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NEWS OF STANLEY.
The Rear Guard of His Expedi'
tiOn Met by Arabs.
The Explorer Of Africa Two Days
Ahead of His Party.

A dispatch from Zanzibar states that cour-
iers from Tabora, Africa, bring direct news
from the Stanley expedition, portion OF
which was met at the end of November, 1887,
by Arabs trading between Lakes Vic toria
Nyanza and Nzige, and Tabora- These Arabs
met stanley's rear guard at n point west
of Albert Nyanza, southeast of Sanga just
as the expedition was preparing to cross U.s.
swamps caused by the radiation OF
the streams that abound in that coun.
try. The Arabs did not see Stanley.
The detachment seen consisted OF thirty
men. They stated that Stanley was two days
ahead. The expedition had suffered greatly
on the march through a thick forest, where 1t
was impossible to advance more than mile
and quarter daily. They had also SUI
fered in the marshes, where many had dis
appeared or died. Forty were drowned in
crossing great river flowing from east to
west One white man had ded. Stanley
was obliged to fight some tribes that refused
to supply him with provisions.
The expedition had often halted in the ex-
pectation Of receiving reinforcements from
the Congo The rear guard, at the time met,
had only been on the march five days after
of Stanley and a great part OF the es-
cort, who had been attacked with
fever. The Arabs estimate the total
strength Of the expedition after all losses, at
$50 men. The health Of Stanley was then
good The rear guard, which consisted o.
natives of Zanzibar, stated that Stanley
had decided that be would no longer ad-
vance in a north.easterly direction, but
would strike toward the north, hop
ing to avoid the swamps. After
getting certain distance north he intended
to take an oblique line to the eastward and
20 straight to Wadelai, where it was thought
he would arrive so days later-about the mid.
die Of January, 1888. The Arabs we're OF
the opinion that the expedition was still
strong enough to reach Wadelai.
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The Republican State ticket was also sue
cessful, and the Legislature is Republican In
both branches.
RHODE ISLAND.
Rhode Island chose Presidential electors
and members of Congress.
Harrison electors carried the State by
4427. Two Republican Congressman were
returned.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
South Carolina chose Presidential electors,
members of Congress, State officers, and
Legislature which will elect United States
Senator. The Democratic is the only State
ticket.
The State went for Cleveland and sends a
solid Democratic delegation to Congress.
Both branches of the Legislature went Demo-
cratic, as there was no Republican ticket IN
the field.
Tennessee chose 10 Presidential electors, 10
members Of Congress, Governor, and
Legislature which will elect United States
Senator. There were three State tickets,
Democratic, Republican, and Prohibition.
The State went Democratic by an increased
majority. Taylor (Dem.j was elected Gov
ernor: Phelan (Dem.) reelected to Congress
by 1000 majority.
Texas chose Is Presidential electors, II
members Of Congress, State officers, and
Legislature which will elect United States
Senator. There were two State tickets
Democratic and Anti Democratic
Democrats carried the State by the usual
majority. R Q. Mills was reelected by
25O0.
Vermont chose Presidential electors. The
Republicans carried the State by over 2O,O
VIRGINIA.
Virginia chose 12 Presidential electors and
10 members of Congress, and voted on hold
ing a constitutional convention.
The Democrats carried the State by about
the same majority as in 1894 1t was thought
the Democrats had elected 8 out of the 10
Congressman.
WEST VIRGINIA.
West Virginia chose 6 Presidential electors,
4 members of Congress, State officers and
Legislature, which will elect United States
Senator and will vote on three constitutional
amendments, one prohibitorry. There We're
Prohibition, United Labor and I. C.
The gains and losses in West Virginia
seemed nearly even, and it was claimed the
Democrats had carried the State by small
majority. The Congressional delegation will
stand about three Democrats and one Re-
publican.
WISCONSIN.
Wisconsin chose Il Presidential electors, 9
members of Congress- State officers and a
Legislature. There were four State tickets,
Democratic, Republican, Prohibition and
United Labor.
Fifty-one out of 1900 precincts gave net
Republican gain of 443 over the last Presi.
Dental vote. The Republican Electoral
ticket was successful by an increasing plur-
ality, as was the Republican State ticket.
The Congressional delegation will most likely
stand Republicans to 2 Democrats
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South and West .

THOMAS SAVERS, one OF the hlghwaymen
who recently murdered and robbed two ped.
dlers in Mercer county, w. Va, was caught
and lynched.
AT, A TERRIBLE RI prairie fire RACED in n,siotn the sou1
Henry Ray was burned so badly that he can.
not live. A four weeks-old baby. six een-
year.old girl named Mollie OConnor and
woman and her son, name unknown, were
burned to death.
The City Of Sydney, the first steamer to
leave Hong Kong after the signing OF the
exclusion treaty. has arrived at San Fran
cisco with but five Chinese passengers
A CYCLONE, blowing from the northwest,
demolished Union Hall and unroofed or
overthrow number Of houses in Laporte,
Iowa All the stores in the business por ton
of the town suffered great damage The
damage to property is S75,OO0
THE steam whaler Brasher arrived at
San Francisco, CAL, from the Arctic and
brought information that the thirteen whal-
ers, with their crews Of about five hundred
men, which were caught in the ice pack the
last of September, are safe.
JUDGE BREWER, of Topeka, Kan, has de-
cided that certain lands granted to the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas railway, on which
settlers had located. legally belongs to the
railway. This decision throws 5OOO settlers
ing lands in the country
DURING the progress of SANDER suit in the
courtroom at Fresno, Cal, trouble arose be-
tween Robert Seconce and man named
l. Hardwick over the testimony, and Hardwick
shot and fatally wounded Seconce. The lat
ter's brother in return killed Hardwick.
A FREIGHT train struck q cow at Vicks.
burg, Miss, and was thrown from the track,
the locomotive and thirteen cars being
wrecked. Four employees of the road and a
tramp were instantly killed.
A FIERCE prairie fired ragged il the Sioux
Valley near Jackson, Mimi, and a farmer,
two women and two babies perished in the
flames
FRITZ GRAVES, q wealthy farmer Of the
town of Oak Creek, Wis, has died and his
son August is held on the charge Of murder.
ing his father. The elder Graves was seven
ty-three years old and his son is thirty
Two brothers named Powell, aged eight
and eighteen years, respectively, quarreled
Zandt County, Texas. Bob Powell, the
younger, was shot and instantly killed by his
elder brother.
A FIRE IN Macon, Ca, destroyed the oil
and paint store of T. c. Burke, the adjoining
stores of Nuss5aum, Van Syckel & Tindall,
hardware dealers, Of H. D. Adams e. Co.,
wholesale groceries, and of Charles Taylor,
furniture dealer. The loss is s125, 900.
THE visible supply Of grain, according to
the official Chicago Board of Trade report. is
as follows: Wheat, 33,695, 900 bushels; in
crease, 218, 900; corn, 10, 763, 900; decrease,
4Ol, 900; oats, S,5j5, 900; increase, 32S, 900;
rye, 1856, ,0J0; increase, 179, 600; barley, l.
7S6, 600; increase, 1873, 0eO.
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4 MINE CALAMITY.
Fatal Explosion in a Pennsyl-
yania Shaft.
Many Coal Miners Killed and
Mangled.

By an explosion in the Kettle Creek Coal
Mining Companys mine at Cooks Run,
Penn, fifteen miners we're killed, two died
after being taken out and three men were SO
badly injured that it was thought they would
die.
Tie Cooks Run mines have been in opera.
ton since the first of the present year.
One hundred and sixty men are employed
in and around the mines, but for one reason
or another, only twenty Of the whole number
were at work on this afternoon, when
at few minutes after four o'clock
an explosion occurred which sent
sixteen human beings ! to eternity and
hurt three others so seriously that two OF
them are likely to die. The explosion took
place in one OF the many pockets Of the mines,
about two hundred and fifty feet from the
opening, and Of the sixteen MEN at work in
that part twelve were killed outright. One
other died within two hours and three are
among the injured.
Another miner, who was working some
distance away, was blown through the air.
shaft and his body was not found until next
morning, when it was discovered among a
pile Of brush in the woods near the shaft.
Two other men, who were at work sew
enty-five feet from the mine opening, were
hurled out at the mouth OF the mine and
their dead bodies were found one hundred
and seventy-fve feet from where they had
been employed.
The driver, named j. Farrell, was entering
the drift when the explosion occurred. He
was thrown toward the mouth Of the mine
and escaped. His mule Was killed.
The force of the explosion was shown in
the fact that bodies were blown clear out Of
the mouth of the drift Everything possible
was done for the injured by the mine physi-
clans. The dead were taken charge Of by an
undertaken and prepared for interment. The
horribly mangled bodies were placed on
hastily constructed tables in small black
smith shop. The friends and relatives Of the
dead ones are people without more than
enough OF this worlds goods to clothe their
bodies. Fragments of the clothing worn
by the victims Of the disaster are scattered
among the limbs of the surrounding trees,
some of them fifty feet above the ground.
Five of the killed were Swedes, three s avs,
six Italians and two Irish. All were un-
married except the last Two, who leave large
families.
The cause of the explosion is a mystery and
no one seems able to explain it. 1t is thought
that in making blast "gas feeder" was
struck, filling the. chamber with gas,
which, coming in contact with a
naked lamp. caused the explosion
A "gas feeder" is a pocket Of gas in the coal
As soon as pick is stuck into it the gas es-
capes and if anything ignites it an explosion
follows 1t is known that the air has been
so bad in the mine for several days that many
of the man would not work.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.


The Texas cotton crop Is about 10000
bales.
RUSSIAN troops are manoeuvreing on the
Austrian frontier.
AMERICAN exports Of apples are in excess
Of those Of last year.
TIE bakers of Washington City have
formed cracker trust.
THE first car Of the new crop OF corn has
been received at New York.
AN Illinois woman who submitted to being
mesmerized died in the trance.
THERE have been $50 marriages at the
City Hall, New York, this year.
The farmers in the interior Of New York
talk of organizing an apple trust.
The Sultan has approved the building OF q
railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem
IT is rumored that China proposes severe
retaliation upon the United States
THE catch Of the American whale feet In
the Arctics is reported at l22 whales.
LESS than s35 each is the annual compen-
sation of about 1900 teachers in Spain.
OF15O persons naturalized in Boston in one
week recently 125 were British Americans
THE bean crop has been materially injured
by unreasonable weather in many sections
COUNT TELEKI, the explorer. has discovered
q new lake $50 miles long, in Central Africa.
THE extensive province Of Sikkim has
been annexed to the Brieish Empire IN india
M. DE LEssEPs is sturnping France IN an
effort to promote the sale ct Panama oonds.
A SHIPMENT Of 202 barrels Of oysters was
recently made from Liverpool to New YORK
City.
ADMIRAL PORTER, in his annual report to
tae Navy Department, calls for more hlg
guns.
THE President has sent by cable his con-
pratulations to the King Of Hellenes on his
Jubilee
In 1887 lreland's tillage land decreased IS,
600 acres and the grass lands increased py
$4,000 acres.
A CRANK Cossack was arrested in Southern
Russia for hunting the Car with pocketful
Ct dynamite bombs.
BODY snatchers are busy in Canada Tho
tolice have made no arrests, and PUBIC
Indignation is strong.
A VERDICT of $500 has been obtained
against Boston landlord for illness caused
by defective drainage.
THE last spike of the st. Paul, Minneapolis
IL Manitoba system was driven at Sioux
| Falls amid great rejoicing.
MULHALL has broken the worlds swim,
ming record in England. He swan looo
Yards in IA minutes IL seconds.
OVER 500, 900 two-cent postage stamps are
sold daily in the New York poStoffice, while
The amount of all stamps sold each day Is
over $2000O.
THE latest currency issue Of the Treasury
Department is a $50 silver certificate bearing
mon its face an excellent engrarIhg OF
Daniel Manning.
TIE total number Of children in Maine en-
titled to attend school this year IS II, ,9sV, 3
decrease from last year OF 594. fortlano
| shows a decrease Of TOO.
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Washington.

THE Hon. Michael Henry Herbert has been
appointed by his government British Charge
d'Affaires at Washington. Lord Sackville
will 60 to England Immediately on leave OF
absence.
THERE have been 900 tons of silver dollars,
amounting to s33, ZOO. 600, received from the
mints of New Orleans and Philadelphia and
placed in the new vaults. of the Treasury at
Washington.
THE Navy Department has received a dis.
patch confirming the news that the ice bound
whalers at Herald Island have been released,
and the order for the relief expedition has
been countermanded.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has signified his
intention of attending, with his entire Cabi-
net, the centennial celebration Of George
town University, to be held on February 22.
The President will deliver the honorary de-
grees to the awarded on the occasion.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzEl.
Eastern md Middle States.

MRS. HENRY BARMoRE, of Nyack, N. Y,
killed herself by cutting her throat and firing
bullet into the wound.
THE boiler of steam tbresher near Read.
ing, Penn, exploded killing five persons and
seriously injuring many Others. The boiler
was located in Jonas Spyd's barn. The noise
of the explosion was heard two miles. The
barn was wrecked and parts Of the machine
were hurled 200 yards. {.
JAMES HAYES, Henry Gormley and Viii :
lam Sellen were drowned in Rochester Bay.
Mass, by their sail boat capsizing.
YOUNG RE1MANN has been found in shed
in West Manchester, N. H., covered with
blood and with bullet wound near the left
eye He met his death at the hands Of a six
teen-old lad named Frank Brown.
THE City Hall, number Of extensive
factories and ten residences were destroyed
by fire at Haverhill, Mass.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
THE season is now ended.
DETRo1T's salary list was s4S, 600.
n- n.,-J~. rI,,l bo, I;eho ndad


DETRo1T's salary list was s4S,00o.
The Brooklyn Club has disbanded
MIKE KELLY is going to Australia after all
JOE QUEST is trying to organize Michigan
State League.
SPALDING is said to favor making the BAL
Hvelier next season.
ALL of the reserve lists for 1888 and 1SS9
have been promulgated.
McKEAN is the best left handed hitter IN
che American Association.
BALTIMORE wants to come into tho Ma
uonal League with her nine.
SINCE the Detroits entered the League,
$5S, 900 have been lost on the club.
ALL of the Chicago players except Sullivan
and Pettitt have signed for next season.
AMONG the last fifteen men who have the
lowest batting average, twelve are pitchers
MANAGER MUTRIE says he intends to keep
his team of world d-beaters intact for next
season.
GAFFNEY will, it is said, either manage an
Association club next season or become
League umpire
THE New Yorks considered Chamberlain
the pitcher most to be feared in the worlds
championship series.
RICHARDSON, the Detroit second baseman,
has been secured by the Boston Cluo at
salary Of more than $3.50.
BUFFALO has made formal application for
admission to the American ASSOCIATION
should Cleveland withdraw.
HALLIDAY. of the Des Moines Club, won
silver ball and bat, prize for making more
base hits than his fellow players.
THE record Of Ryan, of Chicago, for the
eoo.o, ~ ba ~, ocf boca hits most home run9
and most runs is, indeed, a brilliant one.
PITTsDURG is making high bid fof Jonn
Wards services next year, but Boston people
confidently expect to see him captain OF ther
nine.
KELLY has signed with Boston. He has
not been appointed captain Of the team for
next season as reported. but may be II Ward
isn't secured. He wants the place.
The Detroit Club entered the League in
1881. She took Cincinnati's place. Wouldn't
it be singular if Cincinnati should now re-
sumo her old place at Detroit's expense!
STAG, Yale's famous pitcher, is to have
chur.e of the University Christian Associa-
ton this year, and next year he will enter
theological seminary and prepare for the min.
Btry.
In base-stealing for the season Hoy leads
Washington and the League, Seery leads In
dianupolis, Sunday leads Pittsburg, Pfeffer,
leads Chicago, Kelly leads Boston, Ewing
leads New York and Hanlon leads Detroit.
FROM St. Paul comes a rapport that eight
players OF the st. Paul team have entered
into an agreement to pay ball during the
winter in Cuba. They expect to start about
November l. Croke will manage the team.
In the oifical record Anson is credited
with making but twenty errors at first base
the past season, which leads the Boston Gtobe
to remark: "Who believes it? There is not
paper in the county thst kept record that
gives him less than 81 err6ra"
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LATER NEWS.

EDWARD MosELY, well-known citizen OF
New Haven, Conn, committed suicide by
drowning. He was respondent from the
loss of his position.
A NEST of four boilers at the Lancaster
Chemical Works, Lancaster, Penn. exploded,
killing John Reidel an employe, and injur-
ing three others. The boilers were all new
and of the best make.
THE ship Trojan, at Boston, Mass, from
Montevideo, reports that seventy miles from
Cape Ann, one of the crew, named Michael
McGonnigal, of New York, while furling the
jib fell overheard and was drowned.
ARCHIBALD PELoN was taken from tho
Jail at Grayling, Mich, by masked men and
hanged to tree.
RICE MAUPHIN, white man. was killed
at the polls in Lisbon township, Mo-, end
Frank Wayland, colored, was killed at the
polls in Fayette, NO., Mauphin's death was
the result of feud. Wayland was killed IN
self-defence by white men.
A TRAIN was wrecked at Reeds Crossing,
Ga. The car. with two coaches left the
track, the cars turning over. Four men were
killed, two fatally injured and ten badly
hurt.
A DESPERATE duel following political
discussion occurred in the town OF LiVings.
ton, KY, in which five men we're killed ana
the sixth mortally wounded.
p Mr.. GLADSTONE spoke on the subject OF
Home Rule before large Liberal meeting
in Birmingham.
PORTUGAL. has Joined the European anti
slave alliance.
FIRE destroyed whole block OF buildings
at Brokenhil, Australia, causing loss OF
S5OO,000.
A FERRY steamer was sunk IN coiilsloh
at Calcutta, India, and sixty persons were
drowned.
Sir HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, now Cover
nor of Newfoundland. has been appolnteo
Governor of Queensland.
THE United States Treasury Department
decides that Chinese seaInen who ship on
United States vessels in foreign ports for
round voyage, and who have been contlnu,
ously under the United States flag from the
time they left until they return to port are
protected by the Chinese Exclusion act, and
ran remain in this country.
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BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE
Milton sits musing in the porch,
The bright blue sky above him,

Milton sits musing in the porch, =:
The bright blue sky above him, a
But cannot see the light Of heaven,
Or smiles of those who love him; =
But though the utter darkness hides
The earthly from his vision, =
BE sees the bowers of Paradise
And splendors Of the Elysian;
He learns from angels at his side z.
Creations awful story,
And looks upon them face to face,
Undazzled by their gloryl s.
Beethoven, music's great high priest, Z
Whose heaven-born fancies capture
The tangled skeins of harmony
And weave them into rapture, 10
Hears not the voice Of human kind 9.
Nor sound of life and motion; ~
Nor tempests on the echoing hills ~
Nor moan of restless ocean
And yet in silence of his mind =.
Can hear the throb and thunder
OF jubilant hymns and solemn chantsI'
And lays of love and wonder!
Thus, though relentless fate may close.
The gateways Of our senses,
Immortal spirit overleaps
Their barriers and defences, q
And with celestial recompense -
For harm and loss diurnal,
Yielis greater joys than flesh affords
In foretastes of the eternall -
To blind old Millions rayless orbs
A light divine Is given,
And deaf Beethoven hears the hymns
And harmonies Of heaven! =
Temple Ba
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Comtesse de Paris is an ;=1art rtdt
shot.
PRINCE BISMARCK intends to write the life
Of Emperor Frederick.
IT is said that the poet Whittier s early am
bition was to become politician.
QUEEN EMMA of Holland is transacting the
State business in mastery manner.
THIRTEEN unique snuff boxes have beer
sent to Mr.. Thurman by unknown admirers
THE Empress of Austria is said to be con-
templating trip through the United States.
SENATOR FARwELL has library of 100.
600 volumes and the finest theological col
lection in the West
G1uRIEL HEJELMAN, who died last week in
Madrid was secretary Of society for the e1-
tinction Of pauperism.
A CONNECTICUT man has contracted to
send half a dozen barrels Of oysters to the
Prince Of Wales for Christmas.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON is the son OF a
Scotch civil engineer who sternly disapproves
Of literature and things literary.
THE Crown Prince OF Germany is six years
old, with fair skin, hair and coloring gener-
ally, and full Of life and intelligence.
GEORGE w. CHILDs has at his country seat
near Bryn Mawr a grove Of trees, each or
which was planted by some famous person.
GIUSEPPE VERDI, the musical composer,
who holds the rank of Senator in Italy, has
just celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday.
P. T. BARNUM has given his grand
daughter, Mrs. H. ?. Clarke, of Columbia, >.
c., S10J, ,0o0 with which to purchase aplanta-
tion.
CHARLES G. LELAND, author Of the bal
lads of Hans Breitnan," is said to know
more about Romany, the gypsy language,
than any man living who is not gypsy by
birth.
HENRY D. HARLAN, who has recently
been appointed Chief Justice of Maryland, is
only thirty years old, and is probably the
youngest man in the country to hold such an
Office.
THE only income that Mrs. Waite, the
widow of the Chief Justice, has is the rent
from her husbands former residence in
Washington, which is estimated to be about
$500 year.
w. K VANDERBILT, when in London re-
Gently, spent a large amount of money in the
curiosity shops of Bond street, with the in
tention of making collection of curiosities
to rival that Of the Rothsehilds
THE Gzarina Of Russia, though nearly forty
years OF age,is still young in appearance and
spirits. She enjoys dancing and is hearty
laugher. Considering certain dismal features
OF her life her vivacity is remarkable.
OSCAR W. HAYWOOD, of Troy. N. c., who
is widely known as preacher of power and
lnfiuence. was ordained minister OF the
Baptist Church when only sixteen gears old.
He Is now twenty. one and edits newspaper
besides attending to his pulpit duties
The German Emperor was bamptious
and oNerbearing child, and never eadured
being beaten in aay game. II he could
not get bis own way he would first sulk, and
then try aud take advantage Of his position
allowed. The rule in the nursery was strict
equality, and the nurses hId stringent orders
to enforce it. He had a cold, proud manner,
which made him anything but popular with
his other playmatas