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()f tsftfrraoii & flrmrr. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Merman & Farmer PaWttiflg Co. PRICE $1,50 PER YEAR. LATEJS NEWS. High tides have occurred on the Eastern coast, and some damage has been done to property. The authors of the incendiary fires which have recently occurred at Roslyndale, Mass., have been arrested in the act of setting fire to a house. A jury in Worcester, Mass., has decided that the Rev. Father G. Ely Brochu, a priest of Notre Dame Church, must pay $ 1720 for denouncing a parishioner from the pulpit. President Harrison was present at the first days exercises of the celebration in Baltimore of the battle of North Point. Two freight trains came into collision on the Iake Shore road near Milk-rsburg, Ind-Thirty-six cars and two engines were wrecked at a loss of :(XM)00. Two Italians working on the Midland Railroad, near Clarksburg, W. Va., were blown to pieces by the explosion of a cart ridge, and others were seriously injured. The canvass of the contested votes for Governor in West Virginia, has given Jndge Fleming, the Democratic candidate, a majority over General Goff. The thirty-ninth anniversary of the ad mission of California into the Union was celebrated in Han Francisco by public holi day. By a freight wreck on the Norfolk and Western Railroad near Lynchburg, Va., Charles McDowley, a fireman, has been killed, ami a brakeman fatally injured. The Aurora AVatch Company, of Au rora, 111., has made an assignment. The liabilities are about $200,000. Five farmers have been killed near Car bondale, 111., by the explosion of a threshing machine boiler. The President has appointed George W. Lyon to be Surveyor of Customs for the Port of New York, Theodore B. Willis to be Naval Officer of Customs in the District of New York and Ernst Nathan to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of New York. Fabius H. Busbee, United States Dis trict Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, has resigned. While a christening party was enjoying a sail on Lake Killarney in Ireland, their boat capsized, and before assistance could reach them five persons vyere drowned. The municipal authorities of Paris have given a grand banquet to Edison, the in ventor. O'Connor, the Canadian, has been defeated in a sculling race for the world's champion ship on the Thames by Searle, the Aus tralian. .Leon Abbett has been nominated for Gov ernor by the New Jersey Democratic Con vention. Mrs. Aaron W. Dilliard, widow of the farmer who was murdered near Easton, Penn., has confessed that she and William H, Bartholomew planned the murder and that she assisted in carrying out the plot. Burt & Snow, the oldest house of woolen jobbers in New England, have failed. The amount of liabilities is estimated at between $80,000 and $100,000. Eight colored men have been arrested near Norfolk, Va., on suspicion of being con cerned in the murder of a storekeeper named T. L. Waller. Dr. H. H. Tucker, one of the leading Baptist clergymen of the South, and pro prietor of the CJmristian Index, has died through falling from the window of hi? house at Atlanta, Ga. The Washington Democrats have placed a State ticket in the field headed by Eugene Semple, of Taconia, for Governor. The striking miners of Spring Valley, In., have refused the employers' terms. They ask the Governor to use the State Emergency Fund in their behalf. Eleven influential citizens, of Marian, Ind., have been arrested charged with being implicated in the White Cap outrage, in which Mrs. Aseneth Street and her daugh ter were taken from bed at midnight and flogged. George Allen, one of the colored leaders in the recent labor uprising in La Flore County. Miss., was taken to Charleston, in that State, and hanged. It is now estimated that 100 colored people were killed in the Le Flore County riots. The President has appointed Henry C. Warmoth to be Collector of Customs at New Orleans. During the last three months 33.436 pat ents were issued by the General Land Office. The issue for June, 16,523, exceeds that of any month in the history of the office. The President has designated Colonel Will iam P. Craighill, of the Engineer Corps, to be a member of the Lighthouse Board to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Colo nel Wilson to West Point. The entire Bench of J udges. District and Circuit, of Riga, Russia, have been arrested for using the German language, after they had been ordered to use the Russian. The Industrial Exhibition of Toronto, Canada, has been formally opened by Sir John Macdonald in the presence of an im mense concourse of people. The losses by the Antwerp fire will be nearly $7,000,000. The body of L. L. Clawson. a prominent real estate man, of Wichita, Kan., has been found in Riverside Park there, riddled with bullets. He had evidently been murdered. "SUNSET" COX DEAD. Death of the Well-Known New York Congressman. A Sketch of His Long and Event ful Public Career. Congressman S. S. Cox died about half past 8 o'clock in the evening at his home, No. 13 East Twelfth street, New York city, from peritonitis. His wife. Dr. Lockwood and a few friends were at his bedside. He was con scious almost to the end. During the day he recognized hi wife, some of his friends and an old colored servant who came on from Washington to see him. Only a few days lefore, Mr. Cox was pre Iaring a speech on the new States, embody ing his recent observations in the West, for delivery before the Judge Steckler Associa tion, a Democratic club in Second avenue. New York city. The title of his lecture was "The Wonderland." The members of the society met at their rooms, and sat about in gloomy groups reading with anxiety the fre quent bulletins from Twelfth street, and at length the news came that their frier' had gone to the Wonderland of which he eould tell them nothing. There were many callers at the house dur ing the day, and telegrams were received from the Turkish Minister and other well-known men. Among the friends who called were: General Pits-John Porter, George Francis Train, Congressman John J. O'Neil, of St. Louis; ex-Judge Charles P. Daly, James M. Seymour. United States Marshal McMahon, General Roger A. Pryor and John T. Aguew. Mrs. Cox's brother, E. B. Buckingham, of Zanes- ville, Ohio, arrived in the afternoon, as als( did her sister, Mrs. Harden burg. About two years ago Mr. Cox had a serious illness from which it was not thought he could recover, and the recollection of his wonderful rally at that time, after the physicians had pronounced his case hopeless, caused his friends to cherish the hope that the same thing might happen again. Almost his last words were in regard to the new States of the great West, and plans which he had formed for advocating the admission of New Mexico and Wyoming at the next session of Con gress. A change which told of the approaching end took place early in the day, and in spite of his cheerfulness and a brave effort to hold on to life, he sunk gradually, and even at five o'clock the doctors thought death so immi nent that members of the household wer summoned to the bedside. Sketch of His Career. Samuel Sullivan Cox, better known as "Sunset" Cox, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, September 30, 1824. His father, Ezekiel Tay lor Cox, was a leading politician of Ohio and a member of the State Senate in 1832-33. The mother of S. S. Cox was a daughter of Samuel Sullivan, who was Treasurer of Ohio in 1818, and had a high reputation for probity. Mr. Cox attended the Ohio University at Athens, but subsequently became a student of Brown University, Rhode Island, where he graduated with honor in the class of 1840. He adopted the profession of law, and after being admitted practised many years success fully. He then made a trip to Europe, and on his return published a very readable and popular book on travels, entitled "The Buckeye Abr6ad.' In 1853 Mr. Cox became owner and editor of the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman, the Democratic organ of the State. In 1855 President Pierce tendered Mr. Cox the jxsi tion of Secretary of Legation to England, but he was not able to accept the honor. Subsequently, however, he accepted the sec retaryship of the Legation to Peru. On his resignation aid return to Ohio, Mr. Cox was elected from the Columbus district to Con gress, his Congressional term commencing on the same day as Buchanan's Presidential term He was thrice re-elected, serving con tinuously from 1857 to 1805, or throughout the memorable j'ears of the administrations of Jantes Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln. In 1863, on 1 he assembling of the Thirty eight Congress, Mr. Cox was the caucus nominee of the Democrats for Speaker against Mr. Colfax. Upon the expiration of the Thirty-eighth Congress in 1865, Mr. Cox removed" to the city of New York, where he afterward re sided. He published that year, under the ti tle of "Eight Years in Congress," a book of nis experiences ana observations while a member of obe House, In 1868 Mr. Cox was again put into the field for Congress, this time by the Democracy of his adopted home, and was elected. Before the assembling ot Congress he again visited the Old World, touring through Spain and other parts of Southern Europe and Northern Africa. On Ids homeward trip he tarried long enough in England to write an interesting book of his travels, which he published in London. It was entitled "A Search for Winter Sun beams." and has had an extensive circulation in this country. In 1870 Mr. Cox was re-elected, over Hor ace Greeley, who was the Republican candi date. In 1872 he received the nomination from the Democratic State Convention for Cougressman-at-large, and led the balance of the Democratic State ticket. The major ity against Mr. Cox was 15,000 less than the majorities against Greeley for President and Kernan for Governor. The death of Con gressman James Brooks occurring the follow ing spring, Mr. Cox was nominated and elected to fill the vacancy. He has been again and again elected; once with only forty one votes against him. Mr Cox was a candidate for Speaker to fill the term left vacant by the death of Mr. Kerr. He was subsequently beaten in caucus by Mr. Randall, though coming within a dozen votes of success. On the 25th of March, 1885, President Cleveland nominated Mr. Cox to succeed General Lew Wallace as Mnister to Turey. This post he resigned and was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer, and was re-elected to the Fiftieth Congress. His best known book, "Why We Laugh," is an analytical de scription of American humor. In the summer of 18S2 Mr. Cox visited Sweden,Nor way, Russia, Turkey and Greece. The vol ume describing this trip he called ''Arctic Sunbeams, or From Broadway to the Bog phorus by Way of the North Cape." In May. 1885, he published a semi-historieal and semi-biographical work entitled "Three De cades of Federal Legislation." He received the name of "Sunset" soon af ter he had become editor of the Ohio (Colum bus) Statesman, thirty-two years ago. He wrote for his paper a highly sophotnosical ac count of a fine sunset he had witnessed, which was so rudely commented upon and ridiculed that he was dubbed Sunset Cox, and he never got rid of the soubriquet, thou gh very few per sons who use it have any idea of its origin. Grand Rapids, Mich., offered a bounty for the killing of English sparrows, and up to date boys have slaughtered over 10,000 of the pests. In addition the boys have fliled a horse with bird shot, punctured the leg of one of their number with the same, and put out the are of another. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. ELasterm and. Middle States. The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention at Harrisburg. nominated Edward A. Bigler, of Clearfield County, for State Treasurer. THjc Massachusetts Prohibitionists have met at Worcester and nominated a full State ticket headed by John Blackman for Gover nor. General F. D. Legitime, ex-President of Haytt has arrived at New York on the Ward Line steamer Manhattan. He was accom panied by his family end several officers of nis army. President Harrison and Postmaster General Wanamaker were among the speak ers at the anniversary of the founding of the Old Log College, the cradle of American Presbyterian ism, at Harisville, Penn. Upward of 200 stevedores and longshore men are idle in Boston on account of the Lou don strike. Denxison D. Dan a, for thirty years treas urer and general manager of the Douglas Axe Company, of Boston, has embezzled a large sum and disappeared. The New York Prohibitionists have nomi nated a complete State ticket headed by Jesse H. Griffin for Secretary of State. The Old Log College celebration has been held on the Tennent farm near Hartsville, Penn., a number of distinguished persons, including the President and Postmaster-General, being present. A train" on the McfCeesport and Bill Vernon Railroad struck a cow near Webster, Penn. The cars left the track, killing one man and fatally injuring another. A SUPPOSED chicken thief shot and killed Washington Dilliard on his farm near Bethle hem, Penn. The murderer escaped. A race riot has occurred at New Castle, Del., between gangs of Irishmen and Poles and Hungarians, which resulted in the death of one Hungarian and the wounding of an Irishman. The new United States cruiser Philadel phia has been successfully launched. A vestibule train ran into a freight train near Shenango, Penn., killing the bag gagemaster and seriously injuring the en gineer and fireman. "Steve" Brodie. the bridge jumper of New York, alleges that he went over Niagara Falls in his rubber suit, thus eclipsiug the feat of Graham, who was carried over the great cataract in a barrel. Brodie has three witnesses of his performance. Dick & Meyer's great sugar refinery in Williamsburg, N. Y., controled by the sugar trust, was destroyed by fire, together with 3,500,000 pounds of sugar which it contained. The loss amounts to fully $1,000,000. South and West. Officer Campbell, an Indianapolis po liceman, has been fatally shot by a watchman named Johns, who mistook him for a burglar. Michael McNulty. who gave important information in the Cronin case, has been threatened with murder if he persists in testifying against Clan-na-Gael men. He is guarded by the Chicago police, as are also State's Attorney Longeuecker and others. Great excitement prevails at St. Pierre, South Dakota, over the third attempt within a week to burn down the place. No great damage has been done, but the people are much excited. The British war ship Acorn, at San Fran cisco, has been compelled to put to sea owing to her numerous desertions. Five sailors seized the steam cutter and escaped to shore. Warren Powers, a colored man of East Point, Ga., has been lynched for assaulting a little white school girl. The election in the Third Louisiana Con gressional District to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Gay, resulted in a vic tory for A. Price (Dem.) by about 7200 ma jority. Jacob Scoll was working in Purcell's ele vator, Chicago, when one of the doors gave way and an immense quantity of wheat poured in upon him, burying him so that he was smothered to death. Two men have been blown to atoms and two others injured by an explosion of dyna mite on a Government lighter on the St. John's River, Florida. The South Dakota Democratic Conven tion has declared for tariff reform and nomi nated a State ticket headed by P. F. Mc Clure, of Pierre, for Governor. The Union Labor party of Iowa, in con vention at Des Moines, has nominated S. B. Downing for Governor, and Ezra Browned for Lieutenant-Governor. A fire in Laird, Norton & Co.'s lumber yard at Winona, Minn., has destroyed property to the value of $314,000. The Republican Territorial Convention of Washington, which has been in session at Walla Walla, has nominated ex-Governor E. P. Ferry, of Seattle, for Governor, and John L. Wilson for Congress. The business portion of the town of Link ville, Oregon, has been burned. The loss amounts to about ?1 60,000. Mrs. Myers, the wife of a blacksmith of Bourbon, Ind., threw vitriol in the face of Dr. F. J. Linn, a prominent physician, de priving him of sight. He had assaulted her while on a professional visit. Fourteen colored men have been whipped at East Point, near Atlanta, Ga., the whip ping party consisting of white men whose identity is not known. Dr. David Tilton Erown, formerly phy sician in charge of Bloomingdale Asylum, who had become insane and had been re ported dead, hanged himself in a barn on his son's farm near Batavia, 111. A mob of armed white men surrounded the jail at Columbia, Mo., and took from his cell George Bush, a negro 17 years old, and hanged him from one of the windows of the Court House. Thsc city of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, has drilled in a gas well which shows a capacity of over 50,000,000 cubic feet daily. Forty five thousand people visited the place in one day. and the excitement is intense. Three farmers while standing under a tree near Albany, Ga., during a storm, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. Louis Nelson and John Coleman were killed at Minter Citv. and Wilson Porter was hanged at Sunny side. This swells the total number of colorsd men killed in the Mississippi riot to twenty-five. ff ashingtom. The President and Mrs. Harrison, Dr. Scott and Private Secretary Halford have left Deer Park, Md., and have returned to Washington. The Department of State has been in formed that Paraguay has appointed Senor Don Alberto Nin as " delegate to the Inter national Congress. Secretary Tracy has designated Lieu tenant Aaron Ward, naval attache of the United States Legation at Paris, to repre sent the Navy Department at the Inter national Meteorological Congress to be held in Paris. The President has appointed Thomas H. Anderson, of Ohio, to be Minister Resident and Consui-Gencral of the United States to Bolivia. The reason given bv St. Domingo for re fusing to participate in the Congress of American Nations is that a treaty negotiated bv the representatives of the two countries several years ago failed of ratification by the Senate of the United States. The President has been advised by his Cab inet not to call an extra session of Congress this year. Foreign. Heavy floods prevail at Tetecala, in the State of Morelos. Mexico. Several lives have been loat. A large bridge has been swept away. A fierce encounter has taken place uear Suakira between a detachment of friendly tribes and a bodv of Dervishes, in which the former were routed with terrible slaughter. At the session of the Trades Union Con gress at Dundee, Scotland, the census report on the eight hour movement was presented, showing 39,030 for and 62,883 against it. A London dock striker has been killed by the police while obstructing the work of load ing steamers. The town of Tlacalula, in. the State of Hi dalgo. Mexico, has been entirely destroyed by floods. General Boulanger has written to M. Tirard. the French Prime Minister, demand ing a trial by court-martial. Three sealers from Behring Sea have arrived at Victoria British Columbia, with 5500 sealskins aboard. A Canadian Cabinet Council has been held in Ottawa to discuss the refusal of the Imperial Government to interfere th the Rush's work fn Behring Sea. An explosion in a colliery at Penicnick. near Edinburg. Scotland, resulted in the death of fifty miners, only fourteen out of the sixty-four men at work in the pit at the time having been rescued. The French Minister of Justice has noti fied the bishops throughout France that any ecclesiastic violating the law by attempting to influence the elections will be vigorously prosecuted. An American flag which was suspended across Water street, in St. Stephen. New Brunswick, was torn down, dipped in a drink ing fountain, dragged through the street and left hanging to a barber-shop door. A German bank has contracted to pro vide the Mexican Government with capital to construct a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuan tepee. The Krupps are to furnish the iron and steel material for the road. Later reports put the number killed by the explosion in an Antwerp (Belgium) fac tory at 200 and the wounded at about 500. The fire which followed the explosion lasted two days. The village of Austruwell. inhab ited by artisans, was completely destroyed for hundreds of yards, and in its vicinity not a building escaped damage. All parts of Antwerp show more or less damage, and por tions appear as if bombarded. THE WHITEOHAPBL FIEND. Another Feminine Victim of "Jack the Ripper" in Ijomlou. At 5:30 the other morning a policeman found the body of a woman ying in a corner of a railway arch spauning Cable street in WhitechapeL Loudon. Examination of the body showed that the head and limbs had been cut off and carried away and the frfcocn- ach ripped open, leaving tlie lxiwels lying upon the ground. The police authorities immedi ately placed a cordon of officers around the spot, but no arrests were made. A police man paesexl the place where the body was found every fifteen minutes throughout the night, and saw nothing to arouse Ids suspi cions. Physcicians who examined the body believe that flie murder occupied nearly an hour, and it is surmised that the murderer carried the head and limbs away in a btg. The murder is the most horrible of the whoie Whitechapel series. The dissection of the body showed that the perpetrator pos.tessed considerable surgical skill. The murdered woman was about thirty years of age, and was evidently addicted to successive use of spirituous liquors. Her clothing was shabby. As yet she has not been identified. Tho murder created tre mendous excitement, and a large crowd of agitated humanity surrounded the morgue, whither the body was taken. Further examination revealed the fact that there was no blood on the ground where the body was found, nor was there any indica tion of a struggle. This confirms the general belief that rhe woman was murdered in a house and her body taken to the spot where it was discovered. Experts are of the opinion that the woman was killed two days previous to the discovery of the body. Three sailors, subsequent to tho finding of the corpse, were found sleeping in the ad joining arch. They were arrested, but con vinced the police that they had neither seen nor heard anything of the murder or the body lying near them, and were discharged. The generally accepted list of the White chapel fiend's victims up to date is as follows: 1. Unknown woman, past middle age, Whitechapel outcast, found dead in October, 1887, with body horribly mutilated. Little attention paid to the case. 2. Martha Turner, found August 7, 1888, stabbed in thirty places, probably with a bayonet. 3. Polly Nicholas, found August 31, head nearly severed from bod 4. Annie Chapman, fouud September 8, horribly carved. 5. Young woman, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, found September 23, slashed as were the others. 6. Elizabeth Stride, found September 30, body warm when found, but mutilated likt the others. 7. Catherine Eddowes, found the same morning, body and face horribly disfigured. 8. Unidentified woman, found October 2. with head and arms severed and the usual mutilations of body. 9. Mrs. Mary Jane Lawrence, found No vember 9, head nearly severed, face lacerated almost beyond recognition; body literally hacked to pieces. 10. Elizabeth J ackson. body found in sec tions between May 31 and June 25, 1889. 11. Alice Mackenzie, alias Kelly, found ic Castle Alley dead, but with body still warm, Juy 17, 1889. Mutilations not completed; knife evidently dull. 12. The present case. FIEE-DAMP EXPLOSION. Several Men Killel and Others Badry Injured in West Virginia. A terrible explosion of fire-damp occurred in the Uffington coal mine, near Morgan town. W. Va., resulting in the death of John Kinsey and William Kirby, and the fatal burning of John Kirk, while other miners were more or lass seriously hurt. The men went into the mine to begin th work of putting it in order, and when they lighted their lamps the explosion followed. They were blown a considerable distance, and were covered with flying debris. Their clothing was almost entirely torn and burned from their bodies. C. 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