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A MIRROR OF THE IMPORTANT OC CtKIUiXCES OF A WEEK,

Tilings Hutt TJo Happen A Complete Record of Interesting Events the World Over Shocking Accidents, Startling

Crimes Other Topi'

DOWN TO DEATH. A Horrible Mining Accident in Which Ten Persons Are Killed. At Kaska William colliery, near Mid--dleport, Pa., the cage containing ten miners was ascending the shaft, and had reached a height of about sixteen feet from the bottom when an empty car was pushed over the top of the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awful momentum, shattering it to bplintors and instantly killing every one of its occupants. The names of the victim are as icllows: Michael Boyle, assistant inside foreman; Hugh Carlin, Patrick McDonald, George Bendei, John Pottoviseh, Frank Stratkovisch, John Moore, Albert Dwyer, Edward Kurtz, and Stephen Matson. The cage wi.h the victims was hurled into the "sump," a hole at the bottom of the shaft where the water from the workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for some time. The mine is operated by the Alliance Coal Company. It is an old working, and the shaft is 500 feet deep. AROUND THE DIAMOND. Base-Ballists Competing for the League Championship. The official standing of the ball clubs that ore in the race for the championship of the associations named is given below: National. W, L. c! American. W. L. c

Boston 7 4 Philada 7 4 New York... T 5 Pittsburgh. .8 6 Cleveland... 8 7 Chicago 6 7 Indianap C 8 Washington. 1 VI Western. W. L. St. PauL....9 2 Omaha 9 3 Sioux City. .7 8 St. Joseph... 6 6 Denver 5 5 Minneapolis 5 8 Des Moines. 4 ' Milwaukee.. 3 10

.TJ6 St. Louis... 16

.636 Baltimore.. 11 .5t K'ns's Cr.ty.12 .571 Athletic... 9 .533j Brooklyn... H .461 Cincinnati.. 9 .428 Co";UmbU6.. 5 .100 Louisville., 3 f c Irter-St. W. ,818 EvansYttle..6.750 Davenport. .6 .538Quincy 6 .5001 Peoria 6 .500 ! Spr ingne Id . . 5 .384 Burlington. .3 .3071

6 7 8 7 7 11 13 16 U 5 5 5 5 G 8

.727 .till .600 .502 .450 ,M .157 ) C .545 .545 .545 .545 .454 272

EX-MINISTER PHELPS AT YALE. He Is to Eesnne His Duties as Professor in the Law School The rumor which has been circulating for the past 6ix months, to the effect that ex-Minister Phelps would resume his duties as professor in the Tale Law School, has been verified by the issuance of a prospectus of the elective studies, with a course in law by Professor Phelps. The President's Preferences. The President has appointed Asa Matthews of Illinois to be First Comptroller of the Treasury, vice M. J. Durham, resigned. Mr. Matthews is the present Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. He was Colonel of an Illinois regiment during the war and subsequently held the office of Collector . of Internal Revenue for the Peoria District. He lives at Pittsfield, 111. The President also appointed Frank C. Loveland to succeed Gen. Franz Sigel as Pension Agent at New York City, and Lemuel C. Wright of Nevada to be Superintendent of the Carson City Mint. Irving 6. Caldwell of Ohio and Bichard W. De Lambert of Kansas have been appointed Special Agents of the General Land Office. Many Moonshiners Captured. Ths Eureka detectives, acting principally under directions of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, but as well in conjunction with the United States revenue authorities, have completed soother raid upon the moonshiners of the extreme southern counties of McDowell and Wyoming, West Virginia, and cap. tured fifteen additional prisoners as a result, raising the total number arrested on this charge to date to eighty-one. Among those lodged in jail at Charleston were two women. They are a miserablelooking set of wretches. Looked Like Booth, At Providence, B. I., Samuel W. Pearce, a member of the Board of Trade, has passed away. After the assassination of President Lincoln, Mr. Pearce and his sister, who were traveling to Newborn, N. C-, were arrested, as they bore a striking resemblance to J. Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Surratt, and narrowly escaped being shot. Marriage Not a Failure, A. M. Cox, of Duluth. Minn., has given his employes notice that he will raise the wages of the married employed in his broom factor', and that the single men will not be wanted after June 1. If they were married by that time they will be retained at increased wages. Late News Notes, Fibe at Danville, Vt., wiped out the business part of the town, including the postoffice and all the mail. The loss is about $50,000 and the insurance $20,000. Henbi Matthietj, a veteran of the battle of Waterloo, died in New York City. At the second day's session of the Scotch-Irish congress Robert Bonner, of New York, was elected President. Govebkob Feancis, of Missouri, has signed the bill making trading in options a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $300 to $1,0$). At Philadelphia, by a vote of 285, the International Y. M. C. A. Convention decided to hold its next meeting at Kaunas City. Chicago received 263 votes. EASTERN OCCURRENCES AT Brooklyn, N. Y., James Stone, a colored jockey, who killed a bartender al Coney Island, was sentenced to be hanged June 25. This was Stone's third trial, the juries on forme; occasions having disagreed, Tbbbb alternating current electric dynamos, to b placed in the penitentiaries at &in Sing, Auburn and Clinton, to be used for the killing of condemned criminals, have been purchased by the State pf New York. At Rochester, N. Y.f Railway Detective 4 . i

La point e shot ant killed a xnan named Gascopne, a v-rofessicnil car thief, who attempted to escape with a quantity of car fixtures which he had purloined. H. W. Oliver of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been elected President of the Pittsburg 4 Western Railroad, The American Peace Society held its annual meeting at Boston, Muss. The Hon. Edward S. Tobey was- re-elected President. The Emigration Commissioners at New York are undecided w better or not to let land a man named Gonzales, a convicted robber, who was pardoned at Gibraltar, the famous fortress, for acting as executioner of a condemned murderer. Kear Ashland, Pa., an explosion of .dynamite killed one man and seriously wounded seven others. The American Tract Society held its annual meeting at New York. The receipts from all sources during the year were $120,07 and the expenditure 12;,165, The old Board of Managers were re-elected, with the addition of Warner Van Orden of New York and Albert B. Monroe The other officers of the society and the committees were also re-elected. At Philadelphia the twenty-eighth International Convention cf theY. M. C. A. was opened by General O. 0, Howard, of New York, a number of prominent laymen of the evangelical churches being present. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Recent reports from Cheyenne, Wyo., confirm the rumors that the Sioux Indians, in council, decided to accept the terms of the treaty. Several Indians have already taken lands on the reservation opposite Pierre, D. T., under the severalty act, and it looks as if the treaty wonld be signed as soon as the Commissioners arrived there. Tha St. Vincent Orphan Asylum, three miles east of Vincennes, IndM has been destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000. St. Vincent's was a Catholic institution, and under the direction of the Catholic Church of the Vincennes diocese. About one hundred and fifty orphans were educated there. The fire caught from a defective flue. All the children escaped. Sister Bridget was severely burned, and had a remarkabla escape from death. The institution will be rebuilt at once. The bluffs along the Missouri, near Chamberlain, Dakota, are covered with the white prairie schooners and the tents of hardy farmers from Iowa and other Eastern States, who nave cast

.their tents in anticipation of the speedy

opening of the Sioux reservation. It is expected that when the reservation is opened the rush for claims will resemble the Oklahoma rush, as the land is much better and the amount many times greater. John Reese, a farmer living near Oneida, 111., blew his head off with a shot-gun. Kittie Edwards, who was shot in Council Bluffs, Iowa, three weeks ago by John Poland, who afterward committed suicide, is dead. The strike of coal-dock laborers at Duluth, Minn.,. has ended. S, D. Williams, general agent for the Siberling Machine Company, of Akron, Ohio, committed suicide at Fort Branch, Ind., by cutting his throat. He had been .showing the machine to a customer, and suddenly walked to the rear of the hardware store and sat down on a box and severed his jugular vein with a pocketknife. Floben Beck, 10 years old, son of D. Beck, a farmer living four miles from St. Joe, Mo., was frightened to death. He went to St. Joe with his brother and was left in charge of the team. A streetscraper passing became unfastened and fell to the ground, making a sharp report. The next instant young Beck fell from the seat to the wagon bed and was picked up dead, his heart having ceased action from fright. The other night a peculiar circumstance was noticed by a number of people at Jamestown, Dakota. A small black cloud hanging rather low wars observed to move rather queerly, when suddenly the cloud was lost sight of and a precipitation of frogs was seen. There were several hundreds of them, and they could be seen hopping up in the street a block away. It is claimed that a funnel-shaped cloud, indicating a cyclone, was seen in the west shortly before, and the theory of some is that the frogs were caught up from some slough in this whirlwind and carried in the air until it spent itself, which happened to be over the center of Jamestown. The town of Beaver Dam, Ohio, was visited by a fire which destroyed the entire business portion of the town, besides many residences. The loss is estimated at between $80,000 and $100,000, with an insurance of only $15,000. It is not thought that the burned district will be rebuilt. Fierce forest fires wero reported in Midland, Clare, Gladwin, Osceola and Huron Counties, Michigan, ton the 8th Inst. A brisk wind fanned the flames. Men worked in brigades trying to check the progress of the fire. A shocking accident occurred at the West Main street crossing of the Michigan Central Railroad, a Kalamazoo, Mich. A street-car containing eigtit women and two men, was crossing the track when a switch-engine dashed down upon it at a high rate of speed, and the driver, being unable to get the car out of the way, the helpless passengers were hurled to a terrible death. The human freight was mangled in a terrible manner. The killed and wounded are: Mr9. Alexander Haddock, kiVod and body horribly mangled ; Mrs. M. K. . WateleR, instantly killed and body badly mangled ; Miss Gertrude TUlotson, Mrs. George Smiley, Mrs. Middletou, and Mrs. Van Antwerp, killed; Mr, Gibson, injured in the bead and Hide : Mrs. Barnes, badly cut and bruised about the head. Both of the male passengers escaped, and the driver jumped from his seat in time to avoid anything but a few bruises. Miss Annie VanciIi, of DuQuoiu, 111., died of starvation. Several weeks ago her mother was adjudged insane and sent to an asylum. Mi.-s Vanoil declared she would eat nothing until her mother was released. She lived seventy-five days, the last thirty of which she tasted absolutely nothing. THE town of Elba, Minn., not far from Winona, was almost destroyed by the prairie 'fires which raged in that pail of the State, Fibe at North Judson, IndM destroyed property valued at $25,000. The fire

originated from a bonfire started by small

boys m an alloy. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The jury in the case of Dick Hawes, at Birmingham, Ala., charged with the murder last December of his 8-year-old daughter May, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixing the punishment at death. Hawes occasioned the riot of lflt December, in which twelve citizens were kil'ed. xnere are twe other indictment pending ngainst him, one charging him with the murder of his wift itnd the other with that of bi other daughter, Irene, Dec. 1, l.ss. Hawes lawer have appealed the case to the Supremo Court and asked for a change of venue on the giound that the people of Birmingham are prejudiced ngainst the defend .mt. Joseph Hksfeldeu, a well-known clothing "drummer, "of Memphis, Tenn., committed suicide with morphine in a hotel in that city. The State Institute for Feeble-minded at Frankfort, Ky.t was burned, but the inmates were all rescued without accident. The insurance foots up $25,000. A thagedy occurred near Covington, Tipton County, Tenn., which resulted in the killing of W. T. Douglass, Mayor of that city. It sei-ms a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Henry Donaldson, a negro who was charged with assault. Mayor Douglass was one of a posse of ten men who went to the negro's house to effect his arrest. They found his cabin closed aud called upon him to ocen the door. Beceiviug no answer they gave warning that unless the door was opened they would break it down, at the same time informing him that they hud a warrant for his arrest. Just ut this period a gun was thrust through the door and discharged by the negro on the inside. The contents struck Douglass, who was in front, killing hiui instantly. It being dark and the posse fearing another discharge they immediately retreated, and Donaldson succeeded in making his escape. E.J. Slaughter of Glen Elk, W. VaM has baen arrested, charged with fraudulently representing himself as a pension eiamiaer. A EiitJXDEU by a telegraph operator caused a collision at Glen Mary, Tenn., betweon a freight and passenger train on the Cincinnati Southern Boad. A fireman was killed and four other employes wounded. THE NATIONALTcAPITAL. Assistant Secretary Bussey has rendered an important decision in the pension case of Mary E. McNeil, widow of Alexander McNeil, late private in Company D, One Hundred and Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers. The case involves the important question of "line of duty," and the former decision is reversed and the Commissioner of Pensions is directed to place the name of the widow on the pension rolls. In speaking of the decision Mr. Bussey said that he was of the settled opinion that a soldier is in line of duty, within the meaning of the pension laws, when he is not engaged in violating any order, army rule, or regulation, or violating any instruction of his superior officer for the police regulation of the camp. POLITICAL PORRIDGE.

On the 2I8ch ballot, at Emporia, Kan., the Republicans of the Fourth District nominated Harrison Kelley for Congress. A Washington, D. C, special of the 3d in:t. says: The Pres dent has sent a telegram to Chicago asking Frank Palmer if he will accept the office of Public Printer. The appointment of Cuptaiu Meredith, also of Chicago, as Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, will probably be announced at once.

RAILWAY GOSSIP. The annual report of the Directors of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Baiiroad for the year 1888 has been given out, comparison being made with the year 18S7. Average number of miles operated S,020; increase, 397; gross earnings, $15,612,913; decrease, $2,848,453; operating expenses, including taxes, $1 1,027,10 1 ; increase, $618,707; net earnings, deducting tckes, 4,585,951; decrease, $3,467,100. It will thus be seen that the earnings for the vear 1888 are $2,848,453 less than dur

ing the preceding year, a decrease of !

10 4-j.u per cent, ui tuis decrease, oui,008 ifi the loss on passenger business and $2,054,300 is the loss on freight traffic.

ACROSS THE OCEAN. A BebIiIN telegram says: A committee o:? the Berlin conference has been directed to examine and report upon the means for establishing order in Samoa and adequate guaranties for the maintenance of peace, including the question of a King. Dr. Knappe, formerly German Consul at Apia, denies that Mataafa ordered his adherents to aid in rescuing the sailors of the German men-of-war recently wrecked at that place. On the contrary, he says, Mataafa forbade his followers to assist the German! in any way. Dr. Knappe also seveieiy censures the "loose discipline of the American sailors in Samoa. He accuses them of thievish propensities and a for dness for liquor. Te e great French exposition, the greatest t lie world ban ever seen, is open at Paris, France. The formal ceremony of giving to the people this magnificent show took place when President Carnot delivered an address and touched the button that set the vast machinery in motiou. Only 1,500 people were ablb to see the re Yceiemony inside the grand vestibule, or to hear President Cariiot's speech, which, however, was a very good effort. Probably 250,000 people vent m on tickets. The scene was a uiainincent one, and the crowd a prodigious one. fresiTand"nev(sy. A Matanzas, Cuba, special says: In grinding the spring canes sugar planters find that the deficitin their yield is greater

than was first anticipated Next year's grinding will not commence until the j

midc.le of Jtinuary, ana, on account or the great drought now prevailing, which prevents new sowincr, the prohpects for the

crop of 1SK9 are very poor. In Cionfuegos 1

and other principal ports the stocks are stroiigly held by merchants who have decided to wait until September before selling, in the hope of 'further advance in pric. The Smithsonian Institution has received a gift of great antiquity from the Chinese Minister It is a "Jade" ring, about ten incheB in diameter, and one-

eighth of an inch in thickness, with a hollow center about four inches in diameter. It is of a pale hue. The ring is known as the "lian Pek" jewel, of the dynasty of Han, an old-time monarch of 3,500 years ago. Court officials of that day when given an audience with the Emperor held the i big with both hands and thrust their fingers into the opening in order to guard acainst moving their hands while addressing the throue, the emphasizing of their remarks by flourishes of the hands presumably being contrary to official etiquette. The ring was used as an emblem of submission or respect for -the sovereign. It was recently unearthed from a sepulcher, having been buried with its owner. A Winnipeg, Muu special of tho (1th inst. says: 'J he biggest lire in tho history of this city is now raging and threatens to destroy a large portion of the business houses. Already ten or twelve establishments, including two hotels and the Jewish synagogue, have been destroyed. The indications are that a big railway deal is ou the tapis. The Northern Pacific and Manitoba on one hand, aud the Manitoba and Northwestern on the other, are negotiating, and have been for some time past, with a view of cither consolidating into one system or at least arranging a running and trnfuc agreement by which trains of either road can pass over both lines. Ba lway men at Ottawa, Out, say that the consolidation is sure to be brought about. Eighteen years ago Albeit Pearson was sentenced to three years in Manitoba Penitentiary, ai "Winnipeg, for leceiving stolen horses, knowing them to bo stolen. After serving a year he escaped across the line and settled in Dakota, where he has lived ever since. He went to Winnipeg recently on a visit, and was arrested. He is now a naturalized citizen of the United States, aud whether he can be imprisoned for the remainder of the term he should have served is a question that has yet to be settled. The United States Consul will look after his interests. The Attorney General has received the resignation of William E. Purcell, United States Attorney for Dakota. The resignation of William H. Dawson, United States Attomev for the Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama, has been accepted by the President, to take effect June 1. E. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade for last week is as follows: The unprecedented Interruption of business by centennial preparations and celebrationa has rruvie the week nearly a blank iu commercial or financial retspecta. At New York accumulated orders gave a surface appearance of greater activity Thursday and Friday, but it is not too soon to judge which way the tide will turn, and tho reports from other cities, though nearly all hopeful in tone, do not indicate the expected' improvement. The situation seems better at Mllwankee, satisfactory at Omaha, good at Cleveland as to most branches, but questionable as to iron ; rather dull at Kaunas City a id St. Paul, nud less encouraging at the chief c inters of the tfrain, iron, coal, and loather trades. Collections are "far from satisfactory" at Milwaukee and not improved at Detroit, but in other linos the situation seems fairly satisfactory. At New York some dry goods dealers complain that collections are atoo good buyers keep so far within means. Reports about the wool trade are contradictory. A report that the Treasury may not decide the woolen worsted question, for months disturbs importers, who have quantities of goods locked up because collectors are waiting for a decision. Otherwise the woolen trade shows a little better movement. Hi.kH are quiet, but linens are quite active. A fair business in hoots and Hhotis continues. The paper tiaio is active. Tho alow improvement continues iu dr tigs and chemicals. Wheat tended downward, hating' sold at 82o. Corn declined and cats Scents. Pork is unchanged, with lard and hog.' a shade higher. Coflce ami sufcar tiro unchunucd, but oil is ou it:hth higher. The buslituf tuiiurea numbored .4 as aguinsi HH tor the previous w&ek. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS Those Mho Krvp Been Snccossful in Their Appinitinns. The President has made the following appointments: Amlrew J. Evans, of Txas. to bo Attorney ot thoUnitedSta.es for the Western Ditttrfct of Texas. William H. H. Clay! on, of Arkansas, to be Attorney for the United States for tho Western District of Arkansas. William H. H. Clayton, the new District Attorney for tho Western Pidtrict Of Arkansas, is a bro'thor of the Clayton who ran against Breckinridge for Congress In the last election, and whoso subsequent murder created a sensation. He came trom Pennsylvania originaUy, aud during the war eevved iu tho Union army. He lives at Port Smith, and wns displaced by Cleveland from tho place to which he has ju3t been appointed. "rank W. Palmer of Illinois, to bo Public Printer ; Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Hufjh S. Thompson of South Carolina, to be Civil Service Commissioners; Arthur L. Thomas of Sal: Lake Citv, Utah, to be Governor of Utah; Elijah Sells of bait Lake Citv, Utah, to be Secretary of Ulan; Ellsworth Daggett, of Utah, to he Surveyor General of Utah ; Perry J. Anson of Idaho, to be Keginirar of the Land Office at filaokfoot, Idaho; William H. Daniel son of d alio . to be Herat ver of P ubHc Moneys at Blackfoot, Idaho ; Michael A. Leahy of Wisconsin, to be Agent for the Indians of the La Poiute Agency, in Wisconsin ; Joseph F. Bennett, of New Mexico, to be Agent of the Indians of the Mesealero Agency, in New Mexico; James rN. Beacon, of Kansas, to be Itoferee and Chairman of the Keferees to be appointed under the act of March 1887, entitled, "An act to grant the right: of way through the Indian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway," for the purpose of appraising the compensation to be made by said railWay company to tho Cherokee Nation. Market reports. CHICAGO. Cattle rrime $4.00 & 4.50 Good.... 3.50 g) 4.00 Common 2.50 (i 3.50 Hogs Snipping Grades.. , 4. '25 i$ 4.75 Shkep 4.00 a 5.75 Wheat No. 2 Spring 82 . Cokn No. 2 34 ig) .H4'$ Oats No. '2 -'iJaioi ,23j Hvk No. '2 40 t .41 Kcttkh Choice Cn amery I& t .20 Chkksk Full Cream, Hans 07 .08 Ecos-Frerih 12 $ .13 Potatoes Louisiana, p brl 3.50 5,00 X'ouk Mess... 11.25 &H.75 MILWAUKKK. Wheat Cash. 73 .79 Conx- No. 3 33 .H4 Oats-No. 2 White 27 (i .28 IiYE-No. 1 44 a$ .15 13ai:i.j:y- No. 2 51 .53 Poiui Mess 11.25 11.75 LKTHOIT. Cattle 3.00 4.75 Hons 4.00 & r.,UU Hjikkf 4-00 (;$ 5 00 Wheat No. 2 lted HG & .87 Cokn- No. 2 Yellow 30 (4 30 Oats No. 2 White 27..$ ,2ba TOLEDO. - Wheat No. 2 lied 88 (& .89 Corn Cash 35 .35 Oats No. 2 White 24 & .24 a NEW OHK. Cattle 4.00 4.75 Hogs 5.00 k 5.50 BHKKP 4.50 0 5.75 Wheat No. 2 Bed 85 i .80 Coiin No. 2 44?i$ .45 Oath White H5 i$ .40 X'oiiK New Mess 12.25 13.25 ST. LOUIS. Cattle , 3.75 & 4.50 Huux 4.25 i 4.75 WheatNo. 2 .77 & .78 CoHN No. 2 30; .31 Oats 22 & .23 HXJS-No. 2 42 & .43 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 3.00 4.50 Hofts 4.50 & 4.75 hiiKKP 3.00 i& 4.00 Lamuh 0.00 & 7.75 CINCINNATI, noGS-Butchers' 4.00 5.00 Wh eat -No. 2 Itod .Hlv CoN No. 2 3U1l!gi .37 '.j Oats No. 2 Mixed (! .20 li ltitK No. 2 48 i" .49 PoftK Mess 12.00 12,50 KAN BAH CITY. Cattle Good , 3.25 4.00 Ktochers 3.00 tf 3.50 Butchers' 2.00 & 2.50 HOGS Choice ; 4.40 4.00 Medium , 4.00 4.40 Sheep 3,00 & 3.75

mm LARGE FAMILIES.

TWINS, TRIPLETS, QUA I)K UNLETS ANI SEXTCPLKTS.

Iowa's Champion Loads with Twentyeiyht Children and Another Hji wlteye Claim 9 Two Dozou Michigan's Great Kecor.l Wisconsin to the Front. From the Chicago Herald. Dubuque. Iowa, May, 1889. Some interesting developments in connect ion with largo I'aunUoB have boeit made in this ricintty. Melchor Mueller, vho rssides rear Jiellovuw, in tho neighboring county if Jackson, bears tho distinction ot being t!..Q father of one of the largest families or., record. Twenty-eight children have been born to him, eigrutoen of whom are dead and ten living. In this number there were threa pairs of twins. Hue Her was born nt Triwheim, Germany, in December. IHH, and is tt, robust, healthy nan. He has bcea twice married. His first wife

was Afrntha Doser a native of Germany, who bore him six children, throe of whom are living. His second wife was Kunitfitnde Hummel, also a native of (Tcrmany, who is now living, aged 46. She has borne twentytwo children, seven of whom are living. Mueller fs a poor but industrious man, deeply attached to ha family, thoroughly domestic in his tastes, and. if hin life is spared, thinks he wdl yet sea seveni other flaxen-haired, rosy-'heeked children t)ear his name. The neighborhood in which Mueller resides is largely populated by Lux-emburger-. and among them are many large Jamilies. Tho average family is twelve. Indeed, a family of less than this number is considered small in that neighborhood. A family of twenty-five children lives in Spruce Creek Township. Jackson County, near Mueller's home. In the city of Dubuque there are many large families. John Benkson. a painter, heads the lisi". He has been married but once, and is the father ot eighteen children. His wife is a native of Iowa. 59 years of age. Their residence is HrJO White street. John Jennie, a Liborer, comes next with u family of sixteen children. His wife is 43 years of age,, and the couple declaro they would not Willi ajly part with one of nhoir offspring. John Krayer, a well-to-do arrocer in this city, has fifteen children by hhi present wife, viho is now 43 years of aC' and a woman, of rebust heulth. George Neumiller has a family of fourteen, and Jake Dodgo, a peddler, one of the same number. Joseph Goode is thoroughly happy surrounded by the same number of children. Thoso having thirteen ehilidnm are: Leo McDaniel, Benedict Bossier, T. Voarel, Frank Maier, Fritz Heibitseh. P. McCullough tutcl J. C. Curtis. Those having twelve children are: J. M. Ienehan. E. E. Jones, John Parker, Robert Miller, Adam Doerr, A. J. Patch, H, A. Mayer, M. Gantenbeim, Josepb Bower, (t. lUdermeyer, Thomas Kenneallv, Anton Bauml over. Henry Dippey. K. L. Curtis and Max Matseh. It would occupy a column of space ;o publish the names of thf men in this ciiy who are the fathers of eleven children each. With, a great many that number ooms to be higl. -water mark. It is related here that in 1K72 a woman named Schmidt, living at; llockdale, in this count;', gave birth to six children, all within an lour. A year or two ago a woman named Murphy, residing in this city, gave birth to four children, all of whom were healthy and atrong. Has Twenty-three Still Living. Bellbvue, Iowa. About three miles north of the neighboring township of Dows, this State, on the Ho wen road, there lives in a cno-fitory house one of the most remarkable families on record It consists of a father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. William Mar!ss, witi twenty-two girls and one boy. The oldest child is only i:4 yearn of age; the youngest an iirant chad of eight months. There was an even two dozen children in the Marke family until November laf.t, when the diphtheria visited them and curried ol one. The husband and father of tfc.is txrmenso family is a laboring man, possessed of no means of maintenance except h s simple earning?, with which he support his fleck, and want ans never yet entered their door. He is 4;;: years of age: his wi e the perfect picture of health ancl com el -liens fs one year h junior. They hate been married twenty-fire years this mout i. Tvrenty-one Young Fredericks. Sioux City, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick are the proud parents of twenty-one children, two f who n;i have died: nearly all of the nineteen are grown and some are married. !ft usod to bo a standing joke in the neighborhood that Frecierick bought hats and caps and boots and shoes by the cape, and that whon he traveled with his family he procured carload rates of the railroads.

Atlantic's Showing. Atlantic, Iowa L. A. Lorenzen and wife, of this j?ac. have had seventeen children. A majority of them ar e not living. W. Smith arid w fe have had two pairs of twins, and have h id triplets once. Alt the children are livirg, and soma of uhem are grown up and married. MICHIGAN'S GREAT KECO!U. Statistics from the State Census Show Many Proline Women Lansing, Mich George Batchclor was married and resided in Bunker Hill Township, in this -scam y, shortly after the close of the war. Durikg the first eleven years of his married l ie eleven ciiildren were added to his household. All the children are yet alive, but Mr. Batchelor is now dead. A- B. Ange 11, who. when twenty-eight years of aga, murried a sister of Mrs. Batchelor, referred to above, became the father of eicht children iu tho first seven years of married life. Tl.is famdy was once blessed with triplets. Tie last State census ol' Michigan shows ti at there were 701 mo:hers who had given birth to their tenth child, 405 to eleven children, 251 to twelve children, 120 to thirt en children, sixty-three to fourteen children, twenty-seven to fifteen childn n. ten to sixteen children, eight to seventeen children, four to eighteen children, one to twenty children, and one to twenty-fve children. There were 696 pairs of tw ns reported during the census year, and fc ur sets ot t;iplets. Nothing Remarkuble About IJoaton H arl or Bexton Harbor, -iUich. Mrs. George Herman, of St. Joseph, has borne ii' teen children, twelve of diem girls and tim e boys. Mrs. Henry Butzback is tho mother of twelve children. Mr. and Mrs. Do a C. Morrison fi led th-jir cradle full o.f twins on Feb, 10 last. Come In Bunches at Gruml J tap Ms. GhANi) ltAPins, Mich. The wife o:f Professor La Pierre was c ne of a family ol' twenty-three children., und she is herseli! the mother of eleven, six of whom fire st;ll ilvinir. John Van der Maul en is the father oE twenty-two children by ttfo marriages, and nineteen of them were al ve at one l .me und all living under the sane roof, fciuven of the children have '.lied at various uses. There were only two ets of twins. The late Leonard D'Voffe was ;he father of fifteen children, five of whom ire now living, one of the five bein$;; Professor D'Voge. of the State Unive rsity facu ty. John ' ttuekehee U tho father of thirteen children, only four of whom were girls. John W. Phillips has the credit of being ;he father ot thirteen boys, till grown to m mhood and themselves parents of large ft miiies John Poisson is the father of an even do.'on children, none of them twins, and tie majority of the feminine iersua;$ion. Michael Parrell; o:! Ada Township, has nine girls and two boys. Mrs. May, a widow, has ten children, the eldest fourteen years, six of tl em boys. Aaron B. Turner, editor of the Eagle, has two boys and six daughters livi ng uxd one boy laid away to rest. John Montague, of Cieorgetown, has thirteen children, thing and two dead, and all but three camn eit ler as twins ot triplets. Beven ol! thsm are girls, aid tho eVlest is eighteen yean, of age. A Polish family at Dow bad one set of triplets, two pai rs of twins, tva so! itai res, and last fall the mother gave I irth to Jour babies f.t one time, All but the quadruplets are Jiving. Julia A. Moore, ot Edgar on. kuevrn ux the Sweet Singer ol Michigan

had ten children. J. Loshoskey bas big modest &om adorned with fourteen olive branches, len of them ere girl, with fow pairs of twir s and one set ot tr plets hi the family, the eldest of the Ion being tvelvo years. Battle Creek Has Twins and Triplets. Battib Orebx, Mich There are many families iu. tide city and vicinity with seven, eight or nine children. The largest family yet dissovered to that ofi Mr. and Mrs, Patrick Sparrow, who are the parents of seventeen c hildren, nine of whom are attending schooL Mr. and Mrs; Joe N. Sanford have twelve children. James Mulvaney has a family of eleven children. The youngest one is about eleven years) of age and weighs 213 pounds. Anotner good-sized family is that of Isaao. N. Johnson, which consists of eleven chlW dren. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morse are the' parents of eleven children, all but one of whom are living. In ttu last school census Jeremiah Co away is credited with, ten cull dren of school age, Hugh Gibson with nine. Christian Snoau ten. and W. S. Xelson nine.' Twins aro quite numerous. Mrs. Michael Marion recex.tly gay.j birtn to triplets. The' most remarkable case of that sort here wae that of Mis. Alonzo Gray, who first gave birth to one child, then to twins, and finally, to triplets, iill boys. The triplets were named "Tom. Dick and Harry. The latter lived for several months, buc all three are now oVad. Mrs. Alonzo G, Payne, living & few miles east, gave bk'tii to male twins very recentLy. WISCONSIN TO THE FBONT.

Four Children at One Birth Near

Claire Some Big Babies. Eau Clark. Wis. ACout two years ago Mrs. Grindale. of Chetek, a mal! town north of this city, gaw birth to four boys at once, two of them weighing sb; pounds each and two of them five pounds each. The pair had been married about two years, and had previously been blessed with no children, nor have; they had any since. The boys were all per-f fectly formed and lively, bright babies, but two of them died within a wsek, the other' two living respectively six and five months.; Had not the .'amily been in destitue circum-i stances at the time, and had not the infante! thereby suffered from the lack of immediate! attention and of subsequent care, theyi would doubtless have lived. The parents' had but just arrived in this country, an had settled in a remote spot, where aid did not reach th 3m at once. Mrs. John Neher, of thie city, who fs enjoying excellent health at the good old agej of eighty;four. has had sixteen children nine boys and seven girls all of whom are living and are well-to-do residents of various Northwestern States. Ihe youngest of tho family, a boy, was born when Mrs. Neher -was fifty-one years of age. TJie. young man, who is a substantial citizen ofi Eau Claire, rejoices in being uncle to sixtynine children and the father of six. Mr.j Neher, the father of this remarkable fandlyj of sixteen, is dead. Mr. ar d Mrs. Frank Ihlel have four boys and eight girls, the oldest twenty-six, and Mrs. Ihle is but forty-three) years of age. Mrs. Louis En guard, aged, forty .recently gave birth tc triplets and hasj had seven children in aii; Mrs. William Bell; has presented her hustand with eleven; children, who range in ago from one to nine. teen years, four being girls and seven boys-1 Mrs. J. Hotchkiss has hasten, the youngest a year old aid the eldes t nineteen. Fami-j lies with nine children arc frequently found and ten children of one mother isnotun-. common. Angus Mc Vicar has been pre-1 sented by his wife with fourteen, the oldest! of whom is twenty-two. Mrs. Josepb Whelihan has sixteen, ranging from four toj twenty years. Mrs. William Garden re-! cently gave birth to a boy welching seven: teen pounds, and Mrs. A. Gilbert to twin' weighing seven rounds each Figures from Dodgevilie DODGEVIIXE, Wis, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Brown, ot Linden, are the parents of eleven children, all of! whom are now living in different parts ofj the country. 'Mrs. Bleakly, a daughter, id; in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. James CallomJ

also of Line en, and Mr. aud Mrs. Andrew

Peterson, of the same tewn, have been blessed wivh families of twelve children:

Mr. and Mrs. James Hutchinson, of)

Mineral Point, have had a like number Mr, and Mrs. Henry Curry, of the town of! Linden, and Mr. and Mr. Joseph D. Davey, of Dodgeville.have magn ned the record by on 3, and enjoy the enviable distinction off having become the parents of thirteen chii-t dren in the r respective families. Mr. and Mrs. rick Halverson, of Dodge-; ville; Mr. aid Mrs. William Lanyon of Mlo-i oral Point; anct Mr. and Mrs. William! Thomas, of Mifflin, are the parents of four-! teen children. Kearton Coates. a wealthy i farmer and a former memter of the Leg-; islature, of the town of Linden, is the! father of fiiteen children, ten girls and five! boys, 4 Mr. and Mrs, Henry Lmley, of tha town of Arena, have had evenen children, i John Crase, of the prolific town of LindenJ comes forward with a bripht and interest-, ing column of twentv-one children. Mr.l and Mrs. William B. Williams, of Dodge-i ville, preside over a family of twenty-twoj children, Mr. Williams being the father ofi all of them,, he having been twice married.! Mr. Williams is c wealthy farmer and lives; near this village, and wields the damestior scepter over the largest and most interest-j ing tamily, perhaps, in this part of Wisconv sin. Mr. and Mrs. H'jnry D. Griffiths, of, the town of Dodgeville. early settlers, and who now onjoy a comfortable home and; competence, are the joyful parents of slx-t teen children, of whom, two are twins. Mr.r and Mrs. Francis Pride aux, of this village, besides be ing the happy parents of three other children, enjoy the proud distinction) of being th parents of two pairs of twins. Capt. W. 11. Jones, of ftiageway. made m record of twelve children .among whom werej three pairs of twins. This was considered! a very remarkable record until a family inj Mineral Point made a record that has not been excelled, or at least has not been made Sub lie. in this part of the State, Mr. and) rs. William Jacka. of that place, were the" proud parents of ten children, among them a pair of twin girls. The girls grew tot womanhood, and one of taem married Wm.1 Pavnter, of Mineral Point, aud became th$ proud mother of twenty-cne children. The other one married John Huxtable. also of that city, aud raised a family of nineteen? children, among whom were two pairs of twins. Nothing Great at Lttrose Lacrosse, Wis. Peter Bott is the father of twelve children, all living. John Olson, a Norwegian mill-hand, is the father of fourteen children, eiarht boys and six girls. Mr, Dam rod. a resident c-f the Filth Ward, is the father of a bi.kerV dozen, all of whom are living; Mr, Lynch :.s the father of seventeen. THE NIJVV BRITISH MINISTER. Str Julian Pauncefote, the Suoeeeser ol SackTllle-Wet.

WE present herewith & faithful portrait of Bir Ju11 an Paaneefote. the new British

Jtiuiowi vvr ti noil" ington, who hae iust entered upon his official duties.

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sin jux-ian jatncefote. west or rgiano, were included in the Doomsday Book, an$ were engaged in Gloucestershire in the wars of tho barons. Ho is 61 years old. "Do you think your son has the neo-( essary quidiiications to become an artist?" "I'm sure of it. He can da without fixxl for throe days and hi) knows the position of every free lunch

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