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CRUSHED TO DEATH.
A Mass of Stone Falls Into a Quarry
at West Rutland, VT.

at West Rutland, VT.
By the cave-in Of q wall in West Rur.
iand (Vt) quarry, operated by the Vermont
Marble Company, with which Senator Proc.
tor is connected, seven man were killed out.
right, one died few hours later and a
number OF others injured.
The victims, who were members OF a gang
at work channaling and taking away refuse.
were buried beneath q mass OF stone large
enough to fill fifteen freight cars, and their
bodies were horribly mangled.
As soon as the accident happened the elec-
trio danger signal was rung in at the coll
pany's office and the mills, and work
everywhere was stopped at once. All the
doctors in West Rutland and Rutland were
called and rsspondsd quickly. Scores Of
men were alss sent down into the quarry.
By o'clock the vicinity OF the quarry was
crowded. Many OF the relatives Of the
killed or injured were On hand, and they
were frantic with grief. Many OF the
women tried to rush down into the quarry,
but were prevented from doing 30.
The quarry is known as the Shsldon
''Coverei Quarry" or quarry No. 8. Depth
and surface considered, it is the largest
depth is over two hundred and fifty feet.
and from this the quarry runs eastward and
downward under the hill 80 feet or more.
The loose pieces were removed and blasts
put in to remove tho larger pieces, some OF
which wsighst many tons. Soon one dead
body was found aud taken from under the
shelf into tho opsn part Of tho quarry. It
was so mutilated it could not be recognized.
Before any moro dead could be found
large mass OF rock had to be blasted away,
which took some time. Under the middle of
a piece Of rock enough to I'LL two freight
cars were found the bodies OF two men so
closely jammed together that they looked
like one. Neither body could be recognized.
The cause Of thscaving il Of the quarry
is not positively known. The mass OF stone
which covered the men who were at work
close by was eighty feet in length and twenty
feet wide.
Itfell without the least warning and all
who were at morS there were at once COW
cred. A prominent marble company Official
believes that the stone was loosened by
freezing Eighty men were at work in the
quarry.
T. A. Mcguire undertook to go into the
quarry after the disaster. He fell from the
ladder forty feet, and was seriously, perhaps
fatally, injured.
All the victims carried accident insurance
with the Vermont Marble Company. The
families Of the dead will receive $500 each 10
all cases, with one-half the yearly wages il
the wages were over $1,000 year. The in
jured men will receive one-half their weekly
wages and all doctors bills.
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The effect Of this was that there were two
contsnding legislative bodies two Speakers
and two sets Of officers.
An all night session was held on the first
night Of the organization, members Of both
bodies camping in the legislative halls.
There were no sleeping accommodations and
the members slept on the floor, the two rival
speakers sharing one blanket, both being on
the watch for Developments.
The Senate which has q Populist ma
jority, recognized the House organized by
the Populists but the Republican House re =
fused to recognize the notification Of this
fact sent them BY the Senate. The Gov
ernor. who is Populist, gave an official
recognition to the Populist organization.
Both Houses came to temporary agree
ment and adjourned. Committees Of Con-
ference were appointed with view to a SET
tlement. In the meantime the Populists
elected State Treasurer, who undertook to
take possession of his office without filing
legal bond. This was defeated by the law.
full incumbent. The Republicans who had
received certificates Of election were made
to obtain possession, the incumbsnts refus-
ing to surrender their offices 20 men about
whose election there was any dispute.
Judge John Martin. the leader Of the fu-
sion Democracy Of Kansas, was elected to
the United States Ssnate by combination
OF Populists and Democrats on January rs.
He obtained the solid vote Of the twenty-five
Populists and Democrats in the Senate, and
in the Populist House he received sirty.two
votes.
The Republicans are unable to muster a
quorum to vote on the Senatorship. If the
courts decide that the Republicans have the
constitutional lower House then they will
elect another Senator, and the contest for
recognition will be transferred to Washing
ton.
tba Rsnnbcass to the TTntes eSeI Sta5ss
and he will make claim for The seat now
held by Senator Perkins.
Senator Perkins holds his seat by app point.
ment and he will refuse to surrender it to
Judge Martin should the latter endeavor to
tat 10
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woRLD's FAIR NOTES.

TIE Michigan Worlds Fair Board VIII
make an exhibition OF Its newspapers
GRRMANY's building at the Wrids FAR
is handsome structure. costiag $loaVO snn
is nearly completed. 4. |.
TIE Royal Chorus Society OF .Bslginm,
more than q bundled strong, VIII vlSat tno
Worlds Fair and take part in tho concerW
in choral hall. --a 2G
In the Fine Arts exhibit at the Worlds
Fair will appear three pictures from Wind
cor Castle, loaned by Queen VictortA, and
several from the Prince OF Waless coHec-
ton. -4... 80. =
TIE Japanese royal family viii be repre-
ssnted at the Worlds Fair. Ittsannonneed
positively that the eldest son and probable
successor Of the Mikado will visit Chicagon
September.
THE list Of Germauy's exhibitors at the
Fair contains 5077 names. Represented IN
it are $50 cities and towns OF the Enptra
and OF these forty cities send more tnan ssn
exhibits each.
TIE King of Siam. at his own expense has
decided to make an interesting display In
the uanufs ctures. agricultural ana forestry
buildings at the Worlds Fair, and Will also
erect a royal pavilion Of elaborate carved
woods
TIE winning exhibitors at tho Worlds
Fair will ZACH receive q bronzs medal and
a handsome diploma, s.teing forth tho spe-
ciic purpose for which tho medal was
awarded. Provision will be made. IL Is e1-
pected. for 7ai00O medals and diplomas
TIE Quesn Regent Of Spain will be repre-
ssntsd at the Worlds Columbian E1oosnon
by the Infauta Eu!aha and her husoano,
Prince Antoine. Tns Spanish CABINET mas
sanctioned their visit to toe Worlds tair as
representatives of'Qusen Regent Chrisana.
An English salt concern has made salt
statue. modelled after Bsrtholdrs "Aoery
Enlightening the World, in New YORK mar
bor. The statue Is Ave and q haif fees nign
and stands on rock salt base seven ven tssS ssS
high. rhs salt WAS taken from q mine $oo
feet deem. The Ensiisa firm will sena IL aS
an exhibit to tho Worlds Fair.
TIE Paterson and Newark mills OF New
.lersey will make q splendid silk exhibit at
the Worlds Fair. The silk In all its stages
of manufacture will be displayed, toZetner
with the silk worms and cocoons from whica
the silken threads will be spun and passed
through various manipulatious until tney
appear in the finished silk texture ready Tor
the market. -.fn
THE "whits city" ns the Worlds Fair
grounds and buildin q are tar nsd, mas tne
Equipment Of mo lei municipality. lt mas
a combined water capacity OF 81, OOO. OO
gallons q day, and, will soon have loO, 0C0.. 01.
600. It has 25 miles Of water mains and sSl
hydrants. A hundred more will be pro.
yidei. There are steam fire engines,
chemical engines, a Lter truck. wafer c
tower, 40 hose carts 2i $50 feet Of nose, loo
hand fire sxtinguisn :rs, $500 fire p,lls, .
steam fire. boat, IS firemen, 100 alarm boxes,
I5O patrol telephones, so guards complete
electric light and sewerage systems, etc.,
etc. By the time tue Fair opens many OF
these facilities ami equipments will be
GREATLY increased an perfected.
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Washington.

THE Hawaiian ENJOYS had two confer
ences with the Secretary OF Staee and ar.
ranged for an interview. with tho President.
A HIGHLY successful test OF the new
nickel.steel Harvayizsi armor-plats took
niece at the Indian Head proving grounds.
near Washington. Four shots were fred
and the target stood the assault nobly.
TIE President accepted thu resignation OF
General T. ). Morgan, Com missioner OF In
dian Affairs to take effect on Marcn 4tn,
and granted him leave OF absencs until the
end OF bis term.
THE President made the following nomina-
tions: J. V. J.. FIndlay, OF Maryland, arol
traitor on the part of the United States; u.
q. Shields, of Missouri, agent Of the United
States, and A. W. Ferguson, OF the District
of Co.umbis, Secretary on tue part OF the
United States under the treaty for Claims
Commission concluded between sne onl1sa
States and Chile on August Z, 1872.
TIE credentials of Edward Murphy, Jr.,
as Senator from tho State OF New York, to
succeed Mr.. Hiscock, and OK John L. "a Mit-
chell. as Senator from the State OF Wis.
consi, TO succeed Mr.. Sawyer, wers pre-
sentsd' read and placed on file In the
Senate.
PRESIDENT HARRISON com plains that
after tho 1uWlBation VI .uo
following his granddaughter illness with
scarlet fever, some very valuable memoran-
da, documents and jewelry were missing.
THE Senate Judiciary Committee reported
favorably the nomination OF Howell 4.
Jackson TO be an Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court OF the United States.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOSTER autographed
to Minister Stevens at aouolulu, approval
of bis action in afhrnativsly responding to
the request OF the Provisional Governnsnt
of Hawaii for the establishment OF protec'
torste over the islands pending negotiations
for the annexation of the islands to the
United States.
THE President sent to the Senate the
nomination Of MYron NJ. Parker. OF the Dis.
trict of Columbia, to b. q Commissioner @ ot
the District o. Columbia, vice john W..
Douglas, whose term has expired
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South and West.

ALBERT AND ELLEN HEDGEsoN, brother
and sister, were drowned while coastlnS on
the river at Rock Island, III.
GEORGE SnvEY, Assistant Postmaster In
Spokane, Washington. killed himselt a few
davs since. He was short in his accounts
$780, He was under SO. 000 bonds.
THE dynamite cruiser Vesuvius continued
the test of her pneumatic guns at Fort
Royal, 8. c., with satisfactory results
THE business part of the village Of Dexter,
New, was destroyed by fire. The loss Is
about $2O0, 900.
LIEUTENANT VANCE, Company e, Six
teenth Infantry, United States Army, lately
court m artiaied aud dismissed from the SER
vice for making an assault on the vile OF
Lieutenant Johnstone, Of the same regiment,
fatally shot himself through the head at
Fort Douglas. Utah.
POLICEMAN W. F. CHANDLER tried to ar
rest colored man named Crawford at Blue.
fold. w.. Va. Each drew q revolver and
shot the other dead, the ball in each case
entering tho neck and severing the 1uguiar
vein.
TIE colored mau, Fields, who assaulted
Mrs. Jack White a few miles from memphis,
was lynchei at'Forsst Hill, Tenn, by sew
eral hundred citizens.
LIZZIE HARVEY, aged nine years snoG
and killed George Turner, colored, aged
twenty, at Warfield, Ky. he was employed
by the child's father. and had o6ended.h her
in some way.
DocroR NoRv1N GREEN. President OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company, die! at
his home in Louisville. KY. he succeeded
William Orton in 1873; was born in Ken
lucky in 1918.
Aside occurred in the wall rock in one
Of the tunnels at the Orient mines, Grove,
Col. Six men were killed and six injured.
A BIG oil vein struck near Toledo Ohio,
flowed from a we'll on the Hoagland Farm
at tho rate Of 1000 barrels day, and, as IL
could not be shut of, the oil ran all over the
country.
SUPERB day and night Mardi Gras
parades were held at New Orleans La The
PROFESSIONS moved without accident among
the 100, 900 people who lined the miles OF
streets through which the colu nns passed.
A A. BARTLETT and George Shook, two
prominent citizsns Of Akron, Ohio. who left
there last December by boat for New Haven
Fla. were lost of Britain Island, Gulf OF
Mexico. Their boat was light steam
launch.
JOHN KIRBY, on behalf of the Texas Fine
Timber Company, New England syndlcate,
effected at Houston, Texas, the largest sale
of standing timber ever recorded IN tns
South. The amount involved is $1'O, O,Oco.
Tho Relianc, Lumber Company, OF Beau
mont was the purchaser.
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DWARF TREE DEAD.

The Little Japanese Cedar Killed by
the Chicago Climate.
The dwarf cedar tree sent by the Imperial
Japanese Gardens to the Worlds Fair at
Chicago, ILL.,, is dead. 1t couldn't stand the
climate. The tree was 100 years old or more,
and was three feet high. Whom tho dwarf
was shipped from Japan the native garden
ers neglected to put a sufficient supply OF
Jaranese soil about its roots. The best Amer.
ican dirt was applied but did no good, and
tho little tree died.
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Origin OF the Trouble.

The Democrats and the Pooulsts fused on
the electoral ticket at the Presidential cleo
tiop, and when the vote was canvassed it
stood as follows: Harrison. Republican. 1885,
1S4: Weaver, Populist, 163, III, and Bidwell,
Prohibitionist. 1853.
The canvass Of the State ticket was not
quite so simple. The State Board Of Canvass
ers gave certificates to sixty-taree Republic
cans for the House Of Representatives, fifty
six Populists, five Democrats and one indie.
pendent. On January 10 an attemnt was
made by ths Populists to organize ths House.
The Indeo sndent member voted with
them, br5 tbs Democrats abstained
from vot. g. In order that an Or
ganization might be effected, how
ever, the = ,pulists swors in three men
who had he ii defeated, and, it il alleged,
admitted seven others who had no claims to
Seats AMI u srtook to conduct legislation.
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DISASTROUS HURRICANE.
Buildings Wrecked and Lives Lost
in Madagascar.

A dispatch from ZANZIBAR. Africa, tells OF
irightful hurricane that swept over Ma Ia
gascar doing immense damage both in ths
interior AMI on the coast
AtTauanarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
buildings were wreci cd and lives lost, and
at the port OF Mahanoro. on the east coast,
a number OF vesses have been missing since
the storm, and it was feared that they have
gone down with all on board. A vessel
laden with wheat has been wrecked at Ma
hala.
Reports from tbs interior and various
points on the coast OF the island show that
tho hurricane wrought destruction through.
out vast area
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In the House.

4erH DAY.-The friends Of silver sustained
the demand for the previous question on the
Silver Purchase bill-The Legislative bill
was passsd-The Repeal bill was passed
by a vote Of 152 to I43.
47rH DAY.-The Invalid Pension Appro-
priation bill was considered In COMMITTEES
of the Whole. Without closing the gen
eral debate the committee arose, and the
House took recess untilS O'clock, the even.
ing session being devoted to the considera-
ton OF private pension bills.
4sTH DAY.-fhe House resumed, In Com.
mittee of tho Whole, the consideration Of the
Invalid Pension Appropriation bill. Re-
publicans flibustsred against limiting the
pension debate--The committee then rose,
and. public business having been suspended,
the House paid its need Of respect to the
memory Of the late Edward F. Mcdonald,
of New Jersey. Eulogies were delivered by
Messrs. English, Geissenhamer, Bergen,
Campbell, Cummings, Covert, Cadmus and
Newberry, and then, as marx OF respect to
the memory Of the deceased. the House ad'
journed.
49rH DAY.-The conference report on the
Fertilization Appropriation bill was agreed
to-The District OF Columbia Committee
then took the floor. Half dozen measures
OF entirely local import were passed---Ihe
House refused to prohibit the use Of wine
at the Inauguration ball on March 4.
5OTa DAY. The Invalid Pension Appro.
priation bill was taken up. After further
debate the committee rose, and the House.
without coming to any conclusion thereon,
adjourned.
5lsr DAY.-The House passed the Senate
bill granting pension Of $50 q month to
the widow OF General Abner Doubleday
The house resumed the consideration o. the
Pension Appropriation bill, general debate
on which was closed.
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TIE Insurance companies have settled the
Claims of the widow Of F. ]. Thrun, of
Harshaeld, Wis, who had $59, 900 insurance
on his life. She said she got the s11, 900
which paid the premiums from box Of gold
buried In the garden, having bean attracted
to the spot by q small blue llama
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COMMISSIONER EVANS, representing Queen
Lilinokalani, in an interview says the cnief
objection to an annexation OF the hawallan
Islands by tho United states is tns popuis'
tion Of 20. 600 Chinese coolies.
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TWO BOYS LYNCHED.
Five Others Who Confessed to ArSoc
Had Narrow Escape.

Had q Narrow Escape.
Two colored boys-Frauk Harrsu and
Cornelius Felder-who confessed to having
robbed and burned Lse Robinson's store at
Dickey, Amite County, Miss, few nights
ago were banged by mob OF angry
citizens a few hundred yards from where the
crime was committed.
The confession Of tho boys implicated hve
other colored men, who were promptly ar.
rested and would have been hanged also II
thew had not bsen rescued by sheriffs
posse and carried to the County Jail at LiSa
TtY.
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Mrs. FRrrz HINKLEY (uee Florencs
Blythsl OF San Francisco. parts with tweu-
ty.sevsn and half par cent. Of her newly
Inherited S. 000. 900 estate In lawyers fees.
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In 1891 Alabama produced 4.900oJ0 tons
OF coal. In 1892 it was 5, ,270, 600 tons an in
crease Of nearly twenty-five per sent.
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FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
In tho Senate.

ADD DAY.-The whole OF the days session
after the morning hour was devoted to
discussion of the Railroad Automatic Car
44TH DAY.-The vice-Presidentp presented
the memorial OF the Chicago Chamber OF
Commerce favoring the anne xation OF the
Hawaiian Islands-The conference report
on the bill to restore to the public domain
a portion Of the White Mountain Apache
Indian reservation was agreed To-
The Railroad Car Coupler bill was further
discussed. but went over-The Legis.
lative, Executive and Judicial Appropria-
ton bill was referred.
45rH DAY.-A bill was discussed to ap-
praise the improvements made by actual
settlers upon the public lands holding in
good faith under tho United States, IN the
Deauioa and Yosemite reservations In
Calffornia-The Car Coupler bill was
passed by vote of thirty-nine to ten
The conference report on the Fortlhcations
moved to take up the Nicaragua Canal bill,
so as to make it the unfinished business" !"
The motion was agreed to-yeas thirty
three. nays nineteen.
46rH DlY.-The Senate refused to take up
the bill to admit New Mexico into the
Union-thirty to fourteen-Messrs. Frye
and Morgan urged tho passage OF the Nj
caraguan Canal bill.
47TH DAY.-The Nicaraguan Canal bill
was before the Senate for couple OF hours
and was then laid aside 30 that the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill might be proceeded
with.
4srH DAY.-The Hawaiian annexation
treaty was received from the President and
considered. but was not made puolic-Tne
Appropriations Committee opposed the river
and harbor items in the Sundry Civil bill
The Diplomatic aud Consular Appro.
priation bill was placed on the calendar.
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Gen. Lees Sons.

Gen. Lees sons were all in the Con-,
fedcrate army. Two of them. 6. W.
Curtis Lee and William Henry ritz-
hugh Lee, were Major Generals. while
the youngest, Robert E., who is more
like his father than any OF the others
in looks, was in the artillery.
An Antietam, just afte. the artillery
had been.sharply engaged, the Rock
bridge (Va.) Battery was standing
waiting orders, Gen, Lee rode by and
stopped moment. \ dirty faced dri-
yer. about seventeen. said to him:
General. are you going to put US in
again."
Think of such a question from such
source to the General of the army, es-
pecially when that generals name was
Lee.
Yes, my boy the stately officer
kindly answered. II have TO PIT you il
again"
But what is your name: Your face
seems familiar somehow"
Il don't wonder you didn't know me.
sir, . laughed the lad, "I'm so dirty.
but I'm Bob
1t was the Generals youngest son.
whom he had thought safe at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute. "God bless
you, my son: do your duty" And the
General rode or.
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The Charter Of incorporation Of "The II. 4
Miller Company" to be Located
ut Grenada, Hississippi.

Section 1. c. c. Perkins, J. H. Bcr-
nard, r. A. Miller, their associates
and SUCCESSORS, are hereby created II
body polite and corporate under the
name of 1.-THE r. A. Miller Company"
and by that name may sue and be sued
in any court Of this State or elsewhere:
may contract and be contracted with;
may have and use a seal, the same to
alter at pleasure, and shall have sue
cession for forty years; shall carry on
general mercantile business, and as
such company, and for such purposes,
shall have all the rights and exercise
all the privileges conferred upon cor
porations generally by chapter twenty
five of the Annotated Code of 1892; and
shall be located at Grenada Mississippi
Section 2. The capital stock Of
company shall be $4,000 90, divide
into shares of $50 90 each, and the
comesr- may begin business when
thers sna.l have been subscribed and
paid in three thousand dollars of said
stock.
Section s. The business of the COM
pany shall be controlled by a board Of
ulr6CLOrS uuu0r 6uCu Tul01 hlu Uy.ldWS
as may be passed by the stockholders
not inconsistent with this charter or
the laws Of the land. The number Of
directors shall he not less than three
nor more than five, to be determined
by the stockholders at their annual
meetings.
Section, 4. There shall he president,
a vice.president and a manager, who,
together with the directors, shall be
elected by the stockholders, by ballot.
from their number, and their terms OF
office shall be one year and until their
successors are elected and qualified.
Section The first meeting of the
stockholders shall be held at such
time and place as the incorporators
herein named shall agree upon, at
which time and place the company
shall be organized and the officers
elected.
Seaion 6. In all meetings OF the
stockholders each one shall be entitled
to one vote for. each share Of stock he
holds. Aug. s, 93.
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J, I;roo!ih;,ycn on Friday, the 4th,
Oscar >t'w%"t and Thomas !. Deccll,
both citizens Of good standing. got into
!; difficulty about :" game OF base ball
then bling played, neither OF them
members Of the clubs, when Stewart
shot Deccll through his thighs, when
Decell put Il ball through Stewards
heart, killing him Immediately. The
handy revolver gets in its work every
time.
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\ Georgia Marriage Ceremony

4 justice Of the peace in Sanders
vile, Ga, being called upon 10 per-
form q marriage ceremony is accused
of concluding with: by the authority
vested in me as in officer of the State
of Georgia. which is sometimes called
the Empire state Of the south. by the
fields of cotton that lie spread out in
snowy whitencss around Us: BY the
howl of the coul dog, and the gourG
vine, whose clinging tendrils will
shade the r!4tt9tH%c to your humble
dwelling place: by the rcd and luscious
heart OF thee watermelon. whose sweet
ness fills the heart with joy; by the
heavens and earth. in the presence OF
tacsc witnesses Ipronounr1 yon mar
and wife,