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Cororapo will found a Soldiers’ Home and build it in the San Luis valley. . ; ;

. Tur highest position in the gift of the President is that of postmaster at Mineral Point, Col. It is twelve thousand feet above the sea level.

IT has been calculated that not less than twenty miflion of meteors, each large enough to be visible as a ‘‘shoot“ing star,” enter, our atmosphere daily.

AN Arkansas man who bears the name of Jerusalem John Johnson wants it changed to John the Baptist Smith in order that he may inherit ten acres of land. . ;

EMERSON thus foretold, in a way, as far back as 1851, what is now the phonograph: “The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadows.”’ :

- Oveßr in England a gas meter has been invented whereby youdrop a coin in the slot and get as much gas.as you pay for. A penny buys the light of an ordinary burner for six hours. © -

- GEORGE KENNAN, the Siberian traveler, is said to be the only known American who ever completely mastered the Russian language, except Caleb Cushing, formerly Minister to Bt. Petersburg. ' ;

Tuere will be nine eight-oared ecrews at New London, Conn., next summer. -The university and freshmen erews of Yale, Harvard, Columbia and University of Pennsylvania, and the Cornell crew. -

. Ir is estimated that the value of the land contained in Central Park, New York, which originally cost 6,500,000, is now worth at least over $100,000,000. The maintenance of ‘the park costs nearly $400,000 a year. It comes high, but the Gothamites musthave it.

. Tuere is living near Sagamore, Mass., a family that occupies a farm that is said to have been handed down from father to son for six generations. When the father of this line, Thomas Tupper, settled on the land in 1624, the place was an. Indian village, known as Shaum.

“HoW 1o Graduate' is the name of a new book on the market. Once upon a time proficiency in learning was reduired, but now, if a young man is a liard hitter, a good fielder, can pull a strong oar and do a one hundred yard dash in 10} seconds, he will get through all right without dallying with Herqdotus at all. : .

For the last twenty years a Philadelphia woman has been constantly and vehemently declaring that her husband was not &orth the salt even in hisbrcad. A few weeks ago he got killed in a railway accident, and now his wife has sued the company for §20,000 damages. Salt must be high in Pennsylvania. . .

KATE FIELD has a poor opinion of a professional ‘‘fashionable woman.” She says that a woman who aims to be fashionable must negleect home, husband and children, put away comfort and convenience, be a first-class hypocrite and a good slanderer, and at the end of ten years break down and become a physical wreck. ‘

THERE is said to be a maiden lady at Elberton, Ga., who ‘is so constituted that she can not live out of water but a couple of hours at a time. If she leaves her bath-tub for any longer period than this she is -oppressed by a sense of suffocation, and can only get relief by having her entire body covered with cold water. What asight o! trouble some ladies do have!

"THE great Eiffel tower in Paris will be finished by April 1. The tower stunds at present 825 feet high and weighs 7,800 tons. Only 800 tons remains to be added.” To .approach the summit of the tower there - will be three distinet kinds of elevators. Two wiil go to the first platform, two othcrs to the second and third platforms in a vertical line. The whole trip will take five minutes and the elevators will be capable of taking up 750 persons un hour. "

CHARLES A. ASHBURNER has submitted to the United States Geological Survey a statement showing that the total production of coal of all kinds has incrcased from 129,975.557 tons in 1887 to 145,363,744 tons in 1888, The value in 1887 was $182,556,837, which increased to $208,129,806 in 1888. Pennsylvania anthracite = increased from 42,088.197 tons in 1887 to 46,568, - 000 in 1888, with a corresponding increase in value to $88,714,600. Alabama, Kentucky, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington Territory and Montana show large percentage increases. °

WHILE out for an airing the other afternoon a red-headed Washington girl was struck with the injustice of the ironical remarks she overheard about white horses. Being an advocate of the movement against cruelty to animals, she had four of the most original of these punsters arrested, who were promptly fined five dollars

_ apiece as uuisances, soundly lectured by an unfeeling judge, and compelled : to apologize to the lady with the . erotic locks. What a blessing to civ‘ilization it would beif there were forty - such girls in every city in the land.

At the h»ad of Henry Ward Beecher’s grave in Greenwood Cemetery, . Brooklyn, is a very simple monument. It is a block of gray granite, perhaps six feet long- and half as wide and ~ high. Two faces of it are polished. . On the southern face, directly over the | grave, is this inscription: ‘Henry Ward Beecher. June 24, 1813—March 8, 1887, ‘He thinketh mo evil."” On -the reverse side are the names of the _ infant children buried in the same piot, - with the dates of their births and . deaths. Four of Mr. Beecher’s children 1P in.intapoy i dgue gurvived pisi. R R S S RS B R e i

Nt Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, CONGRESSIONAL. U. S. SENATE IN SPECIAL SESSION. Tuespay, March 19.—The President sent to the Seimate the mames .of Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, as Minister to = Paris, and Julius Goldscionidt, of Wisconsin, as Consular Gencral to Vienna. The nomination of Eugene Schuyler, to be Assistant Seeretary of State, was withdrawn, he having declined to serve. A’ large mumber of appointments previously made were confirmed. The following select committee on the April centennial celebration in New York was appointed: Senators Hiscock, Sherman, Hoar, Veorhees and Eustis. . WEDNESDAY, March 20. — The following nominations were sent to the Senate by the President: Frederick D. Grant, to be United States Minister to Austria-Hungary; John C. New, to be Consul-General to London. A communication was presented from the Governor of Rhode Island stating that the resignation of Mr, Chace had been presented and accepted.

THURSDAY. March 21.—The President sent to the Senate the following nominations: Miles C. Moore, to be Governor, and Oliver C. White, Secretary, of Washington Territory; Henry M. Blane, to be Chief-Justice of Montana Supreme Court; John D. Flem‘ing, to be United States Attorney for the District of Montana. . A number of postoffice nominations were also sent in. - Fripay, March 22.—The Senate met, but immediately adjourned upon learning of the death of Justice Matthews. FROM WASHINGTON. For the first eight months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, the collections of ‘internal revenue were $83,364,211, an increase of §2,603, 744 over the collections for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. : 'ON the 20th the United States Consul-Gen-eral at Shanghai informed the State Department, at the request of the Shanghai Committee of the North China Relief Fund, of the distress existing over a large area of China. Thousands were starving and dying from exposure in Northern China, and aid was requested. : . 'THE statistical report of the Department of Agriculture for March gave on the 2lst the result of its investigation of the average weight of wheat by States. The general average was 56.5 pounds, the lowest average of six years. THERE were 249 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 22d, against 195 the previous seven daye. = . THE death of Justice Stanley Matthews, of ‘the United States Supreme Court, occurred at his home in Washington at ten o’clock on the morning of the 22d at the age of sixtyfive years. Justice Matthews served through the war as Colonel of the TFifty-seventh Ohio regiment, " was elected United States Senator from that State in March, 1877, and in 1881 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Garfield. He leaves a wife, three daughters andtwo sons.

THE EAST. Fire on the 18th at Brandon, Vt., destroyed the fincst building in the town, containing four stores, offices and the Masonic Hall. . ON the Blue mountains in the vicinity of Bethlehem, Pa., fierce fires were raging on the 19th and hundreds of acres of woodland and valuable crops had been destroyed. ON the 19th the Woonsocket -Rubber Company purchased the entire Buffum’s island -estate of eighty acres in Woohsocket, R. L, on which to erect the largest rubber boot and shoe factory in the world. THE death of Mys. Emma Gatewood (colored) occurred on the 19th aé Scottdale, Pa., at the age of one hundred and seventeen years. : THE failure of Charles H. North & Co., an extensive pork-packing firm at Boston, occurred on the 19th for $750,000. MAJOR-GENERAL SCHOFIELD will be marshal of the military parade at New York on April 30, in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of President Washington. NeAr Day’s Mills, Mass., a house was burned on the 19th, and Mrs. Russell, aged seventy-nine yeéars, and two daughters of a neighbor named Truehart, aged five and nineteen years, perished in the flames. EArLY on the morning of the 20th the car and paint shops of the Central railroad of New Jersey at Ashley, Pa., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $lOO,OOO. . ' ELEVEN collieries operated by the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Company near Wilkesbarre, Pa., which had been idle since February 28, resumed work on the 20th, giving employment to nearly six ‘thousand persons.

ABrAM 8. HeEwitr and Edward Cooper, proprietors of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Works at Trenton, N. J., would, it was 2aid on the 20th, move their works to Chattanooga, Tenn. They employ thirteen hundred men, paying them $1,000,000 yearly in wages. : S

Two BoYs and three women were arrested on the 21st at York, Pa., charged with the responsibility of a recent series of firesin that locality. St At Atlantic City, N. J., four houses were wrecked on the 21st by high water, and other damage to property was done. . ON the 21st Robert Craven, of Philadelphia, treasurer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, was said to be $lO,OOO short in his accounts. CHARLES NIER, of Scranton, Pa., ran a needle into his foot a week ago, and surgeons sought in vain for it. On the 21st Nier was taken to the plant of an electric railway, his foot held near one of the dynamos, and in fifteen minutes the needle was drawn out.

RHODE IsLAND Republicans on the 2lst nominated Herbert W. Ladd, of Providence, for Governor, and Daniel G. Littlefield for Lieutenant-Governor. JUDGE BENEDICT on the 2lst sentenced Robert Sigel, son of General Franz Sigel, who pleaded guilty to forging pension checks in New York, to six years’ imprisonment at hard labor in the Erie County penitentiary. : 2 THE two thousand miners of the Pennsylvania Coal Company were informed as they. were leaving work near Scranton on the 22d that a *‘shut-down” had been decided upoa, to take place at once.

Uxnvsuarry high tides and heavy seas had, on the 22d, wrought sad havoc along the New Jersey coast, and the damage to property would amount to hundreds of thougands of dollars.

Fir Ede troyed the court-house and city hall at Dover, N. H., on the 22d. :

WEST AND SOUTH. L WaiLe attempting to cross the Ohio river in a boat on the 19th at Pomeroy, 0., Joseph Rhodes and his mother were carried under a fleet of barges and drowned. - | A FIRE on the 19th destroyed Bmith Bros.’ mill, salt block and docks near Bay City, Mich., with two million feet of lumber. Loss, $120,080. - : | THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road in its annual report on the 19th showed a deficit of $4,831,425 in the finances of the company. The directors charged it mainly to the late strike. ; b | - A RAIN-STORM on the 19th submerged a portion of Dayton, Tenn., drowning several negroes, and great damage was done to buildings, live stock and growing crops. Ox the 19th the wife of James Crane, a druggist at. Clinton, Ind., shot herself dead. She had been grieving ove- her husband's financial logses, o . TuE statement was made on the th by a buyer for one of the largest Kansas City, (Mo.) dressed-beef houses that any hostile legislation to that industry would be reaénted by boycotting the Stace cnacting such alaw. R o / wuxmm:;dﬁlhr made of mm a thin coating of silver electro plate ﬂm Mesgmaiann s Ol o 8 e S ot

GusT WERNER, & merchant tailor at Topeka, Kan., in a quarrel over rent on the 20th, shot and killed John Spendlove and then killed himself,

A Boy named David Barkey, of Milton township, 0., who had a severe attack of hydrophobia, was recovering on the 20th. Physicians and scientists were writing to know what treatment the boy received. THE Governor of Colorado signed a live stock and meat inspection bill on the 2ist which practically prohibits the importation of meats from Chicago and other Eastern packing-houses. ; 4 UNITED STATES troops drove nearly three hundred boomers out of Oklahoma on the 21st.

Four masked men robbed a passenger train on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad on the 21st at Canyon Diablo, A. ’gA’The WellsFargo express-car was rifl but the amount secured was not known. THE stable of Pohlman Brothers, in St. Louis, was destreyed by fire on the 2ist and fifty horses were burmned to death. The stable of J. H. Manor was also burned with ten horses. - -

THE livery stable of Gordon & Warner at Newport, Neb., was burned on the 21st, and J. B. Gordon, who was asleep in the office, was burned to death, as were also eight horses. {

ON the 218 t Lake Erie was opened for navigation. ; ; WHILE burning brush on the 22d Andrew Stroupe, a farmer living near Atwood, Ind., was stricken with apoplexy, fell into the fire and was burned to a crisp. MoNroE WILKINSON (colored) was hanged on the 22d at Scottsville, Ky., forthe murder of Berry Manion (coloredy on the 22d of September last. c IN the storm that swept over New Hanover County, N. C., on the 22d, Benjamia Moore was killed by hail-stones. : ‘ PaTrICcK TRAINOR, Oof Cincinnati, a worthless fellow who for some time past had allowed his wife to support his six children and himself, ran a red-hot poker thrbugh the woman’s cheek into her mouth on the 22d. Physicians said she could not recover. Her offense was that when asked why dinner was not ready she responded that there was no food in the house. | * ON the 22d A. C. Mellette was sworn jin as Governor of Dakota.

Ox the 22d Wesley Cornell, a prominent and well-to-do farmer of Deer Creek township, Ind., committed suicide. =~

T'uaE execution of Timothy and Peter Bar%e.t{,)‘ two brothers, took place at Minneapois on the 22d for the murder of a man named Tolefsen, a street-car driver on the night of July 26, 1857. ; ' FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AN express train collided with a freight near Rimonski BStation, Can., on .the 19th and an engineer, two firemen and a conductor were killed. It was stated on the 19th in the House of Commons that serious complications had arisen between England and the Sultan of Morocco, and that a portion of the British channel squadron had gone to Tangier in consequence. 'THE death of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Bart., the only surviving brother of the great Liberal leader, occurred in London on. the 20th. He was in his eighty-fifth year. Frames destroyed Hess Brothers’ furniture factory at Toronto, the largest in the Dominion, on the 20th. Loss, $125,000. SENOR MorEeT,Minister of the Interior, said in the Spanish Senate on the 20th that the Government had no knowledge of the scheme to sell Cuba to the United States, and declared that there was not money enough in the whole world to buy the smallest portion of Spanish territory. : TerE American fishing schooner W. H. Foye was seized at Grand Manan, N. 8., on the 20th for violation of the customs laws.

THE cotton-mills in the, suburbs of Stuttgart, Germany, were destroyed by fire on the 20th, causing a loss of 2,000,000 marks and throwing six thousand employes out of work.

ON the 20th steamers carrying an aggregate of two hundred thousand seals arrived at St. John, N. 8., being an unusually early arrival from the fishing grounds. : : IN London on the 21st fourteen of the largest paper makers in England formed a syndicate for the purpose of raising prices. The capital of the syndicate is $2,000,000.

TrE Canadian Minister of Finance said on the 21st that the Government had under consideration the advisability of excluding American lard, by increasing duty or otherwise, on account of the extensive adulteration practiced.

A PAPER at Genoa stated on the 21st that so far this year there had been fifteen duels and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo. THREE of the finest business blocks at Brownsville, Ont., were burned on the 21st. IN Shangtunk, China, the number ol deaths caused by the famine was on the 22d said to be appalling, and many of the citizens were committing suicide rather -than die from starvation. , THE Mexican Government had taken steps on the 22d to prevent the introduction into that country of American lard, owing to the reported adulteration in that article.

LATER. Apam Yoßmg, a farmer living near Peru, Ind., placed some sticks of dynamite in a stove to dry on the 23d, when an explosion occurred which wrecked the building and killed his wife and daughter. Mr. York had become insane from grief. PrAcer gold was on the 23d said to have been discovered in the bluffs on the Missouri river opposite Townsend, M. T. JoHN Fosserr, of Hillsboro, Ind., in a fit of jealousy on the 23d shot and killed his wife.. o : THE Illinois Central Railroad- Company on the 23d gave notice that it would no longer ship liquors into the interior of lowa from Dubuque, and that the goods would not be carried in disguise. . It was stated on the 23d that the Hawaiian sugar crop exceeded the estimates, the entire crop being 125,000 tons:. THE Bullard Art Publishing Company of Worcester, Mass., failed on the 23d for $150,000. ‘ TaE town of Pinsgka, in West Russia, was almost wholly destroyed by fire on the 23d, and six persons were killed and a great many others injured. Wahlman & Grip, extensive contractors and builders at Ishpeming, Mich., failed on the 23d for $lOO,OOO. ~ Hexry WEssoN's house and barn near Grafton, Mags., were burned on the 24th, and $7,000 in° money in the house, and eleven head of cattle in the barn, were destroyed by the flames. ‘ : SECRETARY WINDOM on the 23d appointed James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia, Supervising Architect of the Treasury. THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 23d aggregated $15,989,076, against $1,056,524,425 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 11.5. ALBERT EINnpsTROM shot Emily Schenckle and killed himself at Worcester, Mass., on the 24th. The womanhad refused to marry S : : onis SerloUs floods were prevailing on the 23¢ in many parts of Prussian Silesia, several small towns being submerged and the people made homeless, = . THE plant of the Meat and Provision Company at Bt. Paul, Minn., was burned on the 24th, causing a loss of $200,000, i Four steamships from FEurope landed 1,930 immigrants at Castle Garden, New Xork on fhe 24t © - o o _ Two coaL barges sank on the 23d in the Mississippi river near Vicksburg; Miss., causIng aloss of $lOOOOO, _ BEr Vox BuLow, the great musician, arrived at New York from Europe on board tho Smaloouthe2sd. . Tinan Rl Yt N & e e el Wiliott “ Michivan £o be: keilibant Batss: oo st i Ll e e ,1 ¥ :&emﬁiﬁ;ﬁg{@x@ «lg{;& .?,\rf e :;:“ %é‘gﬁ?%ﬁ?@ﬂ!@f s ‘s\:(

i. VOTED DOWN. A Resolution by a Canadian Statesman, ‘ Favoring Closer Trade Relations with the United States, Defeated in Parliament, : | OrTAwWA, Ont., March 20.—1 n Parliament at 1:30 a. m. Sir Richard Cartwright’s resolution in favor of c¢loser trade relations with the United States was defeated Dy a lvote of yeas, 77; | mays, 121. During the debate Mr. |[Cockburn, of To,’ronto, who is |opposed to commercial union, instituted comparitsons te show that the various Provinces of Canada are enjoying greater prosperity than the various Statés of the Union.. He .said the decline in (land values in New York State from 1870 to 1830 was $270,000,000, while Ontario in the same period experienced] an increase of $66,250,000. He asserted that threequarters of the numper of farms in New York State were mortgaged. America's alleged aristocracy, he said, lived only for “boodle,” and he haf nothing kind to say about the plutocracy, All the Americans ‘wa.nted was to get the trade of Canada and to give nothing in re- ‘ turn. If Canada, as the opposition contended, really wanted closer trade relations, it “would be better to look back to 1777, when ‘the United States mpde her offer, which still holds good. This. offer was an invitation to Canada to become a portion of the American Union on the same terms as the States forming the Union. Then the resolutions of Congressman Hitt were indorsed by the Canadian Liberals, who pretended to want only unrestricted reciprocity. The resolutions declared for commercial union, and this meant political union, and the Liberals could not deny it. Commercial union would abolish the custom-houses and discriminate against England in return for her sacrifices in favor of Canada.: Continu.ing, amid interruptions, he held up an American political cartoon in which the Amerjcan flag triumphantly waved over the union jack and the forms of prostrate tradesmen. He called on the Liberals to alter their course if they were loyalsubjects and desired to live under the folds of the union jack. The Monroe doctrine, he said, would never be realized in América. The Americun Union could not enter into unrestricted reciprocity with Canada, because if she did it would be a violation of treaties with other nations. | Canada was not for sale, and, come what| will, she would work out her own destiny. | Mr. Davies, Liberal, pictured the deplorable condition | Canada was iln %s a result of the reckless extravagance of the present Governmment. Thousands of emigrants became | disgusted and had crossed over to settle in the United States. The enormous - taxation and high duties disheartened them, coupled with the fact that the most valuable land in the Northwest had |been grabbed up by ‘boodlers and land sharks, leaving only such a 8 these speculators might reject for actual settlement. | There was not an industry in the dominion which was not suffering depression| which would not be improved by unrestricted reciprecity with the United States. 1t was the imperative duty of the Government to endeaver to make terms with the United States for closer commercial relations. T BOOKED FOR. PARIS. Whitelaw Reid Named for the French Mission—A Wisconsin Man Goes to Vienna —Some Other Nominations—The Name of Eugene Schuyler, for Assistant Secretary of State, Withdrawn. WASHINGTON, March %o.—President Har rison sent the following nominations to the Benate: Whitelaw Reid, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to'France. ; Julius Goldschmidt, of Wisgonsin, to be Con: sul General of the United States at Vienna. Andrew C. Bradley, of the District of Colume 7 A=, % (T () PN OIS n‘\L\(\h\ "'( = i W 7 . DRESAN - N N (e = N 7 NP SN : : RRER A == AR Qe SN ;' N “\o\ ‘\\‘Zi/’ ’/’/’ vl RN ) \\\\ 4’/ . = XN / o i ; WHITELAW REID. - bia, to be Associate Justice of the Suprema Court of the District of Columbia. John R. McFie, of New Mexico, to be Asso ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Ter ritory of New Mexico. Frank R. Aikens, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota.

~ Among the nominations confirmed by the Benate were the following: Rathbone Gardner, |District Attorney for ' Rhode Island; Elbert Q. Weed, District Attor- ' ney for Montana; Brad D. Slaughter, Marshal for Nebraska; Smith A. Whitfield, Second As‘sistant Postmaster-General; Abraham D Hazen, Third Assistant Postmaster-General; Samuel R. Thayer, Minister to the Netherlands; William W. Thomas, Jr., Min:ster to Norway and Sweden. ; GREAT FAILURE IN BOSTON. Charles H. North & Co., Pork Packers, Go Under with Liabilities of $750,000. BosToN, March 20.—Charles H. North & Co., 82 and 34 North Market street, the second largest pork packing firm east of Chicago, has made an assignment to President Shortwell, of the Cambridge National Bank, and Kenso Taylor, their head book-keeper, The liabilities can not yet be given, but will probably be $750,000. Mr. North is confident that if the business is prudently managed the creditors will not only be paid in full, but there will be a surplus of at least $400,000. The firm has done a business of $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 a year, principally on a/cash basis, but has been obliged to put out considerable paper. Mr. Shortwell, who is the principal creditor, unexpected placed an attachment on the property, and it was deemed best for all concerned to make the |assignment. The firm began business in 1868 as North, Merriam & Co., but since 1482 has congisted of Charles H. North and J. H. Skelton. The factory is at Somerville, THREE LIVES LOST. - An Aged Woman and Two Little Girls Burned to Death in Massachusetts. : BALDWINSVILLE, Mass., March 20.—2 house situated near Day’s mills, one mile from this village, was burned Tuesday afternoon, and Mrs. Russell, aged 79 years, and two daughters of a neighbor named Trueheart, aged 5 and 19 years, perished in the flames. Mr's. Russell was making gum when the kettle of pitch was overturned and took fire. The fire spread rapidly, preventing the escape of Mrs. Russell and the Trueheart girls, Mrs. Russell’s daughter escaped by jumpin from the window. Mr. Russell, who was 5 work near the house, made an attempt to rescue the vietims, but the flames and -smoke drove him ba¢k. e ; A GREAT SCHEME. Searching in Ohio for a Site for the Pro- ~_ posed Government Fish-Hatchery, Washington, inspector of stations for the United States Fish ommmmﬁam v’ﬂl”bbmégmdmc the Ohio Fish Com‘mission, left Tuesday evening for Sandusky to select there or on some one of the Lake Erie islands a site for a Goverument e a TR ol B world, Tho fohems fa colossal, contemSR e NoTRE o B s

BOOMERS GROW UGLY. They Offer Armed Resistance to United States Troops — A Small Band Overs - powered After a Fight in Which Some Blood Is Spilled—Fears of Further Serious Trouble. Purcern, Ind. T. March 20.—The first open collision between United States troops and Oklahoma invaders occurred Monday night. The soldiers claim they were ate tacked and compelled to act in self-defense. The situation is critical and worse conflicts are expected at any moment. Lieutenant Carson and a body of soldiers were sent to scour the country. Im what is called the Crutch country, northeast of Oklahoma station, was quite a large party that had gathered around William

wn WICHITA ‘lé 3 kA % T -E Er S 4 " e e2O v e NS e ol \e = | areaPAnOES i, COUNTES l.‘ SRR S gl 1.. w Cﬁh“rni T < e te ¥ iaT ' - ;=TR (e N\ Bl Cuome |Wi IBRR - 7 ouﬁcﬁ‘a CHICKASAW Choctaw | PACHES NATION "_':Ano‘ « TISNOMINGO® . ¢ & Vo f ‘ , Muuo xu-. : x A g ¢ MAP OF OKLAHOMA. Beck. Among the number was his daughter, his relative, Samuel Anderson, and au old man mnamed William Adams. Their house and their dug-out - had been destroyed in a former raid. Their hiding-place was discovered by an Indian scout and reported to Licutenant Carson, who sent out a detachment to drive. them out or arrest them. The boomers saw the troops coming and determined te stand their ground. Being surrounded and called upon to depart without trouble they commenced parleying, and made threat against the .lines of troops. These threats enraged the soldiers and they rode upon the party with gun and revolver in hand, but having orders to avoid a conflict they halted and dismiounted. Part of the boomers were disarmed, but Anderson and old man Adams held out and made a desperate resistance with their guns. The former received, a pistol wound in the head and the latter in the mouth.. Other boomers took up cluba and stones and fought with desperation. They were, however, compelled to surrender. Several of the soldiers received wounds. While the soldiers were tying their captives with ropes to be connected with their saddles and thus lead them to camp Adams escaped. The others were all brought to the camp and are being held awaiting further orders. There is great excitement among the boomers since the conflict. They declare they will all make resistance and fight, if necessary, to remain in Oklahoma.

TROOPS ON THE GROUND. TorpeErA, Kan., March 20.—There are at Fort Reno some 600 regulars, and in that neighborhood are 2,000 or 3,000 boomers. Military operations at this end of the line are conducted by Captain Woodson, of the Fifth Cavalry. Lietehant Macomb has command further south, where there are many more boomers, near Purcell, a city of 2,000 population. The settlers have been going into the forbidden lands and blazing the claims they intended to pre-empt when the territory was opened, which private advices here say will be by a thirty-day proclamation to be issued: Thursday by the President. @ Even this = invasion is regarded as unlawful, and the invaders were instructed to desist. Day by day they have been going out and marketing the best homesteads along the stream, on the uplands and everywhere. When attacked by the troops they fled to the timber, and as they could outrun the soldiers it wasgimply a picnic for the boomers to dodge back and forth. . GREAT EXCITEMENT. The most intense excitement prevails at Oklahoma City and among the boomers everywhere along the line. They denounce the clubbing as a dastardly outrage and one American citizens will not brook, if it is: from the regular army. The United States authorities are mnotified that if they do not furnish the protection demanded the boomers will take it into their own hands and wreak summary vengeance on the soldiers. The former are generally well provided with Winchesters and arms of the latest approved pattern, with plenty of ‘ammunition. © There are many reckless and desperate men among them and even cool-headed ones who are ready to ficht when they are shot at, and what has been play is turned into tragedy. The authorities here fear that there will be bloodshed before the row is over, if it has not al-, ready begun, and are anxiously awaiting further details of Tuesday’s encounter.

FATAL COLLISION.

It Occurs Between Trains on a Canadian Railway, and Results in the Death of Four Men and the Injuring of Four Others.

River Du Loup, Que.,, March 20.—At 11 o’clock Tuesday forenoon the Halifax express collided with a freight special a mile and a quarter from Rimouski station. 8. Michaud, conductor of the down special, —— Whitney, engineer of the express. J. Toley, fireman of the express and —— Levisque, fireman on the special, were killed instantly. Engineer A. Jolivet, A. Levisque, a brakeman on the special, and the express messenger were badly hurt, but not fatally. Two engines, baggage car and a couple of freght cars were badly smashed. Engineer Whitney was found sittlng in his engine with his skull cut open. Michaud and Levisque are still under the wreck. Toley was found in the snow. It appears that the down special had stuckin the snow between Bic and Rimouski and was at the time running on the express train’s time, None of the passengers were injured. |

ANOTHER lOWA “SPOUTER.”

Tremendous Flow of Water from a Well on the Farm of Dr. Leebert.

WAVERLY, la., March 20.—Another flowing well was struck in Franklin township a few miles east of this city on the farm of Dr. Leebert Tuesday afternoon. at a depth of 175 feet. The force of water as it made ite exit was so great as to throw a 500-pound drill out of the hole. The geyser spouts s gix-Inch stream nine feet high. Thisis the sixth flowing well in Franklin township within a radius of three miles. . —_———- REACHED A REMARKABLE AGE. Death in Pennsylvania of a Colored Woman 117 Years Old. - . PirTsBURGH, Pa., March 20.—Mrs. Emms Gatewood (colored) died at Scottdale, Pa., last Friday, aged 117 years. She was the mother of eleven children, a!l of whom except one are living and over 50 years ol age. She was the grandmother of fiftyseven children; the great-grandmother of forty-six children, and the great-great-grandmother of thirty-six - children. Shc had a distinct recollection of seeing General George Washington and the incidents of the Revolutionary war. She was born in Virginia and was a slave for a great number of years. | : :

Mountain Fires Do Much Damage. BerEreEncM, Pa., March 20, — Fierce mountain fires are raging on the Blue mountains. Farmers and residents on the outekirts of Pen Argyl, a flourishing town, have been battling with the flames forx thirty-six hours. An easterly wind stil! prevails, and the town iB'in great danger oi destruction. Hundreds of acres of wood: land and valuable crops have been de. .stro&:)d,v the damage being estimated af ‘w) . % } ‘ - To Make One Great Clty. ; ArBANY, N. Y., March 20.—A bill has been gﬁmﬁnnwn t?f N &Yi:rk&melatmﬁ & eommission o inquire into the expediency of consolidating Brooklyn and Staten Island with New York Ofty,

CHOSEN BY BE The President Appoints a Few Territorial Officers and Several Postmasters. s WasHINGTON, March 22.—The sident sent the following mnominations to Senate: ’ » Miles C. Moore, of Walla Walla, W. T., to be Governor of Washington Territory. Oliver C. White, of Dayton, W. T., to be Secretary of Washington Territory. Henry N. Blane, of Montana, t) be Chiet Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana, John D. Fleming, of Colorado, to be United States Attorney for the District of Colorado. Also the following postmasters: Illinois— Milledgeville, Carlos G. Wilson: Flora, Allason. H. Reed; Petersburg, William R. Parks, Wisconsin—West Superior, Graham L. Rice. Indiana—Union City, James S. Reeves. Ohio— New Philadelphia, Daniel Korns; Nelsonville, John F. Welch; Athens, George W. Baker. Michigan—Fowlerville, DeWitt C. Carr. HAVE NOT GONE TO WORK. WasSHINGTON, March 22.—The new second

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and third Assistant Postmasters- General have not yet entered upon their official duties. Mr. Hazen is in the city and expects to take charge of his office next Monday or Tuesday. Mr. Whitfield has returned to Cincinnati, but he is expected to return here within a few days and begin work. JamesN. Tyner yesterday -assumed his

office of Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-office Department, relieving Judge E.: E. Bryant. s . GENERAL GOSSIP, : ? Mr. Washburne, the newly-appointed Minister to Switzerland, was at the Department of State. He took the oath of office, which was administered by Mr. Bryan, and received his credentials. Mr. Washburne expects to start for his post in a week or two. i .

The office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue was formally transferred from Mr. Joseph S. Miller to Mr. John W. Mason. The ceremony was very simple, and consisted merely of Mr. Mason subscribing to the oath of office administered to him by Mr. John T. Bivens, a notary publi¢, in the bureau. Mr. Miller was present at the time, and after his successor was fully installed introduced the principal officers of the bureau to him. ) 3

The nomination of Lewis Wolfley to be Governor'of Arizonia is still pending before the Committee on Territories. - Senator Platt, chairman, sald yesterday: ‘‘We are waiting to hear and read all that may be 'offered for and against General Wolfley. When that is done we shall consider it all and give a judicial decision. We couldn’t do less than that, and any man is entitled to it.” The charges, it is said, are of a very "serious nature, but the general belief is they can not be sustained, and that the nomination will receive a favorable reort. : pTwo new candidates for United States Marshal for the Northern district of Illinois have turned up in the person of ‘‘Long” Jones, who formerly held the office, and Colonel J. 8. Phillips, editor of the Western Catholic News. Senator Yost, of the present Illinois Legislature, is very strongly indorsed as United States Marshal for the Southern district of Illinois. ! Much interest is taken here in the choice of Senators from the two Dakotas. It is believed’that Governor Pierce has a pretty clear field in" North Daketa, although ex-At-torney-General Hughes, who was here.a day or two since, claims that he has the support of the Northern Pacifi¢ railroad and can capture one of the places. The only candidate for the Chinese mission is Chester Holcomb: of Connecticut. The President told a New York delegation that the next Public Printer would be a Weastern man. .

THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

Its Construction to Be Commenced at Unce at Greytown.

WasHINGTON, March 22.—A. C. Cheney, of New York, president of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, who has been in Washington for several days, says work will be” begun at once on @ the canal. Operations will firat begin at Greytown, on the eastern side, where the harbor approaches have to be deepened, and a railroad has to be built across the swampy land ten miles into the interior,

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Its Days Are Numbered Barrimorg, Md., March 22 —Barnum’s Hotel, fronting Monument Square, known to travelers all over the world, will be closed on April 4 next. There was a time when the equal of Barnum’s was hard to find in this country. The hotel was established in 1826 by David Barnum, and some of his grandchildren are among its present owners. : — ——tl @ e o American Beauty Triumphs. RoME, March 22.—Mrs. Pierie, of New York, who competed in a beauty contest at Nige, has been awarded the first prize. She has'returned the trophy, to be used for the benefit of the charity in the interest of whi’h the show was organized. : " . Villard’s Scheme Said to Have Burst, New Yorxk, March 22.—-A few weeks agoa company with an authorized capital .of $12,000,000 was chartered in the State of New Jersey for the purpose of consolidating the four organizations which have hitherto divided the business of manufacturing and selling the Edison elestrie-light apoliances, ‘Henry Villard undertook to accomplish this reorganization and to obtain from his German friends several millions of new capital. ~_ The Record at Monte Carlo, =~ Seos, Mol St Senfie s wiion B Beens muicihen b Momic Deala St

I STANLEY MATTHEWS. e Distinguished Jurist Passes Away at ashington After an Illness LastingMany Months—Sketch of His Long and seful Career. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Associate-Justice: Stanley Matthews, of the United St;ates’_iASu:

preme Court, died: yesterday morning. The last change in his condition ® occurred Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. In the morning he had been feeling quite comfortable and cheerful. At that hour, however, the intense: pain which marked the periods of de-

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cline - recurred and never left him until death brought relief.: Dr. William. W. Johnston was summoned, and, finding his patient suffering so intensely, administered opiates, which, toward morning, induced a state’ of semi-conscious-ness, in which he remained until the end. Occasionally he would partially revive and recognize the loved ones near him by a glance or pressure of the hand, but a relapse soon followed. i For & number of hours previous to his death he was practically unconscious. In his last hours the dying Justice was surrounded by members of his family, who have been with him throughout his illness. =—Mrs. Matthews, his daughters, Miss: Matthews and Miss Eva Matthews, and his son, Paul Matthews, and Mr. C. B: Matthews, his brother, of Cincianati, who came to Washington a week or ten days ago. Dr. Johnston and the aithful oolored? The reports of Justice Matthews’ condition during the past week had been df such a cheering nature that apprehension was in a great measure subdued, and the news of his death came with a shock, even to many who had been prepared for the announcement at any time during the winter. - -

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The interment will take place at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Tuesday afternoon. : ‘

It was shortly after 10 o’clock a. m. when the intelligence of the death of AssociateJustice Matthews reached the Supreme. Court 'room in the capitol The proper ofticers of the court immediately authorized the draping in black of the seat lately occupied by the Associate Justice.- The court adjourned until Tuesday. When the’ Senate met the Chaplaini in his opening prayer, made a feeling retference to the death of Justice Matthews. - The Vice-President laid before the Sénate a note from Chief Justice Fuller, announcing Judge Matthews’ death, and the Senate at once adjourned. = - Among the letters and telegrams of condolence received by Mrs. Matthews was the following letter from the President of the United States:

** MY DEAR MRS. MATTHEWS: I have heard with the most profound regret of the death of your honored husband. The sense and loss of bereavement which you feel will be shared by all our people. I have known Justice Matthews for many years, and had a very high appreciation of his character and learning. That you may be comforted and sustained in this hour of trial is my sincere prayer. Very truly yours, - BENJAMIN HARRISON.”

The Secretary of the Interior wrote as follows: ' : ‘*MRS. JUSTICE MATTHEWS: Yeu have my sympathy in your deep affliction. It was my good fortune to number your husband among my friends from my boyhood days. I have ever sought his esteem rand do most truly mourn his loss. ; JOHN W. NOBLE.”

Among the callers at the house Friday were the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, the Secretary of State and Mrs. Blaine, members of the German and French Legations, Rear-Admiral Queen, Admiral and Mrs. Carter, Senator Sherman, Senator and Mrs. Call, Representative Breckenridge, of Kentucky; Representative Taylor, of Ohio, and the Haytien Minister. FILLING THE VACANCY. WasHINGTON, March 23.—The succession to the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Matthews is already discussed, there being. two programmes laid out by those who talk. One is that Judge Gresham, mnow Judge of the circuit comprising the States of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, will be nominated for Associate Justice. He would in turn be succeeded by Judge W. A. Woods, leaviag a . vacancy to be filled in the District of Indiana, and it is. likely the President will fil} that vacancy by the appointment of his law partner, Mr. Elam, or John M. Butler, of Indianapolis. The other programme includes the transfers of Attorney-General Miller to the Supreme ‘Bench, of Secretary Noble to the head of the Department of Justice, and of Assistant Postmaster-General Clarkson to the Interior Department. THE DEAD JURIST'S CAREER. The late Justice Matthews was born in Cincinnati July 21, 1824, He was graduated at Kenyon: College in 1840, and began the practice of law a few years later in Maury County, Tenn. He returned tc Cincinnati soon after, and became engaged in antislavery . movements, being in 1849 assistant editor of the Cincinnati Herald.. the first daily anti-slavery newspaper in that city. He . became Judge of the court of common pleas of i Hamilton County in 1851, was State. Senatrr -in 1835, and in 1858-61 was United States Attorney for the Southern dis~trict of Ohio. In 1861 he was com- - missioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twentythird Ohio regiment and served in West Virginia, participating in the battles of Rich- M;)m‘nta‘in and Carnifex’s Ferry. In October of the same year he became (Colonel of the Fifty-seventh Ohio regiment, and in that capacity commanded a brigade in the Army of the Cumberland and was engaged at Dobb’s Ferry, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain. He resigned from the army in 1863 to become Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati and was Presidential elector on the Lincoln ahd Johnson ticket in 1864, and on the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868. In 1864 he was a delggate from the Presbytery of Cincinnati to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in Newark, N. J,, and as one of the Committee on Bills and Overtures reported the resolutiouns that were . adopted by the assembly on the subjéct of slavery. He was defeated as Republican candidate for Con~gress in_ 1876, and was one. of the Counsel before the Electoral Commission, opening the argument in behalf of the Republican Electors in the Florida case, and making . the principal argument in the Oregon cdse. In March, 1877, he was elected United States Senator in place of Hon, John Sherman, who resigned, and in 1881 he was appointed Associate Justiceof the United States Supreme Court.

THE COPPER CRASH. The L(;sses of the Great Syndicate Estl-{'f 7 mated at 830,000,000. LoxDpoN, March 23.—Copper still monopo-' liz¢s the attention of financiers and in ° France has become a @ political factor. 'l'aking <copper at &£5O per ton it is calculated that the syndicate will lose £6,000,000. The Societe des Metaux shareholders - are represented as cleaned out, Manage{‘*Secretan describing : himgelf as emerging from the speculation as naked as'a worm. The Comptoir d'Escompte’s original paid-up capital and reserve, together with £4,000,000, are regarded as lost; -~ : o L - CHECKING THE SALT TRUST. e The Michigan Legislature Refuses to Pass a Law Providing for an Enormous In- A ~ Crease in the Combine’s Capital Stock. ~ LASS;SG; - Mich,, ﬁaréh 9&%%9 pin ending in the Legislature to authorize an gwwor&wmm“mmﬁw» organized ealt trust of Suginaw from §5,000 000 to % 000,000 was defeated Friday civube B Thili e by s vate g 6 500 0, The luws ot ighisen £8 tho manstu S lek Ul e i “QQ%MJ*@E%M@?%)”‘“ G L S T w"“w, ot dnosar it eDo sl oil