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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JAY GoULD's health has much improved.
Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND has just inher-
tied $50, 900.
GENERAL MALONE has quit politics for the
mining business.
The Prince of Wales Is crank on the sub
ject of court etiquette.
GENERAL SHERMAN's salary as a retired
officer is $751; 900 per year.
BENJAMIN F. SHILLABKR, "Mrs. Parting
ton," is seventy-six years old.
BISMARCK calculates that retirement from
Office will add ten years to his life.
Dr. TALMAGE's income is 81, 900 year,
not counting what he makes by lecturing.
Mrs. STANLEY, nee Miss Tenant, has pc
culiar fad. Her hobby is parasols, of which
she has wonderful collection.
The Sultan of Turkey is described as q
thin, pale. black-hairei man with sharp
eye. He is forty-eight years old.
1t is reported in Berlin that General Won
Caprivi, Chancellor of the Empire, is be-
throthed to Count Waldersee's niece.
THE ex-Enpress Eugene, Of France: trav-
els under the name of the Comtesse de Pierre
fonds. At present she is in Norway.
THEODORE T1LToS has been made master
of an English lodge Of Masons-the first time
an American has been thus honored.
Miss LILLIAN BLANCHE FEARING, the
only woman in this years graduating. class
in the Union College law school, in Chicago,
ILL.,, is entirely blind.
SENATOR CALL, of Florida, is a KentucS-
ian by BIRTH He Is six feet tall, weighs about
200 pounds, and is erect dignified and cour-
teous His hair is black and his eyes blue.
WILLIAM BLACK, the English novelist, is
very fond of athletic sports, and IS also an
expert angler. He has charming home and
family, and his house is noted for its enter
tainmentS.
J. R. HAGGIN has more money invested in
thoroughbred horses than any other man IN
America. The Rancho Del Paso, his breed
ing farm in California, represents an invest
mcnt of more than 100000.
HORACE E. ScUDpER, who succeeds
Thomas Baily Aldrich on the atlantic, is
ffty-one years old, and has been engaged
in literary pursuits ever since his graduation
from Williams College, in 1853.
THE Emperor of Japan wants to ride ex-
pensively. Therefore he has ordered that {.
State coach be constructed, and has laid aside
Sl75, 0G0 for that purpose. Of course the
ornamentation irresponsible for most of this
SUM.
JAY COOKE, the Philadelphia broker, owns
several country places, but his favorite re-
sort is his farm at FELTON, Hills, few miles
out from Philadelphia. Here he spends
nearly every afternoon, giving personal at
tention to all the necessary details Of prac-
tical farming.
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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In tho Senate.

15sTH DAY.-The day was spent in further
discussion Of the irrigation survey paragraph
of the Sundry Civil bill. s.. Among the nomi-
nations received from the President were the
following: Oliver H. Spalding, Of Michigan,
to be Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury;
j. q. Stackpole, II. W. Somerville, and F..
n. Shurtlef, to be General Appraisers Of
Merchandise.
159TH DAY.-A message from the House
asking conference on the Land Forfeiture
bill was presented, and the request was
were appointed conferees on the part of the
Senate. :. The Sundry Civil bill was consid-
cred, and the amendment Of the Committee
on Appropriations regarding reservoir sites
was adopted. Mr.. Pierce introduced re-
ciprocity feature in the Tariff bill.
l60TH DAY.-Mr. Frye, from the select
committee Oh Pacific Railroads. reported
back the Senate bill authorizing tho Secre-
tary Of the Treasury to settle the indebted
ness TO the Government of the Sioux City
and Pacific Railroad. Placed on the calen.
dar. :. The Senate resumed consideration of
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Many
amendments reported by the Committee on
Appropriation, were agreed to. The bill
was then passed. The Tariff bill was then
taken up as unfinished business.
16lsT DAY.-The discussion of the Tariff
bill has begun, Mr.. VOORHEES, making the
only speech. The bill for the transfer OF
Revenue Marine service to the Navy De-
partment was discussed and laid aside with
out action :. Mr. Hoar, Chairman Of the
Committee upon Relations Of Commerce and
Business with Canada, presented the testi-
mony which has been taken by that COM
mittee.
162D DAY.-The Indian Appropriation bill
WAS considered - The Senate bill giving q
pension Of $1,000 year to Mrs. Jessie Ere
mont was reported from the Committee on
Pensions and placsd on the calendar.
163D DAY.-Consideration of the Indian
Appropriation bill was resumed. Mr..
Hampton proposed as an amendment to the
pending Indian Appropriation bill section
providing for the payment of the French
spoliation claims, upon findings of the Court
of Claims, amounting to 81, ,G5l, 43J.
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In the House.

16STH DAY.-The Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was passed. Mr.. O'Neill presented a
resolution Of the Philadelphia Maritime Ex-
| change protesting against the bill granting
to a corporation the use Of the north pier at
the entrance to the harbor of Buffalo, N. Y.
169TH DAY.-Mr. Hit asked unanimous
! consent for the immediate consideration Of
a Joint resolution providing that nothing in
the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation
bill shall be construed to delay o. interrupt
the prompt translation, publication and dis.
tribution of the reports of the proceedings
of the International Conference. 1t was
decided to order the previous question on
the "Original Package" bill, and on the
Bankruptcy bill. The consideration Of the
Bankruptcy bill was begun. The House
met in evening session, but nothing was done.
Mr.. Enloe raised the point Of no quorum, on
the first motion on private pension bills, and
the House then adjourned.
17OTH DAY.-Mr. McRae introduced a
joint resolution directing the Secretary of
the Interior to suspend the issue of patents
for lands to the Union Pacific Railroad
J Company until the adjustment Of the debt
due the United States from said company
-. The House then resumed the consldera-
tion, Of the Original Package bill. Mr..
Henderson reporte the General Deficiency
Appropriation bill, the last of the regular ap-
| DllS W Ue tCIeu upOl
by the House. The bill makes total appro-
priation of S. 140, 40.
17lsT DAY Mr.. Comstock introduced
bill authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture
to establish uniform grades of all kinds of
grains transported from one State to an
other, or to any foreign country, which shall
be known as American grades. Upon an
nouncement of the death of Representative
Walker. of Missouri, tho House adjourned
as mark Of respect.
! IT'D DAY.-The substitute of the Senate
Original Package bill was passed by,
vote of 176 to 49,. -. "A debate was held on the
Bankruptcy bill. Mr.. Bingham reported
favorably bill to create the Office of Fourth
| Assistant Postmaster-Gencral at salary of
1900 year.
173o DAY.-The President transmitted the
correspondence between the United States
[ and British Governments relative to the
I Behring Sea question The debate '9n the
Bankruptcy bill was closed.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

A TERRIBLE explosion Of gas occurred in
blast furnace No. l at the Cambria Iron
Works, Johnstown, Penn, by which four
men were badly injured, two Of them IA
tally.
The body of a newborn infant was found
on the bank Of the river at Burlington, N.
j. The infants lips had been stitched with
thread to prevent it from making an out
cry.
SEVERE gales, with rain and hail, visited
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The roofs or
over twenty houses in Trenton, n. j., were
blown Off and fully three hundred trees were
Schlegel, iron workers, employed in Cooper
g. Hewitt's mill, at Trenton, were killed by
lightning.
The population of New York city, as de-
termined by the Official rough count at the
Census Office in Washington, is l, 5l3,50l.
The 10000 striking cloak contractors and
makers in New York city decided to repudlate
their representatives agreement with the
manufacturers and refused to resume work.
JosIAHD. RICHARDS, Postmaster of North
Attleboro, VT, and member of the Demo-
cratic State Committee, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun while he was
hunting.
JEWELS worth from SO, 900 to Sl5, 900 were
stolen from the cottage Of George Bliss, a
New York lawyer, in Saratoga, N. Y.
The Supreme Court at Providence, R. l.,
allowed Miss Carrie E. Barnes $1,000 dam
ages for injuries received in a railway acci-
dent, and gave her $4,000 additional with
which to pay her lawyer. The decision is
against the New York and New England
road.
A FIRE in the machine works of Joseph c.
Todd, Paterson, n. j., did damage to the ez-
tent of Sl50O00.
THOMAS FARQUHAR, of Jersey City, n. j.,
was killed by train after saving his three
little children from death.
DR.. CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERICK PETERS,
Director Of Litchield Conn Observatory,
and Professor Of Astrology Of Hamilton Col
lege, was found dead in Clinton, n. Y. Death
had resulted from apoplexy while he was
making observations. DR.. Peters was born
on September 10, 1913, in Coldenbuttel,
Schleswig, Germany.
J. ". WATSON died, after a long illness,
at his home in New York city, of heart dis
ease. He was born in that city sixty-eight
years ago, and was famous as the author Of
the poem "The Beautiful Snow"
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
held reunion at Hartford, Conn. Over 500
delegates were present.
ALANsoN SEE. retired contractor of New
York, was heeced out of $4,000 in cash by
card sharpers at Asbury Park, N. j.
WHITE frost formed at Pine Hall, East
Canaan and other points in Litchield
County, Connecticut. Damage was done to
plants.
THE Bradley wooden mill of Allegheny,
Penn, was destroyed by fire. Loss, s75,-
600.
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RAN DOWN a YACHT.
Five Persons Drowned in a Collision
on the St. Lawrence.

The steamer st. Lawrence collided with
the private steam yacht Catherine near Al
exandria Bay, N. Y, at 1890 o'clock in the
night. The Catherine had party Of twelve
on board, five Of whom were drowned. The
names Of the drowned were:
Mrs. W. D. Hart Bradford, Penn; Miss
Margaret Henry, Bradford, Penn; Edward
Pemberton, Bradford, Penn; Mrs. Edward
Pemberton, John senescall, engineer, Of
Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
The yacht was crossing diagonally over
from Alexandria Bay to Grenadier Island
and was making directly across the track Of
the st. Lawrence when the crash occurred.
Captain Baupre, Of the st. Lawrence, says
that Captain Joseph SENEGAL, Of the Catherine,
blew his whistle to take the right, and then
took the left hand course
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TICKS And SPARKS.
The --latest News by Telegraph
and Cable.
Two Disastrous Cloudbursts in
the West.

At midnight terrific cloudburst tempo
rarily isolated the towns up Clear Creek
Canon in Colorado from the world. At that
hour an immense cloud burst near the forks
of creek, pouring within the narrow walls
of the canon deluge of water, which COM
pletely demolished the two iron railway
bridges at the forks, and carried away all the
structures in the neighborhood. The res
taurant, the railroad station and other build
ings were swept away by tie food. The i'm
mense column of water, laden with wreckage
went tearing down the canon, and now, as a
result from the forks to Golden there
is scarcely u vestige of railroad left. Tho
greater part of the roadbed was washed
away and all means of communication were
destroyed.
After the cloudburst furious hailstorm
set in, and it was reported that hail a foot
deep was lying in the canon. At eleven
o'clock in the morning train loaded with
bridge timbers and conveying 200 men left
Denver for the scene of destruction.
A cloudburst in the foothills Of Santa
Rita Mountains, in Arizona, covered an
area Of square mile. The water rushed
down the canon in torrents, drown.
ing number of cattle and
horses. A number Of deer, bears
and wolves were caught in the furious
flow. Crops, orchards and houses on the
Schofeldt ranch were completely destroyed.
A large freight train was caught in the flow
and carried mile.
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UXORICIDE AND SUICIDE.
An Ohio Official Kills His Wife and
Then Hangs Himself.

Mande7ille Ault of Hunterville Deputy
Recorder Of Belmont County, Ohio, while
laboring under o temporary fit Of in
sanity, caused by the death of his child and
sickness, shot himself in the head with re
volver. The ball passed around the skull
without doing serious injury. He imme-
diately turned and shot his wife, who was
standing near killing her instantly. BE then
went to his fathers barn and hanged himself
from the rafters.
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.iape Of the Executive family

driven the carriage Of the Executive family
for twenty-five years.
THE Civil Service ommissioners are
promptly taking advantage of their in
creased allowance for clerical force, and tho
new clerks will soon be at their desks.
GENERAL THOMAS L. CASEY, Chief of
Engineers, has been directed by the Secre-
tary of War to superintend improvements
connected with the establishment of the new
immigrant station on Ellis Island, in New
York Harbor.
PRESIDENT HARRISON returned to Wash
ington from Cape May, N. j.
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A YOUNG FIEED.
A ASixteen-Year-OId Lad Murders His
Father and Mother.

Father and Mother.
An almost incredible tale Of youthful de-
pravity comes from Goreville, ILL.,, small
town in the western part Of johnson County,
far removed from railway anG telegraph
stations. During the night when every
one was asleep, man, sup
posed at the time to bs bur-
glar, broke into the house of a
farmer named Morris Sullivan. On being
spoken to he fired pistol at the bed in which
Sullivan and his wife were sleeping. The
ball struck Sullivan in the breast, inflicting
fatal injuries. Mrs. Sullivan jumped out Of
bed and threw herself upon the murderer,
but the pistol was discharged again, and she
fell wounded in the left breast. Her injuries
are fatal.
By this time the alarm had been given and
the neighbors came in. On securing the
murderer he was found to be Sulivan's six
teer-year-old son. A few months ago the
boy poisoned some water which he gave to
his parents, but this attempt at murder
failed. He gives as his reason for commit
ting the crime that he was tired Of waiting
for the old folks propertv.
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WAR ON THE ISTHMUS.
San Salvador's Army Defeats th'
Guatemalans With Heavy Loss

san SalNSbuOES NSAS"eS
Guatemalans With Heavy Loss
The long threatened war has broken out
between Guatemala and Salvador. 1t began
without the usual formalitics of a declara'
tion Of war.
Ell Universal, paper in the City Oh Mexico
publishes an account Of battle between tne
San Salvador, in which the former were de
feated with heavy loss. The Guatemalan
force numbered 5000.
Private kilograms from San Salvador say
that the San Salvador soldiers captured the
Guatemalan artillery in the battle.
General Barrunda, the Guatemalan reL
npee has left Oaxaca to take part in the war.
He will probably raise the standard of revolt
in Guatemala, -
II was rumored that President Barillas, OF
Guatemala, thought Of resigninS.
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So successful has lean the fishing Of blue
ish this year that dealers in New York city
aave been unable to dispose of all sent to
them for sale, and consequently large num-
bers have to be thrown away, or rather are
thrown away in order to keep up prices.
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Troops in Buenos Ayres.

The city of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Re-
public, was agitated in consequence Of tho
discovery of tho plot to overthrow the
Government. The place is garrisoned by
sour thousand troops and three thousand
armed policemen. The Bourse was demor-
allied.
The trial of tn, conspirators against the
Government is proceeding. The feeling Of
slarm is subsiding, however. The gold pre-
mum is 2ll.
Guards were stationed everywhere, and the
streets were patroled by cavalry. The popu-
ace was much alarmed and semi panicky
ceiling prevailed.
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Two European Towns Destroyed.

own Of SIonim in Russia. Buildings were
sazed to the ground nineteen persons were
killed and the neighboring forest leveled to
;he ground. Slonim is town in Russia,
with population of about 120N. 1t has
everal churches, synagogue, school for
aobles and various factories.
Tho town of Hammerfost, In Norway, has
been almost totally destroyed by fire. The
inhabitants have been rendered homeless and
are in q starving condition. Provisions and
clothing have been sent from Tromsoe to the
sufferers
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A Cattle Plague in Russia.

The Siberian cattle plague is ravaging the
province of Eiagan, in Russia. Cattle, horses
= and sheep are dying by thousands. Two
thirds of the animals attacked die from the
disease. A number of peasants have also
contracted the disease.
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Eight Persons Suffocated.

Eight persons were burned to death in O
tenement house at Cincinnati, Ohio.
The first story Of the building was occu-
pied by Solomon Menski as secondhand
store. ALI the other floors were occupied as
tenements, and while the flames were eating
their way to the roof there were thirty peo-
ole in the building
At the outset Of the fire the police, at the
risk Of their lives, managed 10 save some Of
The ten people who slept on the second floor.
The occupants of the building were poor
working people.
The bodies Of the dead were taken from
the second story windows or thirty occu-
PANTS Of the building twenty-three escaped
by the roof,
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Three Victims of an Explosion.

By the explosion of threshng machine
boiler on the farm of James Morrow, six
miles east of Princeton, Ind, Andrew Cret-
singer and Charles White were killed, and
Andrew Mehan, fatally, and Hugh Morrow
dangerously, injured
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All on Board PeriShed.

The American schooner William Rice has
been lost at sea. The whole crew, consisting
of sixteen persons, perished. The vessel was
on a voyage from Cape Ann to Iceland.
The schooner William Rice was vessel OF
l26 tons burden. She was built In 1859 at
Bath, and her sailing port was Rockland.
She was owned by George Gregory.
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HANGED IN AN ARMHOLE.

The Curious Means of Suicide
Adopted by Barnes Foster.
It has just come to light that Barnes
Foster. aged sixty-four, who lived on the
lonely West Townsend road, near Fitchbcrg,
Mass., recently killed himself in a novel
manner.
He was unable to obtain rope, so putting
his head through one armhole OF mis- vest he
placed the other over an old-fashioned bed
post and died Of strapgulatiop. op.----
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Ruealo Bill Lassoes a Wild Bull.

Ten thousand people, of whom 500 were
Americans, attended Buffalo Blrs opening
in Berlin, Germany. A buckinS bull broke
loose and rushed toward the frightened peo.
pie in the cheap seats. Colonel Cody lasSoed
the furious brute amid roars Of applause.
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Mob ut q Race

A mob headed by betting men broke up
the Bois de Columbus races at Paris, France.
suspecting foul play on the part of the
Jockeys. The crowd blocked up the course
and destroyed the enclosures. A number q
arrests were made.
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THE New York city postofice furnished
fiscal year ending June Of Ss, 7e1, 4@. --,----
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THE cargo of ice recently shipped from
Norway to New York was impregnated with
kerosene oil, which is the usual cargo Of the
hip, and it was sold to the poor Of that city.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Important News Cleaned From
Two Hemispheres..
0minous Labor Disturbances 0c-
curing All Over Europe.

Quite serious riot grew out of the dis
uissal of a miner at Beuthen, Prussia.
The comrades of the discharged men ex-
pressed their sympathy with him by quit
ting work, and being in an ugly mood
they soon became involved in trouble
with the local police Thev were two nu-
merous for these functionarieS to cope with,
and it was finally found necessary to call out
the military of the district. The rioters,
when ordered to diSperse, refused to do so,
and desperate encounter enSued. 1t was
not until the military had fired two rounds
that the mob was scattered and order re-
stored Three men were killed and several
wounded during the fighting.
The National Seamen's Union Of Eng
land, with a view of forcing the English ship
owners to influence the Danish shipown-
ers, announces that a general strike CT
seamen will be begun, AMI that the men
will not return to work until the de
mands Of the Danish seamen for wages equal
to those paid English seamen are conceded.
A conference between representatives OF the
Seamen's Union and the shipowners will be
held at SUNDERLAND, England. The Lon
don StevedoreS' Union has de-
clared boycott against the steamers of the
Allan Line. plying 70 Montreal, and the
Wilson and Hill lines, whose steamers ply
between Hull and London and Boston and
New York, for employing non-union men.
Two thousand factory strikers attempted
to parade at Barcelona, Spain, but were dis
persed by the police. The Government has
Issued an order forbidding professions and
open-air meetings. The strike movement Is
becoming general among the factories.
Business was largely suspended in Nova
Scotia in honor Of Labor Day. The parade
of the various trade organizations was
grand success Between 1000 and 5000 per-
sons marched and made an imposing show.
There was grand display of flags along the
route of the procession. Nothing like the
demonstration had ever been witnessed there
before. The societies picnicked at McNabs.
Several districts in Cuba complain of q
scarcity Of hands in spite OF the high wages
which planters are willing to pay. IN con-
fields are doing much harm to the small
cane.
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Fatal Cyclonc in the West.

A special dispatch from Fargo, North
Dakota, brings Intelligence Of severe and
destructive tornado, in which seven lives
were lost.
Details from the cyclone were meagre.
The only thing learned was that the
storm struck Bowen, Clifford and Gales
burg, about twelve miles northwest Of
Hunter, in the southern portion Of Trail
Land, in the northern part of Cass
County. 1t was q regular cyclone,
tearing and twisting across the country,
leveling buildings and destroying crops.
Five persons were killed outright, and man
and his wife fatally injured near Clifford.
Wires to the branch lines were Frustrated
and the reporters hnd to drive number OF
miles to the telegraph station. A hail-storm
also did considerable damage to crops about
twelve miles south Of Fargo.
A cyclone near Ghent, seven miles west Of
Marshall, Mimi, killed two persons and in
iured several others.