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I SITTING BULL KILLED. K:Tlie Wily Sioux Chief Shot b; jflt/ Indian Police. Sketch of His Turbulent ant ||| Murderous Career. 3S?| The following dispatch has been receive; BsMfrom St. Paul. Minn.: Sittinc Bull, the fa Iraous Sioux chief, who has had more to d< with instigating and keeping alive thi widespread disaffection among the Indian: of the Northwest than any other of his race | was killed a few days ago by Indian polici Iwhile resisting arrest. ' The information comes from two source; to General Miles. The first dispatch wai from Pierre, South Dakota, and was simply to the effect that Sitting Bull and his sou jihad been killed by the Iudian police. The Isecond telegram, from Standing Rock iAgency, was more circumstantial. According to this second telegram. Major McLaughlin's Indian police went to Sitting Bull's camp at Grand River, about forty-fivs miles from Standing Rock, with instructions (to capture Sitting Bull. They were followed jtnd' supported at a short distance by two fcroops of cavalry under Captain Fechet, and he infantry, under Colonel Drum, followed l the rear of the cavalry. The move was (bade pursuant to instructions received from headquarters, it having been learned that ^Sitting Bull intended leading about three hundred Indians into the Baa Lands to join the hostile Indians. It was deemed advisable [to arrest him before this movement could be made, and the Indian police were ordered to make his arrest at once. The police succeeded in arresting Sitting BuU, but his followers tried to rescue him. Tn tho Ho-ht whiVh ensued Sittinz Bull was I shot and left lying, apparently dead, upon the ground. Five of the Indian police were also shot in the fight. Indian Commissioner Morgan received al Washington from Indian Agent McLaughlin the following dispatch, dated Fort Yates, North Dakota. Indian police arrested Sitting Bull at his camp, forty miles from the Agency, this morning at daylight. His followers Attempted his rescue and fighting commenced. Four policemen were killed and three wounded. Eight Indians were killed, including Sitting Bull and his son. Crowfoot, and several others wounded. The police were surrounded for some time, but maintained their ground until relieved by United States troops, who now have possession of Sitting Bull's camp, with all the woman, children and property. Sitting Bull's followers, probably one hundred men, deserted their families afid fled up the Grand River. The police behaved nobly, and great credit is due them. Sifting Ball's Turbulent Career. Sitting Bull (Tatonka Otanka), who for many years was the cruel and wily leader of the outlaw Sioux, was born in Dakota, in 1837. near old Fort George, and was the son of JumpiDg Bull. When he was fourteen voow nIH ho killed an enenav and his name 9b8 was then changed from The Sacrad Stand Sol to Sitting Bull. Sitting Ball's followers MM were outlaws from all the Sioux bands, and, with few exceptions never entered into treaty h9 relations with the Government. He was not Si recognized as a chief by such leaders as Red U Cloud, Spotted Tail and Young-Man-AfraidbH of-Hts-Horses until about 1368, and prior to afil that time he was often in open conflict with 39 them. With their recognition his supremacy ? over tbe bad Sioux was assured. Sjfd Sitting Bull began to figure as a bad chief H during the Civil War. B? In 1867 Sitting Bull threatened the GallaH tin Valley in Montana, and in 1803 he ata5B tacked the settlement of Musclesholl and suffered defeat. After this defeat he lost ?1 prestige. In 1869 and 1870 he devoted himH self principally to the slaughter of Ru the Crows, the Mandans, the Rees, si the Shoshones and all other tribes friendly to the whites, varying this work by H an occasional attack on the Missouri River H forts. In 1574 he drove the Crows from their ^^agency and reservation and made war on all ^^H)?aceable Indians. .He spent the summer of ^^nS75 in attacks on the Crow Agency and on ^ Montana settler?. 1876 Sitting Bull again took up arms ^K^gainst the whites and friendly Indians. Jn ^Hjune of that year he defeated and massa|^Kred on the Little Big Horn nearly all of BM&eneral Coster's advance party of Gen Kral Terry's column, which was sent * tlfcasv He was pursued wjWl^General Tert ty* BtnA part mli^kbnd he escaped into British terfti&l5? mHXESHfhough the mediation -of Dominion surrendered on the promise of pardon, and was taken to Standing Rock Aeency, where most of the remaining years H of his life were passed. H Undoubtedly Sitting Bull was the most H wily and astute Indian in the Sioux Nation. B Gall will now undoubtedly ?ucceed the W once powerful Sioux chief. . tater Details of the Fight. K The expedition which started from Standing a Rock Ageucy.South Dakota,for SittineBull's HAniely cauip, forty miles distant, to take him gl dead" or alive, was no haphazard force of ^?j2mi-savage Indian police. The whole affair jjgHras a carefully planned military manoeuvre IXHriginating with no less a person than Eg^Beneral Miles himself, sanctioned by the Department and authorized by the H^Bresident's Cabinet. raflBefore Sitting Bull's date! adherents had K^Vchance to realize the situation the Indian RKolic? bad puiled their panting animals up ^^Bhort on all sides of the Chief's abode. No ^Vtime was wasted in ceremony. The proud mpriirinn man was hustled out. hoisted IRn a pony, and in a moment faced toward ivilization. He raged and spluttered in a iury for a moment, then, straightening up, shouted not for belp, but a command to his followers. Despite the threatening of the police and Winchesters directed at his head and those of his kinsmen, the old man retained his presence of mind and with powerful voice continue to direct his own rescue. Suddenly there was a puff of smoke beside a tree aud the sharp crack of a Winchester. A policeman at Sitting Bull's right, grasping the Chiefs bridle, reeied in the saddle, and, toppling over, was trampled under the hoofs of the ponies, now in the mad heitvr skelter of retreat from the village. The shot was instantly answered by the police at the blanketed tribesmen, many of whom were already mounted and in frenzied pursuit. The politt; volley told with deadly effect, and the Uri?? in r moment was general on both sides. Sitting Bull could be heard in the confusion still attempting, though captive, to direct the fight. Raising his form, he was beckoning his sons and warriors on when, without warning, his body straightened rigidlv then droDDedlimD on the hard ground. The police halted round the corpse, not knowing for a moment but that it was a trick of the wily old Chief. The sudden movement and the fall of Sitting Bull disconcerted both parties, the police using their ponies as protection . It was at this critical juncture that Captain Fouchet's men dashed up, and the machine guns, which had been jput in position, opened upon the redskins. The latter were too undismayed at this unexpected onslaughc to stand even for a moment, and all bolted for the river. The cavalry followed only a short distance, deeming it better policy not to drive to desperation the now leaderless mob. ~Ten or more hostiles and soveu of the Indian police were killed. The Indian police killed in the fray resulting in the death of Sitting Bull were buried at Fort Yates with impressive religious and military ceremonies. Sitting Bull was buried without honors of any kind. DIED IN HIS COFFIN, [Death Finally Overtook Eccentric Barney Frickers. Barney Frickers, a well known character of Alliance, Ohio, died on a recent mornin? hi a coffin. For twenty years it has been his custom to sleep every night in a coffin of his L own manufacture, believing that he was P about to die. He always robed himself in a | shroud before retiring. The coffin is of oak-, [ very strong, and covered with allegorical subjects. Prickers was seventy-flva years ; ?old, A severe illness and the death of his ^ wife many year^ ago are believed to haveuuK settled his mind. He had a small income. Mrs! S.vell, widow of the murdered ^Hphica^o millioniare, has renewed her offer of 8Hf50,000 reward for the arrest of Tascott. ' I 1 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ex-Senator Frank B. Arnold core r mitwd suicide iu his office at Undilla, N. Y by shooting himself. Mr. Arnold, since hi defeat last November for Congressman fron that district, Has been despondent and a times acted strangely. J ! Henry Blue, a clerk employed b; Thomas H. Perkins & Co., stock brokers o" Boston, Mass., has been arrested charge; with tli'j embezzlement of ?17,345 from hi employers. * In New York City Henry Siebert, tobacci - merchant, failed with liabilities of $230,000 j Veuable & Heyman, liquor dealers, assigne: owing nearly $400,000; Tarlow & Hutshing 3 manufacturers of worsted knit goods, sus s peuded for $200,000. , Peck, Martin & Co.. th3 largest firm ii li. . l *i i: 4. i i . xt 3 me ouuuujg material uusuiess m xxew i uri City, have made an assignment. The liabili 5 ties are *300,00'.). and assets 1400.000. ? The tugboat Vandercook sank suddenl; without known cause at a Jersey City (N. J. l dry dock and two of the crew were drowns; > i? "their bunks. Thirty-six patients have received in jections of Professor Koch's lymph at fiv< ' different institutions in New York City j They are doing well. . Secretary Win'dom went from Washing ton to New York City to discuss thefinancia , situation with bank presidents. 1 A disastrous fire occurred, at Pottstown I Penn. A high wind prevailed and thi flames, which originated from an over heated stove,spread with wonderful rapidity and burned out half a dozen business firm *and. their buildings. The loss will read SI 50,000. Maris & Smith, bankers of Philadelphia Penn., assigned, with liabilities of $300,000 The Lorillard Brick Works Company, o New York City, passed into the hands of a rG ceiver. The liabilitias are $1,500,000. Ex-United States Senator William A Wallace's bank at Clearfield, Penn., closei its door. The depositors are safe by a mort gage on real estate for three tildes th ; amount of deposit. The liabilities are $350, 000 and assets $050,000. Walter Potter, of the bankrupt firm o Potter, Lovell & Co., Boston, Mas3., was ar i rested on a charge of emb?zzlement. i South and West. i The will of the late Horaca Kelley, oi Plpvflnni] Ohio irivas S500.00T foi" tha touil elation of a National Art Gailsry in thai citj. The Territorial Council of Oklahomt passed the corrected House bill, embodyiu: some of Governor Steele's recommendations locating the temporary capital at Kingfisher Governor Steele promptly approved ttio bill The hostile Indians have baen fighting among themselves in the Bad Lands ot South Dakota. The light was for leadership between Two Strike aud Short Bull, eaca wishing to control tho unitad bands. The fight, was bitterly contested for several hours, aud many were killed. "White Caps visited the house of Thomas Burgess, a farmer, living in Meade County Ky., to whip him. He shot and killed one ol the raiders and wounded two others. Witl his wife Burgess fled to the woods through t rear door. Curtis G. Stoddart, the banker, ha; been arrested at Chicago, III., on a charge o! embezzling almost $3,000,009. The funds it is alleged he lias embezzled ard stock and bonds of the Kansas. Arkansas & New Or leans Railroad During a terrific wind storm at Elliott, North Dakota, a spark from a loeomotive Vilotv tlm Knrth TViVnfca Alevfttor anrl the structure was burned down, together with 50,000 bushels of wheat. Louis Scott shot his wife in a quarrel at Kalamazoo, Mich., and then kills! himself. They quarreled some weeks ago and she left him, going to work as a domestic. A warrant has been issued at Columbia. S. C., for the arrest of Attorney-Genera! Page, on the charge of political intimidation in discharging from trie enrolling department T. F. Butler, a nephew of Senator But. ler,without adequate causa. Mr. Butler was " candidate for the Legislature on the Haskell ticket, and this incurred Page's displeasure. Judge T. A S. Mitchell, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, died suddenly at his nome, in Goshen. Judgj Mitchell was the onlj I Democratic member of the bench, and wa< i re-elected for a second term at the recent j election. He was about fifty years old. The town of WaterforJ, Ind., has been a! most entirely wiped out by fire. Two children, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Holne Tel residing two miles east of Saginaw, J Mich., wer? burned to death in their nome took fire duriji? th? ah-?>c ui "airs. Holnagel. . John Blyew was given a life sentence at Vanceburg, ?y., for fh-* murder of four colored people in August, 186S. He killed a whole family excapt two little children. The case has been fought twenty-two years and cost the State $25,000. In* a collision between freight trains near Cincinnati, Ohio, Brakeman J. G. Stephens was killed and Engineer Hall fatally injured. The accident was caused by the young lady operator at Pina Knot not giving proper orders. The bodies of James Lane an 1 George Serker were fouud lying in a road near City Court House. W. Va. They are supposed to Jmr-a frnzpn ta rlea.tll. The Baton de Cedarkrantz, of Sweden, who was recently appointed Chief Justice of Samoa, sa:led from San Francisco, Cal., on the steamir Alameda for Apia to assume the duties of his office. While Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schafer, aged Germans,were crossing the railway track at South Band, Ind., their wagon was struck by a train and both were instantly killed. A call for a third-party conference, to bo held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 23, has been issued by members of the Farmers' Alliance and allied organizations. George Wesaw, a Shoshone Indian, shot and killed a boy of his own triba in To-tevooks Lodge on Little Wild River, Wyoming. The boy was watching a gambling game in which Wesaw was engaged wheu the lattei pulled his gun and shot nim dead. A tenement house at Monday's Mills, Texas, burned, in which Tom Webb and Bot Simohds, both colored, were burned tc death. A box of giant powder exploded La the Sunday Lake Mine, Wakefield,Mich., billing George Sage and John Fogan and severely injuring W. B. Roberts. 1 h?c w orlu s r air directory voted to receive the $5,000,000 offered by the City Council ol Chicago, III. The wife of Peter St. George was found hanging in the woodshed of her bouse at Coilalt, iJ*\, Chippewa Falls, Wis. Her husband wals^pected of killing her, and when about t<m'i arrested he killed himself with a razor. V |f' "Washington. Bt a f scision rendered by the Treasury DepR-rtl ;at bicycles are hold not to be tht personal ;ffects of persons arriving in thi3 country! The 1 fcsident has nominated Naval Con?structo*-Fheodore D. Wilson to be chief of the Busfau of Construction and Repair and chief constructor of the Navy with the relative ragk of Commodore. The (Government now proposes to melt up the (times, quarters and half dollars in the Treasury and issue silver certificates igainst them to relieve the monetary situation. The members of the Senate Finance Committee, together with a special committee, :omprising Senators Plumb, Hale, Mitchell, McMillan and Power, have be?n named to :onfer and frame a schema for legislation to relieve the financial condition of th9 couutry Postmaster-General Wanamaker issued an order appointing Captain N. M. Brooks, the Superintendent of Foreign Mails 0? the Postoffice Department, and William Potter, of Philadelphia, delegates to represent the United States at the International Postal Congress, to convene iu Vienna, Austria, May ?0, 1S91. Fension Commissioner Raum has coniluded examining claims recorded to December 6 under the new act. There are 171,940 original invalid claims, 55,323 original widow claims and 293,330 claims filed by old claimants. > This gives only 227,000 new slaitns filed iinder tne new law. A reporh transmitted to the House by the Secretary ojf War is to the effect that the Connecticut} River, from Long Island Sound to Hartford, is worthy of improvement, at an estimatefl cost of $130,000. "V 1 i - The annual report of the Chief of Chemii Division of the Agricultural Departmei just issued, contains an account of a proci recently perfected at the department wi i- reference to the manufacture of sorghi; sugar. * The President sent to the Senate the f i lowing nominations: Horaca TV. Metcalf, Maine, United States Consul at Newcast England; John B. Jackson, of New Jerse I Second Secretary of Legation at Berlin,G< j many. s The Secretary of the Treasury submitt to Congress the draft of a bill proposing ii portant amendments to the laws regulati; ? shipping and navigation, in accordan i with the recommendations of t 1 International Marino Conference. Secretary Tracy has decided to send t Alert and the Marian to re-euforce t n Asiatic squadron. i .The bill to increase from $?>Q0 to ?120C - year the pension of the widow of Genei Custer, who lost his life in a gallant fig 7 with the Sioux at the battle of Lictle B ) Horn, was ordered to be favorable report j to the Hou33 by the Committea on Inval Pensions. Members of the Board of Control of t 9 Centennial Exposition appeared before t House Judiciary Committee and urged t favorable consideration of a bill to enal the financial affairs of the exposition of [ closed up and the Board of Finance d solved. a . ForeignOne hundred and fifty French convic , who recently escaped from imprisonment s Cayenne, have starved to death in the l'c i ests. Professor Bielroth, of Berlin, G< , many, declares that the us9 of the Kos lymph has produced a marked effect f cases of leprosy. > The Dutch Government has consented sign the general act of the Brussels An Slavery Conference. J Dr. "Welti was chosen President of t ; Swiss Republic. e William Wallace Blanchard w " hanged at Sherbrooke, Canada, for the mi der of Charles A. Calkins, on November 1 f 1889. The men were of the lowest class. Prince Lcbesckt's porcelain factory Cmilew, Poland, has been destroyed by fir Eight operatives, perished in the flames. Kf?t*A^ Viae Kaon wrrAiitrVif. hv E on the Southern coasts of Europe, especial around Sardinia, in which vicinity elevi I persons are known to have been killed ai fifty injured, while ratiny vessels we wrecked and a number of houses shattered , An explosion occurred in the cartrid ' room of the factory at Zumdorf, Hungar ' where the new explosive megatin is man factured. Three women employed in t factory ware blown to pieces. 1 There is a reaction in Berlin, German against the Koch treatment, eight perso having died soon after the injection of tl | lymph. Ox the Paramatta River, Sydney, Ne South Wales, a sculling match for $1500 . side and the championship of the world w rowed by Oarsmen Kemp and McLean. U j Lean was the winner. i The Italian Minister of War has resigne 1 Ax extra session of the Argentine Legis ture has been opened. ! THE YEAR 1891. i I $-HI* ill 5 Jan 123 Ju'y - - ' 2 3 456789 10 56789 10 l! 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' Septuagesima Sunday Jan- 2. Sexagesima Suuday Feb. ' Quinquagesima Sunday Feb. I Shrove Tuesday II I Ash Wednesday Feb.l. I Quadragesima Sunday ~ 1 > lUlU-iUUb OUUUU) tut**. J Palm Sunday Mar. 2 j Good Friday.... Mar.2' I Easter Sunday Mar. 2! ! Low Sunday Apr. i j Rogation Sunday May i Ascension Day May I WhitSunday May 1' I Trinity Sunday May 2 ! Corpus Christi May 21 First Day in Advent Nov. 2! ! Sundays after Trinity are 2 ECLIPSES FOR THE TEAR 1891. In the year 1891 there will he four eclipse; I ?two of the Sun and two of the Moon?anc j a transit of Mercury over the Suu's disk. 1. A total eclipse of the Moon, May 23d I 1:15 in the afternoon; invisible here, bu : visible generally throughout the westeri part of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, Asia Africa and Europe. 2. An annular eclipse of the Sun, JuneGth 11:34 in the afternoon; invisible here, bu visible in the western part of tho Unitet States, British America and greater part o: Europe and North Pole. 3. A total eclipse of the Moon, Novembe: 15th; visible generally in Asia, Africa, Eu rope, the Atlantic Ocean, North and Soutt America, and the eastern part of the Pacifii I Ucean. 4. A partial eclipse of the Sun, Decern ber 1st; invisible in North America: visibl | in Southern part of South America am | South Pole'. A transit of Mercury of the Sun's Disk | May 9th; partly visible at Washington, an: I visible throughout western portions of Xorti I and South America. THE FOUR SEASON'S. D. H. Winter begins 1S90, Dec. 21, and lasts 8a 0 1 Spring 44 1891, Mar. 20, ' " 93 8 Summer 44 " June 21, " 44 9316 4 Autumn 44 44 Sept. 23, 44 4 4 89 7 4 Winter 4 4 44 Dec. 21. MG?.NING STARS. Venu?, until Sept. 18. Mars, not this year. Jupiter, after Feb. 13 until Sept. 5. Saturn, until Mar. 4, after Sept. 13. Mercury, after Jan. 13 until Mar. 23, afte May 9 until July 7, after Sept. 13 until Ocl 27, after Dec. 28. EVENING STARS. Venus, after Sept. 18th. Mars, throughout the year. Jupiter, until Feb. 13, after Sept. !5. Saturn, after Mar. 4, until Sent. 13. Mercury, until Jan. 13, after Mar. 23 unt May 9. after July 7 until Sept. 13, after Ocl 27 until Dec. 23. PLANETS BRIGHTEST. Mercury, April 19th, August 16th. Decea ber 11th, "sattiug thou just after the Sun also February Gtu, June 5th, September 28th rising then just before the Sun. Venus January 8th. Saturn, March 4th. Jupiter September 5th. Mars, not this year. KILLED IN A CAGE, Fatal Accident in a Belgian Collier by the Breaking ol' a Rope. A terrible accident occurred at the E couRiaul colliery, at Hornu, province < Hainaut, Belgium. A shift of eighteen me had entered the cage and tho engir had started to lower them into tl pit. Suddenly and without warning the roj connecting the cage with the drum broi and the men were precipitated to the bo torn of the shaft. Every one of the occupan of the caae was killad. r if ; iL': < . . . s wmotjum^ ?SS J.--'. - / th - : -' llu The Outcome of a Fierce B actloi ? - Fight in Ireland^ ' of 3 ' le, , . Lime Thrown Into ttie Face o the Home Rule ^igitator, in- /" ng Parnell and Michael t Davitt addrosse ,ca several meeting at Balli&akill. Ireland, an the result was a fierce fi/ght, in which club; jj0 sticks and stones were ft'*eeiy used, aud man jj0 heads were broken. Jlr. Davitt, fiourishin a whitelhorn stick, forfccd his wny throug I a the crowd, and, with thie aid of his follower.1 al drove back Parnell's/ adherents. In th ht melee David had his sfcalp laid open with th lig blow of a cudgel. Affter the breaking up c ea the rival meetings an*id great confusion th lid leaders proceeded to (fcastlecaruer. On th way Parnell's carriage? was stoned. he The crowd threw lwud and hooted as h h0 passed. They became so demonstrative the jje finally the police interfered. Quiet had bee ,]e partially restored, sand Parnell was drivin away, when the ctfowd made another ras .= and assailed him wyth stones, mud and bag of lime. , One of the bags <?f lime struck Parnell fu in the face, breaking and completely blinc ing him. The p/olice again charged tr ts crowd and succeeded in driving them awaj ai Parnell Was conveyed to a cottage. Befoi )r. a doctor could be sSimmoned he fainted froi the severe pain. Al physician arrived soo and administered Restorative?. ,r Parnoll in a sljjort time became a liLtl ' better, and the dohbor advised his removal t Kilkenny. Od tme road Parnell's sufferin became so intense} that a second halt had t t? be made at the rjoadside. The party finall to* arrived at the Vict toria Hotel in Kilkenny. Mr. Parnell's eyies became inflamed froi he the effects of th/e lime, and he was imm< diately confined t?o a darkened room. as Though his eyas pained him intensely, fc ir_ was able at miairiight of the next day to a< ig | dress from a wididow of the Victoria Hot ' | at Kilkenny a \arge crowd that gathere about tue nor^i >?ubu I/LIO U1131V1 VUl at that bad befflillen him became gei e- erally known. j During the address b face was coverey with bandages. He d as tailed the occurences of the day, and tt ly crowd became exasperated at the manner i an which he had beeiV treated,and many threat ad of vengeance were\made. re Next morning Me*. Parnell's breakfast wi 1 *? Tko ciiraonn in attfll l* serYtfu \aj mui iu uwu* go dance upon him, feawing that inflammatio y, might set in, ordered ufrat Parnell keep h iu eyes closed, and that hoV- water foments t he constantly applied to them. It was announced that afternoon that tt y surgeon attending Mr. Parniell feared thf yg the injury to his patient's ev\s. misht rasu lje seriously. He has given orders^ that for tt present Mr. Parnell shall remaiiWindoors. Mr. ParnplI has issued an appK^l to tl ,w hillside meu, calling on them not to\ subm , ? to English dictation. In this he says:xWi r?* you, countrymen of Grattan, volunteers^.; O'Counell, Davis and Wolf Tone, of the gal lant Father Murphy, who fought and bled foi J. the independence of our country; will you |a. inspired by memories of the past, abandon your chief? Will you give him up to th< Saxon wdlves that are howling for his de struction? Or will you rally around him, ai your fathers did around the men of '98 and shout, with a thousand voices _ No surrender! Hurrah for Parnell "I tbo leader of the Independent Irish party Down with a faction that would make th< Irish people the servants of a foreign power Gather, men of the hillsides, at Johnswel on Sunday, around your chief, and hurl de fianca at his enemies and the enemies of youi race." The city and county convention assamblec in Cork. The hall in which the couventior was held was crowded with delegates and spectators. Tho name of Mr. Parnell wai greeted with cheers by the delegates, but th( crowd groaned it. The High Shbiff of Corl presided. GENERAL TERRY DEAD. Connecticut's Crave Soldier Peaceful Jv Passes Away. Major-General Alfrod H. Terry, Unite Statos Army, retired, died at his resident ( in New Haven. Conn., at 4 o'clock on a r< cent morning, aged sixty-three. Ha was a lawyer when the war broke out i and was given the Colonelcy of the Seconi 1 Conuecticut Volunteers, which he led at th | first battle of Bull Run. With his regimen he was present at the capture of Port Roya J and at the seige of Fort rulaski, of which' h was placed in com in and after its capitula tion. He was promoted for his briliiant sen ice 3 rant of Brigadier General on Apri L -A ISow in which capacity he was present a j the battle or Focotaiigv, w.?,i the dcmonstra j tion against Charleston During the Virginia campaign of 1864 Gen eral Teiry commanded the First Division > Tenth Army Corps, Army of the James, and > sometimes the corps itself. t His greatest achievement was the assault I on Fort Fisher in conjunction with Admiral - Porter, January 13, 1865, which resulted in s the caDture of the placa. , On September 1, I860, be was mustered out of the volunteer service and put in command ! of the Dakota Department in the Military J division of the Missouri. ? In March, 1SS0, after the death of General ~ Hancock. General Terry was made full Major-General. General Terry was a brother of Rose Terry Cooke, the well-known writer. General Terry was retired about two years 5 ago, on his own application on account of ill I he:Uth. i KILLED HIS FATHEB. t A Boy's Crime, With the Object ol Collecting Lite Insurance, t Paul Holz, aged seventeen, rushed into the 1 West Chicago police station, Chicago, 111., * * * -4.1 ? ? - ?U 4- nn^ C 1 /' at 10:30 o'ciock tne oiuer uiguu aim r his father had committed suicid< by cutting his throat. "When thi i officers arrived at the house they fonnd th? : elder Holz lying on the bed, with blood gush ing from a deep gash on the neck. He raisec himself upon his arm and pointing his fingei e at bis son Paul, said: "Ho did it. Hekillec I me for my insurance." The son was arrested and locked up. Afte: :t being in the cell a few minute? the son con { fessed that he had made the attempt on hi; a father's life. IJW The bold project of a ship railway ^ in lien of a ship canal, to connect thi 7 waters of Lake Huron with those c I Lake Ontario is now being agitated ^ The distance between those two lake is sixty-seven miles by the propose* route from Georgian bay to the moutl of the Humber Eiver, wost of Torontc and it has been calculated that a rai] way, with three tracks of the standan r gauge, but with rails weighing fron 100 to 110 pounds per yard, could b built for $12,030,000, or about half thi cost of a ship canal of the same capac itv. The land along the route reache a height of G(34 feet about Lake Huron ?0 that there would be some heav [ grades'or else some expensive worl necessary. The proposed route wouli save -128 miles of lake navigation am twenty-eight miles of canal betwee: r Chirago and Montreal, and would eu i. able a propeller to reach Montreal fror ? Quebec in less time thau it can read Buffalo. The exjiected saving, threi days, in the time between Chicago an the seaboard is a consideration wliic would warrant a large expenditure i y the project is feasible from an eugineei ing standpoint. s>f * ,n The Freneli minister of war latel ie offered a prize for the swiftest bird i a flight from Perigueux to Paris, 31 ce miles. There were '2,749 entries, an ^ the winner did the distance in 7 hour 84 minutes. ^ f| LATER NEWS. ' Four Hungarian miner* wore killed by a j fall of coal iu the mine3 near Hazleton, Penn. They were unmarried. The Lshigh Valley Coal Company has resumed operations at all its collieries, which have been | closed for some tinn past. This will cause tho omployment of many thousands of persons. Senator Gorman's residence at Laurel, d Md., was burned to the ground. The Ssnd ator's wife and daughter and the other iu3, mates of the house escaped in their night 7 clothes. s J. C. Callasby, County Treasurer of k Boone County, Mo., is short $20,000 in his ' nofnnntS- and he has assigned all his nrnnerh-o e 0 .J e to his bondsmen. In a difficulty at Pulaski, Tenn., Town e Marshal Charles P. Davis was shot and almost instantly killed by er-Policeman Joe ? Flippen. n Robert Baker, a defaulting bookkeeper, 0 shot and instantly killed himself in Chicago, p_ 111. The act was done in the presence of his wife and Constable Scanlan. The constable 11 had gone to arrest Baker. .Reports were received from Rapid City, i*. North Dakota, saying that a flghthad taken 'a place there between United States troops n and the hostile Sioux in which two officers n and ^fty men were killed. The rumors were 1 o discredited at army headquarters in Chi0 cago, 111., and Denver, Col. '? rrrrtmnnfn. J T-J.' aj inn&A nuiii/nau uvui?eu xuuuius uu y ranches near Chico, Cal., hava begun the ghost dances. This dance is held every year .. about January. The Secretary of War transmitted to the Senate a preliminary report of the board on d1 gun factories and steel forgings for high d power guns appointed by the President un^ der an act of the last session of Conzresa. is The caucus of Republican Senators agreed e" upon a scheme of financial legislation, based l? upon the report of the Caucus Committee, ts leaving out the two per cent, hond scheme, and also decide! to nave a closure rate re's ported. ? n A house in the native quarter of Bombay, *s India, containing 100 inmates, collapsed. 10 Thirty persons were killed and many inie jured. jjj Another plot to murder the Czar has l0 been discovered at St. Petersburg, Russia. The conspirators are members of a noble'.e men's club. Several Poles have been arrested jl for complicity in the plot and the clubhouse >? has been closed. | v Mb. Milne, the Collector of Customs, a1 VSiftoria, British Columbia, has seized tht i German schooner Adele, which had just re ! turnedrtxom Behrlng Sea, where it raidec 5 the Pribyleft^Jslands, killing 400 seals. : WATVF. TTAMP^N BEATEN i ? \ f J. L. M. Irby Elected UnitfcttjtStates i Senator Prom South CaroIImfcS^^ ' The election of J. L. M. Irby to succeed Wade Hampton as United States Senator I from South Carolina has fallen like a thun| der clap out of a clear sky. 5 The General Assembly on the second balj lot cast the following vote for a successor to : Senator Hampton: Irby (Farmers' Movement), 66; Donaldson (Alliance man), 53; Hampton, 37; Hemphill, 1. On the fourt i ballot J. L. M. Irby was elected. The vote stood: Irby, 105; Donaldson, 10; Hampton. 42. [. John Laurens Manning Irby was born at Laurens, S. C., September 10, 1851. He attended the University of Virginia and afterd ward Princeton. Leaving there, he read law ,e for three years under Judge Mclvers, but practised his profession only two ye*.-s. * Since then he has lived on his plantation and farmed successfully near Laurens. He took part in the memorable Hampton campaign ] of 1876. When he entered the political arena four years ago he at once became a ? prominent leader. While giving proper at, tention to his farming interests he espoused ; the cause of the farmers' movement at its in6 ception, and was an ardent admirer of Capl" tafn B. K. Tillman. A great many people have crapa on theii ? coat sleeves at Charleston and 'Columbia -~.-v.iifiin <r far Hamilton's defeat andlrbv's ' election. SlATJ.PTQR BOEHM DEAD. Found Lifeless in His. 8tadio Uu>?|j by the Princess boaUe. Joseph Edgar Boehm, the sculptor, diet) suddenly in his studio in London, England, the other evening. He was engaged on a busl of Princess Louise, and the Princess had called at the studio in relation to the work. Upoi entering the place she found the dead bodj of the artist reclining in a chair. Mr. Boehm was born in Vienna in 1834. He had resided in England since 1862, and wa< elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of London In 1878. He executed a colossal statue in marble of the Queen for Windsor Castle in 1889, bronze statuettes of t'?3 Prince of Wales and all the Royal family and a colossal statue at Bedford of John Bunyan in 1872. He also executed a colossal equestrian statue of the Prince oi PnmKoTT in 1ft77 ft at. a. til a nl ?' a?oo tvi A/uuiuvkj *v( >| M ...... Thomas Carlyle and a marble statue of King Leopold of Belgium for St. George's i Chapel at W.^dsor. The Government gave I him the order Do execute the statue of Lord 3 Beaconsfleld for Westminster Abbey. H? also made statuettes of Thackeray, Johc 9 Leech, Millais and others. 5 AN ALPINE ACCIDENT. 1 Seven Chasseurs Swept IntoaTerrible [ Abyss. ' The nJ *3 of a horrible accident in the Alps has beeu received from Nice. Seven Alpine chasseurs who were working under command , of an officer at the new fortress on the sum? mit of Mount Sacharal, between La Briga - and Riviere, were swept, with their superior, 11 by a sudden blast over a precipice into a terrible abyss. Five of the men and the g officer fell a distance of 2300 feet. , Their bodies have been recovered in a fright1 fully mutilated condition. Two of the men h managed to cling to some rocks and escaped death. ' Three priests, while crossing a frozen lake near Grenoble, broke througn the ice and J were drowned. WHOLESALE MURDER. 3 / After Killing Five Persons, Joplin g Commits Suicide. ! Charles Joplin shot and killod five persons y in one day recently, at the Jenny lead mine, ? twelve miles from Fort Smith, Ark., and j then committed suicide by shooting himself, i Those he killed were John Miller, his wife, his grown daughter, Lou Miller; Dr. Stew Q I art, a prominent pnyaicmu, auu a muu nuu? t. name is not known. The shooting occurred late in the day. Q The only clue to the cause of the killing lies l iu a report that Dr. Stewart intimated that 0 Joplin was the cause of Miss Miller'3 trouble. h THREE TRAMPS PERISH, if .. Burned to Death in a Barn They Hat! set 011 1' iru. Three tramps paid the penalty of smoking in a barn in Illinois on a recent night. They entered the large barn belonging to John Bridsen, of Brimfleld, and u n sought shelter in the hay loft. It ia u supposed they smoked before goingto sleep, d and dropped*a spark in the hay. The barn ,H with all its contents and the three tramps were totally destroyed. No one knows who the men were or where they came from. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. ~ News About the Yarious Departments at Washington. .Report of the Record and Pension iRnraaii. The officer in charge of the Record and Pension Division of the War Department, in his report to the Secretary of War, says: On Juiy 8,1889, there were 4305 remuster casrs unacted on. Many of them had been in the office for years. By the 30th of September all were disposed of, including 725 received up to that date. From October 1, 1889, to June 30, 1890, 3601 cases of this class were received and disposed of, leaving none on hand at the close of the fiscal year, and making a total of 8691 acted on during the year. On the 8tb of July, 1889, there were on hand and unacted on 1342 cases requiring investigation of the charge of desertion with a view to its removal under Act of March 2, 1889. The bulk of these cases had been in the office for months. These cases were all disposed of by September 30, 1889. From October 1 to June 30, 1890, 6310 regular applications and 5197 miscellaneous cases were acted on, leaving none on hand at the end of the fiscal year, and making a total of 10,135 cases disposed of during the year. On the 8th of July, 1889, there were on band and unanwered 23,424 calls from the Pension Office. By the 30th of September, 1889, these were all disposed of, together with the current receipts up to that date (39.029), leaving none on hand on the 30th of S3ptember, 1889. From October 1, 1889, to June 30, 1890,160,330 cases of this class were received rfhd disposed or, leaving cone on hand on the 30th of June, 1890, ana making a total of 222,783 acted on during tha ! fear. Altogether there were received 301,238 jails from all sources from July 8, 1889, to June 30, 1890. These added to tne40,550on hand July 8, 1889, in the divisions transferred from the Adjutant-General's office, and 104 in the division transferred from the Surgeon-General's office,made a total of 341,592, which were all disposed of, leaving none jn hand at the end of tne fiscal year. Deer lor the Esquimaux. Captain A. M. Healy, of the United States revenue cutter Bear, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson, United States Commissioner of Education for Alaska, who has been in Alaska rervmfclv on the Bear, has sent a communica fcion to the Washington authorities in regard to the condition of the Esquimaux in Northwestern Alaska. They point out that the Esquimaux are suffering great hardship, and in some Cases are confronted with starvation, owing to the scarcity of deer, and particularly on account of the entire failure of ' the hunt during the past autumn. | Captain Healy will propose to the Gov* einmentthat he be allowed to purchasa a number of reindeer, which abound on the : Siberian coast, and transport them on the ) Bear to some point on the Alaskan coast where moss and feed are plentiful. He will . also suggest that the Government enlist the services of some of the experienced Siberian natives to instruct the Esquimaux in the art of herding these deer, and, as the animals become more numerous, they can be distributed over Northwestern Alaska and form the food supply for the natives. J Armament of the New Cruisers. The policy of the Navy Department is to ? rnanf nf fho TlOW PTllicftPJ *Xhis^?s been done in several of the vessels, the lastchkn^0 being in the 5500-ton cruiser, known as whose battery now consists of ten 5-inch and fouTS&j??h guns. The latter pieces are of 40 calibreJ^,&^JP?de6igned in the Ordnance Bureau. It IsTSfiSL proposed to increase the strength of the armament of Cruisers 7, 8; 9,10 and 11 by changing the present 4-inch guns to 5- inch weapons, and lengthening the 6-inch rifles from 35-calibre to 40-calibre. The 6-inch guns of 40-calibre were designed by the Ordnance Burer-u and forcings for two of them have already been ordered. The rapid firing feature, that is, fixed ammunition,"cartridge case, charge and projectile in one, will probably not be adopted for this calibre on account of excessive weight. The Department has no information that this calibre of the 9-inch firing variety has been entirely successful abroad. The change will make the armament of Cruisers 7 and 8 tea 5-iacb rapid firing guns and one 6-inch breechloading rifle; of Cruisers 9, 10 and 11 eight 5-inch rapid firing guns and two 6-inch rifles. Still Fighting the Lotteries. ' The Postmaster-General issued the following order: "Postmasters will hereafter intercept the trausmission in the mails and decline to deliver at their respective offices any circulars in sealed envelopes brought into the United States from Mexico prepaid at less than the ' | five-cent rate,and will whenever such matter I b,discovered in transit-, or in the oflice of de,| jittery, hold the same and report the fact to I General for instructions as "Th^^^^^^wpecially inten led to apply *?tUe. ^^I^^^^Mexican lotteries which nave heretol^^^^^recjived in sealed enve.opes the corr have been clipped and the postage , * been prepaid by Mexican stamps of the denom..;nat{on qj ona cent." To Invite Foreigners to the Ex-Senator Palmer, President of m the World's Fair Commission, called 01^ the I President and submitted to him papers show ' ing that the World's Fair had reached that point in organization that a proclamation requesting foreign countries to participate in it should be issued. The papers were referred by the President to Attorney-General Miller to examine as to the sufficiency of the financial guarantees, etc. A Contest in renusjivauia. I Thomas H. Greevy has served notice on j Edward Scull, the Republican Representative elect to the Fiftj'-second Congress from the Twentieth District of Pennsylvania, of his intention to contest the right to his (Scull's) seat in the House. Mr. Scull's majority on the face of the returns was 538. NO PLSUBO-PNEUMOm; Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry. The report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, recently sent to the United State Senate, shows that during the last year no discovery has been made of contagious pleuro-pneumonia outside of the distsicts which were infected last year. The eradication of the mvs the reDort. has been most rapid since April, and a most gratifying improve- I ment in the condition 01 catt.e throughout | the country is noted. Regarding cattle shipped aboard, thu report says the practically complete success of the work of eradication of the disease from the United States removes the cause alleged by foreign Governments for the exclusion of American cattle from their countries. Touching the question of inoculation and the discovery of bacillus of tuberculosis by Dr. Koch, the report says that the possibility of applying bacterial products to the prevention aud cure of diseases was first made evident by the investigations of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and that if Dr. Koch's remedy is of the nature supposed his method consists in the application of a principle discovered here. A HAYTIAN TRAGEDY, Six Laborers Killed While Repair5 lllfc U The Atlas line steamship Alvo just from Hayti reports a terrible loss o? life and the injuring of a small army of men iuland, I twentv miles from Port Limon. The accident occurred at Matina Bridge, twenty-two miles from Port Simon. A seo tion of the bridge seventy feet long, which rested on two heavy columns, fell while almost the entire force of men employed were repairing it, Six men were killed outright, and almost every man eugaged was injured ' The bedding of the two columns had beep I known to be bad flver since last winter, and a large force of men was sent to strengthen it. Four colored laborers were killed. Tht i fireman, a white man, was killed, and the 1 fireman of the car shops was also killed. The , number of Injured waa Ajnknown. I TEMPERANCE. WHAT WRECK? MEN'S FACES. Rum has no traducer like the face and fate of one of the men who, a short time ago. was ^ pointed out to everyone as 'The glass of fashion and mold of form." When nis name k sookeu now men laugh at it, while ladies who have heard of him and see him in tneso days for the first time, marvel aloud that such a face and figure ever could have led >Jio rest. Late hours, deep potations, longcontinued self-indulgence?these are the bacilli that have wrought that wrect of which all the city talks just now. a c&uxors dream. A laborer at the Dundee harbor lately told his wife, on awakening, a curious dream which he had during the night. He dreamed that he saw coming toward him, in order, four rats. The first was one very fat, and was followed by two lean rats, the rear rat being blind. The dreamer was greatly perplexed as to wnat evil might follow, as it has been understood that to dream of rati denotes coming calamity. He appealed to his wife concerning this, but she, poor woman, could not help him. His son, a - sharp ]jid, who heard his father tell the seory. volunteered to be the interpreter. '"The fat ?rat," be said, "is the mau who keaps the public house, that ye gang till sae often, and the twa lean anas are me and my mither,and the blind ano is yerself, father."?Scotch Paper. a stc"y of john b. govob. On a summer night a temperance meeting was held in New Haven, Conn. A gentleman, standing under the old elms of that city, saw Cough, partially drunk, wending his way to a saloon. He touched him on the shoulder, and. in a sympathetic tone, besought his "shipwrecked brother" to go aiong wim mm iu me leuipertuico mccnujj. Mr. Gough consented, and, greatly in* Eressed by the appeals to which he listened, e signed the pledge of total abstinence. Hi* subsequent bistfiry as a temperance leader is known to the civilized world, The gentl* man who relates this incident says that ht /ias never forgotten that moonlight meeting with Gough in New Haven. Whenever, it after years, he heard the thunderous ap plau.se that greeted John B. Gough. on tnt ' temperance platform, he caught the echo a that soft tap on the shoulder, under the grac< old elms of the New England capital. ATKAID 'OP HIMSELF. A big. tall Westerner staggered into a well-known hotel the other night at about eleven o'clock, and demanded his money, which was locked up in the safe. The clerk bluntly told mm tnat as soman's nave it. "Ain't the monish miner V> asked wrathfully. ''Yes; but you can't Lave it till tomorrow. You'd better go to your room." Tha guest begged and threatened and demanded, but to no purpose. Then he let a bell boy take him upstairs. When he had gone the clerk said to a bystander: "To-morrow morning that man will come down here and ' thank me for refusing to let him have the money. Whenever becomes to town with the intention of going-on a spree he takesout of his wallet all the money he wishes to spend that night, and hands me the remainder, tell ing me to lock it up for him and refuse to let him have it until he gets seber. About ' midnight or a little later ne will come in avtf do as he did just now?try to make me .giIg up the cash. But to-morrow morning he wi? come down and thank me for refusing."-* I ,V?ui Vnvl- TWhlint> BLUE RIBBON' \ 'VITATIONS. "Blue ribbon invitatia is"' to dinner are a . locial innovation in thia city indicative oC.-^ the steady progress of tTie temperagp^; form. According to the New Yor^Jytfran* there li^vfc jo be a different practice ** r"' " good position in ^ %P-Wfne presence of their I friends * ?Jith reference to serving wiilW "In many houses, as a matter of principle, wine is never plac3d upo? the table, and in others wine is occasionally omitted for special reasons. For a long time there has been n social need in the city for gome quiet, 'pretty, and effective manner indicating in invitations to dinner, whethfe.' or not wine will be serve! in order thaj invited guests may have full knowledge of tS" . facts. A movement has been begun, orin- ^ nating socially and seconded by one of tj?a -** popular stationers of the city, for indicating that wine will not bo served during the affair by attaching a knot of blue ribbon to the lower left-hand corner of the invitations." A delightful dinner entertainment was recently given upon this plan, attended by a large number of society people. The Tribune aJ<&Hlno.rihhnn invit?^ 11/ 13 UCUCVCVI. UUuu vuu ^ tious will solve a difficulty, with which *ociety has long contended, requests for on'/* presence at a dinner to which the ribbon tl not attached speaking for themselves." WISE-JfAKIXG IX AMERICA. Wine-:aaking iu this country assumes larg* and increasing proportion?. The Special Agent of the Census for wines and grapes, in a recent interviaw with a representative of the New Yok Situ, states that there are invested in vineyards and wine-eel ars in the United States over $155,000,000. There are in round numbers 490,000 acres of land in this country planted to vineyards, of which %00.000 were in bearing this year. This is an* increase during the past ten "years of 220,030 acres in the vineyard area, and of over $10,000,000 a year in the capital invested. California alone has 150,000 acres of vineyards, including 25,000 of raisin-grapes. Its total I capital invested in wine-making is nearly $7$, 000,000. It is stated that between 30,I 000,000 and 40,000,000 gallons of wine will be _ j iriaiielu'tllp United States this year,of which ^Culiiot nia willprocWeg^o^ "^*^8 suiim mnv seveuKT-o--; rvltTT ?25* ioW??t? J? all the rest of the ?V$. ' J? This large and increasing; production of 'MS American wine?, with tha very large aggra- >vj^i gate of capital already invested, and increas- f'nCTm ing during the last decade at the rate of J10.- ?$Bm 000,000 a year, should suffice to arouse all friends of temperance throughout the land to a full realization of the importance of a genuine and general revival of total abstinence temperance teaching, especially among the young. With a consumption of wines, native and foreizn. amouutinz io nearly a gallon a year, and cf beer about twelve gallons, for each of our 02,000,000 people, there is fnrieeu ,n most urgent an-effective popular appeal against alt ueverage use of intoxicant? National Temperance Advocate. TEMPERANCE .VEW3 A TO NOTES. _ > The man who drinks a little drinks too much. There are 1,800,000 children in Bands of Hope in the United Kingdom, "Shamewater", is an appropriate name given to strong drink on the Dark Continent Forty'young women of Des Moines, Iowa, have signed an agreement to receive the attentions of no young man who drinks, chews, smokes or swears. x One thousand two hundred and S9ven licenses have been granted the last year in the City of Washington to sell liquors, yielding a revenue of $85,900. TheWomen's Christian Temperance Union, of Detroit, Mich., has decided that the drinking of ginger ale, ginger beer, home-made wine, rootb er and raspberry syrup "violates the pledge." Thereportof the EJinburgh Royal Asylum for 1SS9 says: "We never, except in 1876, had so manycasss sent here in which the assigned cause of the malady was alcoholic excess as this year." In the Wesleyart Methodists' Connection . .. t. ? there are now wz anuit 1 tJIIAUCTi C\UUO wwwwties, with 43,481 members, ana 3509 Bands of Hope, with 370.681 members. Au antigambliug pledge has been issued. The Lancet remarks that while England > is taking a very active ana cicuibauia i?? u iu the attempt to prevent tha importation of alcohol into the interior of Africa, s'ue cannot do better than labo" to abate the alcoholism of homo communities, thriving und well employed but kept back by drunkenness. The recent W. C. T. U. annual convention passed numerous resolutions on the usual subjects. Among these were a request to bot'i capitalist and labor to study tha taaiperanc? question in the interest of their relat'ons and a commendation of the action of the Government in refusing the use of the mails to lotteries. It is said that the first of next January, *ill in all probability see the end of the use natural gas for manufacturing purposes* *s the supply is practically exhausted. J s h __