Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 November 1895 — Page 2

ik» (Soautjj Jkracrrst M. XaO. 8TOOP8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. Thk Italian squadron, ordered to cooperate with the British squadron in Turkish waters, left Naples, on the 14th, for the east. Thk Damroscli opera company made Its first bow in its American tour at Cincinnati, on the night of the JBth, Introducing1 several artists hitherto unheard in this country. A dispatch from Vienna says that a telegram received there from St. Petersburg announces that the ozarina was safely accouched of a daughter at 10 o’clock on the evening of the 11th. It is proposed to merga • the homestead of the poet Whittier at Amesbury, Mass., into a memorial building, open to the public, and the plan is being received in literary circles with general approval. , Thk cruiser Boston, which has been overhauled and repaired at the Mare Island navy yard, will go into commission on the 18th. She will be assigned to the Asiatic station for dluty in Chfbese waters. A dispatch to*the Cologne Gazette from its correspondent in Constantinople, on the 13th said that all of the Christian and Armenian teachers between Erzeroum and Trebisond had been massacred.

Gen. Thomas G. Lawyer states that he has not formally withdrawn from the race for the Illinois governorship, and that he has made no deal wliith Mayor Hopkins of Chicago to give his support to the latter. Pennsylvania day at the Atlanta exposition occurred on the 14th, and the people of the Keystone state broke the record ci attendance. There were 6,000 more people on the ground than the exposition had yet seen. A white cap society his been organised by fifty of the leading citizens of Wapello, Monroe and Appanoose connties in Iowa, for protection from informers acting in the interest of the deputy United States marshals. The Darmstadt Gazette, the official journal of the grand duchy of HeSse, declares that the unfavorable statements which have been circulated regarding the condition of the czarina of Russia are absoluteinventions. Caisar Selso Moreno^ who was convicted in Washington /some time ago of a criminal libel on Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador, was sentenced, on the 11th, in the district criminal court to ninety days in the district jail. Chas. Fithian, of Chicago, sustained fatal injuries, on the 11th, by° falling from an upper story of his residence on South Clark street. When his wife was informed of the accident she fell from her chair and died instantly. A up port received at the department of state frou*}Consul Dean, at Naples, on the 13th, states that it is estimated the orange and lemon crop of southern Italy will be less than last year, or about two-thirds of the average.

The criminal oonrt at Breslau, on the 14th, sentenced Herr Liebknecht, the socialist leader in the reiehstag, to lour months’ imprisonment for lese majeste, in consequence of his speech before the recent socialist congress in Breslau. -- . I . The Iowa state board of railroad commissioners has denied the application of the farmers and business mien of Cerro Gordo and other northern counties for a decrease of freight rates on grain from Iowa points east, especially to Chicago. A telegram received at thoK Indian office, on the 18th, from Agent Day, at Ignacio, Col., told of the killing of tivo Ute Indians by whites, and expressed the agent’s fears that it may -lead to another Indian uprising similar to the one that recently alarmed the Bannock country. The grain blockade at Buffalo, N. Y., is increasing, and the situation is becoming serious. All the elevators are full, and the railroads can not meet the demand for cars. A score of vessels are tied up to the docks against the creek awaiting their turn to get to elevators. i Advices have been received that the long-existing enmity between the Mohammedans and Catholic Miridibes in Albania has again taken the form of active hostilities. Four battalions of Turkish troops have been dis- * patched from Scutari and Uskub to the scene of the conflict.

The port© in reply to the identical note of Germany. Austria and Italy, demanding' that the porte’s scheme for reform in Armenia be officially communicated to t^em, informed the representatives of those governments, on the 12th, that their requests should be complied with without delay. ' The animal report of Gen. James W. Forsythe, commanding the department of California, has been received at Washington and shows the condition of his department in respect to discipline to be excellent. The heavy artillery practice of batteries of the Fifth artillery has been satisfactory \i' -.- • •— jj The eightieth birthday anniversary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton of New York was formally celebrated at the Metropolitan opera house, New York city, on the 12th, by the National Conncil of Tomeu, delegates being present from every state and territory; from trades unions, clubs and societies; churches, chs itable institutions and educational »nd philanthropic institutions. She was the recipient of jgaany testimonials of regard.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS IH BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The Iowa iron works at Dubuque, la., has shipped the new machinery for the torjaedo boat Ericsson, and the trial trip will be lWld this month on Long1 Island sound* If the weather proves favorable. Tun plant of the York (Pa.) Wall Paper Co. was completely destroyed by fire on the 12th. The plant was worth $200,000 and was insured for $100 000. ' ‘ The Norwegian ship Mindet, Capt Christiansen, from Mobile, Ala., for West Hartlepool, England, was towed Into quarantine in the Tyne on the 12th. Eleven of her crew were sick with* fever, two having died. The duke and duchess of Marlborough abandoned the carriage for the wheel at Sayville, L. I., on the 11th. It was the first opportunity for vigorous outdoor exercise, and the young conple made the most of it. A dispatch from Constantinople says that at a conference of the aoJbassadors of the powers,*held recently, it, was decided to renew in still stronger language the demands upon the porte regarding the state of affairs in the province of Anatolia. The powers will insist upon knowing what meas* ures the porte will take to restore order. . s The Japanese minister at Washington received a telegram, on the 12th, to the effect that a convention had been signed at Pekin, providing for payment of an additional indemnity by China for the evacuation of the Liao Tung peninsula. The amount is M0,000.000 taels, to be paid November 18. 1895. Geji. Doe, acting secretary of war, on the iSth, requested that a troop of cavalry be held in readiness to go to the scene of the Indian trouble at the Southern Ute agency in Colorado, if necessary. Gen. Miles directed Gen. Wheaton to comply with the re

quest. The Southern Surgical and Gynecological association commenced its eighth annual meeting in Washington city, on the 12th, many of the most celebrated specialists being present. At noon, on the 12th, in St. Thomas’ church. New York city, in the presence , of about 1,000 guests, among whom were President Cleveland, Secretary of War Larnont and Secretary of the Navy Herbert, the nuptials of Miss Pauline Payne Whitney’, daughter of ex-Secretary of the Navy WilliamC. Whitney,and’ Mr. Almeric Hugh Paget, were solemnized by Bishop Potter, Bishop Leonard, of Ohio, and liev. J. Wesley Brown. Hon. S. B. Meyers, ex-member of t he Pensylvania legislature, was found dead in bed at his residence in Franklin, Pa., on the 13th, by his wife. Death resulted from heart failure* caused by a severe attack of asthma. Mr. Meyers was 60 years of age. After carrying on the most determined fight, for the enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law that Kansas lias ever witnessed. Assistant Attor-ney-General Campbell scored his first triumph, on the 13th, in securing the conviction of John Jennings, a Wichita “jointist,” on a charge of selling liquor unlawfully. The claim is made that eighteen suicides have occurred at Paris and Lj’ons which can be traced to despondency resulting from losses on the Paris bourse during the recent panic. A frame school building in Grenada, one of the British Windward islands, in which over 100 children were present at their studies, was destroyed by fire on the 11th. A panic Seized the young people and, despite hard work on the part of the teachers and others who went to the rescue, forty of the children were burned to death. Samvel, E. Levis, cashier of the United States Direct Cable Co. in New York city, was found dead in bed, on

the ISth, in his apartments in Brooklyn. lie had been asphyxiated by gas escaping front a stove. It is believed that his death was accidental. Miss Margaret Blaine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Blaine, and niece of the late James G. Blaine, was married in Washington, on the 12th, to Dr. Henry J. Crosson, a well-known physician of Washington. The steam oyster dredge James W. Boyle foundered off the bell buoy at the Roekaway (N. Y) inlet, on the ISth, and all on board, five in number, were drowned. She was on her way from Bridgeport, Conn., to Roekaway with a cargo of seed oysters, which were to be planted there. On the ISth United States Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard was presented with the freedom of the city of Dundee, Scotland, by the civic authorities. In accepting it he said that no duty was so grateful to him as that pf representing international comity between the two great civilised peoples. The war department has under con-, sideration the case of Capt. Samuel K. Sohwenk, retired, of the army, who is likely to be brought before courtmartial for duplication of his pay accounts. Denver, Col., is much excited over the latest sensation in the Schlatter craze. When a member of the Fox family went to call him for breakfast, about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 14th, his room was found vacant Later a note was found, reading: “Mr. Fox, my mission is finished. The Father takes me away. F. Schlatter.” Jake Gavdaxjr, champion sculler of America, has deposited $500 with the Toropto (Out.) Globe in support of a challenge for £500 a side to C. R, Ilardiug. the English champion. Gaudaur will take £50 expenses and row in England, or will allow £100 expenses if Harding comes to America. The District of Columbia court of appeals, in an opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Morris, on the 14th, sustained the verdiot of the criminal court in the case of Capt H. W. Howgate, the former disbursing officer of the signal service. His term of imprisonment is eight years.

Joseph Bub, who was hollered to he the oldest living1 odd fellow, he having been connected with the order for nearly seventy-two years, died in Philadelphia on the l?th. The attorneys for Theodore Dnrrant have prepared an affidavit to be read in support of a motion for a new trial. Two of the principal points on which a new trial will be asked are the roli in^ of Judge Murphy as to Juror Brown, who was peremptorily challenged by the prosecution after he had been accepted and sworn, and the refusal to grant a change of venue. Qbeat damage was wrought by the 1 fierce northeast gale that swept the ! Atlantic coast- on the 14th. In addition i to the loss of two fishing vessels and [ nine lives off Rockaway beach, propj erty along the Jersey coast was carried away, and it Is feared a third vessel was engulfed. Reposts from Rio Janeironnnonnce the shooting at Hictheroy, on November 10, of twenty-seven political prisoners, among whom there were two colonels. This caused the greatest excitement in all circles, and nothing else was talked of. The executed are known to have been iu sympathy with the mOnarchial cause. Am Jones, the “Bearded Lady” of the Barnum '& Bailey show, who, on the 13th, secured a divorce from a worthless husband named Elliptt. was, on the 14th. married in St. Louis tp W. A. Donovan, son of the mistress of the robes of the big show. The eon pie had been sweethearts in their younger days. The action of the canal authorities iu closing the gate of the large raceway in Lock port, N. Y., because of the low water, means the shutting down of a dozen large factories and flouring mills along its line, and the throwing out of employment of folly 25 per cent, of the inhabitants of Lockport. ? The steamer Mariposa sailed forHonolulu, Auckland and Sydney, on the 14th. Among the passengers for Samoa was Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, who returns to live permanently at her old hotue at Valium. Mrs. Stevenson was accompanied by her son, Lloyd Osborne, and Mrs. Isabel Strong. Sixty thousand men and women of Chicago who believe the Bible should be read in the public schools in a noasectarian ^manner, have sighed a petition to that effect which will be soon presented to the board of education. Signatures are still being obtained.

A filibustering expedition has been landed at Yagnas, eastern Cuba, from Venezuela. An unknown steamer transported the men and war material to a spot near the coast, and they were afterward, landed in open boats. Chairman Carter of the Republican national committee has sent word to Chicago tiiat the city may have the republican national convention for $54,000 cash and a guarantee to pa}’ the working expenses of- the meeting. John R. Tanner, chairman of the Illinois Republican state central committee, has resigned that of Hoe and enter the field for the gubernatorial nomination. Seymour Matthews, son of Gov. Matthews of Indiana, died in Atlanta, Ga., on the night of the 14th. 0 Thomas Byrnes, ex-chief of the New York police force, is in Berlin, where he will remain several weeks in connection with detective matters. During a gale,off the English coast, on the 15th, a Fife fishing boat was capsized and five of its crew were drowned. LATE NEWS ITEMS. An awfnl catastrophe occurred at Cleveland, O., on the night of the 16th, when, through the criminal carelessness of a conductor and the unaccountable stupidity of a motorman, an electric ear on the Big Consolidated line plunged, with its living freight of fifteen passengers and the conductor, through a draw of the Central viaduct which crosses the Cuyahoga river at 120 feet above the water. In its fall the car struck a projection of piles and was broken to pieces. One man and one woman were rescued alive, but the other thirteen were killed in the wreck or drowned. During a stereopticon lecture at the Methodist church in Farmland, Ind., on the night of the 16th, a panic was caused by the bursting of a rubber hose attached to the gas generator. In the stampede women and children were thrown down and trampled on and several were in danger of asphyxiation by the gas, but outsiders burst in the windows and rescued them. Great Britain’s fleet now cruising near the Levant, awaiting the return to Constantinople of the British ambassador, is by far the most formidable she has had in eastern waters since the bombardment of Alexandria,

sum exceeas even xuai neet m ngnuug force and the natnber of men carried. A Panama cable says that Venezuela is again in the throes of revolution. The revolt against President Crespo is led by Dr. Rojas Paul. Caracas. Coro and Maracaibo are disaffected. The rebels are well armed, and the overthrow of Crespo is confidently predicted by Dr. Paul. Judge Gibbons, of Chicago, has declared the state la .v closing barber shops on Sunday to be unconstitutional, as being class legislation. An appeal has been taken by the Barbers’ Sunday Closing association, which appeared as prosecutor in the case. Ferdinand Kennett, ex-chief of police of St. Louis, who killed Detective A. B. Lawrence, has been sentenced at Los Angeles to ten years in the California state prison. The Northern Pacific liner Strathnevis was sixteen days overdue at Yokohama on the 17th. She left Tacoma, . Wash., October 12, aud had not been sighted since. The president has appointed Wm. \Y. Russell, of Maryland, as secretary of the United States legation at Caracas, Venezuela. Ohio oil is again on the rise, and local operators expect it to reach the dollar mark before the end of the month.

. INDIANA STATE NEWS. Luther I. Bale, an aged resident of Hibbard, stuck his head under the see* ond ear of a Nickel Plate freight train the other morning and his head was cut oft Hale was out of work, and despondency prompted the act The football eleven of Earlham college has disbanded. The gas well being drilled at Richmond is now down 1,830 feet and is full of water, with no gas and but little prospect of securing any. A rROMixE.VT saloonkeeper, of Richmond has hit on a novel plan to evade the Nicholson law. He has boxed up his bar with a partition reaching to the ceiling. Each side has a door. One leads into this box and the other into the pool room. The only inconvenience caused the patro s is that they are forced to go through two sets of doors. K. 1L Zkllkrs, aged 60, a prosperous farmer living near Uniondaie. attempted suicided bv cutting his throat with a razor, lie can not recover. Family troubles are said to be the cause. Ix the case of Mr*. Evaline Brown, colored, who brought suit against the Pan Handle Co., at Richmond, asking $10,000 damages for injuries, the jury returned a finding for the plaintiff in the sum of $300. Shkdrick Gamble and his 13-year-old son were poisoned the other night by some head-cheese they had eaten for supper. They were very dangerously sick all night, but next morning were better. Mbs. Riioda Kexxey, of Orchard Grove, has received word that she has fallen heir to $1,500,000 from relatives who have just died in Ireland. Matilda Rust, the Brightwood girl, who had been absent for several days, was found living with a family named Brown northeast of Brightwood. The attorney general has filed his annual report with the governor. Of the larger funds collected by him, fines and forfeitures amount to $19,568.76. unclaimed fees, $2,683.26; state school i revenues, $16,468,84; congressional j school fund interest, $1,794.91; congressional school fund principal, $33,662.49; common school fund, $7,822.67; tuition j revenue. $25,352.39: county school rev

enue, Sy,87S.33. Dr. Driver, of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Marion, has accepted a call to the Tabernacle Methodist Church, of Philadelphia, where he will go May 1. Danville is going to have a public library. Nodlesville's opera house will soon be' completed. ! f A railroad extending from Evansville to New Albany along the Ohio river is being talked of. Frank Davenport, a Marion butcher, has begun to exhibit symptoms of rabies. He also has typhoid fever. Jake Capp, living near Alliance, smelled natural gas and struck a light to look for it. A flash followed. Tne house was blown to pieces and Capp and his daughter were blown across the street At Franklin James D. Lacy has filed suit against his father-in-law, N. M. Mens, for $10,000 damages for alleged slander and alienating his wife's affection. Rev. W. M. Nelson’s residence at Union City, was entered by! burglars the other night while he was holding services. The burglars secured $14 and two gold rings. Tue Wayne County Teachers’ association will hold its annual meeting at Richmond on Friday and Saturday, November 29 and 3 >. The pupils of Collier school, located near Markleville. Madison county, the other evening celebrated the first patriotic day in Indiana oommemorative of the battle of Tippecanoe. County Superintendent Johnson spoke appropriately of the day and of the reading cirele work of Indiana The success of the event was due to the efforts of | the teacher, Frank J. Buser, of Ander* | so*. Habeas corpvs proceedings have | been brought at Logansport to secure the release of Peter Lauer, a wealthy Porter county man, from the Logans- ! port hospital. Sarah Lester, of Indianapolis, has j become insane from religious excite- j ment. The dead body of Charles Lowry, a teamster for the strawboard company, was found in a stone quarry in the suburbs of Kokomo, with his skull ! crushed. It is thought he was muri dered and his body thrown there. Lowry had a wife and five children. A man named Thompson is in jail on suspicion. The granddaughter of Geo. Pavey, of Somerset, fell down the cellar steps a few days ago and died from the effects of the injuries, •yvhich were con

siaerect sngnt at toe tune. Albert Fknseler, a driller at Van Boren.was shot and instantly killed by City Marshal Cartwright* Fenseler bad been on a “tear” all day, and had attacked the marshal. ; While takings the belting' from the shafts at the Western Association’s Starch works, in West Hammond, Geppi Gragido, assistant engineer, was caught in a pulley and whirled to death. Thk attorney general has prepared an opinion sustaining the state auditor | in holding that a legislative appropriaj tion made for a year can not be used | in paying the bills incurred during a { previous year. Two masked highwaymen held up ■ Orla Turner and Charles Stephens, farmers, living at Bartonia, near Winchester, ss they were returning from church. About five dollars in money and a number of valuable papers were obtained. Fihr at Bremen, twelve miles northeast. of Plymouth, destroyed a livery barn and eleven horses, also Dr. Church's office. Total loss, $2,000; no insurance. William Bell fell from a new building at the Midland Steel works, in Muncie. and was fatally injured. He fell a distance of thirty feet, alighting (*n his feet

AWFUL CATASTROPHE. Frightful Plunge ot a Motor Oar Through a Draw. 3i. Hundred sod Twenty Feet Throafk Spec* Into the River Below—llfteea Person. Make the Pta«g« end All bet Two Perish In the Fell. Cleveland, a, Nov. 18.—‘A frightful accident which occurred here last evening, suddenly threw a number of South side families into mourning, and it was all due to the criminal and still unexplainable carelessness of a street-car conductor. The carelessness of the conductor will, however, never be explained, for he t-. among the victims of the catastrophe. Nineteen lives were lost, and some of those who were eyewitnesses of the*' awful plunge into that dark abyss of l£Ofeet assert that the motorman, as well as the conductor, was responsible. The accident occurred at 7:85 o'clock at the draw of the Central viaduct, a long stone-and-iron structure which crosses a valley and the Cuyahoga ! rirer and connects Jenning’s avenue > on the south side and Central avenue | on the east The bridge is life feet I above the river and a draw is immdi- j ately above it to admit the passage of |

tall -masted vessels. The draw was open for a tug drawing a schooner which was about to pass beneath the bridge. As usual the gates were closed on both sides of the draw and the.danger lights of red were displayed to guard against just such accidents as occurred last night. An electric car was seen coming along from the east towards the south side, but Capt Charles Brennan, who had charge of thejbridge, had no thought of danger, as the usual precautions had been observed. The car was one of the Cedar and Jennings »avenue branch of the Big Consolidated line and had fifteen passengers, a conductor and motorman aboard. ? At what is known as the derailing switch, some 200 feet from the draw, the conductor mechanically alighted, as is the wont of all the conductors at this point, to see if all was right and whether the coast was clear. The car. as all cars do, came to a sudden standstill, and the motorman waited for orders. The conductor, for some unaccountable reason, failed to see the red signal of danger an the closed gates, or perhaps custom made him careless, and lie signaled to the motorman, nathed Rogers, to came ahead. The motorman turned on the electric fluid, the conductor jumped aboard the car, which at considerable speed went rolling toward the draw. Why the motorman did not see the danger lights or the closed gates sooner than he did will perhaps always remain a mystery, but the fact remains that he did not. Nearer and nearer came the car to that awful abyss and a few feet from the draw it first dawned upon the motoruiiin that the draw was open, lie made extraordinary efforts to turn off the current, but it was of no avail. The bridge captain shouted like one possessed and screamed incoherently, but there was nothing left for him to tio. The motorman. realizing his own danger, forsook the precious freight of men, women and children entrusted to his care, leaped off the front platform just as the car was nearing the draw, ran down the viaduct in the direction of Central avenue and disappeared in the darkness. At the same instant two male passengers jumped off the car platform and escaped death as if by a miracle, for the car had already crashed into the closed iron gate. The conductor, too. tried to escape, but it was useless. A second after the immense motor had crashed through the gate it reeled before that Cawful space of 120 feet, steadied for a moment and with a terrific speed was hurled downward. Those who witnessed the accident saj' that they heard one agonizing chorus of screams, and in an instant all was quiet as death. The car struck upon a projection of piles in the abutment beneath the draw,, then turning and breaking into pieces, it leaped into the dark river below, breaking the towline between the tug and the schooner that was passing beh^ath the draw. • A moment after the car struck the river a few suppressed groans were heard by the men who happened to be on the docks below and then all was over. Men from the bridge above and from the docks yelled to the men on the tug to pick up the people, but thirteen lives was sacrificed, only two passengers, one man and one woman, being taken out alive.'

Inside of twenty minutes a fireboat, sis ambulances, sis dead wagon and a squad of policemen were on the scene. The injured man and woman were at! once taken to the hospital, but it took j many hours of hard and patient toil to i extricate the thirteen bodies from the wreckage of the car id the river. One j by one the bodies were taken to under- | taking establishments spread over j every part of the city, for this city is without a morgue, and the work of identification was extremely slow. Late at night when the south side residents heard of the catastrophe and ; when they began to realize that their i loved ones had not yet returned home, | the undertaking establishments were • visited, where one after another the j bodies were identified. The scenes were heartrending in theJ | extreme. PANIC IN A CHURCH Caused br a Sadden Escape 0/ Gas During > a Stereoptlean Lecture. Farmland, Ind., Nov. 18.—During a i stereopticon lecture at the Methodist ■ church here Saturday night a panic was caused by the bursting of a rubber hose attached to the gas generator. In the stampede women and children were thrown down and trampled on. The greatest crush was at the doors, which open inward. The furniture in the building was utterly ruined. Several were ia danger of asphyxiation by the gas.

OUR COAST, DEFENSES. 8m. Cralffhlll. Cktol of Katiwm, *•* porta to the SeereUrj of Wor That Oar Cooat Oofooaaa Aro laa<M|a»te-Saboa^ Hoo Mlooa aa on Att to Porttflcotloaa— KUin.tM for Continuing: Work oo Important Klror and Harbor lmproranrata Washington. Xov. 18.—The annual report of Gen. Craighill, chief of engineers, to the secretary of war hasbeen made public. He says that since the date of, the last report the board, has prepared projects for the artillery defense of Philadelphia. Key West* San Diego, the month of the Columbia, river. GalTeston and Puget sound. Allotments have been made daring the year for emplacements for fourteen 12inch, twenty-one 10-inch and seven 8inch guns, and eighty 12-inch mortars to be <U>tributed among Portland, Boston, New Yorki Philadelphia, Washington, Hampton Roads, Charleston, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans and San Francisco. Gen. Craighill attaches much importance to the defense of forts by submarine mines, supplementing the artillery defense. With the small funds in hand he has completed twen-ty-five casemates for the defense of the Atlantic coast and San Francisco, and is about to undertake the construction of one at Galveston. He submits estimates of 550,000 for additional casemates, and 850,000 for the purchase of submarine mines and appliances.

rue general stales inai me appropriation for the preservation and repair of fortifications is entirely inadequate, and suggests an increase in the appropriation. As the appropriation of $150,000 for the acquisition of sites for seacoast defenses was entirely exhausted at Narragansett Bay," Baltimore and. Charleston, he requests an additional appropriation of $350,000 for the procurement of other sites. Gen. Craighill favors carrying on river and harbor improvements under continuous contracts, for which appropriations have been made in sundrycivil acts. The financial statement shorts thatthere was expended on rivers and harbors during the past fiscal year, exclusive of the Mississippi and Missouri River commissions* expenditures, the sum of $15,440,994, making the total fear the past two years $30,904,084. Estimates are submitted in lump for the next two years, whieh Gen. Craighill believes is necessary in order to* conform to the practice of congress in failing to pass a bill during a short session of $$1,016,19?, made up as follows: General improvements, $13,358,600; continuing contract work, §5,94-4,-597 (this for expenditures in one 1fear)r. Mississippi river commission, $2,665,000; Missouri river commission, §750,600; examinations, surveys and contingencies, $300,000; special estimates submitted by the Mississippi river comsion. $1,417,000; special estimate submitted by the Missouri river commission, $160,000. Of the south pass of the Mississippi*, it is said that.during the past fiscal year the legal Channel was maintained at the head of the pass, and through the pass itself, but durihg a period of forty-three days such channel was not maintained through the jetties. Estimates for continuing the work on the more important river and harbor projects are submitted as follows, tha amount to be expended in the next fiscal year: Winaw bay. South Carolina, $200,000; Santeeriver, South Carolina, #90.000; Charleston harbor, 1100,0ft); Savannah river, #17,000; Darien harbor, Georgia, #8 >.000: Key West harbor,. $125.<X)0: Charlotte harbor, Florida, #20.000; Chattahooche river, #90,000; Pensacola harbor* $500,000; Alabama river, $50.0000; Coosa river,, between Rome and the Tennessee river bridge* $187,560; between Wetumpka and the same bridge, $312,500; Mobile harbor. $150,000; Black Warrior river, $100,000: Warrior and Tombigbee, in Alabama and Mississippi, $96,000; Tombigbee. up *» Demopolis. $97.9tX); below Deniopolis, #96 000; Bayou Lafourche, La., $25,000; Bavou Plaquemine, $150,000; Calcasieu river,. $100.00; Sabine Pass. Tex., $275,000; Galveston, harbor, $1,690,000; Galveston ship channel* $100,000. Buffalo bayou. $15,000: Red river,. Louisiana and Arkansas:, $(50,000: Ouachita, and Black rivers. $50,000: Yazoo river. $25,000. Yazoo harbor, Vicksburg, $22\000, Arkansas river. $100,000; White river, $20,000: Mississippi river, between Ohio and Missouri rivers. $33,000; upper Mississippi river improvements, $567,000; lock and dam ito. 2, $25.00»; head; waters, reservoirs of the Mississippi. #50,000; Missouri river above Stoux City, $100,000: removing snags in same. $50,000; Cumberland

river. below isasnvme, »oove.»*>'.uw; Tennessee river, 1485,000: Ohio river, $450,000: siiagboats and dam No. 2, $50,000; Herr Island dam near Pittsburgh, 1100,000; Green river, above Big Barren, Ky.. $25,000; Kentucky river. Kentucky. §100.000; Big Sandy, §30,000: Agate Bay harbor. Minnesota. 130.000;. Duluth harbor, §75.000; Superior bay and St. Louis bay, §50,000; Ashland, Wis, $25,000; Portage Lake and Superior canal. §75.000; Grand Maria, §30,000: Pensuakee harbor. Wis.,. 135.0 0; Green Bay. §25.000; Sheboygan harbor^ §2 ,000; Milwaukee Bay, $5,000; Racine harbor, §2'.000; Waukegan harbor.' §3fc000; Calumet harbor, $30,000: Calumet river. §50,000; Illinois river, §50.000; Illinois and Mississippi canal. §150.000; Michigan City harbor, §95.000; St. Joseph harbor, §30.000; Grand harbor, S8'\000: Muskegonhaibor. §30,000; Charlevoix harbor. §25.000; Saginaw river, §10,000; Sand Beach. Mich., 130.000; ship channel between Chicago. Duluth and Buffalo. §-00,000; Detroit river,$30,000: Toledo harbor, §150,000. Sandusky, §10,000; Cleveland harbor, §100,000; Fairpont harbor, $20,000: Ashtabula hatbor. § i'.OOO: Conneaut harbor. $40,000;: Dunkirk harbor. $20,000; Buffalo, $100,000; Tons wanda harbor and Niagara river, §50,(00; Oswego harbor, §35,000; Ogdens burg harbor. §20,000; Oakland harbor. Cal.. §10,000; San Luis Obispo. Cal.. §40,000; San Diegohar bor. §50.000; San Joaquin river, £25,000; Humboldt harbor smd bay, #475.000; Coos Bay. Ore.,§95,000: Yaquina Bay, $15,000; Suistaw river, Ore*, §35.000; Upper Snake river, $35,000; Olympii harbor. $40,000; Columbia and Lower Willamette river, §170,000; Cascades c,>nal, §100.000; Willamette river, above Portland §25,000. Refused a Certificate of Siection. Louisville, Ky.. Nov. 16.—ExSpeaker A. J. Carrpll, democrat, oi this city, yesterday declined to accept a certificate of election to the legislature because his republican opponent was induced to quit the race by hisfriends, and will stand for re-election. If he is defeated the republicans .willelect a United States senator without, unseating any democrats in the house Portuguese Diplomat Dead. Rome, Nov. 16.—J. B. Dasilva Ferrac de Carvalho-Martens, Portuguese ambassador to the Vatican, is dead. *