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NEWS OF THE WEEK
-~l'ornagoes swept over
Springs and Papillian, Nebraska. on
the evening of the 13th In Blue
Springs the school-house was demol-
ished and its jamtor fatally injured,
Half an hour later a girl lying on a
lounge near a window was
lightning, At Papillion several build-
ings were moved from their founda-
tions. A. J. Potter, & hotel keeper,
was killed by lightning at Oreill.
ile
of
Arizona,
distinct shocks
guake were felt in Tucson,
on the afternoon of the 15th,
stone was also shaken.
—The boiler of the Richmond
Paper Manufacturing Company's mill
in Richmond, Virginia, burst on
13th, Killing two men,
-Three
—A passenger train collided with a
“wild” engine on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, near Waynesboro, Missis-
sippi. on the afternoon of the 13th,
Robert Shenault,
and Willian Tew, engineer, severely
injured
» ]
ce nan,
‘contiden
in
swindled a lady in
When arrested
for
Green, a
arrested 151 0 {
¥ 58 2] > 2
charg naving
Balti re out of
Wis
$60.
he about to leave
with a young lady
had engaged as a
ing himself to be a San
maire. He bad induced her
vance 2150 to pay her expenses Lo San
I stating that when he
amount would be
1d
18CO,
Fant
rived there the ré-
funded to her.
Martin Prendergast and
Donnelly were drowned in the St.
Lawrence river, at Montreal, on the
3 the capsizing of a boat at
the 3th, August
on bth,
Ferdinand were
Bush
drowned,
—Policeman Julian Arnold was shot
dead, and Ernest I. Padgett, a compan
1on. was wounded in Alexandria, Vi
ginia, about 1 o’clock on the morning
of the 15th, while trying to arrest two
men whom they overheard planning a
robbery. When they called on the men
to surrender both drew revolvers and
fired. The who shot An
the other, who had a struggl
adgett, was captured, and
as John Curran, of Washi:
+} ¢
ne
one Ol ©8
an
Oo Ie,
— William A. B8Sanfor
killed In 16-year-old
Washi i
f th
In resg
a steamer
gether
early on the aftern
the city of V
where “‘a
reported as t
an immense t
belo to the Boston and Maine
Railroad Company.” A telegram from
Marquette, Michigan, says that smoke
forest fires is making navigation
perilous on Lake Superior, On the
15th, ti propel] Jay Gould, trom
Chicago to Duluth, with merchand
lost her bearings on account
and ran ashore off White F
The propeller Peerless heard
nals of distress, and after three
succeeded in releasing her, Fores
are visible yn Duluth, Minnes
Ww eel ins
hreatenin
v
number of railroad
1e
ine
We,
of smoke
fre
of Lake Superior.
At
evening of the
Lacrosse, Wisconsin,
15th, Miss l.etzke
John Beyer went boating with two
other friends, Jever, to frighien Miss
Letzke, rocked the boat;it capsized und
he and she were drowned, Two col
ored men were drowned at Richmond,
Virgicia, on the morning of the 16tl
by the upsetting of a boat.
—At Waterbury, Connecticut
the 16th, Alexander Broomfield, aged
55 years, stot and wounded Warren =.
Frost and then committed
Frost one of the foremen of t
Waterbury Brass Company. Several
years ago
from the mill for drunkenness, and had
aways, in consequence,
grudge against Frost, The latter's in-
juries are not coasidered dangerous,
-A telegram {rom Dodge
Kansas, says that A. F. Soule,
lochester, New York, “who bullt, at
his own expense, a canal, nine miles
long, for irrigating purposes, at an ex
pense of one million dollars, has an-
nounced Lis intention of extending it
go that one million acres of land herea-
bouts will always yield a full crop.
He has donated $50,000 to the Presby-
terian College located here, and has
bought the First National Bank for
$75 000, and also the Dodge City
Water Works.”
~{(1eorge KE. Reed, for two years City
Treasurer of Bismarck, Dakota, has
'
on
16
suicide,
ia he
! disappeared, leaving a
( $0000 in his accounts,
lieved to be in Canada.
| «~The Of
{ foundation of the
celebrated on the
The Sun building was
with evergreens
thousands of people visited it,
hosts of friends congratulated
A. S. Abell, the founder, Among the
“ghortage’’ of
and he i3 lx
tieth anniversary of the
Baltimore Sun was
17th in Baltimore,
beautifully dec.
and flowars,
and
The 17th also marked
Mr. Abell from any
the managemont of the
dent Cleveland,
?
LE)
been admit-
their father,
upon the
followed
i
hip with
publication
ch has been
for fifty years.
—The residence of John A. Cheever,
{ong Island, was robbed
over 33 worth of silverware on
the morning of the 17th
—13. J. Waters, a deputy constable
at Kansas City, Missouri, found a
bstance on the pump chal
H)
white sub
16th,
1 +} powder
nougl
neighborhod
here Was LS
whole
Goodspeed attempted to
Cincinnati, early
the 17th, and, beliey
himself up the
11 recover. He is re
on
Lo
‘omptroller of the Cuarrency
authorized the Equitable
Bank, of Cincinnati, to begin
business with a capital of $350,000, and
the 1 National Bank Kansas
City a capital of $100,000,
irst ol
y, with
in
New Haven on the morning of
18th
while Mrs, Martin Fenney,
aged 35 years, while entering a factory
where she worked her husband drew
and stabbed her
nflicting a wound
tal, She
the X,
pocket
\
\
Knife
breast, 1
likely to prove f
sbhand a few week
jealous,
Near Tahlequah, in the In-
dian Territory, a few days ago, John
ir, James and 1
ristie, being i1
James (
wounded Dlai
antagonist
French
Francis Stoke
wan
ever Known
ina, prevailed
eral buildings
damaged
Lore were
Cody, an
of counterfeit monev, was arres
Painted Post, New York,
ing of the 17th, He is 72 5
train Inter-
onal and Great Northern Railroad
was stopped at MeNei a few
miles from Austin, Texas, on the even
ing of the 18th, by about twenty rob-
bers, who rifled the express car. A
number shots were (ired, res
was #lightly wounded
, and another that two
i I'he wails were not
passengers bad te
valnables, Fifty
armed men have gone
experi passer
ted near
A ©"
CArS of Age,
even
A passenger
the
on
nat
1 Stats
1 Station,
of ne
port say
3 8 IDK
in the ha
and
b it
their
and
the
surre
mounted
~At San Fraucisco on the 19th,
aud killed Mary Fessler, aged 23, and
then shot and killed himself, The
cause is believed to be the woman's
Morris John.
son, being drunk and jealous, tried to
kill his wife in Indianapolls on the
afternoon of the 18th, He was pre.
vented by a neighbor, whereupon he
ran up stairs and committed suicide,
-At Savaunab, on the 10th, Wil.
liam Fuller, a colored artilleryman,
was Llown to pleces during the firing
of a salute in honor of the passage of
the Fifteenth Amendment,
~A sleeping car on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad was thrown from
the track near Salida, Colorado, at §
wrwsarIsaAN
leading lady of the
Castleton troupe, was killed, and Dr.
George Cox and Conductor Aubrey
were severely injured,
- A passenger train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ran into
some cattle near 'ueble, Colorado, on
the morning of the 18th, The engine
and mall and express cars were ditched.
Three tramps were stealing a ride on
the train, and one of them was killed,
the other two being slightly injured.
The wife and mother of Melvin Hunt-
ress, of Portsmouth, New Hamsphire,
were killed on the afternoon of the
10th, by an engine while driving over a
railroad crossing in a wagon. Two
men employed on the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks were killed by a train
at Dean's Station, near New Druns-
wick, New Jersey, on the afternoon of
the 10h,
I'he Secretary
the 10th
vy ol nterior
maae a requisi 38
Secretary of the Treasu
O00, be 1
s ON
on the
£0.00
used du
ayment of
1
Wi
in i
i I. tHe WAS
His wife was out
t $17.000 in
and
Kein
an explosion «
shellac in
were varnishing,
ng of the 19
Hil
they
il.
-~A despatch from Newln
York, forest lires are devastation
the Shawangunk Mountains. Thou
sands of dollars’ worth of timber have
already teen destroyed, and the dam-
ace to young timber is incalculable,
There are forest fires on the east fork
of Dlack river, in isconsin, N. DB.
Holway had 5,000,000 feet of logs
destroyed, and the Messrs, Altces also
lost considerable, Forest fires are
raging thrcughout Marquette, Alger,
Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw
counties in Michigan, Large forces
of men are fighting the fires in Hough
ton county. The weather continues
dry and hot, and the whole country for
many miles along the lake shore, as
wel as the lake itself, is involved in
clouds of smoke.
Lt AMIN
The first virtue Is to restrain the
tongue; he approaches nearest to per.
fection who knows how to be silent,
even though he Is in the right,
An egotist will aiways speak of him.
self either in praise or censure: but a
modest man ever shuns nuaking himself
the subject of kis conversation.
Nev
SAVES or
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STATE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE,
resolution giving the thanks of the
for his patriotic services in behalf of
Orphans’ Schools was concurred
3ills were passed [i
tion of German
and streams,
of homeopathic pharmacy, and
in,
extend -
peace, Dills were passed finally *'pro-
viding civil rights for all people regard-
of race or color;” regulating the
of attorney
1 churches to abandon
less
admission
thoriz
grounds; amending the
game and fish, Several
bills were pas:-ed, a Ig
for the celebration
tional Centennial,
MATS
relati
appropi
them
{ act
increasing the ag
Adjourned,
the
were
Senate
were
ng
the bill taxing all orders, che
i p88 books
! wages
redeemed In thirty days;
Marriage License Act,
and for the condemnat the Frank
Ad)
other {1
:
the
¥
100 OF
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old-fashioned
or two on
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idea of
teeth at
using
CA
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the
up again.
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for
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AAA MEREREENS
Unwealied medium, .... connennnyy ol a1
Carrying on Bargaing by Means of
Hand-Squeezing,
In the customary open-alr markets of
pecially those
devoted to transactions in hides, leath-
Eastern countries —¢ in
wool, grain and frult—Iit is no un-
see a couple of sedate
looking traders seated on the
aaph
ail
ground,
with his right
}
in fe 3 ! .
iis neighbor 5 Cap
engi
gad, to all appearances
ngers. Fi
utes they will remain in
h other’s fi
i.
i
e and got
srformance
merchants
brawling
:h they
-—
A Small Blunder,
(nn Lhe 10oKoul
| to take charg
ren entered a servants’
her eyes fell
{ looked
*
wdame, ‘but
your fo
rom
pict
yur appearance,”’’
woman
: 1:4
he very Ie ike
said
situa-
rmet
sll me why you left
tion.” “A simpie
One day as I was nursing
oversight, ma'am,
‘ry
Mrs, Jise—'g
a window to lis.
the
Mrs, | gave me
down to him, but alas! ine
steal of the money 1 dropped the child
twopeuce
.
t of the window!’
-— -—
The Latest Folly.
Ol
We have had pink teas snd yellow
lunches, but the latest fad has been a
(ireek dinner. The table was decora-
ted with garlands of roses, and the
center ornament was a Greek lyre with
golden strings. The walls were hung
with rugs and festooned with roses,
The guests reclined on couches, and
each wore a laurel wreath tied with
purple ribbon. The menu was written
in Greek, among the dishes being wild
boar, roast kid and hare. An inter
mission of about half an hour took
place in the middle of dinner, when
burning Oriental drinks were served in
silver tankarde,
[ FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A hero, whether he
a hero,
is
Cheerfulness Is
heart.
You get the tri
equals only,
We stand in our own
than others do,
Do not stop to tell all 3
you are in a great hurry
Tears sprinkled ac:
e¢ttie in the dust of sor:
SOINe persons are able |
only when golog backward.
If
yOu are no
y
Ji
penses exceed
1
vila hs
oO rob others
3
r «ti
38 DONIesLY
OOr Han who rises a
rom his in
16 most personal
imself
¢
i!
h
It is better to m
walt for it. Ie
shore and foresees a
out to sea, and en
avoid a shipwreck.
Do not harrow 1
with
nation sucl
3
\
with hardened
severe denu
AS YOU Ar
wir
nner
friend
the g Lop supplies
has nearly a monopoly «
society its position will be us
The classes who frequent
do not, as classes
théy drink becanse Lhey
having gone there for
tew perance problem is how
the gin-shop, and thal pr 5
means how to supply a social substi.
tute. The English coffee-bouse system
i® the Dest substitute yet invented. In
the present form the movement seeks
to establish “cocoa-houses,’’ and a pam-
phlet before us mentions that in Liver.
pool twenty-mine houses capable of
seating at once an ageregate of 3.500
men have been opened and are financially
successful. Their success, the fact
that they pay, means that they meet
the social want and atiract men {rom
the ginshops, The association having
the enterprise in charge, declared this
year a dividend of ten per cent, and
carried a considerable sum besides over
into the new year as a surplus for con.
tingencies,
oa thera t
y RO LIIeTe §
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