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J f c jL A 'Y A I M ^ ^ < J l ; J R N A L , If Nummwn B c ro« svMinlsterto Venezuela;'W.' O. Corea? Consul-general to THE EHTOMIZH j r T i t s Minister* h a v e prevailed upon tl the Q qeen'of H olland to u n d e rta k e tem po a rily the d u tie s o f Regent, The C abin ta M&y'\®. nflte^e * hk ' G fheti has decided t o Convoke a Cdngress o f the two G ham bera fe r t h e purpose Of declaring the K ing, ihb.apaeitatpd' fpjf t h e fluKes 0f« Sovereign. . Ex-PRESipEhr Cl e v e l a n d wa* enter- tained at dinner in Havaua-bjuihe Governor of Cuba. v LATER NEWS . s i r fi n s hi p s w i A mer i can an d L o s t O ff S a m o a -, EM lcp,n.aml M td d lq S ta te s , Ow e n SldGoLDRioK nnd hia so n Ja m aa , aged fifty q n d tw enty years re sj^ p tiv e ly , were killed Ijyia train a t Meriden, Conn, -On e w orkm an was killed an d tw o w e re fatally, in ju re d bv th o eollapso o t t o u n f its .bhed. buUdltig a t Binghamton, N. YT .P A f RJOK Fl e m in g,« h ay d ealer o f P ro v i- dence, R, I,;.; na3 left town w i t h liabilities placed a t |40;000. > W. H. 'BK»Er,o\v, o f Maine, h a s been a p - : pointed S uperintendent of the R a ilw a y M ail Service Of N e w England. i Th eprobabilities w ero th at tho steam ship Consefva, w hich sailed from N ow Y ork to become a g u n b o a t in t h e service o f H ippolytp, th e loader o f th a H a y tia ii insiirgenfs, w a s anRTihaf h o t diQyrdtd'§hS\ g o to the b ottom , b ut also the un k n o w n c r a f t w hich stru c k her. T he Com m ander o ' t h e steam er w as J o h n H e n ry Ankers,* of B rook- lyn. , T he enow; was composed o f tw enty- three: maiayaanaUHOscars. * T h e explosion of alBhrvel of kerosene, de- SjtfioyedA'^.hafefaiptb'ry i n ’VYffilaihsbHfgilliXi,\ a n d th efe b e ing no .other escapo for tne- eighty-workpeople, th e y leaped f r o m the w im .dows. ’ About, tw enty wero seriously in ju re d , two'-fataUyi..---. . ' - _ • • ' ' -------1 If,. CpMMlNC(3-&; -e o ,i Boston l e a t h e r .deal- e r s , h a y e fa ile d f o r f 300,000. P r o m i n e n t N a in e s S en t b y t h e P res id en t t o t h e S ena t e . y .y f'. ?■ Tipton, Marshal for the JEastern E j’l1;;06,?/ TemMStee; Tyre,.Glenn,’Marshal foirthp Western District pf North.Carolina; : Marimi Erwin, Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia; George Chandler, of Kansas, First Assistant Sepretary of the Interior; George B. Ferguson, Collector ol Customs a t Belfast, Me. W l ' , - Receivers pf Public Monoys—Cassius E. i Barnes, a t Guthrie. Indian Territory; Jacob t o d i m u S o r y . EflSl“' r - 4 age sto tlo n > Registers of Public Lauda*—-Jacob G. Roberte. a t Kingfisher’ssteke statlon; John I. Difie, a t Guthrie, Indian Territory. Postmasters—William R. Demond, Gor- N ’ Andr6W D-Cayies, Statesville, .---After-about-twobonrs’ -debatS-thr’SenatS' rejected Murat Halstead as Minister to Ger- many by a vote of 25 to 19. v The vote was taken on a motion to lay on ia f.vonlm t.fia mniitnn f-n miH th o table tho m otion t o -reconsider T hurs- d a y 's vote o f rejection. Two, Dem ocrats, B lackburn and. Gall; voted, w ith the 'Renub- stmVi-. vnhinl, -i_ lioans.for recohsideratibhj which was a vote’ to confirm. * A c h a l l e n g e to th e New York Ydpbt C l u b to contest next fa ll for the possession ofthe America’s onphas been Issued by the Earl o f Dimravep; The Earl suggest* that tbe contests be thr** ou t pf five races, and tho day of tho first race September 80th. His boat Is the Valkyrie; AN engine and three coaches fell through abridge hear Queen City, Mo. John Arthur, engineer, and Luther Chamberlain, fireman, were killed. ' : “,4-’f’43 ., a n i . BA.S&RDAY. A P R IL C, 1889. N e a r l y A l l th e L e a d in g D ip lo m a tic A p p o in tm e n ts M a d e , .Th e Hon. Gay Dawnay, Member of the British Parliament; has been killed by a buf- falo while hunting on Mass bland, Zanzibar, Africa. He was member fop North York- shire, served in tbe Zulu war and was just- forty years of age. ' Kin g Ch a r l e s ’ s nephew, prince Ferdi- nand,, has beeh proelaimed Crown Prince of Rouihanio. , ; . ' Th e steamer Ocotlan foundered,on Lake Chapala, hear large excursion tim e . F ifty bo — ........ - - -,v vrreck. Many mora wero known to be still ih thjwreok. D uke of B uckingham is dead, ipru in 1823. ^ u e o n \ Th i w as . , , ,,_______ , Q u e en ViciORiA and Quee -Regont C hristiua.m et a t S a n Sebastian, Spam,. - M innesota inclines to look w ith dig- in v o r on th e P rohibition movoment. DispatcbeJ ’from Samoa state that tba American men-ofwar Trenton, -VaBdaJia and Nip3ip a nd th a German mete*5*\ ' Fhcr w*re drtv*nptt t. during a violent storm and teWU^.w»i*ed, .O f'fh h A h ieric an creW s4tortr..ofBa ’ fortyrsix men were drowned,. toffp GertoaU crews, nine officers and eji^to.tov*n 'Jmenlost.their lives; .. - . ■ . ^ 1 ' ; ’ The storin occurred on March 16. I t Was also reported th at sixteen merchjsntmen were Itet, ’ whose staff is as follows Captom urormaa H, Farquhar.Ohiefofataff Lieutenant HSBry O, Rittenhouse, flag lieutenant Liente>tont Greenleaf A. Morriam,secretary. - : : * -The Trenton was a ship rigged wooden cruiser,-and was builtin 1876. ■ Herdl*pli»te- ment Wto tony. In 1881 she waitodQ&te c o U tin ^ ^ a th a t e a ^ o i ^ u d to the this disaster; \ The Trenton Was considered the beet wooden vCsseliU the nayy, She was built a t tlie Brooklyn Navy Yard 1 The Nibsie was the begt known qf. tq*. TTniteU' Titates -war' Tesseis avrxunoa. hfips- • ‘ w topuf toebmmtolon a year and ah ftf agty arriving, a t Apia last No vembqr She.fiad long been ra b d m ndval circles a* a second.rate cruiser, having a wooden hull a displacement of v - ..................... The complement pf the Njpsic was 174 ma- rines. and blue jackets,, although some of bar short time men were sent home from Samoa, when tli* Adams left for San FrancIscOJgjy Jamii The. r last. andaha was a . bark ugged wooden OrUfsey .{ssebndxate), with a displacement-pf. 2100 tons. She Was rebuilt in 1874, an d -Jtt 1S81 belonged to the North American Squad- ron. Pfesidoiit H arrison during th a afternoon sent thefoilow ing nom inations to the Seriate'. Francis E .W a rre u , o f W yom ing T erritory, to bo U o v e rn o r of Wyoming T errito ry . B enjam in F. White, of Dillon, Montana, td b's'Gov'el-noi uf M-mtahii. 1,99 Modrehouse, of Oregon, to bo A gent for the Indians of Uuatiilu Agency in Ore- gon. T e n t h D av s N o m i n a t i o n s . 1 . There is a noticeable increase of h o s t i l i t y to forcigners th ro u g h o u t China. A DEEPiy United-St a t e s MARRHAL.was killed by a band o f Kentucky outlaws, ' sA b ill“ to regulate the sale o f horse- flesh fo r human food” is before the E n g lish Parliam ent. -Je d Tw i t o h e l l , colored, was hung, a t Chatham, Va., for assault upon a nine-year; old g irl ; <■ *\ . ’ - 1: gon. Robert V. Bolt, of Mary laud, tq be A ssist- a nt Commissioner of I nuian Affairs. Tw e n t y stores and sovoral dwollings vero burned in Ashton, 111 ., Loss, $63,000. E. W. Bl a t c h f oRP’S-six-story building, filled with inflammable materials, burned in Chicago, eaUsin2a IosS o£ $330,090 . ■ ■ Th e President has appointed the three .Commissioners who are to treat with the Cherokee Indians for their share of the Okla homa lands. The gent lemen named are J Otis Humphrey, of Hiinois; Alfred.M. Wil- son, of Arkansas,and exrGovernor George D. Robinson, of MassaohUsetts; Oscar M, Spellman, of Arkansas, to be Marshal of th e United States fp r tbe E aste rn District.of Arkansas. : - Indiana is the second S tate in th e U nion to enact a b allo t reform law based on the A ustralian system. Charles C. W alters, or Arkansas, to be United S tates A ttorney for the E astern Dis- tric t of A rkansas Postm asters - Ch tries B. .Prescott, at Holyoko, M ass., Clarence M Iteed, a t D u n kirk, N. Y .; Edward B.Vreem an, a t S a la manca, N. Y ; Jam es M. C lark, a t New- castle, Penn. , Charles W. Jones, M artins- ville, Va. The follow ing nom inations w e re confirmed by the Senate. Jam es Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions. Jerem iah Sullivan. Collector of Customs for M ontana a n d Idaho. T w enty-fire Senators, all o f thorn Domo> e ra ts e x c e p t Messrs. Q uay, Teller, Ingalls, P iu th b , E v a r t s And Dawes, v o te d f o r h is re ! jection. Mr, Gullpm w a s p aired fo r th e re- je c tio tto f Mr, H alstead, and S tan fo rd , S te w , a r t nnd Jo n e s did n o t vote. There were* eleven' Republicans in a ll who would liave voted t o r e je c t th e nom ination had th e i r votes been needed. A d i s a s t r o u s collision is reported on th e T ak n and Sientsin R ailw ay, China, r e s u ltin g in m any deaths. Fo u r A m ericans fro m El Paso, Texas, shot a nd killed tw o M exican policemen ih Ju a rez , Mexici), who h a d a tte m p ted th e ir a rre st, — E n g lis h army authorities are consider- in g a project for enlisting young boys an d le ttin g them grow up into soldiers. , _Th e strikft d f the w e a v e r in F a l l R iv e r, Mass;, is ended, and t h e o p e rativ e s. havo r e tu rned-to w o rk on tho o ld basis. T h e ia r g e s t d ry goo d s e'stablislimont In S c ra n to n ,; P e n n ., o w n e d by t h e firm o f Clellandp Sim pson &Taylor,, w h o c arried a Stoeb valued; a t ?209,000, Was d e stro y e d b y fire. Tha loss is alm ost total, . T h e pattern-shop o f th e F o rt K t t (Penn.) F o u n d ry wa§ burned. T he I033 is *ipn,030. Greene, a g e d A |nrA'aT i:'™ i:h ur n e d t o 'd e a th , Th ehody’Of John M aider.a w e alth y r e ti r e d b u tc h e r of Allegheny C ity ; Penn., w a s fo u n d in th e Allegheny R iver w ith h is t h r o a t c u t fro m c a r to car. H e had o v id en tly g o jie — Lo r u Fr a z e r , J u d g e of th e O uter House of th e Scotch. G ourt o f Session, is dead. R o b e rt Louis Stevenson, the novelist, says th a t he finds the South Sea Islanders too am iable and polite to afford him satisfactory models. F O R F O R E I G N MI S S I O N S . K T-L i n c o l n f o r E n g l a n d , E g a n f o r C h ilis - P en s io n C o m m issio n er. Th eB ritish ste am er Delta w a s c ap turedby the H a y tia n g im boat Defense and subse- q u e n tly released b y G eneral Legitim e, who paid th e Delta’s com m ander $3000 as indem nity, . Th e United States Senate has appointed Messrs. Sherman, DaWes,' Culloni, AUison, Hampton, Euktis, Colquitt. aniTtogalls as .a committee iu ' rt-presuiiu' Lueir uOdy \at t Washington Centennial celebration in New York. u a Jam es W. Wakefield, Collector of Customs, Hath, Me Th e B altic tim b e r y a rd , n e a r Buckingham ito la ce , L ondon, h a s been destroyed b y fire., The los3 is $800,000. D uring t h e progress of tho fire a p ile of tim b e r fell, in ju rin g a n u m b er o rfire m e n . • . I t is interesting to think, remarks th e Scientific American, th a t in her pine forests th e South has ever grow ing th e fiber for h er cotton bales. Beligman Bros.. special fiscal agents N avy Departm ent a t Loudon. Departm George W. Me Bride, Collector ol Custotqs for G rand H aven, Mirlt. Charles !!. Edwards, Collector of Customs for Minnesota, Fe r d i n a n d ’ Ya s d e r t Ae l e n,*a m e rc h an t QA M 1 , n A i w n nr. 4*1,n. Tyihn allied; firm's, whoso liabilities w ill reach a co- ■ lcssaJtom j-'-—. . - A wiDEsVreEAD plot td kill' the Gzar has been discovered;And *m&yraiffe;sfs mado in Russia. • . Charles M. Brad .h aw , Collector of Cus- toms, Puget Souu-1, W ashington T erritory. Z. T. W alrond, U nite I S ta te s A ttorney, Indian T errito ry . T. B. Needles, Marshal. Indian Territory. J M. Shackleford, Judge. Indian T e rri- tory Eu l o g ie s on the late John Bright wore .pronounced in tho House of Commons by Mr. GladstonerMr. Smith,Lord Hartington, Justin McCarthy and Mr. Chamberlain, . Th e Freich Cabinet has unanimously r e 1 solved to prosecute General .Boulanger for ■ unpatriotic agitation, Th e Standard' Oil Company has pur- chased tbe entire Crofton oil field iix Pon«syl- vania. Russia has demanded of Persia th e exclusive rig h t to navigate rivers flow- in g into the Caspian Sea and to build railways throughout the oountry. Ma , of Philadelphia, e n te r- ta in e d Postm aster-G onoral W im «® iaker/hft d in n e r. A m ong thoia 1 B eaver, George W. C , S m ith, W illiam Singeriy, George E lv a n d A lexander McClure. ) present w ef hilds, C harfe Fi t l e k y o r A B I G W H A L I N G S T O R Y ..:. A S c h ooner Sh a k en , b y C o lli s i on Wi t h a M ons t er Wh a l e .C Since th e last Postmaster-General a l- lowed tw o of his clerks to get married an d retain their positions in th e office, th e num ber of married couples in the departm ents at Washington is increas- in g rapidly. El even t n D ay ’ s N om i na ti ons . The President cn tb is day sent to the S en ate the follow ing nominations: Robert Lincoln, of Illinois, t o be M inister to U re at B ritain. S o n tfii a n d W e s t . .C a p ta in Sam uel F edrick, o f th e schooner Ja m es H. G ordon, w h ic h h as Arrived .a t Bal- tim oro fro m C harleston, S , C., re p o rts t h a t when a b o u t seventy-five m iles E . B. E . of Cape H enry, ,a .-sehool of w hales Was m et. T hey cam e so close t o th e vessel t h a t pieces of w ood w e re dropped on t h e i r backs, a t w hich tb e y sq u irted fo un tain s ol w a te r in tbe a ir . A t o ne tim e th e sea appeared like,a mass o f confused fire fro m tb o gam boling of the crea tu re s. L ines UtphosphoreSeeut-light,-' sometimes a s f a r 'a s th e eye co n ld reacb; were visible-f r o m t h e ship’s deck, a s t h e w hales faced a f t e r one a n o th e r th ro u g h -th e w ater. A ll t h a t n i g h t th e m ighty fish IP IJ L oosing the b ow , i t w a s seen th a t t h e vessel h a d shaken from stem to stem. ptrucka mens ter. whale. The water was; dis- colored and bloody, showing th a t the Gor- don h ad struck the fish a tejrible blow*. The whales disappeared from about,the vessel shortly after the collision. CaptaiUPedfick is confident-there Were 10Q whales, in.the school, all of which( the first mate, a n old .whaler, says were sperm whales. I t i s sup- posed they Were attacted-in Shore by follow- ing, the schools, of mackerel now off the, coast. . j» ' ron. She carried a battery of eight guns, mhSft ly smooth boro 9-inch Dahlgren’s for b*r- broadside battery hud two Parrot rifles fo)r- pivots. . . ' J - ■ . The Olgabad been th e most formidable of the German vessels a t Apia. She is nnarm- ored add unprotected, a single deck c i er- built i h 1880, aud equipped With a b a tte ry eight six-inch K ru p P rin.es and a number Hotchkiss ravolving cannon. She had a of fourteen knots and a orew of 267 Her displace toentwas 2200tons. ' The German wai* Vessels. Adler and E ber w*re inferior to the Olga both in' size'and. strength. The Adler carried four Krupp- guns andtha.Eber carried three. ’ . TheEberwas equipped fortorpedo service.\ Captain Fritz, who commanded she Adl*r, was oiie of the seamen and fighters of whejn Germany was proudest. rulser S S k speed. ; men. . Th e plant o fth e S t. Paul (Minn.) andProvisionpompany was burned. $209,000. Meat Loss w as tw o hours before t h e body c o u ld be-. r e - Ieasedi a nd t h e n i t w a s ground, u p in to a m ere m ass o fflesh and bones. ’ M urat H alste l, of Ohio, to b e Minister to Germany.Allen Thorndike Rice, of New York, to be Minister to Russia. Fl a me s among the oil tanks a t Lpng lsland City, N. Y., destroyed property worth *150,- 000 and burned one workman to a crisp. P a tric k E gan, of Nebraska, t o be M inister to Chili. To b ia s Sa u ms, a colored man, about thir- ty-five years old, wasmurdered in Nq wYork city by his brother Reuben, twenty-two 'years old, with whota he had. quarreled. Four full-blooded Indians have been ad m itted to practice medicine. Ah, those w ily redskins! They know w hat course to take when the use of toma- haw k and scalping knife are prohibited, exclaims the New York Herald. Thomas R y a n , of Kansas, to be M inister to Mexico. ROBERT T . LINCOLN. to Mexico. John Hicks, o f Wisconsin, t o be M inister to Peru. R o b e rt Todd Lincoln, nom inated by th e P resident as U nited S ta te s M inister to E n g land, is the son of the la te P resident A b ra h a m Lincoln, an d was b o rn in Springfield, 111 ., in 1843. F rom a local school h e was sent to th e Illinois S tate U niversity, a n d thence to H a rv a rd in 1850, w here he g ra d u ated in 1864. H e entered th e arm y i n the w in te r of t h a t y e a r as a C aptain ou General G ra n t’s staff, a nd took p a r t in tbe operations which r e sulted in the surrender o f Lee a t A ppom at- tox. a t which he was present. P re sid e n t 'L in- coln received th e first n ew s of Lee’s s u rre n d e r from his son, who reached W ashington A pril 14.: T he President was assassinated t h a t evening. Y oung Lm cpln resigned bis commission, in th e a rm y an d entered th e law firm of S cam - monj McCagg & Fuller, in Chicago. H e h as continued t o practise a t the Chicago B a r, w ith some in terru p tio n s, ever since. He w e n t to E urope in 1872, w here he rem ained several, m onths. ' is’ open fo r the season in a l l th e W estern rivers. **' Al v - s Tu h n i r pnd J e f f K ing W ere g o in g to w a rd Cunffierland G ap; K y., a n d Jam es' B u rc h w ai com ing to to w n , a n d t h e m eeting w as celebratelL b y Alvis T urner sh o o tin g a t B urch, th e b'afll only strik in g B u rc h 's g u n . B urc h re tu rn e d the fire, p ro m p tly k illin g Alvis T u rn eru a n d then K in g firoa o n B urch; k illm g him a f d b e sting a hasty r e t r e a t u p C lear Creek. - - Ei g h t th e ir b a re F airbury, N< conduct- Na v i g a t i o n publicly Hogged on itizens-Committoe in were iby a Citi y e for Impudentand boisterous George B. L o r ing, of Massachusetts, to be Minister Resident a n d Consul-General to Portugal.M arion E rw in of Georgia, t o -b e U nited States A tto rn ey for th e S outhern D istrict of G eorgia Tyre Glenn,of North C arolina,to be U nited States M arshal for th e W estern D istrict of N orth C arolina. Th e violent wlud-and Snow storni'from the northwest, rendering the atmosphere. as dense as a Londomtog, caused five-collisions Off New York harbor, iu wliich.four vossels Were wrecked, one life lost and many moro jeopardized. Y oung Edward Clark, a New York toper, k e p t his pledge when he swore off.“ I will never drin k while I live,\ he said, an d his old m other turned away w ith a prayer of thankfulness on hei lips. T hen the young man leaped through the window and fell dead on t h e pavement below. He had kept his promise. Jam es O. Churchill, o f Missouri, to be S u r veyor of Customs for th e p ort o f St. Louis. Postm asters—Abram W. L ansing a t P lats burg, N .Y ., D avid A. Jo n e s a t S c ra n ton, Penn.; Chester A. W ilcox a t Quincy, III.; Osceola R Serviss a t K ansas City, Mo. The Senate confirmed the follow ing n o m i- nations: A lb e rt A. Burleigh, Collector of Customs a t Aroostook, Me.; F r a n c is E. W a r- ren, G overnor of W yoming T e rrito ry ; Ben- iamin F. W hite. G overnor o f M ontana: Robert V. Belt, A ssistant Com m iss'oner of Indian Affairs. Qu e k n Vi c t o r i a cabled a message of sympathy to President Harrison for .the loss of life aboard our warship3in Samoa and tbe President sent an appropriate reply. ■ I 'n r ther* Det-aHg. •” Furthei* particulars of the disastrcuutston at Apia, Samoa, have just been receiy The hurricane burst Upon the harbor si denly. , The German man-of-w ar Eber was the Artk vtssel to drag her anohoi'. She became un- manageable-ahd Wasdriven helplessly onthe.,'’ reef which runs around the karb*B .fib* struck broadside on, at-6o’clook in-th*mbra- mr. A f i r e a t jKenny, H i , destroyed. $100,000 w o rth of prpperty, including m o re t h a n tw en ty s to re s a h d business houses. A rfro i rtf'vsmW HimtgnV Trirf efwnnV a of th e engine dead. McCaffrey’s h ead w as crushed, ftnd th e young woman’s n e ck b r o ken. | . . 'Th e Secretary of tbe Interior bas issued an important order directing th a t heads * of bureaus and other' officers of the department wiil not call fpr resignations, except by di* rection of the Secretary.. ‘ mr. Tha shock Caused h e r to lunfii and to* stagger back; and *he sank id a moment id- deep watei•. Most of -ber-m*n were ur*—- hatches, and scarcely a soul, of-, escaped. . The German war ship Adler waa the to. succumb. She was. lifted bodily b y gantic wave and cast on her beam.*tid* ereef. ib n ' Says th e Rochester (N. Y.) Herald• “When th e chief official of sixty millions o f people passes directly from the E x- ecutive Mansion to a private law office, and begins to work for his living again w ithin tw o days from the tim e of his surrendering his immense power, t h t dignity o f labor in this country receives a strik in g illustration.” N ' EWB l GLEANINGS . Sc o t l a n d has a gold iever. Sc a r l e t n e v e r is raging in Chicago, Th e widow of General Stonewall Jackson,; to whom was tendered tho office of postmis- tress. of'Lexington, Va., has declined to ac- cept the same. T w e l f t h D a y 's N o m i n a t i o n s . P resident H arrison h a s sent th e follow ing nom inations t o the S enate: m President G a r field appointed h im S e c retary of W a r in his C abinet in 1881.Since his re- tirem ent-from thaihpositioiH ie-has freq u e n t- ly been m entioned as a possible Presidential candidate. | . . Ha r v e yj j h n s o n, a th irteen-year-old hoy, a n d a playm .to found a ' sihUll k e g o t p o w - d e r i n a barn_ a t fiioux City, Io w a . T h e Johnson boy iropped. a lighted c ig a re tte i n to th e keg, and an explosion followed, Which k illed them 1 otb. T h e Centi it W arehouse a t C hicago, w ith its valuable to re of te a s ahd coffees, w a s b u rn e d t o tl e ground, e n tailing a. I033 o f a b o u t $l,50i 1)09. ‘ L e e L yoS s, oolored ex-convict, waa d riv e n to b*'y a tF r» n k ltn to n , N . C ., a n d aS he refused to surrender, J h e S h« l f f i t o d h i s deputies fired s ix ’buUets in to him , ohding h i s life. ' ' I. i Ar t h u r MAt t a s h e d a nd W illia m G r a v - e ily D a rtin g ,: tw o Englishm en, h a v e b een m urdered a n d robbed b y a half b re ed g u id e n am ed G ray -Bud iff t h e ' vicinity of S w eet G rass Hills, M ontana, w hither th e y went o n a h u n tin g excursion. E x-PR *sn> E ki CLEVELAND h a s re tu rn e d to F lorida fro m Cuba. Jim T t o n i y , and M ack F ra n c is w ere publicly hanged, a t Lebanon, T e n n ., for th e m u rd e r of L en M artin. nom inations t o the S enate: Postm asters—John Sum ingsby, a t B a r H arbor, Me,; A ugustus J. H o itt, a t L ynn, Mass.; Suydara F. Wheeler, a t Hancock, N. Y .; R ichard W Oldfield, a t H a v erstra w , N. Y .; Lewis B , W illiam s, a t L ong Branch, N. J . ; B u r tC . Drake, a t Gainesville, F la .: O r- lando B. H appy, a t Mayfield, K y ., W m . Jenney, a t M ount Clemens, Mich. Cassius S t Barnes, o f A rkansas, to, be R e- ceiver of Public Moneys a t G u th rie, In d ia n T erritory; J o h n L D ille, o f In d ian a , to be Register of th e L and Office a t G uthrie, In dian Territory. Charles E. M onteith, o f Idaho, to be a g e n t for th e Indians of the Nez Forces Agency in Idaho. The nom inations o f JohD C. New to he Consul-General to L ondon and Lew is W olfly to be Governor of A rizona w ere confirmed by th e Senate. The nom ination o f M urat H alstead as Minister to B erlin w as reported favorably to the Senate by a unanim ous vote of the For eign Relations Committee, a n d the S enate proceeded to vote u p o n it. I t tu rn ed o u t th a t five Republican Senators voted a g ain st him, together w ith a ll the Democrats, a nd on t h a t vote he stood rejected. Ja p a n wants more doctors t o d dentists, Th e y have a fire-brick trust in England. 'T h eb e are-several: goat ranches in Texas. Thb University of Berfiu has 5790 students- Wi l d geese ars numerous in South Dakota.- Thebb are 9000 Chinese in New YOrk ci^f. * ‘ Te r r i b l e prairie-fir^ Were raging near Cavour, Bakoto. »*. Fxyx companies of troops were in Okla- homa clearing out the invaders. A d e s t r h o t i v * wind storm prevailed in SbntbsrH Ohio. Twoinen Were drowned by th* capsizing of a small boatnear Lawrsnoe- b ur g t O ; M o . ! ! ^ ■ r -A terrible struggle for life ensued among\ the officer* and sailor* aboard. Many* plunged jnto the.ragiug surf and struck o ak some reaching the shore in safety. Otfeeo d u n g to the rigging until the masts foil. O f these two gained the shpro-safely. Tbe Gap*- In th* meantime, the United _Btate*j ship Nipsic had be*n draggingJ enddritting toward the ' however, managed to • \* her on a aandbink. Boats were immediately, Id' ,., whole company were saved, wifll« ...tion of six men, who were drowstofl capsizing of a boat, The United States carried before the She struck with —„------ Captain was hurled against a Gab and stunned. M r. Lincoln is m arried to a d a u g hte r of ex-Senator H a rlan , of Iowa. Xy Gb bMANYh a * 224 in h a b ita n ts t o the sq u a re mite---v Io w a has fifty-five jails without an in- There is likely to be an expansion ol sh ip bu ild in g all over the world, p re- dicts* Qojdall'i Sun. I t is found to b e d u e to th e increased purchasing power o f all European and American nations. People all over the world are earning more money and w ant more shop pro- ducts, hence ships are needed to carry goods to them aad raw m aterial back to be manufactured. Bomhoosee o f the Wisconsin Legislature havo passed a bill adopting the Australian System of voting. TtvO miners, Hermann. Manti and Peter Jacobson; were instantly' killed by the ex- plosion of a dynamite cartridge, which they struck in .drUUng, in the dopper Falls mine mt Houghton, Mich.« Bt r i k x s a r e spreading thronghont G e r m any, any, Th e r e are 8486 Browning drubs In tbis country. country. A c o a l mine trust of the UnitedEingdom is proposed, T h e Straits, of Mackinaw are already open tqtnavigation. Th e Pope’s fainting fite have beoome more frequent ofiate. Wi l d ducks are swarming on the Kanka- kee (IlL)marshes. Th e Belgian mail packet Comtesse de Flanders was sunk in collision in tho English Channel Fourteen lives were lost and the mails wars lost With the vessel Th e annual boat raco between crews re- presenting Cambridge and Oxford U n iter-. sities was 'rowed on the Thames, London, over the usual course,four miles and two fui> longs. Cambridge won by three lengths.. Th e funeral of John Bright took place.' He Was buried in the old Quakers’ burying ground at^Rochdale, England, and stunned. Before he could recover a great tea the-deck and washed him awiur. Tba sank fifty yards from th a Nipmo, the officers: and men Here washed .and droWned. . Others perished While ing desperate efforts to swim to th e thora Borne remained for hours clinging to tha- rigging, but heavy wavee doibed uqceaaingiy* over them, and one by OnetBey wife away. By this-time night liad set in. Many n a- tives aud Europeans had gathered ah-tbe- shore, end: oil 'were anxious te renfier atejahr ance to the wrecked vessels and tn eir unfois- tunato crews, but, d the scene, they Were service. arkness .having fallen on t wholly unable to.Va oT Soon after tbe Yandali* had sunk, Mto, ’American warship Trenton broke from hep' anchorage and Was driven upon the Wreck of the vnudalia, whence She drifted to the shore. The bottom ot the Trenton was com- pletely stove and h*r hold was h alt toll of water. igk ranch battered by fih*- j _______ constantlv broke hponheV^ became unmanageable and was driven upon the beach, where she lay in a tolerably favorable position. * . The following is a record ofthe oMoer*anfiU men lost: gale, heavy seas th a t ■ In Germany, w ith a m ortality ia its army th e lowest in Europe, th e death rate of th e civil population is 6, in Italy 8 and in Austria 11 per 1000 higher than in England, which means in G er- many a sacrifice of 130,000 lives yearly more than w.th the BriLsh, and in the tw o last countries of G24.000 lives a n nually over aud above the < orresponding loss of life in England and Wales. ‘Ge n eRa lV To b n b r ’S house a t PineviUe; K y ., was b u rn e d oil Tuesday n ig h t, .a n d T u rn e r a n d h is fa m ily perished in th e flames. ThIstaxable; property of Missouri aggre- gates *750,181,18J; ApOVT 8,000,000acres will soon he added to the public domain* CaiN A-and C orea h a v e a r riv e d a t a n ami- cable understanding. A motion w as im m ediately m ade by S en- a to r Sherm an to reconsider the vote, a nd on tbis motion debate w en t on u n til the Senate adjourned. The five R epublicans who vote-1 a g ain st Mr. Halstead's confirm ation were Ingalls, Plumb, Teller, Cnllu m and Far well. Jo h n . Ro s e n b b b o e r . a fa rm e r, shot desui A ndrew C astaline W a row o v e r a tr iv ia l m a tte r near C reighton, Neb., t h e n b u rn e d his own bouse .to.she g ro u n d a nd shot h im self d e a d .; Ge n e r a l L u i s E . To r r e s , G overnor o f L ow er C alifornia; has s e n t a m essage tb t h e press, sta tin g t h a t t h e repbrts of t h e discov- e ry o f gold i n t h a t c o u n try have bean g rossly exaggerated. P a tric k E g an was b o rn in C ounty L ong- ford. Ireland, about 1840, a n d received a good English education. He m oved to D ublin when a boy a n d became a clerk in a m ercan- tile office. L a te r ho becam e S e c retary of th e C itv Milling Company a nd h a d a sta n d in the'D ublin C o rn Exchange. H e was connected w ith the F enian o rg a n i- zation in 13 6 5,and la te r was som ewhat prom i- n e n t in Isaac B u tt’s H om e Rule m ovem ent H e was, w ith Michael Davitt;_ono of th e original m em bers of t h e Land League, an d w as its first Treasurer. To avoid the seizure of the funds by the E nglish G overnm ent oh th e passage o f S e c retary Forster’s Coercion A ct he moved to Paris in 1881, a n d m anaged th e finances of the organization from th ere fo r tw o years. R eturning t o Dublin he resum ed his busi- ness in g ra in and w as also in terested in a series of bakeries and provision stores. L earning t h a t the G overnm ent intended a rre stin g h im he m a d e his escape t o t h is c ou n try a n d settled In Lincoln, Neb., six y e ars ago. T here he hak been engaged in th e g ra in business and in r e a l e state tran sac tio n s ev er since. i - a t r ic e : EGAS. Ca n a d a proposes to have another trans- continbntal raiiroad. Th e estimate ot the total ice harvest of Maine is 1,171,030 tons. /Th e British Government will lay a cable from Bermuda to Halifax. T h i r t e e n t h D a y ’s N o m i n a t i o n s .The President s e n t to the Senate these nom inations: Le g i t i m e has sent a peace commission of .three to CapO Ha'ytian by the .steamer D elta.' The commission is empowered to confer with Hyppolit* about establishing some basis Of relationship on which, the war can be de- clared o i t . nom inations: R obert Adams, J r . , o f Pennsylvania, t o be M inister to Brazil. A p o i n t e r i n M organ’s shingle mill, a t HUngerford, Mich., b u rst; k illm g E d w a rd S te w a rt and his b ro th e r Charlie. Li e u t e n a n t BATBWa.tr,of the T en th U n ite d States. In fan try ,w a s r u n over by a tra in a n d killed a t Muncie, Ind. Th e Australian Wheat crop has fallen short of the estimated product. Hy d e C o u n tT ; Dakota, farmers have or1 ganized a hail insurance company. Five nances an 1 one husband seem3 a little incongruous, yet such has been the portion of one Englishwoman. She was born Miss I’ennant, became th e H onorable Mi«s Pennant when h erfath er was ennobled I.ord 1 enrbyn, and Lady James H ogg by marriage w ith Sir James Hogg. A fter th a t a fortune brought her th e title of Lady McGarel-Hogg, and finally she was elevated to the peerage a s Lady Magheramorne. Lansing B. M izner, of C alifornia, to be M inuter to th e C e n tra l Am erican States e en W illiam I, S cruggs, of Georgia, to be M inister to \ enezuela. Of the 600,000 barrels annual product of cotton, seed oil* 409,000 g6 into lard. W flliam n . B radley, of K entucky, to be M inister Resident a n d Consul General to Corea. B. M. .Hu e v , j i t , t h e Southern E xpress A g e n t aj; Biocton, A la ., killed a n unknow n highw aym an, Who had. attem pted t o rob h im or $7000 a fte r w ounding him. _________________Th e annual sales in Marshall Field’s great dry-goods store in Chicago aggregate *30,- 000,000 . This vast business, employs 8000 people and ’ is personally directed by Mr. Field, Who is a t his desk from 8 . o’clock nn- tii_5, _Dr. Pe o p l e in China, oppressed by famine, are selling their children to buy food. Th e famous Verrugas Railroad Bridge In Pern has been swept away by a great flood, _ George B. Ferguson, of Maine, to be Col- lector of Customs fo r th e Distr.c*. of Belfast, Me. ounding Th e Old Dom inion Steam ship \Wyanoke fro m New Y o rk , collided off th e Delaware, Capes, V a , w ith the schooner R u tk D a rlin g , sinking her. C aptain Lowell, w h o Was a t t h e schooner's wheal a t th e tim e o f the d i s a ster, and seam an C harles H a rriso n w e re lost. T h e ' business of the London Stock Ex- change amounts annually to *23,500,000,030. VaNi l l a plants are selling in Papantla; Vera CrUz, Mexico, a t from *75 to *85 per 1000. Me. Charles H enry T ilighm an Lowndes, of M aryland,to be an A ssistant Surgeon in the Navy.George Navy.George U h m d ler, o f Kansas, to be F irst Assistant S ecretary o f the Interior. _Dr. Ri c h a r d H. Ga t l i n g ,, the\ inventor o f th e famdu* gun, is now over seventy jearsold,*with a full, gray/beard and Such, a kindly fact and mild pair of ey es.,thatno one Would aver susjuot him tts tho mvetttor of murderous war weapons. S ecretary o George L. Shoup, o f Idaho,to be G overnor of Tdaho. Ne a r l y 30,OOQ people wont, tip the Wash- ington Monument -elevator a t inauguration tims. men _Eber—The Captain and all the other pffioera- extopt one, aiid seventy-six men. - Vanda’ia—Tfie Captain, four officers and forty men. z of Tdaho. E dw ard J. Curtis, o f Idaho, to be Secre - ta ry of Idaho. Ja c o b V. Admire, o f Kansas, to be Re- ceiver of Public Moneys a t K ingfisher S tage S tation, Indian T erritory. Ja c o b C .Roherts, o f Nebraska, to be Reg- ister of the l and Office a t Kingfisher Stage Station, Indian T errito ry . The Argentine I.opublic in South America i3 a strong com petitor with tb e U nited States for the European immi-1 g rant. The former Government, to do- velop its resources, has dec ded to spend th is year $■>,<''\ VO1) in bringing im m i- grants from the north of Europe alone. Ships from England, Holland and France are ta k in g them over in thousands. In-I elu d in g all the ir e a t South American ports, six steamers a week leave England boun I thereto. W a thi n g t o n . Th e population of the' Province of Quebec, Canada, has fallen off 339,340 in the past five years. , Th e P re sid e n t h a s reserved M onday to him self, and on th a t d a y sees those only w ith Whom ho has engagements. Bi s h o p Lig h t f o o t , of Durham.. JSngianu, make* i t a rule to spend his Episcopal in come (185,000 a jrear) on church jtn d edu- cational work,, and not a shilling of it has gone into his own pocket-. . forty Nipsic—Seven men. Adleri-Altogether fifteen persons. Mataafa sen t a number of men, Who ren- dered splendid aid in trying to fioat the- % Vandalia lost fbnr officers namelyn Captain Sohoonmaker, Lieutenant. Bqtton, Paymaster Arms, Pay Clerk RoaQb. . A dispatch from Admiral KSmberiey lu- commaihd of the squadron soys:,— *‘Th*re wa* a hurricane a t Apia.ia Every veeeel m the harbor is on shpre, English man-of-war Calliope Whie tea. The Trenton and Tauaalia * ....... ..j n r* tofol losses, TheNipsIo is boached, and her rudder gone. Blie may -be saved but the <fii*hoce are against i w • years. , Th e British gunboat Spider, Which was tb havo proved such a marine terror, is a foiiura . Co l o n e l Fr e d D. Gr a n t c alled a t t h e D epartm ent of S tate an d took t h e o a th of office as Minister to A u s tria . I In-I Station, ry . ■ Scion A. Darnell, o f Georgia, to be A t t o r ney of the I nited S ta te s fu r tho N orthern D istrict of Georgia. W illiam S. Tifton, of Tennessee, to be U nited States Marshall for th e E astern Dis- t r ic t of Tennessee. S e c r e t a r t W ejd o si h a s issued the follow- in g instructions to custom s officers in r e g a rd to the P aris E xposition: M anufacturers; articles-or w ares p ro d u c ed or m a n u fa c tu re d i n t h e U nited States w hich.m ay be se n t t o t h e Paris Exhibition q r 1889 foe exhibition w ill upon th a ir r e tu r n to the U nited S ta te s b e adm itted to free e n tr y . Po s t m a s t e r -Ge n e r a l Wa n a m a k e r a n d th e H aw aiian M in iste r have signed a c o n vention increasing t h e am ount of m oney orders between the-tw o to $100. Po s t m a s t e r -Ge n e r a l Wa n a m a k e r has appointed th e follow ing division superin- tendents of the-ra ilro a d mail service: F i r s t Division, VV. H. Bigelow, B oston, Mass,) Second-Division, R. C. Jackson,N ew Yoifk; T hird Division, C. W . Vickery, W ashing- ton. D. C . . Fourth Division, L. M , T e rre ll,1 A tlanta, G a .: F ifth Division, George W . INEY, „.... , luce in Washington. He Wasborn.in 1848. Co l u m b u s, Go., -levies a ta x of ten cents on - each dressed carcass sold-within the city l i mi t s. . . . TH E MARKETS. . . . Th e great stallion Prince Wilkes has been sold to a gentleman of Buenos-Ayre3 fob *30,000. 13 NEW TffHit.' R £ N V |S »« l |* r *••••••• 8 W- .@ ,8 Hilbh. Cows* €Oin. to j^odd, .>25 00 @45 00 . C alrw .com ntoii to prime. Sh*e».—.................. . Latttbs.,. r - . — - Hogs-—Live.. - ...... .« Flour---Citr Mili ExtrsL. . . Patents . Whe*t-*No. 2 Rod _8 00 5 25, 3 00 @ 6 50 5 25 @ 5 50 5j^@« 4-70 @ 5 60 175 , . 6 5!) e,* Barlsv—TWo-rowed S ta te .. . Corn—'O agraded M ixed,...’ O ats—No. 1 W h i t e r . v r . v a - '-Mixed'VVsstern.. . . . . . Hay—No. 1. ....... . •**. S tra w —L ong R ye.. . . . . . . . . . L a rd —City S te a m . . . . . . . , . .. . B u tto r—Elgin Cr«ani«ry, D a iry .f air togOOd., West. Im. C ream ery g a e t o i y . - Cheese—S ta te Factory.*,,. Skims—L i g h t ., .. ., W Sst*rn.., u —— * A r ^* ---e ste ru . A @ 90 40j£« : 43 -39 @ 82 @ 95 @ 75 t® 6.9EO @ m i @ 2? @ 21 <a 21 80 TO 26 18 15 12 M io . .... Sheep—Medium to Good . . . 4 56 , . Lamb*—F a i r - t o G o o d . . 460 g Hogs—Good to hoioa YorkS-5 10 q Flour—Famfty. 6 00 H Wheat—No, 2 Northern, Com—No. i , Y ello w .... . . . . . 3 7 ^ 4 •J.’lV*fc '.L'tUI'bllOl'U.eLe J llow.* , Gate—No. 2. TV hite.. . . Barley—S tg te. ............BOSTON, I i A. 23 475 550 61 5 5 25 1 05 8a m i 70 Tbe Senate has co n firm el tho following nominations lames O. Churchill. Missouri, to be Surveyor of Custom s a t tb e port of St. Louis: Charles 10. M onteith. t o be a g en t a t tbe Nez Pereas Agency, Idaho. Messrs Tel.er P a y n e and E v a rts, spoke in opposition to the confirm ation of M a ra t Halstead to h> M inister to G erm any; no de- cisive action was ta k e n on the m otion to re- consider tbe vote by which th e nom ination was rejei ted. Th e b e have been six defaldations in the government of Hoboken, -N. J ., within as many years. many years. . On e h u n d r e d . a n d t e n prisoners escaped, recently frifih the Zacatlan Jail, State of Piiebla, Mexiod; D obing th a,p ast two years *1,412,039 of the national debt o t Honduras has been paid, and only *772,530 remains. The welcome news to breeders of A n gora goat9 th a t mohair dress goods are again becoming popular will, thinks the New 'i ork Herald, no doubt stimulate experim ents in goat breeding in the new States and Territor.es. There are many m ountain houses -idapted to goat b ree d ing in Montana that ate not available for sheep, nnd if the industry flourishes again numerous «tnall flocks will be seen th roughout tho mmiutruus grazing on lands n o t now utilwed. YELL O W LEVER . \FABMEhs in the Northwest are sowing With frosted Wheat, ab experiments h ate lately d«m castrated its value. Th e itoses of the exploded Parisian coppsr syfidicat* are Stated a t $30,030,009 . AUthe authors of the syndidate are ruiued. O v e r 2 0 0 0 V ic tim s a M o n th n t X (o , B r a z il. F ou rte e n th D a v e N o m in a tio n s . The Presi-lent sent the following nomina- tions te the Senate: topic—the epidemic which is making sSKflt- great ravagei atnOhgall classes. Tbe offieltet return* of the death* from yellow feVerklhc* the commencement of the year sum up 1506-; victims from th a t form, of fever alonej and*, the mortality from Other type* is ttnueualto great. The inbabitzbte ot Rio at* infab* dying a t the rate o f two thousand * month in * a '-city p f . three • hundred toonsaiid. larzteT .depleted by iffi* flight af the special.prey, even infante a f i w dA ■Mll’a ^ ib V o U * . t o t ’ mUi.. ol“ mar t e m l n .s * A ,r tr t m ( W r o m W m i t i o a . , , s r 4\ * ving Up of the swamps inside ana <n ,„e city So.effectually tbat not a croak trog is to be heard where in other yean ear* were deafened with their noies. Jo h n T. Ai.lKitt, o f New H am pshire, t o be Minister to the Republic of Colombia. Ed w in H I errilJ, o f Texas, to be Minister to Belgium. CORPORA.L TANNER. Ge r m a n y has aceaded to thq request bf France fdr-the transfer of the remains of Generals Carnot and Marceau to France. A Re r s ia n eStkStosiationis.to bo. formed in New York to Widen the field-of trad* With Spanish-Atoeiacan States and compete with Eiirope. ■Asp.a tu a t o tit* jS ^ ^ slffe v a te d R ailroad' Company, which will build an elevated road in Boston. Ba r n h m ’ , Baltimore, opened in 1825, and which Charles Dickens said was the best hostelry in America, is to be sold and closed. - . s Ho t e l Belgium. Withdraw n John W. B errym an; Post- m aster at Versailles; Ky. To he delegates to th e oonference betw een the Un.ted sta te s of A m erica a n d the Repub- lics of Mevir., c '-n tr’a l and S outh Am erica. - -+iwy*,.-K-ro Imrmrrgo,—e s J B n« n ia < .; t Z ' y-cehingir - -488f j John IvfT endorion, of Missouri;Oorn8litt9 i Blis»,of New Vi-rk; W illiam I ’incknejr Whytei of Maryland i dem entStudebaker.of Indiana T Jefferson < .n'jrige.oif M assaolinsstts, Will I lam Henry I res-ott, o f South Carolina: An I drew Uarnsgie. nf Pennsylvania; John R. G I P itk in , of I .oil tsiana; Morris M. Fstoe.of Cali- I fo rm a , and J H. H anson of Georgia. |i ostm asteie I'klward M. Bliss, Spencer. er- , M as,., Ira L. Hicks, New B ritain, C onn.; ife n rv Flo--I f’Ilm ira, N Y Psmiiel 8. Moore, FILal>*t'i, N; .J. I Uorneims S Gould. Emporium,-I'en n .; Ja m e s Ogrleij. Latrobe. l emi , l\ m II Z nfall, Myersdale, Peno I ' '“ ft A: 1/ v W arren. J 'e n i i., R o b e rt's , P irlie r. I o I. Ifnveir, P enn , David D P. Alotsn-lor Ap,pU, Poiiu’. - ,Thomas PaWson, K .rk v 'ie , M l . ChoS. IL W alker. Frost- • ■mg. Ml •The above -is a p o r tr a it of Corporal T an n e r, of Brooklyn; N . 7 ., t h e United S tates Com m issioner o f Pensions. Coiiimissioher T a n n e r is no w in possession, of the office to w hich he was nom inated, t h e Senate having con- firmed h im the day a f te r his nam e was Seiit T n by the Fresl® nU ~*’H i r Cffie'f-Clerft i3 r F l& e r jc r' -.. '. „ir G m olinar - ^ Co r p o r a l TiuNER baS assttmed directlon of the Pension Ollloe. Pr e s i d e n t Ha r r i s o n has* received' hi*, first month's salary. I t amounted to $8,- _8F8.83pan‘(I was deltfjw ^W L riarltnhrtgrm M ' -* lon8» T he death ra?e in England for 'S tatistics of which have recently been p ublished, shows the remarkable fact th a t it was the loweu averayc since l«;ir, when th e Government first undertook the k eep in g of arcurnte reeo-ds In 's s y the ratio of deaths was f«.s to the thou sand, and this was the lowest known ti.l that time. But for Id 'S a stiii better showing i3 made, tho ratio being but 17.8 to th 100a. W h a t this decrease in th e death rate mean, ran be better u n d er- stood from. the fact that more thaii half ft m illion persons were alive in -England and W ales at: tlic end of 1Q88 whose deaths would have been recorded dur- -in g th e eight years i ssi -s had the rate o f m ortality in those years equaled th a t which prevailed d u ring the ten years ' <w i -.cA re r e a s u r y w o j j of Mdfch, minns the , first three Ways. M r- Cleveland received-the President’s salary for' th a t portion of the month. He n r y W. Ra y m o n d, editor and pub- sber of the Germantown (Penn.) Telegraph, has been appointed private secretary to Sec- retary of the Navy Tracy. Govkbnor HEAVER, OtPennsylvania, was assaulted in Washington by a retired arm y officer named Armes.* Tbe Goyemor re- pulsed him with his crutch. The cause of tbe-trouble was the exclusion of -Armes from the Inaugural pirade. Co m m i s s i o n e ror Pe n s i o n s Ta n n e r has appointel A. W;Fisher, of North Carolina, Chief Clerk,of ihe peiision Office. deltfjw riarltnhrtgrm r y w o j k BURNED AT THE STAKE. Ttrrei* r a t t l e T h ie v es 'Tortur;ec! -to D eath b y I n d i a n s . Go l d in large quantities to sald to havs been discovered on th* Sweet Grass Hills, Montana,' and adventurers are flocking there ha greatnumbers. An examination of the books Of th* bank- rupt Reading (PoUtt.) iron works shows that the company instead of having made a profit Of *600,U00 in the lust fouryear»,had sustained an annual loss of, *233,003, ' A Lan - 1 of m isk»d men took three of the acrine>i cattle\thiei os, Gannon, Babco.’k and Remus, from the-r homei near Aluswortb, Sen., across thb line' into the reservation and delivered them toa band of Indians. ............BOSTON, ■ Flour—Spring wheai: pat's.,, 6 80 ( Com—Steamer Yeucw,..... 45^j Oats—-No. 2-White.... 83^; Rye—fitate, , ^ * o o ,@ WAYEatOWN (suss.) OATtLE JCAEEIf, Eeef—Drewed Weight,.. Sheep—IiV * Weight, la m b * .,., Hogs—Northet-n.. 7 25 M X 83 63 T h e mail which arrives a* th* White House show* no rigtt* of dtofaaete*. W m Marcir4theBrestdettt’a heavy. averaging from 699 t o 706 tottoter and on some days running a* high as MW letter*, President Cleveland'* lettert m iijr exceeded 300 a dey. As soon as the trio were in the hands of the redskins; the latter ttnde the-prisoners take off thair clothing. Tho Indians then tied them to three stakes, at each ot which slow fir.-s w re built:- , F o reig n . An oxcursipti.F»rty of seventeen person* en jeying a sail ott Lake Chslpa,in the State of Jalisco. Mexico, were capsized b y ag*le and all were drowned, excess of receipts over expenses) has be*h tutfasd orsr for their bensflt. ■mg. ii-Senate has confirme-l the following, .i.jt no .i.jt Hi-ks. M inister to P e r o , George B. Gt-mg-Mi'.nster to P o rtu g a l; R obert T. I.ih'oln Minister ito G reat B ritain; Allen I horn IV KA Kne, M inister to Russia: Thomas It van. aiinuiier to Mexico. P a tric k -E g an , ' Minister t.> i hili. R o b e rt Adams,‘ J r., Minis- te r to Brazil Latizing B . Mizner, Minister I to the Central Anl0riC*u S ta te !: \ f . hr slow fir.-s w re built:- Not ta - -fled wi* h ta IS cruet tyjtbey tort.Ure'!i -their vi -ti-ns with sharp pointed atioks, and as the C .r» incr-'asei and burned the i-legs the redsk ns increased tbeir torture until the pr.sorier* were (moons loUft Tbeii with rifles they filled the belies with- bullets to d allowed *8* rtmains to be ere tfiated PHILAfJBtMltA. 4 59 @ Flour—Penn, family,. Wheat—No. », Red, A p ril- Com—No, a Mixed, April;. Gate—Ungraded White. M S5 % W lllln e» >#-»* 'Th e number of deaths caused b y the famine in Hban-Tung, China, is appelltng. M any of. the inhabitant* * re : committing suicide through despondency, there being still three months to wait torfh* harvest. Ta* two Spanish, towtlngstoaniihips Mjn* dao and Visayos-collided off Manilla, Th* fo rm er sank with thirty of h«f crew and poesengers. Th e Niffel Tower in Ftete, te f a ta a« • ~.~«-.~
