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; Pi I HBBBASKA. THE TEEKIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE INHABITANTS. Vhw Comities In Which the People Are Utterly Destitute.More Than 8000 Families Need Aid-Women and Children Dylqg From Cold and 'Hunger.A Pitiful Condition. The suffering among the inhabitants of Jhe drought-blasted port ot Nebraska, ineluding three-fourths of the residents of five counties, is becoming more intense dally, end Immediate steps alone oan prevent many deaths by starvation. Three years ago the farmers of these " drought -blighted counties raised a very light crop, and the past two years the crops jhsve been almost total failures. Many fiunlliesAave not enough provisions in their 'homes.for one week's sustenance, and no, money to purchase the necessities ox life. | Many of the merchants feel they have ald- j_ ied these poor farmers to the extent of their {ability, and ^re unable to do any more for them or to sell them goods on credit.' JThe sufferers cannot obtain employment, and unless they receive aid very oon It is the general opinion that many brill starve to deatb, and should the weather! [turnvery cold many will freeze to death, as tit Is a fact that many are barefooted and :have scarcely sufficient clothing to cover I their nakedness. w I a mother and her two ohlldren were found dead in their little cabin near Niobrara. It I is supposed the mother had been confined to her bed by atcfcneas, and she and her two (little ones starved to deatb. The stomachs lot the children were opened and not a trace fit food could be discovered. There is not a stream of water in Perkins County nor a living spring. Wells run from sixty to 200 teet, the majority being 160 to 300 feet deep. The soli, if watered, raises good crops; if not it bakes like a solid mass. jThe roads and muoh of the prairies resemble asphalt, so hard-paoked and smooth are they. Well diggers say the soil is a solid mass 150 teet down, so hard that picks hare to be ned to loosen it. Over this smooth sarfaoe fbe never-Cfaslng winds blow from every di« , rection. Thnyare filled with minute sand / ytpartioles and are almost resistless. President Mason, of the Nebraska State Belief Commission, has been forwarded a care;fuUy prepared report of the number of des"Tr ytirtte families in the different counties where there was a crop failure. The list is a large Me, and it will' require all the assistance that can be procured to keep the people in 'the most urgent of necessities during the cold winter months. The report, as made out by Secretary Ludden, is as follows: Custer County, 250 families; Perkins, 200; Chas". 225; Dunoy, 120; Hllohcock, 250; Bed Willow, 100; Hayes, 200 ; Frontier, 40; Faernas, 100; Linooln, 700: Dawvon, 45$ Keith, 20; Deuel, 40; Cheirr, 40; McPherson, 40: Biatne, 20; Boyd, 230; Holt, * >30; Antelope, 80; Eeya Paha, 25; Knox, 25. In many instanoes people of the districts .remote from railroad facilities are eating prairie dogs. A newspaper man made a tup tnrougn the motft destitute port of this counjtry. A few deserted sod huts and frame houses were seen, and there 'were signs here and there that some habitations had beeatorn down and removed with the other Roods of the owners when Itbey left it. In some eases farm implements iwern teen in the fields, and at a distance jsubstautial granaries stood just as their * owners had left them. r Ttoq people of the drought-cursed sections jhope to have tbe Legislature pass measures of relief the first day tbe body convenes. This may not be done, but all organized reIW measures are absolutely necessary to w ~Tpment many death* from starvation. HELLO WILL COMMAND,. To Become Leader of the Brazilian Revolutionists. special cable from Buenos Ayres, Argentine, says: Admiral de Hello says be ill leave here In January to assume cornBand of the JraElliaa revolutionary farces. ADIQBAL OK XKLLO. A cablegram from Montevideo says that the grand council of the Brazilian rer stationary junta bas decided to iorward arms and ammunition as fast as possible to the rebel forces and push the war vigorously against President Monies, because his peace propositions are not considereito have been mide in good faith, and he Is pursuing the same poUoy as ex-President Peixoto adopted. Ho confidence will be felt In anjr government in which Peixoto has Influence. KILLED IN A COLLISION. The Manchester Express Runs Into j« Goods Trains Near Chelford. jrirtecn persons were tuima ami uxty injured by a collision In England between the '.Manchester express and a goods train. The (express train was filled with persons going S home for the holidays and was proceeding at high speed for Chelford, the next stop, /onrteen miles distant. The Crewe freight train was switching across the main line. The engineer of the express did not see the other train until hia looomotlve was close tapon it. The brakes were applied instantly, jbot without perceptible effect. There was r terriflo crash, and several cars went to Dlece*tilce pasteboard. The injuries of twenty persons are severe. ' It is reported that the aecideat was caused by the high wind overthrowing part of the freight train. j RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. Figures for 1894 the Lowest In Twenty Years. The Bailway Age has prepared Its annual table for n^w railroad construction of 1894, and the figures ntly renect me wretoneo business surroundings of transportation during the year. The figures in the lowest for twenty years, and the only exceptions In thirty years were 1875.1868 an 4 1885. The top-notch year was 1887, with 13,000 miles. Th i figures show '< " that Arizona leads the list with 193 miles, Illinois next, with 147 miles, and Pennsylvania third, with 133 miles. Only one mile or road iras nonstru'ued in Oregon. Th» total mll**ge in th® United States for 1894 Is 1919 Canada, 322; Mexico. 74. ITALY IN THE SOUDAN. Natives, Commanded by Humbert's Officers, Rout Arabs. A dispatch from Mnssowah, Egypt, announces that six companies of Italian troops, under the command of Major Tosal'.l, attacked and defeated the Arabs, near Halal lathe Soudan. A large number of the na' tiree,'including Chief Baiagos, were killed. Tkw Italian forces lost ten killed and had tw«ty-two wounded. It was composed en" tiraiy of native soldiers, drilled and officered fey Italians. ;CJ" r-«vVv'r THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States* Osablss pxtebsek, a sailor, returned to his homo in New York City after along absence, murdered his wife, and then, while his little rfrl looked on, he turned the pistol against himself and committed suiolde. Foubteex persons were bitten by a mad dog at Satem. N. J.; seven of them Tisited New Tork City to be treated at the Pasteur Institute. Bishop Joseph P. Thompson, M. D., D. D., of the African Methodist Episoopal Zion Church in this country, died at his residence in Newburgb, N. Y., In his Beventy-Blxth ?ear. Ho was born In slavery in Winchester, a., December 20, 1818. Matob Gillett, of Rome, N. Y., suspected of complicity in stealing from a bank in that city, surrendered himself and was placed under bail. Although terribly burned themselves, Thomas Evans and his wife saved, seven of their children from being burned to death in their beds in Elizabeth, N.J. Even when the floors were sinking beneath his weight, Evans rushed back to save the life of his youngest child. Chableb Staik was taken from his bed by White Caps, in Dunkirk, N. Y., and lashed With whips. The New England Society held its eightyninth annual dinner at Delmonlco's, New York City. South and West. Recen't great gold strikes at Leadville, Col., are causing great excitement in mining circles. Trains to the camp are crowded. Douoâs Putxah. greatsrrandson of General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame, AVIa o rraA u1du at vuiv, u^vvt v<r).v .. . Ex-Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, died at his home at Eagle's Nest, aged seventy-eight. He was once a member of the United Stales Senate. Mbs. A. D. Matsox, at one time a member of the Topeka (Kan.) City Board of Education and a teacner In the pnbllc schools, was fonnd dead in her home. The indications were that she had been assaulted and murdered ten days before. Goyebxob Ho go, of Texas, sent a requisition to the Governor of Florida for th6 person of H M. Flagler, of the Standard Oil Company. A cbowd of 4000 persons determined to witness the execution of Cox and Stanley at Maynardsville, Kv., tore down the enclosure around the gallows. Stanley and Cox were hanged at 2.45 p. m. Both confessed. Husdbed3 of families in the drought stricken districts of Nebraska are destitute of lood and lueL Washington. Mrs. Pebbixz, Mrs. Cleveland's mother, arrived at the Executive Mansion from Buffalo, N. Y., on a visit to her daughter. The bill granting Mrs. N. P. Banks, widow of the General, a pension of tlOO a month, paused the House without debate. ttt* ctntiioa nf Wahntar and Stark, ore- I sented by the State or New Hampshire for placing In Statuary Hall of the Capitol, were accepted, speeches being made in both branches. A design for the monnment to mark the birthplace of Washington has been selected by Secretary Gresham. Chairman Sphinges introduced in the House of Representatives a substitute for the Carlisle Currency Beform bill. Tax Senate confirmed the nominations of Charles EL Mansur, of Missouri, to be Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, and Henry W. Swift to be United States Marshal, District of Massachusetts. Pbesidint Cleveland and his party of duck hunters returned to Washington. The President was looking well and browned by his exposure to sun and wind. Later tbe President took a drive with Mrs. Cleveland. The first case to test the constitutionality of the Income Tax law has been brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The petitioner is John G. Moore of the firm of Moore & 8chley, New York. The complainant is a director of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and proposes to fight tbe case through the Supreme Court of the United States. His attorneys are exSenator George F. Edmunds and Messrs. Shellabarger and Wilson. Skobxtabt Hebbsbt remitted the nnexSlred portion of the sentences of Commoner Oscar Heyerman and Lieutenant C. H. Lyman, found responsible for the wreck of the Kearsarge on Boncador Beef in February uk. Foreign. A dispatch from Sydney, New South Wales, says It is stated there that the real Sir Roger Tlchborae has been found in an Insane asylum at Paramatta under the name of William Cresswell. Tax British Government was reported to haye offered aid to Newfoundland because business on the island was oompletely at a standstill. The Emperor of China granted plenipotentiary powers to Chang Yin Haan to make peaoe with Japan. A rcracx battle was fought between the fugitive Chinese garrison ot Hat-Cheng and a Japanese foroe under General Katsura; the Chinese were defeated. Th* trial at Paris of Captain Albert Dreyfus, charged with having sold plans of fortifications and other Frenoh Government secrets to foreign agents, was coaolnded. The court martial found the accused guilty. The sentence was that he be confined In some fortified place for tne term 01 his natural life and suffer degradation from all military rank and honors. Cholkba has appeared In Argentina, and Uruguay has declared a quarantine against her. PnxtTBo-PNEUKOKiA. has been detected in cattle from the United States landed at Ant* wery, Belgium. Hail advices from Samoa confirm the nows of the death ol Robert Louis Stevenson, the author. TTTT.T.T.T) AT A OBOSgfflg. A Carriage Containing Five Persons Struck by an Express. The south-bound express on the South Jersey Bailroad crashed into a oarrlage containing five persons at half-past nine o'clook, p. m., at Vineland, N. J., killing three of them. The killed were: Mary Ann Jone*. fonrteen yearn old, ot Blohland, N. J. ; Mrs. William D. Lewis, forty-five years old, ot East Vineland; Jonathan Lewis, fourteen years old, son of Mrs. William D. Lewis. In tbe carriage also were .Mrs. David J. Jones, Jr.. mother of Mary Ann, and Miss Mary Lewis, eighteen years old, daughter of mrs. JjBWIS. 1'Dny Ktcapmi uuuuu. The party had attended services at the Congregational Church, In Riohland. The crossing at this point Is very dangerous owing to a sharp curve of the railroad Just before reaching the wagon road. The rumbling of the carriage over the frozen ground and the noise of tho wind drowned the sound of an approaching train, and the party was not aware of the nearness of the Jooomotive until the wheels of the carriage were on the railroad tract At this Instant the horse became frightened and balked. As the glare of the locomotive headlight flashed on the carriage Mrs, Jones, who was sitting on the front sent with Jonathan Lewis, screamed and sprang forward to the ground. At the same moment Miss Lewis, who had been on the back seat. Jumped backward through the onrriage curtain and landed In a plaoe of safety. The others were lnetnntly killed. The bodies of Mrs. Lewis and her son were hurled nearly a hundre 1 le^t, landing on opposite aides or the trauk. The Jones giri was caught on th« front of the engine and carried about 1500 feet. The body of the boy was badly mutiliated. Both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Jones arft prosperous farmers, well known In the vicinity of their homes, and all day neighbors visited the houses trying to comfort the bereaved families. Jonathan was Mr. Lewis's only son. There are seven other children, tbo youngest almost a baby, and the family had been planning for a merry Christmas. Toe oflMal report ot the Attornoy-Ghn[ eral shows that during the past two yean there were three legal hangings and eight lynohings in North Carolina. There has been a decrease of erlme against women. : IOlSSAGRED bythe japs. HORRID BARBARITIES AT THE TAKING OF PORT ARTHUR. Over Two Thousand Defenseless Inhabitants Wantonly Pnt to the Sword.Three Days of Slaughter .China Is Now Virtually at the Mercy of Japan. James Creelman, the correspondent In the Orient of the New York World, has larnished full details of the taking of Port Arthnr by the Japanese army, under command of Field Marshal Oyama, and the massacre of the Chinese inhabitants. His account abounds in horrors. There is no longer, he says, a Chinese army, and the advanoe of the Japanese is apuremaroh of conquest. Regarding the barbarous destruction of life by the Japanese, Mr. Greelman completely exposes the Japanese authorities' attempts to excuse or make it appear less horrible. Great efforts were made to induce the war correspondents on the scene to shut their eyes to the real oharacter of the wilful and brutal waste of life. It was the law of wai to kill the soldiers of the enemy who resisted and could not be taken prisoners, it was argued. But the correspondents would not be hoodwinked, and pointed to the murder of hundreds of unoffending Inhabitants, woman andohildren, and refused to conceal from the world the bloody work of the armed as- A GBOUP OF JAPANE3E OP sassins. Mr. Creelman says: "Japan stands disgraced before the world. She has violated the Geneva convention, dishonored and pro taned tbe Bed Cross and banished humanity and mercy from her councils. Victory and a new lost for dominion have set her mad.1' Some of tbe scenes of the wllfnl carnage that he witnessed Mr. Creelman describes as follows: When the Japanese troops poared into Port Arthur they saw the heads of their slain comrades banging by oords. with the noses and ears gone. There was a rade arob in the main street decorated with bloody Japanese heads. A great slaughter followed. Th» infuriated soldiers killed every one they aw. I can say as an eye witness that the wretched people of Port Arthur made no attempt to resist the invaders. Tbe Japanese now olalm that shots were fired from the windows and doorways, but the statements are utterly lalse. No attempt to take prisoners was made. I saw a mah who was kneeling to toe troops and begging for meroy pinned to the gronad with a oayoner, while bis head was haoked off with a sword. Another Obinaman cowered In a corner while a squad of soldiers shot him to pieces. An old man on his knees In the street was cut almost In two. Another poor wretch was shot on a root top. Still another fell in the Btreet and was bayonetted through the baok a dozen times. Just helow me was a hospital flying the Bed Cross flag, but the Japanese flred upon the unarmed men who came out of the doorway. A merchant In a fur cap knelt down and raised his hamis In entreaty. As the soldiers shot him he put his hands over his face. I saw his corpse the next day. It was slashed beyond recognition. Women and ohlldren were hunted and shot at as they fled to the GENERAL YAMAOATA, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE JAPANESE AEMY. hills with their protectors. The town was sacked Irom end to end and the inhabitants were Dmcnereu in iuui unu uuuoo. About 5 o'clock tbere was a sound of music oq the pnrade ground, where all the Generals were assembled with the Field Marshal .all save Noghl, who had gone in pursuit of the retreating enemy. What cheering and what hand-shaking! What solemn Btralns from the band! And all the while we could hear the rattle ot rifle volleys in the streets, and knew that helpless people of the town were being slaughtered In cold blood and their homes pillaged. That was tne coldest night of the year. The thermometer dropped to twenty decrees above zero. While the women and THE LABOR WORLD, In Chicago girls are now employed to run elevators. The next annual convention of the New York State Federation of Labor will be held in Albany. Cabpextebs in the oar shops of the Philadelphia and Heading Road now work on the piece wont ymu. In Russia all regular officers and employes on State railroads most retire on reaching their flfty-flfth year. John Burns, of Boston, Mass., has drlvon a hue It lor forty years, and claims to have the record for long driving. Cohbespondence with manufacturers shows that 10.2 per cent, more men are employed now than a year ago. AT Limoges, France, during 1894, twentytwo young women employed to paint porcelain ware died of lead poisoning/ Unemploied workmen in Pallman and Kensington, Chicago, suffering for food, are circulating petitions asking State and olty aid. In Chicago, in the various lines allied under the name of the furniture trade there are 28,000 men employed, by a total of 276 llrms, Dig and little. JohnMcBbide was eiected President of the American Federation of Labor at Denver, Col. Socialists are alleged to rejoice at Gompen's beating. children were freeing oat la the mountains the work of exterminating the men weat oa all night. la the moralng I walked through the streets. Everywhere I saw bodies torn and mangled as If by wild beasts. The slain shopkeepers lay plied in the roadway, with tears frozen la their eyes aad bloody icicles hanging from their wonnds. Dogs were whimpering oyer the stark corpses of their masters. Here and there the famished animals were tearing at the flesh cf human bodies still warm. While In company with Mr. Cowan I oame across a corpse which had bean beheaded. The head lay two or three yards away and a dog was tearing the neck. A Japanese sentry looked on and laughed. Then I saw a white-haired, toothless merchant disemboweled on the threshold of his own shop, whioh had been looted. Another victim had his breast ripped opened by a Japanese sword, and a pet dog lay shivering under his areas. There was a dead woman lyint? under a heap of slain men in every onoelvable attitude of agony and supplication. At one corner there wwre twenty-five oorpses In a pile. The soldiers had been so close to their victims that the clothes had caught Are and partly roasted the dying men. Twenty feet away was a white-bearded wrinkled mnn with his throat cut and his eyes and tongue torn out. Nowhero the signs of a weapon, nowhere the sign of war. It was a sight that woald damn the fairest nation on earth. The Japanese had tasted blood, and the work went on the second day. I saw soldiers trampling over the twitching bodies of dying men to rob their houses. ***" a- -1 more was no luieaipi iu uuuuotu mo a|/jianlng crimes. Shame had vanlaned. It was heartrending to sea men dodging around 'FTnrcRS AT POET ABTHUB. corners like hunted beasts and kneeling for mercy but getting none. All through the sncond day the reign of murder continued' Hundreds and hundreds were killed. Out on the road alone thero were 227 corpses. At least forty were shot down with their hands tied behind them. Just at dawn on the morning of the third day after the battle I was awakened by the sound of rifle shots. They were still at it. I went out and saw a body of soldiers, led by an officer, chasing three men. One carried a nuked Infant In his arms. As he ran he dropped the baby. I found it an hour later, dead. Two of the men were shot down. Tho third, the father of the baby, tripped and fell. In an instunt a soldier had pocnoed upon his back with a naked bayonet in his hand. I ran forward and made the sign of the Bed Cross on the white non-combatant's bandage around my arm, but the appeal was useless. The bayonet was plunged three or four tlmee into the neok of the prostrate man, and then be was left to gasp his life out on the ground. I hurried baolc to my quarters and awakened Frederiok Vllllora, who went with me to the spot where I had left the dying man. He was dead, but his wounds were still smoking. While we were bending over the corpse we heard shootlnsr a few rods around a road and went forward to see what It was. We saw an old man standing in the road with his hands tied behind his back. On the ground beside him were the writhing bodies of three other Dlnlontad men who had been sbot. As we advanced n soldier shot the old man down. He lay in the road on his bask, groaning and rolling his eyes. The soldiers tore his shirt away to see the blood run from his breast and sbot him a second time. His features twitched and his body was con- vulsed with pain. The soldiers spat in nts face au.d jeered at him. Wo turned away from the place. Remember, this was the third day after tbe battle. Next day I went in company with Mr* Villlers to see a court-yard filled with mutilated corpses. As we entered we surprised two soldiers bending: over one of the bodies. One had a knife in his hand. They had ripped open the corpse and were cutting the heart out. When tney saw us they cowered and tried to hide their faces. I am satisfied that not more than 100 Ohinamen were killed in fair battle at Port Arthur, and that at least 2000 unarmed men were put to death. It may be called the natural result of the fury of troops who have seen tbe mutilated corpses of their comrades, or it may be called retaliation, but no civilized nation could be capable of the atrocities I have witnessed in Port Arthur. Every scene I have described I have looked upon myself, oUkoa fKa nrnwanrtQ nf fhft AmfiplAin HTU1 C11UC1 iU (AAV UiJI.UWW V4 »MW M.Huk>v.»M * »>« British military attaches or in the company of Mr. Cowan or Mr. Villlera. This may be warfare, but it la the warfare of savages. It takes more than one generation ±o civilize a people. The Fiold Marshal and all his Generals were aware that the massacre was being continued day after day. Peace is at Hand. Important dispatches have been received I from Tokio which indicate clearly that, Ernctically, the war between China and Japau ended. Whatever instructions have been conveyed to the commanders of the respective military and naval forces from the governing powers of the two empires Is not told in the ndvices, but assurances are given in quarters known to be thoroughly cognizant ofdiplomatio affairs that the Emperor of China has been prevailed upon to hasten Commissioners to Japan, and that these envoys have such power of concession as will without doubt enable them to bring about an Immediate and thorough end of hostilities. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Sec&etab7 Cablisle Is ageing.rapidly. Prince Bibmabck regrets that he did not pay more attention to music. General Goubko, late Russian GovernorGeneral of Warsaw, Poland, has been raised to the rank of Field Marshal. Jean De Reszke's triumphs are not confined to the stage. The tenor has just been awarded the first prize for the best stud farm in Russia. Edwakd Bulweb Lrrros Dickens, the youngest son of Charles Dickens, isii member Oi Parliament in Now South Wales. There are no servants in the Tolstoi household. The Count cuts his own firewood, and the Countess prepares their sim« pie meals. The King of the Belgians offers a prize of $5000 for the best plon of supplying Brussels with drinking water. The competition is open to all the world. Kaiseb William has earned his first ducat. His "Ode to Aegir" was recently sung by the Vienna Maennergesangverein, and, in accordance with its rales, it has paid him one ducat. Aooliaqbo, the new King of Dahomey, is tall an.i dignified, with a fa<w which sukKests the conventional cartoons of Weary Wraggles. He wears a sliver sieve over his features to keep off gnats. PRESIDENT JOHN M'BBDE. The New Head of the American Federation of Labor. John McBride, recently eleoted at Denver, Col., to sudoeed Samuel Gompers as President of the American Federation of Labor, has just turned his fortieth year. He was bora and raised la tne mining regions 01 Northwestern Ohio. Fortunately be secured a common sohool education before he entered the mines and at eighteen he became Secretary of the local lodge of tho Miners and lllne Laborers' Benevolent Association. Shortly afterward he was elected Secretary of the Tusoarawns Valley Miners' Assooia- JOHN M'BBIDE. Hon, and at once came to the front as a leader among men of bis craft. In 1882 he was elected President of the Ohio Miners' Association and continued at the head o] that organization for seven years. The memorable Btrlke in the Hocking Valley in 1384 was a severo test of his resources and demonstratad his exceptional ability as a labor leader. In and 1885 he represented Stark County in the Obio Legislature and secured the enactment of a number of laws In the interests of labor. In 1886 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for Secretary of State, bat was defeated. la 1887 be succeeded la brlaging the operators aad miaera together uuder the laterstate agreement for the maiateoance ot wages, which was abrogated by the Iadlana aad Illiaois operators la 1889, aad was revived as * result ot the great etriice lost sprlnp. < la 1890 Mr. McBrlde retired from active leadership among the miners. whea the Miners' ProêsslT* Unloa aad N. T. A. 135, Kaights of Labor, were consolidated undei the title of the United Mine Workers ol America, fie served as State Poor Com' mlBSloner uader Governor Campbell for two years and in 1893 was elected President ol fhe United Mine Workers, which position h( bas since held. Last spriug he organlzec aad coaducted the greatest mioers strike it the history ot the couatry, ia which upwarc o150,000 meu were mvo'ved, and which was Biccefabtul beyond hi* greatest expectations fie wafi instrument*, in the orgnnization o tfcw American Federation of Labor and pre side* the meeting la Chloago la Decern ber, tr86, whea he was elected Presiden but cV Vlned to ajcept. ir'Ur'T X-TiLLitU UUiNU-iJliBB. In the Senate. 12th Day..The Senate devoted the teaslot-. to addresses in connection with the acceptance and placing in Statuary Hall of the marble statues of General John Stark and Daniel Webster, presented by the State ol New Hampshire. 13th Dir..Mr. Lodge introduced a resolution asking Secretary Herbert why a war ship should not be stationed at Honolulu Mr. Snerman offered an amendment tc the Railroad Pooling bill, which require sleeping car companies to provide a safe foi the protection and care of all valuables car ried by passengers without oharge to them Mr. (Jockrell Introduced a bill providing for a new boundary between the Indian Ter rltory and Oklahoma. In the House. 15th Dir..The House devoted most of Its I time to the addresses la connection with the acceptance and placing in the Statuary Hal of the Capitol ot the marble statues of Gen eral John Stark and Daniel Webster, pre sented by the State ot New Hampshire. Thi ceremonies began a 2 p. m. Governo Smith and Staff and members or the Execil tive Council of New Hampshire were ad mitted to the floor nnd took seats In th< rear of the centre section of the hall. The letter of Governor Smith to Speaker Crisp, formally presenting the statues, was read nnd Mr. Baker offered the resolutions Speeches were then made by Representative Baker and Blair, of New Hampshire; Power an<1 Grout, of Yermont; Everett and*Morse, o Massachusetts, and Curtis, of New York, afte which the resolutions were adopted.. Messrs. Sperry and Broslus spoke on th Carlisle Cuhrency bill. Mr. Bn>ckinridg> reported an urgent deficiency bill approDriat ing $300,000 for the census, $125,000 fo salaries and $175,000 for printing the re port. lfith Day..The session was devoted to th discussion of the Carrency bill, and the chic event was the proposal by Chairman Sprin ger, of the ijantcmg uomiaiiiee, vi » nut dtitate for the Carlisle bill. Messrs. Pendle ton, Bussell, Slokles, McLaurin and Ban 11ns took part la the oebate. 17th Day..Mr. Bryan introduced tw Joint resolutions, oae of which makes 'resident ineligible to succeed hlmselt an the other makes a President Ineligible to second term. The Currency and Banldnj bill was before the House. There was b« one speaker In favor of the bill. Mr. Coombf Thero were three speakers against the bill Mr. Bell, Mr. Bowers and Mr. Bryan..Bi fore the discussion of the bill was entere upon several bills were passed by nnanimoo consent. At 5.10 p. m. the House, unde the operation of the concurrent resolutlo providing for a holiday recess, adjoume until Thursday, January 8, 1895. IMAGE IN EEE EYE. Microscope and Camera Used to D1 cover a Murderer. Photographic science may have given tl first tangible olew to the Identity of the mu derer of Mrs. Shearman ani Mrs. Davis ( Bustl, N. Y. ' . 8everal have been the suspects and tl clews followed np without success, butt! impression of the murderer h is bean fonn on the retina of Mrs. Shearman's eye. Tt photograph was taken by Fred. S. Mirsh, local photographer, and to him is due tl oredit of hnvlng originated the idea of e. amlning the organ. The existence of the impression of tt murderer on the eye was fir-it discovered I means of a powerful microscope. Uafortui ately the features of the man could not 1 seen, us the view obtained shows only tl bnok and a very little of the si le. An appa ently big man Is represented, with busl whiskers and wearing a long overcoat. Tl trousers appear to be badly wrinkled, The Corouer has taken out both tlie ey of the murdered woman, and anothw: photi graph will be taken by another photogr 6her. No impression was discoverable c [rs. Dayls'n eyes. The Image Had Vanished. The experiments made by B.E.Pruden an s Marsh. exDort micro-photographei or Jamestown, N. Y., on the eyes of Mr Shearman, one of the wome:i murdered i Bust! a few days before, resulted in failur< It was alleged that a microscopic examint tion of the dead woman's eyes by flvnrespor siblo men rovwaled th6 image of tho mm derer photographed on the rotina, and th object of tho experiments, which wore cor tinued nil nlgnt, was to reproduce the pic ture by the micro-photography process. J the photograph was really uoon the retin it was lost by tho removal of the eye fror the socket. The Rev. Mr. Stoddard, of Brooklyn, an the officers present in the house when th microscope was used with startling effec said that they are willing to take oath as t thetruth of their statement concerning ti figure on the eye and their accounts agjee 1 the smallest particular. They insist that they should see the murderer in clothic which he wore at the murder they ooul readily identlly him by their recollection hu photograph on the eye of Mrs. Bhoarmaj / / LATEB NEWS. Biohabd Obokss denounced W. Bourke Cockran la New York City for gossiping and Inspiring newspaper attacks against Croker, challenged Cochran to a debate before the Tammany Executive Committee, urged him to go before the Lexow Committee to tell .v.« 1 nM If fha ohnllflflffe WttS WUftb UO AUVIT9 UUU dkiu « . . .0 disregarded he woald demand a personal explanation whenever he meets him. Sixtxxx-teab-old Axsrz Lijtdebblaibd, disappointed In love, shot herself to death at her home In Brooklyn; Conrad Haule blew ont his brains with a pistol In Hoboken, N. J.; Andrew Olsen hanged himself near Burlington, N. J., and James Mulcahy strangled himself in Brooklyn. Samuel 0. Seelt, the defaulting bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather Bank, New Tork Oity, was sentenced In the United States Circuit Court to eight years at hard labor In the Kings County Penitentiary. In collusion with Baker, who committed suicide, he stole 1350,000. Fibe In the lumber district of Burlington, Yt., resulted in a loss of (150,000. The requisition papers which Governor Hogg, of Texas, forwarded to Governor (Mitchell, of Florida, for Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate, were duly honored, It was supposed the Texas GovI ernor would send an offloer to arrest Mr. Flagler and take him to Texas. Two distinct shook* of earthquake were noticed In Idaho, one so severe as to knock the plastering from buildings and ring bolls, The Cliff House, San Francisco, Cal, was burned, but the lo« Is not oyer $20,000, [ Mayor-elect Adolph Sutro's new $500,000 bath-house was In great danger for a time. Secbetabt OablisZiZ Issued an order re* organizing the Sapervlslng Architect's office of the United States Treasury Department. Secbetabz Lamon't Issued an order placing Judge Advocate General D. G. Swalm on the retired list of the Army. Japan's third army, under Count Saigo, has landed In Chins, on the coast of Shantung, west of Che-foo, and is occupying ona-ao. i Ex-Police Captain John T. Stephenson, of New York City, who was convicted of | bribery, was sentenced' to three years and nine months in State Prison by Judge Ingraham, who also Imposed a fine of $1000. [ Edwabd B. Cabteb, of Brooklyn, for the last twenty-nine years employed In the ' National Bank of Commerce, and for five | years transfer and coupon clerk, con, fessed to defalcations amounting to between 1 928,000 and 929,000. He Is locked up at 3 Police Headquarters. i A 8NOW8TOBM prevailed throughout the Middle Atlantic States. j S. J. Temple, a guard in the Ohio Penitentiary, at Columbus, was severely injured; Joseph O'Day, "a prisoner, was killed, and John Gardener, another prisoner, badly injured In an uprising in the penitentiary. Wesley, Minn., and neighboring settlements are afflicted with a plague of diphtheria. There are no doctors and the cases are multiplying. There have been 110 deaths and ninety new 'jases are reported. The offloere of the United States cruiser Detroit, which carried back to Italy the Vatican exhibits at the Chicago World's Wjir hnrn hann racolvod bv Leo XIII. [ Twzstt-two Uvea were lost by the wreck . of the British steamer Abydos, In the recent ? storm. REV, DR. M'flLYM, The Deposed Divine Restored to , His Priestly Functions. " . Fully restored to his priestly functions, ~ end at peaoe with the church from which he r was so long excommunicated, the Bev. Dr. Edward McGlynn celebrated three masses and preached two sermons on Christmas 3 Day in the Church of the Holy Cross, in New ' York. It is elgtit years slnoe Dr. McGlynn, ther the pastor ol St. Stephen's Church, and one * of the most noted Catholic prlestB in the .,iir| ifc city, took an activi 3, part in the cam &"'1-.\ palgn of Eenr] ; mZf \ George, labor can S&f 1 didate for Mayor ° jJ* He became an apos 9 tie of antl-povert; t^s*~ doctrines tha * 1L *-*} him the dlspleos 9 / ure °* Archblshoj ,f Jk I CorrI?an. He wa î. removed from hi »- pastorate and late wafl fl*oommunicat '^wra^ *^'. ed for oontumacy -V Two years ago hi 0 , made bis peace a q bet. dr. m ours*. Rome, with the re d stilt that he was taken back Into the fold o a the Catholic Church, bat be could not cele2 brate mass publicly unless he obtained per[t mission from the Archbishop of some dto cese. Archbishop Corrigon recently gaj-i 1 him this permlRsion, and the masses he cele jl brated at the Churoh of the Holy Cross wert d the first he had celebrated in public since hi B was cut away from the Catholio Church. ir Many of the immense congregation were a Dr. MoGlynn's old parishioners at St. S':e d phen's and all were wrought up to a state o intense emotional excitement. Women anc even men shed tears when he emerged fron the sacristy, and an exultant murmur, tba would have been a shout of applause but foi 'the restraining influence of the envlronmen and the occasion, broke from their partec * lips. Notonlywerethe pews occupied tothei fullest capacity, but every inch of space ii the aisle and olose up to the altar rail wa! nacked. r" THE KOLB CONTEST. ,e The Alabama Populist Transfers th, Fight to Washington. to Captain Reuben F. Eolb, the Alabama Pop a nlist, who claims he was elected Ooverno and who recently took the oath of office i: Montgomery, has transferred his contest t i« the National Capital. )5 7. [f BEUBEX 7. KOLB. a . a W. 8. Reese, who was voted for as Senate . *>y the Populist members of the Alabarn d Legislature, who he declares constitute i ie majority of those legally elected, is in Wash t) ington, and the foundation (or a contest ii 0 his behalf has b«en laid by the introductioi '6 of a resolution in the United States 8enat< A for an investigation of the Alabama election if This resolution was offered by S»nator A1 ig len, the Nebraska Populist. It provides tba la the investigation shall be made by n commit 01 tee of Ave, of whioh no party is to hav a. more than two representatives. J r.' POPULAR SCIENCE. The skeleton of a prehistoric bird has been found in a mound in Idaho. An apparatus is on trial in Great Britain which, it is claimed, yill abate the sewer gas nuisance in large cities. Black pearls are mostly found in the black-lipped oyster of Lower California, and beinarso rare and precious, - ' are eagerly sought for. ; Bemains of the Orohippers, an ex- tinot speoios of horse found in the Bad Lbnds of North Dakota, proved that it had five toes and was not larger than a goat. There are now 32,269 specimens in the Army Medical Mnseum At Washington. The number of specimens received daring the year ending Jane ! 80, 1894, wan 1863. The regions of the world which have the greatest rainfall seem to be the regions where the largest number of thunderstorms oocur. Thus along the equator fifty to 100, or over, thunderstorms ocour annually. Dr. Elliott Cones has lately been elected honorary member of- the Minnesota Historical Society in recognition of his extensive oriorinal researches in Missisnppian history in connection with Zebnlon M. Pike's expedition to the souroes of that river. The engineers appointed by the War Department to determine thai greatest practicable length of a span for a suspension bridge report that it {a ft A4> An1w«\ABmklA Ktif ». lb uuv uaij uuv piouvivauio «w build a six-track suspension bridge, with a span of 3200 feet, at a oast of $23,000,000. The winter days in Sweden are only six hours long. In the northern part y) of the peninsula the sun does not rise once for two months. This is made up for, however, by the suiny sumI mer. In the North the sun does not set for weeks and weeks, an endless day. The most glorious surht of all the Northland is the midnight sun. The telephone is now muoh used on Australian sheep ranches, and it is also employed with sucoess on a large Montana ranch. The shepherds re* oeive their orders from six stations communicating with a central point \'"i In this way they are kept informed as * y to the movements of their associates. and given due notioe of other matters %_ which are cf aid to them in their work. Enormous numbers of robins congregat nightly in a marsh near St. Louis. Every winter's night?" the trees are laden with the birds at roost. At daybreak they rise together in a dense cloud, and in a few minutes the place is deserted. The birds fly to their various feeding places, fifty or 100 miles away, and return every evening to the common shelter, as long as the cold weather lasts. The epidemics of the Middle Agea.^3 were frightful in their severity, espe- " cially in the larger cities. Mr. Burton, of the English Institute of Qivil Engineers, writing on tne water pupply of towns and cities, says that this ^ high death rate was nearly always due to a bad or insufficient water supply. He says the cost of water works is generally repaid within a few years by the saving in fire losses. He insists, however, that the question is not of goetting good water oheap, bat ot get' ting it at any price.. Stone Meal. A German chemist asserts that-stone meal (natural rooks ground to minute , fineness) is superior to all other subr stances as a fertilizer, and he even at-^ ^ tacks the use of manure and fertilize J- ers as being the sotiroes of nearly all ) diseases among the human family as i well a3 among animals. This chemist I claims that our soils are composed of fl ' fllamanto aa fcHfl nrimarv ifl ( VUO DOU1V \.*V«UWM«W ^ ^ roaks, the earthy material from the H - latter, associated -with gypsum and 9 [ lime, in combination with water and 9 x the atmosphere, nnder the inflnepcofB - of the warmth and light of the.sunJM 3 producing the plants which noaris^^l , man and beast. He states thatV.&S^ r ashes of plants show abont as much ^ * potash and soda as lime and magnesia, * and that potash and so. ia are not only t~> t interchangeable, bat may also be re* ' - placed in most plants to a consider* f able extent by lime and magnesia, which new theory he proves by wit- nesses who have tested for the pur3 pose of demonstrating it as a faot He ' also asserts that hydro-carbons, ' - « " 1"' 3 througn tne aujuuonuu ui c<uu* ammonia, beoome albumen, and that ' albumen easily undergoes a change j into fat, as may be seen in cheese, l and as the meat of the ham passes into i fatr He asserts that nitrogen in the form t of oarbonate is injurious to plants, 1 and is unnecessary in the soil if the [ soil contains a sufficiency of fixed 3 basic substances (alkalies and alkaline earths) as plant? will easily produce the needed nitrogen from the atmosphere. He refutes the supposition that stone meal is not soluble by re- / 3 ferring to the use of silioa by plants, /"Si which is one of the most insoluble' » substances entering into the oomposir tion of plants, yet there is no plant food which is more plentiful, or more o easily appropriated by plants, than silica, and there is not a root, a stem, ~ a leaf or fruit which does not contain silicio acid. The claim is made that if farmers, instead of removing their stones and rocks, .will grind them to an impalpable powder by heating the rooks and them so as to easily grind them, will apply from 600 to 1000 pounds per aore (or more), thus adding to the original soil, the crops will be more abundant and of better quality than when fertilizers are usod, while the cost will be much iess. As these substances are plentiful, they are within the reach of all..New York World. How Bees Visit Flowers. Ia America it has been observed that bees often bore tubular corollas in order to get at the nectar of flowers, instead of entering by the month, as humble bês do in Europe. nIb, j essays on the cross-fertilization of^-s a ilower3, this supposed anomaly has 1 been the subject of much comment. " It now appears that the bumblebees of i Europe and America have identical o habits in regard to the manner in *_ which the visits to flowers are made, [ and that it is the class of insects known - as the carpenter bee, or the borer, a which works in the outside mannex ' indicated..New York Independent.

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