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APPALLING LOSSES.

Scores of Vessels and Many Lives
Lost in the Lakes.
The record of marine disasters on the
Lakes during the recent heavy gale is an ap-
palling one. Reports received in Chicago
show the following vessels foundered: Barge
Emerald, near Kewaunee, five lives
lost: barge F. NJ. Dickinson, nelr
Kewaunee; two unknown schooners,
near Port Sherman; au unknown schooner
near Hog Island Reef, and barge Star OF the
North near East Tawas, tate of the crew un-
known. The vessels known to have been
driven Ashore are: Barges Wallace a;rt
Consor;, on Chcco'ay Bea2h, east of Mar
auette, crews probably lost; several We
sells at Prcslue Isle names unknown,
many lives lo.t; schooner South Haven, near
Port Sherman, CaotaiI badly injured;
s schooner Mary. near Blenheim, Ont. :;
schooner Pathfinder, near Two Rivers, cargo
and vessel a total loss; schooner Cuyahosa
and two scows in North Bay; schooner I. 5.
Ma: sh and an unknown schooner Mt st lgnace:
an unknown schooner south OF Muske9on
Pier: propeller City of New York near Che
boygan: schooner Kolfage near Goderirh,
Ont, all broken up: propeller Nashua, on
Grass Island, Green Bay; barge Blssel near
Kewaunee, leaking badly; sch 'oner Z !lden
Age, below China Beach; pro .:eller Belle Cross
and barges across fIon Chin's Bea n:
schooner florida on Marquette Beach, total
loss; barses Buckout, McDougall, Baker,
Golden Harvest, near East Tawas: two un
l:nown schooners on Old Makinaw Reef
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A FATAL RIOT.

Huns and Poles Fighting FierceIy
in the Coal Regions.
A sanguinary riot occurred at Gilberton,
near Shenandoah, Penn, the other night.
About twenty Huns and Poles spent Sunday
in drinking, carousing. aud dancing, and at
about 10 o'clock at night engaged in free
fight, in which clubs, stones and an axe were
used. The house in which the fight
started was completely wrecked, and In less
thon fifteen minutes after the fight began full
w forty men and women were in the street
engaged in fierce hand-to-hand connlct
The borough police force, to the NUMBER OF
six. attempted to auell the disturbance, but
their appearance on the scene enragea tne
rioters. who drew their reyolvers and began
to shoot :riminately. Policeman Doyle,
who led the force, fell with bullet In ms
neck, and Joseph Brown, Pole, receiver q
ball in the chest and was subsequently
other Poles were injured, one OF
them being shot through the nose and
another sustaining flesh wound in the shoui-
der. The lolicemen were unarmed. Atter
removing Doyle from the field they retarned
with reiuforcements and captured SIX Oh tne
rioters, one of whom was identified as the
nan who shot Doyle.
When the riot was suppressed IL was tou.o
that, beside the four men who were shot, SIX
were seriously injured by being beaten with
stones or clubs, and seventh had his skull
cru hel by blow with an axe. OF those in.
red tvs are women, aud one Of these was SO
badly beaten that it was thought she could NOT
recover. Brown was in dying condition. IL Is
not known who shot him, although 1t Is Ger
tain that he received his death wound at the
hands Of one of his own party, as the ponce
d;d NOT firs n shot. The six men arrested
were Committed to jail without bail pending
an investigation, and two others who are Sc
riously injured will be arrested as soon as
th7y can be removed from their homes.
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CHESTER 4 ARTHUR
The Ex- Presidents Sudden Death
in New York City.
Account Of His Last Hours, and
Sketch of His Career.

Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died on the
morning of the 18th at his residence, l23 Lex
ngton avenue, New York City. His health
had not been good for the last three years,
and he had been under the doctors care most
of that period. He had been suffering from
a complication of ailments, Of which the
most formidable appeared to the medical
men to be Bright's disease of the kidneys.
Up to Tuesday night the 10th, he had re-
tanned all the physical improvement which
was manifest since his return from New
London on October ], and his Doctor was
we'll satisfied with his general condition. AT
bedtime on Tue sday he seemed to his family
to be in, if anything, better health than
usual, and after spending the evening pleas
antly he retired to rest at half-past twelve
At half-past six Wednesday morning MS
attendant entered his room and at once per-
ccivei that something was wrong, aud IL was
soon evident that the ex-PreSident was SUI
fering from serious attack. Dr. refers, MS
medical adviser, was at once sent Tor, anu on
his arrival pronounced the patent 70 De SUI.
fering from an apopletic stroke. his rlgh1
side was at th, time quite paralyzed. He was
unable to speak, but he seemed to be able TO
recognize people
All dav Wednes lay his condition kept
growing worse, ani his immediate family
then in his house knew that he could not sur
'vive much longer Wednesday night ne was
quite unconscious, bat he fingered during
the night and succumbed at o'clock Thurs
day morning.
HIS sisters-Alrs McElroy, of Albany, and
Mrs. McCaw-were at his house during his i'll
ness and at the end, as were his son Alan
and his daughter Nellie. Mrs Hainsworth.
another sister, and his brother, MAJOR Ar
thur, were telegraphed for, but did not ar
rive in time.
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Europe has been described as breaking
down under her weight of armor, and
when we consider that the expenditure
of the six leading States last year, upon
their armies alone, was more than $500,
100000, and that the navies under the
same flags were an addit onal expense OF
over 500, 900, we can begin to real
ize what the necessity of preparing for
war, as means of preserving peace,
means to the jealous powers of the Old
World. Europe may summon more than
10, 900, 900 men, more than one sixth o!
the population of the entire United
States, to slaughter and be slaughtered.
These men, too, are all in the prime of
manhood, the bone and sinew of their
respective countries, so that the death oi
the hundreds of thousands who must in
evitably fall means more even than the
sentimental loss to wives, mothers and
children. 1t is great question what
these ten millions of men might accom-
plish if war was relic of the past, and
they might turn their attention to pro
ductive labor; but it is, unfortunately, @
question that we can scarcely hope viii
be solved without DELAYS and bloodshed.
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Figures From Commissioner Miller's
Annual Report.
Joseph s. Miller, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, has submitted his annual report to
he Secretary of the Treasury. The total re-
,epts of internal revenue taxation for
The year ended June 50, 1886, were
b116, ,9O2, 500. As compared with the
preceding year there was large increase in
all articles Of taxation except snuff, of which
there was decrease of l95, TAT POUNDS. The
principal increase was in cigars cigarettes and
spirits distilled from grain. The cost of collec-
tion during the year was Si,299, ,4S5, being
about 3.6 per cent of the amount collected.
cost 81, As, 43O, or about 3.9 per cent. of the
amount collected The receipts during the
first three months of the pre5ent fiscal year
we're SIS, ,90l, ,904, an increase Of $230, AL over
the receipts during the corresponding period
last year.
1t lis estimated that the sum of Sis, ,OO0, 900
will be collected during the current fiscal
year.
Eight hundred aud sixty-eight violations
of internal revenue laws have been reported
during the year, 537 persons have been ar
rested on their information property to the
value of Sl36, sos has been reported by them
for seizure, and $l24, ,020 for assessments for
unpaid taxes and penalties.
The number of Illicit stills sci.ed was 564,
and the number of employees therein a.
rested was 1874. The seizures were princi.
pally in Georgia. North Carolina, Tennss-
see, Kentucky and Virginia. The amount
expended in detected and Furnishing persons
for violations Of internal revenue laws was
S42,56l. Property to the value of Sas6, ,9S2
was seized.
At the close Of the fscal year 1875 officers,
ployed in this bureau, and the aggregate
amount paid for their salaries was s5la. .SIo.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

A NEW tenor, named Guile, is said to hav,
made hit in London, England.
EDWIN BOOTH has been drawing crowded
houses at the Star Theatre, New York.
ROSE EYT1NGE has been engaged by Au
gustin DAILY as member of his company.
HENRY IRVING will produce Faust in
Now York and other American cities next
fall
THE Buffalo IN. W citizens are agitating
tho subject Of building conservatory oi
music.
MABEL JORDAN, another American, ha.
been engaged at Toole's Theatre, London
England.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has the bronchitis SC
bad that she hos had to abandon her fare
well concert tour OF Europe.
SIGHoR RossI, the Italian tragedian, will
shortly ef1e an extensive production oil
Shakespeares Julius C;rsar' in Milan,
Italy.
IT is said that Verdi has not yet completed
and the task is still occupying him from
seven to eight hours daily.
THERE are over three hundred and fifty
companies now OH the road III this country,
Rn increase Of nearly one hundred over the
number travelling ut this time last year.
- AMONG the recent deaths at Paris are those
OF two once well'known opera astars-Marcho
the basso, who made great hit i'll 1854, and
kocnig, the tenor, who only recently retired
from the Grand Opera
REALISM in stage representation appears
to have run mad III London. At one theatre
there they have a real horse race on the
stage, and at another they have boat race
III full sight Of the audience.
Or Edward Scovel, the American tenor,
who is now singing in English opera, a cor
respondent says: carl Rosa seems to have
discovered in him rara avis among English
lyric artiSts-naneiy, tenor who can 10th
GAg aud act.n
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

NEW York CITY uses 1000 beeves daily.
THE wheat crop of Russia is reported to be
failure this year.
EIGHT million umbrellas arc made an
nualy in the United States.
PRINCE BISMARCK is named as sole heir by
O rich Mexican bachelor lately dead.
DUKE ERNST, Of Coburg, recently shot his
one thousandth stag in the Kallenberg
forest.
JArAN is manufacturing jackets Of paper,
linen threads being introduced to give them
strength.
A CROP of 5000 heads OF cabbage was
raised OIL one farm near Rosendale, Wis,
this year.
CATTLE worth s3o,ooo afflicted with
pleuro.pneumonia, were recently slaughtered
In Canada
LARGE numbers Of cattle are dying on the
Sioux reservation in Dakota from SOME un-
known cause
DEADwooDi(D IT, man has made SO, ,001
by gathering up aud selling empty beer and
whisky bottles.
SQUIRRELS are so numerous and tame in
the woods of Concordia, La, that they can
be killed with sticks.
SOUTHERN California will show wins
crop Of 17,0O0,0U0 gallons this year. and {.
raisin crop Of 7,00U,UOO boxes
THE Executive Committee Of the Paris
Exhibition has granted l,jOJ,0OO francs with
which to construct tower !'s4 feet high.
RossIGNoL, a Paris detective has been
decorated by President G"evy. He has made
l,2UO arrests of noted criminals during his
service If eleven years.
SrEFANo MERIATTI, who is now ia sting in
Paris is youth of TWENTY-FIVE. He prepared
himself for his fifty days abstinence by eat
ing large goose. benes and all, two pounds
OF beef, a large dish of vegetables and several
dozen walnuts with their shells.
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THE ADJUTANT GENERAL.
Operations of. General Drums
Office tho Past Year.
Facts Regarding Deserters, Enlist
ments, the Militia, Etc.

In his annual report Of the operations Of
mis- Office during tho past year, Adjutant-
Geueral Drum says in regard to the unsatis-
factory quality of the shoes manufactured In
tue ieavenworth Prison, it is stated, that
the trouble arose from defective last
models, and in details Of construction
that have, it is believed, been remedicd.
Touching the removal of charges Of de-
sertioE, the report states TINT ut the close OF
the war there were 23O, ,OO0 men against whose
names the charge Of desertion had been on.
teipd. Prior to the passage OF the law
for their relief, lOO,UW applications for
removal had been presented for action, and
up 10 October lst OF this year Al, 354 ap-
piirations had been received under the
law. There still remain 81, 600 men charged
with assertion who have not fled applca-
tious. Iu report to the T.:eutenaut-Gen-
oral of the Army, Adjutant-Genera Drum
expresses the opinion, basel upon an exam-
inatiou OF reports, that the present voltin-
tary school system in the army is failure,
and from Inherent radical defects will
renlain 80. The total number Of
enlistrIients aud re-eulistrneutS in the
aruy during the year was 6,Ml, including
1,6l4 for special regiments. Or tho 5,3s7
regular recruits, 3,3J6 were native born and
2,03l Of foreign birth; 4,s47 were white and
4SU colored. Only twenty-three per cent of
tho applicants were accepted Us possessing
suitable physical and mental qualifications.
The Adjutaut General also gives his views
OIL tho Improvement Of the militia OF the
various States, making the following reroI-
niendationS:
.'State oucampInents, b. be OF absolute
henetit, should ut least be of ten days dura.
ton and, while established ut convenient
tDints looking to economy in the concentra.
tiuu Of tho troops, should be sufficient dis.
tanre from the homes of the members Of the
couIrlnnd in order to overcome business and
social influences which seriously affect
efforts ut imparting instruction and hold.
ing the mon in hand for drills, tar
get practices, guard duty, etc. Camps
should be dives:etl of every appearance OF
holiday character The programme Of mill
tnry exercises should exclude elementary
cornpauy drills, and the time Of the encanlp-
n,nnt should bs devoted to instruction and
practice in skirmish and battalion drills and
guarri duty. AS most of tho fighting in tho
future must t,e done in open order, thor
ough Acquaintance with tho skirmish drill Is
Of the highest Importance.
"Obsoiets arms and ammunition In the
hands of State troops should he replaced by
improved guns of the same pattern as in the
hands Of tho regular army, and suitable am-
nunitiou provided Exhibition drills, while
yrce Of mechanical precision q
Iody Of mon cnn be- trained to attain In
movements and motion, are an undesirable
feature Of military camps. In many in
stances tho development Of extreme smart
uass In drill involves the neglect of some OF
tho most Important aud solid parts Of a
soldiers tratninE."
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LATER NEWS.

MAYOR GRACE has appointed two ladie
members of the New York Board Of Educa
tion.
AN attempt has bsen ma le to poison the
family of Armour, the Chicago meat packer
by sending to his kitchen a sample bag oi
buckwheat containing large quantity oI
strychnine. Asarvant's vigilance frustrated
the design.
ONE of the worst snow storms in ten years
has been sweeping over the Northwest, caus
ing great delay to travel. At st. Paul the
storm ragged forty-eight hours. In Dakota
the Thermometer fell to tea degrees below
zero.
PROMINENT De nocrats attended the an
nual banquet of the Iroauois Club in Chicago
Letters of regret were read from President
Cleveland and others, and among the speak
ers were Speaker Carlisle, Senator Beck and
General Bragg.
Two firemen were killed and third fa
tally injured by falling from ladder at
fire in Baltimore.
The President has appointed Director
James Fulton to be Chief Of the Bureau oi
Provisions and Clothing and Paymaster Gen
eral of the Navy for four years.
The Attorney General has directed the
United States Marshal at st. Louis to inves.
tigate the report that agents are at WORK
among the unemployed laborers in that city
to secure recruits for an alleged flliblstering
expedition against Mexico.
CONSULAR appointments by the President:
Charles Jones, of Wisconsin, at Prague; q.
; T. Grellet, OF California, at Algiers; Edmund
johnson, of New Jersey, at Kohl; Alexander
C. Jones, Of West Virginia, at Chin Kians.
AMAss of earth and rocks became de-
tached by the heavy rains and tumblcd down
a precipice forty feet upon passing express
train on the outskirts of Pittsburg, Penn.
One Pullman sleeper was nearly d molished
and two others were badly damaged. Eight
per- ons We're seriously injured.
ACYcLoNE which swept through portions
Of the Eas 'crn an Middle States the other
day calel a great deal Of damage to
property. The loss was particularly
heavy in the mining region surrounding
NuheSDdTIe, 1Cuu' <ao N6S-'
Penn, a new Catholic church was
totally destroyed, causing loss of Sl2 600.
Lightning struck the J. L.. Thompson's Sons
chemical works at Watcrvliet, N. Y, and
they were destroyed Six Of the eight per-
sons inside were badly injured by escaping
vitriol The rocuniary loss is $4,000.
OFFICIAL returns in California give Bart
lett, Democrat for Governor, 632 plurality
The Legislature is Democratic by ten major
ity on Joint ballot.
THE Chicago District Assembly of the
Knights of Labor have passed resolutions
declaring their belies that the Anarchists re-
Gently sentenced to death were unfairly con-
victed.
JOHN MOORE, Lieutenant Colonel and AS
istant Medical Purveyor has been appointed
Surgeon-General of the Army.
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Garrett P. Serviss, the astronomical
lecturer and writer, notes in a recent
newspaper letter curious sensation
which he has experienced in gazing
through telescope, and which doubt
less has been felt by others. He says:
'Looking into another world from a
safe perch upon this one-for that is
what the observer with powerful tele-
scope seems to himself to be doing-is
in itself an occupation that almost takes
ones breath away. have more than
once gazed at the full orb of the moon
through telescope until the palpable
rounding of its globe under the eye made
one positively dizzy, as if one should be
held over the edge of the world with
4,000-mile drop beneath him."
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eos.sr, and Middle States

BY the bursting of q boiler in Mapess mills
near Sheffield, Penn.,. two persons were
killed and three seriously injured.
FIRE has destroyed the Roman Catholic
Cathedral of St Peters, at Pittsburg, Penn
The handsome stone edifice cost Sl2l, ,OOO,
and with its contents was valued at $l75,ooo
If. BARTKoLDI, the ptor Of the Liberty
statue, was compelled to sail hastily for
France, owing to cablegram announcing
the serious illness of his mother.
CLFM WALLS, railroad official, knocked
down Bill Hughes, we'll known turfman
and politician, in quarrel at OrangeVllle,
Penn. Hughes drew a revolver and shot
Wells dead.
Duty PLACE, the oldest inhabitant OF
Glou: ester, R. l., farmer and business man,
died the other day aged LOB years.
TIE trial Of Arthur j. McQuade, one OF
the New York Alderman OF 1884 charged
with selling his vote to give the Broadway
18th in the metropolis Alderman McCabe,
whose trial was to have preceded McCuade's,
but who was adjudged insane by experts,
has been released on heavy bail.
MICHAEL DAv1rT. the founder Of the Irish
Land League, was given u reception a fe"
days since at Pittsburg, Penn.
THERE are in New York city at present
1O197 saloons, AT churches and 12l public
schools.
WILD animals have been seen quite fire.
ouently this fall in the CatSkills. A bear, q
panther and deer were recently killed.
A RECOUNT in the Second Assembly Dis
trict of New Jersey gives each candidate
2,24 votes. Had Jones tRep.) been declared
elected the result would have b.en to make
the Legislature stand: Republicans 40;
Democrats. 40; Labor, l. This would have
given Donahue, Labor-Assemblyman-elect
from Monmouth County, the casting vote
for United States Senator.
ELEVEN prisoners cut their way out Of the
New Castle Del) jail and escaped.
Mr. BLAINE has written letter in which
he denies that he ever repudiated reform in
tho Civil Service, or declared that the British
Civil Service was better than that OF the
United States. The letter has been called
out by q circular issued by Massachusetts
Iniet tendents during the recent election
touching Mr.. Blaine's position on the ques-
tion of Civil Service Reform.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE last club to disband was the St Louis
League nine.
Two mines Of professional players have
goue to Cuba.
WILLIAM KNOX, Of Lawrence, Mass, has
been made President Of the New Enslano
League.
AS rule, the very players who were ths
last to sign last year are the hrst 10 sign lnis
season.
THE scarf pins presented to the st. Louis
Browns for winning the worlds champion
ship are to cost $500.
AT the meeting of the New England
League the Portland (Me.l nine were formal
ly declared the champions
A RECENT public game Of baseball played
in Syduey, Australia, has enthused many
and q club has been formed there.
BY January every manager in the coun,
try will solemny assert that his team Will
win the championshipnext season.
YOUNG players have the call now, and the
old ones who have been on the diamond lor
the past twenty years will he compelle1 10
retire.
MARTIN SULLIVAN, who is said to be the
best nl-around baseball player III the new
England League, has been signed ny In Lhe
Chicago management for next season. dne
new man is stalwart in build aud Is nne
batter and baSe-runuer.
The st. Louis American Association
champions went through the whole OF tue
present season with fewer men on tne'r
salary list than any team in the country;
They had IN even dozen players, and Will
have the same number the coming season.
THE Boston team may now be considered
complete for noxt year, although some other
good players as may be available may yet l'e
Secured. But as now slated the team will be;
Pitchers, Rudbourn, Stemmyer Butiinton and
Conway; catcl,srs, Daily, Cunning, Tate anil
Oiourke; first base, Morrill,; second bese,
Higgins; third base, Nash; short stop, Wlsei
left field, Hornung; centre field, Johnston;
right fold, Poorman; substitute, Sutton.
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A careful and patient French observer
has formulated some conclusions on the
subject of vocal laughter which are in
terest:ng. He has ascerta'n ned that the
persons who laugh with the sound of A
IN father are frank aud loyal, fond of
noise and movement, and frequently of
. versatile and changeablc character.
Those who laugh with the sound of A in
ape are phlegmatic, with turn toward
melancholia. The laugh in E is that of
children, and adults who are simple,
plant, timid and irresolute. The laugh
in o signifies generosity and robust bold
ness. 'Look out" says the French OBJ
server, "for those who laugh in U, be-
cause they are the misanthropes.
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A THRONE DECLINED.

Prince WaIdcnar Refuses TO Be.
come BulSarn's Ruler.
The Bulgarian Sobranje (ChaInhrr Of
Deputies) having elected Prince Waldenar.
the third son of the King OF Denmark, as
successor To Prince Alexander OIL tho throne
Of Bulgaria, the honor ha. he"Il
respectfully declined. The King OF Drn.
mark, on behalf of his sou, Friur- Wnltls.
mar, sent telegram to Tirnova expressing
thuhks for the houor conferred upon his son.
but declining, upon any condition, to alL"S
him to Gccept the throne.
Tho $t. Petersburg Gazette says that the
Pin u Of MngreIia is the ouly possible
RISsiuu candidate for the Bulgarian
tlrone, and thinks his selection would
be sriru To bo approved by the other
powers The same paper says: "lt
will be some time befol quiet is restored in
Bulgaria sufficiently to render tn, election
OF a prince possible under conditions which
Russia would recognize as legal"