WEEK
—A violent hail storm on the 25th
passed through the lower portion of
NEWS OF THE
The
hour,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
storm continued about half an
and was
plants, the leaves of which were cut
into shreds,
wheat were levelled to the ground.
There wus a severe hall and wind
storm in Central Illinois on the 24h,
which did great damage to the grow-
ng crops,
—A fire in Port Deposit, Maryland
on the 25th destroyed the tin can fac-
tory and hardware store of Reynolds
Brothers, with several stables and out-
buildings. The loss is estimated at
$25,000, insurance $15,000, The fire
was started by the falling of a hot
soldering iron into a mass of rosin.
During the fire a man named Rogers
was dangerously, if not fatally, injured
by falling from the roof of a neighbor-
ing house. The fur hat works of
Ferry & Napier, at Matteawan, New
York were burned on the 25th. Loss
$40,000. The store house of the glass
works at Newark, Ohio, was struck by
lightning on the 256th and destroyed.
Loss $40,000; insurance $15,000.
-— Reportsfrom all parts of Manitoba
and the Northwest assure
crops and a harvest two weeks earlier
than usual. :
~ Reason Stamper and
Dinkins were married at Ashland, Ken-
tucky, on the 26th. While they were
receiving the congratulations of their
friends a woman named Frances Piles
rushed in and attempted to shoot the
groom, but he disarmed her. She said
named Black two years ago. At
wedding i Paterson, New Jersey,
on the , Lhe festivities were
story warehouse at the foot of West
ult.. caused damage to the the extent
of about $77,000.
—**Jack’ Keef, a local **sport,” was
fatally shot by Morgan Anderson
disreputable house in Wooster, Obio, on
Jefferson Riggle, a special oflice
Fort Worth,
room, and
terrorized,
passengel
When a Missouri
Pacific train arrived on the
from the waiting room, where he had
In the U.
of Vermont, against public executive
| ressions, was read by Mr. Manders
{ Mr, Horn also spoke Jat much
| against the proposed change, Two
{ vetoes of pension bilis were 1 resented
{ and referred, A conference
{ the Consular and Diplomatic Appro-
| priation bill was agreed to, The Chair
{ laid before the Senate a joint resolu-
| Lion
iii,
ten days. Mr. Edmunds
sald he would state his rea-
The Legislature
was considered, a night
held, but it was not dis-
tion, and
priation ll
session being
posed of.
the coaches,
stricken {rom the cars.
armed with a six-shooter.”” He
finally overpowered by four men. and
the train moved on.
~The family of F. C, M. Lautz, in
Buffalo, ate for dinner on the 28th ult,,
was
vor.” Later in the afternoon the family
were taken very sick, the servant girl
All the sick
persons, six mm number, are sald to be
~The house of William Miller, near
the
years of
Otto Plotz, 31 years of age,
death in
flames,
the 28th ult. He had been drinking.
—The Knisely and Miller Galvanized
prying open with clothes poles the win-
dows of the house in which they were
held. John Earle and others attempted
to stop disturbance, when a fight
occurred, during which Hodgson struck
Earle on the head with ard
Earle died of concussion of e bn
Hod: as been arrested.
—_W. NS,
40 vears of age, committe
his boarding house a
the 26th, He had 1
out within a short ti
and It
a drummer
in Cleveland, O!
in a house of
the 26th.
age. wl
his wife and his in:
tain promises made to an inmate of the
house is thought to have been the cause
of the deed.”
the
Lilt
y and
}
h
son bh
. ah x +
McColium, a dentist
i
i1 1 rit
Le gaugnt
iemorse
10LtyY to perfonn cer-
—At Eagle Bend, Mississippi, on the
20th, lL.ee Brown, colored, and
killed Alfred and Henry Morgan, white,
and Cornelius Jackson, colored, Brown
was porter in a store, and the white
men ‘refused tolet him close it a
up,
shot
Alexander Miller, an old farmer,
and his wife were killed by a railroad
train striking their wagon at a railroad
crossing near Lafayette, Indiana, on
the 20th.
nder storm, accompanied by
hail, did damage amount
2,000, in the Ci
nearly $25,
ley, Penna. on the 26th.
~Johin N
ored
of
the
apper, aged (UU years, col-
janitor of Lincoln school
. in Harrisburg, committed
on the 25th by jumping into the
in New Orleans on Sunday,
i aged 65 years, his
wife's throat with a razor, and then cut
his own throat and slashed of his
arms. It is believed he will recover.
He was released from an insane asylum
two weeks ago. John A, lLeddele, a
wholesale clothier of Montreal, com-
miited suicid the 27th, ult, y
cutting his ti Domestic troubls
is supposed to have been the cause,
the
SUCH
Canai,
NTS:
Joseph Villio, cut
ab
with
one
— Prof W. Merriman, princi.
pai of High Sehool at Beloit, Wis-
consin, was shot and perhaps mortally
wounded by burglars on the 27th uit.
—A duel was fought the 23th
on
Alphonse Reed, near Opelousas, Lousi-
ana, Adam was dangerously, if
fatally. wounded.
A violent thunder storm
ult, Several houses were
was broken off by the electric fluid,
Cornwallis street, passed into the
ground, and badly tore up the street
for a length of two blocks, throwing
large rocks to the surface. In
another street the lightning
a gutter, throwing cobble stones
over the roadway,”
~Six cows which had been suffering
all
Turkey Hill, Lancaster county, Penna. ,
were killed on the 28th ult, by an order
of the State authorities,
—Three dynamite bombs-——pieces of
each end and
with fuses attached —were found on a
vacant lot in Chicago on the 28th ult.
The finder threw two of them into the
river, third was taken t
police station, where it was *‘recog
those made by Anarchists,’
but the tO Aa
asoneof t
-The Republican State Conventi
Pennsylvania on ;
following
ernor, General James
i t Governor, William
Anditor General, A. Wilson
Secret Internal Affairs, Thomas
Stewart; Congressman-at- Large,
Osborne, The
lares for the
of arrears of
Inter-State
demands the
importation ‘‘of
er labor, criminal and con-
tract labor, and the products of Eu
pean criminal labor?’ declares for
m of our dairy products from
‘unjust competition, and from any
all aduiterations or counterfeits;”
favors arbitration in labor troubles;
the maintenance of the pro-
Ol
aly oi
repeal of
pensi
Congress;
the
foreign paug
the
protectic
Of
demands
tective tanfl, and expresses the opinion
that the Legislature should at
adopt measures for the
of a Prohibitory Constitutional amend-
ment to a vote of the people.
-— At Albion, New York, on the 20th
ult., when the Chicago express train
was moving out of the station, a tall
dark cemplexioned young
*jumnped aboard, rushed into a
snatched a hand-bag from the lap of
Boston Iady on the way to Niaga:
Falls, jumped from the moving train
The bag contained a
large sum of money, valuable papers
and a ticket from Boston Niagara
and return.
Ones
nan
Car
0
A great cave-in occurred on the
JUth ult., on the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road at No. 8, Stockton breaker, near
Hazleton. The chasm iz 300 feet lon
by 150 wide. Travel
or
=
railroad
being laid
on the
around the spot.
~—A new enemy of the cotton crop
has appeared at Raleigh, North Caro-
lina. “Lice attach themselves to the
under surface of the leaves and suck
the juce of the leaves and young buds
assoon as the latter put forth. A
stalk will in one or two days
after being attacked look as if it had
been dippad in hot water, and be drawn
into knots and granulations, ‘They are
damaging the crop to the extent of per-
haps fifty per cent.”
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
SENATE.
In the U, 8, Senate, on the 28th
moving the political
William H. F.
Mr, George a hke bill
Lee, of Virginia, and
for John
|
Illinois,
— At Reading, Penna., on the 28th
uit., Rev. D. B. Albright, an aged
minister, formerly Saperintendent of
the Bethany Orphan’s Home at Wo-
melsdorf, convicted of cruelly and bru-
tally beating Harry Kramer, an orphan
inmate, was sentenced to pay a fine of
$50 and all the costs,
~On the 27th ult three men broke
mto the house of Mrs. Dennis O’Don-
nell, on the mountain three miles north
of Hazelton, Penna., and taking out a
safe, rolled it to the foot of the moun-
tain, where they blew it open and took
therefrom $200 in cash and numerous
valuables. A number of the neighbors
searched the mountains, but could find
no trace of the burglars,
—James Turner and wife, returning
home near Winchester, Ohio, on the
28th ult., were thrown from their
wagon by the horse taking fright at a
drove of hogs, Tarner was fatally n-
jured and his wife was killed.
~Mrs, H. G. Farmer, her six-year.
old daughter, William Brayton and two
children of C, W, Girsch, were drowned
near Bristol, Rhode Island, on the 27th
ult., by the capsizing of a sail boat,
by the
without
were two-
thirds
passed
vote,
Necessary
debate,
Post-office Appropriation bill,
The question being on the
opon the $800,000 ocean mail
clause added by the
bill.
Senate insisted on its amendment by a
vote of 33 yeas to 12 nays, 6 Democrats
affirmative, The Des Moines River
veto, upon motion of Mr. Plumb, was
then taken up. Mr. Evarts spoke in
support of the veto, and Mr, Allison in
opposition to it. Pending debate, the
Senate went into executive session,
and, when the doors were re-opened, ad-
journed.
Ia the U. 8B, Senate on the 20th a
joint resolution was passed appointing
General William 8, Sewell, of New
Jersey, General Martin T, McMahon,
of New York, and Captain John IL,
Mitchell, of Wisconsin, to be mana.
gers of the National Homes for Dis-
abled Soldiers, to fill vacancies, Mr,
Beck introduced a bill, which was re-
ferred, authorizing the Postmaster Gen.
eral to appoint and remove postmasters
of the third class—who are now ap-
pointed and removed by the President,
The bill to quiet the titles of settlers
on the Des Moines river lands was
passed over the Presidents veto by a
vote of 81 to 156, Conference reports on
the Army Apprapsiation bill, and the
bill to amend the Pacific Railroad acts,
were agreed to. The ive A
propriation bill was + pe
ing which the Senate
HOUSE
the 25th,
various
by the
In the House, on
Speaker presented the
messages transmitted
They were read
Presi-
pension to the widow of Major Genera
Hep-
lowa, moved that its consid-
until the
The Sundry Civil bill was considered
in Committee of the Whole. Pending
action the Committee rose. An
tion of pension bills, Adjourned.
In the U. S. Holise of
20th a conference
was agreed to on requiring the
of select-
conveying and surveying
lands. As the bill originaily passed the
House it applied only to the
Pacifle system, but as amended by
senate and agreed to by the (
ence Committee, ite provisions
tended to all land grant
sundry Civil bill was consi
of the Whole,
if the will hi
ing, their
are
roads,
lered
When
onsiders il
' > :
Commities al
been
“
commit
tee
r most emmy
reiterated 1
Sundry Civil ©
itt ¥
mite Of
‘1
yi1l
| was
Hole
In the House, the
conference
propriation 1 was agreed
General Deficiency bill
and referred to the Commi
Whale. It appropriates
The conference
Office Appropriation bill
The Senate 1
ment which
master
and foreign steamboat
can be combined in
the foreign
200 miles di
office
on
report on the
sill
rida
report on
WAS agreed Lo,
ecedes fir }
AULhorize
General {oo cont
office Is not
stant from
on ie same term :
steamboat service, The Ser
recedes from the amendment
: ~ ‘1
(HE) 1® Appro}
sial car service,
mail service a
nown as . midy
Conference
Agricuitun
also agreed
journead.
In the House, on the 30th
were reported
sion 10 examine, adjust
all claims
uit., bills
establishing a commis.
and
arising oul of Indi
treaties and Indian depredation
amending the laws relating to
spection of steam vessels (a Senate bill),
Mr. Breckenridge, from the Ways and
and Means Committee, reported a bill
to regulate the manufacture of vinegar
from grain. The Sundry Civil bill was
resumed, and the last page of the nll
was reached in committee. A confer.
ence report on the Diplomatic Appro-
priation bill was agreed to, Acjiourned.
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report
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I do not mourn, sweet wife of mine
: ruby lips of thine
I
That marble Lrow-——
Were Kiss by one who might bave been,
' ;
lad 1 not chiance ld
Thy
to step between,
husband now
1 do not grieve because thy heart,
Ero Cupid touched it with my dart,
For him would beat,
which owns
hand my ring
a “Mispah'’ thing,
meet,
dF WTILS Were paaced
our waist,
ime around ¥
80 sweet and slim,
Al, no my love! the woe you see
ine because you wedded me
Instead of him,
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MISS RUTH'S SCHOLAR.
lifford taken
in he
Miss Ruth C has
ity af
l of its
1 per iod
cominencement,
She was a rosy, pretly
of scarcely
little
with a dimple
gixieen,
May Fobes,
big blue eyes, where the light seemed
her mind. The
through
idea of her being a grim, stern
listress
Ruth was po
h
then
wanted some
rather absurd, but
wr, and they
the school wh Wa
was
rad
grag
uated in the city, so he he was at
ten dollars a month, trying to as
and dig: d as possible,
“Teacher! teacher!
roaked lit
H ugh
the seh
i Mi
r
1
111 es V0 .
shouldn't «
Les
rd, pus!
“Hug!
iy
are
Wan Vi
swered Hugh,
al
Have nproved vers Much,
n
Hugh,’ she said, as they walked home
through the pine woods the last of
t “I am
here next year to help you on, but
mus. study perseveringly. and 1 will
ws
Hl fae | al : }s
He erm SOIT) I shall oe
vou
wig learn said
Hugh,
livin’.’
‘And there
should not,’
“My folks are a bad lot,”
“and nobody wants to
Siah Leshie’s boy.”
“But when they see that Siah’s Les.
tis $s
LRG WO
a trade."
mus
iI3 no reason
employ
Hugh burst into tears,
“Oh, teacher, teacher! you are the
only one who ever told me I could be
If you only wasn’t going away!"
Ruth tried to console and comfort
the lamenting young Goliath, but the
last she saw of him he was sitting with
his head against the trunk of a tree,
with now and then a strong sob shaking
his whole form.
“Poor fellow!” she thought.
hope he'll come to good.”
She did not know that, close to
his heart, he was wearing a bit of blue
ribbon that she had one day dropped in
the school-room, She might have
smiled, had she known it—she might
have been angry. Dut to Hugh it was
all he had left of the pretty creature
who had been like a guardian angel to
him,
And ten years passed away, and
Ruth completely forgot the young
clown of the village.
“I want you to look your prettiest
to-night, Muth, for I have a new cava
lier to introduce to you--a splendid
fellow!”
“Indeed! who is it?”
“Well, he is a friend of Mr. Tracy’s,
just arrived from Europe, where I am
“1
told he lias distinguished himself
scientific and literary circles, besides
having received an inheritance from
far relative that |
him wealthy,
Isn’t it quite romantic? And he is so |
handsome, too! His name is—"’
But here some new visitor, claiming
Mrs. Tracy's attention—it was the day
of weekly
interrupted her enthusiastic
and Ruth Clifford did
sad
in
away BReoteh
independent
iw
+7
her morning reception
recital,
hear
not the
i
ilowever, she went
ou Mrs. Tracy's
herself in “her
elaborate costume
home, and, acti
suggestion, dressed
prettiest,’
to be sure, for
delicate
rivaled, A
good
was poor, but one whose
could scarcely be
by straw colored
ribbons and a few yellow
the
she
sash, and
bright hair, formed
toilet, but when
the finishing
ih
of
hei
her
there was a smile of gratified pride on
She did not think Mrs,
be ashamed
“You are looking very nicely, my
the
little
her
said young matron, with a |
y 1
nod, as she beckoned
side,
afterward, Ruth heard
minutes
pro
17) And five
her name
nounced,
EATS {
LABS
Mi
ituth looked timidly uj
hfford, ALLOW me
feslie.””
1 eyes, and ack:
a }
I A iis
faded bit of blue ribt
:
“Do you remember who dropped
bosom a ns
this
me autumn day.
oked at him 1n su
do you remembe
a great awkward
by name? Well, he
ariel O80
ana 1 A
never suspect
same? Well
s changed
aspira
id noble on that day
1 to pay my neglected
y listen to the
fs a 5 »
sions of those aroun
ir scholar has graduated at .
And Buthh Clifford felt in the nes
born glow of her happiness that sl
indeed cast her bread upon
end many days afterward
urned to her,
aah
a
Who Sets Fashions for Women
SIMOITY 13
SOTO N
The Gain
was quite
Ogee by
the press and sarcasin of theatre-goers,
It disappeared from street and
for a time, but has become again the
The other day during a brief in-
of wearing a
Gainsborough nearly three fest liam.
eter walked on le of State
street, from Lake to Adams
stared at by 10,000
wis the object of 1
from sarcasm to
seem to mind it, but strolled leisurely
along with her parasol at an angle of 45
degrees, and hummed an air from the
“Mikado.” She was in no hurry, but
stopped at every other shop window and
gazed therein, She had not walked a
block before the universal feminine
comment was: “The Gainsboroughs
are coming in again.’ And so they are
if that lady is as good an advertisement
as she has been in the past. She is
under salary from a millinery firm on
Wabash avenue, and I have seen ler
walk more than one article of head
dress into popularity in the self-same
way.
parquet
1
sunshine a lady
the west 8
she was
and
J remarks ranging
she did not |
urious eves,
wonder,
i
ainsi MI MI i 5
Honest, hearty, contented la
the only source of happiness,
the only guarantee of life,
lack occupation that ann
A SNOW WHITE IBEX KILLED.
A Rare Animal Disposed of by an Od
Frapper in the Owl Mouutains,
In the Owl Mou us, Washington
a aspt 4 y
Territory, Is
snow or white ibex. i ulie
POR | “
HIETVaIS a
we Tdre
animals was recently by an old
trapper and hunter known as Shos!
Jack.
of the Ig hi
Lone
The snow ibex attains the size
nn ol ountain sheep, has
44
a coat of dazzling wl * and of
true ibex
©
breed, It ve anc
when
most dangerous adversars
horns, with
powertul, and
their
of
5, and
ackwa Sweep
two feet, are formid ;
are formidably used
Tom Anten, then a
or and hunter, now half owner in
§ BINCe
rari t
Pe »
the
noted
Jonanza Oil Horn
Basin, came near an
Owl
Mountains, 7]
band of blacktail deer, w
|
om was in pursuit of a
1160 he esp sul
ahead of him what he at first took fora
Q :
saw iL
later he
was an animal,
knew it mus
Untalin rara avis, a s:
ibex, an old ram, was v
Anten at once
Ha
the rare prize, Au!
his tracks,
secure
{f confronted by
od animal. Am
Os
sent the hi
wher
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How Kerosene is Distil
Petroleum consists
different fluids, win
ty from the boiling
nearly a red heat.
over, at
Very gradually assuming
{ dense
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would
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Kerosene.
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of the petroleum at the
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the oil is first agitated with about 5 per
cent, of oil of vitriol. Thais combines
with the offensive oils forming a black,
tarry residue that falls to the bottom of
the tank as soon as the oil is brought
rest, The mixture of acid and oil
called “‘sludge,’’ and is used in large
quantities in the manufacture of com-
mercial fertilizers, After the acid
drawn off and the oil washed with
water, it is again washed with a strong
solution of caustic soda, which removes
the excess of sulphuric acid and some
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is
18
the oil.
The oil after another washing with
samic odor nf Kerosene, and possesses a
slight opalescence peculiar to these oils,
As usually prepared they belong to the
class known as “high test” kerosenes
and consist almost entirely of oils {hat
exist in the petroleum already formed,
being merely separated from the largest
and heaviest portions. Sach oils are
called the educts of the petroleum.
The heaviest portions of the distillate
contain parafline oils, They also, are
mainly educts of the original oil ; they
however, contain a much larger propor-
tion than the kerosene of the products
of the oil. A tarry residue remains in
the still called *‘residuum.
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In youth, grief Is a tempest which
makes you fli; in old age it is only a
cold wind, which adds a wrinkle to
your face and one more white lock to.
the others;