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mm ». *MI»trKE. EAteran* Publisher. , . McHENBX, ILLINOIS. IBS NEWS THE EAST X* \ James G. BLAINE visited the college |j> * from which he graduated, at Washington, l . Pa., accompanied by his iracle, John H. »t « IWM, 90years of age. They were pre- 4Mntea to the students as the oldest and the ' T' most distinguished living graduates.... By theexplosion of the boiler of a portable • **-0311 near Caernavon, Pa., two men , i 1 Ware fatally injure(1 and three others were v aeriously cot..,. The lire in the mountains i bear fieadinc, Pa., has been extinguished. ? irfter 5,000 aores of valuable timber land W been burned over. A number of cattle '?/ jteriahed in the flames. . • . ^ ; A WOODEN idol, four feet high, is being ? •rected at Middlebury, Conn., by a wealthy ger named Elisha Gedney, who is a ad Adventist. He insists that (he e is Daniel. p r;; ** XLLIAM ESCKRICH, a prisoner in New- ' *: ark, N. J., obtained a wife in Michigan by threatening her husband, a farmer named \ Bill, that he would burn his (HillS house - ' |lnd barn and murder him if he (Hill) did # Sot let him (Emerioli) have his (Hill's> wife. 'IHill consented, and Emerich married the Woman. A charge of bigamy in ~ /ttie case is now under investigation.. . Father Mogyorox', a priest of Allegany, ' Iff. Y., has married Miss Edith Close, of Fewark, and his whereabouts are unknown. Be is a native of Hungary, 35 years of age, Of fine presence, and ranks* high as a . ^ tpeaker. *. ' BABTHOLDI'S statue of "Liberty En­ lightening the World," erected on Bedloe's 1 ; Island, New York harbor, was unveiled ;With fitting ceremonies, the street parade < and naval displav being of an imposing Character. President Cleveland, with other dignitaries and the French guests, reviewed the street procession from a stand in Madi- •on Square. At the island Count de Les- •eps delivered an address in behalf of the Ihranoo- American union, after which Senator Evarts made the presentation ipeeeh. The President accepted the statxw in the name of the people, and the cere- XKMiieR closed with prayer by Bishop Benny Potter, D.D., and a national salute ^ tadaShow6"Mktte"e8 *n ^ar^>oc' j&/ THE WEST« ^ ON the Grand Jury which, it is expected, &'i Drill investigate the Haddock assassination •t Sioux City, Iowa, are nine Democrats „ and three other persons who are believed fo be opposed to the Prohibition law. It is believed that Henry Peters, a missing wit­ ness, was killed by the assassins to prevent I revealing their names. A decomposed * ' found on the 4th inst. at Crescent, , and interred in the Potters' field at , cil Bluffs, was exhumed and an ex­ amination of the clothing led to the almost complete identification of Peters. REAB Meremac, Mo., a person who had gained admission to the Adams Express Company's car, attached to a passenger- train on the St. Louis and San Francisco Bailroad, by means of a forged letter, representing that he had been employed as an extra hand for the run, over­ powered the agent and robbed the aafe of at least $40,000 David 8. Kiel, a prominent Republican of Indiana, one of the owners of the Fort Wayne Gazette, died in New York, where ha had gone in search of health A mys- fatal disease has broken out in Montgomery County, 111. L suddenly become stiff, lie I in a few hours Walter B. (died at Evanston, 111., was .re in the Cairo district fifty ' jearo ago, was a lieutenant colonel in the Union army, and held the collectorship of customs at Chicago under President John- •on. :'f' MB. FOTHEKINGHAM, the express mes­ senger who was robbed on the San Fran­ cisco road, says the perpetrator gave his fame as Jim Cummings, the last of the •esse James gang, a participant in the Blue .Cut train-robbery, which vielded him onlv #1,500. " J AN assignment has been made by the [ (|rug-house of A. A. Mellier & Co., of St. Xouis, with liabilities of $100,000 and as­ sets of §30,000... .The old Cincinnati firm «£ Shipley, Doraey & Co., owing about 51,000.000, has asked an ex­ tension of New York creditors The first section of a freight train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road broke in two at the grade near Cedar Lake, lad., the released cars dashing down the Incline and into the second section. An •Pgine and seven loaded cars were wrecked and burned. Two drovers were killed, and four other persons received fatal in- jnries. AT Bio, Wis., the limited express on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, com­ posed of a baggage car, a mail car, one pas­ senger coach, and three sleepers, was Wrecked by an open switch, and the pas­ senger,-mail, and baggage cars were tele­ scoped. The wreck caught fire and several petaong--estimates vary from eleven to twenty-six--were burned to death. Elev- Si charred corpses have been recovered, ishop Whipple and his wife escaped Without injury, and the venerable prelate Worked manfully in endeavoring to rescue the victims penned in the blazing passen­ ger coach William M. Dustin & Co., hankers at Lincoln, 111., failed, causing me wildest excitement in the community. The assets are less than $67,000, while the Kajtrilities foot up $188,000, of whieb $78,- . 000 is due depositors. A run on the bank , precipitated the crash. A passenger train on the Wabash col­ lided with a freight at a curve near Ed- Wardsville, 111., the engines being wrecked, &e baggage and express cars telescoped, and several box cars ditched. William Jnlloiit the express messenger, was crashed to death, and a brakeman was fatally injured. The conductor of the freight i disobeyed orders and caused the dis- VtS* for sacramental w« is flw 6*lj} is obliged and intends to bare to kind of Hqnor Chat will henceforth he al- ! haxigs of others--It is claimed that lowed to enter Alaskan porta. The Sec- ' i Iieveren?J Pr\ , Prot retary Of War has given orders that Chief verted (o °Ptto hom^-rula fattb.?°?I GerSLonto Fort Pk!kensaVe8 --Ce BlmaFck'.8 organ expresses satis- UNDER a reciprocal arrangement with faction at England's colonial policy.... The French Senate has passed a bill providing Spain, President Cleveland has withdrawn f®r the sal« of the crown jewels West- *.» a: i Phalia's mining interests are in a depressed his order for the nimposition of discrim inating dntiee on imports from the Spanish West Indies. ; wuiuiiuiiig uf|iifuivuuu?». xue FOB the last fiscal year there were 14,- j British Government is taking steps to sup- 433,153 money-orders issaed, representing ' press the outbreak. $132,716,317, for which fees aggregating condition.... Ten thousand natives have invaded Xesibeand, in South Africa, and are committing great depredations. The $1,214,506 were received. WAgHMCTOW. BUXOBB come from Washington fhgt f*®aident Cleveland and General Sheri- will endeavor to reduce tli6ir circtim- ^omue by massage treatment President ylfTOland has appointed Daniel N. Lock- wood Attorney for the Northern District of WW York, and Lucius M. Lamar to be Marshal for the Southern District of Geor- . . .. The Secretary of the Interior has * ad to recommend the removal of 3. H. Waggoner, recently appointed \ States Pension Agent at Knoxville, , opon the request of leading Demo apm. The request for the Major's re- SlfetfiBt waa made by Democrats Who urged ttuit tha Major had voted, after the war, <9 disfranchise the Confederates. The Secretary says that to recommend this jmnoral* ' THE SOUT4L As A train waa pulling out from Fori Smith, Ark., a big negro entered a sleeper, refused to pay fare, and was removed to o Sassenger coach only with the greatesl ifficulty. Here it became evident that he was insane, as he pulled out a knife and cut three men and an aged womau in a* dangerous manner. When it appeared thai the negro was about to run amuck in the car Sneriff Hawkins, of Washingtor County, drew his revolver and shot him dead. HENRT H. MEYER, of Memphis, hat been acquitted of the murder of W. B. Dunavant, the debaucher of hi9 wife. Meyer will return to Germany with hif children. SIXTEEN structures, including two ho­ tels, and the principal business houses al Pocahontas, Va.y were destroyed by an in­ cendiary fire. One man perished in the flames, and other persons are reported missing. The financial loss is placed al $50,000. EIGHT persons were burned to death in a log cabin near Flat Bock, Ky... . At Leb­ anon, Ky., Captain N. B. Christie and William Mills quarreled and began firing at each other. A ball from Christie's re­ volver hit and instantly killed William Turner, an innocent spectator of the diffi­ culty. POLITICAL* AFTER balloting for six weeks, the Re­ publican conference in the Seventeenth District of Pennsylvania nominated Ed­ ward Scull for Congress... .The interest in politics in New York is great. The regis­ tration this year is only about 6,000 less than in the last Presidential campaign. THE National Convention of the W. C. T. U., at Minneapolis, passed resolutions promising the Prohibition party support, protesting against the Government's tolera­ tion of the liquor traffic, denouncing the use of fermented wine in the Lord's Sup­ per, and demanding more pronounced temperance utterance from the pulpit. A minority report, that it was unwise to pledge the support of the organiza­ tion to any political party, even to the Pro­ hibitionists, was rejected by a vote' of 15b to 33. DANIEL J. CAMPAU has been appointed Collector of Customs at Detroit Dis­ trict Attorneys Benton of Missouri and Stone of Pennsylvania have been sus­ pended by the President for makin? stump speeches. Benton is a,Democrat and Stone is a Republican.... It appears that Alfred Taylor, the Republican candidate for Gov­ ernor of Tennessee, is also running for State Senator. His brother Robert is an aspirant to the United States Senator- ship, should he fail to be elected Governor. It is probable that Robert can capture both places, and that Alfred may be chosen President of the State Senate and elected Governor to fill the vacancy. J would not be the best way to heal the issues of the war. ALL. the annual estimates have been re­ ceived at the Treasury Department except those for public works, for the naval estab­ lishment, and for the postal service. They •how little change in amount from the ap­ propriations of the present year. The es- iimates will be prepared for submission to Ifae Appropriation Committee when it meets in "Washington Nov. 20.... .A Virginian " " td the White House with two blooded which lie desired to present to ent Cleveland. When the animals to fighting they were driven out with ~ * * %'• OENERAL. ON the last trip of the ocean steamship America, Captain Grace died from a con­ gestive chill, caused by exposure to the storm for forty-two hours, and an insane Englishman leaped overboard and was seen no more. THE Episcopal Council at Chicago has elected Rev. R. M. Kirby, of Pottsdam, N. Y., Bishop of Nevada, and Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, of Macon, Mo., Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho. JOHN BOWLES, confidential clerk in a Montreal jewelry house, skipped to Rochester with a large amount of diamonds and thirty gold watches.... A threatening fire occurred on the steamer Queen, after leaching Liverpool from New York. The vessel was flooded with water and the fire subdued Failures are announced of Rothschilds & Co., wholesale iewelers at Toronto, Ontario, for $100,000; and of Helbronner & Co., clothing, at Philadel­ phia, for $51,000. SAMUEL J. MCCAULL, accountant of the Grange Trust and Insurance Company at Owen Sound, Canada, has absconded to the United States with eeveral thousand dollars of the company's money.... At Puerto Conter, Honduras, General Del- gado, Lieutenant Colonel Miquel Conter, and Lieutenant Gabriel Lozario, were shot for complicity in the filibustering expedi­ tion against the Bogran Government. P. M. ARTHUR, of Cleveland, has been re-elected Chief of the Brotherhood of Lo­ comotive Engineers for three years An alleged scheme is said to be on foot to ele­ vate President Diaz to the Dictatorship of Mexico The rolling mill of the Old Colony Iron Works at East Taunton, Mass., was burned, entailing a loss of $150,000. The Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, O., was also destroyed, the loss being placed at S200.000. The structure was completed and opened a year ago The Episcopal Convention, in its session at Chicago, agreed to further changes, rhetor­ ical and otherwise, in the prayer-book, which will be communicated to the dioceses with the view to final adoption at the next convention. The question of church unity was intrusted to a special joint commission, and all proposed canons on marriage and divorce were laid over until the next con­ vention. CANADIAN merchants are clamoring for an extradition treaty with the United States. The heavy losses by the Rothschild failure at Toronto are the cause. FOBEKCU*. THE killing of Baron Reutern by the Czar is confirmed. The latest report is that the act was committed in the heat of pas­ sion because the young man resented some of the Czar's harsh remarks. MB. WILLIAMS, a London socialist lead­ er, was banquetted on his release from prison. A number of incendiary speeches were made, one of the speakers saying that, if peaceable means failed, hundreds of thousands of people were ready to stand behind barricades and fire pot-shots at their enemies... .Justin McCarthy has been awarded a seat in the House of Commons to represent Londonderry, which he con­ tested against Charles Edward Lewis.... The Rev. Mr. Sputgeon mad3 an attack on Beecher, virtually calling him a blasphemer. CROFTEBS of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, at­ tacked a force of police who were assisting the Sheriff to make evictions. The military was called upon for aid, and charged the Crofters with the bayonet, wounding sev­ eral. Six were arrested Numerous Lim­ erick tenants are paying their rents readily. Some have been granted large reductions. In one caseftfce rent has been reduced from £332 to £200, and in another from £212 to £140. MR. GLADSTONE having been asked to contribute to a book defining the Liberal programme, replies that his friends forget his years, that he had held on to politics in the hope of settling the Irish question, but few**. GEN. BOULANGEB asks a credit of 392,- 000,000 francs for the French army... .The Swiss government proposes to purchase all the railroads in Switzerland Floods have partially submerged the City of Avignon, in France... .The Boers have an­ nexed the greater portion of Zululand. The Governor of Natal has informed the legislative council of that colony that the British government has declined to consent to the absorption. CHADWICK'S thread-mills at Bolton, England, were damaged by fire to the amount of £40,000 The rentals on four neat estates in West Clare, Ireland, have been reduced from 15 to 40 per cent.... The Bev. Hugh Reginald Haweis, Episco palian, has been forbidden to preach in a dissenter's pulpit ADDITION AL5EWS. DTTBSBQUENT reports in no way miti­ gate the horrors of the catastrophe on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway in Wisconsin. The number of lives lost and the names of most of the missing will never be known. Sisters Alphonse and Dionesia, nuns of Winona, with a candi­ date for nunhood, lost their lives. LIABILITIES of the broken bank of Dustin & Co., Lincoln, 111., now foot up over $200,000, with assets of only $67,000. It is hardly possible that depositors will receive 25 cents on the dollar. Dustin & Co.*8 dressed beef works at Miles City, M. T., were closed on attachments aggregating $25,o00, Illinois citizens putting in claims for $18,000... .The amount taken by the robber who recently rifled the express safe on the St. Louis and San Francisco train is now said to be $81,000. The detectives arc busily at work, but the utmost reticenco is practiced bv all concerned, and no in­ formation is given to the public. FAILURES for the week in the United States 196, in Canada 19, making 215 in all. They are mostly very small ones... .A ru­ mor comes from Ottawa that the Dominion Government intends toon to construct two or three fast cruisers, to be added to the fleet now protecting the fisheries. GENERAL SHERIDAN haB -set aside the finding of the court-martial in the case of Captain William S. Johnson, found not guilty of duplicating hi# pay accounts.... Another call for $10,000,000 three per cent, bonds has been issued by Secretary Manning... .In the course of correspondence relating to Mormon im­ migration, Acting Secretary Fairchild says that there is no provision of law for their exclusion... .Commissioner Black desires to correct the general belief that the last Congress passed a bill pen­ sioning veterans of the Mexican war and their widows for mere service. The meas­ ure was defeated by the efforts of the younger class of men who served in that campaign. THE Toledo, Peoria, and Warsaw Road was sold in Chicago, by a Master in Chan­ cery, to an attorney of the first mortgage bond-holders for $4,700,000. At a similar sale in 1880 the property brought $6,000,000. IT is stated that all the electrical com­ panies in New York -have agreed to put their wires underground. KILLING frosts are reported from Mis­ sissippi and Louisiana. IT is now said that the reason the Czar killed his aid, Count Reutern, was because he suspected the Count of criminal iutimacy with one of the imperial family. GEN. KACLRARS, the Russian agent at Sofia, has a very brutal way of bulldozing Bulgaria. He tells the Bulgarian Foreign Minister that the Russian fleet at Varna is there "for business."... .The districts of Maremma and Ferrara, Italy, are suffering disastrously from floods. Great d stress prevails among the peasants. * ' • . •'! I.' ' A: Iferiholdtfg Colossal Statue ^ liberty Enlightening the, World Unveiled. * The Figure Presented by Count r f)e Le8Beps, and Accepted V by the President Land and Water Procession p Witnessed by a Million II *•: Spectators. 1 Laud Elevation. Dana finds that the average height of the land abovo sea level is about 1,0 )0 feet, and that this would proba­ bly cover the bottom of the sea to the depth of 375 feet; so that, taking the average depth of 15,000 feet, it would take forty times as much land as exists above sea-level to fill the oceanic de­ pressions. The mean height of Eu­ rope has been stated to be <>70 feet (Leitpoldt makes it 974 feet); Asia, 1,150; Europe and Asia together, 1,010; North America, 74S; Houtli America, 1,132; all America, 930; Africa, proba­ bly about 1,000 feet; and Australia, perhaps 500. So far as now known the extremes of level in the land are 29,000 feet above the level of the ocean in Mount Everest of the Himalayas, and 1,300 feet below it at the Dead Sea. Asia has also a great depressed Caspi­ an area; Africa, in the Algerian "chotts," sinks to 100 feet below the sea-level; while in America, Death's Valley, California, reaches from 100 to 200 feet lower than the ocean sur­ face. ,74 •2i (<v .24 & .16 & .17 <& .40 M 8.75 THE MARKETS. MEW YORK. BBEVH |4.OO HOGS 4.52 WHEAT--NO. l White 64 No. 2Bed ,8i COBN--No. 2 .45 OATS--White 35 POM--New Mess 10.2$ CHICAGO. BBSVES--Choice to Prime Steen 5.00 Good Shipping 4.00 Common 3.00 HOGS--Shipping Grade# 8.50 FLOUB--Extra Spring 4.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed Coen--No. 2 .... OATS--No. 2... BUTTER--Choice Creamery*....., Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream. Cheddar. _ Full Cream, new EGGS--Freah POTATOES--Ccoice, perbu PORK--Mess MILWAUKJ&K. WHEAT--Cash CORN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 BITE--No. 1. PORK--Mess " TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--Cash OATS--No. 2 DKTBOIT. BEET CATTLE • • HOGS ].;... WHEAT--!Michigan Bed!!! CORN--No. 2 OATS--NO. 2 White ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 8 .. 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"Tho great statue, "Liberty Enlightening the World," was formally presented to the Ameri­ can pcoplo, and dedicated to the work of send' ing forth radiance which shall symbolize to the world the light of liberty, at Bedloe's Island (hereafter to ne known as Liberty Island), in New York harbor, on Thursday, (Jet. 28. The statue is a gift to the greatest repablio of the world from the greatest republic in Europe--a tribute of honor and esteem to the oldest popu­ lar government from a sister nearly a century younger. The gift and its formal acceptance, with all tho sentiments involved therein, may be looked upon as constituting one of the great­ est events in the history of the world's progress. Distinguished Frenchmen were sent by the President of the French republic to attend the dedicatory ceremonies as representatives of the French people, among them tho venerable De Lesseps; General Grevy, brother of the French President; Senator Lafayette, great- franc! aon of the Lafayette whose name will live >eeide that of Washington; a French fleet, -than commanded by Admiral de Vigne; and also Ad­ miral Janres and MM. Bartholdi and Des- champs. The great statue was accepted or the part of the United States by President Cleve­ land, who was accompanied by the members of the Cabinet and Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and Schofield. There were three distinct ceremonies--the land parade, the naval parade, and the unveil­ ing of the statue. Over '200 vessels of all kinds participated in the naval parade, and this made the lino fully eight miles long, the first division forming directly up tho river. The land parade was reviewed at Madison Square by President Cleveland, and dispersed at the Batterv. It was estimated that 30,U00 people took part in this branch of the display, which movwl In ten divisions in the following order • FIL.'ST DIVISION. United States Naval Brigade. United States Army Brigade. Second Regiment National Guards, State of New Jersey. A Detachment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. SECOND DIVISION. First Brigade, New York National Guards, Es­ corting the French Column, The French Column. United States Judges, and High Officials of the United States, in Carriages. Governors of States and Territories, and High Officials. THIRD DIVISION. Mayors of Cities, and Municipal Officers, in Carriages. Battalion of Police from Philadelphia. Battalion of Police from Brooklyn. Veterans of the War of 1812 in Carriages. The Aztec Club. Veterans of the Mexican War in Carriages. Military Order of the Loyal Legion. FOUKTH DIVISION. War Veteran Military Organization!. FIFTH DIVISION. Second Brigade, National Guaid State of New- York, Escorting the Grand Army of the Republic. Grand Army of the Republio. SIXTH DIVISION. Veteran Military Organizations, Other Purely War Veterans. SEVENTH DIVISION. Seventh United States Volunteers; Educational Division. EIGHTH DIVISION. Independent Military Organization. Washington's Carriage, Drawn by Eight Horses escorted by Continental Guards, of Wash­ ington, D. C., and by the old Wash­ ington Continental Guard, mounted. , i Sons of the Revolution in Carriaf**. . < NINTH DIVISION. ; : 7" Sons of Veterans. i » A Detachment of the Brooklyn Fire Depart­ ment. Association of old Brooklynites in Carriage!. Representative Citizens of Brooklyn in Carriages. TENTH DIVISION. A Volunteer Firemen's Associations. ; , Board of Trade and Transportation In _ Carriages. Begiments of Uniformed Knights of Pythias, of ^ Indiana. Begiments of Uniformed Knights of Pythias, of New York. r Charitable Organixattens. -t Civic Societies. ! ; _ Citizens. i - The naval parade of war-ships and other Ves­ sels followed, and then the ceremonies at the unvailinc, at which moment 10,000 rounds from a Gatling were fired by the Second Battery. The crowd which occupied almost every inch of stand ng place on the island was almost en­ tirely made up of men. Hut few tickets were Issued to women, and the tickets were not trans­ ferable. Tickets admitting one to almost any vantage p jint for viewing the exercises of the day were at a premium. Even the agents of the more prominent buildings on Broadway were over-rsin by persons wishing to purchase the priv­ ilege of standing on the roofs of their buildings during the passing of the parade. The flagship Tennessee was the ladies' heaoquarters, and the wives of many arwv and naval otticers, with the ladies of the FrenAparty, were on board. The land procession was to have started at 9 o'clock, but at that hour it had only begun to form. The Fifth United States Artillery, com­ manded by Col. John Hamilton, and the Engi­ neer Corps took their posit on in front of Secre­ tary Whitney's house, at Fifty-eighth street and Fifth avenue, a few minutes after 'J o'clock. Next came the Old Guard, who stood near the carriages in waiting for President Cleveland and the members of his cabinet to leave Secretary Whitney's residence, where they tud s^ent the _ . - aoookn _ . . _ , B a j K i C i i i M M B d e d ateM aad entered an open carnage. They were followed by Secretary of the JBTvy Whit­ ney, Postmaster General: Vilas, Muetary of the Interior Lamar, i-rlvata Secretary Lamont, of Rear Admiral Luce and staff, and KaJlWhipple. The Old Guard preceded the carriages, and at 10 is o'clock ootn&eneed to march down Fifth avenue. Both sidesof the avenue W«reerowded with people, who waved their hati and applaud­ ed loudly as the President's carriage pafeed. On all side streets, from Central Park down to the reviewing stand on T\v« nty-fourth Street, the different military companies and elvieOrganisa­ tions were formed. The carriages containing the President and Cabinet were followed by bsttalion of 250 police. The United States Naval Brigade came next, with the EngineorB' Corps, which consisted of 250 men. The Second Regiment N. G. P. N. Y. then foil in line, together with a detachment of Massachusetts volunteer militia. Thesq were followed by the Seventh, Eighth, Twelfth, Eleventh, and First Regi­ ments, and the Freneh societies, num­ bering 2,.300 men. The Governors of Mas­ sachusetts, Main, Vermont, Connecticut. Rhode Island, New .Jersey, New York, Maryland and their staffs, together with the United State Judges, entered carriages atthe Windsor Hotel and fell into line behind tho Fronch associ­ ations. After these followed divisions made ui> tof mayors and official from various cities, viBit- Ing policemen and firemen, veterans of 1812, .Grand Army posts, civic societies, the Volunteer Firemen's Association, Knights of Pythias of Indiana numbering 230 men, oddfellows, and other organizations. The 1'resident reached the reviewing-stand at Madison Square at 10:40 o'clock. He was greet­ ed with hearty cheers as he drove up in front of the stand. Secretary Bavard rode in the carriage with him After the President had taken his place on the reviewing-stand the members of the Freneh delegation were pre­ sented to him. Most of the space on the stand was reserved for the Frt neh guests. They were headed by M. Bartholdi, Count de Lesseps, Admiral Jaures, Gen. Pelisiera, Col. de Puy, M. Bigot, Col. d'Eloussedat, ami Col. Villegert. The French delegation was in charge Of Capt. Fedinand Levy, Capt. Schilling, Lieut. Walts, and Col. Collins. Among other distin­ guished guests on the reviewing-stand were Gen. Sheridan and his staff, Col. Sheridau, Col Kel­ logg, and Col. Blunt; Governor Hill, accom­ panied by Lieut. Gov, Jones and his staff; Judges Brown and Benedict, of the Supreme Court, and Gen Rufus Ingalls. The crowd in Madison square wnen tho Presi­ dent reached the reviewing-stand was vast. The side streets were choked with humanity and Broadway was clogged with vehicles and street cars abovo and below the intersection of the line of march. When Gov. Hill mounted the platform there were cheers, but when Bar­ tholdi, the sculptor, appeared and was easily recognized by the mass, who had seen his por­ trait on programmes and in the illustrated pa­ pers, a shout went up from those nearest the Stand. The cry of "Bartholdi 1" "Bartholdi!" was then caught up on both the reviewing and irand stauds ; the crowds on the avenue curb- ngs, tip and down, heard the name and passed It to the people in the pork anil side streets, until tte) heavy air was shaken with a roar of cheering that must have gladdened the heart of the Al satian, who bowed and bowed his acknowl­ edgments. Music greeted the officials and guests as they landed on the island and assembled about the statue. Then a signal gun was fired, and the Rev. Dr. B. tJ. Storrs opened the ceremonies with i>rayer. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps then delivered an address on behalf of the Franco- American union, and Senator William M. Evarts made the presentation address on be­ half of the pedestal committee. The flag, which had until then concealed the face of the statue, was withdrawn, and the features of the Goddess of Liberty were ̂ greeted with a salvo of artillery from all the guns in the harbor. Three batteries took part in the salute, steamers in the bay blew their whistles, and the men-of-war re­ turned the salute from their guns. After music President Cleveland was intro­ duced. He said: "The peopla of the United States accept with gratitude irom their brethren of tho French Republic the grand and complet­ ed work of art we here inaugurate. This token of the affection and consideration of the people of France demonstrates the kinship of Repub­ lics, and conveys to ua the assurance that in Our efforts to commend to mankind the excel­ lence of a covernm.ent resting upon popular will, we still have beyond the American Conti­ nent a steadfast ally. We are not here to-day to bow before the representation of a fierce and warlike god, filled with wrath and ven­ geance, but we joyously contemplate our own deity keeping watch and ward be­ fore the open gates of America, and greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient Troy. Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror and of death, She holds aloft the light which illuminates the way to man's enfranchisement. We will not forget that liberty has been made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected. Will­ ing votaries will constantly keep alive its fires, and there shall trleam upon the shores of our sister republic in the East. Reflected thenoe and joined with answe ring rays, a stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression, until liberty enlightens the world." An address was then made by the representa­ tive of France, M. Lefaivro, Minister Plenipo­ tentiary and delegate Extraordinary. There was Sore music by Gilmore's Twenty-second Regi-ent Band, ami then Chauncey M. Depew delivered the commemorative address. "We dedicate this statue," he said, "we dedicate this statue to tho friendship of nations and the peace Of the world. The spirit of libertv embraces all races in common brotherhood ; it voices in all languages the same needs and aspirations. » * * Peace and its opportunities for material progress and the expansion of popular liberties sends from here a fruitful noble lession to all the world. It will taach the people of all countries Ahat in curbing the ambitions and dynastic pur­ poses of princes aud privileged classes, and in cultivating tho brotherhood of man, lie the true road to their enfranchisement. The friendship of individuals, their unselfish devotion to each other, their willingness to die in each other's stead, are the most tender and touching of human records, they are the inspiration of youth and the solace of age ; but nothing human is so beautiful and sublime as two great peo­ ples of alien race and language transmitting down the ages a love begotten in gratitude, and strengthening as they increase in power and as­ similate in their institutions and liberties." The speaker reviewed the relations of the col­ onies with France during the Revolution, and paid a warm tribute to Lafayette, the spirit of whose life, he said, was "the history of the time which mado possible this statue," and whose spirit was the very soul of the celebration. Continuing, he said: "The flower of the young aristocracy of France, in their brilliant uni­ forms, and the farmers and frontiersmen of America, in their faded' continentals, bound by a common baptism of blood became brothers in tho knighthood of liberty. With emulous eagerness to be first in at the death, while they shared the glory, they stormed the redoubts at Yorktown and compelled the surrender of Cornwallis and his army. While this practically ended the war, it strengthened the alliance and cemented the friendship between the two great peoples. * * * To-day, in the gift by one and the acceptance by the other of this colossal statue, the people of the two countries celebrate their unity in re­ publican institutions, in Governments founded upon the American idea, and in their devotion to liberty. Together they rejoice that its spirit has penetrated all lands and is the hopeful future of all peoples." The speaker concluded as follows. "I devout­ ly believe that, from the unseen and unknown, two great souls have come to participate in this celebration. The faith in which they died ful­ filled, the cause for which they battled tri­ umphant, the people they loved in the full en­ joyment of the rights for which thev labored, and fought, and suffered, the spirit'voices of Washington and Lafayette join in the glad ac­ claim of France and the United States to liberty enlightening the world." "Old Hundred" was played by the band, and the assembly joined in singing the doxology. The ceremonies were closed with the benedic­ tion, pronounced by the Rt. Rev. Henry Pot­ ter, D. 1)., Assistant Biahop of the Diocese of New York. A national salute was then fired simultaneously by all the batteries in the har­ bor, afloat and ashore. A POET'S TRIBUTE. PW»1>} John G. Whlttler on the OUt of France to America. The land that from the rule of kings, In freeing us, itself made free; Our old-world sister to us brings Her sculptured dream of liberty. i Unlike the shapes on Egypt's sands, Uplifted by the toil-worn slave, On freedom's aoll, with freemen's hands, <• We rear the symbol free hands gave. . O Fiance, the beautiful, to thee Once more a debt of love we owe; In peace beneath thy fleur do lis. We hail a later ltochambean. Bise, stately symbol, holding forth Thy light and hope to all who sit In chains of darkness, belt the earth ^. With watch-fires from thy torch uplitl Revealed the primal mandate still > Which Chaos heard and ceased to bel : Trace on mid-air thy etornal will, In signs of fire: "Let man be free I" Shine far! Bhine free t a guiding light To Reason's ways and Virtue's aim, A ligntning flash the wretch to smite. Who shields his license with thy name. MRS. JENNY LIND ORTON, of Atlanta, was in snch a hurry to marry again that she could not wait until the jury reported fa­ vorably upon her bill for divorce, and now she is in the peculiar position of having been divorced from one man, married to another and uuder arrest for bigamy. HENRY N. HOWE, Mrs. Jtjlia Ward Howe's only son, has joined the ranks of Bostonese magazine writers. AN old bell cast by Paul Revere has just been hung in the belfry of a Plymouth (Mass.) church. MARTIN IBOXS ii working in A St. Lonia mi -y 5- " -• £t f ^ r j -V f K -/ •-•W' IN A FTEKTTBM Appalliag Aoddent Hear Bio, Wis., on the KflwMlMe and St. Paul •• • Railway. • gv..; .5 TfQH$ 1V» t«Twentj-six PerMMH ltarn to Death in a Flaming Passes* ger Coach. Ftarfnl bufferings and Shrieks of the Vio- tims--Bishop Whipple's Isoajjl^ Harrowing Details, (Milwaukee telegram.] The most appalling railroad disaster that has ever occurred in Wisconsin resulted from the collision shortly after midnight of a passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad and a freight train at Rio, a small station fifteen miles this aide of Portage and Beventy-flve miles from Milwaukee. By the collision It is believed that twenty-six were either crushed or burned to death, while a num­ ber of others were injured. Eleven charred oorpses have been taken from the wreck al­ ready. . The passenger train was a lightning express from Chicago for St. Paul, with baggage and mail cars, one day coach, and three sleepers. At Rio two freight trains were side-tracked to allow the express to pass. One of them had just drawn onto the aiding when the ex­ press came thundering down upon it. Either through negligence or beoause there was not time to close it, tl e switch was left ojieu and the passenger train, rushing at the rate of forty-flve miles an houy, t tho rails. The 'oad curves so from the so the iwitch- >top. e, dashed into it >«d at o: sidings are in a out that tiro switch-ligUl east uutil a train ii engineer of the l«m light was turned wri The engine left the tra and brought up against t] pling over The baggage anl the day coach followed. The leave the track. The persons in the coach were inr the telescoping of the car. Fire brokL., the wreck and rapidly spread through the __ Of all those thus caught in the awful fara? but two children perished--those who were nu» killed at once by the collision dying a more hor­ rible death by fire. The wretched people, shrieking for aid, made desperate efforts to es­ cape the torture of the flames, but in vain. Mrs. C. R. Scherer of Winona, handed her children to a brakeman througn a window and then fell a victim to the fiery destroyer. The names of the dead so far as known are: Mrs. C. R. Kcherer, of Winona, Minn Mrs. Rosina Johns, of Winona, Minn,, Mrs. Scherer's mother-in-law. Louis Brinker, of Columbus, Wis. Emil Woltarsdorf, of Columbus, Wis. Dibble, a traveling man. Mrs. L. Lowrv, of Milwaukee. Wallace Stuart, of Columbus, Wis., aged 22; on his way to Idaho. i In the pocket of one dead man taken from the wreck was an envelope addressed, "J. Tourin Lincoln, No. 2 Forty-ninth street, Chicago, 111." One of the victims is believed to be Mrs. George A. >.air, of Chicago. Her identity is, however, uncertain. Two other bodies are those of Sis­ ters of Charity, one of whom is believed to be Mother Alexia, superior of a convent at Winona, Minn., who had been in Milwaukee establishing a convent. The injured are : Conductor Lucins Searle, of Milwaukee, badly hurt about chest, bnt probably not fa­ tally. Wade Clark, of Oconomowoc, baggageman, leg broken. Charles F. Smith, filO Wabash avenue, Chi­ cago, broken arm and wrist, face out badly by broken spectacles. * James Phillips, brakeman, cut badly about the head. Thomas Little, of Portage, engineer, cut about the face No passengers in any of the sleepers were killed. Mrs. Scherer, whose children were res­ cued by a brakeman from the burning car, was pinned down by a seat, and could not follow her little ones through the open window. She was already enveloped by flames. The bands of the man who rescued the children were badly burned. Conductor Searle, of the passenger train, says that the occupants of the car where the fright­ ful incineration occurred included a woman with a little girl of about 6 years, another dark- haired woman with a babe less than a year old, a blonde woman of 30, who seemed to be a com­ panion of the former, both bound for St. Paul, and two Sisters of Charity traveling or£a pass. He can recall no description of any others, but says there were not to exceed fifteen altogether. He has lost his tickets, and so there is no rec­ ord. The burning of the baggage also hinders the identification of the corpses. District Attorney Armstrong, assisted by Coroner Allen and a force of men, has been at work all day at the ruins of the wrecked train, hunting for the remains of the aead or to find some clew to identify those who perished. Up to a late hour to-night they have succeeded in raking out trunks and other fragments suffi­ cient to make up elevt n bodies. AH the bodies were burned beyond recognition, and it will be days before the names of all the victims are known. Conductor Hankey, of the freight train, who fled to the woods immediately after the catas­ trophe occurred, has been found wandering around in a raving condition. He is likely to become a hopeless maniac. The hero of the catastrophe was the engineer, who, in the face. of seeming death, held his hand on the throttle, aud thus saved the lives of all the passengers in the sleeper. Then, when the train stopped, he crawled out from beneath his engine, bleeaing, and alarmed the sleepers of the danger from Are. From all accounts there must have been a frightful soene in the car in which the fatalities occurred. The pressure caused the coach to as­ sume the position of the letter A. Lamps were broken and tho stove overturned, s attering fire and flames in ah directions through the coach. Mangled and bleeding, nearly all the passengers were pinned securely by broken seats, many heaped one upon the other. Their agonized shrieks told the story of fractured limbB, to which was added the horror of cremation. It is positive that only three escaped. Charles R. Smith is a medical student of Chicago. His parents live in Charles City, Iowa. Mrs. Scher­ er's two children, whom she reached out of a window as tho flames surrounded her, are four years and eight months old, respectively. All the coaches and cars were burned except the last sleeper. "Nashota." The trainmen, with tho two freight engineers, worked vigor­ ously to save the sleepers by pulling them out from the flames, but their positions were such that they could only uncouple the rear coach. Mail Agent John Beach, of l'lainfleld, with his four assistants, succeeded in 6aving the little mail by throwing it outside and dragging it up the banks from the flames. About sixty sacks of paper mail for Minnesota and Dakota were destroyed. The men escaped themselves with numerous bruises. The loss to the railroad company is placed at f>0,000. BUttNED IN THEIR BEDS. Eight Persons Perish In a Ken tacky Log Cabin. ILoulsville dispatch.] A Times special gives details of the hor­ rible burning of eight people in a log cabin near Flat Bock, Knox County, Kentucky. The house was in an open field, a mile from any other residence, and tho fire was not discovered until the day after the house had burued up with its inmates. Those who lost their lives were: Mrs. Pope, aged 32 years. Five children, the eldest 9 years old, and the youngest 15 months. Mary Games, aged 16 years. Lizzie Adams, aged 12 years. The house was a log one, one-and-a-half stories high, with entrance at one door. It was composed of two rooms, one of which was used by the family as a kitchen, where it is supposed the fire originated. The family had all retired to the other room, Tind, shutting the door, had gone to sleep, only to be awakened, probably, by falling timber*, when it was too late to es­ cape. From the position of the remains after the fire had died out it seems that one had reached the door aud fallen back into the fire. Near where the window had been the body of the mother was found, by her side her four helpless children, while the babe lay across her breast. Remnants of bed- clothing encircled all, indicating that the mother had fought the flames bravely in the vain efforts to save the lives of herself and children. Nothing was found of any of the bodies except a few of the bones and ashes. These were carefully placed in a box and brought to Williamsburg and buried, all in one grave. William Pope, the terribly afflicted fath­ er, is one of the best-known men on the river, connected with the log business. He is about sixty-five years of age. Business has not prospered with him for some years past, and he was compelled to retire from a more comfortable home and seek shelter for his family where beet it conld be found, until drawn to the lonely spot where scarce­ ly anyone passed. He i3 almost crazed j iVp sriaf. A Messenger of tfw Adams Ej press Company Overpowered : j by a Thief, - - • Steares $50,000 an* Makes HI* t j -Detailg of OM V5>K* * Affair. '• ./ wr­ ist. Louis telegram.} A big express robbery is reported as hav- ,, . ing occurred on the St. Loon and Saq Francisco Railroad, the Adams Express ^ i Company being the sufferer. A train leav- Si; * ing St. Louis was boarded by a stranger,! • I who handed to the route agent of the ex- ' - ' > ' Dress company a forged letter from the St: Louis local aqent, stating that he (thef stranger) had been employed as an extra[ hand for the run. While busy at hia work, the messenger' ? was seized by his pupil, and at the point ? A of a revolver compelled to submit to a gag., V > ; # The robber then plundered the open safe, * 4? 1 and at Pacific Station made good his escape* > aL ) Upon the return to this city Messenger; I -fM tl Fotheringham went immediately to the , i office of Superintendent Damsel of thtf v J express company and was closeted with. ^ J him for some time. Later Mr. Damsel , > gave the following r eport of the robbery as - % obtained from the messenger: y "Mr. Fotheringham says that as he wa« ^ about to go out on his run a man to him with a letter purporting to be signed -,j by myself and Mr. Bairett, instructing hint ; to take the bearer, Jim Cummings, on hit! i / C ran as far as Pierce City for instructions *, - In accordance with the proposed in-.,, ' V, in­ structions, Fotheringham took the strange^.. • "X*}' and set him to work checking up. Tlienho- "<% j began his own work. Fotheringham was 4 -' standing with his back to the stranger, in» 1 " J s coat off, and the handle of his revolve? i sticking out of his pistol pocket. About tei* - * v of fifteen miles out of the Union depot was attacked from the rear. The stranger / '• gripped his neck with one hand anC' rr* ' -rasped his revolver with the other. Be. ' : -- Fotheringham realized what was be- " --- -jne he was thrown to the floor. H« and fought, but the stranger over- ' * ind bound him hand and foot. ' •• & gag in his mouth and tied ' e messenger, he pro- the safe and take all . . therei^^^^^HJpeverrtl pouches of silver , he cut left them when he founcj what they <nHHse(l. At Mincke some mefli. working in a lime-win flagged the train oif [M. •• account of an obsfcvetion on the track*, While it was ntir^gjn{pf*iH some one trie<| •' to get into the expresslS&r, but the robbeft J,' stood over FotheringhamVjfith a revolver * and prevented his making aj^y effort to cr^ out. At or about Pacific IftatiSlP the robbejr. took his plunder, and opening thtWront doofe of the car went out on the platrhrm antl "" : closed the door after him. WhaKfce diet' after that Fotheringham does notkno^V H4 ! lay on the floor of the car until the tnftfrt reached St. Clair, when he was able to ge# the gag out of his mouth and cry out for assistance. The trainmen, hearing him. endeavored to get in the back door, and finding it locked, went round to the front door, whivh the robber had left open. They released him. "Fotheringham says the robber was about six feet high, 24 years of age, and weighed about 200 pounds. He had dark, straight hair, out close; a thin mustache, a low forehead, wore dark clothes, and a dark- gray overcoat. Fotheringham was gagged with handkerchiefs tied in knots forced into his mouth and bound around his head. His hands were tied together behind his back with a silk handkerchief. His legs were fastened with straps taken from valises in the car and with cords, and with the heavy strap which was around the safe. He was tied to the handle of the safe." Mr. Damsel added, in reply to questions, that it is customary to send new men out on the road with messengers to receive in­ structions, and that with such orders as Fotheringham says were presented to him by the robber would be issued either by, Route Agent Barrett or himeelf. He also' said that Fotheringham telegraphed into the company's depot manager that he had been robbed. Mr. Damsel says he cannot yet name the amount stolen, but as the run was unusually heavy he thinks it will ex­ ceed $40,000. Not much is known here of Fothering­ ham. He is twenty-four years old and lives at Ste. Genevieve, Mo. He had only been on the Frisco run since Juno. He worked for the company prior to that time in Kansas City. He had runs on the South­ ern Kansas, the Fort Scott and Gulf, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas roads. He had been working for the company in all about four years. Superintendent Damsel and Private De­ tective Newcomb had a consultation with the police authorities this afternoon, but at the present writing no formal demand for aid has been made upon them by the ex- . press company. Mr. Damsel says that every effort is being made to obtain a clew to the robber and to procure his arrest. It seems that so far Mr. Damsel and his ad­ visers accept Fotheringham'^ statement as true, and that they are working on that theory, bnt they will not commit them­ selves fully on this point. Another account of the robbery than that of Mr. Damsel says that it was the con­ ductor who tried the door of the express car while the train was standing still near Mincke. Finding it locked, and supposing the messenger to be bnsy, he did not ask for admittance. At St. Clair he again tried the door, and again found it locked. He listened for a minute, and heard the messenger struggling to free himself, and making all the noise possible by kicking with his feet against the side of the car. The conductor suspected something wrong, and burst the door open, finding Fother­ ingham as above describe J, He was quick­ ly released, aud told his experience. Tho robber had got a start of fully two hours, and it was useless to run back to try to find him. The train therefore proceeded on its way. It is a singular coincidence that the robber gave the name of Jim Cummings. the only member of the once celebrated James gang who has never been accounted . for. Peetol Statistics. . \ The annua! report of the Hon. Jficholas M. Bell, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, shows that the estimated total number of letters sent to foreign countries during the last fiscal year was 37,002,893, and 30,405,- 847 were received; 47,040,004 newspapers were sent, and 20,700.020 were received. The cost of the transportation service during the year waB 3357.443, as against $331,U03 last year. The estimates for the service next year aggregate $565,000. The report presents some interesting sta­ tistics regarding the postoflice service of countries in the postal union. Comparing the are:i of the country with the number of postoffices, it appears that Switzerland stands first, with one postoflice to every 5.4 square miles, while the United States takes twelfth place with onp office to every 70.2 miles. On the basis of population Canada heads the list with one office to every t>33 inhabitants, Switzerland second with one to ' every 964, and the United States third with one to every 1,092 inhabitants. The United States ranks first in the length gf railway service with 117,846 miles, and Germany sec­ ond with 22,111 miles. The United States heads the list of countries in length of postal routes other than over railways, the per­ centage of railway routes as compared with other routes, the number of miles of annual railway transportation, and the number of miles of transportation on all other routes. The United State* spent more for salaries of postoffiee i mployes than any ether country, but exhibits a iarger deficiency in zevenue as compared with ex­ penditures. A careful estimate of the mail matter of all kinds exchanged throughout tl.e world in one day places the total at 11,040,0<H).- 000, or about five pieces for every human beiug. The total number of packages and , ,, ^ articles of value conveyed throughout the globe in 1884 was about $401,000,000, and „ < :*• the total value of money orders and other " declared articles of value was $11,594,643. •%u>. •. . kl 1*'