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which visitors would be admitted and
raised eleven hundred feet above the
ground. The beam would be on the
principle of a see-saw, and would be.
beyond question, the biggest thing of
the kind ever devised. Mr.. Smith is an
engineer of great reputation.
The general idea of the scheme"
said Mr.. Smith to a newspaper man,
lis to make a permanent octagonal
tower of severely plain contour, about
six hundred feet high, and surmount it
with a sheet metal statue of Columbus
about one hundred and twenty-five feet
high. This statue should look west.
ward. The dome-shaped top would be
about a hundred feet in diameter, rivet-
ed together from plate steel The
posts at each angle of the octagon
would be shells of steel plate ten or
twelve feet in diameter, riveted up like
a boiler shell and tapering somewhat
toward the top by placing each section
inside of the one below. The cross
pieces and braces would prob
ably be of channel iron, tee
iron, etc. An interior skeleton
shaft, containing an elevator, might be
erected vertically in the center. Piv-
oted TO the tower there would be, dur
ing the exposition, at least, huge
oscillating beam, swinging after the
manner of a walking beam on a steam
boat Its extreme length would be
about LOO feet, and its width in the
center, up and down, about $50 feet
Between each end of this double beam
would be a globe of sheet metal about
100 feet in diameter, with one or more
floors inside and rows of windows at
proper distance above them. These
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braces them together. Pin connections
are used for truss members. The walls
of the tower are comparatively light,
being simply framing of small-sized
angle iron attached to the trusswork
and having facing of embossed sheet
metal The exterior win be painted a
dark terra Gotta color. Electric hoist
elevators and easy stairways viii con-
veniently lead from the entrance TO the
upper stories. Above the first story
there are five floors. They are incline.
and consist of series of broad steps ex-
tending across the tower NJ nerous
windows light the interior, b lconies
provide interesting outlool5s for visit
ors, and at the top of the tower an ex-
tensive view of the surroundings and
mid-air realization may be had. A
spacious buffet, serving light refresh
ments, will be in the top story, and
about midway viii be the tower Curl
osity shop. The visitor can also reach
the foundation and view it's construc-
ton. In building the cantilever or ].
tower for exhibition purposes il will
make the greatest leaning structure in
the world, and be unique in many par
tieulars. Besides affording am attrac-
tive sight for visitors it will present
novel display of the application of metal
to all building purposes.
Scarcely less interesting is the sug-
gestion offered by Oberlin Smith, of
Bridgeton, n. j.. who has submitted
designs for one of the most unique
structures ever proposed. II is for
mammoth tower. with a huge oseilIat-
ing beam, from the ends of which
would be suspended two big globes, in
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

RRITIsH troops entered Manipur and
found the place totally deserted. In an
Enclosure was discovered the heads of
Commissioner Quinlon and others of
the English party.
IN Germany a coal famine was inn
pending owing to the strike of the min
ers and many manufacturing compan-
les had shut down.
THE loss of the British ship Lands
downe which sailed from Hokodate,
Japan. 1899 days ago for New York was
feared. She carried a crew of forty
men.
AN employee in the post Office at
Pesth, Hungary. murdered his wife, his
mother-in-law and three children, and
then drowned himself in the Danube.
ADvICEs from Honolulu say that
Minister Carter had resigned from the
cabinet and the people were clamoring
for a republic.
IL England the epidemic of influenza
was still spreading.
The election of Prince Bismarck to
seat in the German reichstag was
conceded.
ADvIcEs say that 10000 Jews would
Dt ptAAtu lAOAAl -hOSNON d. SUM do AAC
existing laws were enforced. The pop
ulation of Moscow was 200, 600, of which
100, 900 were Jews.
IN France Labor day was one of riot
and bloodshed. At Formies seven per-
sons were killed and the same number
were shot down by troops in Lyons. In
Rome, Italy, conflicts took place be-
tween workmen led by anarchists and
the authorities. and several of the for
mer were killed.
THE insurgents in Chilli were said to
have taken affairs into their own hands
and would endeavor to set up their own
government.
THE premier of Italy, Rudlni. says
that while Italy's claim in the New
Orleans massacre case is just, he will
leave it to the judgment of public
opinion, and will have no more contro-
versy over the affair.
AT Neustadt. Austria, coachman
named Schimatulla suspected a iaborer
named Naproalla of counting his
fiancee, Fraulein Kropnitz, and he
burned them both to death and then
hung himself
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tentative plan, by which to in
dictate that the departments of
the government, except the navy, will
be provided for under one roof, has
been made. These departments, to-
gether with the Smithsonian institu-
ton and the fish commission, will be
grouped about a central court of oc-
tagonal form, with the main entrance
on the lake front. The appropriation
for the building is not large enough to
permit of elaborate architecture or the
indulgence in taste for much orna-
mentation.
The most popular feature of the ex-
hibition will be the exhibit of the navy
department. Capt. X. w. Meade, L. s.
N, suggested some time ago that as
the navy would have a large and very
interesting contribution to make to the
exposition it would be desirable to pre-
sent it as an object lesson in a structure
resembling as closely as possible one of
the latest designs of the constructors of
our navy for a powerful man-of-war.
The suggestion met with prompt APP
proval, both for its novelty and practi-
caDility. Instead of arranging the eX-
hibit of the navy department in hall
II will be put in structure resembling
in every detail a ten-thousand-ton coast
line battle ship, like the Indiana, the
Massachusetts or the Oregon, now
building. 1t is considered desirable by
the inventor of this design that the
building should be erected at the lake
front.
The model is thus described by Harp
er's Weekly: 1t viii be 34S feet in
length and SO feet in width, and to all
appearances will be identical with the
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BOGOTA IN DANGER.

The South American City Threatened
with Great Disaster-FIoods in Chill.
PANAMA April 25.-In Bogota, Co
lombla, the Monserrate and Guada-
loupe hills threaten IL slide on the city
and citizens are alarmed The munic-
ipality has appointed committee to
consult with the minister of public
works and other officials and to
agree as to the measures to be
adopted in order to avert the catds-
trophe which threatens the city The
engineer of the Girard railroad has
made a report which shows that the
city is in immediate danger, as already
some houses have been damaged and
the center of the city is undermined by
water.
Regarding the floods in the Lun-
ahuana district of Chile the Lima Opin-
ion Rationale has published the follow
ing letter:
THE beautiful valley OF Lunahuana. Chill. has
experienced a typographical change and that
which was formally a delightful spot is now
desert. Fifteen craters have been continually
at work since Sunday, the ed, throw
ing out masses OF mud, which in its
precipitate descent and with the mon
strous strength Of the current is carrying
ruin in all directions, and sweeping houses be-
fore II together with their Inhabitants and the
cattle, vineyards farms and irrigation works.
All the roads north and south Of Lunahuana
have been converted into bitches, through
which water is continually pouring, and all
communication between Gazette and Chincha
is interrupted"
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THE EAST.

FRANK DRAMM started from New
York TO walk to San Francisco in four
months.
Two ENDOWMENT societies in Phila
delphia. the Benevolent Order of Active
Workers and the Bi-Monthly Benefit
association, collapsed, the former owing
$50, 600.
JAMES z. DAWSON, of Green Point,
y Y. shot his wife while temporarily
insane and then cut his throat with
razor. Both were aged people.
FLAMES near Millville, y. j., made
a swath through timber miles long
aud miles wide.
IL Pennsylvania the coke strike be
gun twelve weeks ago has cost thus far
-. 800. 600. The men had lost 81, 900, 600
in wages.
At Topeka the Chicago. Kansas &
Nebraska railroad was sold to the
United States Trust Company of New
York for So, 232, 600.
THROUGH excessive cigarette-smok-
Ing stephen McClelland, of Johnstown,
Pa, young man of 81. has become in
sane.
FIRE nearly wiped ont the little ham
let of West Bloomfield. \. Y.
Il the building trades at Pittsburgh,
Pa. 10000 men have struck for an
eight-hour day.
IL New Jersey thousands of acres
of fOr,s were swept over by fire and
several houses and outbuildings were
burned.
EVERY sawmill on the mountains be-
tween Bellefonte and Lewisburg. Pa,
was reported burned by forest fires,
aud millions OF feet of valuable timber
had also been reduced to ashes.
IL April 6O.449 immigrants landed at
the port of New York, the largest num-
Der for April since 1882 At Baltimore
II. 500 persons were landed in the same
period.
IL New Hampshire earthquake
shocks of greater or less severity and
duration were reported from Como
cook. Keene. Concord, Manchester and
other towns.
IL Philadelphia a colored woman 80
years old was arrested for disorderly
conduct.
IL a fireworks factory in New York
four girls were burned to death and
two other persons We're badly burned.
On the LIST great section of southern
New Jersey had been made desOlate by
fire. and the pine and cedar forests were
nearly wiped out. The cranberry boys
had been ruined in several places and
many houses We're burned and hundreds
of persons made homeless
FLAMES at Altoona, Pa. destroyed
two hotels and other buildings, the loss
being 500, 600.
ALONG the line of the Philadelphia &
Erie railroad in Pennsylvania forest
fires were doing immense damage.
IL New York Francois Petit fatally
shot Marie Foster because she would
not coi'sent to marry him, and then put
a bullet into his own head.
OVER LOO Italian emigrants landed
in New York.
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AT Sioux Falls, 5. d.. the jury in the
trial of Plenty-Horses, the Indian
charged with numbering Lieut. Casey,
disagreed and We're discharged.
BAsCo DoRRALL shot and killed
Thomas Stewart and his wife and John
Finn during quarrel near Richmond,
Mo.
AT San Francisco over s25, 600 worth
of Struggled opium was confiscated by
government officials.
IL Minneapolis six Touring mills with
a capacity of 900 barrels day have
united under the name of the North
western Consolidated Milling Company.
AT Waco, Tex, William Reel, who
confessed to having slandered honest
men and women, was whipped, ridden
upon a rail. tarred and feathered and
ducked in pond by a posse of citizens.
SOME miscreants set fire to a shaft of
the Consolidated Coal Company's works
at oskaloosa, Ia, and property valued
at 500. 900 was destroyed.
SEVERAL members of the Alaskan
exploring expedition sent out a year
ago from New York under the guild
ance of Hazard Wells have arrived at
Port Townsend. Wash, thus contra
dieting the report that the party had
persisted.
AUGUST NIKKIII while in a drunken
frenzy fatally shot his wife at Hough-
ton, Mich, and then killed himself
IN the Hooking and sunday valleys of
Ohio 10. 900 miners have struck for an
eight-hour day. and at other points in
Indiana and Illinois the min ers made a
-. n. H.. s.ssff xxvnrlr
THE Patriotic Order Sons of America
organized a state camp at indianapolis,
Ind, with III. G. Ellis, of Connersville,
as president.
IL the National league the percen-
tages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the I'd were: Boston, 900;
Cleveland, 600; Chicago. $50; Pitts
burgh, $50; Philadelphia, 500; New
York, 500; Brooklyn. 400; Cincinnati,
800. The percentages of clubs in the
American association were: Baltimore,
700; Boston, .667; Louisville. COS; st.
Louis, 545; Cincinnati. .435; Columbus,
400: Athletic. .353; Washington, $50.
IN the counties of Osceola, Clare,
Gladwin, Roscommon. Altoona, Oge-
NAV, Oscoda and Iosco in Michigan
lOEtSl nEtS SANdN
MOB lynched Monroe Waters (col-
ored) at Hudson. Miss, for an attempt
to poison Capt. Barrentine.
IL Minnesota severe frosts damaged
the wheat and fruit crops.
The Chicago board of trade man. r.
F. Hutchinson, who mysteriously dis
appeared, has returned TO his home
from Terre Haute. Ind.
AT Paducah, Ky. 100 buildings were
either totally wrecked, moved from
their foundations or unroofed by a cy-
clone and several people were badly in
jured.
THOMAS KNoT's family at Cambridge
City, Ind, was poisoned by eating
sausages and one child was dead and
four others were critically ill.
AFTER a twenty years search Francis
r. Lane, of Chicago, found in San
Francisco his only daughter.
FIRE nearly destroyed the town of
Lyle, Mimi. Loss. $4,000.
HENRY PIERCE after seventeen years
of separation found his mother by acct
dent at the union depot in Chicago,
where for long time she had been
selling apples.
In Denver, Col, seven consumptives
were discharged from hospital as per-
manently cured by using Koch's lymph.
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The News Of the Week.
EROM WASHINGTON.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

The United States has been notified
by the Chinese government of its I'M
willingness 10 receive Hon Henry W.
Blair as minister TO China
THE public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed the total debt to be
SI.54S. 6Ts. 45I: cash in the treasury,
S7OO, l63. SIS; debt less cash in the treas
ury. Ss4s. 5l5, 595. Decrease during
April. SI,5l4.327. Decrease since June
80. 1890. $50. 622. 2Ss.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the lst numbered 255 against POS the
preceding week and 2I1 for the CORE
spending week last year.
II this country Labor day was gen
orally observed by parades and other
festivities.
THROUGHOUT the country an liner ease
in the volume of trade was reported,
and merchants were more confident as
to the future.
DURING April 1I7,OOO gold pieces were
coined. OF the value of 1920, 600; 4, 4Ss,-
600 silver pieces Of the value of 81, 1913,
OO0 and minor coin amounting to ., 072,
600 pieces. of the value of $50. 400.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States during
the week ended ON the Sd aggregated
=. 255. or. sI3. against S1.I32. $50. 81 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week Of 1890 the decrease
amounted TO 90.
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spheres would represent the eastern and
western worlds respectively, and they
might be painted on the outside to rep
resent ordinary terrestrial globes. Near
the bottom of each globe would be
doors of ingress and egrcss. through
which passengers would pass when one
of the globes touched the ground
When one of the globes was loaded,
which would take but a few seconds
the beam would be set in motion to the
reverse position, starting very slowly
and accelerating to a rapid motion in
the middle of its course and gradually
slowing again toward the end. thus
making the motion perfectly easy, but
raising the passengers to height of
LOO feet in three or four seconds. in
stead of thirty or forty minutes that
were required to ascend the Eiffel
tower. The height attained would also
be greater In addition this tower
would have the advantage of a capa-
city many times as great as the
Eiffel tower, for while one load of pas
sengcrs was at the top enjoying the
scenery another load could be taken
into the globe that was down on the
ground. These globes would remain
with their floors horizontal by being
ballasted at the bottom, but if addition
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MURILLO'S MULATTO.
A Boy Artist Who Found Out by Accident
That He Had Talent.

A Boy Artist Who Found Out by Accident
That He Had Talent.
The famous Spanish painter MurillO
had little mulatto boy named Sebas-
tian. the son of Gomez. negro slave.
The little fellow was employed in the
workroom in which the pupils of the
master carried on their studies, and had
to grind the eolors, clean the palettes
and wait on the youths, who often
treated him with ridicule, but some
thing occurred in the studio which soon
engrossed all their attention.
One morning one of the students
found part of his work completed
which re had left unfinished the
previous day; and the amazement
of the young men increased when
day q ter day they found adj
ditions. and sometimes corrections,
made or their canvases. They accused
each ot1er of tampering with their
work la their absence. but this was
strenuously denied, and matters reached
a climax when one of them, who had
commenced a picture of the Descent
from the Cross, on going to his work in
the morning. found the head of the Ma
donna PAINTED in! How it got there
they could not imagine. as it was better
than they could have painted it; so they
told the master of the mysterious cir
cumstance, and showed him the head.
He was surprised at its excellence, and
thinking Sebastian must know about
it, as he slept in the room every night,
he told the boy that unless he found
out the unknown artist by the follow
ing morning ne should be severely
whipped.
The poor little mulattO was in an
agony of terror for he himself was the
mysterious painter. Having natural
genius and intense love for the art, ne
had all this time been secretly studying
and practising painting on the canvases
of the students before they came in the
morning, and listening earnestly to the
master whilst he was giving them in
structions, and being but a slave and in
dread of the scourge he thought that if
he confessed it were he it would only
subject him to still worse punishment
for his presumption, SO he resolved to
expunge the Madonna head and never
paint any more
But when he rose early in the morn
ing to carry out his intention, and
looked at the beautiful face. he had not
the heart to rub it out. but to work
10 finish it instead. And SO absorbed
was he as the time went by that it was
only on hearing a rustic behind him
that he turned his head and beheld the
student. with the master himself, look
ing on in admiration.
The poor little slave fell on his knees,
imploring pardon, but Murillo, kindly
raising him up. asked him what reward
he should give him for his skill and in
dustry. Sebastian only asked for his
fathers freedom. which Murillo at once
granted, and giving him his own liberty
also. received him among his pupils.
He soon distinguished himself and be
came a celebrated painter. but he was
better known as MurillO's mulattto
than by his proper name of Sebastian
Gomez He died in $780, having sur
vived his master but a few years. His
principal works may stll be seen in
Seville.-N. Y. World.
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THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
Some Late Information Regarding
the Worlds Fair.
What the Government VIII Do to Make
IL a Grand Success Two Unique
Structures Described by
Their Designers.

The governments exhibit at the
worlds fair in 1898 promises to be one
of the most interesting features of the
exposition. The naval exhibit viii GER
tainly be so. James II. Windrim, SUI
peryising architect of the treasury,
presented an alternate plan for
government building last February
This was offered at the invitation of
some of the authorities, who believed
that the plans already regarded as
final were not sufficiently striking, and
the new plans were made to show
structure of greater central elevation
of polygonal form, retaining the origi-
nal outer lines, covering the space of
A20 by 500 feet allotted to the uses of
the government. The first plans were
designed to provide a building within
the cost of $500, 900 authorized by the
congress. As the later, or alternate"
plan contemplated an expenditure of
100000, and the congress was opposed
to extending the appropriation, the first
plans were retained, and will be used
in the construction of the building.
There are as yet no plans of the de-
tails of the interior, either to show
location of exhibits or style. A
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MORE BLOOD SHED.
Officers and Coke strikers Engage in a
Fight One Man Killed; Another
Wounded.

Oficers and Coke strikers Engage in a
Fight One Man Killed; Another
Wounded.
CNIoNTowN, Pa. May 5.-Another
collision has occurred between the
coke strikers and deputies. the result
being one striker dead and one serious
ly wounded. Sunday night Superintend-
ent Gray and Pit Boss Callaghan,
of Lessen ring No. 3, went to house
No. Il TO rescue two of the men
who had been at work and were
being held at that house by the strik-
ers. They were set upon and stoned
and the deputies came to their aid.
One of the strikers tried to take a gun
from one of the deputies, when a shot
was fired by the strikers. Superin-
tendent Gray then ordered the deputies
to fire. and in the volley which fol-
lowed John Mahan, a striker, fell dead,
and another, whose name is not known,
received "A mortal wound. The strikers
then scattered, and the two men who
were held prisoners were rescued and
taken to Leisenring
superintendent Gray, Mine Boss
Callahan and Yard Boss Agnew were
arrested for murder and given pre-
liminary hearing before Squire Cot
tom, of Dunbar, who held the de-
PENDANTS for trial. Commitments were
issued and they were taken to jail
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MAY Cnt Timber

The U. $. Land Commissioner. on the
5th, issued an important order applying
to Montana, North and South Dakota.
The circular says that the settlers on
the public lands, miners, farmers and
other bona fide residents who have not
a sufficient supply of timber on their
own claims or lands for firewood. fenc-
ing or building purposes, or for neces-
sary use in developing the mineral and
natural resources of the lands owned
or occupied by them, are permitted to
procure timber from the public lands
to be used for these purposes; but not
for sale or disposal, or use on other
lands or by other persons. The law is
construed not to give the right to cut
timber on any appropriated or reserved
public lands.