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ELECTRICAL EXECUTIONS.
Apparatus for the Legal Killing of
Murderers in New York.


General Austin Lathrop, the Superintend-
ent of State Prisons in New York, has just
completed negotiations with Expert Electro
cal Engineer Harold P. Brown, to finish
the apparatus required for the electri-
cal execution of murderers, as provided by
law. Already the electrical equipment mas
been shipped to Auburn prison, and in few
days Clinton and Sing Sing prisons will re-
ceive theirs These are the three prisons in
which all murderers are hereafter to suffer
the death penalty.
The large Westinghouse dynamos, produc-
ing an alternating current, have been
selected by Mr.. Brown as the best adapted
for instantaneous killing, and each of the
three State prisons will have one Of these
powerful lightning generators. The individ-
ual plants will also have each an ''e1citer" or
small auxiliary dynamo; meters for regulat-
ing the pressure and the amount of voltage,
and ascertaining the ohms of resistance, and
a rheostat. Stout copper wire resembling
the ordinary telegraph wire, will be used.
Then there will be a strong oaken chair, of
the reclining make, in which the condemned
will sit, and electrodes for the head and feet.
The former of these electrodes consists of a
metal cap, with an inner plate covered with
a sponge that has been saturated with salt
water, which is to be fastened on the con-
demned mans head by means Of stout straps
held by another strap around his body under
the armpits. The other electrode is simply a
pair Of electrical shoes tightly laced on the
convict's feet.
On the day appointed for the execution the
Prison Warden and physician will enter the
cell Of the condemned, tie his arms, and ad-
just the two electrodes. Then by means of a
special wire for the purpose, the mans ''re-
sistance" will be measured. He will then be
moved to the bathroom and placed in the
death-chair, to which he will be quickly fast
ened by iron hooks. An electric bell will be
touched, the Sheriff will close the circuit, all
electrical current Of the alternating system,
of 1000 volts, will pass into the murderer's
body, and instant death will follow.
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LATER NEWS.

GENERAL ADNA ANDERSON, well known
as railroad engineer, committed suicide in
Philadelphia by shooting himself.
THE body of Hayward NJ. Paul, young
Philadelphia millionaire who disappeared
mysteriously from his uncle's residence
Edgewater Park, N. J.-has been recovered
from the Delaware River. He had drowned
himself while insane.
THE strike of the 5000 Pennsylvania rail-
road coal miners is ended, and work in all
the mines was resumed. Concessions were
made by both operators and diggers, and the
price agreed upon to rule for the year is
seventy-three cents per ton, whichis one cent
less than was demanded.
ton for the ratification Of the Sioux Falls
Constitution Of 1885 throughout South
Dakota. At least eighty-fve per cent Of the
total vote favored the ratification.
THE entire Wabash Railway system was
sold to the committee representing the ma
jority of the bondholders for SIS, $4,000.
REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD DONALDSON,
United States Navy, died of old age at his
home in Baltimore in the sixty-eighth year
of his age He was born in Maryland.
AN English syndicate has consumnated
the purchase Of five large Detroit breweries.
The consideration was 100000
FOUR laborers were unloading carload of
iron at Detroit, Mich, when some part Of the
brace holding the load broke and several tons
of iron fell on the men. Joe Benscotte was
killed and his three companions mortally in
iured
THE Office of General Inspector Of the
Naval Pay Corps, abolished by Secretary
Whitney, has been re-established by secre-
tary Tracy, and Pay Director T. Il. LOCKER
appointed to fill it.
The President has accepted the resignation
of Judge George A. jerks as Solicitor-General
of the Department of Justice.
CHIEF-JUsTIcE FULLER, of the Supreme
Court, started for South Carolina on his
judicial district tour.
FIVE brigands were hanged in the court
yard of the prison at Sofia, Bulgaria They
we're led separately to the scafold and were
hanged in succession. Each man was en-
veloped in a bag passed over the head and
reaching to the waist.
MA1AYs attacked the Dutch port of Edi,
in Sunatra, killing five of the garrison and
wounding twenty-five. The Malays left 100
dead on the field.
JOHN C. New entered upon his duties as
United States Consul General in London.
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NEWsY GLEANIMGS.

FAMINE is spreading in China.
DAKOTA has over 1900 churches.
THERE are 90, $50 Masons in Maine.
CUBAN iron ores are being doomed. -
TRAMoS seem 70 be on the increase.
THERE are 215 league bicycle clubs.
GOLD has been discovered in Siberia.
THE exhibitors at Paris number &c, 900.
ARRESTS of nihilists continue in Russia.
CHICAGO has 102 public school buildings.
TEXAS has ffty-eigh5 farmer legislators.
CAPITALISTS are booming oil in the West.
The coal trade is all broken up in Canada
MICHIGAN has an anti-C Chicago dressed-beef
law.
A SAVAGE dog bit eleven children in New
York.
Pennsylvania votes on Prohibition in
June.
THERE ere about 100000 Americans in
Paris.
FOREST fires are raging in northern Wis
consin.
ABOUT 30, 600 men are employed to coerce
Ireland.
CENSUS officials do not "nrne under the
Civil Service act.
THE Mayor of Guthrie, Oklahoma, has been
burned in efigy.
THE coronation of the King of Servia will
take place in July.
THERE are S5S ex-soldiers drawing pensions
for total blindness.
The crop of apples will be much smaller
than that of last year.
MASSACHUSETTS illiterates form eight per
cent of the population.
A RUSH hasnow begun from crowded Okla
homa to South Dakota.
THERE are twenty-eight Washington coun-
ties in the United States.
THE production of anthracite has fallen
down to 500, 600 tons per week.
THE Samoan Conference will probably
conclude its work early in June.
ST. LOUIS proposes having a six weeks
electrical exhibition il September.
IT is stated that the Car will, within a
short time, be crowned King of Poland.
The pear crop will average light in conse-
quence of its greatest enemy, the blight.
Two-THISDs oc the railroads of the coul.ttr y
are doing no more than clearing expenses
ALL Of the great buyers of drygoods Cor
American concerns have gone 70 Europe.
THERE is a syndicate of paper makers in
Great Britain which controls all the mills.
THE first boy born in Guthrie has been
named George Washington Oklahoma White.
HAYES. the man whose attempted lynch
ing caused a riot and loss of life at Birming-
ham, Ala, last December, was found guilty
Of the murder of his wife and children and
sentenced to be hanged -. ...-
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BALD KNOBBERS HANGED.
Bungling Work at the Scaffold-A
Sketch Of the Crime.

ouIl&iluS "OFh uC CiIc SCdnoAu-3A
Sketch Of the Crime.
The three Bald Krobber murderers, David
Walker, his son William Walker, and John
Matthews, have been hanged at Ozark, Mo.
Matthews asserted his innocence to the last.
There was painful scene at the hang.
ing. The stretch of the rope let all
three of the men fall to the ground.
The rope broke, and William Walker
dropped to the ground, where he lay for
three minutes, talking. Matthews and
David Walker speedily were drawn up, and
died in few moments. The trap was again
adjusted, and William Walker was hanged a
second time, dying without struggle.
The crime for which the three men were
executed was the murder OF Charles
Green and William Edens, on March
II, 1887. The Bald Knobbers were on
organization Of masked regulators, which
started at Taney County, Mo-, and spread
to Christian County. Many Of the promi-
nent regulators were church members. The
order in Christian County numbered between
300 and 400 members, David Walker being the
leader. The band made many visits Of cor
rection to petty offenders, and finally,
In 1887, whipped John Edens for
misconduct in church. The latter's
father publicly denounced the organiZa-
ton, which decided to punish him. A party
of regulators went to his house at night, and
fred into a room in which were the whole
family. eight persons in all. William Edens
and his brother. in-law Charles Green, were
killed. The whole county. was aroused, and
the murderers were soon in custody.
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South and West.

COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS TANNER de-
iyered an address before the Scotch-Irlsh
Convention at Columbia, Tenn.
PROFESSOR A. J. BLANC, of, Cincinnati, a
aoted chemist and the most expert manufac-
nrer of pyrotechnics in the United States,
murdered his wife and daughter and then
killed himself.
PATRICK FORD, sixty years old, watch
nan in Arnour's Chicago packing house.
rilled his young bride Of three months and
;hen committed suicide.
PROFESSOR ST. CLAIR. the aeronaut, In
,ttempting to give s'leap from the clouds
It Houston, Texas lost his grip on the para
.hute fell 300 feet to the earth ard was
dlled. Nearly every bone in his body was
broken.
JAMES SMITH, who was on trial at Kansas
City for robbing the Badger Lumber COM
oany. suddenly rose in the courtroom,
rushed upon Detective Glley and fatally cut
his throat. Smith then turned to flee, but
vas shot and killed on the spot.
DURING q quarrel at dance near Ports
mouth. Ohio, Wilson and Amos Cooper,
brothers, were instantly killed.
GEORGE WARD, aged twenty-eight, an en-
yineer at the Memphis (Tenn.) Gas Works,
hot ard killed his young wife and then killed
himself. He had been married four months
and was jealous.
JEwELER CORNWALL. Of Salida, Cal, was
,obbed by Strauss, his clerk, OF $50, Oo0 worth
IF jewelry.
ANDREW and Ole Erickson, brothers, aged
light and ten years respectively, were
drowned in the river at Crookstown, MINI.
They fell off some logs on which they were
playing. and their father nearly lost his Life
n the attempt to rescue them.
HEAVY rains have fallen within the past
lew days over vast wheat. oats and corn
growing area in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
FIVE men were killed by the collapse Of
yhree-story building in Tacoma, Washington
Territory.
Snow fell to the depth of two inches a few
days since at Hope, Dakota.
MRs. WILLIAM WAGNER and daughter
we're killed by an accident on the Seattle
Washington Territory cable road.
KESTUcKY's long drought has been broken
by cyclone and rain storm that did much
damage.
a TERRIFIC storm prevailed at Danvllle,
Va. Factories were unroofed, trees pros
trated and fences blown down. Hail fell In
Iargc quantities. A swath six or seven miles
broad was cut through the trucking region
Of Norfolk and Nansemond Counties, Va, by
the storm. The loss will probably reach
million dollars.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIzED.
Eastern and Middle States

The gold medal for fine marching in the
Centennial Civic parade in New York city
was awarded to the boys of the public schools.
JOHN FENDER SALISBURY, Secretary Of
| State of Delaware, died ct his home in Dover.
| He was the eldest son of Chancellor Willard
| Salisbury, who was United States Senator
from Delaware during the war. Secretary
| Salisbury was born ct Georgetown August
81. 1858.
SIX suicides were reported at the Coroners'
Office in New York city inside of four hours.
An explosion Of fire damp at Toms Run
mines Penn. killed four Hungarian miners
| and injured seven.
HENRY A. FOSTER died at his home in
Rome, n. Y. il his ninetieth year. He was
the senior e1-United States Senator, having
been appointed in 1874, one year before
Simon Cameron, Of Pennsylvania.
The twelve special men sent from Wash
ington to count the money in the New York
Sub Treasury on the death Of Sub Treasurer
McCue, have completed their work. The
balance sheet on April showed S116, 1884,
763 As to be in the Treasury, and the count
tailed to penny.
DURING storm Mrs. William McNall and
her three children of Ridgeway, Penn, went
into the cellar of their house for safety.
They had hardly reached the foot Of the
stairs Wnen a OolC OF uSnCnlnS Slruch lue
house. killing all four instantly.
The Y. N. C. A. Convention in Philadel-
phia adjourned after recommending that in
:apacitated members receive pensions.
AT Mountain Home, Penn. Jeffrey Har1i-
son, aged eleven years in fit of rage shot
and killed his playmate, Sophia Everett, aged
ten.
JAMES 5. SMITH, local editor Of the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, who mistook
him for a burglar.
ANDREW CovENAsH and Stephen Good
tash, Hungarian laborers, were killed by
treig ght train near Tullytown, Penn.
DANIEL GILLEN and man named Joseph,
laborers, were killed by falling wall in New
York CITY. Foreman Thomas was horribly
uutilated and fatally injured.
WASHINGTON IRVING BISHOP, the world
famous mind reader, died while giving an
exhibition of his powers in New York city OF
hystrocatalepsy, a disease peculiar to people
II extraordinary nervous development.
THE recent count of money at the New York
Sub-Treasury revealed a discrepancy of S35
out of q total sum of S1S4, 0O0, 900 to be &C
counted for. The shortage resulted from the
Acceptance of a few counterfeit notes In the
hurry of business and by the loss OF few
pieces of silver. The loss was promptly made
good.
LANGLEY &, SMITH, shoe manufacturers OF
Boston, have failed for 100000.
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Washington.

TIE naval board ordered to prepare plans
for three new cruisers has decided on the de-
signs.
PLANS have been approved by the Navy
Department for four boarding steamers, 10
be located at points where infection from
ep;demics is feared. The boats are intended
to isolate patients at quarantine stations anu
will cost about $50, 900 each.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presl-
dent: George D. Reynolds, of Missouri to De
United States Attorney for the Eastern DIS
trict of Missouri; Elbert E. klmball, OF Mis-
souri, to be United States Attorney Tor the
Western District Of Missouri; Richard T.;
Farr. of Virginia, to be United States Marshal
for the Eastern District of Virginia; Joseph
P Wilson, of Idaho Territory, to be United
States Marshal for the Territory Of Idaho.
SECRETARY TRACY has awarded to the
Richmond (Va.) Locomotive and Machine
works the contract for supplying the boilers
and machinery of the battleship Texas, now
building at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The
price fixed in the contract is 1884 500.
TIE President left Washington the other
morning on the United States steamer Des-
patch for cruise in Chesapeake Bay. He
was accompanied by Secretaries Window and
Rusk, Mrs. Harrison and Master Benjamin
81. Mckee. The party attended religious ser
vices at Fortress Monroe.
HON CHARLES LYMAN, Of Connecticut, has
been elected President Of the Civil Service
Commission.
Mr.. JUSTICE GRAY and Miss Jeanette
Matthews, daughter of the late Mr.. Justice
Stanley Matthews, will be married at the
residence of the bride, June 9Th in Washing
ton. The ceremony will be witnessed by the
members of the families and the Justices Of
the Supreme Court and their families.
THE United States Supreme Court decided
that the Scott Chinese Exclusion act is valid
and gave an opinion in favor of the heirs Of
Myra Clark Gaines in their suit against the
city of New Orleans for S5IG, 600. This lSthe
final decision in this famous suit which has
been in the courts for fifty-siH years. The
decision against Sarah Althea Hill III the
Sharon divorce case was also confirmed by
the Supreme Court.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: John F. Plummcr, OF New York city,
George E. Leighton, of st. Louis, Jesse
Spalding. of Chicago. and Rufus B. Bullock,
OF Atlanta. to be Government Directors OF
the Union Pacific Railway Company; Will
lam Lyor, of New York. to be member OF
the Board of Indian Commissioners: Samuel
c. Wright, of Nevada, to be Superintendent
of tie Mint of the United States at Carson
City, Nevada.
THE Court OF Senators empowered to try
General BoulanGer cannot frame specific
charge against him, and it IS proposed to
enter nole prosequi in his case. 1t Is be-
lieved that the prosecution will be aban-
doned.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
EM1N PASHA is an Austrian.

EM1N PAsHA is an Austrian.
CHAUNcEF DEPEwis just ffty-fve.
The Pope is a very fine chess player.
J.H. NEWMAN, the Cardinal, is eighty
even.
GENERAL BoULANGER is quite lion tn
london.
SENATOR INGALLS, is extremely careful in
his attire.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is going into
literature.
Mrs. HARRISON has lost three pounds since
ihe entered the White House.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has hired cottage
Tor the summer at Deer Park, Nd.
The Kings of Belgium, Sazony, Greece
md Servia will visit the Paris Exhibition.
NJ CHEvRECL, the French scientist, was a
isvout Christian during the 104 years Of his
ife.
BARON MAIMILLIAN WASHINGTON, of
Styrita, is a relation of the immortal
George.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has been ap-
pointed referee in an important law suit in
New York.
SIR MoRHELL MACKENZIE, the famous sur
geon, has gone to the Canary Isles for much
needed rest.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEForE, the new Brit
h'Ministerto this country, calls himself
"Pantsfut"
A BRONZE statue of John Bright is to be
erected at Rcchdale England, by public
subscription.
MISSIONER. the painter, is second only to
Boulanger in the influence he e1erts upon the
French public.
E1-SECRETARY BAYARD'S daughter, Nam
ME. is called the most thorough horsewoman
in Washington.
IT is proposed to confer public honors upon
Henry NJ. Stanley when he returns to Eng
land from Africa.
HERR MEYER, the largest ivory importer in
the world, and brother-in-law of Carl Schurz
died recently at kiel, Prussia.
THE President was photographed in New
York at the Centennial while in the act Of
biting quarter-section out of a sandwich.
E--REPEEsENTAT1vE MATsoS, who was
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Indiana last year, has gore into railroading.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE says there are
two things of which he is immoderately fond
-horse-racing, when conducted honestly
sand baseball
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

HAMBURG has played Mozart's Figaro"
100 times.
CHARLES GoUNoD, the composer, will not
come to America.
EMILE DE NAJAC, the great French
drau,atist, is dead.
THE play "Robert Elsmere" was failure
In New York city.
JOACHIM, the violinist, has composed his
third violin concert
MEMPHIS, Tenn, is to have grand opera
house costing S150,000.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is composing the
music for grand opera.
MARIE VAN ZANDT is coming TO America
next season in Italian opera.
TIE Duchess of Cambridge left Tosti: the
composer, an annuity OF Sl5OO.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG will make con-
cert tour through the West very soon.
The death is announced Of Thomas James
Serle, the English dramatist and actor.
MozARr's opera "Die Entfuhrung" has
been produced in Greek at Alexandria,
Egypt.
THE new Wagner theatre near Paris is
nearing its completion. 1t will seat 800
listeners.
Mrs. SHAW whistled $4,000 out Of the
public last year, and expects to make 1t s20,-
600 this year.
Mrs. LANGTRY, the English society act
tress, proposes to tour England and Australia
next season.
BILLY BIRCH is to be one of the end men
next season in Happy Cal. Wagners travel
ing minstrel troupe.
LoTTA, the volatile coincidence is the only
woman on the stage who has fortune
amounting to S1,0O0,0O0.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY st'-dentS from
Finland will form an orchestra and play their
national melodies at the Paris Exposition.
SIGNoRITA GABRIELLI SALvNI, daughter
Of the inustrious Italian tragedlan, has DIS
tinguished herself as clever amateur actress.
ADEL1NA PATTI has discarded her New
Orleans niece. and the divas. new pet IS
Nicolini's youngest daughter, who IS with her
In South America.
DIRECTOR STANTON, of the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York city, has renewed
his contract with Hans Won Bulow, the
pianist, for next season.
SINCE March !. 1885, there have been sixty
one divorces in dramatic circles. Inc % mos'
important are Pauline Hall Fanny DaVen-
port and Maggie Mitchell.
A STUDENT of the theatre notices the A1rl-
can is not such a popular character on the
stage as formerly, while the Irishman is
continually source of pleasure.
GUsrAvE AMBERG, the German theatrical
manager of New York city, has engaged
Ernst Possart, the great German ac1or, for
one hundred performances next season.
LITTLE PHIL SPooSEE, the seve!l-year-old
son of the Wisconsin Senator. has an extra
2rdinary talent for music. He can hear an
opera once, come home and repeat every ali
Of il.
AT the Royal Theatre at Munich they are
going to try the presentation Of Shakespeare's
plays with scenery and stage fittings as nearly
as possible reproduction OF those with which
the plays were originally produced.
CARL Rosa. tho great English opera
manager, died in Paris few days ago. The
deceased was the ...cband of the famous
Parepa Rosa, and was forty-seven years old.
Mr.. Rosa was a yiolnist.
MINNIE HAUK, according to q report
printed in German paper, made disastrous
failure in Posen recently. While singing
Carmen the audience rose en- masse and
hissed the American star until she left the
stage.
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A FIREMAN'S FATE,
Debating His Will While Slowly
Roasting to Death.

A freight engine doing switching near
Bailey Station, thirty-fve miles from Denver,
Col, came into collision with boulder upon
the track and was ditched. Fireman Charles
Lappman was caught underneath a red
hot fire box. He lay in this posi-
tion with his head only out from
under the machinery for an hour, suffering
untold agony, no one being able to render
assistance Just before he died he called q
brakeman and dictated his will leaving
$4,000 to his two brothers in San Francisco.
and who he desired to conduct the services,
then offered prayer and died. The body was
brought to Denver to be shipped to San
Francisco. Several other train men were
injured, but not seriously.
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CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

Cases Which Will Go Before th4
Next House Of Congress.
Mr.. Monley, clerk of the House COMMITTEE
on Elections Of the Fntieth Congress, is dill!
gently at work arranging, printing and
docketing the papers received in the con
tested election cases which will claim the at
tention Of the, Committee during the Fifty
first Congress- These papers, together WIZ
exhibits in the sixteen cases which nave
ready been certified to the Clerk OF the housd
are Tery voluminous, requiring no less thai
o59 packages to contain them. The following
are the cases submitted: l
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Nothing is known Of the course which ia
Committee will follow in dealing with th
Arkansas case Of Clayton versus Brech1
ridge-Clayton having been assassinate
while the work Of taking testimony was
progress. No papers in the case have bee}
received by the Clerk Of the House. Aitd
pether the work Of the Election Committed
of the next House promises to be very q
duous, and it will take diligence on the pa1
of the Committee to dispose OF all the case
before the termination OF the Congress.
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Foreign.

The Samoan Conference in Berlin dis
cussed the condition of the harbor Of Apia
and took measures for its improvement.