cl s h t ve been led to expect the establidiment
of an American legation of the Holy 8 e
after the return of .tigr. Satolli from Balti
m ire.
The sum of 31.000 out of a total of 43,
OOJ sent to the London dock-wortcers dur
ing tbtir r-ct strike came from Australia,
while only 4,00J wer contributK d by tha
Unions of Great Britain.
' The Bu'garian Sobranjj, in its addrefs in
reply to tne speecn from the throne.expresces
the nope that the suzerain power will take
the initiative ia lecogmzing Prince Ferdi
nand as ruler of Bulgaria,
Sir Hnry Jam?s, spooking in behalf of
i.h 1 o don rim". before tbe Parnell com
missi! n, declared tbat the Irinb skirmishirg !
4 .. ...1 .. na . i.m.. of riinrl tiahin.l a nralana
Ai w.i..,it'lfM,il marhn'la -
A Ivices fr im Brazil are to th? effect that
a revolutionary movement in lavor of a r. -pu
die bas 1 rabeti out at Rio Janerio, that
ibe cabinet niiruBtprs have resigned and that
tha army controls the situation.
The Sultan has ianed enirade sanctioning
the erect o.i of acii ipel at Bet hieham tor tbe
use of Protesting pilgrim It is anaoune d
that tbis concision i-y the Saltan affords
opeciul tratificaliou to the Empress of Ger
many, The Sultan has issued a proclamation, in
which ho state tLat the sympathetic spirit
j shown bv tho 'IW.lu people toward Em
peror William durinsr his recent visit to
; Turkey Is a pi co! of their loyalty and devc
j tion to bimsolf.
Thu motio'i of S'r riarles Russell to set
asiil" the oi dr prtpnninar Mr. Purnell'a libel
suit nuats", tbo L- inloii Times wm refued
bv tbe .ti.it t T 'tui.' Bfiu-h. 1 Dr. Von
Vti'imcH ' t I. - ' . ' ' 'r of t" ; n wot V .1
WORK AND WORKERS.
Kansas City is to have a $5,000,000 sugar
refinery.
Sacramento (Cal. ) stonecutters work eight
hours for f J.
A huge carpet mill is to be erect:d at
F.oreoce, Ala.
The German miner, since the strike, can
make 1232 per year.
The Yankton, South Dakota) bricklayers
now get 4 50 per day. ,
The threatened strike of coal miners In
Fifeshire, Scotland, has been averted, the
mine-owners having granted tbe men an
advance.
Of 13.OCO.000 barrelu of Rait annually con
sumed in the United States, Michigan fur
nisben two sixths. New York oue-sixtb, and
two-sixths are imported.
Bishop O'Dwyer, of Limerick, Ireland, has
issued a pastoral letter forbiddins the clergy
of tbe dioces to grant absolution to any per
son guilty of boycotting. '
A pocket typewriter is shortly to be offered
to tbe British public. The retail price will
b $2 50; it measures three and one-half in
ches by three inches and weighs about four
ounces. .
A Pittsburg company, with a capital of
$3,500,000 will build a new town near Mc
Kean, Pa., which is to have, besides other
industries, the largest plate gloss works in
th'3 world.
There are more than 40.0C0 Chinese in San
Francisco. Tbey form nearly one-seventh
of tbe city's population, and it is computed
that they send $12,000,000 a year from their
earnings to China.
The great revival of the woolen industry
in Ireland is fast becoming a matt r of much
interest and importance, Witbin the past
few years enterprising men have worked eu
ereticaliy in this direction, and there are
now 5,000 people laboring at Irish looms.
The Treasury Department has been asked
to decide whether it is a violation of the alien
contract labor law for Liverpool cotton mer
chants to send men under contract from that
city to Norfolk to buy and grade cotton for
tbe English trade. The Treasury officials
are divided 011 tbe question, which will be
referred to th solicitor.
OfTicial statistics give as the number of
manufactories in the empire ot tbo Czar for
last year, 21,347. The number of men, wo
mei and children employed in them was
70,33. The value of their ' production
umounted to 1,13J,000 0 Oof rouble?. Euro
pean Russia c unt8lG.fi75, Russian Poland
2,t&$, the Province ot K lukasus 1,000, aud
Liberia and Turkestan 1,2.4 manufactories.
The textile industry gave work to nearly
half a million of iaioreis in 3.0'J6 manufac
tories; metal works to over J-0,000 in 1,877
shops. '
A Co-operative Congress, under the aus
pices of tbe National Co-operative Board,
will be held in Chicago shortly. Tbe pur
pose of the congress is to unite into a co
operative union the co-operative societies of
this country. At tbe present time tea so
cieties are in membership, and it is greatly
to be desired that co operative societies gen
erally, productive and distributive, should
taks part in tbe work ot the approaching
congress and become members of tbe co
operative uuion. Tbe Brooklyn laboring
men are supporting the co-operative bakery
started by tbo Central Labor Uuion of tbac
city. It began operations last Monday week,
and but six daja had past, when they were
running six wagons day and night in order
to supply the demand.
FIRE WIPES OUT A BLOCK.
Narrow Ecape of Hotel Guests in
Baldwinsville, Jfew York.
Kire at Baldwins ville. New York," caused
a loss os $250,000. Tbe flames originated in
tbe second story of the Sanenu Hotel, on tbe
corner of Oswego and Geness?e street, and
tbo entire hotel block, with two large ware
houses adjoining, were destroyed. The hotel
was handsome structure, and with the
warehouses bad a frontage of 100 feet on
Oswego street, and 200 feet on Genessee
street. The flames spread so rapidly that
the hotel guests, about forty in number, bad
to Use for their livrs, many of them losing
all their clotbing and valuables. Landlord
Wright, who was sick in bed, was carried
down a ladder and bad a narrow escape with
bis life. Tbe block was owned by Hon. J,
W. Upson, und wad occupied, in addition to
the hotel, by G. N. Luckeys jeweler; Hall
& Williams, hardware; A. vV. Warner,
photograph gallery ; Charles Shares.harness
shop; and Voorhees, cigar dealers. Th
heaviest losers are Messrs. Miller, woolen
manufacturers, who estimate tbey bad
about $ 100,0 JO in wool and knit goods stored
in the warehouse, Tbey carried $6J,000
worth of Insurance. Tobacco stored in the
adjoining warehouse, owned by Mr. Upson,
Myron Mandelson and other parties, was
valued about $100,000, and is tbought to be
fully insured, Adjoining property was con
stantly in danger, and the First National
Bank was several times on fire, but it was
saved by the firemen. The Seneca House
barns were saved. Tbe walls of tbe burned
building fell in, and the spr.-ad of the fire
was thus prevented. The origin is a mystery
but it is thought to have been caused by
spontaneous combustion of oiled rags.
POISON IN THE WELLS,
A Aniuber or Wells Near St. Louis
Found to Contain ArNcnic.
The people of Cheltenham, a suburb of St.
Louis, have been considerable alarmed of
late by tho heavy deatb rate, caused evident
ly by some impurity in the water supply.
Those attacked would have symptoms of
acute cholera morbus, and no less than six
deaths have been recorded during the past
two weeks. Chemical analysis of the water
of one of tbe wells showed the presence of
arsenic, in startling quantities, and demon
strated that the so-called cho.era morbus
cases were due to arsenical poison in sr.
About two weeks ago Charles Kobl was
taken ill. It was in the well of bis premises
that tbe poison was found, and a sensational
charge of well poisoning was preferred
against a neighbor with whom Kohl had bad
previous trouble. The accused mas sternly
asserted his innocence. A week later Kohl
was again taken sick and died. Tbe inquest
determined tbe fact beyond contravention
t hat Kohl's deatb had been caused by arsenic.
A general examination of all the wells in tbe
place showed tbat arsenic was present in all
of them. 1 -
An analytical chemist then made the dis
covery that the Cheltenham Smelting Works
used great quantities of arsenic in the smelt
ing of gold and silver for cleansing and re
fining purposes, and tbat arsenous acid was
formed by tbe combination of tho moisture
and vapor of tbe air with nrsenio fumes that
pour out of th comp&uy's chimney iu a
blinJin cloud of smoKe.
.Anotner tbeory is that the arson ic is wash
ed from the pneious metals by a liood of
water. Tbis wnter flows away unto a huge
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DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
David, the 4-year-old son, and Kitty, the
2 year-old daughter of Robert Hendersou, of
Dinbury, Connecticut, were burned to death
while playing with tiro.
Arthur A. Ricbwine was found hanging by
one foot on the ladder leading to tbe gas pic
at McCormick's furnaces, at iiarrisburg, la.
Both eyes were burned out. . . ,
While blasting rock at V hite Rock, Colo
rado, . William Richardson, Ralph Shaffer
and Louis Waltbam were killed by the pre
matura exp.osion of a obarge of giant pow
der. ;'
Ellis R Freeman, member of the Genessee
Bicycle Club, who recently competed in a
road race from Buffalo to Rochester, New
Yorir, died from the effects of over exertion
iu tbe race.
It is estimated that it will cost $10,000 to
repair tb damage done by recent rain
itorms to the new silver vault in the Treasury
court, in wnicu nearly lOJ.OOd.OUJ standard
dollars are stored. t : . ; ; ,
An explosion of fireworks occurred in the
pyrotechnic factory of Mamie & Roraaine,
at Petersburg, Virginia. Six thousand pieces
of fireworks were destroyed and three men
wre fatally burned.
A man named Potter and bis son, who left
their raucb near Trinidad, Colorado, for that
town nearly two weeks ago, bave not beeu
heard of siuce then, and are supposed to have
pTished in tbe blizzard. -
. Jobn Henry, an old soldier, fell or jumped
from a passauger train at Wilmington, Pa.,
and was killed. , He was on bis way to tbe
Soldiers' Home, at Erie, of whicb institution
he had been an inmate. - v. r .' .
The bare Ishpemiug, of Detroit, loaded
with coal, from Lorraine, Onio, to Green
Bay, Wisconsin, Struck Wnaleback Reef In
asborm, aud was lost. The crew were rescued
after Gauging to the rigginj for 36 hours. ..
A dispatch from Washington says that two
freight trains, largely made up ot cattle ears,
collided at Russiau Branch, opposite Bull
Run battlefield, killing Engineer Ettes and
Fireman James Murpuy. A large number
of cattle were fcUed.
While men were blasting rock on the con
struction branch of the Northern . Pacinu,
Railroad in Jefferson county, Minnesota, a
blast of giant powder failed of the desired
effect, and some black powder was pounded
in to complete tbe blast 4 An explosion fol
lowed instantly, killing six men.
Luis Baca, a prominent sheep rais;r of Ut
Creek, New Mex.co, bas arrived at Clayton,
and reports tbat during the recent biizz jd '
five saeep herders peris lied in his nerfinoor-
hood. Several other men are missing. The
snow completely cover the ground from
Clayton to tbe Canadian river, a distance of
125 miies, and many Mexican families are in
a destitute condition, being unable to leave
their plazas to obtain supplies of food.
Margaret, the wife of Patrick Cannon, of
Wilkesoarre, Pa., indulged in a spree, dur
ing winch she procured a bottle of whisky
aud with it wandered away into (he moun
tains back of town. Her absence wee not
discovered for two days, when search was
made and she was lound lying frozen to
death in the woods, where she bad disrobed,
thinking herself at home.
UNCLE SAM ON THE SEA.
Present Condition or the Navy, Old
and Sew.
Theodore D. Wilson, chief of the Bureau
of Construction' and Repair," bas submit
ted to Secretary xTracy a j volumiiaous
report of tho operations conducted nndrr
the supervision of the bureau during the
year ended June 30, 1889,' and the esti
mates for the comtnsr fiscal year; ending
June 3), 1891, The Commodore' presents a
iengthly argument iu favor of increasing the
efficiency of navy yards, as Indicated in the
estimates, saying this great nation should
not close any navy yard, 'The report says
that after eight or nine years there will be no
wooden vesseis remain. ng in active sr vice.
A deficiency appropriation bill will be neces
sary, in order tbat the work of construction
and tepair may be carried on during the. re
mainder of tbe present fiscal year without
interruption.
Tbe single-turreted monitors are said to be
now in a worse than useless state, and there
port recommends tbat something be done
with them. To put them into condition for
efficient service in harbor and coass defence
will cost, it is estimated, t4J5,000, Tnere are
thirteen of these monitors. Commodore Wil
son calls attention to thedifllculty of getting
satisfactory bius for the construction of ves
sels when the cost is limited by tbe acts
authorizing tbem to be built, and recom
mends that in the future tha burean be not
crippled by such legislation. ' f.
In conclusion Commodore Wilson gave the
following statement ot the condition of tbe
navy : The United States bas at preseut four
steeLcruiaers, and a steel despatch vessel in
commission. The Baltimore, Vesuvius, Fe
trel and Charleston have had their trial trips
and may be expected soon to take tbeir
places in the cru:iog fleet. Thereare twenty
one wooden steamers and seven iron steamers
still useful aud serviceable.
With tbe completion of the vessel now
building and appropriated for, the Uuited
States will possess teu armored vesse s, thir
teen 8ingle-turreted monitors, twenty-one
steel cruisers or gunboats, two dynamite
cruisers, a practice cruiser ior cadets, au ar
mored ram, one first-class torpedo boat and
seven iron bteamers.
The work; of rebuilding the navy is pro?
greBsing very satisfactory, and tbe results
accomplished during tbe past six uioatha are
sufficient guaranty of tbe propose of theds
partment to advance the work with the ut
most rapidity, and of Its energy and success
in tbe performance of the tasi. The vessels
already under contract and building at navy
yards are progressing favoraOly, and some
are rapidly nearing completion. The pro
gress made upon the armorrd cruiser Maine,
at the navy yard. New vfors:, deserves epeo
iol mention, and is very creditable to that
yard. Is will thus be seen that, us far as lies
within its power, thedep irtmeut is vigorous
ly endeavoring to satisfy the popular de
mand,' and establish a navy wormy of the
United States, and commensurate with its
importance as a maritime power.
APPOINTED TO OFFICE.
A. Batch of Appointments by the Pres.
ident.
The President has appointed Thomas Clay
McDowell, of Kentucky, to bs collector of
internal revenue for the Seventh district of
Kentucky, vice William Cassius Goodloe, de
ceased. , McDowell is the son-in-law of Mr. .
Goodloe. Jyhn H. Devaux, of Georgia, io
he collector of customs tor thu district of
Brunswick, Ga. David B. Mider, of Iow,
to be marshal of tbe United States lor tbo
Southern district of Iowa. Lswis Mile, ot
towa, to be attorney ot the Uuited Stat-- for
tin Southern district of Iowa. Josu 1 11.
Wilson, f Texajs, to b otMrney i.f tk
United Mates for the .Eustrrn dis'n. . f
i'exas. James II. R:t.iv, i-f Iduh'L u !
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