Pitts.
1at
ASL,
~1n Shaler township, near
burg, on the morning of the
Jennie Oswald, 11 years of age, going
into the dining room, found her father,
Charles Oswald, sitting In a chair with
his throat cut, and her younger sister,
Bessie, lying on a lounge dead. It was
a case of suicide on the part of Oswald,
ind all the signs indicate that he mur-
lered his daughter before cutting his
own throat. Oswald was 40 years of
age, and had suffered family and pecu-
niary trouble, George Ayers and Henry
Lindsav quarrelled about a debt of five
lollars at Bowling Green, Kentucky,
n the evening of the 30th ult,, Lind-
say was on horseback and dismounted,
when Ayres seized him by the throat
and cut it from ear to ear. Catharine
Campbell, aged 44 years, ou the 1st,
juarrelied with Kate Haggerty, aged
29, 1n a tenément house in Brooklyn
and fractured her skull with a stove
lifter. Kate is in a critical condition,
Dennis Maher was shot dead by his
son-in-law, Richard Creely, in New
Jrleans. on the evening of the 20th
iit. Family trouble was the cause.
-—kFaward F, damuels, a prominent
nerchant of St, Louls, on the afternoon
f the 20th ult,, jumped from the
.he bridge at Nashville into the river.
He was fished out, but died on the
porning of the 30th, Ho said **his rea-
won for attempting suicide was because
promise made to his
ink no more in-
Edward Haa ee,
ie had broken a
wife that be would
toxicating iu
ir
ul
sida ir
Ciug inl
which cont
it twelve
ruing of the 1st, ‘leaving
oughly soaked,
terrible hail storm visited
Minnesota, and the surrounding
-A
Pau
sountry, at
e Ist. The
ym a pea to
ome of the
yunces and me
nmference.”
sherever exposad,
7 o'clock on the evening of
a full-grown goose egg.
largest weighing p
nine
Was
A number of
Carbell while
Carbell
at Mr. and Mrs, John
they were riding in a wagon.
-The main steam pipe on the tow-
boat J. C, Risher exploded on the
morning of the 24, near Allegheny City,
Penna. A deck hand, named Ilayes,
was killed, and J Campbell, engi.
neer, and Edward fireman,
were fatally scalded. An explosion
occurred on the 30th ult,, at the saw
mill of the Paducah Lumber Company,
near Paducah, Kentucky, bv which
four men were injured, two of them
fatally.
-=A freight train on the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad was wrecked on the 2d
near Gap Station, in Lancastar county,
Ten loaded cars and their contents
were badly damaged, and both tracks
were blocked for several hours.
— At Nicholville, St. TLawrence
county, dew York, on the evening of
the 2d, Charles Morrow went home
drunk and began abusing his wife, She
fled from the house and he followed,
and drawing a revolver shot her in the
head and then committed suicide, She
lived for about an hour. The wife of
Charles Martin, a young farmer near
Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the even-
ing of the 2d gave rat poison to her
two young children and swallowed some
herself. She and one child are dead,
but it
cover,
her 1
3,
Durgan,
iusband.
— A terrible marine disaster hap-
pened on the 2d at the northwest point
f Channel Harbor, Newfoundland.
: ! iteamer John
vr
MOLOX,
{
i
i
Mexico, the highest elif of the Chivato
Mountain was seen to fall.
A fearful explsion occurred in the
Victoria Coal Company's mine No. 1,
Nanaimo, on the eastern shore of
Vancouver Island, on the evening of
3d. It is belteved that one hund-
red and fifty men were in the mine at
the time. At midnight, twelve men
had been rescued, and
the
rescuers, after losing one of their num-
ber by suffocation, had to give up
further atterapts.
Rev. Charles WW, Ward, the minis-
ter of Englewood, New Jersey, charged
with attempting to murder his wife,
was found dead in the house of Lis
counsel, Judge Drew, at Rockland
Lake, New York, on the afternoon of
the 4th, *‘It is supposed he took an
overdose of chloral,” as an empty
bottle, which had contained that drug,
lay beside him,
-Governor Ross, of Texas, has writ-
ten a letter saying he cannot attend the
Prohibition Convention of that State,
to be held in Dallas, He says he will
vote against the proposed prohibition
amendment, as opposed to the spirit of
free institutions. He considers the
present laws adepuate to protect pube
lic liberty and private rights, He ex
trasts Texas morally and materially
with Malne, where prohibition has
long been obtained. Texas has more
churches more money on edu-
cation, h more wealth rding to
population fewer dive fower
strikes, and
t fewer paupers tha
I=
yi
acco
has ITCeS,
storm,
hannel
i Rie
heavy landward sea a:
f
the time of
crew of
ceil
and walls
walls »
000
ngs
# 2 Pye
ISlances,
)v the wind, The day had been one
f summer heat,
— A fire in Louisville, Kentucky, on
he morning of the 24,
ree warehouse of
'0., the nine-sto
Erothers,
of
John
levator of
Brown,
F grain ¢
fouriee;
the louisville
d, two dwellings and
loss is est]
All
hops of the
Company, in
the evening
be total
at about $220.000.
the great wooden s
ago Forge and Bolt
cago, were burned on
the 2d.
length, costly ma
The los §
During the fire
spect was
with
were destroyed.
ited at $£125.000,
Haslett, a
lily injured by a fallin
4 ireman bad one of his legs erushed.
No. 10 breaker of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at Sugar
Notch, was destroyed by fire on
morning of the 2d. Early in
afternoon the coal in the mine
burning, the fire having extended
lown the shaft several hundred feet,
It was decided in the evening to flood
the mine. The loss was then estimafed
at $100,000. The “lower mill” of the
Hersey -Bean Lumber Company, at
Stillwater, Minnesota, was burned on
the 30th ult,, with lumber to the value
of $40,000. The insurance is 817,000,
~"1' he body of Dr. C, E.
the carotid artery severed and a knife
in one band, was found on the 30th
ult.,, near Moorbead, Minnesota. He
was a member of the firm of Parkhouse
& Sayles, of Valley City, Dakota,
which was compelled to suspend be-
cause Sayles was one of the bondsmen
for Pease, the defaulting treasurer of
Barnes county, It 1s supposed his sui-
cide was caused by the business trou.
ble.
~John A. Snyder, 85 years of age,
killed his wife and then cnt his own
throat, near Jonla, Michigan, on the
J0th alt. It is thought he will die.
He had shown symptoms of insanity.
Mrs. Herman Lyons was murdered
near Napa, Californiz, in February
last by a farm hand named Peter O1.
sen, who escaped. M, H. Seibert, a
farmer, who lately settled near Bakers.
field, *‘was killed on the 30th ult,, by
officers who mistook him for Olsen.”
At Vienna, Wisconsin, on the evening
filled
at ator
ti
Sayles, with
near Mattoon,
| gas was struc
Brown
ratiroa
Pittsbu
itt
were Kliie
—Two men, named
{ O'Hara, sitting on the
at Sn
the evening of th
shift! engine.
ifting
=.) years, ol
neat
2d,
{a ‘atin
ywaen Slaton,
aged
| was kill
| Station
— A Circular saw
| villa, New York.
noon of the 2d, kill
A) years of age, :
two other men,
| — YW hile workmen w
| gravel train at Dallas,
| 3d, the bank caved in.
killed and four others
jured.
— While molt n metal was
{dumped into a mould in the
| partment of the Chicago Rolling Mills,
at South Chicago, on the eveu:ng of
the 2d, an explosion occurred, scatters
ing the hquid melal around. Nine
men were injured, four of them-—John
Burns, James Garrien, Patrick Dolan
and James Carney —ferhaps fatally,
—A severe shock of earthquake on
the afternoon of the 28th ult, extended
from Centreville, California, through
Arizona and New Mexico to El Paso,
Texas. The shock was also felt at
Guaymas, Mexico. All the reports
agree that the shocks were proceded
by a rumbling sound. At Tucson,
Arizona, buildings were cracked and
otherwise damaged, and *‘great slies"
of Santa Catatina Mountain were torn
from its side und thrown Into the valley,
while vast clouds of dust rose above
its summit, 7000 feet above sea level,
Une towering peak, known as the “Old
Castle,’ has entirely disappeared, Soon
after the earthquake a volcanic erup-
tion broke out in the Total Wreck
Mountains, 22 miles south of Tueson,
and the sky was brilliantly illuminated
at might, At Benton, Arizona, walls
were cracked, water spouted from
ground in the vicinity, and smoke ap.
peared in the direction of the Whet.-
stone Mountains, eight miles distant,
Near Tombstone, Arizona, a lake,
covering an acre of ground, was buried
i
burst on
n
nd severely
gre joa
Texas,
One
were badly
nfessed
aguer
Wagner
scene and
lod!
dea’
juake on the
no lives were |
m El! Paso, Texas,
» great sl f th
1
1K of o
rs have
haif.nas
half-pa
i 8ix oo’
been
clock
"3 §
h, being ver
tains of Arizo
a wood fire
large
the 5th
ation of
favor:
y denate
€ incor
societies was reported
Married Iersons’
passed finally. Adjourned.
In the House on the 5th the Rapid
Transit bill was passed finally-—yeas,
113; nays, 34. A number of appropria-
tion Lills were passed, among them the
providing for Pennsylvania's represen-
tation in the Constitutional Centenary
celebration. Adjourned,
--A violent thunder storm
over Buffalo at 2 o'clock on the mourn
ing of the 6th, 1'wo dwellings and a
church steeple were struck by lightning
and a barn was consumed. Telegrams
from various parts of Southern and
Central New York and Northern
Pennsylvania report violent thunder
storms on the 6th. Much property was
destroyed and several persons were
killed by hghtning.
--Whiie Jonn A. Keiger was super-
intending work at his qua.ries near
Bridgeport, Montgomery county,
I’enna.. on the morning of the Gth, he
fell from a ledge and suffered a concus-
sion of the brain, which caused his
death in half an hour. He was a town
Councilman of Bridgeport,
~Colonel W. H. Bolton, ex-superin-
tendent of second-class matter in the
Chicago IMest-office, convicted of em-
bezzling about $25,000, was on the Oth,
sentenced to four years in the pen.
tentiary.
~ At Guaymas, Mexico, on the morn.
ing of the 5th, Colonel Arvizer, lLieu-
broke
Rencon
with the
A fow
American
and at-
1 in custo
tenant Guiterez and fouls
were shot dead In accordance
of court-martial,
weeks ago they crossed the
line with a squad of soldiers
tempted to release a man hel
dy by the local officers,
-Nine :nement houses in Alle
gheny City, Pa., were burned the
morning of the 6th, and sixty persons
rendered homeless. Loss, $15,000,
The wood and brush on ( moun.
tain, in the Catskills, caught lire within
three hundred feet of the Hotel Kaa-
terskill on the morning of the 5th, The
flames were extinguished, Early on
the morning of the 6th the fire again
broke out on the opposite side of the
road, and in the afternoon the hotel
was reported in danger. A fire com-
pany left Catskill early in the afternoon
for the scene.
sentence
14
Ol
leve
STATE LEGISLATURE,
SENATE,
In the Benate on the 24 the Legisla-
tive Apportionment bill was read for
the first time. A message was received
from the Governor vetoing the bill to
amend the law of 1809 so as to permit
railroad and canal companies In Schuyl-
kill county, by the purchase
stock and lands of manufacturi
panies, ¢ in manufactu
The Governor objects that
ure, being
property
vioialion
Of the
ids
ng
t Je
wo Rage
Special legis
been advertised:
of a constit
13 antagon
» general
sale i
reported
Rev
Cily may
hh of them as are in the cf
ovided the consent of
ang {
0 impose resiri
such roads may
and bonds to an amount
ficient to build such road ar to pay
such damages as may resull therefrom,
but not to exceed the amount limited
by Councils, The Connell ii, pro-
viding for the general Incorporation of
elevated railroad companies, was re-
ported. A communication was received
from the Governor announcing that he
had signed the bill for an additional
Orphans’ Court Judge in Philadelphia,
Adjourned.
In the House, on the 31, the follryw-
ing bills passed finally: Senate bill, fo:
maintenance of associations for cons
trol of fires and saving of life and prop-
erty, House bill to establish county
boards of beaith, Bills were also passed
for the better protection of wages of
labor and supplementary to the Me-
chanics’ Lien law, The General Ap-
propriation bill was passed to third
reading. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 4th, the bill al
lowing labor organizations to call upon
the Governor to appoint policemen for
them was passed finally, A resolution,
offered by Mr, Isenburg, was adopted
for the appointment of a committes to
investigate the charges of fraud in con.
nection with the report of the Rapid
Transit bill. A number of appropri.
tion bills passed second reading. The
General Appropriation bill was passed
finally. Adjourned.
In the House, on the Gth, the sup-
plement to the act establishing a
health office at Philadelphia was passed
finally, It gives the Register of
Deaths and Marriages authority to ad.
oaths.
law Iadge for ©
minister
additional
county failed of a Constitution
tority. Mr. Faunce
time by speclal order
177, which provides that n
road track sh: be lai
Philadelphia hereafter,
city In opening new
road tracks shall deepen or elev:
grade go to avold grade
Adjourned,
este
id
ail
or glree
bx
ou
-
Nankin's Porcelain Tower
I'be city of Nankin, once the capital
China, has for centuries been famous
to the “*barbarians” of the outer world
for its poreelain tower—a
splendor of its anclent
Peking usurped its dignity as the seat
of the empire, The place 18 now, to a
great extent a city of ruins; and the
city proper has shrunk to one-fourth of
its former dimensions. The pcreelain
tower was built quite early in the
fifteenth century, by order of the Em-
percr Yuhgloh, and as a work of filial
piety.
It was a monument to the memory
of his mother, and he determined
its beauty should as far
Of any similar memorial
Ol
relic of the
days before
outshine t
as the
cendent virts
son’s eve,
of her sex
f+)
"n
that
Year
fre-
nlinued
than 274
tbat
3 » ir
ADS, Since
ris
Years
comparatively
ow and then
the
boi wr
Haye
dition
1
remind
itants that the rocks below
THeans «
- aa
fron and Bri
or
»
auses of
iron Work }
ted of brick and ir
the subject of
1
aon
ioosenin
Ings
m have been
) niry
nds that
the
two
y careful ir
engineer, who 1
henomenon is largely due to
in expansion of the
under the e of tem-
i Iron fronts facing tw the
th become loosened far sooner than
Iron floors,
and beams become sources of
rather than permanence.
also, in bulldings in which extiemes of
temperature are necessary.
ni
Litiid
MARKETS,
Ses
THE
PROVISIONS.
eel city fam b
Hams .e
"ork Mess
Prime Mess, new,
Sides stoked... ...
Shoulders sipox ed
do in salt,
Smoked Deef.
ian Western bis
Lard joose
FLOU Re
West, and Pa. sup,
Pa PRIRIY .ovnessnsnssvivisnaca
Minn CIR. .ovcovaes BREE ens
Pat, Wot Wat
Rye Flour
GRAIN
Wheat No. I red. ue
BPO. sae.
Corn, No,
Oat, No, 1 White. evenness
No, 24do.....
Now % Mixed,
Fist.
Mackerel, Large 1s.
No, 1 Shore
Herring, Lab
SUGAR
Powdered. .... cone
Granted. ooiiini in
Content. A.ivenvssrnss vs
HAY AND STRAW
Timothy, choloe. ... o.oo.
MARS. cunnnveseesr sunnvnin 8 00
Cut HAY .oovcesnes As Hw
Ryo SURW. .ocvieriiie +18 80 a -
WHORE BUPRW. wo tvnvviinninyoei wn —-— -
WOOL .
Ohio, Penna, and W, Va, Fleeces XX
AI BDOVE sux areresnsrinne «13 aM
COMMON. ov v conus resus RO My
Unwashed medium. ... suki Wn
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ARERES maaa™
evens
senedd BO
10 ®
sean
hansen
PREREI RRR REE
dime show in New York.
Edinb:
catches ;
is manger.
—A horse in
anywhere near bh
ren
the paddies are expecied to
(rreat Esstern a speed of twen
uf
1 of great phy
¥
Ea To the r
ta
wa
er
plo led
{ Texas who ¢
| sitting.
— Efficient service was rendered by g
| fernale fire brigade —composed of the
operatives—during a recent fire in an
English mill,
— Residents of an avenue in P.lis-
burg arose on a recent morning to figd
that rascals had carried off the steps of
thelr dwellings.
—The Maine Legislature killed a bill
preventing the sale of cigarettes fo
minors, because its pr made Lg
fine too heavy.
— Fourteen clocks &eep the time at
the State House iu Augusta, Maine, al
{ eight-day. Two of the clocks are over
| forty years of age.
| —A man in Per
| pair of white rabbi
| now has seventy
Or
must be add that olf
icked two dozen
sleet os ra
)JeCOLS
”
ania bought 3
year ago, He
+g ry i¥ "ie
wae ug
rahbits yZapr
i natural io
ted to exceed 31,500,
a parve. lows
gas pipes
P ‘4
JOU per annum, mdicating
rate of expans
| dustry.
During a
Indias
in Washington is
I i
3 > y :
i DUiEALCes
i
ury Department
investigated, ane
found abated. A ventilating shaft,
heated by colls of steam pipe, wili be
erected to carry off the foul air from
the I 3» main sewer under the build
ing.
~ A crank from North Carolina was
arrested in Washington rec
vagrant. He stated th
tramped to Washington
President's chair, if there was
jection. There were serious
80 he was the farm
days,
| ~ Mississippi tax collectors has
notified, in view of
of
to
being the
ay #4 ws
I
sent VW
the recen
the Supreme Court on
stop collecting the t
commercial “drummers’’
whisky salesmen) in that
State derived about $40.
source,
steel cruiser ever
claimed,
ie first
a, it is
launched Trom a ship yard
poa., She fulfilled the
and will be used by
Government for the defence of } lia
The building of such a vessel by native
workmen is a long stride the indus
trial arts by the Chinese,
{ =—It Is estimated that R
| umbrellas are made in this country an
nually, The number umported is nc
stated. There 18 hardly any article wi
use that we don’t get somewhat at
tached to, but an umbrella rarely stay:
long enough to enter into this category
ir
0 000 o
Louisiana, and said to be the larges
{ known, runs 100 miles north and south
The immense tract is divided into con
venient pastures, with stations o
ranches every six miles. The fencing
alone cost nearly $50,000.
~A natural carlosity has been dis
covered at Solothurn, Switzerland, the
centre of a large watch manufacturing
district. It is the nest of a wagtail
built wholly of long #piral steel shay
ings, without the least part of veget
able or animal fibre used in its con
struction, The nest has been preserves
in the Maseum of Natural ilistory
~The bounty of five cents placed ox
each jack rabbit scalp is resulting in
great slaughter of the pests in Calis
fornia. The Elko Jedependen: says
that, on a recent day, certificates for
bounty on 20,000 scalps were presented
to the Board of County Commissioners;
and the Harney Valley Zions tells of 4
wagon load of 7,000 scalps starting for
the county seat.