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@h rfaantor & o ¢ Ligonier Bunner. LIGONIER, ' . INDIAN’ A R 3P S S S 2AS ST T SRR AP B 3 A rRecENT fad is to have your portrait cut in an onyx cameo. The work is very slow, difficult and laborious, but the image when done is permanent and will last for centuries. Mgs. RicHARD A. PROCTOR proposes to perpetuate the memory of her famous husband by building a $25,000 observatory on Mission Heights, San Diego, Cal. She means to raise the money by lecturing. : THE increase of about one million people in thirteen yéars in Spain is attributed in a great measure to the success that has attended the changes in the hygienic condition of the cities and large towns. : ' It is said that no graduate of Vassar College has ever been divorced from her husband. Such is the statement of a man who married one of them, and who declares that the young ladies who have been educated at the college are the best cooks in the world.

THERE is a project to construct a ship canal across (f\‘l) ew Jersey from the Delaware river to the Atlantic. The scheme was first suggested by merchants of Philadelphia, who desire a shorter water route to New York and an abbreviation of the journey of hundreds of miles down the bay and around Cape May to strike the ocean paths to Europe.

CHIEF GALL, who succeeds Sitting Bull as head of the Sioux nation, led the Indians in the battle that brought defeat and death to Custer. He is not only fond of fighting but is capable of handling a body of Indians successfully when in the field, and has frequently exhibited the qualities of generalship. lie 18, moreover, an Indian of some hon©CSEy. :

Ir fifty years ago a man had been told that a destructive shell, capable of destroying a small eraft, could be projected fifteen miles at sea he would have scouted the idea as an absolute impossibility. Yet this feat was accomplished not once but many times recently at Sandy Hook by Government engineers experimenting with an new thirty-foot rifled gun. :

A PARROT in Connecticut is one hundred and eighteen years old. It has ‘been for one hundred years in one family, having descended from father to son through two or three generations. Think of the marvelous toughness of the bird. Probably it has been asked thirty-six million five hundred thousand times in its life. if it didn’t want a cracker. :

NEwW YoRK buys more lace than any other city in the world, and there are said to be scores of New York ladies whose collections of lace vary in value from $20,000 to $50,000. The Vanderbilts possess laces which rival the Prussian and Austrian crown laces, and are valued at $500,000.. The late Mrs. Astor had a lace dress that .cost $15,000, and another was recently sold to an American lady for $25,000.

IN the war of the revolution the colonies had 181,461 men. In the war of 1812 the United States had 576,622 men. In the war with Mexico the United States had 112,230 men.. In the war of the rebellion the United States had 2,213,365 men. The war of the revolution cost the United States $135,193,703. The war of 1812 cost the United States $107,159,003. The war with Mexico cost the United States $100,000,000. The war of the rebellion cost the United States $6,589,929,909.

Tne preliminary work upon the Nicaragua canal is now all completed. A belt ten miles long and five hundred feet wide has been hewn through the forests at a cost of $3,000,000, and the actual work of excavation will at once be begun. There is every reason to believe that this will be accomplished with proportionate speed and satisfaction. The Nicaragua canal is an American enterprise, controlled by American money and brains and in its success all Americans will have a right to feel proud.

FOLLOWING are a few of the items of the first square meal consumed by Signor Sucei after the conclusion of his forty-five days’ fastin New York: ‘‘Buttered anchovies, caviare, 'chicken soup with rice, fried calves brains, quail on toast, fruit, ice-cream and coffee.” All of these dishes the Italian swept clean without a pause. A lot of dyspeptic millionaires paid sums ranging from one to five dollars for the privilege of seeing Succei devour the repast, and the niajority of them would doubtless have been willing to give one thousand .dollurs for his appetite. ‘ [

AccorplNG to the estimates of Frehch end German statisticians there periched in the wars of the last thirty years 2,500,000 men, while there has been expended to carry them on the sum of $13,000,000,000. Of this amount I'rance paid nearly $3,500,000,000 . as the cost of the war with Prussia, while her loss in men is placed at 155,000. Of these 80,000 were killed on the field of battle, 36,000 died of sickness, accidents or suicide, and 20,000 in German pxisons, while there died from other ca% enough to bring the number up to thi given aggregate. The sick and wounded numbered 477.421.

Ax effort is to be made in Germany to bore for oil and natural gas. The foet'that Russia is one of the greatest otl-producing countries in the world has stimulated the hope that similar deposits may underlie the fatherland. It is very agreeable to Americans to learn that the tools and supplies necessary in these tests have been ordered from' the United States. With no desire to boast it can be truthfully said that the conquests which American brains are making abroad afford every reason for Amer- " dcan complacency. The acquisition of territory is idle pastime compared with * this growing intellectual supremacy. e e Tur announcement came from Washington the other day that a number of United States Senators had been %;vindled by a man calling himself illiam Duvall, residence Baltimore, who wrotﬁ to each statesman informing him that he had named his firstborn child after him and setting forth that he (the father) was in financial straits, being prevented from working by a br;ien leg. Some of the Senators, as sta sent currency, to which others added silver mugs appropriately inseribed and other articles of value. It wasb believed he would be prosecuted for ~ his illegal money-making operations.

————————————————————————————— el Epitome of the Week. | R INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Secolid Session. MoNDAY, Dec. 29.—The credentials of the new Senators from Idaho were presented to the Senate and the nomination of Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was confirmed. The elections bill was discussed. A bill was introduced for the construction of a railroad in Alaska. The House was not in session. . TUESDAY, Dec. 30. —ln the Senate the time was occupied in discussing the elections bill. In the House the journal of the last day’s session was read and approved and then an adjournment was talken until January 2. » WEDNESDAY, Dec. 31. — A resolution was adopted in the Senate directing the superintendent of the census to report at ,the earliest possible moment the population of the United States according to the census of 1890 by Congressional districts and counties,. The elections bill was further considered. Adjourned to the 2d. The House was not in session.

FrRiDAY, Jan. 2. —ln the Senate mno. business was transacted, and an adjournment was taken to the sth. In the House bills were introduced to reduce by one-half the charge of registration of domestic mail matter, and directing the Secretary of the Treasury. to print fractional currency of the United States to the amount of $50,000,000. Adjourned to the sth. FROM WASHINGTON. IN the United States the visible supply of grain in store on the 9th°®was: Wheat, 25,763,997 bushels; corn, 2,620,176 bushels; oats, 3,795,567 bushels. & THERE were 358 embezzlements during the year 1890, the total amount of money taken being $8,622,956. Pennsylvania leads in the greatest amount of funds embezzled—s2,326,B37. New York comes second with $1,929,270, Missouri is next with $596,384, while Illinois ranks fourth with a total of $406,938. : / : Tre President signed the commission of Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

TaE wool supply in the United States was figured at 92,819,882 pounds, against 98,284,659 pounds on January 1, 1890. THE deaths were reported during the year 1890 of 46 members and ex-mem-bers of Congress, 76 journalists and 96 centenarians. ]

IN the United. States the total production of pig iron during 1890 was 10,183,016 toms. This is 1,666,937 tons greater than in 1889, and breaks all previous records. :

THE business failures in the United States during the year 1890 numbered 10,907, against 9,882 in 1889. The total liabilities were $189,000,000, against $148,000,000 in’ 1889. THERE were 102 legal executions in the United States during 1890, against 98 in 1889. The mumber of lynchings were 126, against 179 the previous year. . THE suicides in the United States during the year 1890 numbered 2,640, against 2,224 in the year 1889. The number of murders was 4,290, against 3,567 during the previous year. - THE fire losses in the United States for the year 1890 were $108,412,694 against $143,902,570 in 1889. o THE public debt statement issued on the 2d showed the total debt to be $1,541,871,198; cash in the Treasury, $621,868,844; debt less cash in the Treasury, $862,430,541. Decrease during December, $11,005,398. Decrease since June 30, 1890, $35,637,404. TuE business failures in the United States during the seven days. ended on the 2d numbered 348 against 333 the preceding week and 322 the corresponding week last year.

F’HE EAST. A CAMDEN (N. J.) man named Helliet, who had been in Boston selling horses, was robbed of $7,400 while asleep on the night Pullman train. : J. E. PIERCE, secretary of the City Building and Loan Association a® Wilmington, Del., was said to be a defaulter to the extent of $45,000. 2 IN New York Montgomery & Co., tea auctioneers, failed for $lOO,OOO. AT Broderick Patch, Pa., Michael Curley, a saloon-keeper, his wife and Michael Hodek were murdered by John Tirello, a Hungarian. The murderer escaped. ; : In Philadelphia Gerlach & Harjes, bankers and brokers, failed for $150,000. OFF Barnegat the schooner Lucinda G. Potter capsized and seven men perished. . A. E. BATEMAN & Co., bankers in New York, failed for $1,000,000. At Richford, Vt., the mercury registered 40 degrees below-zero on the 30th ult. OVER 20,000 stamped envelopes were stolen from the Government stamped envelope agency in Hartford, Conn., and sold by one Fay, a former employe of the agency. Ar Illick’s Mills, Pa., Henry Lutz, aged 82, was arrested on the charge of murdering a family in Germany thirty years ago. ; At Troy, N. Y., John J. Reed was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for misplacing a switch on the New York Central during the late strike on that road. ' FIrE destroyed the new portion of the Clinton (N. Y.) prison, causing a loss of $200,000. : ‘AT the port of New York 871,593 steerage passengers were landed during 1890, against 815,222 during tha year 1889. There were 99,189 cabin passengers landed, against 90,686 in 1889. At Fairfleld, Me., the thermometer registered 60 degrees below zero on the 31st ult. : ON Broadway, New York, a.fire destroyed a block of buildings, including the Fifth Avenue and Prof. Herrmann’s theaters. "Total loss, $500,000. _ A NEw Yoßx business agency in their weekly review of trade reported that business in many lines last year surpassed that of any previous year. | WEST AND SOUTH. Flre swept away the business portion of San Augustine, Tex. At noon four robbers entered the Merchants’ Exchange Bank at South Chicago, 111., and ‘‘held up” the clerk in charge. They got away with $1,600, but after an exciting chase they were captured. : : : Frames at Milton, Del., nearly destroyed the business portion of the town. : : Tue Mormons are carrying on an extensive system of education. They have ninety-six teachers 'with 5,002 pupils .in Utah, Idaho and Arizona. Utah alone has 4,288 Mormon pupils. Tue combination of eighteen harvesting machinery mnmactoﬁes ‘into one

monopoly known as the American Harvester Company throws 10,000 men out of employment. - ; ATt the power-house of the Louisiana Electric Light and Power Company at New Orleans an explosion wrecked the building and killed ten employes. CoLORADO mines d ring 1890 produced $29,881,334, divided as follows: Silver, $20,259,906; gold, $4,512,136; lead,. $4,749,852; copper, $359,440. GENERAL Francis E. SPINNER died ab his - home in Florida of cancer on the 81st ult. at tke age of 89 years. General Spinner was a member of Congress from 1855 to 1861, and was Treasurer of the United States from 1861 to 1875, when he resigned and retired to private life. ' AT Keachi, La., a cyclone destroyed the Masonic hall, the post-office and several stores. NEAR Bayboro, N. C., the house of Scott Thompson (colored) was burned during the absence of himself and wife, and their five children and two grandchildren perished in the flames. ON the Ist Edwin R. Winans was sworn in as Governor of Michigan. ON R. M. Patrick’s farm near Marengo, Ill;, a barn was burned; and ninety-nine head of cows perished in the flames. ; THE death of Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell occurred on the 31st ult. near Monticello, Wis., at the age of 102 years. DuriNGg 1890 there were 2,219,312 cattle and 5,733,082 hogs slaughtered in Chicago, against, respectively, 1,763,310 and 4,211,777 in the previous year. : AT Lima, 0., John Clark became insane and wounded his wife with an axe and cut his throat. Both would die.

Fire destroyed the. manufacturing establishment of the Ohio Buggy Company at Columbus, O. Loss, $175,000.

A NUMBER of houses were unroofed and others were blown off4heir foundations at Abilene, Kan., duging a windstorm. ¢ :

IN San Francisco two earthquake shocks were experienced on the 2d, and tall buildings rocked and books were thrown from shelves. The shock was general all over the State. ' AT Chilton, Tex., Charles Beale, a negro, was lynched for murdering a woman, and a negro and a white man were lynched in Neshoba County, Miss., for robbery. _ By the bursting of a cylinder head on the towboat Annie Roberts at Portsmouth, 0., five men were killed. : A WOMAN, a boy and two men were burned to death by a fire in the Avenue Hotel at Corsicana, Tex.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ON the 29th Mr. Gladstone celebrated his 81st birthday at his home in Hawarden. He received many presents from his friends in the United States and England. Ix London a fire consumed-a large number of buildings, including St. Benet’s Church, a famous edifice. The loss was estimated at $2,000,000.

IN Europe intensely cold weather prevailed, and in Frankfort-on-the-Main seven persons were found frozen to death in the streets.

PRESIDENT DilAz, of ‘l\Q}éi:;o, has approved the bill passed by Congress of that Republic admitting corn from the United States free of duty. ForLLowEßs of Pierola attempted at Lima, Peru, to start a revolution by capturing Fort Santa Catalina. A fierce fight followed, in which seventy-five of the insurrectionists were killed. IN the Old World the whole list of casualties during 1890 where the loss of life was large enough to be reported by telegraph, including those who perished by disease and in battle, was 90,780, against 96,380 the previous year. ‘

IN a fire at Yokosake, Japan, over 800 houses were destroyed and three persons were burned to death. At a school fete in Wortley, near Leeds, Eng., four children were burned to dea%n. ' : :

IN a powder house at Durango, Mex., an explosion killed twelve men and fatally injured three others. _ : IN England'a family of five persons without a home, who had been tramping, were found by a roadside near Cambridge all frozen to death. By an explosion in a coal-pit at Bochum, Germany, nine méen were killed and ten others were not expected to survive their injuries.

LATER,

Tar widow of John Clifton and three of her children, who lived at Farmington, Kan., were found starved to death, and two other children were nearly dead. » MRB. ADELAIDE MAIRE died at New Orleans, aged 102 years. SEVERAL = prominent residents of Gladesville, W. Va., while intoxicated became involved in a fight and four were instantly killed.

A HEAVY fall of slate in the Diamond mine at Coal Bluff, Ind., killed Henry and Joseph McMahon, father and son. THE main dbuildings of the Geneva worsted mill at Providence, R. 1., were burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $66,000. 3 :

ONE-HALF the town of Columbus Grove, 0., was destroyed by fire. A TERRIBLE explosion of fire-damp took place in the Trinity pit near the Polish town of Ostran. TFifteen bodies were recovered and twenty-four miners were missing. ; _ SLEET-STORMS in twelve counties in Kentucky ruined many fine orchards, and a large number of sheep, hogs and fowls perished. .

Depury MARSHAL Tom Liry had a desperate battle with three whisky peddlers in the Chickasaw nation and killed them all. ;

IN the town of Ciney, Belgium, the wife, brother-in-law and three children of a game-keeper who was recently killed by accident were asphyxiated in their beds. 7

Josern FienLps, of Paola, Ind., treasurer of Orange County, was said to be short $ll,OOO. BEVERLY and Melly O’Neal and Alexander Terrill, convicted at Baton Rouge, La., of manslaughter in bulldozing negroes, were cach sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment.

CHARLES WiLLis, for fifteen‘Yyears treasurer of the Stockbridge (Mass.) Savings Bank, was discovered to be a defaulter to the extent of $25,000. Fire destroyed D. J. Hamburger’s tannery at Oswego Falls, N. Y., causing a loss of $lOO,OOO. ANoTurr revolutionary effort was made in Lima on behalf of ex-Dictator Pierola and twenty-six of the revolutionists were killed. :

""i‘-vt;t;'sim'gc-l‘;s—(;f‘;;rthqua.ke were felt at Elwood, Ind. ; :

AT the leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 3d aggregated $993,724,366, against $1,858,590,273 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1889 the decrease smounted to 19.5.

; THE INDIAN WAR. ' Another Fight with the Hostiles Reported- No Lives Lost—Some Startling Rumors. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. s.—Specials from Gordon, Neb., say that two scouts just arrived there confirm the report of a battle Saturday. The first reports were to the effect that a battle was raging about ten miles northeast of Gordon. The booming of ecannon could be heard distinctly. Everybody is under arms and the wildest excitement exists. The fight ‘was between the Indians and a detachment sent out by General Miles from Rosebud agency to bury the dead Indians killed at Woundéd Knee battle on December 29. The hostile Sioux objected to the burial of their dead by the pale-faced foe and opened fire. After desperate and sharp firing of the Hotehkiss gun they were forced to return to the protection of the friendly ravines. No deaths were reported. PiNne Ripge, S. D., via Rushville, Neb., Jan. s.—The Indian army is working itself into a fury dancing the ghost dance and preparing for a big battle. Hundreds are crazy in their excitement and ready for any thing. General Miles’ letter was burned and answer sent that they did not want to hear any peace talk, but were ready and anxious to fight. Their host numbers over 4,000, a large proportion belorging to other agencies. 'The Pine Ridge Indians are more friendly than any of the rest. Shots were fired by the pickets at intervals all Saturday night. Two fire arrow# were thrown into yards from adjoining ravines, but no damage done. Peace talk will accomplish nothing with these frenzied dancers. They will fight to the -death. Half-breeds and squaw-men are leayving for the railroad, saying that they know what is coming and don’t propose to remain. This war will not be ended except by one of the bloodiest in the history of Indian warfare. LiNxcorLN, Neb., Jan. s.—Specials to the Journal from Pine Ridge confirm the report of an engagement between General Carr’'s command and the Indians on White river. It is believed no one was killed, though several Indians were wounded. An Indian -courier brings a message from the hostile' camp, the substance of which is a. demand that all soldiers withdraw from the locality, and further that they will treat with no one for peace but the Vice-President of the United States or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. This message came. direct from the hitherto supposed friendly Chief Red Cloud. Roving bands continue to scour the country in the vicinity of Pine Ridge. A man named Miller, formerly a Government herder, was found. five «miles from the agency, his body riddled with bullets. Many persons coming in tell of narrow escapes. The Indian training school at Pine Ridge burned Friday night, no loss of life resulting. The refugees admit that the number of Indians killed in the White Clay battle of Tuesday was large. The effect of the ghost-dance delusion is seen in the fact that the Indians make no attempt to remove their dead from the battlefield or to care for the wounded. Their idea is that every omne who is killed or dies from his wound is in big luck and will turn into buffalo, ete. STANDING Rock AGENcCY, N. D., Jan. s.—On the issue of rations Saturday it was discovered that a large number of the bucks who received their supplies ‘here had disappeared, and on' close questioning of the friendly Indians the fact came out that they had gathered together. what rations they could conveniently carry on their ponies and moved southward toward the several hostile bands making a stand in the Bad Lands. It can not be learned how many have deserted the agency, but a count of those in for rations indicates that there are from 8,000 to 12,000 of them armed with Winchesters and knives. A movement lis -already on foot to round them up before they join the Southe.rlf bands, but it is believed they have sufficient start to be in the hostile camp before the cavalry can overtake them. The savages know the Hills country thoroughly, and doubtless have guides from the camp of Two Strike and Short Bull. ’

The Indians here openly charge the whites with treachery in the killing of Sitting Bull and say they would as soon be shot down on the battle-field as slaughtered in peace. Even the Indians who have professed the greatest friendship for the Great Father are becoming restless and it is hourly feared that they will go to war in a body, which would be a serious matter for the agency, as there are now very few soldiers at Fort Yates to protect the whites in this vicinity. PINE RIDGE, ,Jan. s.—General Miles has recommended that Agent Hoyer be removed and Captain Doughtery of the First Infantry placed in charge. Gen. Miles has also asked the President to remove the agents at the Cheyenne, Standing ° Rock and Rosebud agencies. Captain E. P. Ewens of the Fifth, Captain J. M. Lee of the Ninth and Captain T. F. Pierce of the First are recommended for these places respectively. General Miles thinks this will restore peace and harmony. The Indians are slowly starving to death but an army officer could soon supply food. OmAHA, Neb., Jan. s.—Three companies of militia from interior towmns were sent Saturday morning to defend the towns near the Sioux Indian resetvation. . :

ENERGETIC FEMALES.

PHILADELPHIA has a female auctioneer.

DuriNGg the past six months not less than 250 timber claims have been taken up in Washington by young women. Mgrs. Wirriam FERrry, who lives in the Simahoning mountains of Pennsylvanis, has within the last three years killed three wildeats, three deer, three bears and a wild turkey. A Wafpo County (Me.) teacher not yet out of her teens beside her school duties finds time for considerable outside work, and it is claimed has distanced all the farmers in the vicinity in making money by sheep raising. Mgs. FELix Dosßors, of Caribou, Me., carries on a farm of 118 acres during the summer and through the winter earns money by hauling shingles. She is an excellent hand with an axe, can fell trees, junk and pile, plow and harrow, miow and pitch with the best.

HOUSEBREAKING has fbeen added to the list of woman’s accomplishments. A young woman in London was recently arrested on the charge of housebreaking and appropriating certain valuable articles. 'The woman conducted her own defense with considerable ability and shrewdness. - o

REAL WINTER. Beveral Northwestern States Receive & Taste of It on the First Day of the New Year. Kansas Ciry, Mo., Jan. 2.—Specials from a number of points in Central and Eastern Kansas indicate that a severe snow-storm is raging over those districts. In many places attempts to move freight trains have been abandoned. A strong northwest wind is' blowing. Snow is falling here. The blizzard continued with great severity during the day over Northern DMissouri and Kansas. Kansas is covered with a blanket of snow from four inches to a foot thick, which in many placesdrifted to such an extent as to seriously cripple railway traffic. All the incoming trains from the West were more or less delayed, some for four hours. Some of the regular freight trains were abandoned entirely.

" Horcukiss, Kan., Jan. 2.—Advices received from twenty counties in Southwestern Kansas show that there has been a heavy rain. Reports concerning the wheat prospects are of the most flattering character. The areais the largest in the history of these counties and the average condition on the Ist day of January is the best ever known. Up to this time the weather had been mild and pleasant and there had been no suffering.

WicHiTA, Kan., Jan. 2.—The mercury has been hovering around zero. The railroads are practically clogged owing to snowdrifts in cuts. = There are over 100,000 head of cattle belonging to the Cherokee Live-Stock Association in the southwestern counties, moved there from the strip. They are prepared for a mild winter only, and the owners say only a few days like this will bring about an almost total loss. Many of the ranchmen have been trusting to a mild winter, and the loss of cattle threatened is great. MoNTICELLO, 1111., Jan. 2.—The first rain that has fallen here for months in Piatt County and throughout Central Illinois came Wednesday night and Thursday morningy doing great good to the wheat crop and breaking the long drought. . The water supply was smaller than was ever known at this time of the year. e Prorra, 111, Jan. 2. —The drought which threatened to produce disastrous results in this vicinity for two months past was terminated Wednesday night by a heavy rain-fall, which continued unceasingly for twenty-four hours. A heavy wet snow is falling and telegraph and telephone service is badly hampered. People in this section of the country hail the rain-fall as a blessing, for they were on the verge of a water famine. Wells which never failed before were dry, and cisterns have been empty for weeks. The continued drought was seriously affecting winter wheat, and country roads were so dusty that travel was a torture. :

NEBRASKA City, Neb., Jan. 2.—A heavy snow-storm, accompanied by a terrific gale, set in here at midnight and still prevails. All trains are from one to five hours late.

CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Jan. 2.—The rain of Wednesday morning has turned into a blinding snow-storm and one of the worst blizzards ever known here is raging. The weather is growing much colder. High winds prevail and serious blockades on all the railways are inevitable. Reports from othier parts of the State show the storm to be general. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2.—A big blizzard reached Milwaukee Thursday night. It followed a heavy rain-storm which set in early in the morning and continued throughout the day, accompanied by high northerly winds, which during the afternoon :attained a velogity of between forty and fifty miles an hour. At night the rain turned to snow, with the heavy wind still prevailing. ; GENERAL SPINNER DEAD. The Ex-Treasurer of the United States Expires at His Florida Home. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. I.—General F. E. Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the United States, died at 8:30 Wednesday evening. ' : | Francis Elias Spinner was born at Mohawk, N. Y., in 1808, and after receiving a careful education was apprenticed to a saddler. In 1824 he went into business at Herkimer, N. Y. He was elected a deputy sheriff in 1829. He devoted much of his attention to the militia, and in 1834 became a Major-General. From 1835 to 1837 he was sheriff, g Lo e 5 63 "‘l-::l :,«fi -'*.: ¥ A ) s LN % ;:;, | e e'. ’ 3 PR NN | '\;’l' :4':,,:..,..‘ j:i;;:',.':\:?ﬁ%ﬂ:% N l:ngsv"“ N R 0 20 N 1Y L \//’/j?: i

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and in the two following years was commissioner for the building of the State lunatic asylum at Utica. Later he became cashier and then president of a bank at Mohawk. In 1845 he was appointed auditor of the naval office and deputy naval officer in New York, and remained - there wuntil 1849. He- was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1854, and became an active Repub lican on the organization of that party. He was twice re-elected and served in Congress from 1855 to 1861. He was appointed United Statgs Treasurer by Secretary Chase, and served until 1875, since which time he had rested most of.the time in Florida.] : Some Wonderful Discoveries Made Near : Bee Springs, Ky. BosTtox, Jan. I.—Peter Brezedine, of Bee Springs, Ky., writes here of some wonderful paleontological discoveries masde by him in that part of the State. Fe says: “lexplored what is known as the HundredDome cave, about six miles east of Mammoth cave. Initl found evidences of arace of human bpeings of agreat antiquity. In niches of the cave I counted 0ver.2,000 mpmmified skeletons or bodies of what must have been a large and very superior race of men, evidently dating ba.c): beyond our history of Adam and the GarAden of Eden many thousand years. The bodies are in an excellent state of preservation, and I intend to remove about ten of them at once to .Boston for the benefit of the scientific world.” Many Persons Frozen to Death. "TRIESTE, Jan. 2.—The hurricane continues. Steamers are unable to leave port. It is feared that many disasters to shipping have occurred. The Balaton lake is frozen over and vehicles are crossing on the ice. Many persons in this vicinity have been frozen to death. ’ Double Tragedy in Chicago. y ‘Cuicago, Jan. 2.—Crazed by apparently unfounded jealousy and excessive drinking, Leo Klein, a German, 34 years old, fatally shot his wife and then killed himself shortly after 5 o'clock Wednesday evening at hig home, No. 536 Sedwick street. : :

w ' : IN RUINS. ‘ Fire Dusivoys the Historic Fifth Avenue Theater and Prof. Herrmann’s New Play-House in New York City—Other Buildings Burned. : NEw Yorxg, Jan. B.—Fire which it was feared would result in the loss of the lives of at least half a dozen brave firemen broke out in the Fifth Avenue Theater shortly after midnight. Within an bour that famous playhouse was practically destroyed. Herrmann’s Theater was in flames and the entire block in grave peril. The fire broke out under the stage of the Fifth Avenue Theater. What was at first believed to be a false alarm proved to be one that destroyed a whole block upon Broadway, besides the Fifth Avenue Theater, Herrmann’s new play-house, a dozen stores, and threatened the Sturtevant House on the east side of Broadway, between Twenty-eighth -and Twenty-ninth streets. e : y " At half past 12 o’clock an explosion was heard in the building and a moment later the upper part of the city was illuminated by a huge sheet of flame which rose from the roof of the theater, enveloping the entire building and Herrman’s Theater immediately ad‘oining. Soon the whole block; from Twenty-eighth street to Twen-ty-ninth street, was in flames, while on the Twenty-eighth street side of the Fifth Avenue Theater the flames burst from the windows and doors and threatened the Everard baths and other buildings on the opposite side of the street. Guests of the Brower House were early turned ‘into’ the street. The Sturtevant House, opposite the Broadway entrance to the burning theater, was in serious danger. For miles around the flames could be seen shooting high into the heavens, and an enormous crowd gathered and erowded the neighboring streets. s = At 1 c’clock the wind veered from north to east and the top story of the Sturtevant House caught fire from embers from across Broadway. The firemen eclevated their ladders, “and climbing up smashed the windows and shouted to the guests. Nearly all the guests, however, had taken flicht. A good part of the roof of the Sturtevant was destroyed. The sparks were blown as far as Third avenue. e b

Broadway, between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets, during the most of the time presented the appearance of an active volcano.

All the property burned belongs to the Gilsey estate, and the total damage to buildings and contents is roughly éstimated at $500,000. Manager Harry Miller was early on the scene, as was also Prof. Herrmann. While the former saved nothing from the wreck, the professor and his wife worked like beavers. Mrs. Herrmann saved her four pet doves, but her husband sorrowfully said that his" favorite trick apparatus, worth $20,000, \as lostto him forever.

The occupants of the stores on the west side of Broadway from Twentyeighth to Twenty-ninth street, which number from 1185 to 1203, were as follows: No. 1185, J. J. Slater, shoes; 1187 was the side entrance to the Fifth Avenue Theater; 1189 was occupied by the Cash Register Company; 1191, J. B. Crook & Co., sporting goods; 1193, L. Spero, tailor; 1195, entrance to Herrmann’s Theater; 1197, A. E. Rirch, florist; 1199, J. B. White, jeweler; 1201, Wissman, florist, and 1203, Hannan & Son, shoes. The goods in all these stores are badly damaged by water, and should the walls topple in the salvage will be very small. They are At 3 o’clock the damage to the Sturtevant House, all told, was not over $5,000. There were some lively scenes in the Brower House, but there was no panic. i S

No lives are known to have been lost, although there were a dozen or more narrow escapes, and at one time it was thought that three firemen who were caught upon the roof-top would perish.

The estimated loss on the Fifth Avenue Theater was $lOO,OOO by H. C. Miner and $500,000 by the Gilsey estate. Miss Fanny Davenport loses $50,000, exclusive of her costumes, and Prof. Herrmann’s loss is placed at $50,000. *

The Fifth Avenue Theater was built by the executors of the Peter Gilsey estate in 1873, on the site of Apollo Hall, for Mr. Augustin Daly. The" building has a frontage of 60 feet on Twentyeighth and 65 in the rear, and is 160 feet deep. The vestibule occupied 20 feet, the house 70, the stage 40 and the gréen-room 30 feet. It was built with division walls of brick, fitted with iron doors and shutters, and was considered as fire-proof as could be expected. The scene-room and the painters’ gallery were in a building 22x45 feet, adjoining the stage. The dressing-rooms wera = in the second and third stories over the green-room and the wardrobe was in the fourth story, the stage entrance being on Twenty-ninth street. The theater was opened under Mr. Daly’s management December 3, 1873, to a brilliant audience, who pronounced it a gem, the realization of an ideal theater, perfectin form and finish. Prof. Herrmann took possession of his theater last summer. The season before this dainty little house of small seating capacity had been christened the New Gayety. It has been much better known as Dockstader’s Theater, which Lew Dockstader made the home of minstrelsy in 1886, before that the Comedy, and originally occupied by the San Francisco Minstrels. The theater had but one balcony, and seated 480 persons in the orchestra and 820 in the balcony. :

FIVE LIVES LOST.

Fatal Explosion on an Ohio River TowBoat Near Portsmgq@, 0. ) PorrsMoUuTH,O.,Jan. 8.4 Friday morning the towboat Anna. Roberts, of Pittsburgh, blew off a cylinder head, instantly killing five men and terribly wounding many more. The boat was bound for Pittsburgh and was moving slowly up the river, but with a full pressure of steam, when the, cylinder exploded, tearing open the boiler deck and hurling the mangled bodies of the killed and about ten or twelve wounded into the river. Most of the men killed and injured were sleeping in their bunks at tixe time. TWELVE MINERS KILLED. Shocking Accident in the Powder-House of a Mexican Company at Durango. EaaLE Pass, Tex., Jan. 3.—Fifteen miners entered the powder-house of the Pinoles Mining Company at Durango, Mex., last Monday to procure their weekly supplies. One of them attempted to secure the cap on a defective fuse by biting it. 'The cap exploded and the detonation set off the entire explosive contents of the powder-house. Twelve were killed outright and the remaining th}'eeb can not possibly survive. o P e

CANADIAN NORTH-WEST NOTES. An important feature in immigration into Manitoba during 1890 was the influx of settlers from Dakota. A number of these were Canadians who had become discouraged by a succession of poor crops and decided to return to their own country. Settlers from Dakota drive across the international boundary into the Canadian Northwest, all along the frontier, being anxious to share in the prosperity of what appears to be a marvelously productive country. - e .;“"-"v' '>’;V' e o T R i B N e et W R S STR e N A RLy /.‘m ,‘;,}».,_"‘s,_4‘ 'A'.V:V ot ; %" Q")‘l"ﬂm"\. e e e Quite-a number of families will move from Ontario to Grenfell, and other points in Eastern Assiniboia early in the spring. - : Since September last twenty-seven families have left Mishigan and secured new homes in Manitoba and the Canadian Nerthwest. A short time ago a caravan of five wagons bearing the families and household effects of a number of French settlers passed through Morden, Manitoba, on their way to new homes near Carman, Manitoba. These settlers had driven all the way from Kansas. Mr. F. Burnett, of Craiglea, Manitoba, lately sold 300 acres of land to two Canadians who eight years ago emigrated to Dakota, but who have now decided to locate in Manitoba,-being satisfied that the Canadian country offers the best chances. o Every - indication points to an immensely increased settlement in the Canadian Northwest next season. The manifold advantages of the country are now' better understood and practical farmers and others anxious to better their conditions in life are turning to the Canadian Northwest. = ;

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