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COLON DEVASTATED. [The Metropolis of Central |L America Reduced to Ashes. Riotous Looters Shot Down by p., the Soldiery, A most disastrous fire broke out at Colon (Aspinwall), in Colombia, very early on a recent morning-. It consumed tho greater portion of the town, destroying three-fourths of the place, including the most important business houses. The fire commenced shortly after midnight. It originated in the back of tlie store of Kathbun & Pratze, on Bolivar and Fifth streets, near [the Electric LMit Company's building, [which was entirely destroyed. From the Start to the time when it burnsd itself out Jiear the market the firo fed on immense quantities of alcohol, spirits, petroleum, and Other inflammable materials, and was entirely beyond human control. Without initerruption the flames sprang up in three directions?southerly through Bolivar and Front street, sweeping away every business place, store, and private residence in the way; westerly through Fifth street to the Royal Mci! premises, Panama Railway, and General Superintendent's offices, leaving nothing but the walls standing of tlie latter, 'and northerly to Fourth street. In all about 150 buildings were destroyed, .including the Postoffice, Supreme Court, Al[caldia, Municipality Prefectura, the agencies of all the steamship companies except the [French Company, the Pacific ilail and Royal [Mail offices and part of the wharf, every [business house of importance on Front street, i and all the hotel3. fc-- The inhabitants were panic-stricken for a i"while, but order was soon restored. The fire was got under control about 7 a. m., but a pile of lumber belonging to the Boston lea Company, containing about 250,000 feet, was [still burning. * The total loss is estimated at ahout -51,500,1000. The total less of the Panama Railway [alone is calculated at $100,000. p.* The cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained. Some believe it was cccidsnta), [while others think it was of incendiary ^origin. The burned property is guarded at ipreseui uy soiuiers. umj a icn <jj. iuv pi mtcipal business firms wero partly insured. ? Several steamers were obliged to leave tbe. . wharf dui ing the fire. The United States ;man-of-war Kearsarge left some hours before the fir 2 broke out. At last accounts tbe fire had been completely subdued. About a hundred cars of freight in the railroad yard were consumed. It Owing to the riotous behavior of a mob of looters the military opened fire with ball -cartridges, killing ana wounding several persons. Reinforcements of police have been dispatched. A supply of food has also been sent. Everythingis reported quiet now. K Colon, or Aspinwall, is the seaport of tho United States of Colombia, on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama. The town contains about three thousand inhabitants. If It is the Pacific end of the railroad connecting Aspinwall with Panama. The rail.road depot is near the centre of the town, [and is connected with the wharf and the I ; steamers by a track which has apparently not been injured. KILLED BY A BUNAWAY. ! Patrick Connorton and His Daughter Thrown Over a Precipice. The resident* of Laceyville, Bradford County, who saw a roaring and plunging horse attached to a carriage in which lat Patrick Conr?rton and his daughter, Mary, eighteen years old, on the edg? cf a precipice last evening, will never forget the sight. The horror of the situation was heightened by the fact that they were at such a distance"that they could only look on and await the tragedy that was inevitable. Before a move could bo made to assist them tho horse took the fatal leap, and both s^ocupants of the vehicle went with it to tho D?ttom of the abyss, seventy feet. The news spread rapidly through the village. and soon its 300 inhabitants were mthered near tho spot. ? Connorton's wife and two small children I were among the throng, and their wild cries , and appeals to the excited crowd were pitiful j In the extreme. A rope was at length lowered into the I abyss, and one of the men descended. For I several minutes not a sound was heard, and tho suspense was agonizing to those who j stood around, and by strong efforts only was j Mis. Connorton prevented from attempting the perilous task of descending herself. A jerking of the rope indicated that somo one was coming Tip. It was the man who had descended it, and the sad intelligence J which he bore was plainly apparent before -he spoke. Both Connorton and his daughter were dead. It was evident death had overtaken them before they reached tho bottom of the ravine. Not a bone iz the horse's body was left un. broken, while the carriage was splintered. FIVE HUNDBED DROWNED. I The Turkish Man-of-War Ertogroul Founders With All Her Crew. Cable despatches from Hiogo, Japan, state "that the Turkish man-of-war Ertogroul has foundered at sea. Five hundred of the crew Were drowned. Osman Pacha, whos3 success in holding back the Russians at Plevna gave him a high rank as a fizhting general, was on board and was lost. He had been on an official visit to -Japan, having been intrusted with a special mission from tho Sultan to the iiikMo. Ali Pasha, one of the few Turkish generals who entered the army as a private soldier, accompanied Osman as an envoy of the Saltan to the Japanese Emperor. The progress of tho Ertogroul since she :left Constantinople for the East many months ago has been a most undignified and ludicrous one. Shs left Turkey short mnnor it: hoi nor nnrforshrwl t.hnf Supplies were to be sent for her use to tne ports at which she was to call. The result was that her sojourn in those countries was indefinitely prolonged, in consequence of the officials at home not being able to keep ^their promises. There was not powder enough on board to enable her crew to flra the regulation salutes. She was a wooden frigate built cruiser of 2344 tons burden, built in 1803, and carried forty-one guns of small calibre. SLAVE TRADING, Over 10,000 South Sea Islanders Sohl Into Servitude. ! Lato advices from the South Sea Islands t#ll a startling story of the treatment of Island savages. "Whole islands in the Solomon group in the New Hebrides and in other sections of Polynesia have been depopulated by the ravages of men employed to seize and transport natives to the plantations of New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands. i1 Scarcely a vessel arrives from Australia that does not bring news of tho massacre of some white trader or skipper by natives who have been gradually driven into desperation by the treatment they have received from the whites. Thirty or more vessels are enjn tim noforinns trafHe and no Jess n 10,000 native savages have been carried off into slavery. A BULLET'S TWO VICTIMS A Texas G:rl Accidently Kills Hei ; Brother and Sister. During James L?-leabam's absence fron home, ?t Merrivab, Texas, his little son wa; found ^ the yard playing with his father'; (JVincbester rifle. An older daughter at fc,tempted to take the weapon from the bo^ " &nd the gun was accidentally discharged [with fatal effect. The ball ent?red the boy'i mouth and passed through his brain, kiiiin^ him instantly. The screaming and distraotei girl hurried iuto the house for assistance, anc on entering the door fell over the prostrat* body of her sister. The ball, after its worl of death in the yard, passed through th weather boarding of the bouse and killed th' second member of the family. The ball tool 1 effect in the rear part of the girl's head arn ' was found lodged in her mouth. jfe. f.. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The Democrats of Massachusetts met in j State convention at Worcester and nominated William E. Russell, of Cambridge, for Governor, by acclamation. Mayor Grant, of New York city, asked the Police Board to make a recount of the . city's population. j Ex-United States Consul General Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, to Lyons, | France, died at his residence in New York ! citv, of consumption. Mr. Peixotto was born in that city November 13, 1634. He was regarded as a representative American ! Hebrew. Dio:> Boccicault, the great dramatist and j actor, died at his home in New York city of j pneumonia. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, I m 1822, and during liis lifetime wrote thirtyfive plays. j Charles Miller, candidate for Governor ; of Pennsylvania on the Prohibition ticket, | has written a letter withdrawing from the : ticket. Pressure of business is assigned as : the cause. Vice-President Webb, of the New York j Central Railroad, said that none of the late I strikers would be taken back to work. Miss Mabel Beecher, the nineteen-yearold dausther of one of the wealthiest farj rners inTarmington, Conn., committed suij tide by drowning. The bodies Emilie Rossi, the nineteen-vear! old actress, and her lover, Gustave Koch, ! who committed suicide almost siinultaueousi ly in New York city, were cremated side by ! side at Fresh Pond, Long Island. Thousands ! of Germans followed the funeral. [ The Coroner's Jury found that a signalj intn was to blame for the accident near | Shcemakersville, Pcnn. I Mrs. Mary Alena Whitte.v, of Westport, M9., aged sixteen, shot herself dead, j She had been married three months. A fire in the Eagle Oil Refinery's works ! in Bayonne, N. J., caused a loss of $250,000. William Walter Phelps, Ucited States ! Minister to Germany, arrived in New York city on a leave of absence. South and West. A lojcg standing feud between the Meur and Blevins famines at Sandborn, Ind , cul i ~ A. 9 VI 1? fm/N /vf i mmatUU iu u uiuuu^ aixi aj1 us ?*uitu imu vi the Meurs were fatally hacked with an are and Rufus Blevins was shot and instantly killed. Secretary of Agriculture Rusk made an address tc the farmers in Ohio at the State Fair in Columbus. a fit of unger Charles DrumirL a saloon keeper of Springfield, Ohio, killed his wife and then blew out his brains. He leaves two young children and considerable property. General W. S. Rosecrans was re-elected President of the Society of the Army of the I Cumberland, in session at Toledo, Ohio. C. L. Barnes shot and killed Policeman j Wauless in Denver, CoL The policeman returned the fire, fatally wounding Barnes. George R. Davis, of Chicago, 111., has been elected Director-General of the "World's Fair. Two families of colored people were camped for the night at the ford of the creek near Evansville, Ind. During the night there must have been a cloudburst, for the creek rose so rapidly as to cut off their escape, drowning sir of the nine. Thr Colorado Republican State Convention, a( Denver, nominated John L. Routt, of Arapahoe County, for Governor and Judge William Storey, of Ouray, for Lieutenant-Governor. Samuel Murrell, tho oldest Mason in Kentucky, died in Bowling Green the other day, agel ninety-eight years. He received the Master Mason's uegree in 1616. During an exciting personal encounter in a crowded restaurant-saloon at Chicago, 111., between tw? noted gamblers each fatally shot the other. The contestants were "Bull" Haggerty and "Bad Jimmy" Connor ton. Toe Oakland Eank at Chicago, III., has suroended payment. Liabilities, $00,000. The failure also closes the Hyde Park Bank, a branch of the Oakland Bank. Neither bank Trill resume business. One of the most terrific cyclones that ever visited the western portion of North Carolina swept over the country in and around Greensboro. The tobacco crop in that section of the State was almost rumed. "While John Gladson and his son James were crossing a railroad track near Ooltewah, Tenn., they were struck by a wild engine and killed. There were terrible floods at Hot Springs. Ark., and the valley from one end to the other is in ruins. The main thoroughfare is flooded the whole length of the avenue and every movable object carried away. The loss to property will amount to $75,000. J Six distinct shocks of earthquake wer* noi ticed a few afternoons ago at Columbia, IS. C. Napoleon "White was hanged for the murder of his wife at Tallahassee, Fla. "Washington. The House conferees on the Tariff bill accepted the Aldrich reciprocity amendment. According to the Census Bureau the total ! population for Arizona Territory is 59,691. j In 1SS0 the population was 40,440. Net inj crease 19,251 or 47.60 per cent. Speaker Reed attempted to keep Democratic members in their seats in the House | by ordering the doorkeepers to lock the doors. Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, smashed cne door and walked out, while other members turned the k;y in another door and also 'eft I the House. Congressman De Havkn, of California, has mailed his resignation as a member of the List Congress to the Governor of the State, to take effect November 3, the day before election. Mr. Da Haven has been nominated to a judicial office and hence his resignation as Congressman. The Senate in executive session confirmed the nomination of Theodore M. Schleier, of Teanessee, to be Consul at Amsterdam. The President has signed the River and Harbor bill. Chairman Candler, of Massachusetts, from the Special House Committee on the World's Fair, has reported .to the House a resolution providing for the appointment of a sub-committee to inquire into the progress of the details for the holding of the Exposition in Chicago. The President has sent to the Senate th3 appoiiitment of Colonel Edward V. Vilium, surgeon, to be Chief Medical Purveyor with the rank of Colonel from August 28, 189D, vice Colonel Baxter, appointed SurgeonGeneral. Senator Aldrich and Major McKinley uuited in a telegram to the President at Cresson, Pena., that the Tariff bill would be reported back immediately, making it possible for Congress to adjourn by October 1. From the House Indian Affairs Committee a bill was reported to pay $0,211,714 to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nation of Indians for title in fee simple to 0,201,633 acres of land in the Indian Territory, beinz land which the Indians in 1WW ceded to the United States for the especial purpose ol locating other friendly Indians and freed men thereon. The President made thai following nomina; tions: Judges of Probate iu the Territory of Utah?Francis L. Daggett, of Washington County; Henry Shields, Summit County; Charles A. Herman, ToceleCounty; Jacob Johnson, San Pete County: Stephen V. Frazier, Rich County; Charles Foote, Juan County; William Goodwin, Cache County; Hector W. Haight, Davis County; Thomas S. Watson. Wasach County. The executive session of the Senate was confined to the consideration of the nomination of George B. Maney, of Tennessee, to be Minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, whe was confirmed. Foreign. The state of affairs in Switzerland is bor3ering on anarchy. Governor-General Lord Stanley, of Canada, gave a ball at the Citadel in Quebec in honor of Prince George of Wales. John Dillon andWilliam O'Brien, members of the British Parliament, were arrested n Ireland for conspiracy and advising tenants not to pay their rent. Six boys and girls have committed suicide it Vienna, Austria, through chagrin, when obliged to return to school after vacation. Cholera has broken out among the Italian .forces at Massowah, Africa. The arrested Irish leaders, Messrs. Dillon md O'Brien, were released on bail. count SCHLEinttz, Wno nai Deen ruinaa ' by gambling at Berlin, Germany, committal suicide by snooting himself with a revolver. The army manoeuvres at Rohnstoclr, Austria, wera ended. Emperor William, of Germany, led the final attack. Emueror Francis "Joseph, of Austria, was with the iriny of defence, which was successlul. Bra fire which destroyed tho house of a tfch merchant r?f filename of FtHis, in Berlin, Germany, two or ms uaugniers, siitceu and fourteen j-ears old respectively, were burned to death. Tho governess and a maid also lost their lives in the flames. King Oscar, of Sweden, visited the United States cruiser Baltimore, at Stockholm. In an election riot in the Portuguese city Df Goa, India, seventeen persons were killed ind many wounded. A storm at Marseilles, France, flooded 1 nrr-anf rlnmocrfi ftt mflfl many lluustrs, lauam^ 5h.uv w xays, and destroyed an immense amount of property- in the suburbs. Three persons ivere killed and several were injured by the fall of a wall. Heavy rains and floods are reported in other parts of the south of France. A revolt having broken out in Cambay, Guzerat. India, against taxation, troops were sent to the scene to restore order. In an encounter between the troops and a mot thirteen persons were killed, twenty were in* jured ana two hundred were made prisoners. James B. Lang, the Treasurer of Ontario County, has been arrested at Toronto, Canaia, charged with the embezzlement of SSOOC of the county's funds. The village of Ruthi, in the canton of St. Sal!, Switzerland, has been devastated by Are. Three hundred houses were destroyed. The loss of one life is reported. All the people whose houses have been burned are in a destitute condition. A conflict has taken place between Turks and Armenians at Van, Turkey, iD trhich forty were killed, chiefly Turks. The floods in the Department of the Gard, France, have caused much damago to prop?rly. Br the derailing of a train between Flor?nce and Fiesole, Italy, five persons were silled and twenty injured. King Humbert ind Queen Margaret were about to start for the races, but upon learning of the disaster they abandoned their intention and immeI iiately proceeded to the scene of the accident, tvhere they personally directed the care 01 the injured. The epidemic of suicide continue in Berlin, Germany. A sensation was created bj the discovery that Major Von Norman, Commandant of the Cadets' School, had killed himself by taking poison. To make his work doubly sure, after he had swallowed the poison he opened the arteries in his arms. A commercial panic prevails in Lisbon, Portugal, where the leading banks are trembling. A crisis was imminent. The United States steamer Baltimore, which took the body of Captain Ericsson tc Sweden, has sailed "from Stockholm on hex return to the United States. LATER NEWS. Sherman Lines and D. L. Lee, of Ottawa, Ohio, quarrelled and shot each other fatally. Hail fell to the depth of eight inches in Huron County, Mich., and literally wiped away the crops. The damage is estimated at $300,000. Many farmers were iD a destituto condition. It is estimated that the cotton iu the Memphis (Tenn.) District has been damaged twenty-five per cent, by excessive rains United States revenue cutters have been ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury to take active measures against seal poachers in Behring Sea. Mr. Miller, of South Caroliua, who was, on the day before, declared to be elected as a Representative from the Seventh South Carolina District, appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath of ofSos. The President and his party returned to Washington from Cresson. Penn. Thev traveled from Cresson in Generil Superintendent ShepparcTs private car. Mr. Earrisen spent the evening at the White Hous?, but the ladies went to Mr. Wanamaker's residence, to remain while the Executive Mansion is being repaired. The President feels much benefited by his sojourn in the mountains. Mp.s. Lizzie Halford and Miss Lizzie Weaver, of Brooklyn, N. Y., committed suicide by taking poison. At Circleville, n. Y., Charles A. Thomp- " son and a hired man were removing the hide from a cow that had died, when ths knife slipped, enteriug Thompson's left thigh and severing the main artery. Death resulted before he could be carried to the house. He was twenty-five years old. The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Committee nominated John D. Gill for Governor in place of Charles Miller, who had declined. A revolution tas Drosen out, m luiuiiijui, India. The Maharajah fitk1 aad his brother assumed coatrol. An explosion occurred on the steamer Pandora at Armstrong's shipyard at Newcastle, England. Twelve persons employed about the steamer were so badly scalded by the escaping steam that they died. Arthur Bowter, Charles McDonald and Hugh Roney were drowned in Stony Lake, Canada, through the upsetting of a sailboat. An accident in which five people were killed and twenty injured occurred on a street railway between Florence, Italy, and Fiesole, three miles away, on which electric cars are used. DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT, Bogus Two-Dollar Silver Certificates in Circulation. IV. Dickerman, publisher of the United States Treasury Counterfeit Detector, has issued a card descriptive of a new counterfoil two-dollar silver certificate,^ of which h? says: "This new counterfeit is exceedingly dan gerous. it is cqbck letter u, ana Dears tae small round carmine seal. It was discovered oy Miss A. C. Smith, of the Redemption Division of the United States Treasury Department, at Washington. This counterfeit is well executed and is liable to deceive even the experts in handling money. The blue figures, or Treasury numbers, are cleai cut and closely resemble those on the genuine notes. The color is excellent: the black and green inks are also good, but whet compared with the black and green inks of a genuine note, it will be seen that the inks on the counterfeit are a little off color. The portrait of General Hancock is well engraved The same might be said of the geometrical lathe work and parallel ruling. The fine imprint of tho Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the small letters and figures in the border of this counterfeit are well engraved This counterfeit is numbered B 1,^08,861 The check letter C is wrong?it should be A No attempt to imitate the threads or fibres running lengthwise of tha genuine silver :ertifiicates has been made." NEVADA'S GOVERNOR DEAD, Tho Chief Executive of the Centennial State Succumbs to Fever. Charles Clark Stevenson, Governor of No vada, died of typhoid fever at his homo ic Carson a few days ago. His atten ling physician entertained little hope of his recovery for the past ten days. Flags over Government and State buildings were put at halt' mast, and the capital was draped in mourning. Funeral services were held in Carson City and the body was taken to Oakland, Cal., for interment. Governor Stevenson was sixtvfour years of age. and was born in Ontario County, N. Y. Lieutenant-Governor H. C. Davis died a little over a year ago. The com crop having proved a failure, the Kansas farmers are preparing their land for wheat, and the acreage of that grain will be very larg? next season. RAILWAY TRAGEDIES.. A Series of Fatal and Destructive Accidents. Five Excursionists Killed in a Collision, A Chicago, Burlington and Quincy freight train crashed into the rear of an excursion train on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Eighteenth street, in Chicago, III., about eight o'clock the other night. The collision resulted in the loss of four or more lives. The first report^ from the police were to the effect that forty persons had been killed. Within half aa hour four mangled corpso3 had been dragged out of the wreck. The collision occurred near Douglass Park, and the victims were Sunday excursionists just reaching the city on their way Lome from an afternoon's outing. They n-prfl on tho third section of a train home ward bound from Addison, 111., a town eighteen miles from Chicago, where there are picnic grounds much frequented by Germans. Two Illinois Central coac>.S3 were telescoped and a third badly shattered. At the Illinois Central trainmaster's offico 1 at ten o'clock that nfcht it was stated that only four persons had been reported killed ana about eight wounded. The killed were: Miss Ginan,of Chicago. ? Ginan, sister of the above, two unknown young men. Conductor Henry Carrington, of the passenger train, and one of tho brakemea have been arrested. They refuse to talk, but it is \ claimed that tho signals were burning too dimly to bo seen. Eleven passengers were 1 injured. A railroad official, who was a passenger on the Burlington train, said: "The Illinois Central train reached Lawndalo and there was an obstruction in the way, which brought the train to a halt, and when it had moved the length of about two cars it was run into by tho Burlington passenger train due in Chicago at 7:20 p. M. The Burlington train left Kiverside about twenty minutes iate. it appearea as if there "was no flagman to signal the Burlington traiu, and running at a speed or aoout fifteen miles gp hmjr it crashed into tha i-ear of the Illinois Central train, telescoping the second and third cars from the rear of the train and smashed both ends of the cars and raised them up from the tracks so that they stood four or five feet higher than the rest of the train. "The killed and wounded were taken out by cutting away the sides of the car with asesand were taken to a house near the station at Lawndale. "I believe if the coaches in which these persons were injured had been of decently substantial construction there would not have been serious injury to any passenger." Cars Plunge Fifty Feet^ A frightful wreck occurred on the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, near Neoga, Iowa, about three o'clock on a recent morning. The following is the list of the killed: Burke, Joseph, fireman, of Stanbury, Mo.; Eskridge, Martin, engineer, of Stanbury, Mo.; Williamson, R. S., head brakeman, of Macon, Mo. The accident occurred at a trestle about three hundred feet long, which crosses a cut made by a creek through hills. The bridge is at the end of a curve so sharp that a person standing one hundred yards to the east can Jus* see the end or it. The train, which consisted of seventeen loaded cars and a caboose, was just crossing round this curve from tne oast when the whole western half of the bridge was discovered to be a mass of flame. The brakemcn were at their posts, as the grade is steep at this pointy and the engineer reversed the lever, but it scarcely checked the train. The engine struck the bridge and went down into the burning chasm fifty feet below, while the cars piled above it in a shapeless mass. Brakeman Williamson was hurled against a tree and his skull crushed so that he died in a few minutes. Engineer Eskridge was undoubtedly crushed to death in tho wreck, although his body has not yet been found. Fireman Burke was found with his left hand pinioned under a girder, but otherwise unhurt. Above him was a tank of oil, the i J ~c ??.;~u ? ill llanies, and he beggsd the conductor and the rear brakeraen who found him to cut oS his hand as the only means of saving him from the impending explosion of the oil tank. They made a despsrate effort to pull him loose,"but being unable to do so finally started for the ax in the caboose, but before they could get to him the explosion took place, and Burke was burned to death. The bridgo is supposed to have been set on fire by coals from an east bounr1 local freight, which crossed the bridgo about nine o'clock in the evening. Carrying the Wounded Home. The persons injured in the wreck at Shoemakersville, Penn., who wer? transferred to the Reading Hospital, were taken to their homes ns rapidly as their condition would permit, and now there aro only six remaining in the institution. The scene of tha wreck was visited by thousands of curiosity-seekers. The damage to the tracks has all been repaired and trains are running a3 usual. The engine was moved from its rostingplace in the river to a point near the bank. The debris of the broken cars which has been j dragged out of the water is still lying along1 i the bank. It is not probable that anything new will be elicited as to how the accident haooenai boyond what has already been published. The disaster is regarded as having boon purely accidental. _ _The name of David Amgstadt, a barber of Alabanoy City, should ba added to the list o? | the dead. This brings the numbar of victims up to twenty-two. Brakcmau Killed. Two Santa Fe freight trains collided near La Plata, Mo. Brakeman Gells was instantly killed, and one of the eugineers and his fireman were dangerously injured. Both engines wore demolished and four cars were thrown in the ditch. DEATH IN THE FLOODS. ' 1 Europe's Terrible Loss of Life and Property. From all parts of Europe comes the news f of disastrou* storms and of wild, wet weath- ? er. At Aix-les-Bains the season is more like j November than the ordinary lovely weather j of September. c In Switzerland streams have become great f torrents, and sweep through the valleys with a fury that makes it dangerous for tourists 3 to venture far in their wanderings. The peoplo of many towns in Bohemia, j Austria and Hungary have been made home- I less by floods, and the Government autliori- : ties ara doing all they can to assist them. The German army manoeuvres in Silesia are ; seriously interfered with, and, altogether, i Europe'has uot seen in years a more depress- i ing autumn. . I In Holland extraordinary precautions are 3 Vioino- tnVpn for tho mnintanaunn of tlin ; dyites, 2nd in the coast towns the whole < population is told to be ready for this work * at a moment's notice, no exception being 3 made in favor of visitors or non-residents, > who are all made liable to forced labor for 3 the common protection. The recent storm in the Jura has left mult:- 2 tudes destitute, for whom collections are be- ' ing taken up throughout Europe. The snowfall in the Upper Alps is phe- 3 nomenal this season. Several families have > been frozen to death, and in more than 0119 ' iustance physicians have perished while ! braving the storm in the effort to reach the 3 houses of their patients. A WORLD'S FAiESITE. Chicago Offers Washington Park to the Commissioners. Washing ton Park, the garden spot of all Chicago, has been tendered to the National 1 Commissioners as a sito for the Columbian Exposition. Tho Commissioners wero dis satisfied with tho dual site, and brought such pressure to bear upon the local authorities that the tender of Washington Park was finally made. The park is about six miles from the heart of tho city and its area is ample. Although not on the lake shores it has an outlet to the lake which will be utilized. FIFTY-FIRST CONG-BESS, In the Senate. 212th Day.?Mr. Vcorheca introduced a bill appropriating ?30,000 for a statue to Robert Dale Owen in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institute. ....\ discussion was provoked on the money market by Mr. Plumb's resolution calling for information from the Treasury Department....Senate ( bill to provide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof, which are the subjects of interstate commerce, was passed..i.Mr. Manderson offered resolutions expressing the profound sorrow nf tho Spnnt-n at tlif> rlpnt,h of the i late Representative Laird, of Nebraska, on , August 17, 18S9, and addressed the Senate in 1 eulogy of the dead man, whom he spoke of i as a friend of rfiany years, a comrade in a . great cause and a colleague in official duties. [ 213th Day.?Mr. Voorhees introduced a ' joint resolution for an immediate increase of 1 silver money by the purchase aud coinage of I 10,000,000 ounces of silver at a price below $1.2929 within the next thirty days....It was agreed to let the Bankruptcy bill go over until next session Mr. Sherman's I bill to reduce the amount of bonds deposited i I in National banks was considered. 214th Day.?The Senate resumed consid I eration of the Senate bill to reduce the I amount of the United States bonds to be re i quired of national banks, and to restore to I the channels of trade the excessive accumulations of lawful money. The bill was laid i aside without action The calendar was I the taken up, and the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the indebtedness to the Government of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company was passed.. .?The Senate resumed consideration of the House bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States. An amendment offered by Mr. Ingalls was adopted. Mr. Daniel offered an amendment extending the right of appeals to | the Supreme Court to all cases of convic- i tion of telony and to all cases where the matter in dispute is the right to personal liberty or the right to the custody ( of a child. Without action on Mr. Daniel's amendment the bill was laid aside informally | ... .The private pension bills on the calendar | were taken up and passed?eighty-five of , them in fifty minutes. 215th Day.?The substitute bill for the re- j lief of the United States Supreme Court was discussed... .The bill passed by the House of Representatives granting leave of absence i (or fifteen days each year to Postofflce employe^ was" reaCajiT oj th? Senate calendar and, after discussion, was dropped. 216th Day.?Tho bill to change the fire limit of the postoffice and Federal Duilding at Brooklyn was passed....Mr. Hale introduced a joint resolution for the erection in tho District of Columbia of a memorial building which shall be a fitting monument to the memory of Ulysses S. Grant, which is to contain a military and naval museum, etc., and in the inner court of which may be placed to rest the mortal romains of distinguished Americans..,. At the expiration of the hour assigned Jo the calendar the Hous9 bill, with the Senate substitute, to define "arid regulate thS Jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, was taken up. The bill went over, without action. 21 ?th Day.?The substitute bill for the relief of the Supreme Court was passed..., The Land Court bill was taken up Among the bills passed was the Senate bill in recognition of the merits and services of Chief Engineer George Wallace Melville, United States Navy, and of the other officers and men of the Jeannetta Arctic expedition.... The Senate also passed a bill directing the payment of an old balance of 113,930 long due the inventor Ericsson and now asked for by his legal representatives. I In the House. I 222d Day.?No auorum could be obtained: I Messrs. Kilgore, Crain and other Representatives forced their way through a locked door during a call of the House. 223d Day.?There being no quorum, the House, at 4:45, by unanimous consent took a recess till 8 o'clock.... At its evening session the House postponed until Wednesoay next the bill granting pensions to the widows of Generals McClellan, Fremont, and Crook. Seventy-two private pension bills were passed, and the House at 10:30 adjourned. ! 224th Day.?In the House the journal was read without objection, but Mr. O'Ferrall objected to its approval. The yeas and nays having been ordered, the vote resulted? Yeas, 151; nays, 0?no quorum; and the House at 1 o'clock adjourned. 225th Day.?Another day was spent in an effort to obtain a quorum for action upon the Langston-Venable election case.... Mr, Moore, of New-Hampshire, introduced the following resolution: That the Committee on Rules be instructed to report an additional rule, to-wit: Rule XLVI Contempt of the House. When a call of the House discloses the presence of a quorum, any member ab- 1 senting himself on the succeeding roll-call, for the purpose of breaking a quorum, shall ! be arraigned at the bar or the House, and t fined in the sutn not exceeding {500. 226th Day. ?A quorum was obtained, and ] the contested election cases of Langston 1 against Venable and Miller against Elliott 1 were decided in favor of the Republican con- 1 testants... .Mr. Mason reported favorably with au amendment tao din granting tne 1 consent of the Government to the erection of a bridge over the North River between New York and New Jersey....The Hous6 went into Committee of the Whole on the Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill. The afternoon was consumed in a discussion of the French Spoliation claims. Without action the committee rose. 227th Day.-It was resolved to exclude from the permanent record Mr. Kennedy's recent speech reflecting upon the Senate and Senator Quay Then the Senate bill granting a pension of $2000 a year to Jessio Benton Fremont was passed. This was followed by the Senate bill grantinga similar pension to ths < widow of Goneral Crook, which was passed. J The House bill granting a pension of $100 a month to the widow of Brigadier-Genera! ; Roger Jones was recommitted On motion of Mr. Boutelle the Senate bill was passed providing that naval vessels of the first rate shall be named after the States of the Un- j ion; those of the second rate after cities; those of the third rate after important oc ' currences or names connected with the na- < val history of the United States, and thosj ] of the fourth rate after lakes and rivers.... , The House adopted unanimously Mr. Mc- j Creary's resolution asking for the papers in < the Barruadia case. , ? m-r-11-rm ATinrnn n m ? mrrtmT/in . 'ATiiiN T U? ? IUJCj SliiXlSlIUB. ; die Commissioner's Report for the ( Last Fiscal Year. ) Commissioner Hitch all, of tho Bureau of J 'atents, has filed at "Washington, with the j Secretary of the Interior, a preliminary 1 tatement of the operations of his office for j he fiscal year ended June 30, 1S90. There- j ?ort shows that applications and caveats rere received ns follows: Applications for letters patent, 40,201; for ' [esign patents, 1003; for reissue patents, 121; 1 or registration of trademarks, 1G17; forreg- , stration of labels, 868; caveats received, 330. Total, 46,140, as against 42,047 for the iravious year. The number of patents rantad, and trademarks and labels regisered is shown as follows: Patents granted, i deluding reissues and designs, 2.J.857: tradenarks registered, 1332; labels registered. 304. 'otal, 27,493, as against 22,041 during the revious year. The receipts of the office for he year were 81,347,203, and tho expendi- . ures ?1,081.173. Surplus, ?206.030, as against t Q~0 fr\r> tho Inch VMr Thf* alanco in tho Treasuryof tho United States g n account of tho Patent Fund is shown to 10 $3,790,55!). Tho report also shows that, while tho iiuniter of applicants for patents, etc.. received , urine; the year increased from 39,702 in 1SS9 ' o 43,810 in lS'JO, the number awaiting action b ins decreased from 7073 on July 1, ISS'.I, to A 5<i5 on July 1, 1830?that is to say. the office h uriug the last year disposed of 43'JG cases in p xcess"of the number disposed of during tho devious year. ? tl SPANIARDS MASSACRED, 1 Thirty-two Men Butchcrcd by Natives iii the Caroline isianus. O. S. Owens, a merchant of Manilla, who arrived at San Francisco, Cal., recently on the steamship Gaelic, states that on August 10 a terrible massacre occurred in the town of Ponape, in the Caroline Island?. 1 The Spanish soldiers who were building a i fortress at the side of the town lofta number , of rifles in the fort. The natives overpowered tho guard, seized the rifles and attacked the town. Thirty-two Spaniards were killed. |Several Spanish men-of-war have been sent from Manilla to quell the disturbance. 1 - ' v . . . fi SCUMS KILLED. A. Frightful Disaster on tlie Beading Road. k Crowded Express Train Thrown Into the Schuylkill River, Shoemakersville, a station on the Reading Railroad, fifteen miles north of Reading, ?enn., was the scene of a terrible wreck soon ifter 6 o'clock on a recent night Advicw eceived on the day after the accident report ihat thirty are known to have been injured, md from forty to fifty killed. ThosS killed ivero nearly all railroad hands. The train was what is known as the Pottsville express, leaving Reading at 5:43 r. sr. The train was fifteen minutes late, and it had on board a large number of people who had attended the Berks County Fair., in Reading! during the lay, and firemen from the coal regions, who bad been in attendance at the State Firemen's Convention in Chester during the past few days. The train only stops at the most important stations along the route, aud generally runs at the rate of forty miles afl hour. As the train was late, the engineer, it ia supposed, put on a good head of speed, and it was flying along the rails at a lively rate. At the point where the accident occurred a freight train had just run into a coal train, throwing several coal cars over on the track on which the passenger train was coming along. The passenger came along on the track filled with the debris of broken coal cars, and dashed into the mass of timbers and a small mountain of coal with fearful velocity. The engine gavo a plunge and then dashed down the embankment to the dark and swift-flowing waters of the river twenty feet below, followed by the tender, the baggage car, the mail car, and three passenger cars, all well filled. Instantly cries arose from 100 stricken human beings. Everything was confusion and great excitement prevailed. The news of the disaster traveled with lightning speed over the country roundabout, apd the villagers and the farmers living in the surround ng neighborhood flocked to the scene, but they could give very littb relief. The night was dark, the lights of the train even wont out, and the terror-stricken passengers, some of them imprisoned in the cars, fought desperately to get out. Some of the cars were broken, and the passengers who were not too badly Injured managed to make their way to shore and grope about for some relief,. Up to ten o'clock at night six bodies had been taken out. li-t-Lx - 6 t/.n A d I near xmanigat me way ot iiiuu -n-gtuii Qreenalk wag rescued as it was floating down the river. Ho had been crushed to death in the mail car at his post of duty. It is a singular fact that so many o? th( trMn Jjandg should hr.ve. met their deatb in the wreck. They had no chanc< to jump, jind vrsnt down to theii death almost unconscIou3 as to their impending fate. The crash and rush down the embankment, were all tho work of an instant when all was darkness and deatb. Toward midnight an Italian <va3 detected in tho act of robbing the dead and injured, and ho was promptly arrested. Physicians and surgeons and a force of 300 workmen were taken to the spot, and with the aid of a traveling electric light plant, the work of clearing away the wreck was at once proceeded with. "Work was slow and the dead and dying were taken out with great difficulty. At 2 o'clock next morning fifteen bodiei had been taken out. Tho number of injured Ls estimated to be thirty. FLOODS IN CHINA. Heavy Loss of Life and a Railway Embankment Destroyed. The Department of State at Washington has received from tho United States Legation at Pekin, China, a report relative to the recent heavy floods in that country. Thereport says that the floods have been tho most lerious ever known. It is supposed that an area cf COOO miles and a population of several millions wore affected by tnem. Many people liavo been drowned. Tens of thousands are refugees from their homes, livincr on charity. One result of the floods, the report says, may havo far-reaching consequences. Near Lutai, wQich is a point on the railroad from Tongku to Tongsuan, the railway embankment has been destroyed by the people for several miles. It was alleged that tho embankment dammed up the water jnd flooded the country. Forcible possession was taken of tho embankment, which was cut in many places; the trains were stopped, and the employes driven iway. The Tongshan colliery has shut down, 3000 men being thrown out of employment, and the operation of tho railroad is, of course, suspended. The destruction of the embankment was wanton, and unnecessary for letting off tho water. All these proceedings indicate nn auti-raiLroad excitement which luay result in postponing indefinitely any further railroad enterprises in China. DYING BY APPOINTMENT, r-ivo Faithful Lovers Kill Themselves at the Same Hour. By preconcerted arrangement the lives ot two lovers were ended in a dramatic way at 2anal street and tho Bowery, in New York :ity, almost at the samo moment on a recent norning. The man, Gustave Koch, a crayon irtist, stood on the platform of the elevated railroad station, just under his sweetheart's tvindow, and blew out his brains with a reFolver. Immediately afterward, in the sedusion of her own room, sho discharged a bullet into her heart. ShewasEmilie Rossi, in actress, and she planned the double tragedy. Emifie Rossi belonged to Amberg's theatri;al company and lately had been rehearsing for a leading part in a new German opera, called "Naive." She was a pretty girlj nineteen years oiu, aau uau uwav?u favorablo notice as an actress. Her father, who died In Germany, years ago, was i talented singer, and her mother, who now lives in Berlin, is a novelist of repute. Emllio met Koch in Ne,w York city less than a year ago. Ho was in tho employ of a Broadway photographer. Seven years ago he came from Vienna. at tho age of twenty. It was said that he belonged to a good family. He was a' sturdy ivorkman and a fine-looking man, but had a nervous temperament and was provoked to mger or mirth easily. The girl's mother opposed her marriage rvith the artist and this led to the dual sui:ide. l HERO'S WIFE DESTITUTE. Icncral Fremont's Widow III and Without a Dollar. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of the ito General John C. Fremont, is quite ill at er residence on Twenty-third street in Los .ngeles, CaL To a reporter who called at er residonce to inquire concerning Mrs. 'remont's condition, her daughter stated hat the family were iu very straightened ircumstances; that there was not a dollar in lie house, and that they were on the verge f actual starvation. MURDER, THEN SUICIDE, Frederick Geahm Shoots Hts Wife and Drowns Himself. Frederick Geabm killed his wife Th?reso it Louisville, Ky., and then committed sui cide. They had trouble over money and she sued for divorce. He went to the warehouse where she worked and shot her twice, killing her almost instantly. Ho then ran out upon the street, trying, as he ran, to shoot himself. Failing in this, he jumped into the canal and was drowned. - . >"> , "Wr-. RELIGIOUS READING. AFTER A NIGHT OF WEEITXG. When the long night of weariness and pala Is fall of bitter thoughts, and doubts that sting, ' Do we not Jong to liaar some holy strain That far-off angels sing? When even* golden deed the heart hath planned Is darkened by the fear of failing powers, ind all o'er life seems like the barren land, Unblessed by sun or showers; When every word that loving lips have said Sounds, to the morbid fancy, falsely sweet; A.nd every truth that we have heard or read Seems poor and incomplete; When the one thing whereon our hopes are set Is still withheld, although we pray and weep, Until we murmur, "Can the Lord forget? , Or doth the Master sleen?" When the old sin that we had nearly crushed, Arrayed in all its fearful might, appears, And yearning voices that wc thought were hushed Call from departed years; Then like an evening wind that, unperceived, Bearoth an odor from the ro?e's breast, Comes the remembrance: ''We which have believed Do enter into rest." And our eyes close, and all the phantom throng , Of doubts and troubles vanish into air; And the oue face that we have loved so long Smiles on us calm and fair; The face that in our darkest hour is bright, The tranquil trow thfct never wears a frown, Steadfast eves, that never lose their light Eeneath the thorny crown. *.' So at His word the clouds are all withdrawn. The small, sharp pains of life are soothed -' away; After the night of weeping comes the dawn, And then His perfect day. A SUCCESSFUL PRESCRIPTION. A Christian worker relates: "A doctor In a ponntrv district was one venr stormv right quietly sitting by his room fire, and hoping, as he listened to the wind and rain j ^ without, that he would not be called out. A moment or two later a servant entered with a note. Looking at it the doctor said: 'Seven miles' ride; I sup pose I most go.' Silently he rode for the first six miles without meeting anyone; then he . noticed a cart went for another mile, when lie noticed a dark object staggering along in the middle of the road. - "Aa the doctor came up, the owner of the leaOortF^taulmerea out: 'I say, doctor,. is that you? I want you to give me a pro- * VJa scription; they say you are real good to the poor, perhaps you will give it to mc for nothing.' 'well my friend, what Is it that ails you?' said the doctor. 'I want a pre* scription to keep my legs.from turning Into the saloon.' 'I cannU give you it, my man, e but there is a Great Physician, a friend of mine, who will give yod what you want.' 'Oh tell me where He lives that I may go to Him, for I am in danger of losing both body and soul.' "Months passed, and again the doctor saw the same figure pass on the road, but not intoxicated this time. He came up, caught the doctor by the hands, and with tears rolling down bis face, he said, 'God bless you!' That was all, but the doctor understood that the Great Physician had dealt with him and had effected a cure of both. body and soul. For Him no case is too desperate; He can save unto the uttermost.'1? ~i ??? ' HOLINESS WITHOUT. CIim8T. Many, believing in their own resourses of will and endeavor, think tbey are able, unaided, to meet -the requirements of God;1 They resent any limitation of their moril power. Paul for a time thought himself as toucbing the law blameless. His idea of righteousness then was however very different from his idea of righteousueas after he < a ne to know Jesus Christ. Holiness wo&ld be attainable by our own sufficiency were it a .matter of outward correctness One may with success regulate the outward conduct, but the regulation of the life within is too much for even , the most selfpossessed. Our power over ouf inward selves is of a very partial character. The master5.}* control of thoughts, imaginations, desires, is beyond us. David felt his helplessness in the inward sphere' when he prayed. "Create in me a clean h*art, 0 God; and renew a right spirit within me" (Ps. 51, 10). The will of man is weakest where, if righteousness is to be self-made, it would need to be strongest. To say'tBat we have need of nothing, and yet aspire after eternal good, is to play with tbe problem of human character. To propose renewal 'from with out, is to ignore the teaching of experience? ,' which is the teaching of Christ?that radical renewal is from within. The most perfect outward rectitude leaves us defective in those matters which are of greatest weight in the sii-ht of God. The mistake of all Pharlseeism, is that it -*.ry regards the outer, but disregards the inner state. The artificial flower.may be a good imitation of the natural flower, but It can never have its fragrance; and the moral man may be a good imitation of the Christian, but he can never have the aroma of the heart iu which there is the life and love of Christ.? 114S RELIGION LC8TTIIE ELEMENT OF HEEOISM? It is very often said in some quarters: "There is no heroism in religion now. There wes a time when their faith made men stioasc and brave, when the dungeon and the stake had no terrort for them; but that time has gone by. There are no heroes in the modern church. A drizzly day is more for* midable in tbe eyes of the modern Christian than a regiment of hostile soldiers wa3 iu the eyes of his ancestors. A cloud In the sky is more startling to the Christian of today than a pit full of hons was to the ancient Christian. There was a Kid.'ey, a Litinier and a John Knox once among the men; a Blan- . dlna and a Feltcita among the women; but that race is dead and there U hardly courage enough in the church to brave a laugh or a tbiust of ridicule." Thus many talk and more feel. But these charges live only b(cause, though false in the main, there is more than a grain of fact in them. Tbey fly only because they have truth enough to lend them wings. It is every Chri.-tian's duty to show the world that, so far as he is concerned, these charges are false. The sneers of the world that the Christian of today will take up no cross, as well as the command of Christ should spur us on to the next hard duty. They should comVel us to say to ourselves, "I will not allow this cowardly, shrinking heart to lord it over me, for my Master's honor is at stake.1' Does Christian courage demand a devotion which will seem siujulur and ridiculous to our companions? We will render that devotion. Does it demaud that we will speak to some one about his soul's salvation? Wo will speak to that person at once. Does it demand that we take a more prominent place in church work, to the sacrifice of personal ease and private business? We will take that place. As the young soldier said to his shaking limbs before going into his first battle, ' Tremble, tremble if you will; If you knew where you were going you would shake more than you do now, but still you would have to co,"for I've had orders from the caplain." So let us say to our trembling hearts when we shrink from anv religious duty,''Tremble if you will, cowani'heart, but vou must do - - ^ ? ? - it:? a. tina duty, lor tue uap:ain wugm-u a? ?*dors."? [Golden Rule. the original Erazenoso tnockor hag been restored to its lightful building, When the Oxford scholars migrated to Stamford, in 1334, because of a feud in tho university, they took the knocker with them, and since then it has been Dn the house where they settled. The Dther day the house was bought by Brazenor.o College, and the historic knocker was tuken off and homo. was molded some time in tlie twelfth century. It represented a lion's face with a ricg through the mouth.