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GENERAL R. A. ALGER, OF MICHIGAN.
hirty.fve thousand veterans took part IN
the parade of the Grand Army of the Re
public at the, Twenty third National Encamp-
ment in Milwaukee. General Sherman and
Commander-in- Chief Warner shared the
honor of the hour with General Logan's
widow, who, with Mrs Alger and Senator
Manderson, occupied the front tier OF
the reviewing stand. The city was
crowded with strangers, and the veterans,
who came from all sections Of the Union,
were heartily cheered. The Pennsylvania
delegation made the best appearance of any
organization in the line.
Overhowing central camp fires were held
at night at West Side Turner Hall and Light
Horse Squadron Armory, besides dozen
minor ones At West Side Turner Hall
Mayor Thomas d. Brown delivered an ad-
dress of welcome and Commissioner Of PEN
sions Tanner responded. General Warner
presided,and made brief address. General
Lucius Fairchild presided at the other camp
fire. Amonster war song concert, attended
by 5000 veterans and others, was given in a
large tent in Juneau Park. Mrs. John A.
Logan held reception at the Court House,
and was escorted there by the entire Illinois
Department of 1000 veterans.
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Our National Snake Charmer.

Perhaps it is not generally known THAI
this country has national charmer, who
is paid good round salary by the Govern
ment. But such is the fact. The
charmer in question is Professor A Zeno
shindler, bustling little German, whose
headquarters are in the National Museum,
at Washington. His principal duty Is to
make casts and drawings of all specimens
of the snake family received by the
Museum authorities. Some of the snakes
are received in alcohol, but many of them
are boxed up and sent here alive. The
Professor has large wooden cage In bus
room in which there is a collection OF
dangerous and venomous reptiles. A
number of these he has succeeded in tam
ing and he runs his hand in among them
in a manner that caused cold chills to
chase each other up and down my spinal
column. Although he has been handling
snakes for several years Professor Shlnd.
ler has been bitten only once. He. had
received a queer looking little fellow
from Mexico, which somewhat resembled
a garter snake. Being afraid that his
snakeship might escape, owing to the
smallness of its size, the professor de-
cided to put it into jar of alcohol and
thus preserve it until he was ready to
make plaster cast. He seized the little
striped reptile by the neck as he had done
"manya time" before and dexterously
dropped him into the, bottle. Upon
touching the liquid the snake sprang sud
denly upward and fastened his fangs in
Shindler's foreinger. The latter quickly
seized knife and cut the fangs loose,
and then, placing the finger in his
mouth, vigorously sucked at the poison,
while he made tracks to the nearest bar
room. There he drank large quantity
of whisky, and was afterward taken
his home in carriage and physici
was summoned. He remained on t
sick list for three months, during viii
time he was twice Or thrice near the po
of death. The snake, he says, must b
been fully as poisonous as q rattler,
the wound has never fully healed,
occasionally breaks out into VirJ
sore.-NeU York Star. ~
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LONDON'S LABOR TROUBLES.
Business Paralyzed Because $4,000
Workmen Strike. .

ouSlucSS Z TdrdlyLcu oCCduSS SO,ooO
Workmen Strike.
A cablegram from London gives the fol-
lowing particulars in regard to the strikes
now in progress there:
London is an inland town, and promises to
remain such for some time to come. All
world by water is as completely
cut off as though the Thames had dried up.
The great ships lying at the docks can neither
load nor discharge their cargoes, and the i'm
mense traffic of the greatest commercial city
of the world lies at the mercy of men COM
mercially rated at S1.00 day.
The strike and its consequences touch every
man, woman and child IN this great city.
No meat is arriving in London. The markets
in Mark Lane are paralyzed, and maize ad-
vanced 81 .25 the quarter for immediate use.
The strike which was begun by the dock
laborers, and which subsequently spread to the
carmen, has now extended to the Thamesiron
workers, and the gas stokers threaten to join
forces with the strikers. There was also
talk of compelling laborers in all the trades
to quit work and force matters to an issue at
once. The ironworkers' strike adds 1000 to
the number of unemployed. The men were
orderly.
The shipping business is completely para
lyzed, and mail steamers are leaving without
cargos The tinplaters at ReJmondsey,
suburb of London, have joined the strikers.
In Rotherhithe, the ship5uilding district OF
London, professions of strikers are march
ing continually.
Eight thousand sailors and fremen and
$500 dockmen at Isle of Dogs, where several
large docks are located, have gone out. The
authorities became apprehensive Of trouble,
and held the military in readiness to suppress
an outbreak should it occur. The coal
porters at Kings Gross have also Joined in
the strike.
In consequence Of the strike Thousands Of
tons Of mutton are rotting, it being impossi-
BILE to find men to handle the stock.
All classes Of workingmen are dissatisfied,
and there is no telling where the strike will
not extend to. It Is estimated that over
75.O0O men are on strike now.
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HAYTlS WAR ENDED.
The Struggle for Supremacy in
the Black Republic Over.
Hippolyte Conquers Legitime and
Enters Port-au-Prinee.

The war in the little Black Republic of
Haym is over. General Hippolyte is the vic
tor. Legitime held out with determination
until two weeks ago. Minister de Sesmai-
sons had assured him, that he had the SYM
pathy of France, and that should all ether
resources fail he would receive substan-
tial, aid from the great European Republic.
Legtime finally told De Sesmaisons the ere
sources" had oil given out, and requested the
oft promised aid from Paris. The best the
French Minister could offer was an asylum on
the French cruiser in the harbor. This boon
was readily accepted by Legitime, and he
placed himself under the protection Of the
French flag. ..g
Then the Northern troops entered the
capital. after complete surrender by Legi-
times Generals.
The pent-up feeling Of the mob showed itself
by commencing to pillage. A vigilance COM
mittee was Immediately formed, and very
soon the turbulent blacks were suppressed.
The city Is now quiet. " =
Admiral Gherardi, Of the United States
Navy, now controls the situation, assuring
safety to all foreigners with the American
man-of-war Kearsarge, Her Majesty's steam
er Forward and the French cruiser Kergue-
len.
Municipal affairs will be reconstructed i'm.
mediately and the outlook at the moment is
that there will be no further trouble and that
the commerce Of Port-au-Prince win be at
once re-established.
It is believed that not more than thou
sand men lost their lives on both sides dur
ing the war just ended, but considerable
property was damaged.
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AN OPERATORS BLUNDER.
Three Men Instantly Killed and Four
Fatally Injured.

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Fatally Injured.
The accommodation train, due at Parkers-
burg, W. Va, at Ito A. n, colided with a
special east-b bound train, carrying Baltimore
and Ohio officials, at point between Petro-
leum and Silver Run, twenty-five miles from
there, on the main line Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The accident was caused by
wrong orders being given to the engineers.
The special train was ordered to pass the
accommodation at Petroleum, the farther
point east, and the accommodation to
pass the special train at Silver Run,
the farther point West. At tho time
of the collision both trains were going
thirty-five miles an hour. They met on
a sharp curve, and without moments
warning dashed into each other, wrecking
both engines and baggage car, instantly
killing Engineer Layman, fatally injuring
Engineer George Rowland, and instantly
killing the two tiremen, James Fletcher and
John Bailey.
One of the officials, named Hunter, was
perhaps fatally hurt. A Mrs. Manley, of
Central, W. Va, was badly injured.
Councilman Robert Malley was cut and
bruised. Baggagemaster Rose was cut. A
colored porter on the special was thrown
through glass door and probably fatally
injured. There were some marvellous
escapes,
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WHEAT GOES UP IN SMOKE
Ten Thousand Tons Burned ut Port
Costa, Cal.

Ten Thousand Tons Burned ut Port
Costa, Cal.
One Of the McNear wheat warehouses at
Port Costa, in California, with about 10, 900
tons of wheat, has been destroyed by fire, as
well as forty-two cars belonging to the
Southern Pacific. The total loss is estimated
at S700, 900.
The fire was discovered by the night watch
man of the warehouse in which the flames
broke out. He said the whole end of the
building was in flames before he detected
anything wrong An alarm was sent out,
but few fremen could be had and no tugs
were at hand. As the wind was from of
shore it was seen at once that the American
ship Armenia and the British ships
Honauwar and Kenilworth would
20 also unless they could get
clear of the wharf. There were only four
men on each, and they could not manage the
large vessels in time. Almost in a moment
the fire was leaping up the rigging, and by
the time the vessels were cast of they were
floating pillars Of fire drifting away across
San Pablo Bay and lighting up Mare Island
Navy Yard, Vallejo and the surrounding
country for miles.
Meanwhile on the shore the efforts Of the
fremen succeeded in stopping the flames.
One engine which was at hand, was utilized
to save cars loaded with wheat, but the heat
was so intense the work had to be abandoned
and forty-two loaded cars went up 10 smoke.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

EaSJCru ano SCdCSSs
THE United States man-of-war Galena has
left the Brooklyn navy yard and sailed for
Hayti. Captain Summers is in command.
MILFORD. Conn, has celebrated its two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary by ser.
vice in the First Congregational Church, and
a reunion of the Milford family.
ROBERT CLARK, a seventy-ycar-old far
mer, hanged himself to tree near Plain
field, N. j.
CHARLES d. CHAMBERS, recently released
from the Penitentiary at Philadelphia,
boarded the Pacific Express on the Penn
sylvania road, near Lancaster, Penn, and
endeavored to rob the passengers. After
shooting one Of the porters he was over
powered and locked up.
AT Paradise, Penn, q German farmer
named Philip Hemiclle deliberately set his
own barn on fire and perished in the flames.
A COMBINATION of Eastern capitalists has
been formed to purchase all the coal prop
erty along the Monongahela River in Penn
sylvania, and control the river coal business.
It has been decided that it will require s13,-
100000 to complete the deal, including the
aggregate of stock the sellers are willing to
take.
GENERAL ISAAC F. SHEPARD died at
Bellingham, Mass, aged seventythree. He
was poet, statesman, Journalist and
soldier
A VALUABLE vein of ochre rich yellow
metal extensively employed in the .manufac-
ture of paints, has been discovered on the
south side of Neversink Mountain, near the
Black Bear Inn, three miles east of Reading,
Penn.
MARY ANN DoNNELLY, nurse-maid, was
stabbed and fatally wounded at Atlantic
City, N. j., by Mrs. Hamilton, wife of
Robert 81. Hamilton, in the Noll Cottage.
THE water in the rivers at Johnstown,
Penn, is getting very low, and as a conse-
quence a great deal of pestilence-breeding
matter is being exposed. The stencil along
theriver bank is becoming unbearable. The
body of child was recently taken out Of the
sand near the stone bridge.
Mrs. JOHN ASTON, of Taylorsvile, Penn.
poured kerosene on the kitchen fire. The oil
blazed up and enveloped the woman and her
babe in flames, the child being in cradle
near the stove. Both were burned to death.
The house of Robert King, residing in JEFF
ferson Township, Penn, was burned, and
Mrs. King perished in the flames.
J. K TooLE has been nominated for Gov
ernor, b. Conrad for Lieutenant Governor,
and Martin Maginnis for Congress by the
Montana Democratic State Convention.
AN oil tank exploded in the penitentiary at
extent of $780, 900.
Ten THOUSAND visitors and exhibitors
from all parts of the country were present at
the formal opening Of the Changers National
Exhibition grounds at Carlisle, Penn.
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DIPHTHERETIU SCOURGE.
A Reign of Terror in an Ohio Town
The Disease Beyond Control.

A Reign of Terror in an Ohio Town
The Disease Beyond Control.
The State Board of Health has informa-
tion from Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio,
a town Of 900 inhabitants, which vividly
describes reign Of terror resulting from
disease at that place.
There existed an epidemic Of diphtheria in
the most fatal form. The disease broke out
about two weeks before this report was re-
ceived and spread so rapidly that when the
State Board Of Health was first notified there
was twenty-six cases and several deaths
Since that time there have been twenty
more cases and numerous deaths. The town
wasin state Of wild excitement. The citi-
zens were building sulphur bonflres in their
yards and sprinkling the public streets with
ime.:
DR.. McKibben, the Moscow physician,
stated that the disease had become uncon-
trolable, and that medical assistance was
needed. He telegraphed to the State Board
-
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FIVE MEN KILLED.
A Rolling Mill at Towanda, Penn,
Blows Up.

A Rolling Mill at Towanda, Penn,
Blows Up.
The rolling mill and nail factory at To
wanda, Bradford County, Penn, operated by
Bostley, Godcharles g. Co., has been partially
wrecked by the explosion of boiler, the dis
astr resulting in the instant death of five
men, the fatal injury Of two others and slight
injury of dozen other worKmen.
The force of the explosion was terrific,
lifting the entire roof off the southern por-
tion Of the mill, tearing away the rafters and
girders and allowing the whols mass to
crush into the mill and upon the terri
fed force of workmen, who were scat
tering in every direction and crouch
ing behind oil kinds of obstacles to escape the
fury of the Kissing steam, which was filling
the structure from the nest Of boilers that
were displaced and broken in their steam
connections by the exploding boilers, pieces
of which were hurled through the mill.
The larger portion of the bursted boiler
was carried through the side of the mill,
landing in mass Of scrap iron fully $50 feet
away. The explosions awful sound was
heard all through the town and great crowds
of the inhabitants rushed to the mill to learn
it's effect.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

AUSTRIA has made Won Moltke Colonel.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is deaf in his right
ear.
TEE Sultan of Turkey is said to be aging
rapidly.
Four sons Of Siam are being educated in
England.
JAY GOULD is one of st. Louis largest own.
ers Of real estate.
THE Gar Of Russia spends an hour day
shopping down trees.
/ CONSTANTINE, heir to the Greek throne, is
In his twenty year.
Rev. 7. DEWITT TALMAGE has brother
who is a missionary in China.
: MExcANs are extending much hospitality
to e1-Speaker John G. Carlisle.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, is to
make tour Of Alsace7Lorraine.
!. DIR. BRowN-SEoUARD, discoverer Of the
famous ''elixir Of life," is an American.
! SAMUEL j. KIRKwooD, Iowa's war Cover
nor, is now living on berry farm near Iowa
City.
S;EX-SENAToR JOSEPH MACDONALD, Of In
diana, has legal practice worth $4,000 a
year.
s.SENAToR EvARTs has gone to Europe for
treatment for his eyes, which are troubling
him much.
ETHE Shah Of Persia has one fondness which
will increase his popularity in New England.
He likes American pie.
!. THE HON. s. s. Cox, is the only living man
in public life, who voted for the admission Of
Oregon as a State, February IA, 1859.
- ROBERT BURNS WILSON, the rising Ken
lucky poet, began writing verse at an early
age and is now thirty-seven years old.
: ELECTRICIAN THOMAS A. EDISON, will
visit the Krupp works at. Essen, Germany,
before the termination Of his visit abroad.
! THE late s. L. NJ Barlow, Of New York
city, left an estate of about two million dol
lars, largely accumulated in his law practice.
! JAY GoULDs 'sHistory of Delaware Coun-
ty, New York, A." written when he was twenty.
one is rare book now, worth forty dollars.
A SON of Admiral Farragut, is modestly
working as clerk in New York counting
room, rather to have some occupation than
for the money it brings him.
{ GENERAL G.. W. C. LEE, son of Robert
E. Lee, who is at the Hot Springs in Virginia,
is an uncommonly large and powerfully
built man, with grizzled gray hair and short
beard 49,
/ FANNY BIGNoN, who is praised by zoolo-
gists for recent paper on the anatomy Of
Ine lacnTyua Siauu VI Vhe Sreen Iu Glst Il
one of the remarkable women of Paris She
studied zoology at the Sorbonne, and ha:
combined the careers of student and teacher
: GERONIMO, the Apache, who has been G
prisoner of the United, States Government
Sor some time, has grown so fat That he look
yery little like an ideal chieftain. He wa!
not well at Fort Augustine, Fla, but a
Mount Vernon barracks, Ala, he has in
creased in weight rapidly.
PROFESSOR E. P. CRowELL, Of Amherst
College, Dean of the Faculty and Professor
of Latin, is totally blind. He is almost fifty
wears old and lost his sight five years agt
through illness. His knowledge Of Latin i
20 accurate that he has been able to hole
recitations as if he had the open book befor'
him.
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South and West.

JIM Mccoy, the noted desperate of south
western Texas has been hanged at San An
tonic Texas, for the murder of Sheriff Nc
Kinney.
The west side of the town of Fair
mont, Vermilion County, ILL.,, was entirely
destroyed by fire. The loss is S30,00O.
THE Montana Republicans met in State
Convention at Anaconda and nominated T..
c. Power Of Helena for Governor.
-FOUR more men have been killed as result
of the Howard-Turner feud in Harlan
County, in the mountains Of southeastern
Kentucky.
GOVERNOR COOPER, of Colorado, has called
the Presidents attention to the depredations
Of the Ute Indians in Colorado. He wants
troops sent There.
AFTER tour in the Western and Pacific
States, the Senate Committee on Reclama-
tion and Irrigation have arrived at San
Francisco, where they will take testimony.
HENRY SHAW, the millionaire philanthro-
phist, of st. Louis, and founder Of Shaw's
Garden, is dead.
HENRY ROBERTS was hanged at Butte,
Montana, for the murder of j. W. Crawford,
one of his employees.
In quarrel at q primary election at
Newmen's Grove, Miss, W. q. Bradston
was killed, and his cousin, W. F. Bradston,
mortaly wounded. Four others were badly
wounded.
PERRY THRALL, O bad character, of Mexi-
co, Mo-, on his deathbed the other day con-
fessed to the killing of William Van Deven-
ter and his wife, for whose murder Bill
Dudy, colored man, was hanged.
s. L. ENsLEY and s. T. Fowler, while en-
gagged in Dc Buckeye coal mine, in Mercer
County, W. Va, were killed by large cut Of
coal and slate falling on them. The men
leave large families.
G.. E. LYBARGER Postmaster at Milwood,
Knox County, Ohio, shot at his daughter
Daisy but missed her, the ball striking Mrs
Lybarger and fatally wounding her. Ly-
barger then blew outhis brains.
The T. J. Mailer Carriage Company, Of
St. Paul, Mimi, has made voluntary
assignment to ex-Congressman John L. Nc
Donald. The liabilities are placed at $4O0, :
COO.
THE trial of the six men indicted for the
murder of DR.. Patrick Cronin has COM
menced at Chicago.
JACOB THOMPSON, of Port Tobacco, Mo-,
hanged himself to g cherry tree because of a
loss of $500, which he had boarded for many
years.
The Union Furniture Company at Rock
ford, ILL.,, has been burned. Loss, Sl27, OOO;
half insured. Ralph Emerson, William
Ward and Fireman Cavanaugh were knocked
from building by hose, and fell forty feet.
Emerson was killed.
FOUR tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo-,
for vagrancy, were put up at auction and
sold, the highest price brought being 81.
AT San Francisco, Cal, the new United
States cruiser Charleston had satisfactory
official trial.
FIFTY persons were injured in a railroad
wreck at Kingman, Ill.
REPORTS from the Indian Territory state
that cattle are dyingby hundreds Of Texas
fever in that section.
TRAIN,IEN on the Alabama Great Southern
Railroads train, report that they saw two
dead colored men swinging to limbs Of trees
a few miles from Meridian, Miss. They were
told in Meridian that two Of the editors of
the Independent, who were run out of Selma,
Ala, were caught there and were lynched.
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History Of the Struggle.

During more than year past the Repub-
lie of Hayti has been the theatre Of revolu-
ton in which all. the horrors of barbaric war
fare have made it anything but pleasant
home. In October, 1879, Louis Etienne
Solomon, who had heretofore led a
life Of almost unequalled vicissitude, was
chosen President, receiving eighty-two out
Of the eighty-seven votes cast in the con-
stitutional election by the National Assembly.
From that date till August of last year he
wes virtually dictator under the forms of
Republican Government. He was reelected
President in June 1885, by the unanimous
vote Of the Assembly.
Early in July terrible confagrations made
havoc in the Haytian capital, and seemed to
be the signal for concerted insurrection.
A few days later the flag of revolt was un-
furled at Portau-Prince.
The insurgents advanced from the north
upon the capital with such vigor that on the
10th of August Salomon fed to Cuba He
went to France and died in Paris October
10.
When Salomon retired from the Presidency
his successor was named in the person Of
Senator Legitime, who was the choice Of the
Catholic clergy, whose influence had largely
contributed to the successful rising against
bis administration at Port-au-Prince.
Meanwhile the whole country burst into re-
volt. Early in November large army,
ened Portcau-Prince. All the ports
were declared blockaded by the pro-
visional government. France only Of all
the foreign powers formally recognized the
government of Legitime. After short and
bloody battle December Hippolyte captured
the town of Mirebalais, the forces Of Legitime
being compelled to flee in disorder.
On the 25th of January, 1889, the troops
of Hippolyte captured the seaport town Of
Grandseline and butchered 300 of the
army of Legitime. In several encounters the
utmost barbarity of cruelty was displayed
on both sides, the forces of the govern
ment usually being defeated. On March 10,
Legitime sent to the insurgent general COM
mittee accompanied by N. de Sesmaisons,
the French Minister, bearing proposals for
peace. They were disdainfully refused.
of April, at the head Of 1000 men, he surprised
the town Of Petite Riviere captured It and
burned its 600 houses. England joined France
In the recognition of Legitime, while Germa-
ny instructed her ships to respect his block
ade Of the Haytian ports. Our own govern
ment refused to recognize either party as
legitimate Power.
Hippolite captured the towns of Marchand,
Marmalade and ST. Michael in the first week
of May, opening communication between ST.
Marc and Gonaives. A week later two Of
Legitime's generals fed before the insurgents
and Hippolyte rapidly advanced toward Port
au Prince, while the army Of Legitime was
fast being reduced by panic and desertion.
Headed by our Minister, with the advice
of Admiral Gherardi, the foreign powers
generally declared Legitime's blockade inef-
fective, and the downfall Of his power be-
came from that date only question OF time
as to his powers Of endurance.