NEWS OFTHE WEEK
— About 200 cases of giant powder,
in transit on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, exploded half a mile west of
Fort Scott, Kansas, on the morning of
the 925th. The car containing the
other freight cars out of
train were completely
Scott fiooker, a brakeman,
demolished,
by an earthquake, and ten thousand
the central and western sectious.
said that window glass was broken at
Nevada, 25 miles distant.
—The internal revenue collections
during the first six months of the cur-
with the corresponding period of the
srevious fiscal year. There was a de-
srease of $3,222,844 in the collections on
spirits, an increase of $683, 8S1 on to-
bacco, an mcrease of $1,112,461 on fer-
mented liquors and an increase of $71,-
352 from miscellaneous sources. The
total collections from oleomargarine
since November 1st amounted to $298,-
109,
~The total number of emigrants who
arrived in the United States last year
was 386,755 against 326,151 in 18805.
the United States during 1886 was
$713,280,666, againts $088,249,798 in
1885. The total value of our imports
last year was §663417,210, against
$557,868,675 the preceding year.
amoimt outstanding on the 25th—858,-
534,237 -~is over $2,000,000 less than the
amount outstanding on the 1st instant.
—In San Francisco on the
dynamite cartridge exploded on the
teack, between the car and dummy of a
train on the Geary Street Railroad,
breaking a piece of iron six inches long
out of the car wheel. A number of
passengers were on the
inside the car at the time of the explo-
sion, but none of them were injured.
-—-A frame dw ng in Mount Mor-
ris, near Buffalo, was
morning of the 25th, and the body of
1lenry Higgins, aged 05 years, was
found in the ruins, Higgins
cently received some pension
and foul play is suspected,
—The great breaker of the Parrish
Joal Company at Plymouth, Penna.
was destroved by fire on the evening of
the 25th, The loss isheavy.,
ner
The manu-
factory of Brent, Good & Co., proprie-
tors of a “liver pil,” in New York,
was burned on the 25th. Loss about
$00,000, of which $30.0 is the
company, but insure
— A keg of powder ex i the
shaft of the Coon Valley Mine, near
res Moines, Iowa, on the morning of
the 24th, injuring four men so badly
that their recovery is doubtinl,
—Mrs. L. E. Southwick an
named Guay Ferris were 1atall
by a run-away accident at Co
Penna., on the morning of the 25th.
in
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hh
—A locomotive ran off the track of
the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad,
near Bucyrus, on the 24th, fatally in-
juring W. W. Castleton flreman. A
car was upset, but none of the passen-
gers were injured.
— An epidemic of malarial fever and
measels is reported at Tareninum,
Penna. More than 100 serious cases
22d.
—~1t 1 officially reported that glan-
ders exisls among horses in eight dif
ferent farms in Marshall county, Illi
pois, and that some cases of the disease
have been found in four olhier counties
of the same State,
—**Jake! Van Woert, a farmer, was
shot dead by his sixteen-year-old wife
in a family quarrel on the morniog of
the 26th, near Wellsboro, Penna. John
Watts was stabbed to death in a saloon
in Chicago by an unknown man on the
morning of the 26th Watts wassitting
in a wine room drinking with another
man and two women when the assassin
entered. It 18 said the murcered man
had guarrelled at a dance with the man
who kHled him. The women were
locked up, but professed ignorance of
the entire affair. The
accompanied by two other men,
the men escaped,
~A fire in Dallas, Texas, on the
morning of the 26th, destroyed three of
strong Dros, wholesale grocers, loss
$100,000, insurance $75,000; S. B. Hop-
kins & Co., wholesale liquors,
$90,000, insurance $60,000.
— Terrible auflering is reported among
the Indians on the Colville reservation
mm Washington Territory. Small-pox
has prevented hunting, and the Govern.
ment supplies have been inadequate,
York and addressed to “J. A. Wilson,”
was received in Baltimore on the 23d,
No one called for it, and on the 206th
such an odor was emitted from the
trunk that it was removed to the police
station and opened. Inside was the
jeft arm cut off and packed in with the
trunk, There wasno head. The body
and the weight was about 160 pounds,
On the body was a calico shirt which
had on 13 the name “OC, Kanfhold."
There were also several cards found in
the clothing bearing the name ‘‘L. D.
Siegel, butcher, Throop avenue, Brooks
yn, KE. DD.”
Three bollets at Harvey's paper
small, in Welisburg, West Virgin, ex-
‘ploded on the 20th, wrecking part of
the bufiding andl killing two men—
John Nelson and his nephew, Thomas
Nelson. Three others wers injured,
The boiler of an oll well, near Oil Oity,
Penna., exploded on thy 20th, demol-
ishing the boiler-house and killin
Samuel McCormick, aged 14 years a
William Maitland, aged 19, who had
gharge of the boiler
«1t is reported that the
Wilkesburre, Penna., have d
gang of robbers,
® ‘regular Aiguaized
the oldest whom is 11 and the
wonneest Bb years of age.” They are
lice of
ered
|
i
them have been arrested, They are
| sata to have robbed at least {itty mer-
hants, and their piiferings are believed
| to aggregate $6000,
~The ice in the Susquehanna river,
north of Port Deposit, Maryland, began
10
i
| In half an hour, the water was running
with a swift current at a depth of five
to six feet in the malin street, sweeping
| away fences, lumber and other debris,
| All the houses on the lower side of the
street, with three or four exceptions,
| were vacated by their occupants during
| the night. The coal yards, lumber
| warehouses, etc.. on the wharves were
submerged toa depeh of fifteen feet, and
large quantities of lumber and coal
were carried away. The restaurant of
| Mrs, Cornish and the platform and
railroad depot were demolished. An
immense body of ice was gorged between
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge
and Port Deposit.
escaped from tue County Jail at Lan-
caster, Penna. five years ago and was
arrested in Delaware, Ohio, was on the
27th ult., returned to prison, He had,
it is said, ‘been leading a reformed
life in Ohio,” and an effort will be
| made to escure him a pardon.
— Edward Younger, 52 years of age,
supposed to have been the murderer of
in the paltimore trunk, has been ar-
| rested at his residence on Ridge street,
Brooklyn, The walls of his room were
blood stained. The
believed to have been Ballz,
| is supposed to have been the motive of
the murder.
—
pamed
and
sleigh containing four men,
Eichenberg, Decamp, Mallor
Kane, was struck bya trainat a
on the 26th ult. Decamp was fatally
injured and died soon afterwards.
Eichenberg and Mailor are believed to
be fatally injured, and Kane's injuries
| are dangerous,
~—By the premature explosion of
blast in a mine near Negaunee, Michi-
gan, on the 27th ult., several men were
knockled senseless, and two-—Morris
| Kelley, aged 18 years, and Henry tleis-
ler, aged 20-—were dangerously injured.
| —Five new cases of small-pox, all
the patients being men, were reporiad
in New Yorkon the 27th ult, Four
new cases of the dizease, all of children
of one family, were reported in Brool
yn.
--M. QO,
=i
JE ~
Nelson, a manulacturer of
Louis, last March Inaugurated a
system of ‘‘profit-sbaring’’ in the {
tory of Nelson Manufacl
Company, where between 50 am .
men are employed, By agreement
with the men they were to work fifty-
five hours per week, recelve fi
and at the end of yea
lowing 7 per ou the
and g himself
his own services, tl
profits was to be divi
upon the total amount of wages paid
and capital employed. Recenlly the
comp declared a dividend Oper
cent, in salaries to empioyes, which
has been paid In certific
bearing interest. employes
their own accord requested a return
to full time when they were told the
other manufactories bad abandoned
the eight-hour plan aad have worked
to greater advantage than previously.
Mr. Nelson has added several new
features to his plan for
vear. Ten per cent of
to be devoted to
ie
the
cent, ine
a salary
we remainder of
led equally
% aad
Vesiewu,
’
LOT
the
payin
of
si Of
ihe
the foundation of
ten per cent. will be set aside for a
¥
nt.
ti
2
two per ce
of books tor
will go into the purchase
ie employos’ library.
from Port Arthur,
Ontario, of a remarkable fight betwee
‘The Hoadly gang of terfeiters”
and Frank 8S. Dacre, a Si.
tive, aged } years,
{ employed several
the Canadian Government to
the gang, dead or a
£2000, with all expenses paul.
4th ult., Dacre came upon tl
terfeiters, and of thew, named
Pearson, Matthews and Dovle, were
killed, the rest being captured by the
| mounted police.
wn report comes
10
Paul detec
Dacre
ago by
capture
ive, for a reward of
On the
CO
CL
26 WAY
months
ie
thee
tin lus arms and bringing him down
with such force as to kil him,
Thomas RB, Whitehead, ex-cierk of
the Doard of Eduaeation of Cleveland,
an indictment for embezzling $2325 of
the funds of the Board.
shot on the morning of the 28th ull,
while burglariousiy entering a wholes
| sale grocery stove In Baltimore, In her
house a large quantity of sugar and
| other articles stolen [rom the store
were discovered.
~Mrs. Asa J. M. Millman end her
| age, were found drowned in a cistern
{ near Barr Oak, Michigan, on the even
{ ing of the 27th uit. A stone weighing
{ twenty-five pounds was tied to the
| mother’s body.
~A telegram from Lancaster, 1’a,,
| says the ice gorge down in the Susque-
{ hanna river bave caused very high back
water below Columbia, covering the
Columlaa and. Port Deposit Railroad
tracks and cowpelling the workmen
engaged in removing ihe 108 to cedse
| operations. All railroad travel has been
suspended until the sabsidenes of
the water.
weAt Tremont, North Bend and
other points In Nebraska, about owe
hundred miles west of Omaha, a shock
supposed to be that of an @arthguake,
was felt at eight o'clock on the evening
of the 27th ult, A loud subterranean
rumble was heard and buildings were
rocked, No damage is reported,
~The store of Deneciet & Ruedy, in
Cleveland, Ohlo, was robbed on the
night of the 28th ult, of about $8000
worth of sealskin sacques, In front of
the store is un hack stand, occupied by
carriages all night; at an adjacent cor
ner 8 Policeman Wastes from Junget to
# y owners in the
Snape employ a private watchman
through the front door of the storg, and
inserting a set screw, knocked off ‘the
cateh of the lock, entered the room and
lift the door from the vault. Unsuc-
safe door. ‘The robbers then went to
there was a carriage in waiting, and it
was quickly loaded with the goods.
While loading the stolen property the
taking with them however 36,
that the store had been entered, and
the 20th ult.
~The Germania Savings
suspended on the
ult. C. M. F., Behroeder, its Secre-
tary and Treasurer, has disappeared,
He also left “*a six months’
The trustees
the depositors
order.”
| of the bank say that
{ will eventually be paid in full,
cashier’s bond {8 held by the trust ees.
It is for $560,000, and the bondsmen are
| “responsible men.” Willlam B., Wads
| worth, formerly permit clerk of
Department of City Works, Brooklyn,
has fled, and people who had placed
moneys amounting to $30,000 in his
hands for speculative purposes have
| had a warrant issued for his arrest,
~During a masquerade at Freeport,
Kansas, the evening of the 27th
headdress worn by Miss
caught fire from a
She pulled off the cap,
on
paper
Bouton,
lamp.
on
Cora
bracket
{ threw thie
stamp flame, but her
| which was also papered, caught fire
= 1 } ¢ vy ath
| and she was burned to death,
: Loaner ffl é
it floor, and ur
' \ Y raid
out the aress,
'
N 30th
- the , Was the
*oayrt
Port
re-
nday, ult.
ifth y of the submergence of
Deposit, Maryland. The water
mained from two to four feet deep on
Main street from the square to Ilock
river, and none of the f{
the lower side of
turned to
1 §
of the track ol
4]
3
fth day
i
t inhabitants «
have re-
Four miles
the Columbia and I
Deposit Railroad, belween Cresswell
and Starr Roel coverad with
and water from 4 feet deep.
immense ce gorge is reported at P
Griflith, five miles from Wi v
and the low lands there are submerg
At Dittston, the small houses along t
river banks are { the
| stories, and it
BWepL away.
the street
houses,
t hair
oer
f
ice
An
1"
is
ree
ff A
¥
sb
@
ded to d
everal will
Be
15 feared Le
~The boil
shingle mill
exploded co
OQ. Wils
i
:
SO
anoth
i"
cago, explo ie
Myron AbD
lie was
rner and ieatl
ad tos
— Fd ward
in New York
August Bohle,
in & trunk
cently, has confessed Lis g
serts that he was atiac
and killed him is
after oO
ing and dropped
erry-boat into the river
Cornish, Wik
young woman
not marry him,
kill ber mother and
from the jail at 5
sit the 20th ult. , an
ANG 8
-Two trai
Nashville Rail
gomery., Alabama,
the 200L , and t
killed,
-ft is understood that retary
Manning will retire from Lhe Treasury
Department about the 1st of May, and
[that he will accept the presidency of
the new national bank to be established
in New York, Mr. Jordan is to be
vice president of the same bank.
fit were
wi
%
“4 {
tattacked by trichinosa, at Bryan, Ohto,
{died on the 2Uth uit. He is the third
member of the family dead, and two
others are not expected to recover.
—Diptheria is prevalent in the viein-
Wisconsin, One far.
i lost {lve children, and the
| town of Waunakee had Wen quaran-
tined,
~The Indians Swine Breeders, in
session at Indianapolis, on the 25th
| wit, had laid before them reports show.
| tng that the losses from hog cholera in
| Indiana alone during last year exceeded
1 $4,000,000, ’
{ity of Madison,
mer has
46th CONGRESS—2d SESSION
SENATE,
o
In the U. S Senate on the 20M,
Charles PB. Farwell, Senator-elect from
Illinois, to fill the vacaney caused by
General Logan's death, was sworn in
and took his seat, Conference reports
on the Army Appropriation bill and
the bill for the allotment of lands in
severally to lodians were agreed to.
Mr. Hoar from the Committees on
Privileges and Elections, made a report
on the petition of three residents of
Washington county, Texas, (alleging
that theyand others had been uunlaw-
fully deprived of the right of suffrage
in that county), with a resolution in-
structing that committees to Inquire
into all the circumstances, with power
to send for persons and papers, to employ
a stenographer, and to act by & sib
committee, The report was ordered to’
be printed and laid over, The bill to
establish Agricultural Experiment Sta.
tations came up as unlnished business,
but, on motion of Mr, Blair, it was laid
aside and the resolution "
{
i
!
In the
of Delaware; Dawes, of Mas
beginmupg on the 4th of March, were
presented and filed, The bill creating
the Department of Agricuilure
Labor was reported and placed on the
Mr. Hoar’s resolution was
taken up, Instructing
on Privileges and Elections to investi-
the allegations made by three
residents of Washington county, 1 exas,
as to their being driven from their
compelled to abandon their
property and deprived of the right of
After discus.
gion the resolution wus adopted —yeas,
The Agricultural Ex-
periment Stations bill was considered
and Mr. Hawely offered a
therefor, The bill and substitute were
The
Rallroad Attorneys bill was taken up,
pending which the Senate went into
the doors
were reopened, adjourned,
In the U. 8. Senate on the 27th, Mr,
of Pennsylvania,
sider the House bill for the relief of
dependent parents and honorably dis
callors who are
now disabled and dependent upon their
labor for support. Mr,
objected.
tion, which was . adopted,
that ‘since March 31, 1885, the Secre-
Las treated the fractional
the Treasury as no por-
tion of the cash balance available,”
and directing the ¥inance Committee
to examine into this subject and report
whether litional legisiation is req
the fractional silver coin
n the Treasury a part of the
cash balance, and al
whether it will be or not judiciou
provide for having such
ver coin recoined int
dollars. The Dependent
sion bill was then taken up, a
discussion was
id without divis
resumed tl
statements,
silver coin in
fils
now held
available 50
fractional sil.
QO tandard sliver
idiers’ Pen-
0
some passed
amendment ar
oenale
131
House
in the House, on the 2 . Lan-
ham, of Texas, asked upanimons con.
nt for the passage of the bill appro
printing $10,000 to enable the Commis-
sioner of Agricultcre to make a special
distribution of seeds in the drought
stricken counties Texas, but Mr,
Cowles, ¢f North Carolina, olijected,
The contested election case of Page va,
Sth, Mr
Wy
oF
on
up, and the majority resolution d
ing the seat vacant was adopted
yeas, 130; nays, 53, The Agricultural
Appropriation bill was reported and
referred to the Committee of the
Whole. Adjourned.
In the House, on
eclar
i
the 26th, a letter
be Interior of the
appropriations required by the Mexi-
The Secretary esti.
for the first yearly payme
and asks for an appropuaation of
£257 000 for an increased cletical force,
Tue Senate Fisheries Retaiiation bill
Belmont, was referred to the Come
mittee on
to report at any time. A conference
report on the Army Appropiiation bill
was agreed to. The River and Harbor
till was taken up in Committee of the
Whole, and a substitute offered by Mr.
Nelson, of Minnesota, was agreed to,
making a gross appropriation of §7.
500.000, to be expended under the di-
rection of a board of engineers. The
substitate was rejected — yeas, 40; navs,
176. The original bill was then read
the third time-—yeas, 143; nays, £7
and the previous question ordered on
the final passage of the Lill, Mr. Hep.
burg demanded the reading of the ens
grossed copy, and, as the bill had not
been engrossed, the House adjourned.
In the Ifouse, 0h the 27th ull, the
River and Harbor bill wis (
Jens 154, nays U4-—exactly as reported
rom the Commitles on Rivers and
Harbors, The Senate bill prohibiting
the rmportation of adulterated articles
of food und drink wi fa] ata
referred to the Committee of the
Whole, Mr. Hammond, from the
Committee on the Judiciary, reported
adverse
for the nited States Sen
ators by the people of the United
States, At the reauest of
a
of lowa,
Ad-
Inthe House on the 28th ult,, the
Washineton Zable Hallway Lill was
| passed yeas, 155; nays, 72. The
leuro-Pneumonia bill wus considered
| in Committee of the Whole. Without
| disposing of it the Hourse adjourned,
In the House on 20th uilt., the
Post-office Appropriation bill and the
{ District of Columbla Appropriation
bill were passed. Adjourned,
the
STATE LEGISLATURE,
BENATE,
FOR THOUGHT
Happiness grows al our own Uregides,
and is not to be picked up in #f
fangers’
The tnoment a man Is
himself everybody else
with hm.
We are often more ggreeshie thro
our faults than we are through
(qualities,
Whatever is, is night, if «
steadily bent to make it 80 1
its design.
All men think
¢ Fogo wh id
of Lhietnes
well
3y Mr. Henninger, amending the act
of 1885 so as to provide that married
women alone, in case of drunkenness
{ or profligacy of husbands, may consent
to the adoption of their children, By
| Mr, Stehman, to extend the minimum
school term to six months, Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 26th, the Come
mittes on the Judiciary reported back
{ and reccommended the passage
following: Defining ths quuntity of an
or mortgage.
1856 s0 as lo
women, in cases of drunkenness or pro-
Amending the act of
adoption of their children.
| the act of 1865, which authorizes bore
| rowers to contract for the payment of
| all taxes upon loans, Requesting Con-
gress Lo propose an amendment
nm for the
by
| Osbourn, from Ci
to the
United
Mr
5 Las y
Constituli y election of
~tates Benators popniar vole
ymmittee on
Atlairs, rep
thorizing the
appropriate
pny of the N
All Arinors
alter
Yaar i fyrer § ivory
laws rejating Lo Qivorce,
Macfar
wine, Lo
'
the arria trace.
after being 1
ae OO
tain and eau
phans, and fo
went. By Mr.
eration of drugs, a
of the practice of |
macy. Adjourned.
adults
he regulation
sathic phar-
WAL
$¥y
the
In House bills were reporied af-
frmatively, as follows: From tt dm
mittee on Banks, the bill to provide
for State Commissioners of all public
banks and banking houses incorpora-
ted by the State, and all private banks
or banking firms in the State receiving
je i
business, ete. From the
{on Education, to extend the public
school term to six wonths; also, a bill
to pay school teachers’ expenses while
attending county mstitutesand to com-
pel them to attend the same:
| “negatively,”
{or five days of each year,
The following bills and joint resolu-
tions were introduced: By Mr. Dravo
| (joint resolution), providing for the
| submission to the people of a proposed
| amendment to the Constitution to pro
hibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in
the State. Dy Mr. W. PP. Slevenson,
i to allow business corporations lo pea-
gion old and faithful employes. By
Mr. Shaw, to repeal the State tax on
{ household goods, gold watches, oar
riagea, ete. By Mr. Hickman, to ex-
| empt members of the Society of Friends
from the provisions of the Marriage
Lacense act. Adjourned.
| following bills were introduced:
By Mr, Chritzman, to prevent the
been given of $50 or less for manual
labor. By Mr. Keyser, compalling
agents of foreign msurance companies
to take out a license. The Senate reso-
fution providing for a commitiee to in.
vestigate the publication of the Legis.
lative Record was concurred in,
The following bills were read the
third time, passed fioally, and sent to
the Senate: The bill (H, IL 2) to com-
pl employers to provide seats for their
female employes and allow them to use
the same when not actively engaged,
The vil (H. R ©) giving boroughs au-
thority to erect wharves and collect tax
upon the same.
The bill (H. R. 12) for the protec
tion of livery atable keepars was read a
third time, Adjourned,
I A IAL sm
A more glorions®victory
ver another
Evil ministers of good things are J
torches—a light to others, a waste
Abstain from Let a man
wrath.
Bs
Whoever will not In his turn
those who serve him will go under, and
sve
that
han
8,
et
I am that which has been,
which will be; and no
ons
Who is the great man? He who i#
he who patiently endures injury
Bread is the stall of life and
the stilts—the former sustaining
ing
suo
“Hn
An opportunity is like a
sweepings; you catch sight of
it flies away from ¥«
perfume of the Lowers,
summer thal
1a plot and
s BVErY «
dried, of the
ts A nit +
itl doesn’ nee
{0 make a play
A scene
What is even |
man should muro
but as the pain of plercing
preciou 4
the wound.
It is never too late with us so long as
we are still aware of fauils a
besr them impatiently; so lous noble
aspirations, eager for conquest, si
within us
A weak man sinks unde: prosper
as well as under adversity A Bl
our
as
ng
when he
moon is at the full and when there
nO Moon.
As the Sandwich Islander believes
strength and waior of 1
enemy he kills passes into himself,
we gain the strength of the lemplatic
we resist,
One must only accept, not recip
cate famiharities with superiors, x
must take care not to forgel one's sell!
precisely then, when {hey do |
themselves
Chroniclers
where they |
are pleased (oo enles
ist, tocome and go 1?
to ride upon Lhe
avercome in their soarings all «
of distance, time and place.
When the bleod burns, how prodiga
the soul lends the longue vows IL |
rong!
nd,
Lista
Ww
w hal
dint
liad
others have done for us, tha® we
:
A resolution that is communicaled is
no longer in thy power; thy intentions
Le would have ns commands certainly
carried out must take man by surprise,
The mind is nourished at a cheap
Neither cold, nor heal, nor age
itself can interrupt this exercises, Give,
therefore, all you can to posession
which ameliorates even in ils old age.
Whatever come out of despair cannot
Iifted up to such a beight that holding
all things under itself, 18 should be able
to maintain its greatness even in the
midst of miseries,
ure imagination, of which the love:
lest of winged creatures is (hs fitting
emblotn, seems always to gun in vigor
and grace by the lempests 14 evocoun-
ters, but in contrary winds to show the
brightest pinmage:
We cannot approach beauty. Itsna.
ture is hike opaline dove's neck lustre
~hovering and evanescent. Herein it
bles most excellent thing