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GRAND DUKE LUDWIG ".
The Ruler Of Hesse- Darmstadt and
Son-in-Law OF Victoria Dead.

The Ruler Of Hesse-Darmstadt and
Son-in-Law OF Victoria Dead.
The Grand Duke Ludwig w. died few
nights ago at Darmstadt. Three OF his
daughters and Prince Ernst Ludwig, his
heir, were at his bedside at the time Of his
death. The city is in mourning. In the
English quarter, where the Grand Duke
was especially popular. msnv houses are
draped.
The Grand Duke Ludwig Nv. was the
nephew of his predecessor on the throne OK
Hesse- Darmstadt. He was born on Sep
tember IL, 1887, and married in 1855? the
Princess Alice, second daughter OF Queen
Victoria. She died six years later after
bearing him five daughters and one son,
the present Grand Duke. In the
war Of 1866 he commanded a brigade in the
Hessian contingent, and in 1901 the
Twenty-ffth Infantry division Of the Ninth
army corps. He distinguished himself
by his bravery at Graveotte and in
the fighting on the Loire. In june,
1877, upon the death Of his uncle, Grand
Duke Ludwig ILL.,, he ascended the
throne. In 1884 he married Frau Won kole-
mine, nee Countess Czapska, but was di-
vorced from her shortly afterward. He was
liberal in his political views, and despite his
tendency toward Euglishmen and English
ways, was a much more popular ruler than
lis son ia likely to be.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

LONDON, England, has 80, 900 barmaids.
OUR coal industry employs 300 600 men.
THERE are 900 female farmers in Eng.
land.
THE average annual wages of workmen in
Great Britain we're 1881 last year.
THERE is a woman in Oregon who has
worked twenty years at stonecutting.
The authorities Of Leipsic, Germany, will
provide work for the unemployed in that
city.
The strike OF the Wellington British
Columbial coal miners is over. It lasted two
years.
In Chicago, H., there are some twenty
thousand men idle, drawn there by the
Worlds FaT.
THE National Miners Federation of Great
Britain has 17S,5l3 members on its books,
and its defense fund contains over 81, SOC, 600.
For the silk blouse waists which sell in
the cry &c Ids stores of New York City for
s6 and So the machine girls get thirty cents
for making.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company. in
statement recently issued, reports that its
"a, 600 employees receive 81, 6OO, 600 per month,
or an average Of s66.65 each.
The fur sewers Of st. Paul, Mimi, went
on strike against reducClOn Oh wages oL
thirty per cent. Their average income per
week has been only eight dollars.
The prejudice against the wearing of
whiskers by waiter is reported to be be.
coming very marked in the leading clubs
and restaurants in New York City.
ABOUT 200 women and girls were recently
thrown out of employment at Ferry's seed
establishment in Detroit, Mich, by the III.
PRODUCTION OF improved machinery.
UNEMPLOYED workmen of South Australia
secured promise from the Minister Of Pub
lie Works that the Government would e1pe.
dite the construction Of public works to AZ
ford labor for those out Of work.
The manufacturers Of Chicago arc form
ing combination 20 fight the anti-smoke
society. They reason that it is tho large
manufacturing interests that havo built up
the city, and that the asa Of soft coal IS
necessity.
FIVE experienced miners from the Com
stock mines will leave Virginia City, New,
very shortly for Peru to help develop the
mines of that country. All their expenses
to Peru are to be paid and they are TO re-
ceive SIPS month each.
THE Chinese factories are mostly quite
small establishments, seldom employing
moro than fifteen or twenty persons, Inc
uss of machinery is relatively small one.
These factories deliver cinnabar, cut chair
cane, glass, silver and amber srticies, pre-
served fruits, paper. etc.
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Congressman Springer, Chair man OF the
Ways and Means Committee Of the House
Of Representatives, has been near deaths
door, but is now considered practically out
of danger. A final consultation Of the three
attending physicians was held few days
since, and at its conclusion DR.. John a.
Vincent his Illinois physician. who lefe
Washington for home the same night, made
the following statement:
"Last Sunday and Sunday night the con-
dition Of Mr.. Springer was critical IN the
extreme, so much so that we considered him
worse than at any time during his Illness.
Since then the improvement has been steady.
till now mis- condition is such that we can see
no reason why he should not 60 right along
to complete convalescence. Up to this hour
he has held everything gained. Pulse and
temperature are normal. That distressing
cough has left him. The erysipelas has al
most entirely disappeared from his face. his
appetite Is fairly good. The delirium and
coma have been entirely, overcome.
"But his prostration isso complete that he
can scarcely speak above whisper. The
building-up process must necessarily be slow,
but with the excellent nursing and skillful
treatment of Drs. Curtis aud Verdi, recovery
now seems assured"
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Foreign.

A SERIES of explosions IN colliery at
Anderlues, Belgium, destroyed the shatting
and ventilating appliances, and cut OF the
exit Of the 200 or more miners who were In
the pit. Rescuers on the day after the acci-
dent had taken out fifty OF the miners alive
The Salisbury Government was defeated
by a vote Of 154 to 149 in the British
House Of Commons on the question of the
cancellation of certain votes FOR the survey
appropriation for the proposed Mombasa
Railway in Africa.
THE miners movement for stoppage Of
work began on the part Of the Durham (Eng.
land) miners, 80. 600 in number.
A COLLISION between police and working.
men occurred in Vienna Austria.
NAIL advices from Padilla bring news OF
the latest Indian uprising in the Arces and
Cordillera districts or Bolivia. The Toba
tribes are at the head OF the outbreak, and
with them ara many other Indians
heretofore friendly toward their Spanish
neighbors. Half dozen towns have been
destroyed, several frontier missions havH
been wiped out and murder and pilage are
common occurrences.
THE inquest into the circumstances attend
ing the death at Yokohama, Japan, Of
George Cover Robinson, a prominent
broker and society man, shot by Lieutenant
j. Il. Hetherington OF the United States
steamer Marion, was concluded with YER.
dict charging Hetherington with wilful
murder.
AS she was leaving Yokohama, Japan,
the United States steamer Alliance was run
on the new breakwater for ABOUT forty feet
OF her length. and it was expecte she would
be total loss. The British ship Mercury
sent barge and forty marines to her aid.
A NEW Chilean Cabinet has been formed.
Two men were arrested in Constantinople,
Turkey, charged with the intention Of as
sassinating the Sultan.
TYPHOID fever is raging at Villa Lerdo,
Mexico, 220 deaths having occurred within
ten days.
SIR HENRY BoUvERIE WILLIAM BRAND,
Viscount Hampden, for thirty-two years
Speaker of the British House Of Commons,
is dead.
Four of the crew of pilot boat which
foundered near Atheraeld, England, were
drowned.
ADoLPH GUENzBuRe, Of st. Petersburg,
the leading Hebrew banker In Russia, sus.
pended payment.
THERE was an explosion in Paris, Franco
attributed to Anarchists, in barracks In
which several hundred soldiers were sleep
ing; the building was badly damaged, but
nobody was hurt
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CALAMITY AT SEA.
Seven Sailors Asph yxtated on Cattle
Steamer

Seven Sailors Asph yxiated on Cattle
Steamer,
Seven men ont of fourteen who slept in the
forecastle on the steamer Navarro, which
bad sailed from Boston, Mass, for London,
England, were found dead in their bunks the
second morning out. These men are P Nc
Cabe. J. Mcdonald, J. Gourke, William
Smith, E. Gadistein, E. Psrquin and A.
Ford. The men were buried at sea. Their
seven companions had narrow escape from
the same fate The Navarro was compare
lively a new steamer of 2515 tons register,
commanded by Captain Goicoschea. She
loaded 404 head Of cattle and general
cargo.
In addition to the crew she carried four
tsen cattle men, one boss foreman and two
refrigerator men.
The fourteen cattlemen slept in the fore
castle in rather close quarters. Cattle
men do not 60 aboard q ship, as rule,
in the soberest condition, and the
arst day at sea has generally dis
quieting effect physically. The Navarro's
cattle men were OF the ordinary variety.
The first night at sea came, the cattle
were fed and bedded, and the cattle
men then sought the forecastle. The
weather was cold and stormy, the
men tired and sleepy, and some one sug-
geeted that fire be piled high with coal.
This was done, and some one else closed the
portfolios. None Of the men noticed the
lack of ventilation until too late. The
quality of the coal on the Navarro was un-
utterably bad.
One by one the men dropped to sleep,
aided, doubtless, by the gaseous atmosphere.
AS the hours rolled on the gas became
deuser, and the men il the upper
bunks were enveloped in its deadly
embrace. In the morning, as the men did
not appear at the usual hour TO attend to
the wants OF the cattle, the Captain ordered
them routed out. The boss cattleman and
some or the crew entered the torecastle and
were almost overcome by the deadly at
mosphere. They found seven men dead and
seven almost dead.
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THE WOOLEN TRADE.
Official Statistics Showing the Num-.
Der Of Factories.

Official Statistics Showing the Mum.
Der OF Factories.
Official woo;en statistics for the United
States have just been given out from WASH
ington. The number Of establishments re-
ported for 1890 as engaged in the mauufac.
ture of woolen goods proper, wnen compared
with toe number reported for 1880, shows a
decrease OF 6Ts. The nu ubsr reported in
1880 for this branca o; the industry showed
a decrease of g0l establishments from the
number reported in 1870.
A comparative state nsnt Of all branches
of WOO! nanuiac .ur except shoddy,is is given
as follows:
Number Of establishments reported in 1897,
2503; in 1880. 1889.
CAPITAL invested, 1870, ssl+, 800, ,s44; 1880,
$3.50 cal, s6s ,ao, o,,
Numoer OF han Is em?loys!, 1890, 22l, OBJ;
Wages paid, 1890, s7e.74l,2e6; 1880. s47,-
83a. OS7. .ooo .,o--o,o
Miscellaneous ex1snses 1890. $40, 547, 200;
1880 blank; no csnsus taIan.
Cost O; materials usei, 1890, S203 O95,64
1880, sl64, 37l, ,55l.
Value at factory Of goods manufactured,
1896, 1898, 231, 1O9; 1880, S2S7, ,252, BIB.
This statement !oes not include 2n IDLE
establishments reporting invested capital
amounting to IS, l33,SSO.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN received letter
from Rome announcing the appointment or
Mgr. Mcdonnell, Chancellor Of the Archdio-
cese of New York, as Bishop Of Brooklyn,
to succeed the late Bishop Loughlin.
THE New Jersey Legislature adjourned
sine die, after passing the bill legalizlng the
Reading railroad deal.
NEARLY the entire northern portion OF
New York State had taste of the great
blizzard that developed in the Northwest
few days before. The snow in some places
was two feet on the level and piled by the
gale into drifts ten feet deep. All tne
railroads suffered moro or less, many trains
having been abandoned, while others that
The storm was especially severe at Oneida,
Syracuse, Oswego, Watertown, Auburn,
Elmira and Albany.
/ FRANK AND LEWIS MOORE, of Crozer's
Mill, Chester, Penn, died few days sincs
from poisoning. 1t was supposed that the
lads stole and ate thu lunch OF some other
boy that was dosed with arsenic.
Ex-PsEs1pENr CLEVELAND has written
from his winter home in Lakewood, n. j..
to General Bragg, Of Wisconsin, touching his
position in regard to the Democratic Presi-
DENTAL nomination. He expresses willing.
ness, if called upon by his party to become
q candidate.
The new twin-screw steamer General
Meigs, built for the Quartermaster's Depart
ment, United States Navy, was launched at
Dialogues shipyard, Camden, NJ.
THE Attorney General Of Pennsylvania
has filed at Harrisburg bill to test the le-
gality Of the Reading leases.
LAcEYvILLE, Wyoming County, Penn,
is almost wholly wiped out by fire.
THE Rhode island Republicans met in
State Convention at Providence and nomi-
mated ticket headed by u. Russell Brown
for Governor.
TIE steamship Missouri sailed from New
York for Russia. Slowed away under her
matches were 1000, 600 pounds OF breadstuffs,
the voluntary offerings Of the American
people to the starving peasants Of Russia.
This, it is estimated, will he sufficient to save
and preserve 20, 900 people for one year.
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RECIPROCITY WITH FRANCE

President Carnot Signs the ConVen-
tion With the United States.
President Carnot, Of France, has signed
the commercial reciprocity convention with
the United States.
In the Chamber Of Deputies, NJ. Roche,
Minister Of Commerce, introduced the bill
confirming the commercial reciprocity con,
yention between France and the United
States. The American products admitted
by the convention under the French mini,
mum duties are canned meats, fresh and
dried table fruits, except raisins; rough
hewn, or sawn timber; wood paving 6loeks'
stave wood for casks, hops, pears ana COIL
pressed apples.
In return the United States places hides,
sugar and molasses imported from France
and her colonies on the free list.
In regard to pork imports, France main.
tains the right to seize meat proved to be
Injected with trichina-a regulation to
which the American Government assents.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR VEST. of Missouri, suffers from
insomnia.
THE King of the Belgians always sleeps on
. camp bed.
IT is the alleged intention Of the Khedivs OK
Egypt to reconquer the Soudan.
COLONEL NORTH, the Nitrate King. worked
in boiler factory when a boy.
The King Of Greece is a veritable royal
Messofanti, for he speaks twelve languages.
AFTER the Queen, the Duke Of Edinburgh
is the richest member Of the British royal
family.
JOHN HOGAN, who died in st. Louis Mo-,
tho other day, laid out the site OF Chicago
in 1886.
THE mental powers Of De Lesseps con-
structor Of the Suez Cana, show many signs
Of failing.
The Emperor Of Austria's annual income
from his private estates, independent OF his
Civil List. is about $40, ,000 600.
GLADSTONE even now takes his regular
i1-mile walk every day with as rauch en-
thusiasm, If not with quite as much Vlsor'as
in youth.
EDWARD q. HARGRAvEs whose discovery
Of aold in Australia started the rush Of gold
diggsrs to tnat country, has just died at
Sydney, at the age Of seventy-fve.
SENATOR STANFORD, Of California, has
contributed $40, 600 toward the expenses or
an chronological expedition to Colombia In
the interest of the Columbian Exposition.
JOAQUIN MILLER has written to a friend
that the story about bad son OF his ''hold-
ing up" stage coach is a pure fabrication.
The man is not related to him in any man
ner whatever.
The oldest follower Of Garibaldi, Conn
mander Giuseppe Martucci, died In Naples,
a short time since, at the age of 105. He had
taken part in every italian revolt OF the CEN
tury, and had received twenty.sl1 medals.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is having the
plans prepared for a magnificent residence
to be erected on the Fifth Avenue, New York
City, The new house will occupy almost the
entire block between Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-eighth streets.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND Is ffty.hve,
Senator German ffty-three, Senator Allison
sixty.thrse, Senator Cullom sixty-two and
Senator Carlisle fifty-six while Boies. Gray
and Sherman are past middle LIE. Grant,
VINO was inaugurated at forty-seVen, was the
youngest President.
THIS Congress has produced some very
rapid speakers, but the fastest Of them all,
it seems is Representative johnson, OF In
diana. who delivered a long speech In the
Craip-Stewart contested election case at the
rate of $50 words minute. The only other
man in the House who can approach John.
son iu rapidity of utterance Is Catchings OF
Mississippi whose usual rate is 23o words q
minute.
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BLIZZARD IN THE S0UT1
The Fruit Crop Greatly Damaged
Snow. K;

H y
A bowling norther with a heavy
swept over all Te1as. In an hour the t
mometer fell from seventy to thirty-
degrees. The clouds were heavy witt
occasional fall Of rain. Fruit and
vegetables escaped, but there is no doY
everything being in imminent dsnI
Peaches, plums apricots and pears YerS
bud or full bloom, while market gard
everywhere were far advanced.
At 10 o'clock In the morning the horsha
hurricane eliminated in storm OF sic
snow and ice. Fruit trees, covered W
full bloom, were coated with iee. Th
was hardly any hope that anything VIC
be saved.
it began showing and sleetyng and 6
tinued ali day. The ground was covered
about three inches OF snow and sleet and 4
fruit crop was DESTROYED around Jeffers
Texas. Untold damage will result.
Six inches of snow felL>at Little Ro
Ark, the heaviest known for years. GrI
damage is reported to the fruit crop eve
where. -. II
The snow reached such depth at Ml
phis, Tenn, that the electric cars on all
lines were unable to run. 1t was
heaviest fall of snow in that part OF
country for many years.
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PERHAPS JACK THE RIPPER,
A Startling Discovery Made in Liver
pool, England. H..

The police of Liverpool, England, acting
on olews brought forth bv the news that
Arthur Williams had been arrested IN
Australia for the murder Of his wife,
formerly Miss Maher Of that city, searched
the house occupied by Williams In the
Liverpool suburb Of Rainhil last July, pre-
yious to his marriage to Miss Mather. The
bodies of three children were found beneath
the fireplace, two having had their throats
cut. and the oldest, girl of twelve years
having apparently been strangled 70 deatn.
The BODY of q dark woman, identified as
visitor to Williams while he was at the Com;
mercial Hotel in Liverpool, was also found
beneath the floor, with a dead babe In her
arms. The bodies were supposed to be those
OF a former wife OF Williams and her chill
dren. -
Williams to England have corresponoeo
To the murders Of slack the Ripper" and
the alleged description. OF the Lon,
don bugaboo corresponds with that OF
Williams, who Is said to be one Arthur Ser Gnr'
tis who lived in Sydney, Australia, In 1852
with a woman Of description correspond
ing to that Of the body found in Rsinhhi'
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YOUNG GIRL LYNCHED.
She Put Poison in the Coffee and
Nearly Killed a Family.

She Put Poison in the Coffee and
Nearly Killed Family.
The ieless form Of colored girl was
found dangling from a tree on the road lead
ing to Rayville, La, few mornings ago
It was identified as that Of fifteen-year-old
servant of W. R Helmer, who resides on
the Greenville place, twenty miles from
there.
The girl became offended at the action OF
a colored man, also employed in the house,
and in seeking some mode Of revenge she de.
cided to put poison into his coffee. She put
the poison into the coffee intended for the
family meal.
About nine persons drank the concoction
and eleven had a very narrow escape from
death. The girl acknowledged that she in
tended to kill the man, and she did not care
particularly who else suffered.
That night some parties started out to
bring the girl to the Jail at Rayville. but
they had not proceeded far before a masked
party overlook them ami strung the girl up
to tree at the first crossing.
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KILLED BY ROBBERS.
Mexican Bandits Capture Safe With
10000 Silver Dollars.

One Of the heaviest and boldest robberies
ever committed in Mexico took place few
days ago near Durango. q VI. Britain,
manager Of the Vacas mines left Durango
for the mines with 10, 600 silver dollars in an
iron safe in wagon. He was accompanied
by J, Il ,Herndon, young American, and
three Mexican guards When within seven
miles Of Constancia, fifty-ave miles from
Durango, about twenty-five men rode up
from behind aud commenced shooting. Juan
Castanaeia, one Of the guards, was killed,
and Herndon was severely wounded Ths
fire of the bandits was returned by MIR.
Britain and his guard, and one Of the rob-
bers was killed.
The lash was put to the horses, but the
robbers gained rapidly on the wagon, taking
it and the money captive. Mr.; Britain ssn es,
capped into the chapparal with Mr.. Herndon
in his arms. They made their way to Con-
stancia, where they notified the military
authorities. A detachment of troops went
at once to the scene Of the robbery. but when
thew arrived at the spot they found that tns
safe had been broken open and robbed.
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FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

50rH DAY.-The Agricultural Deficiency
bill was passed-Mr. Washburne intro
duced bill to regulate immigration, pro-
viding for Commissioner in Europe and
twelve inspectors, one to be stationed at
each Of twelve European ports--The bill
to provide for tho erection of public build.
ings for postoffices in towns and cities where
the postofice receipts for three years pre-
ceding have exceeded $4,000 annually was
taken up and discussed.
51sT DAY.--The Senate took up Mr.
Stanford's Sub Treasury bill. and Mr.. Dolph
made it the subject Of tariff soeech--The
Urgent Deficiency bill was passed--Mr.
CuIlom reported tho Military Academy Ap-
propriation bill. The amount Of the bill as
it passed the House was $32S, 685, and the in
crease recommended is S3S, LIE, making the
total amount S436 S21-The Postoffice
Building bill was further discussed.
SID DAY-Mr. Vests Postof1ce Buildings
bill was passed-House bill to amend the
act to provide for the performance OF the
duties of the President in the case OF the re.
movaI, death, resignation o: inability both
of President amt Vice-Presiienr, was re-
ported and placed on the calendar. 1t pro-
vdes for the succession Of tho Secretary o.
Agriculture after the Secretary OF the In.
terior-Senate joint resolution authoriz-
ing the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at
the Worlds Fair such books, papers, docu..
ments and other articles from the library Of
Congress as may relate to Christopher
Columbus and the early history OF America
was passed.
53D DAY.-The Urgent Deficiency and
Military Academy appropriation bills were
passea--Mr Berry introduced q bill for
the adjustment of the rights OF the Indians
in the Indian Territory, with view OF hsv-
ing that Territory admitted as State. Re.
ferred-Mr. Morgan introduced bill to
increase the facilities OF the Postottics De-
partment for obtaining the use Of buildings
for postotfice purposes
54TH DAY.-The House bill ratifying the
act OF the Arizona Legislature, appropriat-
ing $50, 900 in aid Of Arizona's exhibition at
the W World's Fair, was passed--Mr Hale,
reported a bill for the construction 10y con.
rract of three battle-ships, two armored
coast defence vessels five gun boats and
eight frst.class torpedo boats---Mr. Peffer
introduced bill to create a pension trnd by
an income tax on n.Illionaires to Civ. idle
laborers work on public improvements.