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a SHARP NAVAL BATTLE.
How the CHILEAN Ironciads Behaved I'm
der Heavy Fire-Many Lives Lost.

How the CHILEAN Ironciads Behaved Tn
der Heavy Fire-Many Lives Lost.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. Private adj
vices from Valparaiso state that the
ironclad Blanco Encelada, belonging to
the insurgents, recently attempted tc
blow up the armed government tug
Florence with fish tor
pedo The torpedo missed the
tug. but struck big floating
dry-dock in the harbor, blowing it to
pieces. The Blanco Encelada was
therefore treated to hot fire of shot
and shell from every gun in the forts
and she steamed out of the harbOr.
The same night torpedo boat and the
tug Florence stole out to attack the
Blanco. The ironclad was not alone,
being in company with the sloop.
of-war O'Higgins. Both ships com.
PEELED the government vessels to re-
turn to the harbor and followed in hot
pursuit. A heavy shell from the Blanco
struck the Florence, blowing her en-
tirely out of the water and every one
of her crew of seventeen men WA
either killed or wounded. A broadside
from the O'Iliggins knocked the tor
pedo boat to pieces. The two insurgent
vessels then turned their attention
to the forts and lively battle en-
sued. A shell from the forts struck the
O'Higgins and went clear through her.
Another shell caused a gun on her
quarter deck to explode. When the
smoke cleared away the deck was found
to have been literally torn out OF the
vessel and nine men out of the guns
crew of twelve were blown to atoms
The sloop was at once taken ont of the
range of the guns in the forts.
News received under date of Feb
ruary 70 says the government was
hurrying troops toward Tacua. The
revolutionists have adopted bold plan.
They have determined to make a move
on Santiago and Valparaiso. Gen.
Urrutia, with 5000 men, has instruc-
tions to this effect. The national guard
Numbering about 10000, is divided be-
tween the government and the rebels,
and the rebels count on assertions
from the ranks of Balmaceda's army to
swell their own.
Meat is now selling at Sl.50 per
pound, potatoes at SIS per bushel and
flour at $40 per barrel. Clothing is
very high. A suit of ordinary cloth
costs between $50 and 500. The prov
inces in the hands of the rebels are
Iquique, Pisagua, Taital. Autogagasta
and Chanoval. Admiral Latorre, who
has publicly announced his allegiance
10 the executive committee of the revo-
lutionists. has had his property contis-
Gated.
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THE EAST.

IN hOfnt@Lt-E. ~ the AtCheN-OuI
clothing cutters passed resolutions re-
pudiating the Knights of Labor, and the
lockout was declared at an end.
At Media. Pa. Mrs. Caroline Schmidt.
on trial for the murder of her sister, has
been acquitted
Is March 5,S24 Italian immigrants
landed at New York. nearly double the
number that landed i'm February.
ROBBERs entered the jewelry store of
AdOlph Walter at Jersey City, y. J.,
and secured diamonds and other jewelry
valued at so. 900.
THE death of Mrs. Phoebe Campbell,
Cured at Baxter. Me.
The eminent tragedian. Edwin Booth,
announces his retirement from the
stage after this season.
SEVENTY labor leaders and strikers
We're arrested in the Pennsylvania coke
regions charged with rioting.
RHoDE ISLAND republicans carried a
sufficient number of towns at the state
election to give them the necessary 50
votes on joint ballot to elect state Off
GERS. The total vote for governor was:
Burton tnationalist), So; Davis (dem.),
- 249; Ladd rep. p. SOS; Lazy pro-.
l.S29 The next general assembly
stands: Senate. u republicans, 9 dem
ocrats. To be chosen: house, "a repub-
licans. - democrats, 70 to be chosen.
At Somerset. Pa. Joe and Dave
Nicely tbrothersl were executed for
the murder of Farmer Umberger Feb
ruarv p, 1859.
FREIGHT trains collided near IIornells-
vile. y. Y. and Fireman Morris and
Bral1emen Moon and Conroy were
killed.
A FIRE destroyed Whiteman & Keith's
shoe factory at Brocl1ton, Mass, caus-
ing q loss Of 500. 900.
4 MOB of 500 riotous strikers attacked
the Norwood coke works of Fricl1e &
Co. at Mount Pleasant. Pa. and nine
were killed by deputy sheriffs and from
thirty To forty others were wounded,
some Of them fatally. Only few dep
uties were hurt.
NEAR Ashland, Pa. fourteen coal
mines operated by the Reading com
pany were closed for an indefinite
period
FLAMES destroyed the Waverly oil re-
finery at Pittsburgh, Pa, the loss being
Sis. 900.
THE mother of the two Nicely boys
hanged at Somerset. Pa. for the muir
der Of Farmer Umberger, has become n
raving maniac.
THE Pennsylvania Construction Com
pany and the Columbia Iron & Steel
Company of Cniontown, Pa. made as
SiuurnentS with total liabilities of ST.
OOO. OO0.
DURING March -. 90 immigrants ar
rived al New York. or 1888 more than
in March. 1889. Italy leads the list
with s.SG9
Is Boston and other New England
cities heavy gale did great damage.
The Legislature of Maine has adj
/ jourucd sine die
At Lowell Mass. fire started by
T careless boys caused loss of 500. 600.
NEAR Kingston. y. Y. Italian quarry
laborcrs. after adopting denuuciatory
resolutions concerning the New Or
/ leans lvnching hoiSted an American
+ flag and then riddled it with bullets.
/ The quarry owners discharged the for
I eigut :.
+ Is the Massachusetts Legislature a
canvass Of the republican members on
the presidential question shows that
Blaine i the first choice of lO4, Harri-
son Of -. sherman of 8, Reed of and
I Alger Of =
y FIRE destroyed frame building in
Rochester. Pa. and four persons of an
Italian family persisted in the flames
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and the choctaws. They win receive

and the Choctaws. They viii receive
over 100000.
SMITH, BLAsTARD & Co.. wholesale
boot and shoe dealers at St Joseph,
Mo-, have failed for 100000.
ERNEST FORBES (colored), who COM
mitted an assault on Bertha Phipps in
Anne Arundel county. Md, November
last, was hanged at Annapolis.
THE west bank of a reservoir at Nap-
| akoneta, o., was nearly washed away
and houses for miles around were flood
ed, causing a loss of over S25O,O00
In the Holmes mines at Candelaria,
New, over 100 miners have died of the
grip.
THOMAS GADsDEN, a prominent citi-
zen, committed suicide at the grave of
his daughter at Savannah. Ga.
WARD DEMAREE. aged %. cut his sick
mothers throat at Bloomington, Ind,
and then his own. Both died instantly.
No cause is known.
IN New Orleans D. tective O'Malley.
who was charged with packing the jury
in the Malta eases. has surrendered
himself to the authorities.
The superintendent of the census has
made public the result of a special
count by races of the state of Cal
ifornia, as follows: White. 1,11l.55s;
colored, 1f.4Ss: Chinese. 71.6sl; Jap
anese, 1,O99; Indians, 1855; total,
!, POS, $50.
THE firm of Joseph Cohn & Co,
wholesale clothiers at Kansas City,
Mo. failed for $500, OOO.
GEORGE JUSTICE, the last Indian of
southern Indiana, died at Jefferson
vile, aged go years.
ALL over northern Alabama snow
fell on the 5th. IL was the first April
snow in that vicinity in over forty years.
THE death was announced of A. IL.
Walker, founder of ST. Johns, Mich, at
the age of 50 years.
Mrs. LUCRETIA NICHOLS, aged 100
years. died at Decatur, Ill.
LEvEE broke in Mississippi and
flooded portions of the counties of Issa-
queena, Sharley and South Washington,
doing great damage.
AT MINER, H., three men named
Shoup, Wood and Peterson were ar
rested on a charge of eounterfeiting
niclzels
FLAMES swept away business prop
erty valued at Sl5O,OOO al Memphis,
Tenn.
Ar Owensville, Ind. DIR. j. Bird had
both his eyes destroyed by the explo-
sion of bottle of medicine he was
shaking up.
DAVID f. DAVIS, an old man who
murdered his aged wife at Leaven-
worth. Kan, was sentenced to one
years confinement in the penitentiary,
at the end of which time he is to be
hanged.
NEAR Cleveland the tug Tempest
went to the bottom of Lake Erie, and
Howard Loomis, engineer; William
Hughes, fireman, and Harry Hershey,
raftsman. were drowned.
OK being told that she would die of
pneumonia Mrs. Emma IIoshour, of In
dianapolis. Ind, shot herself.
IN Mississippi the Farmers Alliance
has nominated Maj. Barksdale, of Jack
son, for United States senator
FIRE recently destroyed the village OF
Schiocton, Wis.
AT Bowermont, n. d., Fred Bartlett
avenged his sisters seduction by fatally
shooting three men and then killed
himself.
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I.awrer-Iike Dog.

A Boston lawyer who resides in the
suburbs is the owner of a dog that Ger.
tainly possesses the instincts of an at.
tOrsey. The other day he saw another
dog carrying off tempting looking
bone. A second dog followed at a
short distance. The le-Scrs dog
quickly conceived plan of action
worthy of an eminent legal mind. He
Immediately brought action against the
..6sf with the bone. The third dog at
once quickened his pace and lost no
time in instituting supplementary pro
ceedings in his own behalf. This as
sistance proved equivalent to "a decree
for the plaintiff for the lawyers dog
left the thiri dog to bear the brunt of
the litigation, and seizing the bone fed
to his own kennel, where possession
was truly nine points of the lawn.
Y. Journal
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IL London it was reported that
prominent Italian had warned Ameri-
cans against the danger o. touring in
Italy this year in view of the excite
ment and feeling caused in that coun-
try by the New Orleans affair and
Baron Fava's recall.
THE total number of lives lost by the
wrecking of the steamer Utopia in
Gibraltar bay was said TO be 422.
CHILL dispatches report several bloody
battles between the Balmaceda govern
ment and the insurgents. The latter
had gained control of all the northern
provinces of the country, and had taken
the cities of Iquique and Tarapaca after
the most desperate fighting. Both
towns were entirely destroyed, and
thousands of women, children and de-
fenseless men were shot down by the
successful soldiery.
The Parnellites admitted they were
beaten in the election at Sligo, in Ire
land. the nationalists claiming a ma
jority of 1000
THE death of Thomas c. Barring. head
of the great firm of London bankers,
occurred in Rome from the effects of
surgical operation.
ADvICEs from Rome say that Marquis
di Rudini. the Italian premier, had
transmitted 20 Marquis Imperiali,
charge daffairs at Washington, his re-
ply to Secretary Blaine's letter on the
subject of Baron Fava's withdrawal.
The reply was concession to
the position taken by Mr.. Blaine. The
Italian government says that it does
not ask that the New Orleans rioters
be summarily punished without the
usual form of legal prosecution and
conviction, but that it wants assurances
that justice will be done in accordance
with the usual forms of law.
THE English newspapers, in COM
menting on Australian action in declar-
ing that colony a commonwealth, said
that it was the first step toward a
declaration of independence.
BY an explosion in a coal mine al
Staffordshire, Eng, ten persons were
killed and others injured.
EXPORTS from Hamburg to America
for the first quarter of 1891 have in.
creased $1,000, 600 over the same period
in 1890.
LAST year the amount of silver ex
ported from Mexico was IS, 600, 600, anG
the amount coined S2s, 900, 900.
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THE SAME OLD ROUTE.
An Old Gentleman shows Where Man Is
"A slave of Habit.

An Old Gentleman shows Where Man Is
Slave of Habit.
When it was the old mans turn 70
have his say on the peculiarities of man
he asked:
rs there any one place that you go
to day after day about the same hOur?"
Its the only place where | have
credit" explained one young fellow, but
the old man did not deign to notice the
remark.
DO you always go by the same
route?" he asked. do you stick to the
same streets, cross over at the same
point, and so on?''
There was moments pause, and
then one of the party spoke up.
Now you call my attention to it."
he said. Il recall that | do follow pre-
cisely the same route every day. fol-
low it as closely as though it were a
beaten path through a meadow.
never thought of it before. though
The rest nodded approval and the old
man went at it again.
IF friend is with you" he said,
''don't you instinctively insist on his
following the same route?"
One man admitted that he had gone
so far as to stop on "a corner and argue
about the route because his friend
wanted to go different way.
Exactly" said the old man. land if
by any chance you do go by different
route you feel that something is wrong.
Of course ! am referring only To trips
you take regularly. I'm right"
1t was the sentiment of the gathering
that the old man was right
And that's the kind of a creature of
habit man is. he said And he's con
sistent, too-yes, indeed. If horse
wants To travel over a route he has trav-
eled regularly he'll hit the animal with
whip and get red in the face as he
talks about that blamed fool horse.
And he'll talk about this man and that
man being a slave to habit. And yet
I'll bet there isn't man in Chicago who
takes "A trip from one certain point to
another al regular intervals who isn't a
good deal more cranky about the route
than any horse that ever lived. OF
course it's small matter, but it shows
what habit is. =
And the next day every member of
that party made his usual trip-what-
ever il was-by new route, and so far
rs heard from they assert that it really
took some will power to maze the
change Chicago Tribune
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DE BRAZZA IN AFRICA.
An Explorer Who Knew How TO Work the
Natives of Africa.


Natives of Africa.
NO one who has ever seen De Brazza
on his travels, . said Stecklemann, could
fail to recognize that he was born to be
an explorer. | shall never forget the
time met him far up the XVIII river
One day | came to tribe that seldom
saw white men. They We're not very
hospitable, but finally decided to sell me
food. / got on rather friendly terms
with them, and they allowed me to camp
in the village. Suddenly | observed a
commotion among the natives. A few
carriers emerged from the forest, and
with them was slender, sad-faced,
poorly clad white man. He was tn
governor of the French Congo, and he
was off on one of his long tramps. De
Brazza approached the natives and
asked them for food
NO they said gruffiy. you can
get any food here. We have one white
man here already. You had bettergo on
your way"
THE explorer said nothing. He
simply ordered his carriers to lay down
their loads in the middle of the village.
Then one of his men unpaclled the as
Economical and other instruments, and
the explorer set about making observa-
irons for position and altitude. The
strangest sight the natives ever saw
was this white man studying his in
struments and figuring away on bit
of paper They concluded that he was
not a person to be trifled with, and that
his theodolite was q powerful fetch.
Soon crowd gathered around, but the
explorer frightened them away by his
gruff manner and impatient gestures.
"'Get away from me. Clear out.
Don't You see I'm busy? Let me alone,"
he said.
AT length he finished his work.
Some natives had been cooking their
evening meal near by. Their meat and
vegetables which had been boiling in
pot were ready, and the group gathered
around and began to eat. De Brazza
arose, took tin plate and large spoon,
quietly walked up to the pot. helped
himself literally without saying a word
to anybody, sat down by tree, and
regaled himself with native cookery.
He knew just what effect his actions
had produced upon the native mind, and
Just what to do Then he told the viii
layers his men were hungry and must
be fed. The natives gave them all they
could eat, for who dare oppose a great
medicine man who carried such re-
markable fetch as a theodolite? DE
Brazza slept in the village that night,
and next morning he paid the natives
well for what they had given him, and
Il -
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THE FAILURE RECORD.
The First Quarter of 1891 shows the
Heaviest Aggregate of Liabilities on
RacorH for a similar G.asor

Record for a similar Season.
New YORK, April 6The business
failures reported by Bradstreet's for
the first three months of 1891 are
slightly fewer in number than in 1889
and considerably less than in like
portion of 1885, the year following the
panic next preceding that of 1890.
This might be construed favora-
bly,, but it is found that the
aggregate of liabilities - S44, 34s, 900
lis the heaviest known for the first
quarler of any year since records of
this kind have been kept. The in
crease, as compared with the liabilities
of failing traders, from January l to
March 81, 1890. is 81 per cent, and as
compareu With the first quarter in 1889
/ and 1855, ga per cent in each inst ance.
| Massachuset IS, New Jersey and Penn
Z s lvania show some increases
81 total indebtedness among
failing traders as compared with 1890,
as do Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, Wisconsin. Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado and Oregon, right through the
winter wheat region, and into the
newly settled country In the south
ike story Is bolu Dy texas, heOrStd,
/ Florida, Alabama and Tennessee.
/ But in New York, Illinois, Mich
/ igan, Minnesota, California, Wash
ington, South Carolina and Lou
/ isiana the totals of liabilities showed
decreases as compared with the first
quarter of 1890, the exhibits being,
therefore, relatively the more favor
able. The heavy increase of liabilities
does not appear to be due to widespread
unsoundness in any one line of business,
but rather to the curtailing of credits
begun last December
There appear to have been fifty
four failures with liabilities of 500, 600
or more each, against thirty-six in
three months of 1890. with aggregate
debts of SIS, 81, 900 as compared with
81, 2O3, 900 last year II is worthy
of note that fourteen banking
and investment institutions are
included among the fifty-four
larger failures this year, as
against only one such in the correspond
ing exhibit for last year. This, per-
haps, goes to confirm the statement
that the trouble last November and De-
cember was a financial panic, a dis
turbance of credits. Evidently we are
not fully recovered.
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BOOTH WILL NOT RETIRE.
The Tragedian in a speech Before the
Curtain Contradiets a Rumor.

The Tragedian i'm "A speech Before the
Curtain Contradiets n Rumor.
New YORK, April 6.-When Edwin
Booth, at the close of the performance
in the Brooklyn academy of music Sat
urday afternoon, came before the cur
tain in response to applause that would
not be silenced until he had spoken, he
said in a voice that betrayed his
emotion: Ladies and gentlemen, /
don't know that have anything to say
beyond my usual speech thank
you l hope this is not the last time I
shall appear before you. Next season l
shall pay some attention to my health
and | think that l shall return to you
strengthened. He bowed. The cheer
ing and the waving burst forth again.
lie bowed again and looked sadly o~"r
the audience before he disappeared.
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The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
ERoM WASHINGTON

Is the United States and Canada the
total number of business failures for
the first quarter of the current year, as
reported to Bradstreet's, was 5. 4Ol,
against 1926 for the first quarter of
fsqO.
The Italian minister to this country,
Baron Fava, has been recalled by the
Italian government. The recall grew
ont of the New Orleans lynehing and
indicated open hostilities.
The statement OF the public debt is
sued on the Ist showed the total debt to
be Sl,544.4TI,2 S7; cash in the treasury,
Ssi94, AL $50: debt less cash in the treas
ury. $3.50. O39. 92O. Increase during
March, sf4O.255. Decrease since June
50. 1890. s55. 1921.
SECRETARY BLAINE in his reply to the
note If Fava- the Italian minister. an
nouncing his withdrawal from Wash
ington by order of his government said
this government was proceeding with
an investigation of the New Orleans af-
fair. and that its action in the matter
could not be hurried by the course in
dicated by Italy.
THE following telegram was sent to
Secretary Blaine from Fort Scott: "a
hundred thousand Kansas cowboys
would like to spend the summer in
Rome. Can YOU furnish transporta-
tion?"
THE minis in the United States dur
ing March coined s,226. 322 pieces of
money. valued at s7.IIs,1TO. The total
Of gold coined was s., 9O3. 600 and of sill
yer -, lO7.528, the balance being in
niclIels and cents.
GEN. ALBERT PIKE, aged - years,
grand commander of the Scottish Rite
Of Free Masonry and chief of the Royal
Order of Scotland for this country,
died at his home in Washington.
FIGURES from the treasury depart
ment show that there was a net in
crease of S11.6l4,4l5 in the circulation
during the month of March, principally
in silver certificates
THE closing session of the interna-
tiOnal American monetary commission
which organized in Washington last
January was held. and it was decided
that the fixing of ratio between gold
and silver and the adoption of COM
mon monetary unit did not seem at
present feasible.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Sd numbered 24S against 256 the
preceding week and 2O6 for the CORE
spending week last year.
THE treasury department has paid the
direct tax claims of New Jersey, s3S3, =
Ga. and of Ohio. 81, 49,. 025.
In was announced that no law had
ever been passed by congress making
the violation of a treaty a punishable
offense.
The exchanges at the leading clear
lighthouses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 4th aggregated
1896. sl9.9SI. against $50, O55. 1853 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding wee.s Of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1863.
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A BOXING KANGAROO.
de Can "Put Up His Dukes" with Som
OF the Best of EN-,

OF the Best of EN-.
A marked characteristic of many of
the animals at the Philadelphia ZOO is
their love of play. In fact, most OF
them seem to have forgotten that they
ever had savage instincts The largest
kangaroo in captivity is the big one at
the zoo, which the keepers have nick
named John l.. The reason they call
him by that name is because he can box
almost as well as the famous pugilist
0.mself
This really clever trick was taught
him by his keeper to whom he is very
much attached One day while going
in to clean the cage the keeper noticed
that John L." hitherto morose, show
ed decided inclination 10 play He
reared himself on his hind legs and put
up his props" just like fighter. The
keeper put his dukes mp, too. and
advanced on ''John l." The result was
a rather clumsy exhibition of the manly
art.
But this first attempt was enough for
= starter. and the big kangaroo proved
a willing pupil, so that in short time
he could do almost everything but de-
liver the Knockout blow.
Headkeeper Byrne had a round or two
with 'IIohn l." recently, and he had
to hustle around the cage pretty lively
to keep the nimble animal from getting
in one or two hard punches. When Mr..
Byrne entered the cage John L."
cooked his head TO one side and COM
Ically surveyed the visitor.
As soon as Mr.. Byrne put himself in
a fighting attitude the willy kangaroo
did likewise, and began TO fiddle his
paws up and down much after the
fashion of an old-style pugilistic ex
ponent. He slowly advanced toward
the keeper, and every move he MADE
had a suggestion about it of business
When Mr.. Byrne finally left the cage
'John L" fairly seemed to smile de
risively at the easy manner in which he
had vanquished his foe.-N. Y. Journal.
ALTHOUGH the carpet purchaser is look
ing Tor good quail y he wants one that can
bf haafau Rim hamtOD REM blip.u