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The AN A 10A, A dal Times. 2-NO. 309 ALTOONA, PA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1886. PRICE 3 CENTS MAY. MAY.

CARPET DEPARTMENT. You should not forget to visit our Carpet Department. We are selling lots of Carpet; but that doesn't surprise us when you consider the quantity and quality of our stock. All bright, new patterns, latest designs and colorings, and so cheap. You can buy a nice Carpet for very little money.

All grades of Carpets, from Hemp and Rag to beautiful Brussels and Velvet. you want a Carpet and don't want to put it down right away, come and pick it out so we can sew it and put it down when you want it. A MOST BEAUTIFUL LINE OF LACE CURTAINS the pair or yard, commencing at $2 per pair for a very nice By Curtain. Handsome Line of WINDOW SHADES at low prices. Shades made and put up.

A FEW SPE SPECIALTIES. TIES. New Summer Silks, new Dress Cloth Canvas and Trecot. A fine line of 25c. Dress Goods.

Job in Children's Black Jerseys. Ribbed Hose, white feet, at 15c. Bargains in Ladies' Hose at 10, and 25c. All Bargains. WILLIAM MURRAY SON, Nos.

1315 and 1317 Eleventh Avenue. Altoona. THIS week we will make our Silk Stock especially attractive to buyers who desire reliable stuff in the luxury of Fine Dress Goods. We call especial attention to our superb line of guarantee Black Gros Grain and Fancy Weave Silk Dress Fabrics. We have, at $1, and 1.25 a yard, Fine Gros Grain Silks, lustrous finish, and we can warrant every yard to give perfect satisfaction and not cut or wear greasy.

At $1.38 and $1.50, guarantee Silk, and warranted as good value; has never been offered in this market before for less than $1.75 and $2. Tricotrine Silk at $1.25. Jersey Silk at $1.25. Surah, $1, Rhadame, $1, Rhadzmer, $1, Ottoman, $1.25. All guarantee goods and splendid value.

Changable Brocade and Fancy Silks in excellent new styles at $1.25, and the best Summer Silks at 50c per yard ever offered in this market. The wide Batiste that EARLY CLOSING. we are selling hundreds of yards In our interview with many prominent of now daily, is, of course, a merchants during the past week we find them bargain that will all favorable to early closing; some in favor not last long. of the Summer and Winter months only, while Linen finish Batiste in French others are willing to shut up their places of patterns, only 15c. business at 6 p.m.

the entire year. Our line of Satteens has Our establishment and services are for the new, exquisite patterns just adconvenience of our friends and the public, and ded to the already immense colour movements must ever be guided by their lection. wishes; yet, we will put forth our greatest efforts by voice and act in behalf of every move that tends to shorten the long, tedious hours. BALTZELL ROUSS. $1.50.

$1.75. $2.25. A BIG STIR! Children's Suits Almost Given Away! Look at the above prices, and do not forget to glance at the immense display in my show windows, which I guarantee to be the cheapest and best made goods ever offered to the public. For Dark Grey Plaid, neat figure, very handsomely made. For Neat Check, dark in color, or a light colored Norfolk, made in the latest style.

But $2.25 are certainly grand--Light or dark plaid Norfolks -a great sacrifice. Remember, A. SCHEELINE'S C- HI Cor. Eleventh Ave. and Fourteenth St.

GOETZ, the "Tailor. A. R. WOLF 1507 Eleventh Avenue. A Full Line of HARDWARE of All Varieties.

HEATING AND COOKING STOVES. An Endless Variety of Wall Paper. WE DEFY COMPETITION ANYWHERE. WORTH SEEING! OUR LARGE STOCK OF LADIES' AND GENTS' GOLD WATCHES Prices as usual-way below the lowest. Repairing a Specialty.

W. W. RUDISILL, The Reliable Jeweler. 1310 Eleventh Avenue. A RUSH OF BUSINESS.

THE POLICE MAKE A BIG HAUL AND FILL THE COOP. Twenty-five Tramps Look the Law In the Face-All but Six Take a Trip Over the -Other Cases Before the Aldermen Notes. Last evening Officer Corkle arrested an streperous son of Erin, who had undertaken to run things about the Logan House. He was run in. The two men who were arrested Tuesday evening by Railroad Officer Anderson, who found them sleeping in a freight car, were taken before Alderman Rose yesterday morning for a hearing.

They were of very respectable appearance and address and the Judge allowed them to depart in peace, thinking their three days' confinement in the car with nothing to eat, a sufficient punishment. Yesterday afternoon the attention of Mayor Breth was called to a boozy individual who had stranded on the Twelfth street bridge steps. He was unable to ambulate without assistance and the Mayor thought it his duty to conduct him to some more secluded spot. He was, accordingly, given a night's rest within the odorous recesses of the city bastile. He will interview his rescuer this morning.

A. L. Goss, of Bellwood, who was arrested by Railroad Officer Anderson last week for trespassing at different times on the railroad, had a hearing yesterday afternoon before Alderman Rose. He got off with $5.00 and costs. The same individual will appear before the Alderman again on next Saturday afternoon to answer the charge of assault and battery preferred against him by Mr.

William H. Watters, of Bellwood. It seems that Watters objected to some very profane and disrespect- ful language used by Goss toward Officer Isaac Houck, of this city, who is an uncle of the complainant, whereupon Gooss made an assault upon him and handled him pretty roughly. He made information against Goss, who was arrested and brought to this city by Constable Al. McGraw.

He gave $150 bail for his appearance at the hearing above mentioned. Within the past few weeks Dairymen John Cole and others residing in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth street, outside the city limits, have made complaints at police headquarters in regard to a band of tramps who have taken up their quarters in that region and have been living off the fat of the land. They state that their fences are gradually disappearing, going up in smoke from the fires by which these merry migrants toast their shins. In response to these appeals Constables McGraw, Himstead and Collier, Railroad Officers Houck, Stern and Anderson and City Officers Attig and Kinch organized a raiding party yesterday afternoon and came down upon the unsuspecting wanderers and corraled them to a man. The assembly contained twenty-one tramps of all known species and nationalities and in many different stages of preservation.

They had not been long in the hands of the law, however, when one took a fit and dropped, and then there were twenty. The invalid, who seemed to take this parting from his old cronies greatly to heart, implored so piteously that some one be left to share his sorrows with him that the ranks were again broken, and then there were but nineteen. This number arrived safely at the office of Alderman Rose, who listened very patiently and attentiyely to their varied tales of wrongs and woes and assertions of lamb-like innocence and then gave each luckless traveler thirty days over the hill with the exception of two who left a watch as security. They were crowded into the coop and given a feed. In the meantime several of the officers above named, with the addition of Policeman Mc.

Feely, returned to the scene of the former seizure and surprised a happy quartette who were endeavoring to get on the outside of a keg of beer. They, too, went the way of their unfortunate predecessors and had a chance to tell what they knew of themselves. One was a tinner and had his kit with him. He claimed that he was self supporting and never stole a car ride in his life. Another was a cooper by trade and was looking for work, his objective point being Cincinnati.

The other two had more on their minds than they could communicate at that time, and were given thirty days at Castle Kephart to unravel the thread of remembrance. The former two were discharged with light fines. The aggregation was taken to Hollidaysburg in the evening, and will be turned out to graze on pastures new in thirty days. Miss Pomcroy to be Here Three Nights. The engagement of Miss Louise Pomeroy has been extended to three nights.

On Monday evening W. S. Gilbert's great satire, "Engaged," will be given, with Miss Pomeroy and Mr. Arthur Elliot in the leading roles. This is one of the funniest comedies ever written, and the situations are very amusing.

On Tuesday evening, by request, Miss Pomeroy will appear Isabella and special, Madam Vine in "East Lynne." Wednesday evening, however, will be the grandest gala occasion of all, as it will witness the first production in this city of the greatest of all English comedies, "The School for Scandal," with Miss Pomeroy as "Lady Teazle," Mr. George Holland as "Sir Peter Teazle," and Mr. Arthur Elliot as "Charles Surface." This comedy was presented by the Pomeroy combinaor tion in Philadelphia last week, to standing room only, every evening. The costuming is said to be the finest eyer seen in that city, Miss Pomeroy having had all the costumes manufactured especially for her company by Van Horn, the famous Philadelphia costumer, This engagement will be one of the most brilliant of the season, and our citizens should turn out and give Miss Pomeroy greeting as her plays and her playing eminently merit. The Baltimore Races.

BALTIMORE, May winners at Pimlico to-day were Strathsper, Rock and Rye, Young Luke, Little Minnie and Berson. CALLED TO HIS REST. A Brief Life History of the Late Timothy McTamany, of Cambria County, In THE TIMES of Monday last brief mention was made of the death of Mr. Timothy McTamany, more familiarly known as "Teddy" McTamany, who was a citizen of Washington township, Cambria county, for more than sixty years. The deceased was born in the county Derry, Ireland, a a about seventy-nine years ago, and was one of a a a a a a a a family of ten children, the two eldest being girls.

They all came to this country in early life, the family having felt the effects of the rebellion of '98. Mr. McTamany was married on the 21st day of May, 1829, and had he lived four days lived four days longer he would have seen the fiftyseventh anniversary of his wedding day. His wife, who still survives him, is about two years younger than he was. Five years after his marriage the deceased removed with his little family to Cambria county, where he worked for several years on the Old Portage Railroad, meantime buying a tract of land near Plane No.

4, then a vast wilderness, and where he built himself an humble home and raised a family of nine children-five sons and four daughters. Of the boysonly two are living, Councilman Peter McTamany, of this city, an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and John, who remains at home and tills the farm. Three of the daughters are also living, one of whom, Mrs. Mary Reilly, wife of James Reilly, resides near Gallitzin, while the other two, Margaret and Annie, both single, live with their mother on the farm. They were all present at their father's bedside when he died.

The funeral cortege which accompanied the remains of this good old man to their last resting place on Tuesday last, was one of the largest ever witnessed in that section, all the available teams in the township being brought into requisition. The cortege first proceeded to the Catholic church at Lilly's, where Requiem High Mass was celebrated and an appropriate sermon delivered by Rev. Father Browne, atter which the procession wended its way along the bed of the Old Portage Rail road to the Summit, where the remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery, beside those of two sons gone before, Joseph and Hugh. May his soul rest in peace. Happily Wedded.

Mr. Michael Luther, nephew of ex Sheriff Luther, of Cambria county, and Miss Gussie, daughter of Mr. Samuel O'Hara, of Munster township, in the same county, were married at the Church of the Holy Name, Ebensburg, yesterday afternoon, by the pastor, Rev. Father Walsh. The bridegroom is an industrious young blacksmith, and being a proficient mechanic and a well doing and welldeserving man, he enjoys the esteem of everybody who knows him.

That he has won a worthy helpmeet no one can doubt, for among all the fair daughters of Cambria it would be difficult if not impossible to find a more amiable or more estimable lady than the happy young bride. That peace and plenty may be theirs throughout a long and prosperous wedded life is the hope and prayer of a large circle of admiring friends and earnest well Y. M. O. A.

Notes. The regular meeting of the Ladies' Auxili- ary will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the parlor. At the meeting of the Association held June 11, the President appointed the following committee on nomination of officers for the ensuing year beginning June 1: George Piper, G. W. Mehaffey, A.

P. MacDonald, H. G. Ayers and R. W.

Scott. By provision of the Constitution any member of the Association, in good standing, has the privilege of suggesting to the committee the names of any persons whom he considers properly qualified to fill the several vacancies to be filled at this time. Nominations are in order up to June 1. This committee will meet this evening at 7 o'clock in the Secretary's of- fice. Favorable to the G.

A. R. PHILADELPHIA, May the convention of the Catholic Young Men's National Union to day, resolutions were introduced and referred endorsing the action of Archbishop Ryan for his wisdom in the matter of the Grand Army of the Republic, and that the Grand Army of the Republic be granted all the privileges possible. St. Louis Deputy Sheriff's Vindicated.

ST. LOUIS, May grand jury at Belleville, to-day returned their report to the Circuit Court, after having refused to find true bills against the deputy sheriffs who fired upon a mob in East St. Louis during the recent railroad strike and killed six of their number. An order was made for their release and they departed for their hemes. The End of a Spree.

HARRISBURG, May J. Eppley, of Marysville, was found dead in bed at the European Hotel this evening. He had been on a protracted spree and last evening remarked to an acquaintance that he intended sobering up, and that morphine was a good remedy. The supposition is that he took an overdose of the drug. Another Schooner Gobbled.

NEW YORK, May Halifax special says: "It is reported that a seizure of another American schooner was made in the Bay of Fundy yesterday by the steamer Dansdowne, but no reliable information has yet been received. Two Pennsylvania Postmasters. WASHINGTON, May President sent the following nominations to the Senate today: Postmasters, Win. Furlong, Freeport, Daniel McCrrthy, Braddock, Pa. Senatorial Orator.

WASHINGTON, May Vanwyck leaves Washington to-night for Wilkesbarre, to make an address at the opening of the armory fair. DEATH IN THE FLAMES. SIX OHILDREN PERISH IN A FIRE AT AKRON, OHIO. A Rescuer Terribly Burned -Three Men are Burned in a Factory Fire at Jersey City--Fatal Blaze In an Opera House-Other News Notes AKRON, May little home of Mra. Mary Mooney, a widow, situated about three miles north of Akron, burned to the ground shortly before midnight, and four of Mrs.

Mooney's children, the oldest 12 and the youngest 4 years old, perished in the flames. Mrs. Mooney awoke in the night to find herself choking with smoke, and, snatching up her baby of two years, told the other little ones, who were almost stifled, to follow her. Mr8. Mooney sprang out of the window with the babe in her arms and landed almost unhurt, the baby also receiving but slight injuries.

Lawrence Mooney, aged 60, br of Mrs. Mooney, was awakened by the children's outcry, and rushed out of the house only to be told by the frantic mother that her four little ones were still in the burning building. Both mother and uncle rushed into the flames time after time, but were beaten back, Mr. Mooney at length falling exhausted and terribly blistered, while the flesh on his hands hung in shreds. It took but a few moments for the crackling flames to consume buildlonger, ing, and this morning charred bits of flesh and larger bones of the bodies of the four little ones were found in the ruins.

Lawrence Mooney's injuries may prove fatal, and Mrs. Mooney and her two grown daughters, living in this city, are wild with grief. The $900 insurance and the little patch of ground is all that is left to the stricken mother. The fire caught from an overheated stove. ANOTHER HORRIBLE BURNING.

JERSEY CITY, May Franks chemical factory, at Hoboken, was burned to-day and three men, Edward Terry, John Hoffman and Joseph Heiszer, employed on the third floor, were 80 badly burred that their recovery is doubtful. Heiszer fell from the third story window and was badly mangled. The loss is estimated at $6,000. VICTIMS OF A FIRE IN AN OPERA HOUSE. COLUMBUS, May Evans and Perkey Knot have died from injuries received at a fire in the Opera House, at Westerfield, Monday night.

Willie Trazie, Vernie Boardman, Harry Haynes and Ada Markley will probably not recover. TWO MORE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. CAMBRIDGE, May house of John Baltimore, colored, in Link wood district, was burned last night, and his two chil. dren, aged 3 and 8 years, were consumed with the building. A Fisherman Talks Back.

PORTLAND, May excitement over the seizure of the schooner Ellen M. Doughty by the Canadian authorities is increasing, as is the feeling that the Government is strangely silent. Letters have been received from all along the coast saying that common cause will be made with the Portland fishermen and that a great union for defense will be arranged. Mr. Whitten, who is a member of the firm of Lewis, Chase Whitten, says: "Had I been in Captain Doughty's place with twelve good men at my beck that one officer would never have taken my vessel.

I should have said: 'Get off, or I will lock you up and take you with The Government is doing nothing for us. We must save ourselves and we shall do it." Another owner said: "Weshall stand for our rights, and if the Government will not protect us we will protect ourselves. Had Captain Doughty's men armed the capture would never have been made. When Captain Doughty goes to sea again he will carry cannon and small arms, and all the other fishing vessels that go out of this port will also be armed, and their captains will have direct orders to resist all attempts that may be made to seize vessels." The fishermen say that the Government has not given the slightest sign of interest in the matter, and if Portland can't send word Captain Doughty at Englistown that the Government of the United States will protect him, then Porland can and will say to him that the people of the State of Maine will stand back of him, and that American vessels cannot be seized at will by the Canadians. Rejoicing in Quebec.

QUEBEC, May official announcement was received last night from Rome confirming Archbishop Taschereau's election to the Cardinalate. The news was received with delight by the Catholics of Quebec, who gave vent to their feelings by illuminating their residences, displaying bunting and holding special services in the various Roman Catholic churches. During the evening the Pontifical Zouaves called upon His Eminence and presented him with an address of congratulation. Grand pyrotechnic displays were given by different citizens. The beretta is not expected to arrive uutil June 10th, when grand festivities will take place.

Cardinal Tascherean has sent out a circular letter promulgating the decision of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII forbidding the use of all spirituous and fermented liquors at bazaars, and also forbidding the holding of bazaars on the Sabbath. Racing at Peint Breeze. Philadelphia, May track was heavy at Point Breeze to day. G. F.

Ewing won the finished 2.30 race, taking the eighth heat in 33 1-2. In the 2.30 pacing race, Sallie the favorite, took first and fourth heats, and 1 was distanced in the seventh. King Jim took second and third heats, and Kimball the fifth, sixth and seventh in the race, his best time being 230. In the 2.34 race Julia the favorite, won, taking the first, second and fifth heats, Orange Bud taking the third and fourth. Best time, 2 31, DON PATRICIO LYNCH DEAD.

Tne Distinguished Vice Admiral of the OhllIan Navy Dies at Sea. NEW YORK, May Admiral Don Patricio Lynch, of the Chilian Navy, died at sea on his way from Spain, where he was Minister Penitentiary, to take the post of Minister to Peru. His body was landed at Tenerifle. He was the son of an Irish merchant and a Chilian woman and was born at Santiago in 1825. In 1879, when war broke out between Chili on the one hand and Peru and Bolivia on the other, he was still a member of the Government.

Although bred to the naval service his achievements on land in this war were the most distinguished of his life. With a mere handful of men he invaded the northern provinces of Peru, achieving most brilliant success. He ravaged the enemy's territory, spread desolation far and wide, captured cities containing ten thousand inhabitants, and then, retreating to the South, took part in a campaign which reduced Lima and terminated in a decisive manner the war between Chili and Peru. Lynch then became Commander-in-Chief of the Chilian army of occupation, with headquarters at Lima. That city, it was said, was never better governed.

The plundering of the capital, the despoiling of the public parks, the library, the university, under previous commanders were sternly disapproved and repressed by him. He enforced exact discipline and his civil administration was as efficient as the military. In the summer of 1883 he had been promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral (the chief officer) of the Chilian navy. Later in the year he was offered the Ministry of War and Marine, but refused it. Having taken great interest in the treaty of peace between Chili and Spain, which was concluded in 1884, President Santa Maria's government urged him to accept the place of Ambassador to renew the diplomatic relations with the Spanish Court.

This he accepted and started for his post in October, 1884. Powderly Goes Home. PHILADELPHIA, May Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, was in Philadelphia yesterday to make some arrangements with General Secretary and Treasurer Turner for the special meeting of the General Assembly at Cleveland next Monday. He left for Scranton on the 6 o'clock train. He will go directly from there to Cleveland.

When asked if there was any truth in the newspaper statement that Martin Irons was opposed to him and aspired to the General Master Workmanship of the organization, Mr. Powderly smiled and said: "That statement is not only untrue but ridiculous. There is to be no election for the office, The convention to be held at Cleveland is not for the election of officers; it is merely to adopt measures to bring the different elements of the Knights of Labor into harmony with each other and thereby strengthen the organization." When asked what he thought of the editorial reply to the questions he propounded to the press, he said: "None of the newspapers have yet answered my questions. They have replied to Mr. Powderly, but they have not answered Mr.

Powderly's questions. I asked them straightforward questions and they steered all around them." A Slight Disturbance at the Irwin Mines. IRWIN, May two of the Westmoreland Coal Company's miners asserted their privileges by resuming work in the Northside mine. A few men tried at the time to persuade them to remain out, but were unsuccessful. When they came out in the ing they were followed to their homes by an angry crowd of strikers, who jeered and hooted them.

This morning the same men returned to work protected by deputies, and other disorderly crowd gathered and resumed the performance of last night. Finally, two men, James Beveriot and William Thomas, were arrested, charged with making threats, and are under bail for trial. The company is determined to protect all men who wish to work. A large delegation of strikers went up to Claridge to try to induce the miners there to join them, but up to 9 o'clock this morning had not succeeded. The general impression here is that the strike is about over, and that before long all men will be at work where the companies have places for them.

Sullivan's Latest Offer to Smith. CHICAGO, May Sheedy, who has undertaken the management of John L. Sullivan, yesterday cabled the London backers of Jem Smith, the English heavy weight, offering their man a guarantee of $3,000 to come to America and meet Sullivan for six rounds in the Polo grounds, New York, July 4th next. James Mutrie, of the New York Ball Club, writes Mr. Sheedy that the grounds can be secured for that date, and that an attendance of fully 25,000 people may be anticipated.

Better Late Than Never. PHILADELPHIA, May mass meeting of the Carpenters and Joiners' Assembly of the Knights of Labor was held to night to ratify a demand for nine hours for a day's work which will be made on June 1 by penters employed in planing and wood work mills. This class of carpenters had deferred making their demand until June 1, although the carpenters have already been granted nine hours per day. Anarchists Before the Grand Jury. CHICAGO, May grand jury took up the hearing of the cases of the Anarchists this morning.

The first thing done was the reading to the jury the testimony which was taken at the inquests held on the remains of Officers Miller, Flavin, Redden, Deegan, Shehan and Barrett, who died from the effects of wounds received in the Haymarket riot. After this witnesses to the tragedy were heard. Oil Quotations. PITTSBURGH, May closed at THE FOREIGN NEWS. GLADSTONE AND HOME RULE GAINING STRENGTH IN PARLIAMENT.

Royal Reception to Princess Amelia. Americans in London--The Spanish Heir to be Obristened on Sunday-War on Socialists. LONDON, May Labouchere, in Truth this morning, corroborates Edmund Yates in the formation of the Cabinet which WAS alluded to in these dispatches yesterday, and that the Queen has agreed with Mr. Glad. stone to a dissolution of the Commons and an appeal to the constituencies, should the Home Rule bill fail.

Mr. Labouchere furnishes accounts which gires the measure a small majority. He made a short but telling speech late last evening in reply to Mr. Chaplin, his text substantially being that the opposition coalition simply personified certain Liberal efforts to get rid of Mr. Gladstone and the Tory hatred of him.

The coalition simply opposed his Irish plan, treating it as a personal one, but they were ready, however, with some mys. terious Irish plan of their own. Justin McCarty has the floor of the House for this afternoon, when the debate will be resumed, and he is expected to powerfully demonstrate the Whig hypocrisy, the Tory double dealing, and the Liberal intrigu respecting the Gladstone-Parnell panacea for the Irish troubles. After Mr. Labouchere's speech last night several members, hitherto hesitant, promised in the lobby to vote for the second reading of the Home Rule bill if a pledge should be given that the bill would then be withdrawn until the next session.

GOING TO MEET HIS BETROTHED. LISBON, May Crown Prince of Portugal has started for the frontier to meet his betrothed, Princess Amelie, daughter of the Comte de Paris. LONDON, May has been nothing of a social character in London for years comparable to the splendor of the royal reception last Saturday at the residence of the Comte de Paris, in honor of the Princess Amelie. Some idea of the magnitude of the affair may be gathered from the fact that the line of car. riages conveying guests occupied four hours in passing through the court yard.

Lord Cairne, Miss Adele her mother, Mre. Beach Grant, were invited. WARON THE SOCIALISTS. BERLIN, May Government has presented a report to the Reichstag in justifcation of the decree recently issued under the the Socialist law forbidding the holding of public meetings in Berlin, Potsdam, and environs without permission from the police, obtained forty-eight hours in advance. The report says that it is notorious that meetings of workingmen are utilized to disseminate Socialist propaganda, that a Socialist tion exists, and that the threatening conferences of railway employees at Berlin might be fraught with fatal results to the public.

A TRIBAL WAR IN AFRICA. LONDON, May from Cape Coast Castle, the capital of the Gold Coast, West Africa, say that a conflict is proceeding between the Becquano and Adansis, two pative tribes, and that in consequence roads are blooded and all trade with the interior is tem- porarily stopped. The Becquahos recently captured forty-five German traders and killed them all. All were most horribly tortured and mutilated. AMERICANS IN LONDON.

LONDON, May presence here of an unusual number of American sojourners overwhelm Minister Phelps with social duties, and applications for presentation to the Queen are constantly pouring in upon him. On Thursday he will present Mrs. Peter T. Barlow, Miss Marion Langdon, and Miss Schuyler of New York, together with others whose names have not yet been announced. BRITISH LEGISLATION FOR CANADA.

LONDON, May Granville duced a bill in the House of Lords last night respecting representation in the Canadian Parliament of Territories belonging to the Dominion but not included in any province. QUEEN CHRISTINA'S BABY. MADRID, May christening of Queen Christina's son will take place on Friday in the royal A Compliment to Ex-Secretary Jenks. WASHINGTON, May Lamar has written a very complimentary letter to ex- Assistant Secretary Jenks, of the Department of the Interior, which concludes as follows: "By your retirement the public service will lose a pure and able officer, whose clear judgment and broad experience have been of the highest value to the administration of the affairs of this Department." The Senate Passes the Pension BIll. WASHINGTON, May Senate to day passed the Pension bill.

Yeas 34, nays 14. The bill provides relief for the soldiers of the late war honorably discharged after three months' service who are disabled and dependent upon their own exertions for support, and of dependent parents of soldiers who died in the service or from disabilities contracted therein. Death of a Railway Official. Reading, May A. Nichols, for half a century connected with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, died yesterday of paralysis, aged 69 years, At the time of his death, Mr.

Nicholls held the position of General Superintendent and Vice President of the Reading and Columbia and other branch roads of the Philadelphia and Reading Company, Its all Over at Washington. WASHINGTON, May Legislature adjourned to meet January 4. The Democratic members of the Senate did not return, but went direct from Kentucky to their homes..