Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 April 1894 — Page 2

She |!ikc Count g gtmomt M- McC, BT00P8. Editor and Proprietor. 1PETERSBUKG. - - INDIANA. The Behring sea bill formally passed Its first reading in the house of lords, on the 10th, without debate. The general elections in the Netherlands resulted in the defeat of the government by a large majority. The Union league club of San Francisco gave a reception to ex-President Barrison on the night of the 10th. Both branches of the New York legislature adjourned, on the 18th, out of jrespect to the memory of David Dudley Field. The Brazilian ministers of foreign affairs, public works and finance, tendered their resignations to President Peixoto on the 12th.

For the first time since its initial march from Massillon, O.. the Coxey Commonweal army was storm-stayed at Uniontown, Pa., on the 10th. On the 10th Mrs. Patrick Mulstay, the wife of a New York stonecutter, gave birth to three boy babies, whose combined weight was thirty-five pounds. Mr. Gladstone made his appearance in the house of commons on the 13th, and was present while the budget was being introduced by Sir William Vernon Harcourt. _ In German factories child labor, if not entirely abolished, has to a very great extent been done away with. In 1892 only 11,313 children under 14 years were so employed, as compared with 29,485 in 1890. _ The French presidential election has been fixed for November 2. President Carnot is not among the candidates. Ill-health is given as his reason for not seeking re-election. There are many candidates in the field. -v A terrific and destructive storm prevailed along the Atlantic coast, on the 11th, doing much damage to shipping and other exposed property. Fourteen lives are known to have been lost along the New Jersey coast. Amzie Smith, who for thirty years lias been in charge of the senate document room, was taken suddenly ill at bis desk, on the llth, and was at once removed to the senate library and put Jtnder the care of a physician. The trials of Francis Coffin, Percival Coffin and A. S. Reed, charged with aiding and abetting Theodore P. Haughey in wrecking the Indianapolis national bank, were begun in the federal court at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 10th. The pope, in a special bulletin issued on the 10th, nominated Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary of state, as archpriest of St. Peters. His holiness declares that this action is taken in recognition of the cardinal’s great services to the church. _ Mr. William Wilde, the divorced husband of Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New York, was married in London by special license, recentlj', to Miss Sophia Lees, a young lady of Irish parentage, who is said to be very wealthy. The fact of the paarriage was kept secret .until the 12th.

i The French government has received advices from Chinn that the Chinese at Hsianfu have burned the French mission at that place and malteeated and imprisoned the French missionaries. The government has determined upon demanding an explanation and apology. The house committee on inter-state unci foreign commerce, on the llth, ordered favorably reported a bill pre]>ared by the committee providing a i-etired list for officers of the revenue cutter service, by which all officers who are disabled are to be retired and given waiting-order pay. Widespread dissension has been caused in the Oklahoma presbytery by u certain faction of young men voting old and tried ministers out of their Helds against the wishes of the churches where they were serving and recommending certain personal friends, yet in college, for the places. ^ This report of the late Sir Gen. Portel, who was British consul general and political agent at Zanzibar, has ’been issued. The report strongly urges the construction of a railway to ithe coast and the draining of the territory around the Victoria Nyanza with a view to the development of ■commerce in that region. J. W. Wood, ex-treasurer of Calhoun county, Mich., and grand receiver of the A. 0. U. WV, has been missing since March 26. His books are now in the hands of the officers of the organization, who are investigating his accounts for six years—the time he has held office—and up to the 9th they had found a shortage of over $5,009 in his accounts. ' Late news from Hawaii, per steamer Monowai, say that the ex-queen’s organ, the Holomua, of the 28th ultimo, contained a notice of the Iiui Aloka Aina to the Hawaiian people which was a practical warning against taking any part ‘in the coming election for president, on pain of incurring the displeasure of Lilioukalani, whom the natives seem to believe will soon bo restored to her royal prerogatives. *>' During a fire in Davidson’s theater, Milwaukee, early on the morning of the 9th, the roof fell in, carrying down nearly a score of firemen, eight of whom were cremated in the auditorium, while a ninth was killed by a ladder failing with him. The rest of those who went down with the roof were irescued by their mates, all of them, however, badly injured, some fataHy. The Liliputians lost all of their val table costumes and nrouerties

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IN BBIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. IH the senate, on the 9th. Mr. HiU delivered his announced speech In opposition to the Wilson tariff bill, and especially the income-tax feature of it, which he denounced as “a scneme of spoliation and a sectional tax." Mr. Walsh, appointed to All the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, was sworn in. Messrs. Mills, Allen and Harris offered amendments to the rules, all of which went over, as did Mr. Wolcott's resolution as to the coinage of Mexican dollars. Filibustering against Mr. Harris' motion to have the tariff bill read in full occupied the remainder of the session..... In the house.it being District of Columbia day. the following bills were passed: Establishing additional harbor regulations for the district; regulating the sale of gas; requiring street car companies to cancel tickets when once used' and to authorize the adoption of children in the district. Is the senate, on the 10th. it was agreed that for the remainder of the week the tariff bill should be taken up each day at 1 p. m. and the discussion continued until & o'clock. Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, spoke against the bilL Mr. Wolcott's resolution looking to the coinage of Mexican standard dollars at the mintsof the United States was agreed to.‘ In the house the post office appropriation bill occupied most of the session. The resolution to prevent the bureau of engraving and printing from manufacturing postage stamps was defeated.

In the senate, on the 11th. Senator Bale spoke against tho tariff bill, giving particular attention to the effect of the proposed bill on the question of Canadian annexation, to which he said it would be a death blow, and this consideration alone should defeat the measure. The further urgent deficiency bill was considered for two hours, but went over without final action.In the house the republicans refused to vote upon the motion to discharge the order of arrest of members made March 26. which left the house without a quorum, and at 1:40 p. m. an adjournment was taken. In the senate, on the 12th, Mr. Paffer delivered the third part of his speech on the tariff bill. The further urgent deficiency bill was under discussion for two hours, but had not been disposed of when the senate adjourned. .In the house the resolution to fine members absent without leave, or being present, failing to vote, was, after much filibustering, declared by the speaker to be carried, although voted upon by less than a quorum. In the senate, on the 13th, after routine morning business, consideration of the urgent deficiency bill was resumed, but it went over without action. Mr. Peffer delivered the fourth installment of his speech on the tariff bill, and was followed by Mr. Mitchell, who spoke In criticism of the measure.In the house filibustering began as soon as the journal had been read, Mr. Boutelle objecting to its approval. Failing to secure a voting quorum, the house, at 1 o’clock, adjourned PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The works of the American Grape Sugar Co. at "Buffalo, N. Y., were destroyed by fire on the l*2th. The lives of sixty of the night workmen on the top floors were imperiled, and after the fire many of them were missing. Loss, $1,200,000; insurance, $500,000. The American Railway union has asked J udge Dundy of the • federal court at Omaha, Neb., to order salaries of monthly-paid men on the Union Pacific restored to the figures existing* prior to September last, and that the restoration date from the receivership in October. The Belmont mill at Wheeling, W. Va., resumed, on the 10th, after ten months’ idleness, employing 500 men. The operating of this mill will start other departments soon, giving employment to nearly 1,000 idle hands. By an explosion of dynamite in a dynamite -laboratory near Docmitz, in Meeklenburg-Schwerin, on the 9th, the bodies of three workmen were literally blown to the winds, while five others were horribly mangled and fatally injured. The wreckage of the buildings was strewn about the adjacent - fields, some of the debris being carried half a mile away. George William Thomas Bruden-ell-Bruce, marquis of Ailesbury, died in London on the 10th. He was born in 1863.

A dastardly attempt was made at Huron, O., at midnight of*the 9th, to wreck train No. 8, the -^ast-bound flyer, on the Lake Shore road. By the merest accident the attempt was discovered in time to prevent what would have proved a rival of the great Ashtabula disaster. ‘ The second trial of Richard S. Heath, charged with the murder of Louis B. McWhirter, a prominent politician of Fresno, Cal., resulted, on the 11th,. in another disagreement, the jury, which had been out five days, standing ten for conviction and two for acquittal. The United Mineworkers’ convention at Columbus, O., on the®llth, ordered a general strike, to begin April 81. The snow at Northumberland and Bloomsburg, Pa., was two feet deep, on the 11th, and still falling. The Rock Island officials have complimented Engineer J. D. McKinney and presented him with a 8250 gold watch for ignoring the signal of train robbers a few months ago and preventing a hold-up. Six of the shots fired at the engineer struck the cab. During the temmirary absence at noon, on the 12th, *of the clerk and cashier of the Wallace Exchange bank at Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief, who had gained an entrance to the oeller, cut a hole through the vault floor and robbed the bank of 83,500 in cash, making good his escape and leaving no clew to his identity. The town of Belview, Minn., had a narrow escape from being completely destroyed by fire on the 12th. Elevators belonging to Mulford Elevator Co. and the Inter-State Grain Co., of Minneapolis, were burned, with 6,000 bushels of grain; loss, $6,000. Maior, the anarchist, who was arrested in Paris, on the 11th, on suspicion of having exploded a bomb in front of the house of Judge Pelc, in Argeuntel, was liberated on the 12th, for want of evidence. A natural gas explosion wrecked the home of W illiam Malaeed, of McKeesport, Pa., on the 12th. Mrs. Malseed and her 12-year-old daughter Effie were fatally burned by the explosion. Alfred Anderson, serving a life term in the Anamosa (la.) penitentiary for the murder of a farmer near Fort Madison last fall, escaped from the prison on the night of the 11th, his flight not being detected until the next morning. The state offers a reward of $50 for his capture

Two hoi obiouq anarchists bavin? a loaded bomb in their possession were arrested in Rome on the 11th. The budget was approved by the ministers at the British cabinet meeting’ on the 12th. A fixe article of glass sand has been discovered near Lapel,Ind.,in sufficient quantities to supply the gas belt for twenty yet rs. A stock company will be organized at once and the quarry developed. It will be a boom to the glass intere sts of Indiana, as all sand has been s'. lipped from Ohio and Illinois heretofore. In the British house of lords, on the 12th, the ei rl of Kimberly, in moving the second reading of the Behring sea bill, review ad the whole course of the arbitration. and expressed approval of the action of the marquis of Salisbury in submitting the question to arbitration. '

K. K. da tREi.i., wno went to .Portland, Ore., last fall without a cent, and would have been working for the board of charities since but for the kindness of a boardi lg-house keeper, who gave him a home, received word on the 12th that he had fallen heir to over $300,000 by the death of his uncle, J. P. Taylor, at Holcomb, Mo. Fire, on the 12th, destroyed the United Sta .es marine hospital at Port Townsend, Wash. There were no fatalities. Tlie loss is $0,000; The fire originated 4a an outhouse used as an oil room, and is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. The hospital wasfn ilt in 1852. Among tho passengers who arrived on board the Majestic from Liverpool, on the 12th, were Mrs. Nellie GrantSartoris and children and Capt. Cranfield and ere w of twenty of Lord Dunraven’s yacht Valkyrie. Prince Bismarck has decided to remain in Friedrichsruhe until June, when he will go to Varzin and stay there until August. Afterwards he will perhaps go to 'Bingen and other places iu the Rhine country in response to the urgent invitation of friends, t David Dudley Field, of New York, te eminem lawer and jurist died ddenly, on the morning of the 13th, of pneumonia. He had just returned from a five-months’sojourn in Europe. Mr. Field was 89 years old. His estate is valued at between $500,000 and $1,000,001. Judge Dundy, 6f Omaha, Neb., decided, on the 13th, that the office men and other monthly-paid employes of the Union Pacific railroad may have their salaries restored if, in the judgment of the receivers it ought to be done. Mr. and M rs. Geadstone arrived in London from Ha warden on the 13th. They drove mmediately to the residence of Lord Aberdeen, at Dollis Hill, where they were to remain during their stay in the metropolis. Thomas Flynn, one of the strike leaders in the Connellsville (Pa.) coke district, was arrested at Scottdale, on the 13th, and taken to Uniontown jail, charged with complicity in the murder of J. H. Padcock. Civil war has again broken out in the Samoan islands. Several engagements have been fought between the government troops and insurgents, with a number of ku led and wounded on both sides. Mr. Shelley, a well-known American dentist in Par is, committed suicide, on the ISth, by shooting himself in the head. He had suffered of late from melancholia. . A late disp atch from Rio Grande do Sol says that the Brazilian federal troQps had completely routed the insurgents in that state.

LATE NEWS ITEMS' In the sena e, on the 14th, Mr. Quay made a speech against the tariff bilL A resolution, previously offered by Mr. Quay, that on the 21st, between the hours of 1 and 4 p. m., a hearing should be given to a committee of 100, representing a monster convention of the workingmen’s association of the United States to ,meet in Washington on the 20th, was laid on the table. The further deficiency bill—appropriating about $1,800,000—was passed. In the house, no quorum voting on the motion to approve the journal, adjournment wa s taken. The Pollard-Breckinridge breach-of-promise case v as brought to a close in Washington on the 14th, the jury returning a verdict in favor of Miss Pollard and awsrding her $15,000 damages. Mr. Bret kinridge’s attorneys will move for a new trial, failing in which will carry the ease to the supreme court of the District of ColumbiaSknator Zki l'i.on B. Vaxce, of North Carolina, died at his home in Washington, on the night of the 14th, aged 04 years. His health had been bad for the past year, and in the forenoon of the day of his death was stricken with apoplexy and only regained consciousness a few minutes before he breathed his last The -statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the : 4th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $83,025; loans, increase, $6,157,800; specie, increase, $476,100; legal tenders, increase, $1,808.8( 0; net deposits, increase, $9,009,500; circulation, decrease, $102.600. Admiral de 5 ello has surrendered to the Uruguayan authorities with the 100 troops who disembarked on the frontier of Uruguay, after having been cjriven out of tiue state of Rio Grande do Sul bv tha troops of President Peixoto. The rebellion in frazil may be said to have completelyAjpllapsed. The principal bankers of Berlin have formed a union to protect the interests of banl ers and brokers.. The executive committee of thirty-two is composed of twelve great bankers, four brokers and sb teen representatives of smaller banks. Ranchers an 1 orehardists in the vicinity of Win .ers, Yolo county, Cal., have been repli cing white labor with Chinese and i apanese. Citizens ary highly indigm nt, and have notified the employers 1 hey must hire whites. Prince Bism *rck’s daily walks are growing longei and his health is better than in years.

HOOSIEB HAPPENINGS. InformatiOE of Especial Interest to Indianians. 1 A Murder Mystery Solved. Jeffersonville, lnd., April 12.—At 3 o’clock Wednesday morning' Marion Pickering, an itinerant colored preacher, was arrested for the murder of Stephen Geer, the aged dairyman who re* sided, near this city. The crime was commit|ed on the night of March 6 last An hour or two previous to the time when Pickering was taken into custody Abe Reed, alias Sim Booker, alias John Devite, a negro crook, was arrested on the charge of complicity in the murder, and his confession to the officers was the last link in the chain of evidence against Pickering, and, as he has been under constant surveillance for two weeks, it was known just where he could be found and his arrest followed immediate! v.

Found Counterfeit Coin. Lafayette, Ind., April 12.—A basketful of half-made counterfeit fivedollar gold pieces, nickels, counterfeit silver dollars, chloride of gold, block tin, acids and silver bullion was brought in Wednesday from Washington township. The stuff was found in the walls of a house IK miles north of Buck creek and was used by Joseph Bennett, now in jail at Indianapolis, in making the money put in circulation here last week. The evidence against him is very strong. George Liston and Peter Schaible were taken to Indianapolis to answer the charge of passing counterfeit money. Attempt to Close Poolrooms Fall*. Indianapolis. Ind., April 12.—The persistent attempt by the city to break up pool selling came to naught Wednesday night. Several weeks ago Sam Douglass. who is interested in the pool selling, was' indicted and1 his case still hangs fire. The delay not suiting the city, an arrest was made of persons who bought pools and Jesse D. Carlisle was arraigned for gambling. A trial was had by jury covering two- days and a verdict for defendant was returned Wednesday night. Left Wife hud Friends. Goshen, Ind., April 12.—The mysterious disappearance of Edward G. Walker a week ago is explained. It has been learned that he left with Pearl Ritter, a dissolute woman. Walker’s v* ife, who was. but recently mariied, is prostrated. His double life had brought him into financial straits, which he had not the backbone to face, and he fled with the siren who had lured him to his ruin. Wreck ou the Pun-Handle. Hartfobd City, Ind., April 12.— A Pan-Handle engine and fourteen freight cars plunged over an embankment in this city Tuesday night and were piled up in a mass of wreckage. A. Ben thin, head tyeakman, was instantly killed, and J. W. Tucker, fireman, had both legs broken. Al Phillips received injuries that caused his death. Two tramps, beating their way, were also seriously injured. Preparing to Try the Pugilists. Hammond, Ind., April 12.—The riotous conspiracy cases against President Dominick 04Malley, Referee George Siler, Pugilist Billy Woods and other members of the defunct Columbian Athletic association, which were to be tried at the adjourned session of the Lake circuit court beginning April 16, were continued until the Juue term ou account of the sickness of Judge Langdon, of Lafayette. New High School at Wabash, Ind. Wabash, Ind., April ^2.—The laying of the corner-stone of the new high school building here Wednesday was one of the greatest demonstrations the city has ever known. The exercises were under the auspices of the masonic order.

Wins a Suit for Injuries. Xqbl,K8Ville, lud., April 12.—In the circuit court Wednesday the jury found for Rolla Foust vs. the American Strawboard company in the sum of $2,500. Recently the plaintiff’s left arm was caught in the machinery and crushed and burned to the body, crippling him for life. He sued for $10,000. Distilling Company Incorporated. Indianapolis, Ind., April 12.—The Indiana Distilling company of Terre Haute was incorporated Wednesday with $500,000 capital. This is the con* cern which the whisky trust recently tried to buy. The incorporators are G. L. Woolsey, of Peoria, III., F. B. Smith and Charles Vincent Short in HI* Accounts. Sullivan, Ind., April 12.—Post Office Inspector Vickery has found a shortage in ex*Postmaster Chiggage's account of $530. Chiggage claims his deputy, E. P. Lacey, wno had full charge of the office, embezzled >the funds. A Hotel Burned. Wabash, Ind., April 12.—The Cottage hotel at Converse, l? miles southwes’t of this city, was totally destroyed by lire Wednesday night Most of the .furniture was saved. Loss about $2,500; no insurance. Manager Blckel Designs. Elkhart, Ind., April 12. — E. C. Bickel, of this city, has resigned his position as general manager of the Elkhart & Western railway, the eastern terminus of which is at this place. Asks 910,000 Damages. Muncie, Ind., April .2. — Martin Dressy, who lost an eye some time since at the Mancie architectural iron works, has brought suit against the company, asking $10,000 'damages. :T Child Killed by a Train. Terke Haute, Ind., April 12.—Robbie Purcell, aged 6, was standing on the Vandalia -track Wednesday afternoon when he was struck and killed, one arm and both legs being cut off. Found His Wife Dead. Sheridan, Ind., April 12.—Charlec Hines awoke Wednesday raorning to find his wife dead at. til side, heart failure being the cause.

THE MISSING TWELVE, Those Known to Have Perished in the Great Glucose Kilt Fire la Buffalo. FX —Many Others Believed to Have Lose Their Lives. Buffalo, N. Y., April 15.—The list of the missing' employ es of the American Glucose Co. still numbers twelve, and it is now certain that they perished in the main building. The office is surrounded by Polish men and women waiting for news of their missing kinsmen or friends. Last evening search for the missing bodies began. Smoke was rising in great volumes from the smouldering wreck, on which five hose streams were playing continually. In its fatal results the fire is the worst that has visited Buffalo since the burning of the Richmond hotel, and the horror of the disaster is added to by the statement of employes* that the number reported missing does not represent the actual loss of life. The twelve missing men ’'’ere all maiTied, and consequently their absence was reported promptly by their families, but the workmen say that there were many unmarried men. who lived in boarding houses, and express the belief that many of those also fell victims to the flames.!

THREE WATERSPOUTS Visit the Vicinity of Run Antonio, Tex„ Doing Great Damage. e New Orleans, April 15.—The TimesDemocrat's San Antonio special says: Three waterspouts, which did considerable damage to property here, occurred last night. The most damaging one occurred in Ken county. At Renville several houses were washed away and a large number of cattle on adjoining ranches we^e drowned in the Guadaloupe river, which rose twelve feet in a few minutes. About an hour later another waterspout occurred near Hunter, a feiv miles north of here. The south-bound International & Great Northern passenger train was caught in it and delayed four hours on account of the track being covered by several feet of water. * The third waterspout was west of here, near the town of Standard The Southern Pacific track is covered with the flood of water for a distance of several miles. FATALLY INJURED. - t Results of the Explosion of s Burning Tank Car In Chicago. Chicago, April 15.—Fire started at 6:80 a. m. in a Union Line oil tank car standing in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad yards, near Sacremento avenue and Kenzie street. It burned slowly until 8:30 o'clock and then exploded, wrecking adjoining rolling stock and fatally injuring several men. Among them were a letter carrier and a number of railway employes. The most seriously injured are: * Patrick Fitzsimmons, burned and will die. John Foute, letter carrier; burned about the face and hands; will die. Josen Weinfeldt, burned about the head; will die. Charles Miller, 15 years old, burned about body; will die. Joseph Cransden, slightly burned. Most of the injured were taken to Bennett hospital. In each case tie w ounds were inflicted by burning oil The cause of the accident was a fi.t> of burning rubbish in the yards. ADMIRAL DE MELLO Surrenders to Crnguny After Being Driven Out of Rio Grande Do Sul. Montevideo, April 15.—Admiral De Mello has surrendered to the Uruguayan authorities with the 100 troops who disembarked on the frontier of Uruguay, after having been driven out of the state of Rio Grande do Sul by the troops of President Peixoto. The rebellion in Brazil may be said to have completely collapsed. The authorities of Uruguay have disarmed the insurgents. The state of siege at Rio de Janeiro has been extended to June 13, but it is believed that, in view of the surrender of Admiral De Mello and the insurgent forces, the Brazilian government will shortly be able to raise the state of siege

AN INSANE JUROR Causes the Abrupt Postponement of a Trial. Wheeling, W. Va., April 13.—The sensational case of the state against James P. Bachman, a prominent young man charged with procuring an abortion upon a young girl, who claims he seduced her, was brought abruptly to a temporary close this morning by the insanity of a juror, John Foose, Jr. The jury has been wrestling with the case two days,and Foose has showed signs of insanity from the first. Friday night he became violent,and this morning Judge Jordan discharged the jury. Foose, in his dementia, thought he had been convicted of murder and was going to be hanged. Bachman was released on bail { Brecinridje Will Go and Look After His Fences. TVashixgtox, April 15.—Representative Breckinridge says that he will not take his seat in the house again this season but will start directly for home and commence his fight tor re-nomina-tion and re-election to congress. He intends to speak; in every election precinct in the district,or as he expressed it, in every public hall and schoolhouse. The Armor-Plnte I informer* Want a Further Investigation. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 15. — The armor-plate informers are still anxious to have a further investigation of the armor-plate scandal made by the government. In an interview Edward Sill, one of the informers, said: “Equity will cause to be reopened an award which has been mistakenly arrived at , through the concealment of material facts by the defendant. We desire a reopening of the case, as we believe the settlement was improperly made, and not sufficient as warranted by the evidence furnished.

DEATH CALLS AGAIN Gen* Slocum Answers the Sammons at Brooklyn, K F., Alter n Week’s Stefs' of Pneumonia—Deceased Won Diettns* tion by His Serried Darinf the War— His Career From West Point to a MajorGeneral’s Commission. New Yoke, April 14.—Gen. Henry W. Slocum died at I2:0f. o'clock this morning at his home, No. 465 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, of pneumonia. Gen. Slocum had been ill only a few davs, and death was not unexpected. Just before 6 o’clock last night he suddenly began to sink, Dr Bellows, his family physician, vmo had charge of the case, was summoned. Dr. Bellows saw at once the serious condition of his patient. He called Dr. Fuhs and Dr. Benjamin F. Westbrook in consultation. They succeeded in arresting' Gen. Slocum’s relapse, and he was thought to be getting better. At 8 o’clock, however, he suddenly grew worse, and hisfamily was summoned to his bedside to await the end. At 11 o’clock Gen. Slocum fell into a sleep, which continued three-quarters of an hour. A few minutes before midnight he awoke and spoke to his family. At 12:05, perfectly conscious of his approaching end, he died a painless death.

I'jvu. oiuvuui wno uuru iu iwipui. ^uuuvio^a county, N. Y.. September 24, 1827. He was therefore In his, sixty-seventh year. He wa* graduated at the United States military academy in_J852 and was appointed second lieutenant in the First artillery. He waa ordered to Florida the same year and was promoted tirst lieutenant in S855. He resigned his commission in October, 1886, and engaged in the practice of law at Syracuse, N. Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1859, and at the opening of the war he tendered his services. On May 21, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the Twenty-seventh New York volunteers, and he commanded this regiment at the battle of Bull Bun. on July 21, when he was severely wounded. On August 9. 1861. he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, and was assigned to the command of a brigade iu Gen. Wi lliam B. Franklin's division of the army of thh Potomac. In the Virginia peninsula campaign of 1862, Gen. Slocum was engaged in the siege of Yorktown and the action at West Point, Va. He succeeded to the command of the division on May 5, 1862, on Franklin's assignment to the Sixth corps. At the battle of Gaines' Mills. June 27, 1862. Gen. Slocum was sent with his division to reinforce Gen. FitzJohn Porter, who was then severely pressed by the enemy. Gen. Slocum rendered important service on this occasion, and also at the battles of Glendale and Malvern Hill, his division accompanying the right of the main line at both engagements. Gen. Slocum was promoted to the rank of major-general of volunteers. July 4,1862, and he engaged in the second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain and Antietnm. In October he was assigned to the command of the Twelfth army corps, and he took an active part in the battles or Fredericksburg, Chanceildrsville and Gettysburg. He was transferred with his corps to the west, and served in the department of the Cumberland until April, 1861, when his corps was consolidated with, the Eleventh. and he was assigned to a division and was given the command of, the district of Vicksburg. In August, 1864, Gen. Slocum succeeded Gen. Hooker in the command of the Twentieth army corps, which was the first body of troops to occupy Atlanta. Ga.. September 2, 1864. In Sherman’s march to the sea and invasion of the Carol!nas Gen. Slocum commanded the left wing of the army and book part in ail the engagements from the departure from Atlanta to the surrender. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law in Brooklyn, N. Y. He ran for secretary of state in 1865. but was unsuccessful. He was elected to congress in 1884.] 4 » ZEBULON B. VANCE. Death Once More Visits the United States Senate and Calls Hence a Popular Member—Senator Vauce, of North Carolina, After Suffering from Ill-Health for a Year, Succumbs to a Stroke of Apoplexy. Washington. April 15.-—Senator Zebnlon B. Vance, of North Carolina, died at his residence, , 1627 Massachusetts avenue, at 10:45 o’clock last night. The senator had not been- in good health for the past year, and in the early part of the session of congress was compelled to abandon bis senatorial duties and take a trip to Florida in the hope of recuperating. His trip proved beneficial, and on his return to Washington „ he was able for awhile to partially resume his official duties. His improvement, however, did not continue long, and for the last few weeks he „ has been confined to his home. He was practically an invalid, but lately has been able to receive a few intimate friends and superintend the looking after the interests of his constituents. During the past*week he has been reported as doing well as could be expected, and the serious change for the worse yesterday was wholly unexpected.

©noruy oeiore n oeiocK ne naa an ^attack of apoplexy and became unconscious, retraining- qonscionsness only a few minutes before death. His wife, Thomas Allison, Harry Martin, and Mrs. Charles Vance, Judge and Mrs. Houk and Rev. Dr. Pitzer and Doctors W. W. Johnson and Ruffin where at his bedside when he died. [Senator Zebulon B. Vance, of Charlotte, was born in Buncombe county. North Carolina, May 13, 1830; was educated at Washington college. Tennessee, and at the university of North Carolina; studied law; was admitted to the bar in January, 1852. and was elected county attorney for Buncombe county the same year; was a member of the state house of commons in 1864: was a representative from North Carolina in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses; entered the confederate army as captain in May, 1882, and was made colonel in August, 1862; was elected governor of North Carolina in August, 1862, and re-elected in August, 1864: was elected to the United States senate in November. 1870. but was refused admission, and resigned in January, 1872; was the democratic nominee for the United States senate In 1872, hut was defeated by a combination, of bolting democrats and republican^; was elected governor of North Carolina for the third time in 1876; was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in {dace of A. S. Merrimon, also a democrat; took his seat March 18, 1879, and was re-elected in 1884 and 1891. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1897.] Foiled In an Attempt to Destroy a Passenger Train. Janesville, Minn.. April 15.—An attempt was made to -wreck a passenger train on the Winona & St. Peter road, S miles east of this place. A large pile of ties was placed on the track iiisuch a position as to derail a rapidly-moving train. Fortunately a freight engine going at a moderate speed struck the abstraction, but was not thrown from the track. No clew as to the perpetrators of the deed, although it is believed to have been committed by a gang of tramps, who had passed through the town, *