Bloomington Telephone, Volume 13, Number 41, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 April 1889 — Page 2

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A SUMMARY 07 THE EVENTFUL HAP PEN INC S OF A WKEX.

The Latest News as Flashed Over the Wires from All Parts of the World Regarding Politics, Religion Casualties Commerce ami Industry.

AMONG THE CHOSEN. Another Batch of Appointments by the President. The President has made public the following appointments: Edward S. Lacey of Michigan, to be comptroller of the currency; Timothy Guy Phelps, to be collector of customs for thi district of San Francisco, Cal.; A. Snowden Hill, to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Maryland; John Cozzeus, to be collector of customs for the district of Newport, R. I.; Marvilie W. Cooper, to be appraiser, and Marshal J, Corbett, to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise in the District ox New York. The two New York appointments are said to have beea made without regard to politics or party factions. Mr. Cooper is u member of the dry goods firm of Sprague, Smythe & Cooper. Mr. Corbett has been an examiner in the Appraiser's office for many years. He is considered an expert on silk goods, mad his promotion is regarded as in the line of Civil service reform. THE FRUIT OUTLOOK. A Probability That the Crop Will Be Comparatively Small. The fruit and vegetable prospects of the whole country, summarized from reports by reliable conespondents in the several States, are as follows: Illinois. Missouri, Arkansas. Tennessee, Texas, ani Mississippi furnish very lull and complete reports. The peach crop will be the lnrgest over grovn. the poacb bads being alive at this time in every State iu the Union, and the season being now Ro'far advance that a crop is assured in the West and boutU, and, although too early to safely predict a IxtiS yield iu the Eaat, a good crop is expected at irost points there. Fortunately for apple-growers, the crop of apples M ill ot much smaller than that of last year, it being the off year for the crop at many of the big shipping iioints, notahly wester New York, a section that can flood every market in the country m ben & full crop is gathered. The strawberry crop is gathered up to the average, yet much 'larger than that of 1888, which was the lightest iu many years. The pear crop will average light tlirough its great enemy, the "bligb The grape crop in the West and South has been fevered with each a mill winter that but little injury has bean inflicted. Nearly double the yie ld of last year is looked for. In Ohio and the great grapegrowing regions in New York and Pennsylvania a good crop is antiidpated. The general crop of other small fruits will not be large, being at many points rather neglected. The outlook for vegetables is good iu ail portions of tba country and the yield promises to be large. National Academy of Science. Ths National Academy of Sciences in session at Washington, D. C, re-elected Prof. Asaph Hall as Home Secretary and elected the following council: Prof. George L. Brash, New Haven, Conn.; Gen. Francis A, Walker; Benjamin Athhorp Gould, Cambridge, Mass.; Prof. Ira Beiusen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, and Prof. Simon Newcomb. Amoag the papers read was one bv Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, President of Rose Polytechnic School, Terre Haute, Ind., giving the result of

trieity. Washington Notes. Bobeet SifiXiiS, the colored man who contested Congressman Elliott's election to the Home from the "shoe-string" district of South Carolina, has at last been recognized by the administration, His commission as Internal Revenue Collector at Beaufort, S. C, has been made oat. Eowabd W. FixXiEY, of Kentucky, postoffice inspector on mail depredations, has Irezn removed for cause. The Mexican Government has accepted the invitation to take part in the International Marine Conference to be held at Washington Oct. 16. Churchill Says Chamberlain Lies. Zopjerft Tjhambeklain, in a recent

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(Chnrchill) would not contest the Parliamentary seat of Central Birmingham. JJord Randolph, says a London telegram, now replies that My. Chamberlain's assertion is utterly- false. It is expected that an excited correspondence will follow between the two gentlemen. Aft s of an Insane Kan. At West Farms, near Westfield, Mass., Edgar King stole into his aged father's bedroom, shot him dead, and then tried to murder his two aunts. Failing in this, he set the premises on tire, and then killed himself. Insanity, growing oat of dissolute habits, is said to have been the cause of the tragedy. Natural Gas Piped to Dayton. NatubaIi gas was turned into the pipes in Dayton, Ohio, for the first time the other day. Extra pressure was put on at the wells, and the gas traveled through the pipes forty-eight miles to D&yton in twenty-five minutes. Small-Pox Epidemic in Pennsylvania. REPOBT8 from Nanticoke, Pa., say there are now twenty-five cases of smallpox in the borough. At Grand Tunnel, three miles from Nanticoke, the disease broke out in a boarding house. It appears to be spreading in all directions. A Wife Murderer Handed. John H. Swift, who murdered hia wife, and whose plea for commutation of sentence mildly excited the Connecticut Legislature, ua hanged at Hartford, and met death coolly.

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Manage Robinson, of the International Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., has secured a novel attraction a human sky-rocket, the handicraft of Mr. Edseile, of Callao, Peru, formerly of the United States Navy. His model has been successfully eyperimented with in South America, ana a brother in Minneapolis has filed a caveat. Signor Carnarara made the initial trip The apparatus consists of a combination of rockets of immense power with a parachute attachment which folds over the apex Four tubes from the frame

work containing the explosives. The nature of the explosive is a secret and is called dynoascenimite. Its peculiar property is that it is detonating. A small volume of the solid make an immense volume of vapor and lifts the machine with lightning rapidity into tho clouds. The test took p'.ace under Peruvian Government patronage near Callxo in December. The charge, touched by electricity, sent the machine over 15,545 feet, and the descent by parachute was perfect. Sig. Carnarara landed five miles from the starting point no worst for the trip. Fifteen thousand people were present, and watched with telescopes the rise and fall of the machine. Mr. Edseile will be in Buffalo in a :?ew days. John P. Usher, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Lincoln, died at the University Hospital ir. Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Usher went there from Florida, where he had a winter residence, about three weeks ago to undergo an operation for the removal of a tumor from bis throat. Dr. Agnew successfully removed the growth, but the patient, notwithstanding the efforts to save his life, died. Mr. Usher was born in Madison County, New York, in 1816. For some years past he resided at Lawrence, Kansas, where he acted as counsel for the Missouri Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroad companies. EXCONGRESSMAN SlHEOX B. CHITTENDEN died at his home ir. Brooklyn, N. Y. His age was 75 years. Charles Hodges, a fire boss, and Evan Madde n, a pump-runner, were passing through an abandoned working in Grand Tunnel mine, at Wilkesbarre,Pa.v when their lights ignited a large amount of accumulated gas, and both men were blown to pieces. Hodges war; 45 years of age. He left a wife and six children. Madden was 60 years old and a widower. Dcring a festival in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, at Greensburg, Pa., a dispute arose about some change, and a riot ensued, in which knives, clubs, etc., formed the prominent weapons. During the disturbance Chief of Police Wolf end ale had an ear almost bitten off, besides sustaining other injuries, and George Tuning, another policeman, was stabbed twice in the back by Geor e L ghtfoct, who was the ringleader of the gang. After some difficulty the disturbance was quelled, and the participants took to their heels, but Georse Lightfoot, John Gunt, nnd Emmett Strander, tfcree of the rioters, after a chase of several hundred yards, were captured and taken to the lock-up. Iu default of 2,500 bail they were committed to jaih The Amalgamated Association of Ire a and Steel Workers at Pittsburg, Pa., will ask that all the iron mills be closed for two months during the summer just as the glass factories are. Jakes E. FifXDS was shot and killed by his wife at Butler, Pa. Fields became enraged because his wife insisted on reading instead of retiring at raidnight, and, arising, beat her face to a jelly. At 4 o'clock he again arose and attempted to beat her, when she took a revolver from the cabinet and warned him if he struck her she would shoot. He struck her, and she fired. She turned to her little daughter and said: Tve shot your father in self-defense. Shall I kill myself?" The dying husband called out: "No! You served me right; you fired in self-defense." He made a deposition to this effect, and died two hours later. Both wer; members of prominent families. The woman appealed at the Coroner's inquest with her face bruised almost beyond recognition. The Bay State Brewery in South Boston has been transferred by its former owner, Henry Souther, to Messrs. Jones. Cook & Sinclair, the present lessees of the property. The price paid is not made public, as the property is soon to be isold to the so-called English syndicate.

WESTERN HAPPENINGS. EhiIj Holdeele, a young plumber, attempted to kill his sweetheart, Ida Holtz, at St. Louis, Mo., but finally concentrated his effort on himself with great success; He was jealous of the girl, and, meeting her in front of her home, placed a pistol to her head and told her she must die then and there. She knocked the weapon aside and tied into the house. He pursued her to her room, where there was a hard struggle, Holderle trying to shoot at every opportunity. Miss Holtz, wiih the strength of desperation, kept the muzzle of the gun off ner person, and at length broke away and dashed down-stairs. Holderle then placed the pistol to his head and killed himself. Annie Lee, aged 16, committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo. Edward Lutz, a farmer near Canton, O., fell into a kettle of boiiiug sap, and was fatally scalded. In a struggle with his son for a loaded gun, at their farm near Kearney, Neb., W. H. Pettitt, aged 72, was killed by the weapon becoming discharged. The young man, Washington by name, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Mrs. Pettitt also participated in the struggle. WxxiXiTAH H. Mooee, of Illinois, and William C. Haseldine, of New Mexico, have been admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. Robert W. Boss, of Illinois, Recorder, and Virgil M. Hobbs, of Indiana, Chief of the Contest Division in the General Land Office, have resigned. THE Standard Oil Company has closed the deal whereby it becomes the possessor of a majority of the stock of the Ohio Oil Company. This gives it control of the Lima field. The Ohio Company is composed of an association of produc ers in this field. Its leases cover 15.000 acres, with a daily production of 5,000 barrels of oil, A considerable portion of the territory is yet undeveloped. The prices paid for the stock range fi.om 50 to 75 cents. C. F. Lufkin conducted the business for the Standard Company It has a large force of men engaged in enlarging the refiuery grounds at Lima, Ohio, with the intention of making tho solar works the greatest refinery iu this country. It is reported from Phillipsburg, Kansas, that John . Lowe, agent in that city for the Equitable Mortgage Company of Kansas City, Mo., and other companies, has absconded, and is a defaulter to the extent of $25,000. James Williams and wife, of Marine City, Mich., were recently takm suddenly ill with symptoms of poisoning. Matilda Williams, a 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Williams by a forme::' husband, admitted that she had put a tablespoonful of Bough on Bats" in the tea of

each. The girl had cast her fortunes with a cowboy combination and was taken home against her will. She saw no way to continue upon the highroad to fame save by the removal of her parents. While excavating at Duluth for tho new Masonic Temple, a blast tired revealed a vein of copper ore of great richness. The deposit proved to be quite extensive, and is considered a valuable find. The stock of merchandise and real estate of John McFaddeu, of Humboldt, Neb., has been seized by the Sheriff on n judgment held bv L. E. Booker, of Pembina. The liabilities are between 815,000 and $20,000, with small asset. The Hon. George Haskell, the Bockford, 111., seed merchant, who failed lately for SIOO.OOO. says the foundation of his money troubles was in the absconding of A. B. Cleveland, of New York, on June 22 last with 70,000. SOUTIIERrINcTl)iENTS. George Deiggs, accused of attempting to assault a white woman, was hanged by a mob at Hempstead, Tex. James Millek's livery stable at Louisville, Ivy,, was destroyed by fire. Miller ran into the stable to save his stock, but was overcome by smoke find perished. Felix Williams, a colored driver, who was asleep in the loft, was also burned to death. The stable contained several horses nnd carriages and a large quantity of grain and hay, all of which were lost. Miller was well to do and leaves a large family. Williams was a young man of twenty years. The Governor of South Carolina., has granted a full and unconditional pardon to William C. Williams and Harrison Heyward, both colored, who were sentenced to be hanged at Columbia, for lynching Manse Waldrop, a white man. McCarthy & Baldwin were the lowest bidders for the superstructure of the El Paso (Tex.) public building, their bid being $126,000. At the Alabama Midland crossing of the Chattahoochee River near Bainbridge, Ga., two boats, with seven and eight men, respectively, were crossing the river, when one of the boats commenced sinking, and one of the men jumped to the oi:her boat and capsized both boats. Five men were drowned. They were hands working for G. A. Alexander, breaking rock for the Alabama Midland bridge. The river w as dragged, but none of the bodies wore recovered. A New Iberia, La., special says that Pelletier Delahoussaye and his son Lewis were shot and seriously wounded by an unknown negro. The people of that section succeeded i.i capturing the negro and at once lynched him. .

appointment.: Robert P Porter of New J SAMOA'S GREAT STORM.

lork, to oe buperinteuaent oi census;

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Assistant Secretary Bussex has rendered three pension decisions in which is involved the important question of when may and when may not a soldier be considered in the "line of duty." They are as follows: The first case is rhat of W. H. Brokenshaw, who wan injured at Jackson, Mich., in 1805, by three fellow-soldi ere jumping on him while he was climbing into his ImuX C:mimiHsioner Black rejected the claim on tho ground that the injury was not reserved in the SUieof duty.' The Assistant Secretary overrules this decision, holding that the claimant- was .iu hisprojKjr Place, ready to perform such duiy as hAniht be called upon to do, and the injury alleged as tho ground of penfiiovi happpened to him without any fault or neglect on hia part. Another case is that- of C. H. Sedgwick, lato midshipman in the navy, who wai3 inju:ed by a kick from a comrade -whom ha was "twitting and teasing' The assistant secretary sustains The former decision rejecting the application on tho ground that the claimant contributed directly to produce tho cause of his injury; and was at the time eugagod in a manner manifestly in violation of the rules of the service. The third case is t aat of Elizabeth Hull, widow of William Hull, a soldier who died in a military prison at Nashville, Tenn., of inflammation of the pleura contracted in tho prison. The soldier, it appeirs from tho evidence, was arrested ami confined in the prison for being absent from his company and regiment without permission. In this ease Mr. Bnssey says : "To entitle a widow to a pension, the wound, the injury, or the disease which caused the husband's death must have beon connected, as a result, with the compliance by him with the requirements jf miliiary duty. Such connection be Lweeu tho fatal disease and the service did not exist iu this case." Tho former decision is adhered to. Mks. Febiger, the wife of Admiral Febiger of the navy, wis thrown from her carriage at Washington, I). C, and badly, perhaps fatally, injured. The National Treasury Department has called for the resignations of a number of employes of the Secret Service Division. Among them there are understood to be one each from Chicago and several other Western points. The reason for the demand is that the appropriation for the maintenance of the service is about run out rmtl the department does not desire to create a deficiency. There will be no appointments to the vacancies thus created until after July 1.

POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The President has made the following appointments: Lyman E. Knapp, of iliddlebury, Vt., to be Governor of Alaska. .James I. L,use, of Dakota; to be Registrar of tho Land Office at Rapid Citv, I). T. Thomaa M. Reed, Jr of Washington Territory, to be Registrar of the Laud Uihce at beattie, W. T. Spencer Hartwig. of Covington, Ky., to bo a special agent to make allotments of lands in severalty to Indians, under the provisions of the at of Congress approved rob 8, 1887. Henry 8. Wise, ot West Virgiuia, to be United States Marfchal for the District of West Virginia. W. N. Norton of Texas, John Yost of Illinois, John S. Stidger of Nebraska, and Sol. A. Hawk of West Virginia have been appointed special agents of the land office. Martin Bailey of Illinois has been appointed a lav? clerk in the pension office. In addition to the appointm?nt of Col. Sexton at Chicago, the following Western Postmasters have been appointed by the President: Illinois William R. Jewell, Danville ; Thomas R. Weaver, Mat toon; Alexander Stone, Peoria. Indiana Hiram J. Daniels, Anderson; Henry H. Downing, Goodland. Ohio William T. Vouts, McConnellsville; J, A. Oibbs, Carey. Michigan Samuel Foster, Midland. Iowa Jonathan M. Axton, West Liberty ; Thomas N. Pace, Khenandoah. Kansas Fred Loute, Marion ; William March, Baxter Springs; David G. Bliss, Argentine; Eugene P. Goodrich, Lawrence. Missouri Jacob Keiser, Clinton ; Peter Shuurf, Joplin. The commisnions of the following named Postmasters who were nominated by President Cleveland and confirmed by the Senate Feb. 28, 1889, have been signed by President Harrison: Miss Mary S. Thompkins, Willinmston. Mich.; Leltoy L. Briukley, Edenton, N. C: and Miss Delia M. Barrows, Hinsdale, if. H. The President has made the following

J. W. Cunningham, to be Assayer of the United States Assay Office at Boise City, Idaho; William H. Calkin:, of Washington Territory, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington; John It. Donally, of Louisiana, to be Marshal oi! the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. EX-Gov. Robinson of Massachusetts has declined his appointiner t on the Indian commission.

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ACROSS THE OCEAN. The North (ierman Gazette saj's: "The extension of the mail service between Cologne and Verviers, which includes the sorting of the American mnihi, is connected with the withdrawal of th government from the arrangement that ba existed with the Notth German Lloyd Steamship Company for the conveyance of the mails. It is the intention of the government in the future to send a portion of the mails by the steamers of the Hambuig American bteamship Company. Elections for members of the local councils have been held throughout France, and the Boulangists seized the occasion to demonstrate the strength of their leader. At Charenton Gen. Boulanger headed the poll with 2,457 votes, and at Sainte-Foy he received 1,239 votes. John Albert Bright (Liberal Unionist) has been elected to succeed his father, the late John Bright, as Representative of the central district of Birmingham in Parliament. Mr. Bright received 5,G10 votes, against 2,560 votes for Mr. William C. Beals (Gladstpniaa). FRBSITaND NEW SY. The following-named Postoffice Inspectors on mail depredations have been removed: Romus F. Stuart, Chicago; James E. Alexander, Atlanta; James H. Griffin, Atlanta. Lewis Lewberger, of Indiana, Postoffice Inspector in tho money-order service, has resigned. Detailed reports from all the wheat stations on the Manitoba railway and covering about half the wheat produced in Minnesota and Dakota have been received at St. Paul. At 190 stations good to excellent condition of the ground is reported, thirty consider it fair, while only ten rate it as not good. The percentage of crop planted is equal to or above list year, and the acreage will also exceed last season, only thirteen stations report ing any decrease, while 102 have increased acreage. The dry spell i3 broken. Secketaky Windom has decided that the transfer by manufacturers of their plants, machinery, and work people from a foreign country to the United States with a view to permanent settlement would be a violation of the contract-labor law, so far us the workmen ara concerned. Twbnty-six glass-blowers arrived from Liverpool on tho steamer Iowa. They were all ticketed through to Pittsburg, Pa., but claimed they did not come on the promise of work, and the authorities can not make out a case against them. Walter B. Smith, of Chatham, Ont.f ex-paying teller of the Second National Bank of St. Paul, who absconded Nov. 22, 1885, with 4,500 of the bank's funds, was captured in St. Louis. In their review of trade for last week R. G. Dun & Co. said: Thre are distinct signs of improvement in business. Reports from interior joints, almost trillion t exception, indicate an largement of trah. Rapid advance in Rugar, eottVo, cotton, butter, and oats are nearly balanced by the decline in wheat and corn, pork i roducta, print cloths, leather arid other articles, bo thai, the general average of prices is but a shade higher tu&u a week a.o. Bnt further disbursements by the Treasury have increased the already abundant supply of money ; the market for uecuritiea ha improved aud exports continue to increase. The most significant feature of the week's commercial news is the report! f furnaces in blast April 3, which shows a weokly output of anthracite and bituminous iron only 475 tons less than March 1, aud nearly S7.P00 tons or 3d per cent, larger than a war ago. The significant

iant iE that vsith a production closo lo the largest ever known prices scarcely yitdd at all. The sharp advance of 32 cents pr100 pounds in raw snuar, with tlie purchase of tho Kan FrancUco leHnery for the trust, ac'ompaniet; a sudden rise of fix cents in the trust stock. The boot and shoe trade is naid to be large beyond precedent. Leather is a shade lower and tiidea arc overabundant. Raw cotton has risen a quarter. In oil lower prices caused a decrease of $'21,000 in valuo for Match and tho market ha been dull and weak. Tho market l'or raw wool in stronger in tone aud an advance in price is expected. Copper and tin aro still somewhat v. taker, arid the excesfive supplies still suppress tho coal market, hich is worse than dull. The volume of business is unsatia factory, and sales below schedule rates aio reported. Without exception reprrts from the Interior show that money is abuudant, though in a few instances the demand Is improving. Fears of disturbance in connection with April settlements have pasted. Tho reports of the increaso in the epri.ig wheat acreage continues and sowing has progressed favorably, the season being about three weeks earlier than, last year. The business failures mi.:nberod tf, as against a total of 222 t he previous week.

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THE JTTJRHJCANTS THAT WRKCKKD THE GUNBOATS AT APIA.

Feiirful Scenes Witnessed from th Shore

as Ship After Ship feucx umbod to the Tern pest.-Suffering oi the Uoa Borne Heroically. Apia (Samoa) special The hurricane which passe i over the Samoiui Itilands March 16th and 17th was the most violent and destructive fitorm ever known in the South Pacific. The loes to life and property' was very great. The United nnd Gem' any alone lost 142 live and 3,000,000 worth of property. Six warships and ten other vessels wero dislodged or driven ashore. Of the American gunboats tie Trenton lieis noar the United States consulate and is fast going to pieces. The Vandalia is buried out of sight butween the Trenton and the shore. Her shattered foremast and smokestack rise from the waiter to mark the 6pot where the gallant vessel struck aud lay for twelve hours before the o.wful torrent of water swept our oflicers and thirty-nine men from her decks add rigging. The N'ipsic lay for several days alongside th! andalia, with her Low high on the beach and within five feet of the water's edge. The vessel, though badly damaged, was hauled off a few days after the storm aud is the only warship afloat in the harbor. She lost five men by the swamping of a boat, and wvo others who jumped overboard were drowned. It was ca the litde German gunboat Ebsr that the greatest loss of liie occurred. She had a complement ot six officers and seventy-six men. Five men were ashore during the storm. When the vessel struck the reef she sank completely out of sight, and a minute later there was not a vestige of her to be seen. Every niftu on board was lost except one oiiicerand four sailors. Ths German corvette Olga suffered less tJian any of the other vessels. The Britisaship Calliope was the only one that esc aped. She having very powerful machmuri, put to sea. All the other vessels had a full head of steam on and three or four anchors out, but before that awful storm they were like toys in the hauls of a giant. Many of the sailors becane drunk soon after they got ashore. But the officers rallied them and the injured were cared for. The natives rendered every assistance, Americans and Geruntnw being treated alike. Tho damage on tfhore was also very grea;. Houses weru unroofed and blown down and trees and fences were thrown across the streets so that passage was almost blocked. All the vessels weathered xhe storm through Friday nigbt, but all had drugged their anchors. A little after 5 o'clock the first rays of dawn broke upon the scene and to those on shors revealed a spectacle not often witnessed. The position of the vessels wa entirely changed. The wind, which was blowing from the northeast, had swept them from their former moorings, and the;.' were all beariug down iu the direction of the reef. Black smoke was pouring from their funnels, showing that desperate efforts were being made to keep them up against the wind. Their decks were swarming with men clinging to the masts or any other objects. The hulls of the war-6hips were tos-sing about like corks. One moment f"ie vessels seemed to stand almost upon their

beams' end and the next instant their sterns would rise out of the water and expose to view the rudders and rapidly revolving propellers. Then tho huge prows wouul be lifted high in the air, only to plur ge into the next wave and deluge tlie ships with a torren: of water. It waft then seen that the vessels were doomed and they soon succumbed to the fury of the tempest. Soon the Adler camo ashore nnd she was followed by the Nipsic. Most of the men on the latter were got a&hore on a hawser which the natives nade fast. Tfc.e British ship Calliope wis still in the harbor. She was lying near the Vandalia and a collision between she two seemed certain. The Calliope was nearer shore and her bow was close to the stem of the Yandalia. Great waves were tossing the two vessels about and i;h;y were coming closer together every minute. Suddenly the great iron pi ow of the Englishman rose high in the air oxl tho crest of an enormous wave and came down with full force upon the p.ort quarter of the Yandalia. The crash was awful. The jib-boom of the Calliope wis carried away aud the heavy timbers of the Yandalia were shivered. Every man who stood upon the poop-deck of the Vandalia was thrown from his faet by the shock. A hole had been torn below the rail and the water rushed into the cabin. It seemed that the Vandaliahad received ber 'death blow and tho men rushed up tha hatches in the belief that tlie steamer was sinking, and it was only titer great effort that the officers persuade d them to return to their posts. Just after this collision Capr. Kane of the Calliope determined to make an effort to steam out of the harbor, as he saw that to remain in his present position, would lead to another collision with the Yandalia or throw hi; vessel on the reef. He accordingly gave the order to i:et go all anchors. The Calliope's heal was swung around to the wind, and her powerful engines were worked to their utmost capacity. It was cn anxious moment on board the corvette, as with her anchors gone, she had nothing but hei engines to depend upon to keep ber off the reef. Tho steamer seemed to stand still for a moment, and then the rapidly revolving proptdl?r had its effect, the vessel moved up slowly against the great waves, which broke over her bows and flooded her deeks from stem to stern. Clouds of black smoke poured from her funnels and fresh coal was thrown into the furnaces. All her great power was used in the desperate struggle against the storm. She seemed to make her headway at first inch by inch, but her speed gradually increased until it became evident she could clear the harbor. As- sbe passed abreast of the Trenton a gr?at shout went up from over 400 men aboard the flagship and three hearty cheers were given for tht? Calliope. 'Thrae cheers for the Trenton and the Ameiican flag" was tho answer that came bf.ck across the angry waters. The Calliope passed safely out of the harbor and steamed far out to sea, returning after the storm abated. An attempt was then niado to beach the Vandalia, and she was run alongside tho reef and within 100 yards of shore, when she grounded. Several attempts wero made by the natives to take a line to her, butthev wero in vain. The vessel swung around with her broadside to the waves, and one by one ha:: oiiicers and crew were swept off by the torrents of water, but few being saved through tho heroic efforts, of the natives.

The Trenion had thus far weathered1

the storm through the skill of hor navigating officer, Lieut. Brown. Her rudder wan, however, carried awajr and her

fires put out bv the mh of water throufb the hawes-holes. She then fouled the Olffa when the latter let go her anehosf and was run ashore. The Trenton drifted cn toward the Yandalia. A new danger now arose. The Trenton was eure to strike the Vandalia. and to those on shore it seemed that the huge hull of the flagship would crush the Yandalia to piece ana throw the hundred men still clinging to her rigging into the water. It was now after 6 o'clock, and the light was beginning to fade away, and in half an hoar the Trenton had drifted on to within a few yardfi of tb Yandalia's bow, and the men in nhe rigging of the latter ves sel trembled with, fear as they saw the Trenton approach The poor creatures who had been clinging for hours to tha rigging of the Vail dalia re bruised and bleeding, but they held on with the desperation of men who hang by a thread of life. Thetf final hour seemed to bs upon them. Th great black hull of the Trenton could W seen through the darkness almost ready! to crush into the stranded Vandalia and grind her to atoms. Suddenly a shout was heard across th waters. The Trenton was cheering the; Yandalia. The souifd of 456 voicea broke upon the air. "Three cheers for th Vandalia" was the cry that warmed the hearts of the dying mcr in the -rigging' The shout died away upon the storm and there arose from tha quivering masts off the sunken ship a response so feeble thefr it was scareeiy heard upon shore. Thjjt sound of music next come across this water, the Trenton s band was playing "The Star Spangled Banner." Tht thousands of men on ti e sea and shore .had never before heard strains of music $M such a time as thin. An indescribable feeling came over the hundreds of Amaiw icans on the beach who listened to the notes of the national anthem, mingled! with the howl of the storm. For a morn ?nt only they were silent and then they broke forth with a cry that rent the air and reached each of the struggling mett on the rigging of the Vandalia. The men who had exhausted every, means during the whole of that awful day of rendering some assistance to thix comrades now seemed inspired to greater efforts. The collision of the Trenton! ai?d Vandalia, whicli every one thought would crash the le tter vessel to pieces,! proved to be the salvation of the men in. the rigging. Notwithstanding the tremendous force of the waves the' Trenton dragged back slowly, atd when heir sten finally struck the side of the Vandalia there was no shock and she gradually swung around broadside to the sunken ship. As soon as the vessels touched the men in the mizzen rigging crawled out on the yards and jumped to the deck of the Trenton. The men escaped just in time, for as the last left the yards tha mizzenmast of the Var.dalia fell with a crash on the side next to the shore. The other men escaped in the same way. After the storm abated somewhat, the men on the Trenton were taken off in boats. EingMataafa came down from his camp early in the morning for th first time in several months. He wen down on the shore and directed the natives in their work. He then went to the American Consulate and offered tM services of all his men to Vice Constat Blacklock. 4 By noon there were nearlv 800 Aztferl can sailors on the streets of Apia. The' saloons were crowded with them, and it was not long before many were die or-1 derly. Vice Consul Blacklock, recogy nizing the gravity of the situation issued a peremptory notice to all saloonkeepers in town of whatever nationality

forbidding them to sell or in any way furnish liquor to American sailors, and notifying them that if they did not obey this order a guard of marines would be sent to their places and all liquor emptied into the street. Most of the Trenton's crew remained' aboard of her after the storm subsided, and work wtos begun to Lighten heir and' pump her out, but it is feared she was badly broken below. All the inhabitants united in rendering aid to the shipwrecked sailors, many of whom are sheltered in tents in Apia. Admiral Kin berly remained with the Trenton. MEN WHO MEWrTzES. Thomas B Coulter of Ohio. Appointed Auditor of the treasury lor tho Poitoffice. The President has made the following appointments: Thomas B. Coulter, of Ohio, 'to be Auditor of the Treasury for the Post office Department. To be Collectors of Customs John W. Fish, for the District of EichxioncL Va.; Harrison Geer, for the District of Huron, Mich.; Max Pracht. for the District of Alaska, in the Territory of Alaska. The following named Presidential Postmaster have been appointed: Chas. C. Shreeder, of Huntingburg, Ind , and Elmer Crockett, at South Bend, Ind. James E. Stuart of Chicago has been appointed a Postoffice Inspector, with headquarters at Chicago. George M. Christian has been appointed an Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, and designated for duty in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster General. In the Department of Agriculture these appointments have been made: Watson Pickrell, Pickrell, Neb., Agent of the Bureau of Animal Industry; George H. AValdo, Delaware, Ohio, State Agent for Ohio; Charles F. Curtis, Iowa, State Agent for Iowa; George Vasey, Washington Territory, Special Agent; A. G. Mailoy, State Agent for Texas; S. D. Fisher, Springfield, 111.) State Agent for Illinois. The Postmaster General has appointed Estes G. liathbone, of Hamilton, Ohior Chief Postoffice Inspector.

GEN. miLEN DEAD. The Fenian Leader, Soldier and Journalist Expire in New York at the Age of &S Gen. Francis Frederick Millen, a wellknown soldier and journalist, died at him residence in New York City, in hi 58th year. He was born in Ireland and served through the Crimean war in the British army, then came to Americe, and later went to Mexico, entering the Mexican army as a lieutenant or artillery. During the church wara he rose to be colonel of artillery. About 1865 he resigned his Mexican Commision and went to Ireland to take command of the army that Jamee Stephens promised to put in tho field to overthrow the English government. Upon tho failure of the scheme be returned to Mexico, reentered the army, and fought against Maximilian, Kext he went to New York and became the executive officer of the American branch of the Fenian Brotherhood. In 1872 he joined tbe New York Herald staff, and was in the service of thatrpaper at the time of his death. John Alkxander, of Pulaski, Pan was given a verdict at Yountrstown, O.,, for $22,500 against the Pennsylvania

Company for the loss or a root while he.

new trial on the groundof error.