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LATER NEWS.

The Etna Iron Works, of New Castle,
Penn, was partially wrecked by boiler ex-
plosion that resulted in the immediate death
of three workmen and injuries to almost a
score of Others
The bottom of cupola in the foundry of
the Susquehanna Iron Works at Middetown,
Penn, fell out. The molten mass of iron ex-
ploded when it struck the ground, and streams
of liquid fire leaped in all directions. George
Matthias and William Strock, mouders, were
caught in one of these streams and burned to
death
AT Deering Point Me-, Robert Hamilton,
aged sixteen, while playing with a revolver,
accidentally shot and instantly killed his
half brother, Perley Offeri, aged twelve.
FoI three days continuous rains fell all
over Texas. Rivers and bayous We're up and
out of their banks, bridges were swept away
and travel delayed. All stock in the low
lands and canebrakes were drowned.
THE little town of Kyle, Texas was visited
by cyclone, and many houses were over.
turned and several swept away Several
persons were injured. The Kyle Seminary,
large frame building, was lifted from its
foundations and carried some thirty feet
away, but it was not seriously damaged.
MEMBERS of the late Pan-American Con-
ference went to Mt. Vernon as the guests Of
Secretary Blaine.
FRANK B. LOOMS, of Ohio, has been ap-
pointed Consul at ST. Etienne. France. st.
Etienns IS the aeesattFfe centre Gf the ribbon silk and
steel manufacturing in France. -~--
MRS. MCKEE, daughter of President Har-
rison, gave dance at the White House in
honor of her guest, Miss Shepard, Of New
York. This is the first ball held there for
over ten years.
All the striking workmen in the Ostrau
and Karwin districts Of Austria, with the
exception of fifteen hundred, have resumed
work
A PITCHED battle between the French and
Dahomians in Africa resulted in the loss of
500 Of King Kondo's men. One Frenchnan
was killed, fifty wounded, Twenty native
allies were also killed.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

A rifle ball moves 1850 feet per Sec
ond.
The transportation of wine in tank
cars is now looked upon as being sue
cessful.
Sun spots are believed to be evidences
Of great activity in the fiery envelope of
! the sun.
An electric indicator of the names of
railway stations is coming into use in
England.
Inventors everywhere are trying to dis
cover an artificial gas fuel that will end
the days of solid fuels.
The electric light is not only injurious,
but absolutely ruinous to the sight and
inducive of paralysis of the eye.
Sun storms take place when the earth
is free from them. Earth storms abound
when the sun is quiet and inactive.
It is one of the unfortunate facts of the
age that the way fuel is now used about
seventy-five per cent. of it is wasted.
A new mineral oil lubricant having the
consistency of butter and without ap-
preciable odor is being extensively used
in France.
DR.. Rankin, a surgeon at Muncy, Eng
land, is said to be using hypnotism sue
cessfully as substitute for chloroform in
his practice.
In recent bulletin issued by the Ohio
Experiment Station, a list of eighty-two
insects is given as feeding upon our COM.
mon red clover.
The nutritive value of salads is held
by eminent French authority to be due
to the presence of salts of potash, which
in ordinary vegetables are lost in the
cooking.
The brain receives an impression as
swiftly as electricity can photograph q
flying bullet; but the difficulty is to con-
vey that impression to the consciousness
of another.
A rotary arc lamp having revolving
carbon disks instead of the ordinary
pencil carbons WILL. it is claimed, run
continuously for forty hours without the
renewing Of the carbons.
In the new high explosive invented by
Maxim Of machine gun fame gun cotton
IS the chief Ingredient. Castor oil is also
used, and it IS found to increase the
toughnesS Of the product and diminish its
liability to deterioration.
The changeable and brilliant hues
which are noticeable. in the scales of
herring, shad and mackerel are held to
be due to the retraction of the rays of
light as they glance off the surfaces of
thin plates or ridges in the scales. 81
German naval authorities are said to
have been making experiments lately
with a torpedo-boat built of compressed
paper. The vessel is eleven feet, and
was found tc show great strength and
more elasticity when rammed by another
boat.
An extraordinary feat in telephoning
was recently accomplished between St.
Petersburg and Bologue, distance of
2465 miles. Conversation was kept up,
Notwithstanding a rather high induction.
The Russian engineers propose to con-
verse by telephone over distance of
1865 miles.
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Washington.

The River and Harbor bill was reported
to the House. 1t carries an appropriation
of little less than s2l, 900. 900.
THE Pan American Conference practically
finished its work Reports of the Com.
mittees ON International Law and General
Welfare were adopted.
SENIOR ROGUE SAESz PENA, one of the
delegates from the Argentine Republic t.
the International American Congress. re-
ceived at Washington cablegram from h:a
Government informing him OF change OF
Ministry and of his appointment to the posi-
tion of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
A MUSICALE was given by President and
Mrs Harrison at the White House in honor
of their guest, Miss Jessie Shepard, daughter
of Colonel Elliot F. Shepard, Of New York
The Postmaster. General and Mrs. Wana-
maker gave their final reception of this sea-
son, and their house from nine to twelve
O'clock was brilliant scene.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, the Commissioner
of Labor, has submitted to the President. for
transmission to Congress, his fifth annual re-
port. The single subject treated Is railroad
labor.
DELEG ATEs from the District of Columbia,
PENNSYLVANIA and New York State societles
of Sons of the Revolution met in washington
and organized general society OF the oons
Of the Revolution.
REPORTS received at the War Department
for the nine months beginning with July l,
1889, show that there have been 1878 deser-
tons from the regular army during tnat
period.
SECRETARY BLAINE recalled the Pan
American excursion train from Rlchmond,
Va. because only two of the foreign oei-
egates were in the party.
SECRETARY TRACY has recommended an
appropriation OF s25o0 by Congress to pay
". H. Arnoux, of New York, for services as
counsel upon the occasion OF the ConStes;
sional investigation into the facts counec'eo
with the Jeanette Expedition.
CHIEF JUSTICE BINGHAM, of the Supreme
Court OF the District Of Columbia, has a ad,
INITIAL e Z. Kincaid, who shot and killed
ex-Congressman Taulbse, of Kentucky to
bail in the sum of 500, 600.
PRESIDENT HARRISON gave reception at
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JOHN CHARLES FREMONT.

Major-General Fremont, says the New
York Herald, is now in his seventy eighth
year and resides on Staten Island N. Y. The
lovely driveway which extends from New
Brighton around the shore is lined by stately
old mansions with Corinthian pillars, as well
as with more modern Quesn Anne and
Gothic cottages In one OF the latter is the
present home of John C. Fremont, the dar-
lug and half-forgotten Presidential candidate,
with whose name the country once rang
from end to end Old he is, but feeble not
at all. He carries his years with step as
springy and form as straight as they were
when he carved pathway over the Rocky
Mountains to the new Ell Dorado nearly fifty
years ago. His snowy white hair and
whiskers are as neatly kept as were his blond
locks in the days when he stole the heart Of
pretty Jessie Benton In spite Of her fathers
protests
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The Confederate Gray.

A member of the Military Committee
on the Lee Monument, at Richmond, Va,
states his belief that to the visit of the
Seventh Regiment, of New York city, in
1857 wa. due the adoption of the gray
uniform by the Confederate Army. When
the Seventh Regiment came to Richmond
on that visit the First Regiment and
other military commands of Virginia'a
capital had such uniforms as each organi-
zation chose. The handsome gray dress
of the Seventh Regiment attracted a
great deal of attention in military circles,
and soon after their return home the
First Virginia Infantry of Richmond
adopted similar uniform. This was just
before the Civil War broke out. The
committee man is confident that the Con.
federacy took the gray uniform of the
First Regiment as model for the army.
Man York Times.
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Foreign.

FOrelSH.
THE British steamer Euclid has been sunk
near Hartlepool, England, in COLLISION WIN
the British steamer Altyre. The Captain
and three of the crew OF the Euchd were
drowned.
THE riotous coal miners at Ostrau, IN Mo-
ravia, Austria, have compelled comPleee
attacked party of soldiers and IN the hgnt
that followed three of the miners were killed.
and many wounded. In the Ostrau and
Karwin districts there are 30, 600 miners out
on strike.
HEAVY rains prevailed in New South
Wales. The Darling River overhowed It's
banks and the town Of Bourke was lnun-
dated.
BANDITS have created reign of terror in
Cuba.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY and Sir William
Mackinnon, Chairman of the Emln RELIEF
Committee, arrived in Paris, and after re-
naming there one day left for Brussels, to
visit the King of Belgium.
A FIRE at New Sandec, Austrian Galicia,
has destroyed 130 houses.
THE army Of the King Of Dahomey is adj
yancing on French territory in Africa, burn
ing villages and causing panic among the
people.
A COAL vessel, bound from Shields for
London, has foundcred at sea. She carried
a crew Of fourteen hands, all told, eleven OF
whom were drowned and three saved.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY was enthusiastically
received at BRUSSELS, Belgium, and Major
Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese explorer Of
Africa, met with grand ovation on his ar
rival at Lisbon.
THE British steamship Bilbao has been lost
in the North Sea, and fifteen persons were
drowned.
FIVE HUNDRED houses at Taungdwingye,
near Rangoon, Burmah, including the com.
missariat stores, containing $50, 900 rupees
worth of grain, have been destroyed by fire.
RECENTLY 300 houses were burned at
Aomati, Japan. The day after over 5OC
buildings were destroyed at Noshiro, and
over 300 at Mimuro. The latter fire ragged
six hours.
DALMATIA, Austria, is being scourged by
an epidemic of La Mona, the sleeping
disease"
AT the conclusion Of bull fight at Qua
dalajara, Mexico, section Of the amphithe.
atre collapsed, precipitating thousands OF
spectators to tie ground and fatally inJuring
a number
OWING to the troubles arising from the
embezzlement of 100000 by the Treasurer
Of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, all the
members of the Cantonal Government have
resigned.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

LOUIS FRANKIE s. Co, silk importers and
manufactures of New York city, with a big
mill at Paterson, n j.. have assigned. The
liabilities are estimated at $500, ,OO to S9O9,-
900 and the assets at 81, 2GO 900.
WILLIAM THoRNE, fruit dealer, committed
suicide at Albany. n. Y, by jumping from
the Senate staircase in the Capitol to the
floor below, distance of seventy feet.
JAMES s. CASwELL, who is under sentence
of Imprisonment for life for the murder OF
George Could has been married at Mont
pelier; Vt. to Mrs. Laura Could, the widow
of the murdered man. The marriage TOOK
place through the bars of Caswelrs cell.
RICHARD II. MATHER, Professor Of Greek
in Amherst College at Amherst, Mass, IS
dead at the age of fifty-five He was a famous
Greek scholar and was born in Bingham
ton, n. Y.
Mrs. VANDEGRIFT, of Burlington, n. D.,
who is accused of attempting to poison nsr
son. was followed on her way to court by
bowling mob who wanted to lynch her In
court she was held for trial and locked up III
default of bail.
THE funera! services over the remains OF
Hon. Samuel j. Randall took place at the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church In wash
ington. Thence the body was taken by
special train to Philadelphia, Penn, where it
J
Laurel Hill Cemetery.
THE New Hampshire Supreme Court has
decided that vacancy exists in the office of
Governor, owing to the illness Of Governor
Goodel, and that D. Arthur Taggart, Presi-
dent of the Senate, must assume the duties
of the Office until the Governor recovers.
THE Murphy Varnish Company, of
Newark, N j., the largest manufacturer of
varnish in America, has been sold to an
English syndicate.
The use of Castle Garden, New York city,
has been discontinued as place Of landing
for immigrants, who now enter the New
World through the Barge Office, at the Bat
terry in that city, under Federal supervision.
Peter Llnquist, young Swedish farmer,
with his wife and four children, were the
last immigrants to pass through Castle Gar
den.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM WARNER HoPPIN.
of Rhode Island, died at Providence, aged
eighty-two years.
Ex-Governor JAMES POLLOCK died at
the residence of his son-in-law, H. 7. Harvey,
at Lock Haven, Penn. He was born at
Milton, Penn, on September IL, 1910.
DANIEL MITCHELL, aged twenty-one, and
Joseph Kani. aged twenty-five, were drowned
at Gloucester, n. j., by the capsizing of a
boat.
PRETTY sixteen-year-old Mary Stewart, of
McKeesport, Penn, is under arrest for
poisoning her four -year-old brother.
THE trial of Commander McCalla. of the
United States vessel Enterprise, for cruelty
to seamen, was begun at the Brooklyn On.
" Navy Yard.
JOHN BEEKMAN and Elisha Dyer, of Ham.
mondsport, N Y, were drowned off Two
Mile Point, keuka Lake, by the capsizing of
a boat.
OVER five hundred acres of heavy timber
have been destroyed by forest fire, about
two miles south of Egg Harbor, N. j., and
over SIX hundred acres of pine from ten to
fifteen years growth have been laid in
ashes.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

1owA's Legislature has adjourned.
THE Argentine Ministry has resigned.
PaUssIAS crops are in good condition.
THERE are so, 600 spiritualists in Boston.
PETROLEUM has been found at Richville,
N. Y.
AMERICANS are already large crowd in
London.
MEXICAN oranges are coming to Chicago
market.
RHODE ISLAND is being stocked with Ten
nessee quail.
CHICAGO embraces within her limits ia
square miles.
VERMONT maple sugar crop is shortened by
mild weather.
THE fruit crop this year promises to be
c1usually large.
SIZE Samoan Treaty has been formally
Ntifed in Berlin.
LEPRosY is spreading in New Caledonia in
smost alarming manner.
JUST now the combined daily arrivals at
ihe Chicago hotels average 1900.
IT takes three dollars of currency in Buenos
Ayres to buy one dollar in gold.
Two-THIRDs of the rubber product of Bra
iii is shipped to the United States.
snt population Of Brooklyn at S59,6l2.
FIVE HUNDRED departed Cinnamon are
. buried in various New York cemeteries.
THE mortality of the present Congress is
now four publicans and five Democrats.
SUGAR is sold in England for five cents
pound, while it costs sixteen cents pound in
France.
MONTE CARLO authorities now suppress re-
ports of the suicides Of unfortunate gamesters
that occur there.
THE Canadian Government has voted to
PIpend $50, 900 in purchasing seed wheat for
Northwest farmers.
The noted painting, "The Angelus," has
been shipped over to Canada to avoid paying
p duty of $50, 900 on it.
MARKED changes are about to be made in
the uniform Of the German army to add to
the invisibility Of soldiers in action.
A BILL appropriating $50, 900 for the ex.
penses of Iowa's exhibit at the Worlds Fair
IN Chicago has been passed by the Legislature
pf that State.
AN English syndicate has made PROPOSE
- lion to buy the entire sardine business at
Eastport, Me-, which is being considered by
he factory owners.
DURING the last year the failure of firms
who have been engaged in woolen manufae
Furing in Philadelphia have averaged more
Fhan one in each week.
TIE pork packing of Cincinnati for the
winter season was the smallest since 1887,
Hile the packing of Chicago was larger than
season since 1856.
UsT1N, Texas, has decided to erect the
reatest dam in the United States, over the
Colorado River. twill cost 81, ,500, 900. and
aevelop IA 900 horse power.
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires have been rag
no in the West. According to the estimate
6early 200 900 acres in the eastern portion OF
Colorado have been burned over.
ERNEST LEON DICKINSON Of the freshman
elass at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn, has
FALLEN heir to fortune Of 1000, 600 through
5he deaSh Of an uncle In France.
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South and West.

A PREMATURE blast at Reeds cement mills
near CelarSburg, Ind, killed thres men-P.
c. Livingston, Samuel T. Chapel and
Thomas James-who were hurled in the air
with great force, and when they alghted,
fully one hundred feet from the scene of the
explosion, their bodies were an unrecogniza
ble mass of flesh and bones.
The Hon. John CardwelL, United States
Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt. during the
Cleveland Administration, died at Rich.
mond, Texas, Of heart disease.
Two men and two horses were blown
to atoms at Cygnet, Ohio, by the explosion
of wagon load of nitro-glycerins shells.
BEN ELsEY, a young colored man, who
has killed four persons, was hanged in Biz.
minghan, Ala, for the murder of j. w.
Meadows. He confessed all his crimes.
DAN SNEED and William Oxford, convicts,
attempted to escape from the stockade at
Palarm, Ark, and were killed by the guards.
The greater part of st. Elmo. Col, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, over $25, 900.
FRITZ SUsEMIEHL, Recorder of Scott
County, Iowa, for four years past, commi:-
ted suicide by shooting himself. His ac-
counts are correct.
THREE men were suffocated in burning
coal mine at Spring Valley, Ill.
HENRY BOYLE, alias John Cox, life con-
vict at Joliet, ILL.,, committed suicide by hang.
ing himself with towel in his cell.
CAPTAIN w. L. COUCH, the noted Okla.
homa boomer, died at Guthrie Indian Ter
ritory. His death resulted from wound in.
hicted by j. c. Adams, with a Winchester
rife on April f.
CAPTAIN " Ill EccofissG and one other
man were KILLED and five seriously injurefirfGyy fy
an accident in the Great Western Mine, near
Norway, Wis.
HARRoDsBURG, the oldest town in Ken
lucky, has been partly destroyed by fire.
The loss is $500, 900.
The schooner w. f. Brinsfeld, Captain
John Ellison, of Tappahannock, Va, sunk of
Point No Point, Nd, and Mate David Prim,
Seamen John Harkum, John Belts and Robert
Ellison, passenger, were drowned.
For the third time in three years the bus j.
ness portion of Knightsville, Ind, has bsea
burned. Loss, s25.09O.
THE large wholesale business block at
Davis and California streets, San Francisco
burned. Loss, 500, 900.
SAMUEL NELSON, a Hesperia (Mich.) Swede.
shot and killed his sweetheart. Annie Nelson
because she refused to marry him. He then
fed into the woods, and was found dead with
bullet through his head.
A BODY of striking carpenters caused a
riot in the southwestern part Of Chicago,
and as a result about fifty OF them are locked
up.
MALIGNANT diphthera is epidemic in the
village of Vining, in Otter Tail County,
MINI. There have been twenty deaths in
the place since April L.
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sweeter, purer, freer. City houses no longer
monopolize all the conveniences Witness
the modest though attractive desi ign for
country house submitted herewith.
Size of Structure: Front width "a it,,
depth, 81 #. 6 in.
Height of Stories: Cellar Z feet; first
story, 9 #. 6 in, second story, ft. 10 in.
attic, Z ft. in.
Materials for Exterior Walls. Foundation,
stone and brick; first story, clapboards;
second story, shingles; gables, shingles and
panels roof, shingles.
Interior Finish Hard, white plaster
throughout, plaster cornices and centres in
hall, parlor, Sitting and dining rooms; oak
trim in hall and dining room; Georgia pine
trim in second story, white pine in remainder
of house, main stairs oak; mantels to cost
$50; stained glass in staircase window; house
piped for gas.
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the attic, and there is a cellar under the
whole house. The combination of front and
back stairs economies space. There is
coat and hat closet in the hall, and closet
containing a wash-basin nnder the main
stairs. Stationary tubs and sink in the
kitchen and large pantry adjoining. Tho
lobby entrance to the kitchen from the back
porch has a recess for an ice-box. BY en-
closing the balcony with netting an open air
resort is provided that will be proof against
mosquitoes and other insects.
Special Features: An attractive and
roomy house, large enough for modest rich
man and small enough for an ambitious poor
man who intends to become rich.
Cost: Built as described, for all localities
where prices for materials and labor are
about the same as those of New York, S33OO.
Built with brick walls in place OF frame,
$1,000. r. w. SHoPPEtL. Architect.
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A Natural Mint Of Money.

The origin Of French commerce in
Dahomey is very funny. A French
trader found that the only money in the
country was cowry shells. He also dis
covered that cowry shells came from the
coast of Mozambique. He went thither,
scraped up two shiploads of cowry shells,
sailed back to Dahomey, and with his
money bought immense privileges,
which were the foundation of the French
trade. = ~
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A COUNTRY HOUSE.
A Modest and Attractive Design-De-
scription, Material Needed, Etc.
Copyright by the Author.)

Copyright by the Author)
John Wise, the intrepid old aeronaut and
quiet philosopher, used to say while sailing
through the clouds that he abhorred the idea
of returning to earth again. Leaning over
the side of his car he would declare that
everything on the surface Of the globe was
mean, dirty and Insignificant. When pass
ing over a city he would call attention to
the smoke and dust enveloping it and to the
little black ants rushing and crowding with
great but purposeless activity through its
streets. The little black ants were human
beings.
Viewed from the higher altitude of reason
it does seem strange that many intellectual
people prefer to live within the narrow limits
of city. Life in the country is broader,
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Exterior Colors: All clapboards, light
brown; trim-waMt table, corner boards,
castings, cornlces, bands veranda posts and
rails, dark seal brown, front door finished
with hard OIL all other outer doors and out
side blinds painted dark seal brown, rain
water conductors, dark seal brown gables
dark buff with dark seal brown panels;
sashes, dark buff; veranda floors, dark
brown; veranda ceiling, vanished natural
color; panel work in first and second stories,
dark seal brown for stiles and rails and light
brown for panels, side wall shingles, buff;
roof shingles, dark brown. All shingles
should be dipped in stain before laying and
have good brush coat applied after laying.
Accommodations: The principal rooms
and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the
floor plans. printed herewith; beside these 8: