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•m: ,* #.& Jfei & W JBL $4 TIL' THE WORTHlHSTpH ADVANCE. ROUKRT MCCUNE, Editor, and Publisher. WORTHINGTON, 'obJ« [•*»i fc&p* fa-#?!*. «^ff'DoiuW thefasV year the sum total •Jeducatiotoalgifts in this country was ngyjjr.|g»OOMO& •&&&% *,THi5iieatiiei^ too, are liberal A new Jtttidhtlt temple to be erected at Kioto yill cpBt $8,0()0,00a 4A NLW JERSEY i# x, to e{^et temporary. houses lor ^vfirfin't^rante. SCOTLAND THE REV. T. "BE WITT TALMAGE IT GENERAL HORACE PORTER says that President Lincoln wasn't much of a champagne drinker. Once, after a journey to City Point, Mr. Lincoln •was suffering from the gastronomic disturbances incident to sailing on rough water. A young staff officer very previous he was—grabbed a bottle of champagne and thrust it toward Mr. Lincoln, saying that that was the very thing he needed. "No, young man," Mr. Lincoln said, "I have seen too many fellows sea-sick ashore from drinking that very ar ticle." THK venerable widow of the late Henry Ward Beecher is spending: her declining years in a quiet country house at Stamford, Conn. Her hair is snow white, but her complexion is nearly as fresh as a young girl'a of sixteen. A pretty cap of Honiton lace with blue ribbons .adds a charm to her face. She IS old-fashioned enough in her manners, but she is even more so in her dfess." Her toilette is adorned with a modest display of old-styled jewelry a pearl brooch and two. rings with old-time settings, one an amethyst, the other a diamond. THIRTY W S Co., MIKN. physician has start- %:s?w. «d a paper called/ the Tongue. The all want to see it. THE rush into Washington Territory Is 8f%reat thai it thaa tjeen found nec- has a gold fever, the dis covery of a bit of gold in the gizzard of a duck recently killed on a farm in Forfarshire having been, followed by the finding of gold-bearing quartz In the s&me.neighborhood. Richmond Christian Advocate, commenting upon the great education ^mdv^itag£s of the Southwest, says Wt they already have twelve univer sities ig Texas, and they are cutting the poles to build the thirteenth. FKAXK W. ItKRT and^Kate Bur roughs, of Bridgeport, Conn., have just been married after a courtship of thirty years. There was a provision in Miss Burroughs' father's will disin heriting. her in case she married Ferry. She has concluded to take the risk. "BOSCOBEL," the late Henry Ward Beecher's place at Peekskill, N. Y., was sold the other day to H. C. Butler for $75,000. The house cost $70,000, and Mr. Beecher got together in the grounds one of the finest collections of trees aqd shrubs, native to the tem perate zone, that tjiere are in this country. There are over eight thou sand of them. BELVA LOCKWOOD. it seems, had a purpose in her seeming madness in running as a Presidential candidate, and that was to get talked about in the papers enough to make her a winning card on the lecture platform. The scheme worked, and now Belva is raking in the dollars of an inquisitive public with all the rapidity and surety of a man with four aoea. ..,.SSSS9S=9 years ago in Punxsutawney, Pa., John R. Reed and Miss M. E. Thompson were engaged to be mar 'fried?" but for some reason parted. Beed went West, traveled through California, finally settled in Raveh, W« T., and married. Miss Thomp son married a Mr. Brewer. They heard nothing of each other for more than twenty-five years. Both have grown up children. Brewer died last year, and Mrs. Reed also. Acci dentally Reed and Mrs. Brewer learned tboee facts, opened correspondence, id tlfcy were irfarried recently, lese States. wRh patches BY .TELEGRAPH S V. has a simple and easy plan for converting the world to Christianity. It is for each Christian to secure one convert and each one of the converted to do the same. He calculates that if this is done every year for a decade the 1. 400,000,000 people of the earth could be brought into the Christian fold and that the close of this century will wit ness the dawn of the millennium. will require flfty thousand men to make up the census rolls next year. This will give a chance to many esti mable gentlemen who failed to become foreign Ministers or Consuls. After all, it will be just as interesting and profitable to take the number of cattle upon our hills and hogs in our num berless valleys as to suffer banishment to some foreign land upon a stipend only sufficient to pay for board and wasWng. DOWN in Fort Worth, Tex., *a news paper man celebrated his birthday by writing a leader, an account of a prize fight and an obituary notice, after which Jie "set up" two columns of type, cut half a cord of wood, rocked his baby two hours, cleaned his gun and thrashed his brother-in-law. As he was about retiring for the night he was heard to remark that he never could enduro the dullness of holidays and Sundays* AT the beginning of this year there wero 68,111 post-offices in the United States. Of these 97 were of the first class, 1,497 of the second and 1,988 of the third, making an aggregate of 2, S82 Presidential pcst-offlces—so styled bocause the postmasters are nominated by the President and. confirmed by the Senate. The salary ranges from $1,000 to $4,000 per annum, except in the fol lowing cases:,. New. .York, $8,000 Washington,' .'$5,000 Chicago, $6,000 Baltimore, $5,000' Cincinnati $6,000 Philifdfclghhv $5,000 St Louis, $6,000*, San Franciflaov $5,000. The remainder, numbering55,529, are known as fourth class offices. MMF. HOWE, ON Minister at Washington more money in telegramip and fabtf dispatches tha$ theGoverninent if thetUaited Incommunicat- the Chinese Govei^ijjeut coat he of a cipherrbfjfcas his dis- four dollars, a w^rd bis ^^|sJp r0^iQri^ou^ His expenditures in reachan average of tt, 000 uuig dispatchee to China regaraing cable mes Sages to China go to Havre, from there to Adon, then across the Arabian Sea, through Hindostan apd Siam, to Pek'»n. AND MAIL. CONGRESSIONAL. a S£NATE IN BPSdlli SS8QI0X. Trasnir, March 36.—Among along list of nominations sent to the Senate the follow ing are the most important: Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, to be Governor of Wyoming Territory Benjamin P. White, o& Dillon, M. T., to be Governor of Montana. A large number of previous appointments were confirmed. WEDNESDAY, March 37.—President Harri son sent the following nominations to the Senate: Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be -Minister to England Murat Halstead, of Ohio, Minister to Germany Allen Thorn dyke, of New York, Minister to Busda Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, Minister to Chili Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, Minister to Mexico John of Wisconsin, to Peru and George B. Loring, of Massa chusetts, Minister to Portugal. Many pre vious appointments were confirmed. TpcBSDAY. March 2a- In the Senate the Vice-President announced the appoint ment of Senators Cullom and Gibson aa Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, to fill vacancies. Several nominations of minor lmportanoe were received from the Presi dent. Murat Halstead's nomination for Minister to Germany was rejected by a vote of 27 nays to 10 yeaa A motion to recon sider was carried. FRIDAY, March 29.—The following nomi nations were sent to the Senate by Presi dent Harrison: Robert Adams, Jr., of Penn sylvania, Minister to Bruzll TAinring B. Mlsener, of California, Minister to the Cen tral American States William L, Scruggs, of Georgia, Minister to jnezuela William O. Bradley, of Kentucky, Minister to Corea George L. Shoup, of Idaho, to be Governor of Idaho George Chandler, of Kunwa to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. The nomination of Marat Halstead as Min ister to Berlin was discussed, but no action was taken. PROM WASHINGTON. THE death of ex-Congressman Peter P. Mahoney, of Brooklyn, occurred in Wash ington on the 27th, at the age of forty-one years. He was elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Democrat. AN order was issued on the 27th by the Postmaster-General placing the railway mall service under the supervision of First Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson. IT was stated on the 28th that most of the railway mail employes who were re moved by the Democratic administration would be returned to their old places at once. ON the 28th Henry W.'Raymond, editor of the Germantown (Pa) Telegraph, was ap pointed private secretary to Secretary of the Navy Tracy. THBBE were 240 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 20th ult, against 219 the previous seven days. TEE President on the 29th nit appointed J. Otis Humphrey of Illinois, Alfred M. Wilson of Arkansas and ex-Governor George D. Robinson of Massachusetts a commission to treat with the Cherokee and other Indians with relation to the opening of the Oklahoma country. THE EAST. THE death of Theodore Stelnway, of the firm of Stelnway A urers of New York, occurred on the 26th at Brunswick, Germany. E. CUUMINOS & Co., of Boston, leather dealers, failed on the 26th for #900,000. FIRE destroyed a large shoe-factory in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 26th causing a loss of #100,000. Many of the one hundred em ployes were obliged to jump from high windows, and twenty-three were badly in jured. Frvx business buildings and a church were destroyed by fire at West Haven, Conn., on the 27th. FIBS destroyed the foundry and machine shops of Mcintosh & Hemphill, at Pitts burgh, Pa, on the 27th. Loss, $100,1100. ON the 27th Nicholas Mead, a waiter in the Revere House at Boston, shot Mrs. Samuel Tuck and her boy and then killed himse'f. FLAMES on the 27th at Scranton, Pa, de stroyed the dry-guods stock of Clellaiid, Simpson it Taylor, valued at #200,000. ON the 27th Mrs. Thuring, of Allegheny City, £a, was charged with having hired a man for twenty dollars to murder her hua band. The man informed the police of murdering Thuring. THE ten thousand striking weavers at Fall River, Mass., returned to work at the old wages on the 27th. ON the 28th Thomas Keegan, an Irish rebel of '98, was buried in Juniata town ship, Pa He was one hundred and eight years old, and came to America seventy-five years ago. NIBS deaths had occurred on the 28th at East Pembroke, N. Y., in the families of Rev. Samuel Calkins, his son Bradley and Deacon Smith, caused by poisonous gases arising' from a mass of decaying vegetable matter in the cellar of the Calkins house. of Woman's Bank fame in Boston, who was arrested three months ago on complaint of some of her victims, was discharged on the 28th. AT Bloomingburgh, N. Y., afire destroyed the barn and outbuildings on the farm of N. C. Horton with contents, including four horses and fifty-two head of cattle. MERCHANTS, Spanish-American Commercial Union on the 20th ult., the object being to promote trade between the United States and South America WEST AND SOUTH. IN a row over a trivial matter John Rosen barger, a farmer, shot dead Andrew Casta line near Creighton, Neb., on the 26th, then burned his own house to the ground and shot himself dead. MKLVIN C. GABUTZ WHEN the 27th it was decided to consolidate the Chattanooga and the Grant Memorial universities of Athens, Tenn., under the name of the Grant Memorial University. THE firm of Sperry & Co., of San Fran cisco, donated fifty tons of flour to the suf ferers in China from famine, and it formed part of the cargo of the City of Pekin which sailed from the Golden Gate on the 27th. MBS. WFTITITAM DBAKK DISTINCT THOMSON & SWIGEB'S livery stables in Jacksonville, HI, were burned to the ground on the 28th, and fifty head of horses and mules perished in the flamea THE death of Susan Young, a native of Denmark, and for twenty-eight years an inmate, of the county poor farm at Rockford, HI, occurred on the 28th, at the age of one hundred and five years. SEVERAL counterfeit silver dollars and the dies used for making them were discovered buriednear Winamac, Ind,on the 28th. The counterfeits had been circulated extensive ly to that section lstely, ON the 28ih four Americans left El Paso,1 Tex., went to Josres, Mex., became drunk and disorderly, sad, resisting arrest, shot and killed two policemen. They escaped to the American side. TBXEE aocused oattle thieves, Gannow, Baboook and Remus were taken from their homes at Alnsworth, Neb., by masked men on the 28th across the line into the reserva tion and delivered them to a band of Indians, who killed them alL TWENTT-TWO persons indicted for elec tion-law violations were discharged on the 27th at Indianapolis, AT shot his wife dead on the 20th at Cumberland, Md. Domestic trouble was the cause. WITHOUT any known cause Richard B. IJickard, a railroad clerk at Cincinnati, O., abot and fatally wounded his wife on the 26th as she was walking on the street. near Goshen, Ind., on the 26th a passenger train on the Lake Shore road struck a buggy containing Robert Me Caffery, agiM twenty years, of Goshen, and Miss Delia Love, aged eighteen years, of Elkhart. When the train was stopped both were found on the pilot of the engine dead. FLAMES in Chicago owned by William R. Manlerre early on the morning of the 26th. Loss, #900,000 insurance, about #800,000. IN Chicago on the 26th Charles J. Beattte, a lawyer, was fined $500 and sentenced to one year'B Imprisonment by Judge Jamie son for contempt of court in giving a client a fraudulent decree of divorce. THE death gt R. Neal, member of Con gress from the Third Tennessee district in the Fiftieth.Congress, occurred on the 26th at Rhea Springs, after an illness of two montha MACS FBANCISand IT James Turner (oolorod) were hanged on the 27th at Lebanon, Tehn., Tor the inurder of Lew Martin (colored). They confessed their guilt on the scaffold. was discovered on the $7th that the boundary line between California and Lower California, as fixed by the treaty of Guadaloupe, should be sixty miles south Af the line now recognized, and that therefore Ensenada and the alleged gold fields are within United States territory. In|| for want of proof against them. THE steamer City of New Baltimore arrived in Detroit on the 28th from St. Clair, being the first boat of the season. The earliest passage ever made through the straits pre vious to this was March 14,1878L AT Kansas City thirty-seven acres of land were scoured on the 28th at a cost of #t,750, 000, upon which it was proposed to erect a magnificent union depot, to be utilised by five roads. EIGHTEEN business houses and one dwell ing at Ash ton. III, were burned to the ground on the 28th. AN unknown well-dressed man entered the offloe of President Moffatt, of the First National Bank of Denver, Col., on the morn ing of the 29th ult., and pulling a revolver from his pocket told Mr. Moffatt that he must have #21,000 or he would kill him and then blow np the institution with a bottle of nitro-glycerlne, which he pulled from his pocket Thus menaced Mr. Moffatt filled out a check and had it cashed, and the un known, taking the money, backed out to the front door, raised his hat to his victim and disappeared. IN the Huron (D. T.) district prairie fires were raging on the 29tb ult., and many farmers had lost every thing. The wind was blowing forty miles an hour. ON.the 29th ult. F. F. Baker, a capitalist, was arrested at Spokane Falls, W. T., on the charge of having seven living wives. E. W. BLATCHFOED'S warehouse, in Chica go, was destroyed by fire on the 29th ult, causing a loss of #300,000. THE death'of Prof. O. EL Mitchell, of Mari etta, O., a distinguished mathematician and astronomer, occurred on the 20th ult of pneumonia. AT Danville, Ya., Jed Pritchett (colored) was hanged on the 29th ult for an assault upon a little white girl. The prisoner fought like a tiger and refused to stand on the trap. The trap was finally sprung and Pritchett was pushed off the scaffold to his doom. The services of four deputies were required to execute him. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. IT was decided by the Holland Ministry on the 26th that King William was no longer in a condition to reign and announced tyf. a regent would be appointed. THE steamer Ocotian, having a large ex cursion party on board, foundered reoently on Lake Gaudalajara, Mexico, and over fifty lives were lost ON the 2Cth King Charles' nephew. Prince Ferdinand, was proclaimed Crown Prince of Roumania. IT was stated by the Governor of Lower California on the 26th that the discoveries at the Santa Clara placers had been exag gerated, and only practical miners were finding gold OFF Sons, piano manufact Manilla on the 90th the Spanish mail steamer Mindanic was sunk by a collision with another steamer, and thirty of her crew and passengers were drowned. ON the 27th the United States Consul at Colon reported that work along the Panama canal had entirely ceased IT was said on the 27th that the population of the province of Quebec, exclusive of Mon treal, had decreased 239,S40 in five years. THE death of John Bright, the eminent English statesman, occurred in London on the morning of the 27th, at the age of seventy-eight years. In August, 1857, Mr. Bright was elected to Parliament from Birmingham, which borough he had since continued to represent He was especially distinguished aa a speaker of remarkable eloquenoe and power. He was during the civil war in this country a warm anil avowed friend of the Union cause. THE Marquis of Salisbury, speaking in the House of Lords on the 28th of the late John Bright, said: "He had special quali ties for which he will be admired and noted in history. He was the greatest master of English oratory in the present generation. He possessed a singular rectitude of char acter. He was inspired by pure patriots ism from the beginning of his career to its close." ZANZIBAR advices of the 28th say W. a party landed from the German man-of-war Schwalbe and burned Kondutchi after a conflict with the natives. Opposition to the Germans was everywhere decreasing. THE discovery of the illicit manufacture of bombs at Zurich on the 28th furnished a clew to a gigantic plot existing throughout Russia for a new series of attempts upon the life of the Czar. Numerous arrests been made. PBEUIDENT DIAZ, of Mexico, said on the 29th ult that the dispatch about the alleged error in the boundary line between the United States and Lower California was a "canard unworthy of attention." Clongorey, Ireland, thirteen tenants wero evicted from their holdings on the 29th ult, and after the tenants had been driven from the houses twelve of the buildings were destroyed by the agent ON of New York organized the the 29th ult the French Cabinet de cided by a unanimous vote of its members to prosecute General Boulanger. ADVICES THB was instantly killed by a switch engine and her husband fatally injured at a railroad crossing at La Crosse. Wi*,onthe 27th. 'IN Stearns County, Minn., prairie fires were raging on the 27th. The high wind had carried the flames into the woods, and much damage was being-done. shocks of earthquake were felt on the 28th at Budkeystown and Jefferson and along the Monocaoy river in the vicin ity of Frederick County, Md. of the 29th ult from Samoa say that the American men-of-war Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic, and the German men of-war Adlor, Olga and Eber were driven on a reef during a violent storm and totally wrecked Of the American crews four offi cers and forty-six men were drowned, and of the German crews nine officers and eighty-seven men lost their lives. LATER. THB news from Samoa dated the 30th confirm the previous reports of the disas ter to the American and German Guuboats except that the U. B. boat Nipsic is beached and can probably be saved. HERMAN MANLI Finish miners were killed in shaft of tho Copper Falls mines, Houghton, Mich, the 30th by an explosion of dynamite. In drilling they struck a steel drill on top of a cartridge in a hole. THE swept away the great warehouse U. 8. Senate, the 30th, confirmed the nominations of Robert Lincoln as minister to England Ailed Thorndyke Rice .to Russia and Patrick Egan to Cbilli. ADMIRAL KJMBEKLT'S dispatch from Samoa via Aucklan to the United States announcing the loss of German and Amer ican Gunboats co3t 1900. THE highest price ever pai 1 in Chicago for real estate was paid on the SOth by the Chicago Inter Ocean for the northwest corner of Madison and Dearborn streets. The price was #2,500 per front foot A STEAM still at the Empire Oil Works, Long Island City, N. T. exploded the 30th, killing James Nolan, burning over more than an acre of ground and causing a loss of#I50,00a THE steamer Countess of Flanders was sunk off the Scottish coast by the Belgian mail boat Princess Henrietta, the 29th. Nine of her crew and three of the passen gers were drowned. Prince Jerome Bon aparte was among the rescued. U. & Senate the 30th refused to confirm the nomination of Murat Halstead as minister plenipotentiary to Germany. The rejection was made on account of cer tain editorials that had appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial reflecting on some of the Senators' action in the matter of the election of Senator Payne. THB Wisconsin legislature the 30th passed a law adopting the Australian system of election. A HACKDRIVBR at Eau Claire, Wis,, named McLane shot a woodsman named Carr tho 80th, Cause, Carr insulted Mc Laue's wife in a saloon. JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, WILLIE WOODS, IT 18 TOO TRUE. Confirmation of the Reported WneHo| la SamoNB Waters Onrtag a Hurricane of American and Gerasaa War Vessels— Uvea to the Number of 146 Loit—Meager Details of the Terrible Storm Qaeea Victoria's Sympathy. WASHINGTON, LONDON, and Peter Jacob? on two a laborer on the Wiib isha street bridge St Paul, on the 30tb fell from one of the spans, a sheer fall of forty feet He sustained a fracture of the right thigh and serious internal Injuries. a son of a teamster in Minneapolis the 31st, killed a biy named Gus Peterson. The Woods boy had an old army musket and thinking it was not loaded pot on a cap, pointed tbe gun at the Peterson boy and.pulled the trigger. The whole upper part of Peterson's head was blown off. JAKES C. CALHOTRXJA prominent business man or Chattanooga, Tenn., while labor ing under an attaok of temporary insanity attempted the Slat, to kill his family and himselt He attacked his wife and ohil. dren with a hatchet and then swallowed muriatlo aoid. He and bis wife will die. His daughter will recover. The little boyseoeped. April 1.—The Navy De partment has received a dispatch from Admiral Klmberley confirming the report of the disaster at Apia. The Trenton and Vandalia are a total loss. The Nipsic is °n the beach and fa S0 may be saved. Two Ah, AV of the German ves sels are a totallosa Admiral Klmberley's dispatch is as fol lows AUCKLAND, March ao —Starttary of tK» Xavy, Washington: April Hurricane at Apia, March 15. ADMIBAL KIMBEBLEY. Every vessel in harbor on shore exoept English man-of-war Calliope, which got to sea. Trenton and Vandalia total losses. Nlpsie beached rudder gone. May be saved. Chances against it. Will send ber to Auckland if possible. '*Vandalia lost four officers and thirty-nine men, namely: Captain Schoonmaker, Paymas ter Arms, Lieutenant of Marines Sutton, Pay Cleric Jobn Roacb, Henry Baker, Frank Jones, George Jordan, it. H. Joseph, John Kelly. Thomas Kelly, N. Klnsella, W. Brisbane, Will iam'Brown, Quartermaster Michael Cashen, M. Cragin, B. F. Davis, T.O. Downey, M. Ericson, S. O. Gbring, Adolph Goldner. George Gorman, U. B. Green, Joseph Gr ffin, E. M. Ham meur, John Hanchett, C. H. Hawkins, W. Howatt, C. P. Krutzer, Charles Crans, Fr. Lessman, George Men-age, Aylmer Montgom ery, Tbomas Riley, H. P. Stallman. C. G. Stan ford, John S ms, C. H. Wells, John Millford. Henry Wlxter, Ah Kow, Ah Peck, Peadang, Treehor. "The Nipsic Idst seven men, namely: George W. Callun, John Gill, Josuab Heab, Tbomas Johnson, David Kelleher, Henry Poutsell, Will iam Watson. "All saved from the Trenton. Trenton and Vandalia crews are here. Nipslc's on board. All stores possible saved." "German ships Adler and Olga total losses. Olga beached: may be saved. German losses, nnety-s.x. "Important to send 900 men home at once. Shall I charter steamer? Can charter In Auck land. Lieutenant Wilson will remain in Auck land to obey your orders. Fuller accounts by mail. KIMBERLEY." XIMBEBLBY AUTHORIZED TO ACT. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The following dispatch has been sent to Lieutenant Wilson for Admiral Kimberly, care American Con sul, Auckland: "Take such steps with regard to Nipsic and wrecks and sending men home as you may deem prorer. Full power given you. Monongahela sailed for Apia February 21. "TRACY." The Secretary also sent telegrams to the relatives of the dead officers of the Van dalia informing them of the sad affair. The dispatch concerning Captain Schoonmaker was sent to his wife at Kingston, N. Y., where his brother, John Schoonmaker, of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, also resides. The immediate relatives of those who lost their lives in tho wreck will be entitled to pensions under the general law. The pen sion is $C a month for a seaman's widow and $2 a month for each child under 16 years of age. In the case of widows of officers it Is proportionately larger. Pa rents of the dead persons will have to prove that, they were dependent upon th^Jr sons for support to entitle them to pensions. Congress will also probably pass a special act making reimbursement for the effects and baggage of officers and men lost in the. wreck. This was done in the case of the Huron, which went down on the Hatteras coast about fifteen years ago. Sunday afternoon Minister Pendleton cabled from Berlin to Secretary Blaine a confirmation of the news of the disaster at Apia as follows: The foreign office has been officially in formed ot the typhoon at Apia. Tbe Eber and the Adlcr were totally lost. Ninety dead. The Olga stranded. No losses. Three Ameri can and all mercantile vessels in the port lost. Si xty Americans dead. Tbe English war ship Calliope damaged and gone to Sydney. PENDLETON." QUEEN VICTORIA'S SYMPATHY. Queen Victoria cabled through Lord Salisbury to the British legation in this city Sunday directing that her earnest sympathy be expressed to the President of the United States for the terrible naval misfortune at Samoa and the deplorable loss of life. Mr. Edwardes, the British Charge, accompanied by the Secretary of State, waited upon the President Sunday afternoon and read to him the Queen's mes sage. President Harrison expressed his warm appreciation and that of the whole people of this country for the Queen's con siderate sympathy in the calamity that had overwhelmed our naval crews at Samoa. An informal reply to the Queen's message would be made, the President said, through the Department of State. A LONDON ACCOUNT. 1.—Particulars of the dis aster to the German and American war vessels at Samoa have beeu received as fol lows: The Xber was blown ashore and struck the reef first, at an early hour in the morning. She sank almost immediately in deep water. Nearly all of the men who were below were drowned. When the Adler struck her mast3 were shivered and her rigging parted. Several of her crew swam through the surf and were saved, among them the Captain and a few officers. After the Nipsic grounded her crew succeeded in lowering boats, but Bix men were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the surf. The Captain of the Vandalia was stunned by being thrown against a gun and was washed over board before he became conscious. Several others were washed overboard by the waves, while others were drowned in their endeavor to swim ashore. Many of the Van dalia's crew clung to the rigging, and the Samoans and others on shore tried in vain to rescue them. The bottom of the Vandalia was completely stove in, and the Trenton was thrown upon the Vandalia's wreck. The Olga withstood the fury of the gale for a day and a night, but at the dawn of the following day she went ashore. Three officers of the Eber were lost and with them seventy-Bix men. The Nipsic lost seven men. The Vundalla lost her Captain, four officers and forty men. The Adler lost fifteen men. The Nipsic grounded on a sand bank. Still another account says: The hurri cane burst upon the harbor suddenly. The German man-of-war Eber was the first vessel to drag her anchor. She became un manageable, and was driven helplessly on the reef which runs around the harbor. She struck, broadside on, at 6 o'clock in the morning. The shock caused her to lurch and to stacrger back, and she sunk in a mo ment in deep water. Most of her men were under hatches and scarcely a soul of them escaped The German war-ship Adler was the next to succumb. She was lifted bodily by a gigantic wave and cast on her beam ends in the reef. A terrible strugglo for life ensued among the officers and sailors aboard. Many plunged into the raging surf and struck out, some reaching the shore in safety. Others clung to the rigging until the maste fell. Of those in the rigging only two gained the shore. The Captain of the Adler and several other officers were saved. Meanwhile the United States ship Nipsic had been dragging her anchors and drift ing toward tbe shore. The Captain, how ever, managed to keep control, and ran her on a sand-bank. Boats were immediately lowered, and the whole company was saved with the exception of six men. These were drowned by the capsizing of a boat The United States steamer Vandalia was carried before the gale right upon the reef. She struck with a terrible shock, hurling the Captain against a gatling gun and he fell stunned. Before he could recover a great wave swept the deck and washed him and others away into the sea The vessel sunk fifty yards from the Nipsic, and several of the officers and men went down with her. Others perished while making desperate efforts to swim to the shore. Some of the ship's company tried to save themselves by clinging to the rigging, but heavy and swift running waves dashed over them, and One by one they were swept away. By this time night had set in. Many na tives and Europeans had gathered on the shore, all anxious to render assistance to the unfortunate crews, but owing to the darkness they were wholly unable to be of service. Soon after tbe Vandalia sunk the Ameri can war-ship Trenton broke from her anchorage and was driven upon tbe wreqk of the Vandalia, whence she drifted to the shore. The bottom of the Trenton was com pletely stove and her hold was half full of water. Am morning broke tbe German maa-of. war Olga, wmoh had hitherto withstood the gale, although much battered by the heavy seas whioh constantly broke upon her, be came unmanageable and was driven upon the beach, where she lay In a tolerably fa vorable position. Mataafe sent a number of his men to the assistance of the wrecked ships. They ren dered splendid aid in trying to float the Olga THB NEWS IN BERLIN. BEBLIN, April 1.—When the loss of the German and American war vessels waa re ported to the Emperor he could not conceal his emotion at the disaster and was visibly affected for some time. DISCUSSING THE DISASTEB. WASHINGTON, April 1. Captain Bel fridge, United States navy, was found at the Navy Department poring over a chart of the harbor of Apia, which he visited sev eral years ago. He said that, while it was a very bad harbor, it was the best on the island of Upola. T.iVn all of the Pacific Island harbors, that of Apia is formed by a coral reef encircling the island at a short distance from the shore. The anchorage space available for men-of-war is contracted, being about 1,000 feet wide at the mouth of the har bor. The bottom is sandy, affording slight hold for an anchor, and the harbor is exposed on the north. On each side of the entrance are coral reefs which are awash at high water and are surrounded by sboalr. The depth of water ranged from four to eight fathoms, pretty deep water being found close in shore, which would en able a ship to pet close in. Hurricanes or cyclones at Apia are usually from the southwest, and revolving in the harbors tend to force vessels on the rugged reefs or rough shores. The last hurricane occurred at Apia six years ago. Fortunately no me of war were in the harbor, but eve merchantman was driven ashore or wrecked, houses were destroyed and palm trees uprooted. It is the opinion of Admiral Harmony, who is also familiar with the Samoan Isl ands. that the English man-of-war owed her escape to the fact that she had steam up and was enabled to push out to sea lite number of vessels lying in the small harbor was a source of danger to them individually, for if one dragged her anchors she would probably collide with and carry away another ship which might otherwise have held securely. The news of the disaster created a pro found sensation at the Navy Depart ment, and everybody from the Secre tary down freely expressed his re gret Secretary Tracy could not see cause to condemn any one. The officers in command of the ships were competent men and had doubtless adopted all proper precautions against disaster, but these hurricanes which assumed cy clonic proportions were simply irresistible, as was proved by the extent of the loss of vessels. HOW THE NEWS WAS OBTAINED. The difficulty of obtaining telegraphic news from the Samoan islands is very great. Dispatches received by the Associated Press were first taken from Apia to Auckland, New Zealand, about 2,000 miles by steamer. The'news was then transmitted by cable from New Zealand, thence to Banjowanjie, thence to Singapore, thence to Panang, thence to Madras, thence to Bombay, thence to Aden, thence to Suez, thence to Alex andria, thence to Malta, thence to Gibraltar, thence to Lisbon, thence to London, and thence to New York. THE DEVASTATION GENERAL. AUCKXAND, April 1.—Later advices re ceived here regarding the hurricane which devastated Samoa and wrecked a number of German and American war-ships says the storm swept the islands on tbe 16th inst All the war-ships attempted to put to sea, but only the English steamer Caliope succeeded in getting out Mer chant vessels suffered severely. The bark Peter Godeffrey, one other bark and 6even coasters were wrecked and four persons were drowned. The Caliope sailed for Sydney. The Peter Godeffrey was a Ger man bark. She had arrived at Somoa from Sydney. TIIE LOST OFFICERS. [Captain Schoonmaker entered the navy from New York as an acting midshipman, September 28. 18~4. He was made midship man in June, 1859, and successively passed through the grades ot passed midshipman, master, Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Commander and Captain. He was promoted to the last named position on October 7, 1886, and on Oc tober 5, 1888, was placed in command of the Vandalia. Lieutenant Francis E. Sutton, the son of City Chamberlain Sutton, of Rome, N. Y., was one ot the brightest men in the Marine rps. He entered tho Naval Academy as cadet midship man ou June 21, 1877, gruduatedjin 188.!, and was made a Second Lieutenant in the Mar ne Corps on July 1, 1883. He was the junior First Lieutenant of the corps, having been promoted on March 9, 1888. Lieutenant Sutton was only engaged as temporary Commander of Marines on the Vandalia. He was detailed from the Mohican to the Vandalia until tbe regularly detailed Commandant of Marines could re port. He expected to be transferred to the Mo hican when the Vandalia fell in with that vessel. Paymaster Arms was born in Connecticut. He was appointed ucting assistant paymaster in 1864. He served on the Tuscarora and Ter ror, and was commissioned Paymaster in 1871. The wife and child of Paymaster Arms reside at the Crawford House in New London, Conn. Paymaster's Clerk John Roach was the brother of James Jeffreys Roach, the poet, who is asso ciated with Jobn Boyle O'Rielly on the Boston Pilot. Mr. Roach's home was at Ilion, N. Y. COLLISION AT SEA. Terrible Accident in the English Channel by Which Fourteen Lives Are Lost. LONDON, April 1.—A collision occurred off Dunkirk in the English channel Friday between the steamer Countess of Flanders and the Belgian mail-boat Princess Hen rietta The captain, first Heutenant, nine sailors and three passengers of the former vessel were drowned Prince Jerome Bonaparte was among the rescued. The latest advices state that the Countess of Flanders was cut in two and that the forepart at once sank. The Princess Hen rietta took the after part in tow and started for this port, but bad proceeded only ashort distance when the portion of the wreck which she had in tow capsized and went down. SHOT DOWN. A Negro Who Was Working to Convict Clayton's Assassin Killed. LITTLE BOCK, Ark., April 1.—News reached here of the murder Saturday night near Plummersville of Joe Smith a negro, by a white man named Dan Anderson. The mur derer overtook the negro in the road as he was going home and shot him down. An derson has been arrested and is in jail. Im portance is attached to the murder from the fact that Smith has been very actively engaged in working up the evidence in the Clayton assassination for the Pinkerton de tectives. STAMPS WORTH $45,000,000. They Are in the Vaults of the Internal Revenue Bureau In Good Condition. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The Treasury com- mittee appointed to count the stamps in the vaults of the Internal Bevenue Bureau completed their work Saturday. The count was made necessary by the transfer of the bureau from Commissioner Miller to Com missioner Mason. Two hundred million stamps, of the value of $43,000,000, were counted, and every cent was accounted for, and the stamps were found to be in good condition. VICTIMS OF THE FLAMES. A Mother and Three Children Burned to Death at Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE, April 1.—At 2 o'clock this morning afire broke out at No. 1514 Walnut street, a small frame building occupied bj Margaret Kunslais and her three children, aged 7,4 and 2 respectively. The building burned so rapidly that be fore the department could reach the burn ing structure and render any aid the en tire family, including the mother and three children, were burned to death. Death of Dwarf Cardenas. DIXTEB, Mich., April 1.—General Carde. nas, the well-known dwarf, for seventeer years has made his hgpne in this place, and died here Saturday of consumption. He was born in Mexico 51 years ago, and hac been exhibited as a freak in all the prin cipal cities in the United States. He wat thirty-one inches in height and weighec but forty-six pounds. M^Jor Beno Is Dead. WASHINGTON, April 1.—Major Marcus A Beno, who commanded a portion of Gaster'i regiment and was severely criticised for hit failure to come to Custer's relief and pre vent the massacre by the Indians, died a) a hospital heft from the effeoti ef iwrgloe Operation. 4- An Old Time Partisan* It is easy to recall to mind hie figure as he aits, during winter evenings* in his faverite oorner. In his easy chair, with pipe in band and his silver-rimmed "specs" pushed back un til they find a soft resting place on his be loved snow-white head, with eyes spark ling and his face beaming with pleasure aa he calls back old memories of days long gone by, he is likely to talk something after this fashion: it's along time since I was a boy. Ah, but'that was many years ago. Sixty long years have gone and the good Lord knows they were short enough. I waa then as spruce and pert as any chap thereabouts. '•Oh, but we boys were boys! Things have changed a heap since those days. Boys then didn't take much stock in stylish clothes and tbey didn't carry canes like they do now. Clothes hnd cancs didn't cut much caper then, but it was good hard sense and work. "Tho boy who could do the biggest day's work—could cut the most wood, split the most rails, plow the most corn, was tbe most envied for he was sure to have tne'sweetest and best lookin' gal at the 'sicgin* school' or 'apple peelin'. "I tell you those were good old times 1 "I didn't think any thing of going thirty mile or more to see your grandmother, and wo didn't have very good roads cither, but generally had to follow some old Indian trail. "Talkin' about sickness then, there was no sickness like now. If we had a cold, a pain, or any thing, there was the best med icine in tbe world found in any log cabin home you came across. Why, I remember that my old grandmother, God bless her soul, she's been dead these fifty years or more, could make the best home made med icine for miles around. Her 'sarsaparilly' couldn't be beat. Come to think I just read In the paper about somebody who is making this same old log cabin medicine, under the name of 'Warner's Log Cabiu Sarsaparilla-' "It does seem splendid to think that you can buy those good old home cures at the druggist's nowadays. "Mebbe you think people were not healthy in those days, but I tell you that it was mighty seldom any body was sicli long when tbey had such good old grand mother medicine BO handy. "People used to be stronger, healthiei and they lived longer, when 1 was a boy." Satisfaction Wanted. Magistrate (to Mrs. Con Kelly)—You claim, Mrs. Kelly, that Mrs. O'Tooli han gave you that bruised and black ened face. Mrs. Con Kelly—She did, yer honor, or I'm not Irish born. Magistrate—And what you want is damages? Mrs. Kelly—Naw, sir I want satis faction. I havo damages enough.— Harper's Magazine Firrf-rrvB iwomen of Utica, N. Y., have signed an agreement not to let a man crowd past them in a theater "unless he is going out on some other business than thai of drinking." JHE GREAT. -.DY»*r xqp CONQUERS PAIN". keneves ana cures BHETO&TISIt, HEADACHE, Toothache, Sprains, NEURALGIA, Solatica, Lumbago. BRUISES, Burns and Scalds* At Drngfisti and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. 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MIn the spring of 18871 was all run down. I would get up in the morning with so tired a feeling, and was so weak that I could hardly get around. I boughta bottle ot Palne's Celery Com pound, and before I bad taken It a week I felt very much better. I can cheefully recommend It to all who need a building up and strengthen. Ing medicine." Mrs. B. A. Dow, Burlington, Yt. Paine's Celery Compound IB a unique tonic and appetizer. Pleasant to the taste, quick hi its action, and without any injurious effect, it gives that rugged health which makes everything taste good. It cures dyBpepsla and kindred disorders. iyslelana prescribe It. $1.00. Six for ss.oo. Druggists. WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington, VT. DUMOKO LACTATED FOOD I Ladies: OUR X.ADIES' FiKF DOXOOI.A and COAT, BUTTON L. ^ORLPt»i that PRICK J»o not l»e Influenced by dealers who fry Mil yon aome otli^r 8!S~.50 ithoe with lem •serlt, aa It will be economical Tor yon to do mand onr». 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