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fOIS aur. rof a gang of Chinese murder been operating about Nfcw I bm arrested. He proved to be wlio served as officers' steward and Greely expeditions, was the butcher - at Newark. -keeper at Boston, andhk assets for unsecured I4H0 mft $3,000 Applicationbu ~l«t Troy, N. Y., for a receiver tor a Iron Company. the plaintiff, X IBnrden, auegingthat nisbrother it manager are toroagfollj of the concern. BFI*. 'IT W. BKKCHEB, after concluding Ms SMmun last Sunday, alluded to his ac- ttantnttkc recent campaign, saying he would have abed tears of joy had the Republicans pvt In their plat/orm a welcome to the Sooth and made a oathern man one of Stheir can. . A UBOtiLAB of the Pennsylvania Coal Co«pany announces an average reduction of 15 cent&per ton in the price of coal..... B. ifc. Jewett's extensive cooperage estab- iwhmeut at Bnfftlo Plains, N. Y., with machineij, Stock. supplies, and a boarding- house, *«• consumed by fire, causing a km e# $160,000.... .Exports from the j>ort of Wfftr, Tork, exclusive of specie, for the we* WW $5,383,000, against $6,429,000 far iae previous week. AL0$TM CABKBOIS, the Pittsburgh Tnilfaaafre, has announced himself a So- citfllt He has not divided up his millions Ms employes as yet The Pitta- " ' emer Steel Works have redueed of employes, on nn average, 21 t... .Last year at the Philadelphia - 62,270,000 pieces were coined, the value of which was $16,947,000. THIS WEST. hottf IS1 B Blake Opera House at Bacine, Wis., W*o Matty destroyed by fire, involving a Joasot $140,000. Mr. and Mrs. Russell jr. of the Thompson " Beggar Student" .Company, and a chambermaid nam- i burned to death in the of the building The ex- ' /-hardware works of Elbel, .. .^at Canton, Ohio, were burn­ ed. ^ftlfcio«* Wi]l reach $200,000, with in- surajloettt $160,000. Two hundred men aietfcrown out of employment. The works wiH im rebuilt... . The Indianapolis cot- toa factory burned down, involving a km of $200,000 cm which there was in- ffursnce for $900,000. AT a danoe at Miles City, Montana, a man named Boberts was shot by a desper- ado named Sullivan. Officers traced the inusikiierto a ranch fifteen miles distant, where, In resisting arrest, he killed Doc CMS# and a child with a Sharps rifle. He thdR BHMte his way to Miles City and snr- Nutetd... .Mrs. Williams, of Dahlgren, HL, threw her two little girls into a wall and jumped in herself. All were drowned.... t|faQr. • fanner at Lafayette, Ind., shot with suicidal intent. Mrs. Maria I1L, also committed sui- , J Henry S. Hookins Jt Mdge-builderB, of St. Louis, have MS assignment. Assets, $88,000; lia- I ftsknown The Sheriff at Chicago ; |M furniture house of H. A M. in Wabash avenue, whose are probably $60,000. QUI f. HOWOATE. the defaulting signal j, New up in the prfco served W. H. Legis- tth. His Ozark County, Missouri, took •MS. «<l he perished in the fames A 8*. W®b journal estimates that at pres- entinfhat city 24,000 are out of employ­ ment... .J. H. Swartz, a dry goods mer- it Fort Madison, Iowa, has made an assignment to secure claims of $32,000, about half of which is preferred. KliB Bhkesbuig, Iowa, a band of Unasked men seized Pleasant Anderson, hurried him to a school house, where a mock trial was indulged in. the s'entence being death. They then hanged him to a tree. A year ago Anderson was acquitted of file murder of Chris McAllister, but a feeMngpevmfled in the community that he guilty, and the lynching was the result. ....Col. Hatch is organizing an expedition at Leavenworth, composed of six troops of Cavaliy and a company of infantry, to re- mo*» another band of raider* from the In- diaaTenitory.... Iron manufacturers in the Ifahonfag Valley have agreed upon a re­ duction of 10 per cent, in the wages of all WBtilfljei except members of the Amalga­ mated Association The toy firm of Etzel, Hutchison A Co., of St Louis, with lia­ bilities of $100,000, has declared itself in- near itoh* FBTENDS of the late Secretary Folger say that they will oppose Mr. Evarts' candidacy for the Now Yoric Benatorship because Evarts declined to sutmort Folgar in his con­ test for the Governorship of New York ... Frank Hud, of Toledo, Ohio, intends to contest the election to Congress of Jacob Romeis from that district on the ground, it MwM; that Roraeis has never been natural­ ised and is ineligible. SECBETAKY MOCCLLOCH has given the Chinese Consul at San Francisco authority to issue "return checks" to Chinese mer­ chants who wish to leave the United States. Californians insist that the certificates thus issued will be misused and trafficked in. The Secretary, however, deolines to recon­ sider his order. SENATOR SABIN said, in a reoent inter­ view, that it was nearly impossible to pre­ dict the fate of the Spanish treaty in the Senate. The opposition of the sugar in­ terests, he thought, would not amount to BO much as that of the tobacco men. It was generally conceded, he said, that Bayard could have a place in the Cabinet if he wanted it The Senator was of the opinion that the Democrats in the House would not allow the bill for the ad­ mission of Southern Dakota to pass, and that there was hardly a chance for its ad­ mission during the next four years Some exci foment has been caused in police circles at Washington by an attempt to break up a disreputable establishment in which a United States Senator was reported to be a regular lodger... .The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular in which he roles that Chinese merchants, once resi­ dents of the country, may be admitted on proof of the fact CONGRESSMAN B&AKD, Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Meas­ ures, says he will oppose the Buckner bill stopping the coinage of silver dollars, and will favor a measure providing for free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold. , , POMTICA1* ; ; ; • TffiB WorBonnl Civil-Service Reform League recently wrote to Gov. Cleveland commending its purposes to his patriotic •e. The President-elect replied that he regarded himself as pledged to practical reform, but that he almost doubted whether friends of the cause would stand firmly by it when it obstructed their way to patron­ age. He called attention to the fact that many officeholders have disregarded their duty to the people and become offensive partisans, and should be taught a lesson.... A conference of Prohibitionists of Illinois was held at Decatur, H. B. Kepley being elected Chairman. Gov. St. John, of Kan­ sas, spoke for two hours. Committees were appointed to prepare an address to the people, and to formulate a plan for better organization in the State. THE Albany correspondent of the Chica­ go Times makes the positive statement that Senator Bayard has decided not to enter the Cabinet, his friends believing that his abil­ ity and experience would be more valuable to the administration in his present place. In dealing with the South, it is regarded as probable that John Hancock, of Texas, will be Postmaster General, and that another Southern man will be tendered the Interior Department THE Democratic members of Congress, says the Washington correspondent of the Chicago News, are bubbling over with en­ thusiasm over Gov. Cleveland's letter to George William Curtis on the civil service. Republican Congressmen regard the letter with some suspicion. They lay stress upon the declaration that officials who have been active in politics must go, and say that Cleveland leaves the way open ahead of him for a clean sweep. Their idea is that most of the Government officials who hold positions of any value have been more or less active in politics W. E Curtis of the Chicago Inter Ocean, who was nominated by the President for the Secretaryship of the South-American Commission, has written a letter to a friend threatening Gen. Logan with dire vengeance in case the General persists in opposing his confirmation A delegation from New York City waited upon Governor Cleveland, at Albany, to re­ quest the appointment of A. J. Vanderpoel as Attorney General. General J. S. Mann- aduke, of Missouri, had an interview with the President-elect. . - selves and GENELAT* from the stock ranges of Mon- tatmnre of the most discouraging character. The snow has fallen to a great depth, and thrabasnce of wind to carry it away makes itnosito impossible for cattle to get at the foaju^ apd stock are starving to death AdvieW from extreme Southwestern Texas (Ms tint the recent cold weather was quite destructive to live stock in that station, laage numbers of poor cat­ tle and sheep having perished iMn la received of the wreck of the Ger- manbark Lisle near Petrolia, Cal. The first oflbslr; the cook, and three seamen were droWBtd.... .A colony of three thousand Finns is about to be established in Hancock Cfeiarif, Michigan. A priest and his ad- i gtiard have landed at Portland,Maine, • to select a site Fire swept _ 000 worth of business property =============== ̂ -, , nus Bourn, ' Kg-SnunB SAMUEL J. RANDALL was WJ# received at Louisville, Ky. He was tŝ ltnda waan welcome by the Board of wan dined by the leading local ,a»d delivered a speech to an audience --"r" »in numbers, attacking the method ribtie aflfcirs have been admin- the Bcpublicans... .A dispatch _Boek says that "throughout Ar­ ras and rivers are over their j the country for miles. Bail- lave under water, and bridges i weakened, thus retarding travel la Biver Yalley plantations are ,«adstodchave been drowned." a recurrence of the rob- I viJih have beea*recently committed, ' patrol Fulton, W. Va., and carry revolvers. Suspicious »ve been driven out, and, if will be shot The first thief bo hanged immediately talariM and an hotel at Honfeinsville, in destroyed by fire. The loss is , foOytnaured. i BAND ALL Journeyed from I to Nashville, where he was ac- . a OOtdial reception. He made a the venerable widow of ex- j and inspected the largest I in tiie cî y. bite messenger boys in the em - M Western Union Company at ..0a., have been discharged, col- their places... .Messrs. engaged in a duel with the streets of Bockwood, *Nn mortally wounded. • lif. ' K THE December cotton report of the National Department of Agriculture indi­ cates a smaller yield than the returns of the condition in October. The October average was 4, against 68 in 1883. 88 in the great harvest of 1882, and 66 in the disastrous season of 1881. The returns of the con­ dition in October and the product in De­ cember have been unusually divergent this year. The first indicated a larger crop than last year; the latter a product slightly less, or about 98 per cent. The com­ parative decline is in States west of Alabama. The comparison with last year is as follows: North Carolina 101, South Carolina 107. Georgia 101. Florida 103, Ala­ bama 105, Mississippi 94, Louisiana 98, Texas 89, Arkansas 99, Tennessee 101. Ap­ plying these percentages to our figures for the crop of 1883 they indicate a product of 398,000" bfiles in North Carolina, 502,000 in South Carolina, 760,000 in Georgia, 60,- 000 in Florida, 661,000 in Alabama, 847,000 in Mississippi, 480,000 in Louisiana, 995,- 000 in Texax, 513,000 in Arkansas, and 314,000 in Tennessee. The remaining ter­ ritory will probably give about 50,000 bales. This makes a& aggregate of 5,080,000 bales. PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S reception at the White House on New Year's was a brilliant affair. The President was assisted in re­ ceiving the gu«HtN by Mrs. MeElroy, Mrs. McCulloch. Mr*. Chandler, Mrs. Brewster, and Mrs. Teller, The toilets of the ladies were very elaborate, and together with the uniforms of the Military oftcer* and foreign legations made a An* display. The dip. lomatlc oorp* was tint |irssanled, and then the Jttdgaaof Ike Mtwame Oonrt and mem- ben of both Congress. The army mm* nail M4 'M Mvr, followed by the sorrivova of OK ÎMABMI War aud the Grand kna of Mm AapuMie, The Execu­ tive ICnaiM VM bMUtifftlly decorated. --It Albany, rreetdent-eleot Cleveland stood at Ma daak la the Executive Chamber for two honrs and shook hands with a vast multitude of people, presented by his mili­ tary staff. Tmt reoent decision In the divorce suit brought by Miss Bill against ex-Senator Sharon has prevented the consummation of certain transfers of real eetate owned by the California millionaire in Washington. The decision gives Miss Hill a dower right in his estate, and until it is reversed she would have to sign the title deeds to effect a legal transfer... .Serious trouble is feared be­ tween the Christian and pagan Indians on the Onondaga Reservation. FOUMK. Jm-- 'ML fa HEATT earthquake shocks wore fell in various parts of Europe on the* 29th of De­ cember, causing some danger and a good deal of alarm. In Austria and Wales the shocks appear to have been the severest In many places houses were injured, but no loss of life is reported. THIRTY lives were lost by a land-slip near Periana, Spain, which buried forty- eight persons... .A London cable dispatch says; Messages from all parts of the Unit­ ed Kingdom, Europe, and America have pouvod into Hawarden, the home of tho *• * 3C - '»•» on y, and request thai sb«S both for them- gnat country. "W. E. GLADOTONE." GEN. BREHRE DB L'ISLE, in oommand of the French squadron in Chinese waters, has been fighting pirates near Hongyon, and has killed 300. Queen Victoria has announced to the British privy council th« betrothal of Princess B«ktrice to Prinoe Henry of Battenberg. IT is said that Queen Victoria will ask for a dowry of $150,000 for her daughter, the Princess Beatrice, upon the marriage of the latter to Prince Henry of Battenberg. She will also demand an annuity of $30,000 for the young couple General Wolseley has received a note with General Gordon's private seal, dated at Khartoum, Dec. 14, stating that the city was able to hold out..,. A oollision at Barneeley Junction, England, between excursion and coal trains, caused the killing of four persons and the maiming of thirty others Defalcations amounting to $260,000 have been developed in the rev­ enue office at Larnica, Cyprus, and several have fled to Asia Minor. . DITIOKAL A MOB fired the Bristol tunnel on the Baltimore & Ohio Road near Shawnee, 0. The flames were extinguished, but a few hours later the tunnel was again set on fire by the incendiaries. Twenty thousand dollars' worth of damage was done... .The body of Dr. Jam9s H. Harris, a well-known physician who died suddenly at Indian­ apolis, was turned over for dissec­ tion to the Medical College. His will contained this stipulation, anrl his wife entered no objections.... William S. Denny, assistant postmaster at Remus, Mich., was arrested on New Year's Day for opening registered letters. He promptly pleaded guilty, when arraigned at Grand IJapids, and was sentenced to "one year in the penitentiary Dr. Shillock has been arrested at Chaska, Minn., for body- snatching." The physician's brother and a student in the Minneapolis College Hospi­ tal are also involved... .A tablet over Kit Carson's grave in Taos County, New Mexi­ co, was dedicated last week, Delegate Joseph delivering the oration. SHOCKS of earthquake were again ex­ perienced at Albama last night, says a Ma­ drid dispatch of Jan. 3. The town is in ruins. A panic prevails among the in­ habitants of Antequera, twenty-eight miles northwest of Malaga, where shocks have already been felt Earthquake shocks were again felt at Gninada, Malaga, Ncrja, and Algarrobo at night. The panic among the people is unabated. A number of towns and villages have been completely destroyed, and the inhabitants have deserted them. Many persons sleep in railway carriages. A royal decree has been issued ordering that a national sub­ scription for the relief of the sufferers be taken up. CONGRESSMAN BUCKNER says that he has no hope of the success of his bill stop­ ping the coinage of the silver dollar. Mr. Buckner declares himself a steadfast friend of silver, but thinks that if the United States will cease for awhile its efforts to make silver money go, the financial necessities of other nations will compel them to join in establish­ ing a bimetallic standard. The financial question, Mr. Buckner thinks, will be the great problem of the next administration .... W. H. Smyth, an army paymaster, who recently disappeared from Savannah with $5,500 of Government funds, made his ap­ pearance in Washington the other day and paid up the deficiency, explaining that he was on a spree Christmas and be­ came lost to all consciousness until he found himself in New York A revision of the records of desertions from the regu­ lar army of the United States shows that 100,000 desertions have occurred during the last seventy years. TRANSATLANTIC steamship companies have agreed upon uniform rates for prepaid steerage tickets westward of $22 for fast steamers and $20 for ordinary steamers.... Estimates of the cost of the Nicaragua canal vary from $65,722,000 to $140,000,- 000. It is claimed by the opponents of the canal that it would cost over $200,000,000 to build. THE Phoenix Manufacturing Company's building, at Erie, Pa., and three residences were burned, causing a loss of $30,000. The Hon. Horatio Seymour's residence, at Mar­ quette, Mich., was burned, the janitor, who •lept in the basement, being suffocated.... Two stores, worth $15,000 at Mexico, Mo., and a residence valued at $20,000 in Syra­ cuse, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. The Glen Woolen Mill at North Adams, Mass., was also burned, causing a loss of $100,000. A powder-mill near Xenia, Ohio, was de­ molished by an explosion, on employe being blown to pieces. JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the unfortunate actor, came very near being crushed to death in a railway station in Philadelphia, New Year's night A colored coachman saved his life by lifting him upon a car platform.... It is said that five physicians who met in consultation the other day regarding the condition of Gen. Grant's health came to the conclusion that he was completely broken down John Gallagher, a gray-hailed citizen of New York, waft compelled to ask admission to the workhouse, because of delay by sav­ ings bank officers over the loss of his book, representing $20,000. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Bxxvn.. Hoos. FLOUR--Extra. WHEAT--NO. 2 Spring...... ' No. 2 Red Cobk--NO. 3 OATH--^White. Pons--New Mess CHICAGO. BEEVES-Choice to Prime Steers. Good Shipping Common to Fair. Hoos Floub -Fancy White Winter Ex. • Good to Choice Bpriu.. WHEAT--NO. 2 Red Winter. No. 2 Spring. COB*--Na 2 . . . . OATS--No. 2 . . Hw--No. 2 . . . . BABMT--No. a Bum it Choloe Creamery. Fine Dairy CHEEBB--Full Cream. Skimmed Flat Koos--Fresh POTATOES--New, per ba PORK--Mess.. I...!"; _ TOLEDO. WHXAT--No. S Bed. CORN--No. 3 OATS--Ma 2 „ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No 2 CoBir--No. 2 . . . . . . OATS--No. 2 BAHJCX--NO. a PORE--Mess T.ATIT» „ ""si'." LOUIS."' WHEAT--No 2 Bed. CORK--Mixed OATS--Mixed. RYE. ; " PORK--Mess ~ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORK. OATO--Mixed. POBX--Mess LABD DETROIT. FLOUB WHEAT--No. l White CORN-Mixed OATS--No. 2 White POKE--Family _ „ INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed, New COBH--Mixed OATS--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best Fair.. HOO0.... 16.80 ft 7.75 4.2ft & 6.00 aso 12.25 A. 25 5.25 4.00 4.00 &75 3.25 75 3 1 :« I :S3 5.25 @ .87 @ .88 @ .61 @ .38 012.75 & 6.75 © 5.75 & 4.75 @ 4.50 M 4.2S @ a, is & .76 75 .26 .53 .52 .28 .20 .13 .09 .25 .40 A Retrospective Qkino* Into fiftty Quarter of the Hates itaWe Gfabe. Berkv «l the bprlnt MWMl awl WdinBteneeitftti X«ur. v: p":" OF 11 MXCART. TheSd, 4th, and 6th days of the first mouth of the year were noted tor the coldest weather ever experienced in tho Northwest. The frigid wove extended itself over nearly the entire North American Continent. The more notabto events of the month ant JM herewith recorded: The Egyptian Jtlnlftry resigned, because of tho advice glven the Khedive by England in relation to <the Soudan reMHIen. The Spanish Ministry re< signed, and. a . new Cabinet waa formed. Henry B. -fatne and £. K. Wilson elected United Stattii Senators from Ohio and Mary­ land. A statue ot the late Gov. O. P. MOr- ton unveiled at JbdlanapoUs. James Nuts acquitted of the murder of N. L. Dukes, at Uniontown, Fa. William B. Allison re-elected U. 8. Senator from Iowa. Fred Douglass married to a whit* woman at Washington. Grrin A. Carpenter Indicted for the murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, I1L Yignauz defeats Schaofer for the billiard champion­ ship of tbe world, at Paris. The National House of Representatives voted to abolish the iron-clad oath. The Sherman resolution of inquiry Into the Danville massacre and Copiah murder passed by the Senate. "FEBRUARY. The hill to restore Gen. Fitx-Jobn Porter to the army passed the National House. Mr. Morrison introduces his new tariff bill in tho House. British Parliament meets. Mr. Bradlaugh excluded from the House of Com­ mons. Tbe Egyptian forces in the Soudan meet with serious reverses. A horrible mas­ sacre took place in Tonquln; one priest, twenty-two catechists, and 216 Christians were put to death, and 108 mission houses were destroyed. The Texas Legislature met in extra session. J- C. S. Blackburn elected United Statesftuiator from Kentucky. Gen. W. T. Bherman^placed on the retired list of tho army. England dispatches re-enforce­ ments to Egypt, Bloody affray between rival factions of gamblers at Hot Springs, Ark. The mysterious murder of Mr. and Mrs. Willson, waged and wealthy couple, near Chicago, %he Lasker sympathy reso­ lutions returned by Bismarck to the German Minister at Washington. A negro family murdered near .Cincinnati, and their bodies sold to a medical college. The Mel hereon bank circulation! bill passes the United States Senato. The people of Hot Springs, Ark., banish about thirty undesirable citizens. * MARCH. * The Egyptian rebels defeated by Gen. Graham's rear. Jrhe Supreme Court of the United states a termed the constitutionality of the legal tender act of 1678. The British Government oresented to tbe United States, for the use of thfc Greely relief expedition, the steamer Alert. Treaty of peace between Cbili and Peru w-atitled. The desperado, Frank Uande, n§kes a murderous assault upon the officers\of the Joliet Penitentiary. A bust of the plot Longfeljpw unveiled in Westminster Abopy, London. New Tork en- itlng the making of con- rof convicts In the8tato cts a taw prohibiting the of liquors in the State, k, in Fauquier County, wife and three children, e. Tbe Governor of Cali- tra session of the State ment over the outbreak ttle herds of a malady t and mouth disease. lOted "desperado, commits it Prison. Completion of connecting the Ameri- ity of Mexico. Matthew land. Excitement in the f golil discoveries In the Ben Thompson and desperado** klllad In acts a law prol tract 8 for the lal prisons. Iowa ei manufacture or A man named G Va., murders h: and commits suli fornia calls an Legislature among Kansas resembling the Frank Bande the •suicide in theJ< the first railway can cities with th< Arnold sails for West growing oui Cceur d'Alene King Fisher, t a theater at calls an extfi lature. The French of the defeat the Chinese in Tonquin and capture Bac-Nlnh. Orrin A. Carpenter acquitted at Petersburg, 111., for the murder of Zora Burns. David J. Brewer, of Kansas, appointed Judge of the Eighth Federal Circuit, to succeed Judge McCrary. Sections of Kentucky, Ohio, and South Caro­ lina devastated by cyclones. Soveie earth­ quake shocks at San Francisco. Minister Sargent ordered from Berlin to St. Peters­ burg, but deolines the latter mission. Bloody riots in the oity of Cincinnati, in which nearly fifty people are killed. 10.76 811.00 .08!*® .OCX .78 0 .T6 .M « .41 .« • .38 .78 O .74 .40 @ .48 .96 & .28 .(0 & .63 10.76 @11.00 6.60 & 6.76 .83 0 .88 .» 0 .34 .36 & .36)3 .48 @ .49 11.00 011.60 .74 0 .76 & .40 .» ® .39 11.00 @11.50 MHa .06* - <r . ' ' " v 9 8.25 013.50 ® 7.00 ® 6.00 <9 5.00 asife APRIL. The British troops withdrawn from Egypt. The Ohio Legislature enacts a liquor law pro­ viding for graded saloon licenses. The British Cabinet formally decided against establishing a protectorate over Egypt. John Jay Knox resigns tbe Comptrollership of the Treasury. The Queen of Tahiti makes a tour across the continent. Spanish troops in Cuba attack a band of forty-two insurgents and kill thirty of them. Pope Leo issues an encyolical letter denouncing secret societies, and attributing all the troubles of Italy to Masonry. Severe earthquake shocks in England. Frank James, the oandit, acquit­ ted by the United States Jury at Huntsvllle, Ala. The New York Assembly, by a vote of 00 to 63, defeated a constitutional amend­ ment tq prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquor. Forest fires In the.Catsklll Mountain region of New Tork and the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania wrought vast damage. MAT. Congress vote* an appropriation of $1,000,- 000 for the New Orleans Exposition, places Gen. Grant on the retired list, and kills the Morrison tariff bill An attempt in tue British House of Commons to censure the Gladstone ministry for not taking mUsures to rescue Gen. Gordon failed by a vote of 275 to 303. Two thousand men, women, and children, many of them refugees from Khar- toom, massacred by Arabs in Shendy. The fail­ ure of the Grants produces a great sensation in the financial world. Bev. Dr. Wortbington, of Detroit, elected Bishop of Nebraska. A statue of Martin Luther unveiled at Wash­ ington. Nationai congress of wool-growors at Chicago. The British House of Commons rejected the bill for a tunnel under tbe English Channel to Franco by a vote of 233 to HI. The Methodist General Conlerenee, In session at Philadelphia, elected as Bishops Bev. W. X. Ninde, J. M. Walden, and W. F. Mallahen. The Greeley relief expedition tails on its errand of mercy. The American Forestry Congress met at Washington. Four men attempted to rob a bank at Medicine Lodge, Kan., and when the officials refused to deliver up the fund^ shot the Cashier, George Geppert, dead, and fatally wounded the President, E. W. Payne; the robbers were caught and lynohed. James R. Keene, one of the boldest speculators on the New York Stock Exchange, flailed. Charley Ford, who, with bis brother, killed the bandit Jesse James, committed suicide by shooting him­ self through the heart. The National Green­ back Convention mot at Indianapolis on the 29th. and nominated for President Gen. B. Butler, of Massachusetts; for Vice Presi­ dent, A. M. West, of Mississippi. JUKI, Congress pa send bills reducing tho posta#e on newspapers and prohibiting Chinese sub­ jects from Importing opium Into the United States. A treaty of peace between France and Annam signed. The Republican Na­ tional Convention was held at Chicago, open­ ing on tbe 3d. John B. Henderson, of Mis­ souri, was chosen Permanent Chairman. On tbe 6tb, James G. Blaine, of Maine, was nom­ inated for President en the fourth ballot, and Jobn A. Logan, of Illinois, for Vice President, without opposition. The ballots for President were as follows: 1. Whole number or votes oast, 818; necessary to a choice, 410; for James G. Blaine, of Maine, 884H; for Chester A Arthur, of New York. 278; for George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, 98; for Jobn A. Logan, of Illinois, 63H; for John Sherman, of Ohio, SO; for Joseph B. Hawley, of Connecticut, 18; for Robert T. Lincoln, of Illino s, 4; for William T. Sher­ man, of Missouri, 2, 2. tffhole number of votes cast, 818; necessary to a ohoioe, 410; Blaine, 849; Arthur, 276. Edmunds, 85; Logan, 61; Sherman, 28; Hawley, 18;Linooln, 4; William T. Sherman, 2. 8. Who o number of votes oast, 810; necessary to a choice, 410; Blaine, 818; Arthur, 274; Edmunds, 00; Logan, 63; Sherman, 25; Hawley, 18; Lincoln, 8; William T. Sherman, 2. 4. whole number of votes oast, 813; necessary to a choice, 407; Blaine, 641; Arthur, 207; Edmunds, 41; Logan, 7; Hawley, 16; Lincoln, 2. The nomination was then made unanimous. An attack on French <MnM hi PhtlMII tHMHM «t Imimhii In ytn. ^oops «y vnws* |̂s 4? South Carolina to Boston in good co from ing In *tnbY. . The PemoowMle national Convention wfcsi held s* »lw, opening en the 8tb. W. F. VHas, of WlMansJh, was chown Permanent Ch^™«- On the 11th, Grover Cleveland, Of Ne* York,,was nominated for President on the second ballot, and Thomas A. Hend­ ricks, or lndiahatfor viee President, with­ out opposition. The ballots for President wort as fOUows: Itest-Whole number .of vMMeM&SMt neoeesary to • choloe, 547; for Grorar Cleveland, of New York, 802; for ?V«d, of Delaware, lfg; for AHan CK Thurmao, of Ohio, 88; for Samuel J. ftMdalL of Pennsylvania, 78; for Joseph B. McDonald, of Indiana, 56; for John G. m . of Kentucky, 17; for BosweU P. Bower, of New York, 4; for George Hoadiy, of Ohio, 8; for Samuel J. Tlldeo, Of New, York, 1; for Thomas A. Hend­ ricks, of Indiana, l. Second--Whole num- ber of votes cast, 820; necessary to n choice, 647; Cleveland, 684; Bayard, 81K: Thurman, 4r Randal, 4; McDonald, I; Hendricks, 45H. . The nomination was unanimous. Tin Nation- Convention met in Pitts- * i 23d, and nominated for ^ ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, and for 'Vice-President William Daniel, of Maryland. Congress adjournedon tbe 7th of £ vetoed the Fits-John 4 over his veto by sustained tho veto. John A Kasson to ny, AlphonsoTaft to be aM, Francis to be Lewis Richmond to _ - _ to' Portugal; Ward MoAllisti^^li&ip^ be Untted States Judge of Alaska; andJeha Jamstt4obe Comlssloner of Labor. nto BartfeMdl s|at*e wa# formal­ ly presen^Jftf ttiO PfrltedStates, Mlnlstei Morton flrpirMi. News of • the rescue Of Lfteu«eh«St A« M Greely, the arctic explorer* MM**nmber Of his party by the re­ lief expedition n*g*ir cmamand^f^Hpt. Schley Cholera ritgOd •tftm£h, and other cities in France, many nerfoas lalUng victims to the epidemic. SerMmi antttfeWMi riots in Al­ giers. Sen. Porfirlo Diss elected Presi­ dent of Mexico without opposition. France demanded an indemnity of 250,000,000 franca from Chtoa for the Lang- eon affair. Premier Ferry ordered Admiral Courbet to seize the (Chinese arsenal at the Presidency of Peru, and ordered a general election. elected PWHAdMlt „ _ ft. the The PrestSentnomi: beMM^W MlnistaftO ~ Mlnlswi to be MMiMeir General Dias ot Mexteo. The Tennesaoo declared en ot starva nntil tbe relief ex- regions snrriving of tte Supremo Foucheon indemnity psditietr with Lieut. feilow-expl expedition perisl was lost while hunting seals. Ti twelve of the party were brough remains of the other Ave having out to sea by tho winds. Greely surviving associates would have ished in foi ty eight hours but _ the relief expedition. They won ' the honor of reaching tbe farthest known point to the northward. China makes prep­ arations for war with France. Twenty horse-thieves banged by cowboys In Montana. Eon Bafael Zalvidary Lazo, President of the Republic of San Salvador, arrived at New York. Mr. D. L. Moody, the American evan­ gelist, arrived in New York from London. Dr. Barnard, of Nashville, discovers a new comet. Near Chesterton, Md., 2,000 men en­ gaged in a riot at a negro camp-meeting, in which one person was killed, ten fatally in­ jured, and a number of others seriously cut. The President removes Gen. James Long- street from the Marsbulship of Georgia. The National Prohibition Convention, after a two days' session at Pittsburgh (June 28-24), nominated John P. 8t. John, of Kansas, for President, and William Daniel, of Maryland, for Vice President. TheVlrginiaOourtor Ap­ peals declared uhjBeimtttiiftienalthe act of the Legislature prohlbltnur school superintend­ ents from taking part tn politics. ' i: V ' : .The corner-stone of the pedestal for Bar- tholdi's statue of Liberty was laid on Bed- loe's Island, New York Harbor. An earth­ quake occurred in thirteen of the United States. The shock was felt from Richmond, Virginia, to Portland, Maine, and from the Atlantic coast to Ohio. Both houses of tbe Parliament of Holland met in joint congress and passed, by a vote of »7 to 3, a bill nam­ ing Queen Emma regent during the minority of the Princess Wilhelmina. Tho British House of Commons passed the Irish Constab­ ulary bill, and voted a creditor £300,000 for an expedition to relievo General Gordon. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, re­ turned to England, having completed the work of establishing satisfactory trading sta­ tions along the Congo River from its mouth to Stanley Pool, 1,400 miles by river. State elections in Kentucky and Arkansas re­ sult in favor of the Democracy. China refuses to accede to the demands of France. Queen Victoria commissioned Earl North- brook to proceed to Egypt and report on the condition of affairs in that unfortunate country. Utah county elections result in the success of the Mormon tickets all over the Territory. Capt. Payne and bis band of in­ vaders expelled from the Indian Territory by United States soldiers. Severe earthquake shocks along tbe East Atlantio coast. Cow­ boys in Montana make another raid on the horse-thieves with whom that country Is in­ fested, and lynch twellty-elght of tbem. Ad­ miral Lespes, with five vessels of the French squadron, bombarded and captured the town of Kelung, on the Island of Formosa. Charges of cannibalism in connection with the Greely expedition cause a sensation in the country. Hanlan, the oarsman, defeated In Australia by Beach, for tho first time in years. Rob­ ert Bonner pays W. H. Vanderbilt $40,000 and becomes tbe owner of Maud S. Excite­ ment among stockmen in tho West over the outbreak of pleuro-pneumonla at several points. The United States steamship Talla­ poosa, with 140 officers and men on board, sunk off Martha's Vineyard, by collision with the schooner James 8. Lowell. Tho lives of all but four persons were saved. The French fleet bombarded the Chinese port of Foo Chow, and the. Chinese fleet at the place was captured. China formally de­ clared war on France on the 25th of August. Anti-Jewish riots re ported in Western Russia. SEPTKMBKR. The Czar pardons a large number of Nihilists. Conference of tbe German, Rus­ sian, and Austrian Emperors in Poland. The Republican Presidential candidate brings suit for libel against the Indianapolis Senti­ nel. Tbe cholera causes great destruction of life in tbe Italian cities. Capt. Ellsworth nominated for. President by tbe American Political Alliance. Severe earthquake shocks were felt in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana on the 19th of the mouth. Ex-Senator James W. Nesmlth, of Oregon, placed in an Insane asylum. Judge Gresham of Indiana appointed Secretary of the Treasury. From tbe out­ break of the cholera in Italy to Sept. 30, 13,320 persons were attacked and 9,580 died. An election in Arkansas for Governor and other State offioera resulted In the success of the Democratic ticket by more than 40,000 majority. The Vermont election resulted favorably to tbe Republlcaus by 20,000 ma­ jority. A German gunboat, in the name of the German Empire, takes possession of the west coast of Africa, between the 11th and 86th degrees south latitude, except Walrlsch Boy- ______ OCTOBER. Elections were held in Ohio, West Virginia, and Georgia, the Republicans carrying Ohio, and the Democrats tbe other two States. Gen. Win, A Throop, a prominent citizen of Detroit, committed suicide by shooting him­ self through tbe head. Near Sullivan, Ind., a shot was fired Into the railway car occupied by Gov. John P. St. Jobn, the Prohibition candidate for President. Tbe Governor of Kansas issued a proclamation prohibiting the introduction of Jersey cattle. At a na­ tional convention of "Drummers," at Louis­ ville, Joseph Mulhatton was nominated for President of the United States, and Z. T. Col ter, of Ohio, for Vice President. The pacing horse Johnston made a mile In 2-.06K, at Chicago. Gen. Valen­ tine Baker restored to his sank in the British army. Rumors of the early marriage of President Arthur. John McCul­ lough, the eminent tragedian, loses his mind and breaks down while playing upon tbe stage of McVicker's Theater, Chicago. The Mexican war veterans held their annual re­ union at 81 Louis. The Russian Government closed the University of Kleff for a year, and arrested 168 students heoause of their Nihil­ istic connections. The contest forthehase ball championship of tbe United State* ended in favor of the Providence Club. The British liquor iropi favoi of t)ii#: Coi. stew- by Arabs In the ^ Jl ht the Parl a- »«j§8jhfeVttJrs Miaul". «e<iiM»ed jm Washington, A po- ttt$«|Jrlot»t lisw^Ibaria. La., resulted in tho Killing of eti^hteonmen. The most hfipmrtiuit event of the month was the PresidetttWl^ikOtton, which occurred on the 4th, aftor ooo af tta hotteat political campaign* to the hlsiaryof the country. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, was elected President of the United States for four yean, bc*innnif on tho 4th of March next, receiving sii electoral votes, against 182 coat for Jamee (ft. Blaine, tbe candidate of the Republican party. The ex­ citement did not subside will the closing of the polls, •• Is usual, but «aa maintained for several days on account of the closeness of the vote In New York, many Bepubboans claiming that tbe official count of the voteof thatStatewouldelectMr.E^alne. Theeanvass of the votes, which wan not completed until two weeks after the balloting, showed a small plurality for Mr. Cleveland in New York. All parties at once oonoeded that he was elected, and the political excitement, which had been wrought up to a high pitch, at once abated. The Republicans were greatly Incensed at the part played by Gov. John P. St John, the Prohibitionist candidate for President, in tbe canvas?, and the cold water leader was hanged In effigy in various parts of the country. Other notable occurrences of the month were as recorded-below; The croft­ ers on the island of Bkye in an almost open state of rebellion against the landed pro­ prietors. Cholera raged In Paris, carrying off many victims, and causing an exodus of those who could conveniently leave. Hugh McCulloch appointed Secretary of the Treas­ ury. Earthquake shocks in New Hampshire and Canada. The National Monument at Washington reached a height greater than any structure In the world. The more Maud 8. beat all records by trotting a mile in 1:09 at Lexington, Kentucky. The Legislature of Jamaica voted solidly against annexation to Canada. General W. s. Harney, the veteran soldier, causes a sensation by marrying his housekeeper. Indians make a raid into Pre­ sidio County, Texas, and murder a number of settlers. An exploring pArty In British Northwest Territory discover a lake of Im­ mense size, abounding in fish. Joseph E. Brown re-elected Senator from Georgia. M. H. De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, shot by Adolph Spreckels. DECEHBEB. Congress assembled in annual session on Monday, tbe first day of the month. The World's Exposition at New Orleans was caponed on the 16th, to continue until the 1st of June. Tbe electors chosen by the people on Nov. 4 met at the various State capitals Dec. 8, and cast their votes for President Vioe President. James L. Pugh re­ elected United States Senator from Alabama. Fight between Americans and Mexicans over a copper mine in Sonora, several being killed on both sides. Gen. Porfirlo Diaz en­ ters upon his second term as President of tho Republio of Mexico. Deadly affray be­ tween Dlggs and Watkins, editors of rival newspapers at Vienna, Mo., in which Diggs is killed. Official announcement made of the complete cessation ot cholera in France. Mr. Gladstone introduces his redistribution bill in the British House of Commons. A coolie riot in tho Island of Trinidad; the coolies fired upon and fifty of tbem wounded. The ~ "t Parliament enacts a law abolishing executions In that country. TheJlrlt- t passes a new suffragiphill, iOohlse on 2,000,000 cltttftjts. Qoorgia Legislature passed a resolution the Clerk of the House to employ to perform clerical work. A railway train stopped and the passengers robbed by bandits near Little Rock, Ark. Tbe great national monument was practically comple­ ted on tho 6th of the month. Wade Hamp­ ton re-elected U. 8. Senator from South Car­ olina. Attempt to blow up London bridge with dynamite. Severe earthquake shocks startle the people of New Hampshire. 1 TEAR'S DISASTERS. Record of the Notable Mishaps involving the Destruction of Human Life. A Ghastly Catalogue of Accidents by Hood and Field, on and Water. Sinking Ships, Colliding Trains, and Exploding Mines the Chief Causes of Death. JANUARY. The long chapter of the year's disasters involving the destruction of human life opened on the 2d day of January, when twenty-seven men were killed by a railway collision at Toronto, Canada. The other ac­ cidents during January which we have thought worth recording are as follows: Thirty-two nuns and pupils in tho ltomau Catholic Convent at Belleville, 111., burned to death. Seven men killed and twelve injured by an explosion of lire-damp in the Ferfay coal mine at Arras, France. Two hundred Chinese lost by tbe wreck of the steamer Huai Tuen, from Shanghai for Hong Kong. Railway train caught tire from oil on the track, near -Bradford, Pa., and eight per­ sons fatally burned. Eleven lives lost in a coal-pit at Cwmamma, Wales, by tbe break­ ing of a cage rope. Steamer City of Colum­ bus, from lioston for Savannah, wrecked in Vineyard Sound; one hundred lives lost. A family of eight persons burned to death in Lenoir County, North Carolina. Bark Emma and ten lives lost on the New Jersey coast. Ten men killed by a colliery explosion in France, and a dozen by a simi­ lar accident in England. Ten men drowned by the upsetting of a raft at Carthage, Tenn. Loss of three Gloucester Ashing schooners, with fifty-six men. Fifty-nine lives lost by an explosion in a Colorado mine. The ship Simla, with twenty souls, lost in the English Channel, and a steamer goes down on the Welsh coast--the loss of life by the two dis­ asters numbering thirty-six. FEBRUARY. Thirty-five people drowned by the break­ ing of the ice at Thesis, Austria. Six chil­ dren burned to death at Crockett, Texas. Forty natives killed in West Africa by an ex­ plosion of gunpowder. A cyclone sweeps over Georgia, Mississippi, and the Carolines, killing upward of 400 people and destroying a vast amount of property. Ten lives lost by the foundering of the bark Ada Barton, off St. John, N. B. Six persons killed and eight wounded by the fall of a railroad train through a bridge near Indianapolis, Ind. Gasoline explosion In a store in Alliance, Ohio; eight persons killed. News from OO- runna, Spain, of the sinking ot a Spanish vessel and the loss of nineteen men. Fifty fishermen on the Caspian Sea carried out on the ice and drowned. 11M fioods In the Ohio Blver this month were the worst ever known. At Cincinnati the water was over seventy feet deep. Among the disas­ trous Incidents was the fall of a large board­ ing-house In Cincinnati, killing fourteen of the inmates. Nineteen miners killed by a fire-damp explosion four miles from Union- town, Pa. Seventeen passengers killed by the explosion of the boiler oft the steamer Kotsai, from Hong Kong for Macao. One hundred and fifty-four lives lost by an explosion In a colliery at Pocahontas, Va. Thirteen people buried by a snow avalanche in Utah. Fifteen people killed by a similar accident In Colorado. Tbe ship Bombay founders at sea, and the crew of nineteen perish. ___ Aran. The town Of Oakvllle, Ind., Ssstroysd by a cyclone, and five persons killed. Storms In Alabama, Georgia and Pennsylvania cause great destruction of property and kill some twenty people. Five men killed at Fort Ar­ thur, Canada, by an explosion of dynamite. Thirteen lives lost by the burning of a steamer on tbe Chattahoochee Elver, in Georgia. Loas of the steamer Daniel Steln- mann off Halifax: 1M people drowned. Seven persons killed by a railway accident, at Cisco, Tex. Bight men lose their lives by a railroad accident at Scran ton, Pa. Five children burned to de&th at Gadeden, A!s. Many people killed (Willi it" anA* - - jnmsiff *nf »ew jBai kOladahdi ̂ forest fires in New 1 and Pennsylvania, burning and many square miles of number of persons perltshed lattol ~aiAx. Five main ldned 'ir Watarft^L l e*Pj«,!|«»of a bleacher * mill. The French brig Seuortoe off the great banks of He 1 munNjln* .fp perishing. The British ship Syria < on the FIJI Islands; aovontf Ba*iii eooUes, .were drowned. ByoM" ' freight and gravel trains on 1 and Ohio Bali road, near fourteen laborers were killed, i of earthquake throughout the Cystous, Asia Minor, several 4 damaged ; many houses were destroyed; 1 £00 persons kilted. Nineteen lives tcfliiin foundering of the ship Alan tine off the) dalen Islands. The bottom of the ferry l at St. Alberts, P. Q., broke through,1 the drowning of seven persons. explosion of a boiler In the Whitney ] Works at Gouverneur, N. V., seven men wen killed. Ten women were blown to plMM two others wounded by an explosion Of dyna­ mite at a factory in Ayrshire, Scotland, jpftre persons killed by a boiler explosion aft Du­ buque, Iowa. > ' *17X2. Eleven men drowned in a flood, caused by a cloud-burst, in camp on Frenchman's Creek, Colorado. Schooner Six Brothers and fouv teen men lost off Newfoundland. Eleven men drowsy at Thompson's Falls, Montana. News froHr Greenland of tbe loss of the Danish brig Elena and ten of her crew. Two Americans and twelve Mexicans killed in a railroad accident in New La­ redo. Several persons fatally Injured by the wrecking of a train on the Burlington and Missouri Railroad. Deaths from lightning reported in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Twenty- five persons killed by tho break­ ing of an engine axle on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway, England. Forty persons overwhelmed and drowned by a water-spout in Russian Turkestan. Fourteen men killed by the premature explosion of a blast near Tamploo, Mexico. Thirty people killed by n«f explosion of a powder-mill in Itafy. Abridge across the river Vistula, in Germany, upon which many people were standing, was swept away by a flood and twenty of them wore drowned. Six Italians drowned at SomerS, K. ¥., by tbe upsetting of a boat. Steamer Amsterdam, of Netherlands and Amerioan Navigation Company's line, wrecked on Sable Island In a fog; three passengers lost. Twenty - four miners killed by a colliery ex­ plosion in British Columbia. Ten persons drowned by the foundering of a schooner oft Beck's Beach, N. J. Twenty passengers killed and forty seriously Injured tgr a rait- way accident near Manchester, England* Five men killed by tho explosion of a loco*' motive boiler at White Haven, Pa. Light? ning struck the farm-house of Nathan Miller^ near Mary ville, Kan., killing bis four daugh­ ters while asleep. V AUGUST. ̂ Steamer City of Merida burned at Ha­ vana; no lives lost. Transfer steamer- Belmont sunk in a storm near Evans- villo, Ind.; sixteen lives lost. Seven* teen men suffocated in an underground canal at Braye, France. Seven collier* burned to death in a mine at ShamoUn, Pa- Five people fatally poisoned at Shelbyville, Ind., by eating bisouit in which arsenio had been put by mistake. A gale on the Ne#-. foundland const causes considerable loss of life. Seven men killed by an explosion in it coal-pit at Paisley, Scotland. Ten men he*> longing to Orton's Circus perish in a burning sleeping-car near Greeley, Cot * Destructive fire in Cleveland, OhiO. Nine persons killed In an accident on tbe Central Railroad. Distillery explc kin, I1L--several killed. A rapid rise i Eau Clalrennd, ChlBD&wa. ri? over $4,000,000 worth of proper from China that the province of Kla had been Inundated, and seventy thousand lives lost. Fifty-two lives lost by the sink­ ing of the British gunboat Wasp, off Tory Island. Seven persons killed and much property destroyed by a cyclone in Allegany County, N. Y. Twenty lives lost by a fire in a sulphur mine in Sicily. OCTOBER. Sixty persona killed by a railroad accident in India. -Over 300 lives lost by a hurricane in Iceland. Ten soldiers burned to death in v tire at the royal palace at Copenhagen. At Esse#, Austria, fourteen children, while playing in a boat on tbe river Dravo, capsized it and all were drowned. Ten men drowned at Chicago by tho washing away, during • gale, of a hut in which tbey were Jodgit Ex. Gov. Moses sentence^ to three mqpths the Detroit Penitentiary for forgery. F" men killed by a powder mill explosion Cumminsvllle, Ontario. Twenty-seven per­ sons killed and 400 injured bya cyclone in Catania, on the island of Sicily. The Japanese cities oi Yokohama and Tokio were visited by a terrible typhoon; In the latter city 3,000 houses were wholly or partially de­ stroyed; twenty people were killed; the loss of life at sea was appalling. Six men killed by a boiler explosion at Beitrami, Minn. A storm on the coast of Lower Cali­ fornia wrecks a steamer and seven sailing craft, the loss of life reaching nearly 100. Eighteen men suffocated in a coal mine ait Youngs town, Ohio. Sixteen persons trampled to death during a panic in a Glasgow theM*1^ caused by a cry of fire. Several wrecked and many lives lost by a I in the Bahama Islands. NOVEMBER. Nine persons slain by a boiler explosion i<| f a New Orleans sugar house. Six men die st> . Sunbury, Ont„ from eating,, pork affected with trichinae. A railway train goes through, *<-. a bridge at Hempstead, Texas, drowning* twelve passengers and wounding forty., • Seventeen lives lost by tho sinking of the- American ship Andrew Johnson, off the coast of Brazil. Nino men drowned by tW| capsizing of a boat near Halifax, N. £ Several persons killed bya boiler explosion1' on an Alabama Hiver steamer. An unknown disease, supposed to be caused by a long' .; drought and the consequent drying up of thp>'. 1 springs and brooks, carries off many peoplp in Southwest Virginia. Twenty person*, drowned by the sinking of the steamer* Durango, in the English Channel. Bevels? men killed by a boiler explosion at EUu#* . bethtown, Ky. Eight men killed by a ral|@^r way collision at Henning's Station, Tenn. ' . DECEMBER. • A vessel founders In tbe China sea, an#. sixty Chinese find a watery grave. Thf-, . schooner Mary Joseph wrecked off St. Johnf ^ * N. P., and the passengers and crew, thirteen: In number, drowned. Four schooners, with: all on board, lost on tbe Newfoundland coast, i Six men killed by a gas explosion in a mine at Shamoktn, Pa. A conflagration at Tren­ ton, Pa., causes the death of six persons. Five people lose their lives In a similar way at Newport, Ark. An orphan asylum in Brooklyn, N. Y., burned, and twenty-five children cremated. Thirty negro oystermen- drowned In the Rappahannock River, In Vh* •• glnla, during a gale. Seventy-five men klllefe . L; by a colliery explosion in South Hungary. . \;v flS EXECUTIONS. ' Tho WWK ef MM Hangman in 1804. , > ; During the past year 136 felons expiatefc their crimes on the gallows in the Unite® States and Canada, against 146 in M83, and 11| in 1888. Of the hangings this year tbe Boutin- em States contributed 07, or a little morh- than three-fourths. There were Jiirty-threo* executions in the Northern States and Xerrife tories, and four in Canada. Arkansas an® Louisiana bead the list, with fifteen victim*, each, Georgia coming next, with fourteen. The record is as follows: t>North Carolina • It Ohio.. 4' ,•4? Arkansas. California... Florida Georgia Illinois. Indiana Kentucky. Loolilinib ••••£« Maryland. Mississippi Missouri.?. New Jersey. NewYork. Penn '̂lvuia-'Ci.' ljSouth Carolina....... 14 Tennsssee 4 Texas- 1 Virginia 4 West Virginia 15 Idaho » 1 1 Indian Territory!'. 11 | Utah... J .1» Total...... IT is good for ua to think that no'graos* or blessing is truly oars till we art- aware that God haa blessed some on§i