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WASHINGTON ITEMS, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL IN THE HEAT OF MIDSUMMER. Changes in the Government Departments— Pre.nltint Cleveland-. Henvr “lnvtln. tion” Mail—Army and Navy Notes. MRS. CLEVELAND’S PORTRAIT. An idea which finds much favor in Washington is to have a large, full length portrait of Mrs. Cleveland, similar to those of Martha Washington and Mrs. Hayes. Mrs. Cleveland has by means of her per sonal beauty, attractive manners and lov able disposition, has captured all hearts, SENT TO DEATH. United States Consul Willard, at Guay mas. Mexico, reports to the Department claimed of State that Fyank O’Brien, who to be a naturalized American citizen, was executed at Hermosilla, Mexico, for the murder and robbery in 1885 of F. W. Calkins an American citizen born in New York. O'Brien was sentenced to death several months since, ’ but took appeals to d-x the different a-cc 4 . courts until x-i the sentence was finally confirmed by the authorities at the City of Mexico. THE PRESIDENT WILL GO. President Cleveland will go to Phila delphia on the 17th of constitutional September to cel- at tend the centennial ebration. He will probably be accompa nied by Mrs. Cleveland. Definite infor mation has been received that President and Mrs Cleveland and accompan}ing party will arrive at St. Louis, Mo., on Saturday evening, October 1st. The party will remain in St. Louis over the 2nd, 3rd and 4th, attending the fair on Monday. 3rd, and the Veiled Prophet’s ball on the night of the 4th; and leave at midnight for Chicago. notes. The Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Augustine Loughborough to be a guager at Leesburg, Va. The Secretary of the Treasury has ap¬ pointed James P. Rosseau, Richard C. White and Jas. L. Cowan to be United States gaugers in the 5th district of North Carolina. Governor Adams, of Colorado, tele¬ graphed Secretary Lamar, asking him to instruct Q-en. Crook to send troops into Garfield and Route counties for the pur¬ pose of driving Colorow aud his band of renegade Utes back to the reservation and keeping them there. Mayor Hewitt and a committee of the Board of Aldermen appointed for that purpose, sent an invitation to Mrs. Presi dent Cleveland to attend the Now York firemen’s parade ami inspection of colors next month and present a stand on that occasion to the fire department. News has been received at the Interior Department that Gen. J.C. Black, sioner of pensions, and guest of the New Hampshire veterans, is leported quite the ill with inflammatory rheumatism at res idence of Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at 1 e Weirs, N. H-, and has been attended by three physicians. Hon. George Lathrop, United States minister to Russia^- is on his way^ to the United States, by way of Paris, and upon his arrival here he wdll tender his resignation. The climate of St. Peters burg is a trying one, and it is said that p r i ya t e correspondence the minister has recently expressed a strong disincli nation to remain longer in Russia. WOMAN’S WIT SAVES LIFE. The Union Pacific and Burlington roads cross Sand creek ten miles east of Denver, Col., on bridges, almost parral lel and within a few feet of each other. When ,,, an engineer . of , one ol . the . T Union t • Pacific trains was wuthin a few .eet of the bridge, he was horrified L o see tnat the flood in the early part of the evening had washed the middle section away. Tho fireman jumped into the stream and stuck half m the sand, wnence he was taken out an hour later unconscious. Engineer Masterton reversed his engine just as it plunged which into fell the water with body, a baggage car, on top oi his av.\ mg it m the sand. His engine was com¬ pletely submerged in the sand. Baggage¬ man Love was badly injured by falling trunks. An old German lady, living near by, heard the cries of the fright¬ ened people and rushed out with a lan¬ tern and stopped an express on the Bur lington route, within a few feet of the bridge, probably saving other lives, as the bridge of this road was also in a dan gerous condition. QUARTETTE OF ACCIDENTS. Engineer's Fatal Misapprehension—Attempt <o Derail a Train to Rob It. Emigrant train No. 83, going on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, ran into a freight train at the Easton siding, twenty mhc* oast of Wheelin'* °' W Va. A. F. engineur u£ tl emigrant train, and Isaac Arbuthnot, fireman, were in¬ stantiy killed. The engineer and fireman of the freight tram were only slightly in jured. Fifteen of the emigrants are but none were fatally hurt, Smith and Arbuthnot lived in Wheeling where they have families. The accident was the result of a misapprehension of orders on the part of the engineer of the freight train, who thought he had the just right-of-way and pulled out of the siding as the emigrant train came up. The Baltimore & Ohio express train which left Pittsburg, Pa., jumped the track at Hermitage station, six miles east of Con- and ue^vilie, badly wrecking the engine * m ‘: J *i»o a i= c yg' hnm«were '.v, ,,.!.' was ,rn c ! ’ ! ,j '' ' ' ...... i mlured. . J Hie tram . men escaped t>v . . . . , , § A passen ger train on the Peoria, Decatur & Evaus villo Railroad was derailed near Salt cree p ^ c)> The engine and all the cars ? miles let * t t j le rads w liile going forty an ^our. Fortunately, the entire train re mained on the grade and came to a stand gtill> after bumping on the ties two huu dred f eet- Search was made for the cause of the accident and was discovered, The fish plates and spikes had been re moved from the rails. In weeds on the bank a crowbar and other tools were iound} AV i t b which the work had been done> There is no doubt the purpose of the fiends was to rob the train. A freight train following close behind was stopped a few yards from the derailed passenger train, and thus what might have been a horrible disaster was averted. On the Lehigh Valley railroad, at Ransom town¬ ship, Pa., a pony engine, on which were ^Superintendent Stevenson, of the Lehigh road, Road Master John M. Rohain, S. G. Collins and Lewis M. Hall, of Towanda, while rounding a curve plunged, instantly into a gang of five track men and killed two men and fatally injured auoth er. The men had just left the up track to avoid a freight train. The freight train was about half its length past the men when they were stru* k by the su¬ perintendent’s engine. The engine was going at the rate of twenty miles au hour. WHAT TRAMPS DID. »• L. Hiller lives upon a farm near Magic Grove Mmn with his mother and brothers. While the brothers were ab sent from the house, two men cuilcd ami com pU od with their request, and when ^ bad finished eating, one of them pj c b ed up a poker and threatened to kill b er> The old lady begged them to spare ber life, whereupon the brutes dragged b er to a cistern and threw her in. The c j S (- ern j s twelve feet deep, and was half water, but Mrs. Hiller clung to the lead pipe of the pump, and manag ed to keep afloat several hours, when her sons returned, and she was taken out in an exhausted condition. Investigation showed that the tramps had ransacked 1 and abstracted $170 in cash, and $1,320 j n certificates of deposit in the First Na¬ tional bank, of Minneapolis. ____ APPEAL TO THE QUEEN. Mr. Gladstone was greeted with cheers in the House of Commons when he arose to move his resolution “That an humble’address lie presented to Queen Victoria representing that the viceroy of j re ] and bas proclaimed the National League a dangerous association, and that no information has been furnishedtoPar ]* amen £ £ 0 j us tify the proclamation subjects by virtue of wMc h her majesty’s are to be ren(lered liable to be punished ag cr j m i na ^ 8 vvithout a judicial inquiry in to tbe Dature ftf their acts, and that thif bouse, in the absence of such information, p ra y S that said proclamation shall not coa ti nue force as to association named and described therein.” earthquake at sea. The steamship New Orleans, from New Orleans which arrived at New* York, experienced a shock of earthquake Ihe when fifty miles off Charleston. ship rolled very deep, and there was a di3 tinct j r an ; vibration. The shock was accompanied with three or four high seas. GREAT BRITAIN. Irish League Proclaimed—The C*ovem» merit Attacked—Riot iu Ireland. Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland, announced in the House of Commons that the government had proclaimed the Irish National League, The Govern ment had thus taken the power conferred Uj on them by that statute to prohibit and suppress the League. The Pall Mall Gazette very vigorously adopting attacks the gov¬ j ernment party for iu the House of Commons the Earl of Cadogan’s j amendment to the Irish Land bill relafc ing to town parks. The Gazette urges the s Liberals to revolt against the govern meat’s Irish policy in the House of Com mens, to obstruct the passage of supplies measures, and thus force dissolution. Mr. Parnell, said that the action of the government in proclaiming the League was a gratuitous insult to the Irish, considering the merely present a condition of xc »*t*o mu, u iw cover the weakness of the land bill. the bill did not protect tenants from eviction, trouble would be inevitabledur ing the coming winter. A riot occurred at Kcnmare, County Kerry, Ireland, and a mob attacked and stoned the barracks w x,, rp 6 the Charged nolice were oua ered. The police with rawn swords upon the rioters, injuring number. many of them and arresting a adopted The Irishmen of Liverpool the resolutions protesting against ifalional League. proc Isolation of the Irish Similar resolutions were adopted A dele- at a meeting of radicals in London gallon of members of the Ireland Lnglisli home order rule nmon will soon visit in to give expression to the good-will of English liberals toward the Irish. A public reception will be given the dele gation in Dublin on September 14th, at which the Lord Mayor will preside. of Mr. the Gladstone’s declaration in favor Channel tunnel is, whatever else* may be said of it, a tactical mistake, l ill he spoke, the great majority of Englishmen regarded the tunnel scheme us. dead and buried and took a humorous view of a ir Edward Watkins’s fitful effort at resur rectum. Mr. Gladstones language re vives their fears.. There are large uum hers of Englishmen who consider the question whether a tunnel shall be made under the channel as considerably more vital than th* question whether Ireland shall have home 1 ule. 1 Ik; el ect °f Mr. Gladstone s uncalled-for piofession of faith in this scheme will be to alienate tlie votes of such Englishmen. SAVED FROM DEATH. The Rout from the City of Montreal He*» cneil by a Merman Wnnol. The City of Montreal’s missing boat has been picked up and the seven pas sengers and six members of the crew, who were in it, are safe and well, The rescue was made by a German vessel, named Mathilde, which arrived at Fal mo uth, England, with the thirteen sur vivors on board. Tke survivors say, that on the first day after leaving the steamer, they experienced very rough weather. They had a plentiful supply of bread and meat, hut very little water. As a conse¬ quence they suffered badly from thirst. The weather was hot, and this greatly contributed to their discomfort. The rescued , mea say that . , when , their ... 1 beat left the burning steamer, there were flf teen persons on board. jumped Finding aboard it too crowded two persons an other boat, iheiew.is only ha f a Leg of water in llio boat, and that was ia< . There was no sail aboard and no moans for signalling passing vessels. The boat was nearly swamped twice and the men j hard struggle to keep her afloat by , bailing. I wo dais alter leaeing the : steamer, sighted another vessel and pul ed , toward it and found that it was the City | of Montreal, still burning, lliey rn to board her to obtain more water, but per plates were too hot. POISON IN MII.K. The family of Mme. Mendez, consist¬ ing of herielf and four children, Mrs. Concepion de Castra Desintre, Miss Val tada, Mbs Valtos and Mi Mestres, liv ing at Havana, Cuba, were poisoned by of milk. I be milk man left two cans milk as usual, and the family partook of ; the fluid at breakfast, and were seized j : Physicians w ith violent attacks sent for. of vomiting Upon their soon, ar- j j were rival they found four dead and the j others dying. The man that sold the I milk, two servants and two outside per- j sons have i>een arrested on a charge of conspiracy to murder. OLD HICKORY’S FAVORITE. A Former Mistress of the While House Die# at Advanced Age in Tennessee. Mrs. Surah Jackson died at the Hermi tage, Tennessee, aged eighty-one, Jackson, leav j of ing two children. Point, who Col. Andrew artillery of¬ West was an ficer in the late War on the Southern side and made reputation, and Mrs. Dr John Lawrence. One son, Samuel, was killed at Chicamagua in battle. Mrs. Sarah Jackson, now remembered by but few people, was r* r four years—or nearly four years— a most prominent lady of the land, the mistress <>t the White House. About the commencement of Gen. Jackson's second term, his adopted son, Andrew Jackson, Jr., married Miss Sarah York, of Philadelphia, good a young lady of accomplishments, ot family and great personal beauty. The adopted son, who was a nephew ol Mrs. Jackson, brought his young bride to the White House, where she was received by t^e President, who iw j, ; i'-’ f? 1N V *V tion U ‘ val and '“ befoie ” \ he v . x t «... ' Pr'sklent * proved be , . She to a ter and loving w • • ' ‘ . * f a peculiar man. 1 w four years before had changed _ his , is whole who’e life. AU Ids letter-letters to members of the taniily and rieuc s -t> y“ dimng lm fiist n rm lc. g () r b»|g"»*£-' P mf b oW B “^1 ® In came x he baek ted to iho Hmutage. Tn time t1m „ p < L eaTl “h' tatc ‘' This wa g lost ami the £“>'5 ora in straitened circumstances, The son d d , e , jn > 1867 '« anil w the once I > th „ f , he White U d Uero , 8 a e* est and aolace his ,. old .. ago .,«rt--nftsses pas es eomfoit in a wn y t “° a £ e ( 8 * UIOCT TO STRIKES. The International Stove Moulders^ Unl<m hflS iuddonly determined upon de* luftl ,dlng jJ an advance in wages, varying thO f from to 15 per cen t, IX [\ over jj n ^ od states and Canada. A special No. meo tingof the Pittsburg, Pa., union, 14 was held in their hall to consider a c | rcu | ar f r0 n President Fitzpatrick and 1 «, enertd hoard, which stated that a ; * deinHnd advance has been ( , cm al for an d( , c5(1( . d u . )on; that j t niust be made soon and w ilI lx* made simultaneously through j out tb e d jgtricts controlled by the Union, j\ s to the amount of advance, the circu j j ur p-ft it optional as to wkethor 10 or ! 15 per cent bo demanded. The _ . men are to continue at work for two weeks, in 1 order to finish what patterns they are at present engaged upon. Then the strike i t to be ordered, and if at the end of a < week the advance is not conceded, 5 per | cent additional is to be asked. There i me in the Union 13,000 registered be account- mem* : hers and 3,000 more who can ! ed for. A ROUT TO STRIKE. The International Stove Moulder^ Union has suddenly determined upon de¬ manding an advance in wages, var J™# tbl from 10 to 15 per cent, all over • United States and Canada. union, A special No. meeting of the Pittsburg , Pa., ’ was held in their nail to consider a cir cular fr0I , p„. aidclll Fitzpatrick that and the ® enoral board which stated a *j a , demand (or „„ advance lia* been (;dded . that it n ,„ st |„. made soon und w m be made simultaneously through t | lc districts controlled by the Union. h amount of advance, the rircu , ar luft it op \ , ioua , as t „ whether M or , 5perccBt )0 demanded, The men are continue at work for two weeks, in or d e r to finish what patterns they are at j pra)ent engaged Adored, unon. Then the strike t0 b( . and if at the end of a week the advance is not conceded, 5 per ceat additional is to be asked. Tlicro bers r(; j n and ^ Union 13,000 who registered be mem¬ 3,000 more can account¬ ed for. T1IR RICK CROP. Reports received at Charleston, S. C., from the immediate rice fields of the South Santee indicate that the damage is not general. High tides have prevented the freebeta from covering the large p!an tatioas of the southern district along the river, and the greater part of the crop is considered safe. On the North Santee co i ored planters on small farms have suf f ered disastrously, their crops being re ported as totally destroyed,