Nine tenement houses in Alle.
gheny City, Pa,, were burned on the
morning of the 6th, and sixty persons
rendered homeless, Loss, $15,000,
The wood and brush on Cleve moun-
tam, in the Catskills, caught fire within
three hundred feet of the Hotel Kaa-
serskill on the morning of the Sth, The
lames 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 dapger. A fire com-
pany left Catskill early in the afternoon
for the scene.
- ~The fires in the Catskill Mountains
were extinguished on the morning of
the 7th by a heavy raln. Elijah Tem-
per, of Palenville, was burned to
ieath on the 6th while fighting the
lames. St. Patrick’s Church, in
Dixon, burned on the
wfternoon Loss, $45 000,
Illinois, was
of the Tih.
Near Spring Station, Kentucky
i the morning of the 8th, Miss llen-
ietta Blackburn, niece of United
States Senator Blackburn, accompa-
1iee by her cousin, Henrietta Hemp-
stead, aged 19 years, went out to shoot
it & mark with a small rifle. They
were joined by Samuel Blackburn,
ged broth Miss Ienritta
Blackburn, a friendly contention
was begun as to should shoot
mark first, ‘The tl
“1
wil
29. of
ana
al
engaged in
who
he ree
ip
rifie, and in this
Weapon was d
ng the Le
by two
Adki
en bet
on the
. had
Line because
aversie
i LES
n
Jil
Mrs. Fron
two children of Fromer Ly a forme:
wife. The provocation for the shoot-
ing was Frommer's refusal to place the
two children in a boarding house and
return to his wife. The mystery
rounding the shooting of Mrs. Tarboll,
near Elkborn, Wisconsin, on the even-
ug of the Tt as been cleared by her
husband’s conf he did the
ig and then wounded himself
He gave no reason for
3 thought Mrs. Tarbell
1s 1 mY
aged 5
} t, aged 57
to
Sur-
yi
,
ssion that
to
row
walel
in at a wharf in
r broke from the pre
ng about fifty per
r. Eleven women and n
Iren—are kn y be drowned,
A freight tr
Railroad was
pear Miller's he
the evening of the (
were thrown down an
Jon Hall, a brakeman, i
and supposed to be under the wreck
While men were at work on the new
raliroad, pear Shenandoah, Penna... on
the 7th, a tree which another workman
was cutting down fell among them,
killing ove man and fatally injuring
another. The canning mill of the
Laflin Powder Company, at Moosic,
Penna., blew up on the afternoon of
the Tth. .Jesevh Frazer was killed,
were
two
a
wn uw
on the Fitchburg
by a landshde
Massachusetts
ih Thiz
Mokda Laa
ain
wrecked
Falla
& AS
embankment,
8 missing
’
}
- At Lancaster, 'enna., on the 8th,
the jury in the case of Mrs. Maria pell
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company rendered a verdict giving her
$5000 damages for the loss of her hus-
band, who was killed on the tracks of
that company, near Landisville,
~The Chief Signal Officer, In the
first of a series of weekly weather bul-
letins issued on the Sth, says that the
season from January 1st to date in the
various sections of the country has
been about as follows: *‘In the grain
regions of the North it has been com-
paratively cold and dry; in the cotton
regions to the west of Georgia, warm
and usually dry; In the cotton and rice
regions on the south Atlantic coast,
cold and comparatively dry; in the
tobacco regions of Virginia and North
Carolina cold and dry; in the tobacco
regions of Kentucky, Tennessee and
Pennsylvania, the weather has been
warmer, with rainfall slightly less than
usual, except in Northern Kentucky,
where the rainfall was slightly in ex-
cess, From the reports received it ap-
pears Lhat the meteorological conditions
of the past week have had the effect of
rapidly advancing the season in those
sections where it had been previously
retarded.”
~1t i8 repocied that an ‘aggravated’
epizooty has broken out among the
horses in Warren county, N. J., and a
number of animals have died. The
disease was introduced by Western
horses,
~All the thirteen counties of the up-
per peninsula of Michigan were devas.
tated by the wind storm of last week,
The wind **was a straight blast of from
two to ten hours’ duration.” Houses
were unroofed or demolished, unfine
ished buildings destroyed. Only three
fatalities are reported, but many were
severely Injured. It is estimated that
the damage for the upper peninsula will
reach $100,000, including the pine
stumpage destroyed. A heavy thunder
storm passed over Pittsburg and Alle.
y City at five o'clock on the even-
ng of the 7th, In Allegheny City
four dwellings and a church were
benville pike a dwelling was wrecked
and a woman paralyzed by the electric
fluid.
By the earthquake of the 3d in-
150 persons were killed at Bat.
Mexican State of Sonora,
persons were Killed, At
the shock a voleanie erup-
tion began in the mountains near
Batrispie. Seismic activity is reported
throughout Mexico, with volcanic out.
breaks near Guatemalan
as well as in Sonora.
—Five cars of a (reight train on the
New Jersey Central Railroad were
thrown from track at
port on the morning of the Hh, and
Peter Flood, brakeman, aged 60 years,
was killed, Another train hand was
severely injured. A passenger tran
for Chicago was wrecked near Green-
castle, Indiana, on the evening of the
Sth, and the engiue and tender went
part of the way down an embankment,
The engineer was badly scalded, The
wreck was caused by a misplaced
switch.
—A fierce prairi ia reported fif-
teen miles from rand Yorks, Dakota.
A large warehouse of the Minneapolis
and Northern Elevator Company has
been burned. A fire at Garden City,
Kansas, on the Sth, destroyed about
twelve building mostly occupied as
038, $35,000; insurance, $10,-
ire at Holland, Manitoba, on
1, destroyed two large stores and
Hotel, causing a total loss
which there is only
stant
rispe, in the
At Oputu
the time
Ol
the
the
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v
a fire
11
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)
JOURS on
nee,
-old son of Miles
1s 12-year-old
-higan, on the Sti
Lif Lil, alter
't bother
Aden
neat
BAY -
more,’
sister
me any
T %
Jury
4
the Mel
Henry
of Gloucester,
peared on uu
discovered
in un
avid
8, was recent
11 ne absence
nat
son is a rich man
and has kept his
premises.’
— Mrs, Margaret Er
was found mu
the morn
at New
She h ad been
William Ritter:
county, Mary!
wife on the mo
killed
with a
silos
ander t
age,
on
housa
el
1 AXe,
MawWe
1
i
3
i
y
burg, Kentuck
+
was wot
taken
4
nia Bowman, the
murderously
y two colored burglars
a few weeks ago died of her
injuries on ing of the Oth,
-Frapklin Howell, a banke:
Sranton, Penna., was on the 10th, sued
by a Pittsburg lady for breach of
promise, she claiming $75,000, About
a year ago, a Scranton lady brought a
similar suit against him laying her
damages at $345,000. There are doubts
as to the sanity of Howell.
— A thunder storm at Akron,
on the evening of the 8th, caused
damage estimated at $20,000 within
forty minutes. The business part of
the town was flooded, six houses
struck by lightning, four houses were
wrecked, and a barn and four horses
were consumed, Four men
severely injured by the electric fluid,
At Stafford Court ITouse, Virginia,
during a terrible thunder storm on the
7th, a man named Wright, visiting at
Andrew Pearson’s house,
door and was killed by a bolt of
ning, whieh passed through the
and also killed three children, who
were playing on the floor. Mrs. Pear-
son and several others were stunned,
--A fire in Lsbanon, New Hamp-
shire, on the morning of the 10th, de-
stroyed about 80 buildings, including
Mead, Mason & Co.'s shops ard store-
houses, Kendrick & Davis’ wateh key
factory, C. M. Baxter's machine shops,
8, Cole & Son's foundry and machine
shops, Rogers’ woolen mill, B. T. Ti
den’s wood working shop, occupied by
Muchmore & Whipple and others, W,
F. Shaw's grist mill, »ree Press print-
mg odice bulldings, livery stable and
marble shop, Baldwin's block, Pulsi-
fer’s block, Marston's saw mull, the old
Lafayette Hotel building, C. D, Scott's
livery stable, the Mascoma House,
twenty-five buildings and a number of
smaller buildings, The total loss ia
estimated at $300,000, the insurance at
$110,000. Six hundred men are thrown
af
the aver
Ollo,
house
homeless,
Slight earthquake shocks continue
at intervals in New Mexico, Arizona
and Sonora. A fissure opened in Ar.
zona, which extended from near Ben-
son to fifteen miles below Tres Alamos,
a distance altogether of twenty-five
miles, Anotber fssure is reported
seventy miles from Tucson, which,
when it opened, threw mud and water
to a great height. The belief that a
volcano had broken out in Sonora was
caused by the friction from rocks fall.
ing down the mounta'n sides, which
ignited the woods,
The Democratic State Committee
of Pennsylvania met on the 11th In
| Harrisburg and agreed to hold the
State Convention on August 31st, The
action of the last meeting, "choosing
Harrisburg as the place for the Con-
vention, was reconsidered, and Allen
| town was selected instead. A special
| committee reported a plan for securing
uniformity in nominating Congressmen
| and Senators, suggesting that the con-
ferrees be by the county con-
ventions, was referred
back to the commi with instrue-
tions to communicate with the county
| chairman and prepare another report
for submision to the State Convention.
elected
The report
tee
- Willie Reilly, flve years of age, was
shot dead by Eddy Ryan, a playmate,
| at the latter's home in Chicago, on the
afternoon of the 11th, They found
{the revolver in a drawer while playing
| together, While Martin Bout, a young
| farmer, was plowing a fleld near Michi-
gan City, Indiana, on the llth, the
point of the plow struck and exploded
{a dynamite bomb, supposed to have
{ been left In the field several years ago
by men who were blasting out stumps,
The explosion tore off one of Bout's
hands, wounded him in the throat and
{ chest and partially destroyed his eye
sight, He is not expected to recover.
Dangerous iorest |
in Alger and
the Micl
ade
shore
£68 are reported
Marquette counties in
peninsula, Much dam-
along the South
in the Menominee lum-
sive forest
11 f
is Ol
ira
Hgan
3 y i
has bee 01
-
IWAiiroa
rict. Exter
in various port
i
i
1
ber dist
Mas
intaing about sixteer
t Hot Springs, Arkansas
a} » |
are spreading
uluth despatches say
ake Superic i 1m
£
+} »
the ichigan
peded by the smoke of
and Wisconsin fires. At Escanaba and
| other places the fire department
been called out to fight the flames.
extensive forest fire,
vailed on Cape Coxl since the 11th,
thought to be under control. Vers;
acres of woodland escaped.
An
which has
14
few
—Slight earthquake shocks were f
{at Summervilie and €harleston,
| South Carolina, on the evening of the
[ 12th Similar shocks were fell at Eureka,
R shoerville and San Buenaventura, in
\ a'iforuia.
| Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
fon the 12:h, signed the High License
t bill,
A passenger train on the Lshigh
Valley Illroad struck three men who
were walking on the track near ['ree-
mansburg, on tne morning of the
12th, killing one and injuring an-
other. while the third man escaped
{ injury. The dead man has been iden-
| tified as Edward McGrath, of Kings-
{ ton, New York,
| —On the evening of the 12th three
| masked men broke into James Por
iter's bouse, In Kent county, Dela.
| ware, overpowered Porter and his
| wife, tied them to the bedpostis, robbed
{ the premises of $3500 In cash and
bonds, and carried off the plunder
with Porter's horse and wagon,
— Albert Turner, one of the mur-
| derers of Jennie Bowman, in Loails-
ville, lias already been indicted, tried
under hs confession of guoilt. and
sentenced to be banged on Jaly lst.
-—-e
STATE LEGISLATURE,
SENATE.
In the Senate, on the OLL, three ve.
toes were received from the Governor.
The only one of general interest was
a veto of the bill for the maintenance
of associationss for the control of fires
and saving of life and property in
cities of the first and second class,
The veto was sustained-—yeas 5, nays
21. Adjourned,
In the Senate on the 10th the Eleva-
ted Railroad bill was reported without
amendment. The bill defining legal
holidays was passed finally, It in-
clades every Saturday between July 15
and September 15, after 1 o'el P.
M. The Honse bill for the licensing
of wholesale liquor dealers was amen-
ded on second reading by placing the
power to grant hicense in
Sessions Courts. The High License
bill was considered, Lhe vote by which
it bad passed second reading was re-
considered, and it was practically re-
stored to the shape in which it came
from the House It then passed sec
ond reading as amended. A bill
of Public Works in cities of the first
class to Jay out fast drives in parks,
Adjourned,
In the Senate, on the 11th, bills from
the House were reported
the practice of homeopathic pharmacy ;
extending the authority of justices of
the peace; authorizing County
tors to regulate the licenses to be paid
by auctioneers; establishing county
boards of health, and *‘to provide civil
rights for all persons, regardless of race
or color.” A concurrent resolution
was adopted directing the Adjutant
General to prepare medals and dis
tribute them to honorably disc
Pennsylvania soldiers in the
upon the payment of a fee of
House amendment to the bill perm
Ing justices of the peace to commit to
prison in certain c¢ concurred
in. The High License
came up on ibid reading,
Mr. Reyburn moved
| Commitiee of the
| Im to st™i}
ASEH Wis
Brook S
enable h MKe oul
was amended
$1 vb it
y Li Ll mn
} « “4 #
f payment ol
¥ 1 ve
Ana prev
sonduct In raliro
{io
| regulati n of frie:
raed.
Novs
In the House ure
i rent resointion
ted thanking
t
son t h, & cont
was unanimously adop-
1 Louis Wagner,
i who had served as Inspect of Sol-
diers’ Orphans’ without pay.
| Messages were received from the Gov-
| ernor vetoing two bills—one increas-
ing a pension, the other to restore @
original boundary of the Delaware
river in Wayne county. The vetoes
were sustained. The Fairmount ark
Fast Drive bill was passed to third
reading, with an amendment that the
drive shall cost the city of Philadel
phia nothing and that it shall be
closed on Sundays, Adjourned.
In the House on the 10th the
¥
i © Gt
Tr
(General
Of
Schools
th
Li
YOle
tional Law Judge for Chester county
was reconsidered nd the bill was
passed finally. The BSenale amend.
ments to the Representatives Appor-
tionment bill were agreed to. The
Mechanics’ Lien bill was passed finally.
The Woman
the required constitutional
Adjourned,
In the House, on the 11th, Mr, Hick-
man, from the Library Committee,
made a statement detailing exirava-
gant expenditures in the purchase of
books by the late Librarian, Edward
Stuck, Several bills passed second
reading. The Brooks High l.'cense
bill, as amended by the Senate, was
122 to 5%, It now goes to the Governor
for approval, Various appropriation
bills were passed, among them the
following: $7500 for the Home of the
Merciful Saviour in I'nhiladelphia; for
the Veterinary Hospital of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania; giving $50,000 for
monuments 10 Meade and Hancock, at
Gettysbmig. Bills were also passed
making drunkenness on the pat of
election officers a misdemeanor, and
requiring elections to be held, as far as
possible, in rooms where no liquor is
sold. Adjourned,
In the House, on the 12th, the
Senate bill to abolish all taxes on
watches, household furniture and
pleasure carriages was passed finally;
also Senate bill supplemen to the
act relating to the salaries of county
officers and payment by them of fees
into the Treasury; also Senate bill for
the appointment of ty County
Surveycr, The Senate bills permit.
ting water companies to increase their
capital, and to relieve {
i Lake Erle and Western Railroad Com-
| pany from escheat of its
{ and Jefferson counties
| reading.
In the House on bills were
| passed finally to give preference in ap-
pointment or employment to Union
{ #oldiers and sallors; supplementary to
i the Mechanics’ Lien law; authorizing
cities and boroughs to condemn prop-
y and rights ide their
for the
iler, and for
forest culture, Bills were passed finally
authorizing Quarter Se
chauge the pluces o 1d
ucing the personal or poll tax;
for the condemnation
{¢ and plank roads;
and regulation
transportation dynal
limiting the
to five years; mak-
of business of
second
passed
the 12th
inside and out
purp
the
\
{ limits
wi
gUupLiving
suUpinying
f
it
ert
1 we of
encouragement o
Lourts 0
ing election
$1011
provi
mtion
and of
aud other explosives ilens
of verdicts of juries
ing the carrying on de-
ives witho
regulating the
a misdemeanor,
and power
it license
HDIneIrcs
common brotherlic
pendence amd interest
that unity of our 1
resources of all the
every memoer,
Dy
“The wogd is
things wiskom. authority and appear-
ances, Wisdom {or thoughtful people,
authority for rough people, and appear-
ances for the great mass of superfcial
people who can look only at the out-
| side.”
ad
governed
Each man has his own forlnue in his
| bands, as the artist has a piece of rude
| matter, which he 1s to fashion toa certain
shape. But the art of living rightly is
! like all arts; the capacity alone is born
{ with us; it must be learned and prac-
ticed with incessant care,
Don't gossip. It not only injures you
| by leading you to exaggerate facts, but
{it often injures those of whom yon
| speak when no injury was intended.
| Words, especially bad ones, are like
thistle seeds borne upon the breeze,
| They lodge and grow over the land, and
when once started cannot be picked up
| again,
| Anevery-day religion-—one that loves
| the duties of our common walk; one
{ that makes an bonesil man, one that
accomplishes an intellectual and moral
growth in the subject; one that wo ks
in all weather, and improves all «ppor
tunities, will best and most beaitnily
promote the growth of a Church and
We are apt to smile at enthusiastic
people, and the smile is mingled with
compassion, ‘He isa so enthusiastic,”
we say apologetically of some friend,
and we make the admission as if it im-
plied a want of balance. Dut what
would the world be withoul enthusias.
tie souls, or how would its greal enter-
prises be sustained and accomplished ?
Enthusaism is the lever by which most
of us need to be lifted. The inertness
of selfish or preoccupied or indolent
souls can only be overcome by this
force. For enthusaism is gifted with
the faculty of seeing into futurily, and
overlooking the intermediate steps, the
toil and effort of the work, beholds a
lorious vision of the whole and is re-
reshed thereby, while the duller spirits
are yet doubting and calculating. Some
one bas sald, and said truly, that “he
is old indeed who has outiived his en-
thusiasin,” Well for us if we have
kept ours, if we can still be enthusiastic
over a fine poem, a noble deed, an ex.
alted faith.
i
{
i
}
HE WOLFMAN
I learned in an Ir
thi Fer
What
Cie “er
how {4 I
1 BCLIOOL GAY i
{-reared ch
and the
India, 1
y
Hemus,
[ wut
IAT, 1
place or such anolhe
had been reen; but es
people and wolves are
wolf-reared children
I have seen and conversed
myself, As stood n
verandah in Cawnpore
“Do vo
LAr a Di
y
broad
said
ne,
my friend’s speaking
' he
y ('%
YOICe,
In
cont
’
tha 4 |
the strangest
peak to him.”’
4 mple (questions
woll-man replied in
niping tone, It
ind {
fartle natural ar -_r
ABCUIY DAlUTal anima
1 in £1
cale how
© hosp Eh.
became his “‘papa-
him, He worked in
attended the children when went
out for their walks. Ie spok f this
family with much affect!
grew more whining, and w
k brushed supposed
MY, VOICE
oth
he {ears from his
eves as he spoke of the sad day it was
for him when his ‘‘papa—mamma®
went to England. After ths
another of the English had befriended
him, but fcr the most part he had lived
in the bazar by himself. 1 altempled
to find out if he was capable of religious
emotion, and asked what he Knew
about God. lle comprehended, and
immediately began reciting, with folded
bands and uplifted eyes, something
concerning God and Xis dwelling.
place. More than this he did pot at-
tempt, and at once assumed his
position, with lolling tongue
blinking iike a wild beast’s, and fing
of both hands held near his hips, like
timid child accustomed fo bile his
finger-nails,
ie or
usual
eyes
neers
a
——
Chinese Sign boards
Ia aliuning business announcements
tew can match those in the dowery
The trav-
eller must bave been amused who saw
in. I'ekin scores of cariously worded
signboards, of which these are a few
specimens: “Shop of Heaven-sent
Luck,” “Mutton Shop of Morning
Twilight,” “The Nine Felicities 'ro-
longed," “Flowers Rise to (be Milky
Way.” “The Honest Pen Shop of
Li” would seem a reflection on his
rivale. A charcoal shop calla itself
the **Fountain of Beauly,” and a place
for the sale of coals indulges in the
title of “Heavenly Ewmbroidery,'' and
“The Thrice ilighteous’ is a preteu-
sion one would scarcely expect from
an opium shop.
nn
If the internal griefs of every man
could be read, written on his forehead,
how many who now exeite envy wonld
appear to be the objects of pity!