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deceased; General and Mrs Rucker, parents
of the widow, her brother and sister, and the
| military staff and several other intimate
friends of the General.
The President and Mrs Cleveland and the
committees of the two Houses of Congress,
with barred heads, followed the mourners.
Eight sergeants of artillery now lifted the
careful steps down to the mouth of the open
grave, placing it there upon rods.
The spot chosen for his resting place is
some distance from the cemetery, and just
at the summit of the steep hillside, which
slopes down from the yellow old mansion
toward the potomac. A few trees stand near
the head Of the grave and there is forest
at some distance. Over the tree tops
down below, however, the view is unob-
structed, and the river, the city and the
Capitol all are in plain sight. From the city
the spot looks like green oasis in the wooded
| hills
After moment of rsverent silence the
clear voice of the Bishop-elect was heard ut
tering the words Of blessing. With a sprig
Of fir, plucked from a neighboring branch,
holy water was sprinkled over the grave,
and the casket was lowered by the sergeants.
The regular burial service brought the re-
| ligious features Of the obsequie5 to an end.
| The priests stood aside and remained in q
group near the head Of the grave and every
breath was hushed while the widow came
a step forward and for one brief moment
looked upon the casket which held
her beloved dead. AS she turned away
the other mourners in a body, paid
their tribute of love and respect, and then at
signal the artillery fired salute Of seven
teen guns The Legion Of honor moved
up in line and looked in upon the still
uncovered casket and filed away. The
great hollow square now contained but
one figure, that of a stalwart cavalry
bugler, who stood at ease, facing eastward,
his bugle under his arm, at the head of the
grave There was hoarse command at the
left, echoed and passed on down the line Of
infantry, a rattle of steel. a moment Of ex-
pectation and then the simultaneous flash
and roar of five hundred muskets Again
and again the volley was repeated Then
the bugler came to attention, raised his
horn to his lips and blew "taps,"
the signal for Lights out" the military
equivalent for goodnight. The tones were
low, mellow and tremulous at the start,
but with each succeeding phrase swelled,
clear, shrill, commanding. waking tardy
echoes from the surrounding banks Of
foliage, which came back to blend again
with the long drawn wait at the
end. As the last echo died away and just as
the shadow of the towering buckeye fell
across and covered the grave as with a pail
the groups Of living turned silently home
ward and left the dead to solitude.
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Washington.

THE Postmaster General has transmitted
to the Secretary of the Treasury his annual
report, which shows deficiency for railway
transportation of S562, 4S2.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved the
act in regard to the Belt Line Railroad OF
Washington, the act for two additional As
sociate Justices of the Supreme Court Of
Dakota, the act to restore the homestead OF
NJ. F. Vance of Colorado, and the act in re-
gard to marriages between white men and
Indian women.
TIE River and Harbor bill, which appro-
pirates nearly S22, ,000, 900, has become law
without the Presidents signature.
NORMAN J. FAKE, a native of Richfeld
Springs, N. Y, employed as chemist at the
Department of Agriculture at Washington,
has been drowned IN the Potomac River. The
young man was a nephew Of Commissioner
Co,man.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has decided to
place the Inspectors of the Post.office Depart
ment under the civil-service rules.
AN extradition treaty has been signed be-
tween the United States and Colombia,
Central America.
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nomipations:-J. H. Haynes, Consul to Bag.
dad; j. E. Bacon, Minister to Paraguay and
Uruguay: Rufus Magee, Envoy Extraordin-
ary and Minister Plenpotentiary to Sweden
and Norway; r. B. Roosevelt, Minister to
Netherlands; Lambert Tree Envoy FIX
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Belgium, and c. L. Scott, Minister to Vene-
zuela,
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NEWSY GLEANlNGS.


SIR GEORGE STEPBEy resigned the Presi.
dency Of the Canadian Pacific Railway and
was succeeded by Mr.. Van Horne.
THE King of Sweden will arrive in Berlin
on the 20 of September to act as godfather
to Emperor Williams youngest son.
AS many as III students were suspended
from the University Of Berlin during the last
semester for insufficient attention to study.
WE have 50,0OO,0OO cattle in the United
States Of all kinds and but 2)D,0O0 of the
pure breeds, or one of these to $50 of the ma.
rives or scrubs"
ABED Of clay black and sticky as coal tar
almost, has just been found at Worcester, N.
", and is thought to be identical with the
pottery clay Of Wales.
LITTLE Annie Owens, growing tired of
life in Catholic orphan asylum in Williams.
'play in the streets again"
WASHINGTON Territory leads every State
and Territory in the Union in the yield OF
potatoes per acre. The average yield is
l5o bushels, while Oregon produces ~
bushels
THE wife Of Captain Bates recently died at
their home in Ohio. They were the largest
married couple in the world. Captain Bntes
is ei hit feet tall, and his wife was seven feet
and nine inches
A COMPANY of the Fifth Cavalry is
eJecting non-citizens Of the ChickaSaw Ma
tion who resist the payment OF catte tax
f! from the Indian Territory, sending them
across the Red River into Texas
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE big log raft recently constructed and
launched at Joggins, Nova Scotia, has safely
arrived at New York
JAMES A. SLADE, q man with a happy
home, loving wife, good health, in comfort
able circumstances, and in the prime or lie,
has committed suicide in his elegant home IN
New York under circumstances that are un-
explained.
CHAs. II. RIEDEL has been hanged at New
Castle, Del, for killing his wife and child
GEORGE BRADLEY, twenty three years old,
killed his sweetheart, Lille Potter, aged sew
enteen years, at Plainville, Conn, and then
shot himself fatally.
LAWRENCE R JEROME of New York, who
was prominent in financial and social circles,
has died at Sharon, Conn.
MRS. WILHELMINE BRIERMAN, German
woman, aged fifty-four, hanged herself at
her home in Pittsburg while suffering intense
pain from cramps.
VERY heavy rainfall with high winds and
lightning, in Western and Central Penn
syivania, Northern New York and Rhode
Island caused serious damage in many places.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., was visited by a
deluge, which flooded the buildings on the
principal streets and caused damage to the
amount of $4,000.
AMANDUs and Wilson Heller, brothers,
aged eighteen and twenty years respectively,
were drowned in the Sus4uehanna River at
Wilkesbarre, Penn, while bathing.
FIRE started in the cupola of the Convent
of the Sacred Heart, in New York City, ana
DESTROYED the main building and the old east
and west wings of the famous institution.
The loss was about $200, ,000
A SERVANT attempted to kindle fire with
kerosene in Mrs. McCuskie's house at Mt.
Tabor. \. j., when the can exploded and the
building was burned together with two
young children.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

DENVER produces 1000, 900 bricks day.
WELDING by electricity has come to stay.
AMERICAN silk manufacturing is crowd
ing out foreign silk.
BOYS get 81 day and their keeping for
picking fruit in California
THE industry of surgical instrument max
Ing has doubled in three years.
The Federation of Labor has added 5O,OJO
to its membership within year.
The campaign badge industry at Attleboro,
Mass, has increased twofo,d since 1884.
ONE of the best paid trades in the United
States is that OF, the green glass blowers.
ARMOUR, the Chicago packer, is said to be
the greatest individual employer in the
world.
IT is asserted that there is not one farm
hand in ten thousand who knows how to feed
live stock.
BRAKEMEN on the Duluth and Iron Range
railroad have struck for S65 per month, an
increase Of SO.
THREE hundred and forty persons are con-
stantly employed at Kiota, Japan, in making
playing ca'ds.
In the several carpet mills Of New York
there are 27J9 females employed who aver
age IS per week.
A BIG snuff factory, the only one south of
the Ohio river, is in course OF erection at
Nashville, Tenn
THE street laborsr5' strike at Duluth,
Mimi, has been settled, the men returning TO
work at Sl.75 day.
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Foreign,

J. J. O'KELLY, Irish member Of the
British Parliament, has been sentenced to
ftu' months imprisonment for violation of
the Crimes act
THE Parnell Commiss on Bill has passed
its third reading in the English House OF
Lords.
AT Grafton, Canada. a house occupied by a
French family named Toussind was burned,
and three of the children perishe1.
THE reservoir at Valparaiso, South
America. belonging TO the Menas Brewery
burst and over two hundred psople were
drowned The principal streets Of the city
were fooled, traffic being suspended.
MARTIN BosHELL, Vice. Consul Of the
United States at Bogo.a, Colombia, is dead.
THIRTY Russian convicts en- route to Sibe-
ria made O desperate attempt to escape:
Eleven were killed, ten were wounded, and
six escaped.
DURING q family feud in Castillo, Peru,
ten persons lost their lives.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
senate Proceedings.

15orH DAY.-The bill for the ascertain
ment of the amounts expended by the States
of California, Oregon, and Nevada for mill
tary purposes during the Civil war was re-
ported. :. The bill for the relief OF attend
ants at the Hospital for the Insane IN the
District of Columbia was reported adversely
.... Mr.. Faulkner introduced a bill proVld-
ing for public building at Martinsburg,
w. Va, to cost not more than 300, O,O0o:..
Mr.. Stockbridge introduced bill providing
for the erection of public building. at
Kalamazoo, Mich, to cost not exceeding
s75 OCO. Mr.. Blair submitted an amend,
ment to the Deficiency Appropriation bill
appropriating $40, 900 to pay the employees OF
the Government Printing Office who are e9-
clusively employed at night fifteen per cent
more than the rate for day service. Mr..
Call introduced joint resolution to appro-
pirate s2CO. 600, to be paid out in the discre-
ton of the Secretary Of the Treasury. for
the prevention and the suppression OF yellow
fever in the United States. .. The bill to reg
ulate interstate commerce by telegraph was
passed. The act is to take effect and be III
force from November !, 1883.
151sT DAY.-A communication was pre-
sented to the Senate from the Postmaster
General with an estimate of $.69, ,4S2 defcien-
cy in the railway mail transportation service
These bills were introduced: For the re-
lief of settlers on the Old Camp Sheridan
reservation; for the appointment OF an addl-
tionai Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court in Idaho, and to prohibit the erection
of bridges across navigable streams without
the consent Of Congress. E. The Senate then
resumed the consideration OF the Fisheries
Treaty in open executive session, and was
addressed by Mr. Call in support of its rat'fi'
cation.
152D DAY.-A bill was introduced requiring
the officers and at least thr e-quarters OF the
crew of every United States merchant,
whaling and fishing vessel to be either native
born or naturalized citizens Of the United
States. The resolution instructiny the Sc
lect Committee on Indian Traders to continue
the investigation was agreed TO-. Mr.. Ksa-
gan introduced bill to control trusts. :. The
Senate then resumed the consideration OF the
Fisheries Treaty in open executive session,
and was addressed for five hours by Mr..
Morgan. ,..
153p DAY.-The bill TO accept and ratify
All agreement with the Shoshone and Ban.
mock Indians as to portion of the Fort Hall
reservation in Idaho Territory was agreed to-
-. A resolution calling on the Secretary OF
the Interior for information as to the lands
of the Puyallup Indians in Washington ler-
ritory was laid over. The Senate then pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the Fisheries
Treaty in open executive session, and Mr.
Morgan resumed his argument in favor OF
the resolution to postpone it till December
next. After he had finished, a debate on the
same measure was participated in by Messrs,
, George, Hawley, Vest, Platt and Teller.
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FROM FAR And NEAR.
Interesting News Cleaned from
the Dispatches.
A Disastrous Wreck on the Erie
Railroad.

I A very bad wreck occurred to the Erle
Chicago express about one mile west OF
Shohola, N. Y, at forty minutes past
o'clock Monday morning. A fast freighO
train was bowling along westward
at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour
through pouring rain and almost lmpene-
trable darkness. Suddenly the engineer DIS
covered, close ahead, a pile of rocks on tne
track, washed down the mountain i slae 1y ~
the heavy rains. 1t was too !aIe 10
stop the train, as the next instant
the engine crashed into the land slide
and was at once thrown from the
track, the freight cars piling in upon eacn
other in every direction. The shock OF the
collision extinguished the lights on the tram,
and the fast express crashed into the rear ol
the wrecked freight; second afterwasa ara s Sns
engine of the express turned to the right ana
plunged down the steep embankment, drag
ging five cars after it.
The plunge was fearful one, and in mo.
rnent everything was in darkness, ana OUT OF
which came the cries and groans or the I'M
prisoned and badly injured passengers and
One day coach and the palace coaches
stayed on the track, and the passengers were
saved the terrible plunge into the abyss,
distance OF eighty feet.
All the passengers, together with the unin.
jured trainmen, hurried to the assistance OF
their less fortunate fellow travellers, and were
soon hard at work relieving the imprisoned
men, women and children Fire was next
discovered in one Of the coaches, but 1t was
soon extinguished.
John Kinsila, engineer, and Alexander
Newman, fireman, went down the bank VIII Win
their engine. Kinsla was seriously hurt,
while the unfortunate fireman was caught
under the tank and held fast there until the
flames consumed his body to blackened and
shapeless mass.
Sixty passengers in all took the plunge, forty
one of whom were more or less injured. The
express car contained sixteen racing, saddle,
and driving horses on their way to Callfor-
mia, belonging to Mrs. Lily Langtry, the act T
ress, and Fred Gebhard, in charge of g. W.
Aby and four assistants, and also the filly
Scandinavia, in charge of its owner, M. d.
Storms, prominent California horse trainer.
Two of the horses were rescued; the others
were burned. The horses burned included
Eole, Eolist, Palanca, Orphan Boy, Certainty,
and Mrs. Langtry's favorite saddle horse,
and their value is estimated at not less than
$780,
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LATER NEWS.

THE Republicans of Connecticut met in
State Convention at Hartford and placed in
the field a full ticket headed by Morgan g.
Bulkley for Governor. The platform of the
Chicago Convention was endorsed.
ALBERT WIsHAM, thirteen-year.old lad
was bitten by rabid dog at Camden, N. j.,
and though the wound was Immediately eau
terized, he died after six hours Of agonizing
| convulsions.
HEAVY earthquake shocks were felt near
Winthrop Ne.
THE State Convention of Minnesota Demo.
Gratis was held at ST. Paul, and E. M. Wilson
| of Minneapolis was placed in nomination for
Governor.
The Texas Democratic State Convention
met at Dallas and nominated L. S. Ross for
| Governor, and T. B. Wheeler for Lieutenant
Governor.
FIRE destroyed nine cottages in Louisville,
KY, and while Mrs. Mary Brown was at
tempting to rescue her young niece from one
of the burning structures, both perished IN
the flames.
SENIOR DA SILVA has been appointed Minis
ter of Venezuela to the United States. Senior
da Silva has been Consul General of Vene-
zuela at New York for some time past.
THE National Convention of the American
Party has been held in Washington. Dele
gates were present from nineteen States. A
platform was adopted, and General James
S. Curtis, of New York, was nominated for
the Presidency, and James S. Grier, OF
Tennessee, for the Vice Presidency.
MAJOR GENERAL ScHoFIELD has issued
general order announcing that he has as
sumed command of the Army and detailing
First Lieutenant j. F. Sawyer, Fifth Artil-
lery; First Lieutenant T. H. Bliss First Ar
tilery, and First Lieutenant John Pitcher,
First Cavalry, for duty at Army Headquar-
ters as aides-de- camp.
A FAMINE prevails in Epirus, Greece, and
serious disorders have occurred. The AL
banian garrison at Metzovo, owing to the
non receipt of their wages, attempted to sack
the town. The soldiers killei many Chris
tians and p.undered their shops.
The revolution in the island of Hayti has
been successful, and the Government has
been overthrown. President Salomon took
refuge ON an English frigate, and Booiron,
the leader of the insurgents, formal a new
Government at Port au Prince
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General Sheridan's Will.

The will of the late General Sheridan ha,
beeu filed, and letters testamentary issued
TO Mrs Sheridan, Colonel Mike Sheridan,
and the lawyer who drew the will, MIR. Linden
Kent. It was drawn May 90, the second day
after General Sheridan was taken sick. No
mention whatever is made of the memoirs,
nor the amount he had received or was to re-
ceive'from the publishers for the manuscript
and the royalty from the sale of the book.
Mrs. Sheridan is secured one third of all
the real estate except the Ohio homestead, at
Somerset. This property he leaves to his
sister-in. law, Mrs. Kate Sheridan, to revert
to his SON, P. II. Sheridan, in fee simple All
the rest of his property he leaves to his wife,
M. V. Sheridan and Linden Kent, in trust,
to recover rents etc, for the maintenance
and education Of his children: and, if more
than is necessary, the excess to be paid to his
wife.
AS each of his children shall reach the age
of twenty-one years the trustees shall assign
TO such child it's share in the estate He gives
the care and guardianship of bis children to
his wife, and names the trustees also as exc
cutrix and executors The petition states
that there are four children, aged twelve,
eleven and seven; that his personal estate
consists of s272l money, 5000 stocks, etc. !;
$4,000 swords, etc.; 5000 household turni-
ture, 5000 horse and carriage and $500 in the
house at Nonauitt, and the indebtedness is
not more than $l25O.
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Italian Troops Massacred.

An official despatch received from Mas
sowah, Africa, contains the following
startling intelligence: Three hundred and fifty
artillery troops, under the command Of Italian
officers, have been destroyed by Abyssin-
isns The killed included all the officers.
An attack was being made by the auxiliaries
upon Sagapeti, The catastrophe was due TO
-treachery OH the part O. hass:;!!e allies, wne
Joined the enemy during the fighting.
The Abysinian Chief Debeb had assembled
force Of 40 men, with the intention of raid
ing the Arkiko District. The Italian COM
mander Of Massowah hearing of the intended
raid, sent five hundred Bashi- Bazouks under
the command of five Italian officers to try to
surprise Debeb's force. On the road the
officers enlisted the services of two hundred
members Of the Assaortin tribe. Saganeti
was reached and it was found that
Debeb had been warned Of their approach
and had intrenched his position. An attack
was made by the Italian force, however,
and they succeeded in carrying the village.
But during the assault the Assaortins proved
treacherous, and made an attack on the
Italian rear. The Bashi Bazouks became
panic stricken, and were massacred while
endeavoring to fly.
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South and West.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, was visited py fire
which destroyed houses and stocks IN the
heart of the city valued at Si00 600. -Four
men were crushed by falling wall, two OF
them fatally.
HENRY LANDGRAF, who was hanged at
the same moment and on the same gallows in
st. Louis, Mo-, with Maxwell, the English
chloroformer, was executed 'or the murder
of his sweetheart, Annie Tisch, on the night
of March 5, 1885.
YELLOW fever is spreading in Florida to
the proportions of an epidemic. The govern
ment has taken every precautlon to re-
press it.
THEO. J. Luce Manufacturing Company
of Nashville, Tenn, has made an assign
ment Liabilities, sl2O0Oo
THE people of Utica, Miss, indignant at
the provoked murder of physician by a
colored man of bad character, took the fel-
low from the magistrates office and hanged
him to tree in the village cemetery.
CROP reports from Northwestern Iowa
and Sonthern Dakota say that all grains
have suffered from recent rains and cold
wea ther.
THREE constables arrested Andy Hamlin,a
murderer, at Cumberland Falls, KY, and his
friends attempted to rescue him. In the
spirited fusillade that ensued the three con-
stables were killed and the prisoner escaped.
ANOTHER fight between the Hatfields and
McCoys, in the Kentucky vendetta, has re.
suited in three more killed and i've
wounded.
WOMAN suffrage has been adjudged uncon-
stitutional in Washington Territory.
CHARLES CRoCKER, the famous California
millionaire, and Vice-President of the South
ern Pacific Railway, is dead.
FREDERICK Won OvERKAMPF and Thomas
J. Mack, by means of a duplicate key to the
Chicago Postoffice boxes, have been system
atically robbing the mails for months, the
aggregate of their thefts exceeding slOo, OOo.
FIRE at Stanton, Iowa, destroyed half the
business part of the town.
AT Peoria, ILL.,, a fire destroyed grain
elevators and railroad property valued at
100000.
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DIED LIKE A SOLDIER.

John Wright Executed by Being
Shos Through the Heart.
John Wright has been executed in White
Sulphur Springs Court House, in the Indian
Territory, for the murder of Timothy Jeffer-
son. Wright killed Jefferson July 19, 1887,
and has been in custody over year. He was
executed according to the usual custom
among the Indians He maintained stoid
indifference during the proceeding: He was
shot through the heart by the sheriff and
died within five minutes. A strange feature
of the programme was that his brothers held
Wright's hands while he was shot by the
sheri!f-executio2er
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Won Moltke's Retirement.

General Won Moltke has been relieved OF
duty as Chief Of the General Staff Of the
German Army. General Won Waldersee sue
ceeds him.
= Emperor William has written General
Won Motke a gracious and affection
ate letter, nominating him as Presi-
dent of Country Defence The appoint
ment thus conferred upon Count
Won Moltke was held by the late Emperor
Frederick until he ascended the throne, since
when it has been vacant. Count Won Moltke
continues on the active list.
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Won Moltke was
born subject Of Denmark the 26th of Octo-
Der, 1900. The Count Won Waldersee, Won
Moltke's successor, was born in April, 1882,
and he began his military career in 1850 in
the artillery. Count Won Waldersae's wife is
an American, formerly named Lee. of New
York.
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WHEN the Rev. DR.. Powell, of Sher-
brooke, Canada, learned that his
daughter had been assaulted and muir
dered on a lonely road near his house,
he tucked his religion out of sight, put
Il pistol in his pocket, and started on
the war path, swearing that he would
kill the man who had slain the girl.
The Doctors congregation stand by
him, and if he carries out his threat
40 Jury Will convict him.