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NO HAND AT HEB HELM
The Five Thousand Mile Cruise o
an Abandoned Vessel 6s

The Five Thousand Mile Cruise o1
an Abandoned Vessel
A telegram received by the Navy Depart|
ment at Washington from Stornoway Cd
tho Hebrides, OFF the northwest coast o1
Scotland marks the completion Of ths lond
and erratic cruise of the derelict AmeriI
can schooner W. L White, abandoned
OF Delaware Bay March u, 1881
during the great blizzard. Her crew
was rescued and the vessel, with masts and
portions Of her sail standing and ensign set|
before the northwest gale, and now, after au
interval Of ten months and ten days, she h}ss
completed her voyage and lies standed on t41l
coast OF Lewis Island, one Of the Hebrtdeax
The most notable feature about the track &
the W. l.. White Is the remarkable zgz :
course she took in mid-ocean from the
ginning Of May to the middle Of Octobe
Previous to that time she followed a. cour
about east-northeast at an average Of thirt
two miles a day. Subsequently sf
moved eastward and northeastwar]
1850 miles in eighty-four days ian ayeraS
Of fifteen miles q day., but during th1
long interval Of six months she remained
within this comparatively small area
drifted back and forth by the Gulf Stream
and the Labrador current and tossed about
BY the varying winds, a constant menace
transatlantic steamships (three Of whic&
six months alone she was reported by thirty
SIX vessels. .tsE n Il
In her cruise Of ten months and ten DAYS
she traversed a distance Of more than Ave
thousand miles and pas reported forty;fve
hines. ~ fsSt
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LATER NEWS.

THE second trial of ex-Alderman Thomas
Cleary fo- alleged bribery in connection with
the Broadway railway franchise has been re-
moved from New York city to Binghamton,
Broome County. 1t was impossible to get
jury in the metropolis.
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed final
ly the prohibitory amendment by vote OF
SO to Q
TYPHOID fever and diphtheria are decimat-
ing the little village of West Middlesex,
Mercer County, Penn.
PosEY, Republican, has been elected to
Congress in the First Indiana District by a
majority ranging from sos to 1000 to suc'
ceed Governor Hovey.
ONE HUNDRED indictments for election
frauds have been found in West Virginia and
16l in Indiana
The recount in the Phelps. Clunis contest
in the Fifth Congressional District of Cali
fornia has closed. Clunis, Democrat, was
given nine majority.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland were
entertained at dinner by the Secretary of
War and Mrs. Endicott.
HARRY l. BRYAN, Secretary Bayards
stenographer was ordered to proceed to
Florida to obtain the election certificates Of
that State for use in counting the electoral
vote Of the Union.
THE President has sent message to Con-
gress on the Samoan question, accompanied
with reports from Commander Mullan, Of
the Nipsic and Consul Blackjack Of Samoa
THE Secretary Of State has appointed
Charles NJ. s. Leslie Vice-Consul Of the
United States at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, vice
B. D. Armstrong, resigned.
ARcHDUKE RUDOLF, the Austrian Crown
Prince and heir apparent to the throne, died
suddenly at Mierling. twelve miles from VI
emma. He was found dead in bed by his
valet
SEVERAL persons, including women and
children, were seriously hurt in political
riot in Pesth, Hungary.
QUEEN VICTORIA and the Empress Frel-
erick of Germany are sojourning at Biarritz,
in France.
On his death bed recently O'Connor, who
swore before the Parnell Commission in Lon.
don that Timothy Harrington instructed
him to visit tenants houses at night and iu-
timidate them, eJmitted that the evidence
was absolutely false.
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SENATOR EDWARD O. woLcorT.


young Wolcott. It is further said that the
daughter in question grieved for long time
over the unhappy ending Of her engagement
An air of probability is given to this 70
mantle little story by the fact that Mr.. VOL
colt Is still bachelor. -.
In Denver Mr. Wolcott began the practice
OF law with more su:cess than be had met
with in Chicago. He soon became known as
O good orator aud shrewd political man
ager His merit as lawyer was quickly es.
tablished, and II was not long before ne hal
as much business as he could handle.
Later on he confined his energies
to railroad cases, and in time was retained
by the Denver and Rio Grande and the Bur-
lington Railroad companies at salaries aggre-
eating $50, 900 year. He still receives these
two salaries, in addition to large fees earned
in miscellaneous cases. His income is said
to be lsrger than that ofany other lawyer in
Colorado:
In age Mr.. Wolcott is not more than forty.
Hard work and grave responsibilities have
left few finger marks on his still fresh and
handsome face. His brother, Henry R VOL.
cott a Denver capitalist, is his political
yoke-fellow and social companion
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzEl
Eastern and Middle States.

NEARLY 1000 Brooklyn street car employees
nave struck because OF an alleged evasion Of
the ten hour law. Seven lines are tied up.
Ten seaman were seriously scalded, three
fatally. by the bursting of boiler pipe on
the White Star steamer Republic in New
York Harbor.
AT the trial Of the pneumatic dynamite
gun at Fort l. Lafayette, n. Y, out Of eight
shots six hit the target. The gun is regarded
as having shown remarkable accuracy.
A FEMALE nurse at the Cooper Hospital in
Camden, n. j., was murderously assaulted
by au unknown man who initiated the meth
otls of the Whitechapel fend.
HENRY S. IVES and George H. Stayner,
Wall street operators, were arrested at New
York city in suit brought by the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton and Dayton Railroad for de-
frauding the company Of 81, 553, ,32S.9T.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has commuted to
q term of five years the sentence Of James D.
Fish. formerly President of the Marine
National Bank of New York, who is serving
a ten-year term at Auburn, n. Y, under a
conviction in April. 1885, Of misapplying the
funds Of that bank. He will be released
May II.
IN joint convention the Maine Legislature
elected George L. Beal, of Norway, State
Treasurer. He received liz Of the lis votes
cast
GOVERNOR GREEN, Of New Jersey. has
signed the bill repeating the law which re-
quired ballot-boxes to be closed at sunset.
The knights of Labor have instituted
general tie-up Of all street car lines In New
Y York city except two. Twenty-one surface
systems are at q standstill. About 10, O00
men are idle. The strike Is because OF an
alleged evasion Of the ten-hour day law. The
fourth day of the Brooklyn strike passed
without car being run. The directors con-
sented to hold a conference with the men.
One of the seven tied-up lines has yielded to
the strikers terms.
NEAR Ashburnham Junction, Mass, Noah
Trombley and Robert JOY, Western Union
Ine!nen, were killed by an engine.
FIVE men were upset in New York Bay by
ferryboat. Two were drowned.
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THE SAMOAN TROUBLE.
A Message From President
Cleveland On the Subject.
Prince Bismarck's Announcement
CT War Upon the Samoans.

The President has sent to Congress addi-
tional correspondence relative to Samoa af-
fairs, accompanied by the following message:
To THE CONGRESS:
I had the honor on the 18th inst to COM
municate to your honorable body certain cor
respondence and documents in relation to at
fairs in the Samoan Islands, and having
since received further dispatches from the
Vice Consul at Apia and the
commander Of the United States naval vessel
Nipsic in those waters, lose no time in laying
them before you. also transmit herewith the
full text of instructions from Prince Won BIS
marck to the German Minister at this capital,
which was communicated on the afternoon
of the 10Th inst. This appears to
be an amplifcation OF prior telegraphic
instruction on the same subject com.
municated through the same channel, and
which, being set forth in the note OF the
Secretary Of State to Count Won Arco VAL
lev, the German Minister OF the 18th inst,
was duly laid before Congress with my last
message in relation to Samoan affairs.
1t i also proper to inform you that
on Monday, the 18th instant, the occasion
of the communication Of the note OF the
Prince Chancellor, the Secretary or state
was given to understand by the German hin.
lister that proposition from his Government
to that Of the United States for conference
on the Samoan subject was on its way by
mail. having left Berlin on the Goth inst ; so
that its arrival here, in due course. OF
mail, can be looked for in a very short time.
In reply to an inquiry from the Secretary
Of State whether the proposition referred
to was for renewal Of the joint conference
betwe cen the United States, Germany
and Great Britain, which was sus-
spanded In July, 1887, or for the consldera-
ton of Samoan affairs db nouo, the German
Minister stated his inability to answer until
the proposition, which left Berlin on the 10th
inst, should have been received.
shall hereafter communicate to the Con-
press all Information before me in relation
to the Samoan status
GROVER CLEVELAND.
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GENERAL BoULANGER was elected Deputy
from Paris in the Department Of the Seine,
France. by plurality Of s., $50 over the
Republican candidate, II. jacques; there
were no serious disturbances.
THE heaviest snow storm of the season has
Just prevailed throughout Canada.
A MERCHANT from Khartoum, Soudan, has
arrived at Suakin, aud says that, Emin
Pasha was captured by the derVlshes, oue
escaped.
ADv1cEs from Tonquin say that the King
of AMMAN is dead.
THE United States Consul at Buda-Pesth,
Austria, Joseph Back, has been recalled by
articles and American papers made certain
unbecoming criticisms on Austria Hungary.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN, the Irish leader who
recently escaped from the police, was ar
rested at Manchester, England.
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Foreign.

A DISPATCH to the Paris Temps from Zan-
zibar, Africa, says: "An American sailing
vessel, bound from Zanzibar to Madagascar,
was fred on by a German vessel, and one OF
her masts was broken"
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS and
Mrs. Phelps have been invited by Queen
Victoria to dine with her and to stay over
night at the Palace.
THE Rev. Mr. Brooks, an English mission
cry, and sixteen of his assistants and follow
ers have been massacred near Saadanl,
Africa, by some Of the coast tribes and
natives Of Zanzibar.
THE last of the British troops have left
Suskin. Egypt. The command Of the Egyp-
tain garrison devolves upon Colonel Holled-
Smith.
LEV. ALvoRD. an American citizen
who had lived in Samoa for thirty-tive years
and was Vics-Consul under the administra-
lion of United States Consuls Dawson and
Foster, has Just died in Apia, Samoa.
DURING the riot at his trial for conspiracy
ut Carrick SUR, Ireland, William U brlen'
the Irish agitator escaped. Inc trial, now
ever, proceeded in his absence, and lie waS con-
victed and sentenced to four months I'M
prsonment without hard labor.
SIR WILLIAM BUELL. RICHARD. eH-Chlef
Justice OF the Supreme Court or Canaua' -
dead.
THE Popes health is causing alarm. He
has had n serious fit Of Inconsistencies last.
! ing over half an hour, and the College OF
Cardinals is prepared for eventualities.
; AT Crosson. Saxony, family of six per.
sons was suffocated to death by the escape OF
coal gas from defective stove.
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Bismarck to Bayard.

Accompanying the message was dispatch,
dated January u, at Berlin. and addressed
by Prince Bismarck to the German Minister
in Washington, informing him that
Germany was making war upon that
part Of the Somoan people which
recognizes the leadership Of Mataafa, and
instructing the Minister to communicate
that piece of interesting information TO
Secretary Bayard.
Bismarck states distinctly that Germany
has been transplanted from the state Of
friendly mediation between the rival
Samoan chief to state Of war
against Mataafa and in support Of
the insurgent chief, Tamasese Con-
tinuing, Bismarck says: "We shall carry on
the contest which has been forced upon
as by Mataafa and his followers with
the utmost consideration for English
and American interests. Our military
measures have in view only the
punishment Of the murderers Of German
soldiers and the protection Of our country
men and their property. AS they, on their
part, are at war with Tamasese our interfer.
ence will necessarily assume the character of
assistance to Tamasesa"
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THE INAUGURAL SUPPER.
What the Guests aE Harrisonis In.
auguration Ball Will Eat $50

What the Guests ae Harrisons In.
auguration Ball Will Eat M
A dispatch from Washington says that the
inaugural committee decided to afcept
George c. Boldt's proposition to furnish thu
supper for the Inaugural ball Mr. Boldt q
the proprietor of the Hotel Bellevue, Phila-
delphia, where the dinners Of the famous
Clover Club have been held for several yeaSK
The following is the bill Of fare: M
Blue Points, on ice. 4s
Bouillon, in cups.
Steamed Oysters.
Oysters, a la poulerte. ,..fy..
Chicken Croquettea
Sweetbread Pates, Ia refine. 5ss
Terrap!n, Philadelphia style.
Assorted Sandwiches.
Mayonnaise Of Chicken. " 'ass2s
Lobster Salad. E.t,ts-St
Cold Tongue, en- Bellevue.
Cold Ham, la Montmorency. 3s
Boned Turkey, a rAmericaine.
Breast Of Quail, q Ia Cycoron.
Fate de Foie Gras. q La Harrison.
Terrine Of Game, q Ia Morton.
e., ' SWEETS. re
Assorted Ice Creams
Orange Water Ice.
Roman Punch. ,t;
Pyramid Of Nougat "reminiscences
Beehive Of Bon-bons, Republican. u
Pavilion, rustic. y
Assorted Fancy Cakes. .s{
Fruits. l
Desserts. aiil
Coffee. ... -sSj
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Washington.

A PERSONAL encounter took place III
Washington between Representatives Cram,
of Texas, aud Barry, OF Mississippi: Barry
received a pair OF black eyes. The matter
has be.n amica5!y adjusted
THE Army Appropriation bill reported to
the House provides for an aggregate ap-
preparation Of S24, 4,S6G 4lj, which is S4SS5
less than the appropriation for the current
year. The estimates we're S24 ,35S, exclu-
sive of the provision for sea coast defences
THE Senate in executive session con-
firmed the following nominations: John
TYLER Campbell, Of California now Consul
at Auckland New Zealand, to be Consul at
Foo Chow, China; John Darcy Connolly, of
California, TO be Consul at Auckland.
THE Secretary of State has received a
telegram stating that the British Govern
ment has notified him of its acceptance OF an
invitation 10 the maritime conference.
SINCE March !, 1885. tho Government has
purchased bonds as follows: 4 per cents
Amount, S5Q,624, 100: accrued interest, 1921,
Cl2: total cost, ST., ,65l. .S2T. AZ per CENTS
Amount, Sis SIS, $50: accrued interest S54.-
:;2s; total cost, s14, lG2,s6l. Grand total ex-
pended, sl46,Sl4, ,6SS.
AsER1ous surgical operation has been sue
cessfully performed on Senator Vance at
Washington. One of his eyes which has
caused him a great deal of trouble was re-
moved. Three phy sicians were in attend
ance and the optr ition was performed in n
few moments, III. patient being anaesshe-
ti2ed.
COLONEL w. L. TRENHOLM, Comptroller
of the Currency, has rendered his res!gna
tion to the President, to take effect at his
pleasure.
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A MUNIFICENT GIFT.

A Philanthropist Gives S2.50O.oOO
to Found a Trade School.
The gift of Jacob Tome, the Port De-
posit (NId.) banker. has been swelled by the
philanthropist. Instead of s5oo,oO0 he will
give So, 2,5W,0U He proposes now to estab-
lish a training school for boys as well as
girls, in which all mechanical trades are to
be taught. 1t is the founders intention that
the Tome school shall be to the hand
what Johns Hopkins is to the mind. Every
branch of trade is to be taught. The girls
will be instructed in cooking. sewing, teleg-
raphy, etc. Five hundred thousand dollars
is to be spent in the erection ofthe necessary
buildings in Port Deposit and 50, 00O, 000 are
to be set aside for investment, the interest to
be used in defraying all the expenses. Mr..
Tome is ninety years old, uncle of ]. A.
J. Creswell, and one Of the wealthiest men in
the State,
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THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.
Their Location. People, Products
and Religion.

Vhctr LOCaCron, TCopA0p AAoe~Se'
and Religion.
With ali the talk about Samoa, there are
scores Of people who haven't the least idea
where it is. Samoa is a group OF nine In
habsted islands called the Samoan, or Navi-
gators Islands. They lie IN the South Paci-
fc 400 miles northeast Of the Feejee Islands.
They we're called the Navigator Islands
by Bougainville. who visited them IN lIos'
from the skill with which the natives pro-
pelled their canoes.
There has been no very late census, but
the population Of the whole group is proba-
bly not more than $4,000,
Tutula is thickly settled island, and has
a good port-Pangb-Pang It's southern
coast. The commerce Of the islands Is small,
and the German and English ships are chiefly
engaged in its carrying trade. very small
Commodore Meade, by a convention with
the natives in 1872, took the harbor OF
Pango. Pango under the protection of this
country.
In 1873, General Grant sent a special agent
to the islands on q mission to the natives,
who wished the whole group to be put under
the protection Of the United States. Two
years later a native King was elected and
Steinberger became his prime minister.
The natives are finely built the men aver.
aging five feet ten inches in height and the
women being remarkably graceful and sym
metrical. Their tint is clear olive and their
hair Is black and straight
The largest island IN the group Is Savaii,
which has not yet been fully explored. Ihe
climate is very even, though rain is pretty
equally distributed through the year, the
winter months of January. February and
March abounding with heavy rain storm;
and northern winds.
Dried meat Of tho cocoauut, timber, tropl-
cal fruit, sugar-cane and tobacco are the
chief staples. Horse cattle and swine nave
been introduced into these lands.
The Old religion Of the natives acknowl.
edged one great God, but admitted several
minor teities, especially war gods, who were
mora yeperated. At present oil the Samoans
ara nominal Christians, at eest, consisting
nrincinally of Independents and Presby-
terians. There are some Wesleyans and q
few Catholics.
Ten thousand tons of cop2ra, or dried
cocoanut meat, are shipped annually, mainly
10 Hamburg. Godeifroy g. Co., merchants
of Hamburg, control most Of the trade. They
have several cotton plantations at Apia, the
chief town OF tho island OF Anuu. 1t Is the
next best port to Pango.Pango.
Among the Imports Of the island are lu.u-
ber from California and Oregon.
THERE are manufactured in Louisville
three times as many axe handles as are made
in any other city in the United States Al
though this seems to be business of small
dimensions, yet one firm in Louisville alone
gives employment to three or four hundred
men in the manufacture of these articles
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Senator wolcott, of Colorado.


A writer in Harpsr's Weekly says that Mr..
Edward o. Wolcott, the successor Of Senator
Bowen, Of Colorado, Is not strictly speaking,
Western man. he Is an Eastern man who
has made unusually good use Of Western
opportunities.
Mr. Wolcott's first experience in the West
soon after leaving Yale College He had few
friends and but little money, yet he set out
to practise law in the Illinois courts with
all the serene confidence and undaanted
courage that formed 30 striking character.
istic Of his nature in after years. By
some strange freak Of fortune bis abilities
were not widely recognized in Chicago, and
to improve bis chances In Ute ne removed to
to leave Chicago was caused in part by an
unfortunate love affair, in which an
ambitious parent refused to give his daugh-
ter to SO poor and obscure lawyer as
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SENATOR JAMES MCMILLAN.

ixing the Michigan Car Company. A quar-
ter OF century has suficed to make him
the head Of corporations In Detroit employ
ing three thousand men, and doing a bust,
ness of over six millions annually. 1t would
be useless to catalogue those enterprises here,
says Rarper's Weekly, but It should be noted
that he organized the Detroit, Maekinac and
Marquette Railway Company, and built M Tor
quette. This was tho beginning
Of the important Duluth. South Shore and
Atlantic line. which owes It's success chiefly
to him. He is charitable, and q Presbyterian.
He has wife, son In business with him,
another son studying law at Yale, and two
other sons and daughter Of school age.
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TIE new American navy, when completed,
will consist or twenty-five vessels, ranging
from the armored cruiser Maine carrying
444 men. down to frst-class torpedo boat,
CARRYING four officers and eighteen men.
There will be 578S men on board the twenty
two vessels-50O officers and 52s6 sailors and
marines. ~-.
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South and West.

RICHARD SMITH, q Choctaw Indian, has
been hanged at Fort Smith. Ark, for
murder.
SENATOR CARPENTER, of the Indiana
Legislature, has been unseated on the charge
Of bribery made against him.
The j. J. Burns Company, railroad con-
tractors at Battle Creek, Mich, has faile1
with liabilities Of $l,0O0,00O.
TIE latest estimate of the amount embez.
zled by J. A. Moore, the Connecticut Mutual
Life's agent at Indianapolis, is sl,0N,COo.
ED. FREY has been hanged at Marietta,
Ca Charles McGill at Cameron, Texas; Jim
Seams at Eutaw, Ala John Yancey ut Yam
ceyville, N. G., and Charles Blackman at
Eileyil!e, Ga. All were executed for muir
der.
R. IRVING LATIMER murdered his aged
mother at Jackson, Mich, in order to obtain
a small amount Of insurance money.
SAMUEL WAKEFIELD, JR., co ored, shot
and killed James W. Trainor, his employer,
in New Iberia Parish, La, and was promptly
lynched.
MARY PORTER, q colored woman, went
cut to do washing at Oglethorpe, Ga, leav-
ing her four small children in charge Of the
house. In her absence the house caught fire
and the children were burned to death.
THREE men were instantly killed and two
fatally injured by boiler explosion at Pop
or Bluff, Mo.
COLONEL ROGER JONES, Inspector General
of tie United States Army, died at Fortress
Monroe.
THE bill to remove the territorial capita!
of Arizona from Prescott to Phoenix has
passed both Houses, been signed by the
Governor and reported to the Legislature.
THE Duluth (Minn.) Opera House building
has been destroyed by fire. The total loss is
$250,Gn,
Al Omaha. Neb., David Kmball, sixty
three years Old and wealthy, was run over
and killed by train of cars
THREE hundred and eighty.five cases of
typhoid fever are reported at Iakevlew, the
Chicago suburb, and new cases develop every
day.
Two school children Of Aberdeen, Da.
kota perished in q snow storm and third
was not expected to survive
ANNA ELLIS, a colored man, has been
hanged at Raleigh, n. c., for the murder OF
his father.
JOHN NJ. CLAYTON, brother o. Powell
CLAYTON. who was contestlns Brecklnrldges s
seat in Congress, has been assassinated at
Plummervil e, Ark.
The first National Convention of Furni-
ture Manufacturers met at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
SEVEN residences, two livery stables and
two business houses were destroyed by fire
at Marietta, Ohio. The losses aggregate
$4,000.
JULIAN C. MCCLURE, of Mitchell, Ind, has
disappeared with $2&, ,00J belonging to miners,
Of whom lie was guardian.
SMALLPOX has become epidemic at Mon
roe. Mich.
JAMES H. BERRY has been reelected to
the United States Senate from Arkansas.