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A FRIGHTFUL COLLISION.
THIRTEEN PERSONS KIU.ES AND
A URGE NUMBER WOUNDED.
The East Tennessee Night Passenger Tele
scopes That of the Georgia Pacific.
A fearful collision occurred on the Georgia
Pacific railroad, at the water tank between
Austell and Mableton, about twenty miles from
Atlanta, Ga., just after midnight Tuesday morn
ing. The circumstances of the collision are
about as follows:
The Georgia Pacific and the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia roads occupy the same
track from Atlanta to Austell, sixteen miles
distant, from whence they separate, one going
north and the other on to Alabama. Mableton
is two miles from Austell, and between Mable.
ton and Austell is a water tank of the Georgia
Pacific. The Georgia Pacific leaves Atlanta
from the Union passenger depot, and the East
Tennessee, which has its own depot on Mitchell
street, joins the track of the former within the
city limits, and from thence the two roads oc
cupy the same track to Austell. The Georgia
Pacific fast passenger leaves for Birmingham
at 10 o’clock at night, when on time, and that
of the East Tennessee leaves for Chattanooga
at 10:45. When the Air-Line is behind time
the Georgia Pacific usually holds awhile t®
make this connection. Monday night it left
the city somewhat behind time, and made very
quick time until it reached the tank between
Mableton and Austell, where it stopped for
water. It left the city just about far enough
behind time to be on the time of the East Ten
nessee fast night passenger, which soon fol
lowed it out of the city, though not knowing
that it followed so closely to that of the Georgia
Pacific, whose schedule time was three-quarters
of an hour ahead.
As the Georgia Pacific passenger stood by the
tank for its supply of water, that of the East
Tennessee thundered along behind, and sud
denly rounding the curve plunged headlong in
to the train, which stood motionless before it.
The engine of the East Tennessee train plowed
its way into the rear car of the train before it,
and a scene of the wildest confusion prevailed.
Men, women and children were hurled from
the car and their screams waked the quiet
night. Several of the cars telescoped and
their occupants had not time to think of it be
fore the dread reality of a serious collision was
npon them. Thirteen people were killed and
several others so seriously wounded that recov
ery in some cases is impossible.
As soon as the report reached Atlant a spec
ial train was at once sent by the authorities of
the Georgia Pacific to the scene of the accident.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
MOEilLT DEAD.
>'IBU RICHEST MAN IN AMERICA
.SUDDENLY MASSES AWAY.
A. <irkat amount of bogus silver coin is in
circulation in Cuba.
The government is selling the last of the
lint left over from the war.
Hold-the Fort is the name of a postoffice
in Kingman county, Kan. -
The total value of the trade of India ex-
coeds $250,000,000 annually.
S' There are 150,000,000 tons of coal waste
piled up in the anthracite regions.
A broker in Charleston, S. C., is buying
up Confederate bonds at $175 on the $1,000.
The new French chamber of deputies will
have 584 members. The senate has 300 mem-:
bers.
A cure for delirium tremens has been dis
covered in an alkaloid extracted from pickled
cabbage.
Near Truckee, Cal., a hollow tree was dis
covered last week which contained 170 pounds
Sueeuinbiiig; to a Stroke of Apoplexy at
Ills Palatial Home in New York.
William H. Vanderbilt, the great railroad
magnate and richest man in America, if not
in the world, was stricken with apoplexy a
few minutes after 2 o’clock p. M., on the 8th.,
and died almost instantly. He was in the
library of his residence in Fifth avenue, New
York, at the time, and was sitting in
his easy chair and conversing with Mr.
Robert Garrett, president of the Balti
more and Ohio Railway, and up to
the very moment of the attack was
apparently in his usual health and spirits.
Not a hint or a moment’s warning did either
he or his family have that his health was in
so precarious a condition. He was stretched
dead on the floor at his guest’s feet almost as
suddenly as though his brain had been
pierced by a rifle bullet.
Since 1881, when he suffered a shock of
paralysis, not long after the sale of 250,000
shares of New York Central, his health had
been a matter of almost constant solicitude
with his family, but for several
months recently he had been bet
ter and brighter. He frequently spoke
of the improvement himself, and was often
congratulated upon his hearty appearance.
He eluug tenaciously to life, and often said
of late that by the time he was sixty-five he
would be rejuvenated and set out on another
long life. He was sixty-four when he died.
Mr. Garrett arrived at Mr. Vanderbilt’s
house about half an hour after Mr. Vander
bilt had left the luncheon table. He was at
once shown into the library, where Mr. Van
derbilt received him. It was then about a
quarter to 2 o’clock.
Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Garrett talked for
about half an hour on the relations of their
respective railroad systems and the new
Staten Island project of the Baltimore and
Ohio. The talk having thus drifted to
Staten Island, Mr. Vanderbilt spoke
of his early manhood there and
the Vanderbilt property there. He was
talking of the Vanderbilt family tomb and
mausoleum when Mr. Garrett noticed that
his voice became thick and indistinct. Glanc
ing quickly up, he saw that the muscles of
the face were twitching violently, and at the
same moment Mr. Vanderbilt, with an effort
to articulate which ended in a gasp, started
to a half standing position,and pitched heavi
ly forward with his face downward. Mr. Gar
rett started up and caught him in his arms and
eased his fall to the floor, catching a cush
ion at the same time from off the sofa and
putting it under the dying man’s head. Mr.
Garrett then rang an electric bell, which
summoned Louis, Mr. Vanderbilt’s valet
He called Mr. George Vanderbilt and Mr.
Twombly. It was then thought that Mr.
Vanderbilt was in a fainting fit only', and
his wife and daughters were so informed.
f)r. J. W. McLane, the family physician,
and other doctors were called in, but they
could do nothing, as the vital spark was ex
tinguished.
Dr. McLane said that the cause of Mr.
Vanderbilt’s death was clearly apoplexy. He
had never before manifested any symptoms
of an apoplectic tendency, however, and the
attack was a complete surprise to the doctor.
It merely showed, he said, that the blood
vessels of the brain had become brittle, and
under the stimulus of a hearty meal and of
animated conversation one of them had
broken.
Mr. Vanderblifis Career.
William Henry Vanderbilt was born in
-Brunswick, New Jersey, May -1, 1821, and
was therefore sixty-fc/ur years and seven
months old. His father, at the time of his
birth, was owner and in command of a steam
boat running to New York. The family soon
removed to New York city, where, and in
Staten Island, William attended the public
schools, finishing his education at the Colum
bia Grammar school. At eighteen
he entered as a clerk the house of Drew, Rob
inson & Co., a leading firm of bankers and
stock brokers of the period. At the end of
two years his business aptitude was so great
that the firm offered him a junior partner
ship. Remaining until two years thereafter,
his health failed him in consequence of close
application. He then purchased seventy-five
acres of land on Staten Island, which was
soon increased to 350, and went to work
farming.
During the first year of this activity he
was chosen receiver of the Staten Island rail
road, and after two years of hard work, hav
ing restored its finances to a sound condition,
he was elected its president. His father was
a large stockholder in this road, but, as is
well understood, lent no adventitious aid to
his elder son’s career. After a few years of
hard work on his farm and in the railroad
office, Mr. Vanderbilt went to Europe, in
consequence of the precarious condition of
his brother George’s health. He remained
with him until his death, a period of several
months, when he returned to Staten Island
and his farm, not engaging any further in
railroad administration until 1864, when he
became, by his father’s desire and the elec
tion of the corporation, vice-president of the
New York and Harlem railroad.
For twenty-two years preceding the assump
tion of this position Mr. Vanderbilt was to
all intents and purposes a practical and hard
working farmer, tilling his own land, market
ing its produce, and attending personally to
the farm labors. His father slowly learned to
lean upon his business judgment, but the son
did not attempt any special figure in the
market or as a financier. He married
in 1841 Miss Kissam, daughter of a well-
known Brooklyn physician, by whom he has
had eight children, four boys and four girls.
His Staten Island life was a healthy and
hard working one. He generally rose very
early—about 4 or 5 in the morning—coming
to the city on market business, and often re
turning by 7 to take the plow or join his
hands m the harvest fields. He was then, as
always, a hard worker, a shrewd manager
and trader.
of honey. . ing to'fulffruition when the oldest son was
The potato was introduced into France 100 j SU mmoned to his aid. After assuming exeeu-
years ago, and the Agricultural society pro- | ' tjve con t ro l of the Harlem he was, in 1865,
poses soon to celebrate the anniversary. jl elected vice president of the New York and
An agricultural school is to be founded at | Hudson River railroad.
Santa Clara, - Cuba, by a wealthy and benefi- ‘
Commodore Vanderbilt’s plans were work-
cent lady, Senora Marta Abren de Estevez.
A natural bridge has recently been dis
covered in the Tonto Basin, Arizona, which
is 2,000 feet long, 500 feet wide and 170 feet
high.
Inventors say that no devico has yet been
invented that will secure perfect and even
temperature in a railroad car during cold
weather.
A man in Nicholas county, W. Va., has
seven wild bears in a pen, and is fattening
them for market. One of them already
weighs 700 pounds.
Thousands of hogs have been fattened in
San Luis Opisbo county, Cal., on the acorn
crop, which was never before known to be
so great as it is this season.
A cleegyman at Nashville, Tenn., offers
to give $10,000 to any believer in the faith
cure who will cure by faith a disease which a
reputable practitioner pronounces incurable.
A clock that was removed for safety from
a house in Lexington at the lime of the battle
there in 1775 has just been- purchased by a
Boston man for $118. It is in good running
order.
The sky glows which began two years age
still recur far south as well as far north of
the equator, if one may believe letters from
New Zealand on one hand and Sweden on
the other.
Piute Indians are making an onslaught
on jack rabbits west of Humboldt, Nev. _ A
score or more of the red men, armed with
guns, are slaying the rabbits, which are al
most as large as fawns, by the dozen.
Mr. Vanderbilt was regarded as one of the
richest men in the world, and the impression
was not far wrong. He was richer than any
single member of the Rothschild family, and
although the Duke of Westminster is cfed-
ted with being worth $200,000,000 his
istate pays him only about two per
eont. Last year Mr. Vanderbilt held
$54,000,000 of 4 per cent, bonds, but later re
duced it to $35,000,000 of 330 per cent, gov
ernment securities. It is said that he owned
at least $75,000,000 in government bonds. He
valued his house in Fifth avenue, with its
art treasures, at $3,000,000. His ordinary
household expenses were $200,000 a year.
It is estimated that Mr. Vanderbilt was
worth $200,000,000, although his investments
depreciated last year. His income was cal
culated as follows: $2,372,000 a year from
government bonds; $7,894,000 from railroad
stocks and bonds; $576,695 from miscellaneous
securities; making a total of over $10,000,000
a year, or $28,000 a day, $1,200 an hour or
$l9. 75 a minute.
PERISHED IN THE FRAMES.
Fatal Accidents From the Fires In West
Virginia.
News comes from three interior towns of
West Virginia of as many fatal accidents by
fire. The first was at Winifred, Kanawha
county. Miss Lizzie Trail, aged fourteen, was
engaged in cooking over an open fire when her
clothing ignited. She was alone in the house
at the time, and whi n her parents returned
they found the girl lying upon the floor un
conscious and burned in the most frightful
manner. She died in six hours.
Two miles from Parkersburg, a colored
woman, whose name is unknown, left her three
children playing on the kitchen floor while she
went for a pail of water. On her return she
found the baby, aged one year, crawling out
of the door, wrapped in a sheet of flames. The
mother threw the water upon it and extin
guished the fire, but the child died in an hour.
Miss Annie Taylor, aged seventeen, of Ciif-
ton, undertook to clean out a flue by igniting
a quantity of gunpowder in the grate. The
explosion set her clothing on fire and she was
burned to death.
A BRIDGE GIVES WAY,
TREASURY REPORT,
b'SUST AKiYUAL STATEMENT
SECRETARY MANNING,
Hvcuiins
anil Expenditure s—Silver
TarilE Questions.
OF
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THE NEWS-
interesting Happenings from all Points.
And an Engine Goes Down Into tlie River.
While the east-bound freight train on the
New Brunswick railway was passing over a
bridge across the north branch of the Oro-
mecto river Thursday, the bridge gave way
and the engine fell into the river. Fortunately
the engine became detached from the train and
the cars remained on the track, one hanging
partly over the gap. The engineer escaped
with slight injuries, but the fireman was killed.
The night express from Boston soon afterwards
passed over the south branch bridge, and the
engineer, learning of the disaster, attempted
to back his train down to Frederickton junc
tion. It was then discovered that the supports
of south branch bridge had given way, and the
train had a very narrow escape from a dread
ful disaster. A:1 trains west were canceled on
account of the accident. Both bridges bad
been undergoing repairs.
A TERRIFIC COMBAT.
\n Exciting Scene In Forepnugh’s Winter
Quarters.
‘‘Bolivar,” the largest elephant now in cap
kivity, on Monday evening, had a terrific en
counter with the Nubian lion, “Prince,” at the
winter quarters of Forepaugh’s menagerie,
at Philadelphia, and a lion which was valued
at $2,000 was kilkd. Ihe trainer had entered
the cage with the beast. “Prince” was in a
surly mood and attacked him. In endeavoring
to escape, the trainer loosed the bars of the
cage and fell out. The lion bounded out after
him, clearing his body as it lay on the tan-
colored ground. He did, not turn bask, bspvt
ever'but pursued his .way through the ring
barn and entered the open door of ihe elephant
house. “Bolivar” stood where he was chained
to a stake near the door. The lion attacked
him and an encounter ensued, which ended in
the lion being crushed to death.
TRICHINOSIS.
During the five
years that followed his entrance into rail
road affairs Mr. Vanderbilt was probably
the hardest working executive
iu the country. He made himself familiar
with everv detail of administration, person
ally examining e-"b mile of the great system
under his charge, and becoming .acquainted
with the nature of every man’s duties and
work and wages, and the relations they bore
to all others employed by the corporations
he controlled.
in pursuance of his father s plan o con
centrating the great interests he possessed in
his family’s hands, his son William was
named in the articles as first vice-president
of the New York Central railroad—that is,
of the consolidated roads. This consolidation
involved at the time an investment o£> at
’east $100,000,00.'). a majority of which was
owned and controlled by the Vanderbilt fam
ily. At the death or his rather, in isrr,
Mr, Vanderbilt was elected president of the
New York Central, the Lake Shore and the
Michigan Central railroads, positions which
be held until 1883, when, in his 62d year, he
deliberately retired from the active control of
these corporations, providing for the \ an-
derbiit direction, however, in the
persons of his sons and sons-in-law,
who are acti ve as directors.
Mr. Vanderbilt was a man of strong and
stalwart frame and build, being nearly six
feet in height, and large in proportion. He
was a sturdy-looking man, direct in speech,
and in manner. He was fond of horses, at
one time owning Maud S.. and his smlwart
figure behind a team of thoroughbreds was a
familiar sight on the boulevards of the me
tropolis.
A Pennsylvania Family Dying from Eating
Infected Pork.
Two weeks ago the family of Fred K. Hans-
meyer, a well-to-do German of Tarentun, Pa.,
ate heartily of salad of which raw pork chopped
fine was one of the principal ingredients. Last
Friday week the entire family, father, mother,
three sons and three daughters, were suddenly
seized with a terrible illness. The family con
tinued to grow worse, and on Wednesday
Frederick, aged 20, died in great agony. John,
the second son, is not expected to live, and the
rest of the family are believed to be beyond
recovery. Before Frederick’s death the physi
cian became convinced that the disease was
trichinosis. He secured a piece of meat and
found it to be alive with trichorial spirales.
The meat was purchased from a farmer and
was taken from one of a drove of hogs which
he raised on his own farm.
Prices of Crops.
REPORT OF AGRICULTURAL DEPART.
MENT FOR DECEMBER.
The crop reports of the department of ag
riculture for December gives the farm prices
of the principal crops. The increase of the
product of corn has reduced the average
value of the crop to thirty-three cents per
bushel. The average value of the previous
crop in December was thirty six cents. The
reduction is largest in the Ohio valley and in
the Southern States. West of the Mississip
pi the increase of stock feeding has corrected
(he tendency to extremely low prices. The
average in Missouri is twenty-six cents, the
.-.ame as last year. In Kansas it is 24 instead
of 22 last year. In Iowa 24 instead of 23, in
Nebraska 19 instead of IS. It is 28 cents in
Dakota, two cents lower than last year; 31
in Minnesota, one cent lower; Illinois 28, In
diana 29, Ohio 32, Michigan 34, Kentucky 35;
Pennsylvania 49. New York 53.
Compared with former prices corn value!
are very low. For the proceeding five years,
nearly all under average in production, the
average farm value was 44.7 cents per bushel,
and for the proceeding tea years 42.6 cents.
The price of wheat, though still low, is eon-
nderably above last December’s average,
which was sixtv-five cents.
THE H1LVEK DOLLAR.
New York Chamber of Commerce Indorse*
the President's Views.
The chamber of commerce of New York Citj
held a special meeting t o 1 ake action upon the
suggestion contained in the presidini’s mes
sage in relation to the repeal of the law regard
ing coinage of the silver dollar. The committee
on finance and currency reported that after
careful consideration they had unanimously
agreed to support the president of the Uni,ed
States and th -■ secreiary of the treasury on the
stand they had taken in relation to the sus
pension of the coinage of the present silver
dollar, and recommended the adoption of a
res -lution to that effeet, and memorializing
congress to have the compulsory act of Febru
ary, 1878, repealed. Ad nesses iu favor of the
report were made by Jesse Seligman and Win.
E. Dodge and others, and in opposition by Jas.
B. Colgate. The repoit was tnen adopted and
copies ordered to be printed and sent to the
various members of congress.
A Baltimore negro has literally worn
two fingers off in many years of shovel
ing coal. The case is reported by a jihy
sician as a curiosity. There is no appar
ent disease and no inconvenience.
The annual report of the secretary' of the
treasury embraces fifty-eight pages ot printed
piatter, and is accompanied by a special re
port of fifty-six pages on the collection of
customs duties.
The ordinary revenues of the government
for the fiscal year 1885 were $328,690,706, and
the ordinary expenditures (including sinking
fund. $45,604,035) were $305,830,970, leaving a
surplus of $17,859,735. As compared with
the preceding year there was a decrease of
$24,829,163 in revenue and an increase of
$16,100,690 in expenditures.
The estimated revenues of the year 1886 are
$315,000,000, and the estimated expenditures,
including sinking fund $290,750,000. For the
year 1877, however, the secretary estimates
that there will be a deficit of $24,589,553, the
revenue remaining at $315,000,000 and the
expenditures reaching $339,589,552. Of this
estimated increase of $49,000,000 in expendi
tures, $19,000,000 is for pensions, $.1.5,000,000
for the navy, and $4,000,000 for fortifications.
The interest bearing debt has been reduced
during the fiscal year $10,369,750, and now
stands at $1,260,778,1.62, including the Pacific
Railroad bonds ($64,623,512). The balance in
the treasury of assets oyer liabilities has been
increased $58,053,702 since March 1, 1885, of
which $36,000,000 is silver coin, $16,000,000
gold coin, and $9,000,000 legal tender notes.
Eighteen pages of the secretary’s report are
given to a theoretical and historical discus
sion of the silver question. The secretary
a.rgues that the continued coinage of silver
dollars by arbitrary purchases of bullion
without reference to the public demand for
such dollars.., must eventually make the
United States-a silver mono-metallic nation,
and put us out of harmony with the commer
cial world, and tend to defeat international
bi-metalism. He Opposes the project for
making a heavier dollar, since that would also
operate against international bi-metalisin by
carrying us further away from the European
ratio, and because the adoption of a new
ratio would involve the coining of fnore dol
lars, whereas we have more than enough al
ready. Stoppage of the coinage, in the sec
retary’s opinion, is the effectual and only
remedy for the evils existing and threatened.
On the subject of reform in taxation the
secretary says:
“Beside the reforms which are desirable fra
the effective administration of any system of
taxation levied through imported merchan
dise, and are. indispensable for the adminis
tration of custom laws, which, like our own,
are a chaos rather than a system, I venture
to hope that in due season it will be the pleas
ure of Congress to consider some other re
forms, upon which, as is requisite, all parties
may agree and that are of a different scope.
Like our .currency laws, our tariff laws are a
legacy of war. If exigencies excuse their
origin, their defects are unnecessary after
twenty years of peace. They have been re
tained without sifting and discrimination, al
though enacted without- legislative debate, crit
icism or examination. A horizontal reduction
s of ten per cent, was made in 1872, but was
repealed in 1875 and rejected in 1884. They
require at our custom houses the employment
of a force sufficient to examine, appraise, and
levy duties upon more than 4,182 different ar
ticles. Many rates of duty begun in war
have been increased since, although the late
tariff commission declared them ‘injurious to
the interests supposed to be benefited,’ and
said that a ‘reduction would he conducive to
the general prosperity.’ They have been re
tained, although the long era of falling prices,
in the case of specific duties, has operated a
large increase of rates. They have been re
tained at an average ad valorem rate for the
last year of over forty-six per cent., which is
but tfvo and a half per cent, less than the
highest rate of the war period, and is nearly
four per cent, more thau the rate before the
latest revision. The highest endurable rates
of duty, which were adopted 1862-4 to offset
internal taxes upon almost every taxable arti
cle, have in most cases been retained now
from fourteen to twenty years after such in
ternal tax has been removed. They have
been retained while purely revenue duties
upon articles not competing with anything
produced in the thirty-eight States have been
discarded. They have been retained upon
articles used as materials for our own manu
factures (in 1884 adding $30,000,000 to their
cost) which, if exported, compete in other
countries against similar manufactures from
untaxed materials. Some rates have been re
tained after ruining the industries they were
meant to advantage. Other rates have been
retained after affecting a higher price for a
demestic product at home than it was sold
abroad for. The general high level of rates
has been retained on the theory of counter
vailing lower wages abroad, when, in fact,
the higher wages of American labor are at
once the secret and the security of our ea-
paeity to distance all competition from ‘pau
per labor’ in any market. All changes have
left unchanged, or changed for the worse, by
new schemes of classification and otherwise,
a complicated, cumbrous, intricate group of
laws which are not capable of being adminis
tered with impartiality to all our merchants. 1
As nothing in the ordinary course of busi
ness is imported unless the price here of the
domestic, as well as the imported, artickCis
higher by the amount of the duty and the
cost of sea-transit than the price abroad, the
preference of the taxpayer for duties upon
articles not produced in the United States is
justified by the fact that such duties cost him
no more than the treasury.. of his country
gets. As for duties affecting articles that are
also produced in the United States, the first
to he safely discarded are those, upon mate
rials used by our own manufactures, which
now subject them to a hopeless competition at
home and abroad, with the manufacturing
nations, none of which 1 taxes raw materials.
It is not to be doubted that in any reform
which shall finally receive the approval of the
two houses of Congress, they will maturely
consider and favorably regard the interests
which can only gradually and carefully be
adjusted, without loss, to changes in the leg
islative conditions for their advancing pros
perity. With this view, I have invited in
some 2,000 circular letters to our manufac
turers and merchants, their enlightened era
operation in the improvement of our fiscal
policy, and the replies received will hereaf
ter be submitted to the consideration of Con
gress.
LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
The usual beneficent results have attended
the operations of this service during the year.
The number of stations in commission at the
close of the year was 203. The number of
disasters to documented vessels reported by
the district officers to have occurred within
their field of action is 256. The number of
persons on board these vessels was 2,206,
of whom 2,196 were saved and ten lost.
The value of the property involved is
estimated at $4,604,455. of which $3,352,760
was saved and $1,251,695 lost. The number
of vessels totally lost was fifty-six. There
were beside 115 disasters to smaller craft,
such as sailboats, rowboats, etc,, on which
were 233 persons, 232 of whom were saved
and one lost. The value of property involved
in these minor disasters was $29,925, of which
$26,823 was saved and $3,103 lost.
EASTERN! AND MIDDLE -STATES.
While five workmen were descending a
shaft of the new New York aqueduct near
Sing Sing, a heavy wooden crosstree fell upon
them, instantly killing four and fatally in
juring the fifth. By a similar accident a few
weeks previously three men met their death.
On the day after five men were killed
while at work on the New York aqueduct
another accident occurred, resulting in the
death of one man and serious injuries to a
second.
A second body—that of Martin M. Gold
schmidt, of New York—has just been burned
in the new crematory at Fresh Pond, Long
Island.
An explosion of natural gas in Cannons
burg, Penn., completely destroyed the large
frame residence of Wesley Greer. The oc
cupants of the building—Mr. Greer, his wife
and two small children—were blown from
bed into a lot thirty feet away, but none
were fatally injured.
A sewer in Chester, Penn., in which a
number of men were at work, caved in the
other afternoon, and buried four of them,
killing Thomas McTamany and seriously in
juring the remaining three.
FOKEIG
The armistice between Servia and Bulgaria
has been renewed until January 13.
A census at Berlin just taken shows a pop
ulation of 1,316,382, an increase of 200,000
since 1880.
By a coalition of the conservatives and
Parnellites they will have a slight majority
over the liberals—Gladstone’s party—in the
new British parliament.
A general decree of amnesty to Spanish
political and press offendors has been signed
by Queen Christina.
Forty Servians have been shot for muti
lating themselves by blowing their trigger
fingers off and otherwise injuring themselves
to escape military service.
Germany is to build a ship canal between
the Baltic, the Elba and the North sea. The
cost will be about $40,000,000.
The Servians have renewed the war with
Bulgaria.
A revolting story comes from Rome,
Italy. At the trial of a butcher named
Tozzi, his wife, son and daughter, for the
murder of another butcher, Ihe son confessed
that the body of the victim had been cut into
pieces, and the blood boiled into black pud
dings. which were sold in the shop.
ictus for “Star.”
SOUTH AND WEST.
Three colored men were hanged a few
days since in the Gates county (N. C.) jail,
their crime being the robbery of a country
store last September.
A Chicago company lias just received an
order for 2,200,000 pounds of dressed beef for
the French army. The contract involves
the slaughter of 25,000 cattle.
A heavy fall of snow has greatly impeded
railroad travel in portions of the West.
A tornado of small dimensions but great
power swept through Chester, Ilk, and the
jail being directly in its narrow path, that
structure was damaged to the extent of $20,-
C00, while three men—a keeper and two
convicts—were fatally injured.
Two colored men—Nelson Stewart and An
derson Davis—were hanged at Charlotte, N.
C., on the 9th for robbing a house on Septem
ber 21 last.
Four men were instantly killed and a fifth
fatally injured by the caving in of a sewer at
Akron, Ohio.
According to the provisions of the will of
John L. Newberry, the Chicago public library
is to come into possession of about $2,500,000.
The sheriff’s officers made a descent upon
the ranch of, Manuel Delgardo, a Mexican re
siding near Eagle Pass, Texas, and long sus
pected of harboring horse thieves and smug
glers. Delgardo and two other Mexican
were killed.
Sam Fowler (colored), imprisoned at
Kenton, Tenn., for setting on fire and rob
bing a store, was taken out of jail by a
irowd and hanged.
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During the past fiscal year the net revenue
of the government was $323,690,708, a de
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and |the expenditure was $260,226,935, or
$16,100,690 greater than that of the year be
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gregate of appropriations for the present fis
cal year.
As the Democrats have a large majority
in the Virginia legislature, their selection in
caucus of Congressman Daniel to succeed
United States Senator Mahona was equiva
lent to an election.
The interior department received informa
tion from the governor of Alaska that the
public lands were being stripped of timber,
without legal authority, for exportation pur
poses, and steps have been taken to stop the
depredation.
At the thirteenth annual convention of the
American Public Healtli association, held a
few days since in Washington, various sani
tary measures were discussed.
Delegates from all parts of the United
States and Canada were present in Washing
ton at the opening of the fifth annual session
of the Federation of Organized Trades and
Labor unions.
A general order has been issued from the
headquarters of the Grand Army of the Re
public in Washington city, informing the
members of that organization that Wash
ington has been selected as the site of the
proposed G. A. R. monument to General
Grant. ,
President Cleveland and cabinet, with
the diplomatic corps and many other promi
nent officials, attended “a solemn requiem
mass for the repose of the soul of the late
King Alfonso, of Spain,” celebrated at St.
Matthew’s Church, Washington.
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gress at its last session authorized the erection
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records have been dug up from the
sands of Egypt, where they have rested
embalmed during nine centuries, not
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poses that they must at one time have
formed part of the public archives of El
Fayoura, and that the bulk of these
archives perished in a great conflagra
tion. such as destroyed the great library
at. Alexandria.—London Times.
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