News Of The Week

In Chicago the entlre eampaign was characterized by an unusual amount of bitter personality. The elcction held was for city and township officere, and members of the city council, and resulted in the election of the entire democratie ticket. In the St. Louis, Mo., city eleetion the democrats carry the day, as also in Madison, Wis. In Eau Claire, Wis., the result is a vietory of working men over capital. In Denver the republicans were victorious. SPRAGUE DEFEATEU. Sprague, who aspired to gubernatorial honors ia Rhode Island, was defeated by Bourne, Republican. Bourne's majority was 2,865. AN ITEM FOR SALMI. A bilí has been introduced in the New York Senate and immediately ordered to a third reading to prevent any attempt to personate or represent Jesus Christ by any play or dramatic representation, whether free or lor admission fee, and declares vlolation of its provisions to be a misdemeanor punishable by flne of not less tban $100 and imprisonment uot less than six months. JEFF DAVIS IIEARI) FROM. An incident of the cerêmony of the decorating of the graves of Confedérate dead in New Orleans a few days ago, and laying the cornertone of a monument, to be surmdunted by an equestrian statue of Albert Sidney Johnston, was an oration delivered by Jefferson Davls, in which he eulogized the characteristics of the dead leader. In Johnston he recognized a strong pillar to the Confederacy, and when he feil on the field of Shiloh, the uiightiest column which had sustained the cause had fallen. He died in a moment of victory. Had he lived half an hour longer he would have made Grant a prisoner or a f ugitive. The Confederacy had three great leaders - Lee, Jaekson and Johnston - who wonld compare with the leaders of antiqulty or modern times. At a banquet in the evening the speaker reiterated the sentimcnts HOTEL DISASTER. The Ende house, a three-story brick hotel at Grecnvtlle, Hunt couuty, Texas, feil, on the 8th inst., buryingthe inmates beneath its walls. Nearly 40 guests and attendants were in the building at the time. Some who had not retired got out with difflculty. Fourteen persams are known to have been killed, and but a few escaped unhurt. The ruins took fire and mauy bodies were roasted in the flames. Some of those who escaped received serious injuries. The hotel and four or iive business houses in the rear were destroyed. The charred remains of the unfortunates were taken out, and 'the nuguiciiuö ui iivu uuuic& ure luemiueu. lue cause of the calamity is thought to have been an explosión of powder in the hardware store just west of the hotel, wliich blew out the walls, eausing the building to f all. MASSACHUSETTS' DEVILTRY. The investigation into the management of the almshouse at Tewksbury, Mass., is Btill in progress. It would be almost inconceivable, if it were not kuown that there were still fiends in human shape, to imagine the sickening horrors that have taken place. We append the testimony of one witness, and it is but a specimen : "Was employed in the Tewksbury hospital at night. Helped to lay out the body of Lizzie Cannon. The body was warm when put in the coffin. Knew an inmate named Kate Furny. Kate died and I saw the body after it was laid out, covered with rats. I reported it at once to one of the doctors. Capt. Marsh said I had better keep still about it. Saw a sick child where the maggots were eating around the skull. Many a time the rats were so thick I have seeu them run across rny lap when I was eating." Close of a Iiomz and IJserul Llfe. Peter Cooper, founder of the Cooper Instituto, died in New York on the 4th inst., aged 92 ycars. The illnesa which jiroved fata], was coutracted about 10 days ago, and developed into pneumonía. Mis death was quiet and painlegs. Peter Coopcr was known the world over lor his philanthropv. Peter Conper was born in Ney Tork city February 12, 1791. His father was a Heutenant in the revolutionary war, and at its close he startod a hat mauufactory in New York. In this and several subsequent enterprises he failed, and the family being large he was unable to give young Peter the advantages of an education. The boy attendcd school half a day eaeh day for a year, and this was the extent of his ''schooling." At the age of 17 he began to serve an apprcnticeship as a eoachmaker, and a few years later he engaged in the palo of machines for shearing eloth : then in the manufacture of furniturc ; then in the grocery business, and flnally in the manufacture of glue, wliich he followed for over 30 years and with Rreat linancial success. In 1830 he established extensive Iron works at Cantón, near Baltimore, and iu 1S45 he put up the largest rolling mili iu the country, at Trenton, N. J. In 1S28 he purchased 3,000 acres of land, mostly inside the city limits of Baltimore, for 1 105,000 Tne parchase included three miles short front, and its valué depended largely on the success of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, then under construction. When completed the road was found to be so f uil of short corners and steep grades as to be impracticable, and the whole point of being abandoned. Mr. Cooper then went to work constructing after his own designs and in his own shops a locomotivc whieh should draw heavy trams over the road despite the graies and curves, and in this he was successful. His engine on its trial trip, drawing a box car full of excursionista, made 18 miles up a grade of 18 feet to the inile in an hour and 18 minutes, wliich was eonsidered a wondeif ui acliievement. He was ever actively engaged in business euterprises, and was presideut of the coiupany wliich luid the tiret Atlantic cable, and it was prouablv owlng to nis ïumyiauai citorts more than totboee of any otlicr man tliat the great euterprise was uudertaken and cariied to successful completion. Scveral times the promotors of the scheme were about to abandon it but Mr. Cooper drew on his private funds and, iu the end had his reward. But the enterprise with which his name is most intlmately assoeiated, aud for which he will be longest remembered, is the school in New York city to Bupply a technological education to the laboring classes, and called after its founder, the Cooper Institute. This grand institution, preseutcd to the city in 1858, was the reeult of 26 years of study upon his part, and upon it. he is said to have expended no less than $700,000. Iu 1876 Mr. Cooper, iu opposition to his owu wishes, was nominated for president by the national greenback convention, and though not expeetiug to carry a single state he spent d uring the canvass over $25,000 in spreadiug the views on currency which he had long held. In religión he was a Unitarian, and uuder all eireumstanees he lived a pure aud ueeful life, AN IMPORTANT COXSOLIDATIOX. James F. Joy, of Detroit, who is interested in the Wabash"railroad, and who has just returned from New York, says that the Wabash will at once pass under the management of the Missouri Paeiflc. ïhere will be no change of names, but the lino will be a continuous one from Texas to Detroit and Toledo. ïhts arrangement will necessitate no particular changes in the operating officials of either the Wabash or Missouri Paciíle, but will prove of great advantage to botu in the matter of business. The Wabash officials and railroad men generally regard this consolidation as a wise stroke ou the part of Mr. Gould, as he will be enabled thereby to feed the Wabash from his southweat roads without dividiuer with petiting Unes cast oí the Misslssippi river. lt a also promised that under the consolidation Detroit is to have more business, more attention aud become a more important point in railroad mattere generally. SCUELLRR'S TKIAL. All of the siekening horrors of the Milwaukee holacaust are recalled by the commencement of the trial of George Seheller, the barkeeper. Great excitement prevails in Milwaukeo, and on the flrst day of the trial all available space was oecupied. The defense claim to have but little direct testimony to offer, relying mainly on the failure of the proseeutiou to conucct Scheller with the ineendiarlsin, and thus secure his acqulttal on technical grouuds. DE LONQ'S TRONK. De Long's ehest, that was found by the relief party, bas been opened and eompared with the iuventory and found correct. It contalned a number of trlukets intended for his iamtly. A FALLEN BUILDING. A fiye-story building in Rochester, N. Y., owned and oecupied by J. F. Carter, feil the other morning, buryiug li workmen. One was killed, and eeveral others serlously injured. CRIME. A TRIPLE MURDEIÍ. Another of those sickeniug tragedies whicb are becoming so alarmingly frequent occurred in West Union, V. Va., a few nights ago, resulting in the deatb of a man named Doyle and two young daughters. Between 10 o'elock aud midnight a worthless character of the village uameu Harper entered the room and struck Doyle over the liead with a heavy poker and then stabbed hlm in several places about the oozing out of eeveral wounds in the head. His two chüdren ivore sleeping beslde him, but awakened 'by the nolse of the as6ault, werc also killed in eild b!ood by the asBailant, in hopea of ccracealing Lia identity. The eider revived sufflclently to teil who had eommitted the revolting deed. The oblect of the murder was undoubtedly robbery, as Doyle was known to keep a large sum of money in the house. Thls was not all taken, the murderer apparently haviug been frightened beiore securing all his booty. 8ome of the money was scattered about the floor where he dropped it In hls flight. Doyle was a widower and kept a grocery and liquor 6tore. Two othcr men have been implieated named Meekly and McKinley, between whom and Doyle old fcuds exlsted. All three have been arrested and are being closely euarded to prevent lynehing. FOKHHí! AFFAIKS. THEATRE BURNED. The National Theatre at Berlin burned a few Jays ago. Nothlng was saved. Fortunately no Uves were lost. SENSIBLE ADVICE. Mieuael Davitt, in a letter to the youne Ireiand society of Glasgow, eays the dynamite policy can only exaspérate the English, and that it would be far better to work and wait foi 20 years longer than play into the hands oflrj land's enemles by giving way to dispair ando venge. THE DYXAMITE AOE. Oreat Britain was fairly wild with excitement on the 5th inst. At Birmingham, England, the pólice discovered a nitro-glycerine factory in full operation. The apperatus for preparing and mixing the explosive compounds is construeted on scientiflc principies and with a cunning craft which clearly sliowed its inventor to be not only a thorough acholar in chémistry and maehinery, but aleo an adept for expedients for avoiding notoriety and preventing discovery. Among the noteworthy features of the place was a shrewdly devised method for carrying the fumes up the ehimney andconsumingodors. lt is learned that the premisos in Ledsam street were taken two moni ha ago by a man named Whitehead, an Irish American, who had a sign hung out in front of the place indicating nis business as that of a paper hanger. Whitehead himseJf was taken into custody when the pólice madt the descent on the den, and is now in close con flnemcut. A considerable quantity of nitrc glycerine was seized by the officers at tL same time. Information now in tb Jiands of detectives tends to demónstrate that this place is the central nianuf aetory f or explosives and most important depot of all infernal contrivances in the kingi'om. Whitehead, who is described as a man about 25 years of age, dark complexion and with marked American accent, has been in the habit of purchasing supplies of nitro-glycerine and acids which are necessary to run the business. Added to this, the report comes from Newry, Ireland, that a sentinel standing guard over the powder magazine of the government barracks at that place, had discovered a mau scaling the wall. The sentry shot, and gave an alarm. Search was at once instituted, but was fruitless. The guard was doubled, and every precaution taken to Drevent surprise. SERIOUS RIOTIN09. Severe and continuous rioting has taken place along the line of the Panama canal works, originating in race hatred between Jamaicans and C'arthagenians. Some twenty of the former have been massacred, and the government finds itself unable to restore order. Arms are bcing mdiscriminately purchased, and as no work is going on and there are about 8,000 men drinking freely, serious trouble Í6 anticipated in the isthmus, which is being rapidly overrun by the drtgs of all nations. WILL NOT KELENT. Notwithstanding the numerous protesta whieh are being reeeived from America against the injustice of prohibiting the importation of American pork tnto Gerinany, the government, evidently influenced by sanitary reasons, seems determiued to enforce the statute making such importation unlawful. ASSISTANCE NEEDED. It is reported that the English governmen has appealed to the United States for skille detectives to assist in tracing dynamite flends featherstone's folly. Foatherstone, onc of the men arrcsted in Cork on a charge ef being a dynamite carrier, claims to be a citizen of the United States, and expects, through the United States Consul, official redress for the indignities heaped upon him. ALL ONE. The investigation shows that the persons arrested in Lonuon, Liverpool, Birmingham and Cork were all members of the same organizations, and that they have been supported by funds reeeived regularly from America. THE JilHLLISTS. The great trial of nihilists hascommeucedat St. Petersburg. It is stated the crown will invokc the extreme penalty of the law agalust six of the prisoners. The trial of twenty-slï other Nihilists begins at Odessa soon. LORD LORNE 18 SCARED. It is now rumored that Lord Lorne is iu receipt of letters threatenine his life. There have been several suspicious occurrences at Rideau Hall lately, and this state of affairs causes anxiety in the dominion. MORE ABltESTSi Arrests are constantly being made in London and Ireland on almost every conceivable pretext. Threatening letters are reeeived almost every day by prominent officials, and extra precautious ave being taken to guard life and property. AIÍRAIQKED. The prisoners charged with the Phcenix Park murders have been arraigned, aud a true bill for murder iound in each case. They have been reinanded for trial, Brady will be llrst tried. When arraigned the prisoners pleaded not guilty. BRADLAUGH IS KIOHT. The House of Lords upholds Bradlaugh, the English radical in his attempts to slt aud vote n the House of Communs without taking the oath of allegianee. QCICK WOItK. The government's bill relative to explosives, introduced in eommons the other day, was passed in a inanner that certainly reflects great credit upon parliament. The bill was introduced by Sir Hon. Harcourt and read for the flrst time. It was then taken up in eommtttee of the whole. It passed through the committee without being altered. Progresa was then reported amid cheer6 and the bill passed its third reading. The government is much surprised at the prompt action taken on Uie bill, as it was peeted it would be considered longer in eommittee. It provides that the maximum penalty for causing an explosión by which loss of life or prODerty is entailed shall be life-long servitude. An attempt to cause an explosión, or making or keeping explosives with uitent to cause expiosion, to be punisiiable by imprisonment for twenty years, and the uulawful making or keeping of explosives under euspicious cireumstauees to be punished by fourteen years' iciprlsonmi nt. All accessories to such crimes are to be treated as principáis. Provisión is made in the bill for orderiug official inquiries into the crimes specifled for arrest, absconding wituesses, and for searching for explosives. The peualties to be inflicted are irrespeetive of damage done by the explosives. A tire whieh tbreatens to assume extensivo proportions has broken out at Bonme, near Geneva, Switzerland. Tweuty bouses have already heen destroyed. NOSÏMPATHT. O'Connor Power, member of parllamcnt f rom Mayo, offered a resolution in commons for the relief of the Irish. Hl9 plan is to expend L 5,000,000 ior promoting home colonization, the money to be advanced by tb e treasury, which wlll be 6ecured by a lien on the land. Hls resolution was strongly opposed, as lts adoption would be detrimental to the work of the government. LORJJE IS UNEASY. Notwithetanding the positive assuranee of the superintendent of the Dominion pólice that the reported explosión in the Eastern block was a canard, Detective Hodgins and four Toronto policemen summouedto Ottawa by the government have inspected the underground passage to the parliampnt buildings, and have been granted permits to enter not only the buildings but Rideau hall, at all hours of the day and night. Considerable uneasiness is manif ested among members of parliaincnt. The night watch has been doubled, and every precaution taken to prevent possibillty of trouble. lt is rumored that Prineess Louise's return will bc indel'mitely postponed. HITS OF INUWS. The report that Gen. Crook had ordered his men to take no prisoners in their engagements with the Indlans is discredited at the war department. Minister Lowell saya the scnsational reports aliout his instructions and the predictlons oí trouble between Great Britain and the Uuited States are like the prophceies of Wigglns. The relations of the two governruents are friendly and bid fair to continue so. Lieut. Very, United States navy, and other niemljers of the expedition sent by the American government to Patlgonia to take observations of the transit of Venns, have arrived at Liverpool on thcir way home. Anna Parnell doesn't believe that Egan has ever made a statement reflecting upon the ladies' land league. A Washington special to a Chicago paper sayg the president would like to appoint exSenator Furry of Michigan, to the vacant postmaster generalship or some othcr gooil position. A threatening letter has been receivcd by the London pólice sayíng, unless the men charged with the Phcenix park muriltira are at once released, the central telegraph office iu London will be blown up with dynauiite. Lord Salisbury in another speech at Birmingham, Eng., said that Egypt, it left to itself, might expect to be swallowed up by another power. He thought a thorough inqüiry would be necessary in order to flud a remedy for the fatal eflects of the policy of protection adopted by other powers on Enelish commerce. Th uniform of the British army is to be changed frora scarlet to grey, except in garrison towns, whers ecarlet will be retaiued. Ottawa publishers have asked their postmaster-general to aholish the postage on papers delivered in city or town. Lord Lome is anxious that his term as Governor of Canada be extended another year. There are now f rom 3,000 to 10,000 settlersn the unsurveyed territory within the new land district over which Michigan's congressman has been placed as agent. Arrangements corapleted íor the trial of the alleged Phcenix park murderere. Joe Bracly will be trled flrst. The wheat erop outlook in Ohio is the most gloomy for eight years. Agent Pratt, of the American distillers' associatlon, havingfailedin hisCanadian scheme, will next try Bermuda. A new edition of Emerson'g works is soon to be issued, containing much new matter. "Aunt" Polly Hateh, supposed to be the oldest resident of New Englantl, dled at her home in Manchester, N. II., recently, aged 105. Manitoba is making a vigorous kick against the Dominion government proposition to increase the duty on agricultuial implements. The aggregate value of such implements sold at Portage la Prairie alone last year amounted in round figures to $85O,00C. The worst snow storm Minneapolis, Minn., has had this eason feil on the lOth inst. A Gibraltar dispatch is authority for the statement that four slayes were recently sold ín Tangier, near the British legation. By the explosión of a powder mili at Aeton, Mass., the other day, two men were killed. Twelye tmndred Cincinnati cigar makers are ob a strike, demanding au increase of $1 per tuouaaud in consequence of takiHg off the tax of $3 per thousand. At a meetiog the other morning It was reported that several manufacturera had aereed to cive the increase. Bradlaugh's next aensation is a libel suit. The United States consul atSt. Gall, Switzerand, has forwarded 10,350 francs, collected for Ohlo river flood sufterers. ♦