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THE SENATE.
The decisions of Judges Tftft/' ani j
Hicks in Ohio and Speer in Geq^; a ; n
relation to the right and il itfafp 0 f rail
road employes came up.in/fhc senate
Monday in connection. witlTa resolution
. : instructing the cS..:fniVtec- on interstate
■ - - craiuierce to inquire into that and other.
3|®8gB||4'subjects, and quite a long and interest-
- - ing debate resulted, -which had notclos-
ed when the senate adjourned.. The
remarks • of Senator Gorman andVoor-
hees as to the effect of those-decisions,
being to convert railroad employes into
i - . serfsand galley-slaves, 'were criticised.
by Mr. Platt'as intemperate and merely
tending to excite . the passions of
■ laboring'; men. A resolution, for a
committee to wait on the presi
dent and inform him that the senate
J is ready to adjourn sine die, was offered
, and agreed to without queston; hut sub-
.' ' sequently a motion to reconsider was
made by Mr. ■ Hoar" And entered to be
’ called upon hereafter. Mr. Hoar’s rea-
■ son for moving to reconsider was under
stood to be his determination, if possible,
to force the senate to take action in the
way of investigating Senator Eoachf of
North Dakota.. Resolutions to investi
gate Mr. Roach’s case and that of Mr.
Power,. of Montana, were offered by
Senators Hoar and Chandler and went
over without action. In pursuance of
- - the same purpose, Mr. Hoar successfully
resisted a motion to proceed to executive
business.
,1 - The democratic succeeded in foroin,
an executive session Tuesday morning
face of the combined republican opposi
tion. As soon as Monday’s journal was read
a motion to proceed Jo executive business
was made by Mr. Gorman and antago
nized bv Mr. Hoar. The vote was taken
. by yeas and nays,and the motion was car
ried—39 to 161, a strict party vote,Peffer
c voting with the democrats.
In the senate, "Wednesday, the resolu
lion offered by Mr. Call on the 20th
March, declaring that the committee
; finance, naval affairs, military affairs,
judiciary, foreign relations, ^appropria-
tions, commerce and interstate com
mercc, shall each consist of fifteen inem
hers, was taken up and Mr. Call made
an argument in support of it. At the
close of Mr. Call’s speech the resolution
went over without action; The resolu
tion reported by Mr. Nance, from
committee on privileges and elections,
was referred to the committee on con
tingent expenses (under the rule) for the
investigation of the 'claim of Joseph W.
Ady to the seat as senator from the state
of Kansas. The senate then, on motion
of Mr. Faulkner, proceeded to the con
sideration of executive business.
In the senate, Thursday, a memorial
signed by seventy-seven members of the
Kansas legislature against the right of
Mr. Martin to hold his seat as a senator
from that state, and asserting that Ady
5 was legally and fairly elected, was pre
sented by Mr. Sherman and referred tt
the committee on privileges and elec
tions. The resolution reported Wcdues
day from that committee for the investi
gation of the question came up again and
at the suggestion of Mr. Harris, was laid
over till Friday. A motion to pro
ceed to the consideration of exe
cutive business was made by Mr.
Vest and carried by a strict party vote
of 38 to 19. In consequence of n remark
a made by Mr. Hoar, three or four demo
cratic senators who had voted, although
paired, withdrew their votes, while
.. claiming that they had reserved the
right to vote in order to make a quorum,
/ The senate theD, at 12.30 p. m., pro
cecded to the consideration of executive
business. The doors were reopened at
o’clcck. Mr. Chandler expressed a de
sire to address the senate on the Roach
resolution, but postponed his speech tilt
Friday at the suggestion of Mr. Gorman
and the senate adjourned.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS.
The president, Wednesday, sent the
following nominations to the senate: To
be postmasters: Conway C. Floweree, at
Vicksburg, Miss.; Rnbcit G. Wright, at
Waynesb- rn,. Va.; Richard Adams, at
Radford, Va.
The total number of fourth-class post
masters appointed was 161. Of. these
ninety-seven were to fid vacmcies caused
by resignation's and deaths, and sixty-
four by removals. Of the sixty-four
postmasters removed, fifty-seven served
' four years or oyer.
The senate will adjourn very soon
Both the senators and the president are
anxious for this. The majority of the
democratic senators have worked harder
since March 4th than during all toe lour
years of the Harrison administration,
and Mr. Cleveland himself has been at it
from 9 o’clock until long past midnight.
Secretary Morton has tendered the po
sition of foreign agent of the agricultural
department to John Mattes, Jr., of Ne
braska. The position is now held by Dr.
Frank Dewey, who lias been assisting
Colonel Murphy at Birlin in advertising
American corn. Mr. Mattes is -a mem
ber of the Nebraska legislature and
personal friend of Secretary MortoD.
The democratic senators held a caucus
Wednesday morning and decided that
N \ there should be no investigation of the
Y Roach ease at this session. The rcsolu-
\ tion will, therefore, remain unacted upon
wnen the senate adjourns. The caucus
decided to investigate the claims made
by Ady to tire seat he’d by Martin. I
was annenneed to the caucus that thi
president would comp'ete the business he
has for the senate by the end of the week,
,i~ ' and it is believed that the sciiate will
then adjourn.
98tf Tliesenate made the following confirm-
ations Wednesday: Hannis Taylor; of-
Alabama, mininister to Spain; James S.
SA Ewing, of Illinois, minister to Belgium;
UK William Lochrnn, of Minncs ta, commis-
siouer of pensions; Lnu'a C. Hughes,
ifla " Arizona, governor of Ariz >na; u'so many
hB postmastirs, among whom were the fol-
H lowing: Kentucky, Horace Ashton,
Flemingburg; Amos W rst, Mayfield,
tBf Tennessee; Comic P. Priestly, Hunting-
B don, James T. McCu’ehen, Jackson, Ar-
■ knnsas, Robert A. Baird, Morriliton,
I Texas, John T. Halt, Orange..
I The treasury department was advised
Thursday evening that fix hundred and
fifty-seven Chinamen had arrived at Vic
toria, B. C., on the steamer Empress of
Japan, direct from Chinese porta. These
Chinamen are all destined for the United
States. The steamer Mogul also arrived
Thursday at Tacoma, Wash., having on
, board ofiehundred and fifty-nine China
men, one ' hundred and forty-seven of
whom claimed to be. Chinese merchants
and entitled to land. Assistant Secretary
Spaujdihg.sent- telegraphic - instructio ns
to the treasury officials'at the Pacific
ports to exerciso the utmost care to pre
vent the law Rom being violated; .
The senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the
<, following . nominations:.; Eben Ah xan-
der, of NotthCarolina,minister to GreeCe,
Eoumania and Servia; William-T. Towns,
of Virginia, consul general to. Rio.de
Janeiro; James E. Neal, of Ohio, con
sul at Liverpool; Q: 0. Eckford, of Mis
souri, consul lit .'Kingston, Jamaica;
James M. , Doobs, of Georgia, consul at
' Valparaiso; William T. Thornton, of
Santa Fe; New Mexico, governor of New
fftad.K.
assistant
States-atNcw
^^H. Roberts, resign-
5r/-Browning, of Illinois, to;
be efijLinissioner of Iadiau affairs; Frank
C. Armstrong, of Washington, D. C.,
to be assistant commissioner of Indian
affairs.
The president sent the following nomi-
nalioris to the senate Thursday: Alex
ander W. Terrell, of Texas, to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotenti
ary of the United Stales, to Turkey;
John J. Hawkins, of Arizona territory,
to be associate justice: of the supreme
enurt of tho_ti rritory.of Arizona; James
F. Reed, of ,Kansas, to be attorney of
the United States for the Western dis
tiictof Arkansas;'George J. Rump, of
Arkansas, to be marshal of the United
gratis for the Western district of Arkan
sas; J. hn H. M. Wigwam, of Wiscon
sin, to he attorney of the United States
for tlie Eastern district of Wisconsin:
Alexander - Watson . Terrell, of Texas,
who is nominated. Thursday 'to be inin-
isster to Turkey, is a man of about sixty
years. He-has one of the finest resi
dences in Austin and' a great ranch" of
8,000 acres, lying, about twelve miles
from the city, where he spends most
of his time. He is a man of fine culture,
a graduate of the University of Missouri
and bis education was supplemented by
a special course at Heidelberg. For
some years he was reporter of the state
supreme cou;t and was later a state sena
tor. He was at one time a candidate for
the United States senate and was Mr.
Reagan’s strongest competitor. In local
politics he has been a Hogg man and his
appointment was endorsed by both of
the Tcxnn senators, and especially by
Senator Mills.
A COAL MINE HORROR.
Hundreds of Men Entombed and" Great
Loss of Life.
A London cablegram of Tuesday says:
A spark from an engine ignited a gas
coal pit near Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, and
caused the gas to explode. A large num
ber of miners were at work at-the time,
and the explosion caused terrible havoc.
Three hundred miners are entombed in
the mine. The engine house is in flames
and there is the greatest fear that hun
dreds may have perished. The rescuers
who went down were driven back with
out being able to bring more than five of
the dead and the fate of the other miners
is in doubt. The most agonizing scenes
are witnessed and throngs of men,women
and children—relatives of those below—
are crowded about the mouth oi the coal
pit.
WORK OS' RESCUE.
At the entrance of the shaft, a rescu
ing paity was formed by the pit survey
or. The party got as far as the landing
at the seam where the fire started but
were driven back almost immediately by
the dense smoke issuing from the seam.
The surveyor took his men back to the
surface. After a half hour’s rest they
went down again and forced their way
ten yards into~the workings. They found
four dead which they brought back with
them. Attempt to go further into the
workings were vain, as the wood works
were burning and 1 -rge masses < f ruins
were falling incessantly from the roof.
One of the reselling party who ventured
too far was killed.
A contest to set aside the will of the
late Dr. Washington Syer, of San Fran
cisco, who died in June last, leaving an
estate valued at $1,500,000, was com
menced Tuesday in the interest of Chris
topher Ryer, who claims to be a natural
son.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee, Mon
day, appointed John K. Shields, of Bean
Station, Grainger county to bn judge of
the twelfth chancery division; just" crea
ted by the legislature, and composed of
tho counties of Sullivan, Hawblean,
Hawkins, Grainger, Claiborne and Han
cock. . •
'Governor Turney, of Tennessee, ap
pointed the following penitentiary com
missioners Thursday: R. ’J. Morgan, of
Memphis; I). K. Young, of Clinton, and
M. L- McDowell, .of Winchester., The}’
will proceed’to purchase coal ard farming
lands to build a new-penitentiary and
stockade, for which $600,f 00 will be <x-
pected.. Their salary is $2,000 per an
num. S
LATEST NEWS OF THE DISASTER.
The latest news from Port-y-Pridd is
to the effect that the fire in the mine has
been quenched. The fumes of gas, how
ever, are still so n xious ns to drive out
those who undertake to explore the mine
in search of the dead and for the rescue
of those who might be living. Many of
the ixplorirs are suffering severely from
the /.‘Heels of the smoke and deadly gases
which they encountered. Further search
will be necessary to ascertain the full ex
tent of the calami ly,
FIFTY-THREE CORPSES.
At 11 o’clock Wednesday evening, the
pit had become so cool that three explor
ing parties were able to descend and go
some distance into the seam. They found
three dead men, but discovered no trace
of the main bo ly of miners, who were
cut off from escape by the Himes.
Up to 2 (.’clock Thursday morning,
fifty-three corpsi s had been taken from
the pit. Searching.parties had f-.und no
sign that any of the missing miners were
still alive. The hi dies of eleven men
were huddled behind a door, as if they
sought shelter there from a hurricane of
fiery sparks sweeping by. Otht-r bodies
were louud in the return a rivays where
the victims were caught while probably
trying to escape. A doctor has exam
ined the bodies and reports that all of
the victims died of suffocation. The
searching parties are of- the 0|jnion that
other bodies will be found under the
piles of debris lying everywhere in the
mine.
BIG STRIKE IN CHICAGO.
Workmen on the World’s Fair Build
ings Have a W’alk-Out;
In obedience to the order of the Build-
g Trades Council, 4.000 union me
chanics, employed at the World’s Fair
grounds did not go to work Monday
morning. The trades represented are
carpenters, painters, ornamental iron
workers, hod o: rriers, tin and sheet iron
workers, lathers, cornice workers, etc.
The bricklayers, stone cutters and plas
terers are not included.
The men claim that the Council of Ad
ministration of the World’s Pair has
broken fa th with the allied, trades upon
the arbitration question. The men are
quiet, but ns fast as workmen approached
they were taken in hand by pickets and
requested not to go to work. Probably
eighty per cent of the trades interested
did not woik. During the morning a
messenger was sent from the administra
tion building inviting the representatives
of the strikers to a conference." The in
vitation was at once accepted.
It was 10 o’clock at night when the
meeting between the council of adminis
tration and the. representatives of tho
building trades council came to an agree
ment which is . to continue throughout
the entire period of the exposition, and
under which further trouble is impossi
ble. 1 he men received the formal con
cession of a minimum rate of wages and
yielded to the-demand of the exposition
officials that thiy may employ any man
whether be is a member of any labor or-,
ganizition or not.
Ttie first step looking toward peace
was made when a committee of the
strikers submitted to the world’s fair
council the folio -ring proposition: That
if tho world’s fair council will agree to
submit the differences between the men
and- the exposition to arbitration at 4
o’clock p. m., April 12th,' the" building
and trades council will order the men
back ito work at once pending the result
of "arbitration. The building and trades
council binds itself to abide by the deci
sion Of. the arbitrators. One arbitrator
to be selected by the bufidiug and
trades, council, one. by the world’s fair
management and a third by the two.
The bomb ifdment of Port Sumter was
celebrated at Charleston, S. C., Wednes
day, by memorial exercises in honor of
the late General Beauregard. A parade
participated in by civic and military or
ganizitions, was followed by impressive
exercises at the Grand opera house. Al
exander Robert Chisholm; of New York,
delivered the opening address on “Beau
regard at Manassas.” ■
A Nashville, Tenn., special Of Wednes
day says: The mystery surrounding th •
failure of Dobbins & Dazey and flic
wrecking of the Commercial National
bank, is beginning to assume that shape
where an explosion may be expected ai
most any moment, and by some who are
cognizant of what is going on. It i-
stated that some startling developments
may be expected very shortly.
The investigation of the looting of the
Gate City bank, at Atlanta, by the grand
jury is proceeding by slow and regular
stages. A large numbor of witnesses
have been examined nnd it is said tha
some interesting facts have been discov
ered, but what they are cannot bo learn
ed. The secrecy which is thrown around
the grand jury room and what transpires
therein is deep and ponderous.
In the United States court at Atlanta,
Wednesday morning, Henry Fink and
Charks-L. Magee were appointed re
ceivers in two impoitant cases brough;
by the Central Trust company of New
York, against the East Tennessee rail
road. The bills were presented to the
court several days ago, the one. forecl* s-
ing a mortgage on the general property
of ttie road, the other foreclosing a mon
gage on the rolling stock.
News reached Raleigh, N. C., Wed
nesday night of a disastrous forest fire in
Warren county, which has swept oyer
miles of the country destroying 200 farm
dwellings and much other property. It
burned ten dwellings, St. Stephen’s
church, two public schools and.B. M.
Collins’ flouring mills worth $10,000.
One wealthy’farmer lost eleven buildings,
cattle and hogs were burned to death and
miles of fencing destroyed.
Ex Governor A. G. McGrath died at
Charleston, S. C., Sunday, aged eighty
years. Previous to the rebellion he was
re-appointed by President Pierce district
judge of South Carolina, but on the an
nouncement of the election of Lincoln to
the presidency, he discharged the grand
jury and declared the court adjourned
sine die. He,wns subsequently governor
of the state and at the fall of the. confed
eracy was arrested and imprisoned by the
federal authorities. On h T s release he
resumed the practice of his profession.
A special of Tuesday from Los ArglrB,
Cal., says: Since last Tuesday there
have been between forty and fifty earth
quake shocks in the Pico canon, near
New Hall.. The Pico canon is in the
San Fernando mountains and is the cen
ter of the oil region. L ist Tuesday, a
severe eartl quake, which -was felt all
over southern California, shook tin
houses in the Pico canon and very badly
frightened the inhabitants. Since thei
there have been sevcrul shocks evcr\
day, but these have been confined to a
small area in the mountains.
The Southern Afternoon Press bureau,
comprising forty-six leading afiernoon
newspapers of the south and southwest,
concluded its three days’ session i
Washington Wednesday. Rufus N
Rhodes, of the B rmingham News, w >
elected president; J. W. Burson, of tin
Galveston Tribune, vice-president; J.
Pinkney Smith, of the New Orleans
States, secretary and general manager,
and Fred S. C x, af the Mobile New .
treasurer. The birnau determined I-
have a priss. report of its own, made up
in Washington by its own editor aim
irnprov. d both in matter and quality.
A Nashville special of Monday says:
It is generally conceded that there will
possibly be further trouble in the mining
districts in May. It is ah open se-
i ret that a general strike is in prepara
tion to take effect May lsf, and state an .
civil military authorities are preparing
for ano her attack on the convicts work
id in mines. -Positions have been and
are being s'rengthened, fortifications
built and everything is being put in
readiness for au attack. The legislature
has passed a bill authorizing the gov
ernor to u'e tho full force of the state to
suppress disorders.
A meeting of the creditors of Dobbins
& n>'Z"v was held, in Nashville, Tenn..
Tuesday. All debts of the firm exept
about $5,000 were represented. Mr.
Dobbins made a proposition to turn
over the assets to the creditors, if they
would release him, so he could reorgan
ize -the business. Another proposition
was suggested hy some of the largest
creditors, in substance to turn over the
assets of the firm to Mr. Dobbins and let
him realize all possible for the creditors.
It was agreed that this proposition
should be formally drawn up and pre*
sented to each creditor for errsidern-
tion, with a statement ol the condition
of the assets and liabilities as soon ns an
accurate one can he made.
“OLD GLORY” HAULED DOWN
^ _ revelation
be considered as strictly
onfideffPia!. It must not be told across
the Atlantic. It is one of those secrets
which cme 1 earns with shame and repeats
in a whisper. It refers, in fact, to the
venerable house of" lords. It has to do
with a thiug- which greatly adds to what
the peerage calls the enjoyment of 1
title. It is a seeiet of the vestiarium, i
robing room. It is no'hing less than
the long and carefully concealed truth
about the coronet. You know that it is
n crimson velvet cap, very soft and pretty
'and comfortable, round which is the
gold coronet set with pearls. Now,
coronet is just a broad circular- band,
iv<.ryb6dy knows.;
The iron crown of Lombardy is such
band of gold set wiih' great rubies
roughly cut, and without any palliative
of velvet. With the bare crown stuck
firmly on his head there he was—a king,
just as with his wig adjusted on his-head
i here is theother "man^a~lord chief-jus
tice. Very well, then. The peer’s cor
onet is not of gold at all. Iam assured,
by one who knows, that itis.of copper.
Mlt, and ‘that the' pearls in it are not
pearls,but silver things as big as pigeons’
"ggs. One more illusion is gone. We
■‘hall learn next that the velvet is cotton
v lvct or sateen or soft merino, or even
ed fl-innel. Obly copper guilt! Is it
nossiblc?—Walter Besant in London
Q i eu.
Whittier’s Spirituality.
Spiritualism, as it is milled in our day,
was a subject which earnestly and stead
ly held Whittier’s attention. There aro
many passages in his letters on this ques
ion which state his own mentitl posi-
i-m very clearly :
“I have had as good a chance to see
ghost.” he once said, “as anybody ever
t ad, but not the slightest sign ever came
to me. I do not doubt what others tell
me, but I sometimes wonder ovet my
own incapacity. I- should like to see
-ome dear ghost walk in and sit down
by me when I am here alone, Tho do
ngs of the old witch days have never
lie-cn explained, and as we arc so soon to
be transferred to another i-tate, how nat
ural it appears that sonic of us should have
glimpses of it here.”
As the end of his life drew near, it was
aiy to see that the village home where
his mother and sister lived and died was
the place he chiefly loved, but he was
ui ire inaccessible to his friends in Ames-
buiy, and tho interruptions of a fast-
gr.iwing factory town were sometimes
less agreeable to him than the 1 country
life at Oak Knoll. Once only
be expresses this preference for the
dear old village home in one of his
letters:
‘ I have, been at Amesbnry for a fort
night: Somenow, I seem nearer to my
mother and sister; -the very walls of the
room seem to have become sensitive'to
the photographs of unseen presences.”—
Annie Fields in Harper’s.
•Serious Danner
Threatens every'man, woman or child living
in a region of country wlie re fever an d a;
prevalent, since the germs of malarial dii
are inhaled from the air and are swallowed
from the water of such a region. Medicinal
safeguard is absolutely necc*sary to nullify
lliis danger. As a means of fortifying and
climaiingthe system so as to be able .to re
st the malarial poison, Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters is incomparably the best and the most
popular*
Many persons are broken down from over
work or household ear. s. .Brown's Iron Bit
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re
moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. ‘
splendid fonic for women and children.
Thirty-two states and territories have given
women some form of suffrage.
• A MissonrLGycIone.
Meager paiticulars were received Tues
day of a cyclone at Page City, Mo. Three
people were killed and a large number.in-
■b urecl. The most terrific hailstorm that
has been known.in that section for years
visited St. Louis Tuesday night at 8
o’clock. The falling stones hit upon the
skytights with sufficient force in maby
instances to break the©. . _ ' . .
By Order of Commissioner Blount, and
Hawaii’s Own Flag- Furled. .
A San Francisco special says: Advices
from Honolulu by Thursday’s steamer say
that. Commissioner- Bleu t’s arrival in
Hawaii was a wet blanket for the pro
visional government, but his procedure
has paralyzed the leaders, as well ns Min
ister Stevens. By Mr. Blount’s order the
American fiig was hauled down and the
protectorate dissolved. The event took
place’ April 1st, and was marked by brief
and simple ceremonies. On his arrival
the United.States cenfmissioner held two
audiences'with the provisional govern
ment, at the first of which Mr. Blount
preiented a letter from President Cleve
land introducing the envoy and defining
his duties. The HawStin flag has been
-bolster). I: received no cheers for every
one knew it was not’what the new gov-
eri ment desired,
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Mr. N. E— Verylate—Have you ceased
to care for' me, Adele? I! came earlier
this afternoon, anil-you do not even Took
glad to see me. • "
Miss Adele Sartean;-—Indeed, I am
glad to see you 1 But this is my hour
if or resting my features from gU expres-.
Mob.—[Vogue.
Mr. Simeon Staples
Four Physicians Failed
A Running Sore Five Years
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parilla, and using Hood’s Olive Ointment, and
at the end of 2 years I was completely cured,
and have hail no trouble with. it since.”
Simeon Staples, East Taunton, Mass.
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A Chicago special of Wednesday says:
Tuesday night’s -storm wrought such
havoc with the telegraph wires that it is
almost impossible to obtain particulars of
the damage done in the west, where the
des'ruction seems to have been general
and widespread in the stales of Iowa, Il
linois, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.
Probably the grea'est damage was done
in Iowa, although the reports from Ne
braska indicate that when full particu
lars are received that state will lead, in
iho loss of propeitv and human life.
Along the line of the'Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul railroad, in Iowa and Ne
braska, the slorm cut a wide swath.
the town- of Akron, in the former
state, is wricked, and Westfield, a few
miles distant, badly demoralized. - Meagre,
reports from localities in the interior-
show that the devastation is widespread,
a though its full extent will not be
kuowiTfor several days, owing to the
lack of telegraphic facilities and the
washiLg out of the country roads, reh;
(firing communication difficult and in
many cases impossible. Continuing along
the railroad in Nebraska, the storm swept
■ip farm buildings, fences and bridges
and finally swooped ; down on the town
of Page, which it wrecked.
LATEST NEWS.
A special of Wednesday afternoon from
Kansas City, Mo , says: As communici-
.- ion gradually becomes opened up with
the small towns and hamlets through
Kansas and Missouri which were cyclone
swept Tuesday, and the news _ always
making additions to the list of lives and
property is received, the real extent of
i he storm becomes known. It is impos
sible to get the names of the victims,
however, and in most instances the ac
counts of destruction wrought are in
complete. Even in some places where
communication has been restored,
news is not available. The stricken
citizens are engaged with the important
duty of caring for the injured, tho care
of the dead, nnd putting together what
was once their happy homes. Fifteen
people are known to have been killed
thirty or forty were injured, while num
berless houses, as well as smaller proper
ty, were destroyed. Much stock was
also killed.
A MISSISSIPPI TOWN IN RUINS.
A Vicksburg, Miss.,
says
Conductor Thomas, of the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroad, wired the
following Wednesday night: “The en
tire town of Robinsonville, Coahoma
county, was swept away by a cyclone
about 4:30 o’clock this evening. All the
stores are in flames. Several negroes
and perhaps some white men are buried
in the ruins. The depot was completely
destioy- d and the night operator’s wife
killed. A colored child was also killed
Only two houses are lift standing.”
STORM IN TENNESSEE.
_ Jackson, Tenn., was struck by a cy-
clone about five o’clock Wednesday after
noon nnd a dozen buildings were wreck
ed. There was no loss of life, though a
number of persons were slightly injured.
Evry thing in the path of the
storm was leveled. The damage in the
lural districts cannot be learned.
CASUALITIEB IN MISSOURI.
A special ,of)lhursday from St. Louis,
Mo.,'says: Though two Mghta and a
day have passed since the cyclone tore
its way through Missouri, from south
west to northwest, the repor's of dam
age and loss of life are still coming in.
The towns which suffered most are com
paratively small and nearly all located in
the northwestern part of the state On a
strip lying 10 the southeast of Kansas
City. A summary of the casualities
shows the following result, the list of
dead and injured corrected to the best
possible extent:
At Higginsville, Mo., eight persons
were killed outright and three mere will
probably die and twenty-five wounded.
At Hawkins Bank eight people were
kilLd and thirty-one seriously injured;
at Lexington five were killed and thi’ee
fatally injured; at Stanbury, four killed
and one fatally hurt; at Steelville, seven
killed. In addition there is a long list
of tcose who were more or less hurt, and
whose injuries will not prove fatal. As
if this horrible roll was not enough, the
storm left little to the survivors to be
gin life again with. Houses, barns,
stock and everything was swept before
the storm’s fury. A. Hawkins Bank the
scene was most horrible. When the re
lief reached there not a soul in the place
had had a morsel to eat for twenty-four
hours, as provisions, cook stove 0 , etc.,
were all blown away. Farmers from the
surrounding country came nobly ta their
assistance, and many ~are now being
cared for in the immediate vicinity of the
bank.
RUINS AT YPSILANTI.
According to dispatches of Thursday,
Ypsilanti, Mich., is in a lamentable
condition and business is suspended
owing to the havee caused by Wednes
day night’s rainstorm. Almost all the
principal block—stores, the opera house,
postoffice, hotel and several dwellings—
were either demolished or badly dam
aged. Houses were lifted from their,
fiundations, buildiegs were unroofed and
walls tumbled into the street, a macs of
ruins. So far as known, not n life will
be lost as a result of the storm. Roughly
estimated, the total loss is between
$109,000 and $150,000.
A Memphis, TenD., special of Thurs
day says: It" is hardly possible to exag
gerate the havoc made by the cyclone fire
at Rubinsobville Wednesday. There are
parts of two houses and a water tank
'ill standing, and everything- else was
razedj to the ground, and most, of it
burned. The number of killed, so far as
can be ascertained by a census of the
bodies found, is seventeen; one white
and sixteen colored, and about ten in
jured—two so seriously that they are ex
pected to die. The wounded who have
not been sent to Memphis, Tunica or
Lake Cormorant, are quartered in the
two houses still standing. The property
loss will reach $100,000.
PERU APOLOGIZES
For tlic Outrage Perpetrated on One of
Our Consular Agencies.
A Washington special of Monday says:
The Peruvian government has tukeirthe
initiatory steps toward complying with
the demands of the United States-that
reparation be made for the outrage com
mitted on one of its consular agencies in
Peru. It .wasmot; until Monday morning
that the name , of [the place attacked,
which was omitted in the first dispatch
from Minister Hicks notifying Secretary
Gresham of the affair,-was made known'
to.the state department. The informa
tion was contained in a cablegram from
Minister Hick's, stating that the consular
[agency is at Mollendo, Peru; and that in
answer fo the demand for satisfaction
made by the administration the govern
ment of Peril immediately removed the
sub-prefact of the department in . which
Mollendo is situated, and promised, to
provide suitable reparation; 'and, fur-
- thermore, that the government .has ex
pressed its regrets for the occurrence.
Thi3 information- is entirely satisfac
tory -to the United States government;
The. name of the consular agent at
from Pennsylvania, March .30, 1889.
No news has been received by Secretary
Gresham concerning the reported ont-
against a United States consulate in
Harlem boy who has an old
maid auht, whojs^yery fond of cats has
been in the~act of officiating as execu
tioner whenever the kittens multiplied
around at his auntie’s to a degree that
even that venerable feminine eat fancier
could not support. As a natural result
he becam8_very expert at putting kittens
in a bag, together with a big paving,
stone, and consigning the whole lot to
the tender mercies of the Harlem river.
As it happened only the other day, the
little Harlem boy’s mother presented her
husband with a couple of daughters in
; the.shape of a splendid - pair of twins.
As a great favor . johny was allowed to
go into the room to see his newly arrived
sisters. He gazed upon them wit.h a lan
guid interest for a few moments, and
then looking iip at his faiher said sud
denly, “Say, pop, let’s, keep, the one
with the blue eves.”
It was kept,-—New York Herald.
A Lenient Pawnshop.
The Monta di Pieta at Rome, which
has existed ever since 1585, is probably
the most lenient pawnbroker’s'shop in
the world. Any person who brings a
pledge may borrow from $15 to $25
without paying any interest, but all that
is lent above that sum is paid for at the
rate of two.per cent per annum. At the
end of two years, if the pledge is not re
deemed nor interest on the money paid,
it is sold and the overplus of the debt is
laid by for the owner, who has it in his
power to demand it within 100 years.—
Yankee Blade.
A Cat Exterminator.
An ingenious Brooklynite has come
out with an invention which bids fair to
relegate the bootjack to the attic with
the distaff and spinning wheel. He has
run a wire along his back fence. To this
is attached a strong electric battery. A
button nt the inventor’s bedside sends
forked lightning through the wire, and
the current is turned on when the cats
begin their midnight parleyings. One
wild feline screech and all is over.—CM
cago Inter-Ocean.
Many people are busy in the world
gathering together a handful of- thorns
to sit upon.
The brave man is an inspiration to the
weak, and compels them, as it were, to
follow him.
Never wait for a thing to turn up. Go
and turn it'-up yourself. It takes les3
time, and is surer to be done.
Forbearance and self-control smooth
the road of life and open many ways
which would otherwise remain closed.
It is well to be sanguine and full of
anticipation; we are the better off
for our hopes, even if they are never
realized.
What is experience? A poor little
hut constructe'd from the ruins of the
palace; of gold and marble called our
illusions. ~
An Unnecessary Announcement,
One of the melancholy but unnecessary
announcements in connection with
obituary notice is the statement that the
deceased “left” half a million, less or
more. If some day the deceased takes
with him half a mill, the announcement
will be well werth printing. But how
melancholy for the heirs should depart
ing friends find a way of taking their
savings along!—Boston Commonwealth,
A Great Effort.
Wee Miss—“I hate that little girl.”
Mamma—“You should not hate any
body, niy dear.”
Wee Miss—“Well, if I mustn’t hate
her I’ll try not to, but I guess it will
make my head ache.”—Street & Smith’s
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The statement is made that Victor Hugo
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