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Washington.

by decision rendered by the Treasury
Department bicycles are held not to be the
personal effects Of persons arriving in this
country.
The President has nominated Naval Con-
structor Theodore D. Wilson to be chief of
the Bureau of Construction and Rspair and
chief constructor Of the Navy with the rel
ative rank of Commodore.
THE Government now proposes to melt
up the dimes, quarters and half dollars in
The Treasury and issue silver certificates
against them to relieve the monetary sit
uation.
The members of the Senate Finance Com
nittee, together with a special committee,
comprising Senators Plumb. Hale Mitchell,
Mcmillan and Power, have been named to
confer and frame scherlo for legislation to
relieve the financial condition Of the country
POSTMASTER WANAMAKER Is
sued an order appointing Captain N. NJ O..
Brooks, the Superintendent of Foreign Mails
of the Postoffice Department, and William
Potter, of Philadelphia, delegates to repre-
sent the United States at the International
Postal Congress- to convene in Vienna, Aus
tria, May 20, 1891.
. TENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM has con-
cluded examining claims recorded to Decem-
Der under the new act. There are III, 946
original invalid claims S. 1923 original wild
pw claims and s9s, $50 claims filed by old
claimants This gives only 227,000 new
claims fled under the new law.
A REPORT transmitted to the House by the
Secretary of War is to the effect that the
Connecticut River, from Long Island Sound
to Hartford. is worthy Of Improvement. at
an estimated cost OF $3.50, 600.
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rurpcH NAYS AND CYCLES OF TINE.
EcL1psEs FOR THE YEAR 1891.

In the year 1891 there will hs four eclipsess
two of the Sun and two Of the Moon.and
a transit of Mercury over the Suns disk:
!. A total eclipse Of the Moon, May 25d,
Ills in the afternoon: invisible here, but
visible generally throughout the western
part Of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, ASIA,
Africa and Europe.
2. An auuular eclipse of the Sun, June 9Th.
"a in the afternoon; invisible here, but
States British America and greater part of
Europe and North Pole.
8. A total eclipse of the Moon, November
18th; visible generally in Asia, Africa, Eu-
rope, the Atlantic Ocean, North and South
America, and the eastern part Of the Pacific
Ocean.
4. a partial eclipse Of the Sun, Decsm, 9I'1
Der 1st; invisible in North America: visible
in Southern part of South America and
South Pole.
A transit OF Mercury of the Suns Disk,
May 9th; partly visible at Washington: and
visible throughout western portions of North
and South America.
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LATER NEWS.

-FOUR Hungarian miners were killed by
fall of coal in the mines near Hazleton,
Penn. They were unmarried. The Lshigh
Valley Coal Company has resumed opera
tions at all its collieries, which have been
closed for some time past. This will cause
the employment of many thousands Of per-
sons.
SENATOR GoRMAN's residence at Laurel,
Nd, was burned to the ground. The SEN
ator's wife and daughter and the other iu-
mates of the house escaped in their night
clothes.
J. C. CALLAsBY, County Treasurer Of
Boone County, No., is short $4,000 in his
accounts, and he has assigned all his property
to his bondsmen.
In difficulty at Pulaski, Tenn, Town
Marshal Charles P. Davis was shot and al.
most instantly killed by e1-Policeman Joe
Flippen.
ROBERT BAKER, defaulting bookkeeper,
shot and instantly killed himself in Chicago,
Ill. The act was done in the presence Of his
We. and Constable Scanlan. The constable
had gone to arrest Baker.
REPORTS were received from Rapid City,
North Dakota, saying that fight had taken
place there between United States troops
and the hostile Sioux in which two officers
and fifty men were killed. The rumors were
discredited at army. headquarters in Chi
cspo Ill, and Denver, Col.
THREE HUNDRED civilized Indians on
ranches near Chico, CAL, have begun the
ghost dances. This dance is held every year
about January.
THE Secretary OF War transmitted to the
Senate preliminary report Of the board on
gun factories and steel fo-gings for high
power guns appointed by the President un'
der an act Of the last session Of Congress-.
THE caucus of Republican Senators agreed
upon scheme of financial legislation, based
upon the report Of the Caucus COMMITTEE
leaving out the two per cent. hond scheme
and also decided to have closure rule re-
ported.
A HOUSE in the native quarter Of Bombay,
India, containing 100 inmates, collapsed.
Thirty persons were killed and many in.
jured.
ANOTHER plot to murder the Car has
been discovered at st. Petersburg, Russia.
The conspirators are members of noble
mems club. Several Poles have been arrested
for completely in the plot and the clubhouse
| has been closed.
Mr.. MILNE, the Collector of Customs, at
Victoria, British Columbia, has seized the
German schooner Adele, which had just re
turned from Behring Sea- where it raided
the Pribyleff Islands, killing 400 seals
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Later Details Of the Fight.

The expedition which started from Standing
Rock Agency, South Dakota, Tor SittinSBnlrs
lonely camp, forty miles distant TO take him
dead or alive, was no haphRzard force OIL
semi-savage Indian police. The whole affair
was carefully planned military manceuVre
originating with no less q person than
General Miles himself, sanctioned by the
War Department and authorized by the
Presidents Cabinet.
Before Sitting Bulls dazed adherents had
. q chance to realize the situation the Indian
police had pulled their painting animals up
short on all sides Of the Chiefs abode. NJ
time was wasted in ceremony. The proud
old medicine man was hustled out, holSted
on a pony, and in q moment faced toward
civilization. He ragged and spluttered in
fury for moment, then, Strengthening up,
shouted not for help, but a command to his
followers.
Despite the threatening of the police and
Wiuchesters directed at his head and those
of his kinsmen, the old man retained his
presence of mind and with powerful voice
continue to direct his own rescue. Sudden-
ly there was puff Of smoke beside tree
aud the sharp crack of Winchester. A po-
liceman at Sitting Bulls right, grasping the
Chiefs bride, reeled in the saddle, and, top
piing over, was trampled under the hoofs OF
the ponies. now in the mad helt2r skeiter Oh
TSUTeaU ITOI1 Cuo VlliHSe He SIOG "aS itI1
ssantly answered by the police at the blan-
keted tribesmen, many OF whom were al
ready mounted and in frenzisd pursuit The
police volley told with deadly effect, and the
firing in a moment was general on both
sides. Sitting Bull could be heard i'll the
confusion still attempting, though captive,
to direct the fight. Raising his form ne was
beckoning his sons and warriors on when,
without warming his body Strengthened rig
idly, then dropped limp on the hard ground
The police halted round the corpse, not
knowing for a moment but thatit was trick
of the willy old Chief The sudden movement
and the fail of Sitting Bull disconnected both
parties, the police using their ponies as pro-
lection.
It was at this critical juncture that Cap
tain Fouchet;s men dashed up, and the ma
chine guns which had been put in position,
opened upon the redskins. The latter were
too undismayed at this unexpected onslaught
to stand even for moment, and all bolted
for the river. The cavalry followed only a
short distance, deeming it better policy not
to drive to desperation the now leaderless
mob.
- Ten or more hostiles and seven Of the In
dian police were killed
The Indian police killed in the fray re-
sulting in the death of Sitting Bull were
buried at Fort Yates with impressive re-
ligious and military ceremonies. Sitting
Bull was buried without honors Of any kind.
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AFRAID OF HIMSELF.

A big, tall Westernar staggered into q
wellknown hotel the other night at about
eleven o'clock, and demanded his money,
which was locked up in the safe. The clerk
bluntly told him that he couldn't have it.
.Aint the monish miner ~ asked wrath
fully. ''Yes; but you can't lave it till to-mor-
row. You'd better go to your room" The
guest begged and threatened and demanded,
but to no purpose. Then he let a bell boy
take him upstairs. When he had gone the
clerk said to a bystander: Tomorrow
morning that man will come down here and
thank me for refusing to let him have the
money. Whenever he comes to town with
the intention Of going on~a spree he takes out,
of his wallet all the money he wishes to spend
that night and hands me the remainder, tell
ing me to lock it up for him and refuse to
LET him have it until he gets seber.; About
midnight or little later he will come in and
do as he did just now-try to make me gi4
up the cash. But tomorrow morning he wiE
come down and thank me for refusing. ."-t'
New York Tribune. -. ..... 80. s
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A src-Y. oE JOHN B. aouaa. .

On summer night temperance meeting
was held in New Haven, Conn. A gentle
man. standing under the old elms Of that city,
saw Cough, partially drunk, vending his
way to a saloon. He touched him on the
shoulder, and, in a sympathetic tone, be.
sought his ''shipwrecked brother" to 60
along with him to the temperance meeting.
Mr.. Cough consented, and, greatly ims
5{ the sPpssi al ts to ThSh aSns he s'ad
subsequent history as temperance leader is
known to the civilized world. The gentle
>nan who relates this incident says that ha
mas never forgotten that moonlight meeting
with Cough in New Haven. Whenever, ID
after years, he heard the thunderous ap
plause that greeted John B. Cough. on th,
temperance platform, he caught the echo q
that soft tap on the shoulder, under the grard
old elms of the New England capital
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A cuafoUs DREAM.

A laborer at the Dundee harbor lately told
his wife, on awakening, a curious dream
which he had during the night. He dreamed
that he saw coming toward him, in order,
four rats The first was one very fat, and
was followed by two lean rats, the rear rat
being blind. The dreamer was greatly per-
picked as to what evil might follow, as it
has been understood that to dream Of rata
denotes coming calamity: He appealed to
his wife concerning this, but sae, poor
sharp lad, who heard his father tell the story,
volunteered to be the interpreter. The fat
rat" he said, ''is the man who keeps the
public house, that ye gang till sac often, and
the twa lean anes are me and my mither, and
the blind ane is yersef, father. Scotch
Paper.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

EX-SENATOR FRANK B. ARNOLD COM
,nitted suicide in his Office at Undilla, n. Y,
by shooting himself. MIR. Arnold, since his
defeat last November for Congressman from
that district, has been despondent and ct
times acted strangely.
HENRY BLUE, clerk employed by
Thomas H. Perkins & Co., stock brokers OF
Boston, Mass, has been arrested charged
with the embezzlenlent of S17,345 from his
employers.
n New York City Henry Siebert, tobacco
merchant, failed with liabilities of S23O, OOO;
Venable & Heynan, liquor dealers, assigned
owing nearly S490, 900; Tarlow & Hutshlng,
manufacturers Of worstei knit goods, sus-
pended for *200,D00.
PECK, MARTIN s. Co.. the largest firm in
the building material business in New YORK
City, have made an assignment. The llablll-
ties are $500, Coz, and assets S40OO 900.
THE tugboat Vandercook sank suddenly
without known cause at q Jersey City IN. J.)
drv dock and two of the crew were drowned
il. their hunks.
THIaTY-sIX patients have received in
jections of Professor Koch's lymph at five
different institutions in New York City.
They are doing well.
SECRETARY WINDOW went from Washing.
ton to New Y ork City TO discuss tne nnanciai
situation with bank presidents.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Pottstown,
Penn. A high wind prevailed and the
flames, which originated from an over
heated stove, spread with wonderful rapidity,
and burned out half dozen business firms
and their buildings. The loss will reach
Sl50,0UO.
MAR1s g. SMITH, bankers of Philadelphia,
Penn, assigned, with liabilities of $780, 600.
The Lorillard Brick Works Company, ot
New York City, passed into the hands OF a rS
ceiver. The liabilities are 81, 50O,009
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM A
WALLAcE's bank at Clearfeld, Penn, closet
its door, The depositors are safe by mort
gage on real estate for three times tht
amount of deposit. The liabilities are $3.50,
900 and assets $3.50 900.
WALTER POTTER, of the bankrupt firm o.
Potter Lowell & Co., Boston, Mass, was ar
rested on a charge Of embezzlement.
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KILLED HIS FATHER.
A Boys Crime, With the Object or
Collecting Life Insurance.

Paul Holz, aged seventeen, rushed into the
West Chicago police. station, Chicago ILL.,,
at 1890 o'clock the other night and said
his father had committed suicide
by cutting his throat. When the
officers arrived at the house they fonnd the
elder HoIz lying on the bed, with blood grlsa,,
ing from deep cash Oil the neck. He raised
himself up on his arm and pointing his finger
at his son Paul, said: He did it. He killed
me for my insurance"
The son was arrested and lockedup After
being in the cell few minutes the son con-
fesssd that he had made the attempt on hls
fathers life.
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NO PLgUR0-P PNEUMONIA.
Annual Report Of the Bureau OF
Animal Industry.

Annual Report or the bureau ot
Animal Industry.
The report of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try. recently sent to the United State
Senate shows that during the last
wear no discovery has been made OF
CONTAGIOUS pleuro-pneumonia outside of
the districts which were infected
last wear. The eradication OF the
disease. says the report, has been most rapid
since April, and most gratifying improve.
ment in the condition of cattle throughout
the country is noted. Regarding cattle
shipped aboard, the report says the practically
COMPLETE success of the work Of eradlca-
tion of the disease from the United States
removes the cause alleged by foreign Govern
plents for the exclusion of American cattle
from their countries.
Touching the question of incubation ana
by W DR.. Koch, the report says that the posi-
bility of applying bacterial products to
the M prevention and cure Of diseases was
6rst made evident by the Investigations OF
the Bureau Of Animal Industry, and tnat II
DR.. Kochs remedy is Of the nature supposed
his method consists in the application OF
principle discovered here.
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AN ALPINE ACCIDENT.
Seven Chasseurs Swept Into Terrible
Abyss.

The nJ -5 OF horrible accident in the Alps
has been received from Nice. Seven Alpine
chasseurs who We're working under command
of an officer at the new for tress on the sum-
NIT of Mount Sacharal, between La Briga
and Riviere, were swept, with their superior,
by sudden blast over precipice into ter
rible abyss. Five of the men and the
officer fell distance of 25OO feet.
Their bodies have been recovered in fright
fully mutilated condition. Two of the men
managed to cling TO some rocks and escaped
death.
Three priests, while crossing frozen lake
near Grenoble, broke thr ough the ice and
were drowned.
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WHOLESALE MURDER.
After Killing Five Persons, Joplin
Commits Suicide.

Charles Joplin shot and killed five persons
in one day recently, at the Jenny lead mine,
twelve miles from Fort Smith, Ark, and
then committed suicide by shooting himself.
Those he killed were John Miller, his wife,
his grown daughter, Lou Miller; DR.. Stew
art, a prominent physician, and man whose
name is not known.
The shooting occurred late in the day.
The only clue to the cause of the killing lies
in report that Dr. Stewart intinlatei that
Joplin was the cause Of Miss Miller's trouble.
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The French minister Of war lately
offered prize for ths~swiftest bird in
o flight from Perigueux to Paris, 80
miles. There were 2,f49 entries, and
the winner did the distance in 7 hours
81 minutes.
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KILLED IN A CAGE.

Fatal Accident in a Belgian Colliery
by the Breaking of a Rope.
A terrible accident occurred at the Es-
coufiaul colliery, at Hornu, province of
Hainaut, Belgium. A shift of eighteen men
had entered the cage and tho engine
had started to lower them into the
pit Suddenly and without warning the rope
connecting the cage with the drum broke
and the men were precipitated to the bot
tom Of the shaft. Every one OF the occupants
of the cage was killed.
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A HAYTIAN TRAGEDY.
Six Laborers Killed While Repair
ing 4 Bridge.

Six LaborerS Killed w mic hepaif
ing 4 Bridge.
The Atlas line steamship Alvo just from
Hayti reports terrible loss of life and the
iniuring of a small army Of men inland
twenty miles from Port Idmon' The
accide..t occurred at Matina Bridge, tweu-
ty-two miles from Port Simon. A sec
ton of the bridge seventy feet long, which
rested on two heavy columns, fell while al
most the entire force Of men employed Were
repairingit, Six men wero killed outright
and almost every man engaged was injured
The bedding of the two columns had beer
known to be bad ever since last winter, ant
a large force of men was sent to strengthen it
Four colored laborers were killed. Th'
fireman, white man, was killed, and tn
fireman Of the car shops was also killed. Th
number of injured was unknown
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Still Fighting the Lotteries.
The Postmaster General issued the follow.

The Postmaster General issued the follow.
ing order:
"Postmasters will hereafter intercept the
transmission in the mails aud decline to de-
liver at their respective Offices any circulars
in sealed envelopes brought into the United
States from Mexico prepaid at less than ths
6ve-cent rate, and will whenever such matter
is discovered in transit, or in the Office OF de-
livery, hold the same and report the fact to
the Postmaster-Geue for instructions as
to the disposal Of it.
''This order is especially inten led to apply
to the circulars Of Mexican lotteries which
have heretofore been received in sealed en-
velopes the corners OF which have been clipped
and the postage OF which has been prepaid by
Mexican stamps Of the denomination of one
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To Invite Foreigners to the Fair.

Ex-senator Palmer President Of the
Worlds Fair Commission, called on the
President and submitted to him papers show
ing that the Worlds Fair had reached that
point in organization that proclamation
requesting foreign countries to participate in
it should be issued. The papers were re-
ferred by the President to Attorney-General
Miller to examine as to the sufhciency OF the
financial guarantees, etc.
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a Contest in PENNSYLVANIA,

Thomas H. Greevy has served notice on
Edward Scull, the Republican Representa-
tive elect to the Fifty.second Congress from
the Twentieth District Of Pennsylvania. OF
his intention to contest the right to his
(Sculrs) seat in the House. Mr.. SculIs ma
iority on the face OF the returns was $40.
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THE FOUR SEASONS.
MClNING STARS.

MOANING STARS.
Venus, until Sept. IL.
Mars, not this year.
Jupiter, after Feb. 13 until Sept s..
Saturn. until Mar. 4, after Sept 13.
Mercury, after Jan. 13 until Mar. 90, after
May until July Z, after Sept. ID until Oct.
27. after Dec IS.
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TEMPERANCE.
WHAT WRECKS MEMS FACES.

Rum has no traducer like the face and fate
of one of the men who, short time ago. was
pointed out to everyone as 'rhe glass OF
fashion and mold of form" When his name
Is spoken now men laugh at it, while ladies
who have heard Of him and see him in these
days for the first time, marvel aloud that
such a face and figure ever could have led
yle rest. Late hours, deep potations, long
continued self-indulgence-thess are the
Sacill that have wrought that wrecE OF
which all the city talks just now.
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IT is said that the first Of next January
sill in all probability see the end OF the use
a; natural gas for manufacturing purposes.
IS the supply is practically exhausted. J
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DIED IN HIS COFFIN.
Death Finally Overlook Eccentric
Barney Frickcrs.

Barney Frickers, well known character
of Alliance, Ohio. died on recent mornin :
iu a coffin. For twenty years it has been his
custom to sleep every night in a coffin of his
own manufacture, believing that he was
about to die He always robed himself in a
shroud before retiring. The coffin is of oak,
very strong. and covered with allesorical
subjects Frickers was seventy-fye years
old. A severe illness and the death Of his
wife many years ago are believed to have un-
settled his mind. He had small income.
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Mrs. SMELL, widow, Of the murdered
Chicago millionaire, has renewed her offer OF
k5O 900 reward for the arrest Of Tascott.
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EVENING STARS.

EVENING STARS.
Venus. after Sept. 18th.
Mars, throughout the year
Jupiter, until Feb. IS, after Sept. ).
Saturn, after Mar. 4, until Sept. 13.
Mercury y, until JAM 13, after Mar: % until
May g. after July Z until Sept. l3, after Oct
27 until Dec. %.
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THREE TRAMPS PERISH.
Burned to Death in Barn They Had
Set on Fire.

Three tramps paid the penalty of smoking
in q barn in Illinois on recent night. They
entered the large barn belonging to
John Brldsen, Of Brimfold, and
sought shelter in the hay loft. 1t IS
supposed they smoked before going to sleep,
and dropped spark in the hay; Ine Darn
were totally destroyed. No one knows who
the men were or where they came FROM !
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Armament of the New Cruisers.

The policy Of the Navy Department is to
strengthen the armament Of the new cruisers.
This has been done In several of the vessels
the last change being in the 5500-ton cruiser,
known as Number q, whose battery now con-
ssts Of ten 5-inch and four s-inch guns. The
latter pieces are Of 40 calibre, q type de-
signed in the Ordnance Bureau. 1t is now
proposed to increase the strength of the
armament of Cruisers Z, 8, 9, 10 and II by
changing the present 4-inch guns to 5-inch
weapons and lengthening the 6-inch rifles
from 35-calibre to 40-calibre. The 6-inch guns
of 4O-callbre were designed by the Ordnance
Bureau and fors ings for two Of them have
already been ordered. The rapid firing
feature, that is, fixed ammunition, cartridge
case, charge and projectile in one, will prob
ably not be adopted for this calibre on
account of excessive weight. The Depart
ment has no information that this calibre of
the 9-inch firing variety has been entirely
successful abroad. The change will make
the armament of Cruisers and ten 5-inch
rapid firing guns and one 6-inch breech-
loading rifle; Of Cruisers 8, 10 and IL eight
5-inch rapid firing guns and two 6-inch
rifles