—At Reading, Penna., on the 21st, Frank Zabel, who killed his brother Charles a year ago and was acquitted because, in the opinion of the jury, he was Insane, was discharged from prison, a committee appointed by the court to inquire into his mental con- dition having decided that he is “now perfectly sane.’ - Michael Hammond, a conductor on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, yas killed while moving out of the depot at Parsons, Penna., ou the after- noon of the 21st. Henoticed a woman and little boy on the track in front of the engine and called to them to get off, “but the more he cried out to them | the more bewildered they became.” Hammond jumped from the car, ran along the track, and finally pushed them down the emankment. In doing 80 he staggered back and fell under the cars, The tow-boat Charles Brown, No. & was sunk by a snag about 20 miles below St. Louis on the morning of the 21st, and one of her crew was drowned. —A telegram from Bethlehem, Pa., says that the Salvation Army has for some time past been marching through the streets there every evening “‘yell- ing and singing.” Collisions with the police were frequent. Finally, on the evening of the 22d, ‘“‘while parading noisily,” the captain and one officer of the Salvationists were arrested. On the morning of the 23d they were com- mitted” to jail **in default of fines, which the Justice imposed upon them for disorderly conduct and profanity.” The Army had been previously notified not to parade on the streets. A Salva- tion Army meeting in Kansas City on the 22d was broken up by the police. Nineteen members were arrested, — Two more cases of yellow fever have appeared in Key West. The first | patient, a man named Baker, 1s dead, | and his wife and sister are now sick. | He lived on the mainland, but had | been visiting in Key West. ‘*None or | the persons attacked had been of State recently enough to brought the seeds abroad.” The authorities at the nearest point to Key West have established a strict quarantine John Croft, Cheed Croft, Abra- ham Ussery and John Ussery were § rested near Luling, Texas, on the on suspicion of being concerned int recent train robbery on the Interna- tional and Northern Railway, They were taken to San Antonio and lodged 1n jail, ~The insurances property destroyed by the fire at Lake Linden, Michigan, aggregate $397,000, Two fatalities occurred at the fire: John Casey was burned in a barn, and An- drew Holzberger had his skull crushed by a falling wall. The Reade Paper Company’s mills, near Versailles, Connecticut, were burned on the 22d. Loss, $70,000, insurance, 837,000 The | village of Hawthorne, about 18 miles | south of Superior, Wisconsin, has been | destroyed by the forest fire in its vicin- | ity. No lives were lost. The drought in the upper peninsula of Michigan continues, and the forest fires are still raging there, threatening many villages | and towns. A large saw mill, near | Lake City, was burned on the 2lst. | Loss, $30,000, t is reported that the | powder house of the Odanat mine in | the woods near Hurley, Michigan, was | reached by the flames on the 21st afd | blown up, with four tons of powder. No lives were lost, A round house at another mine was destroyed. —A milk dairy of eighteen cows, | fourteen of which were infected with pleuro-pueumonia, ] out the HAVE Tampa, b 4 ¥ trreat on vile Was GQISCOVYers d the 23d in the northwestern section Baltimore, All Is were killed and the stable will be bur on of | € anin -During a school exhi evening of the 20th at Kerrville fifty miles from Memphis, Ter the stage drape: were set on fir the® overturnin oil Maggie lLomg, aged 13 year burned to death, and a young named Fowler was dangerous] io 1¢ i ¢ ¢ g Of a coal 8, was| man | if not | in the audience | the panic, Women and children were trampled upon in -—tienry Schwartz and Newton Watt, ti® Rock Island train robbers, were on the 23d, sentenced in Chicago, to imprisonment for life. leave was granted to file exceptions by August 21st, — Edmund Von Tilly, a teacher of languages, committed suicide by shoot- jing himself, in a boarding-house in New York, on the morning of the 23d. No cause is assigned. lle was formerly an officer in the Austrian army, and was decorated for bravery. W. W. Dawson committed suicide at Mexico, Missouri, on the 234, by shooting him- self through the heat. ‘‘He had jus, returned from Dodge City, Kansas where he had been flaeced of all his money by land sharks.” -A telegram from Il.ock Haven, Penua., says the forest fires on the 22d, destroyed the dwelling of John Wash- burne, in Greene township, and a saw mill in Gallagher township, The fires were still raging on the 23d, destroying valuable timber and large quantities of bark. Two men, named Cox and Schafe, sought shelter under a tree during a thunder-storm in Howard county, Ar- kansas, on the evening of the 21st, and were killed by lightning. During a thunderstorm near Chattanooga, on the evening of the 224, several men and horses were struck by lightning under a tree and the horses were killed, It is believed the men were fatally in. jured. John Larsen and wife were killed by lightning at Brandon, Minnesota, on the afternoon of the 21st, Peter Johnson was drowned by the upsetting of a boat on Hopateon Lake, New Jersey, on the evening.o the 229. A companion who was w th him was found on the morning of the 23d, clinging to the bottom of the up- turned boat in a half unconscious state — At Wilmington, North Carolin on the 24th, Grant West, colored, ag 17 years, who killed three of his com- panions and wounded two others at one shot a short time since, was found gulity of murder in the first degree, At the time of the shooting there was a general Impression that it was the re- sult of carelessness. Wilhlam Worn- ecke shot and wounded his sister, Mrs, Rumpe, and then blew out his brains, near Houston, Texas, on the 2I1st, Near Bayou Gould, Louisiana, on the 234, Benjamin Dates quarrelled witn his nephew, Joseph, aud shot him dead, Peter Bates, .Joseph’s father, then shot and mortally wounded his brother Benjamin. —The wall of a dilapidated building on Hall Place, New York, collapsed on the 23d, carrying ten laborers, seven of whom were severely injured, — Recent rains mn the Northwest have extinguished most of the forest fires in Wisconsin and Upper Michi- gan, and have greatly benefited the pastures and crops. -Trouble is reported in the Choctaw Nation, forty miles north of Paris, Texas, It appears that two weeks ago two men named Wilson, full-blood Choctaw Indians, were killed in a row over the election of a deputy sheriff in Lawson county. Since the killing, the Sheriff-elect has been missing, and on the 20th the bodies of three men were found on Clear Creek, near Doakville, one of which is sup- posed to be that of the newly-eleeted Sheriff, —Jdana, a village near Clay Centre, Kansas, was visited on the evening of the 23d by a tornado, which wrecked five dwellings and a school house, and blew six cars from the railroad track. Only one person was injured. —Hog cholera is said to be deetroy- ing thousands of swine in Mexico, and has so injured the sale of pork that many perk shops in the City of Mexico have been closed. —A boiler exploded in the sawmill thirty miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the morning of the 224, wrecking the two men. An- other man was fatally injured, laborers at Menlo Park, Jersey, were struck by a railroad the morning of the 24th, One was killed and two were in- it was feared, fatally. Some New on f them jured, one, — Michael Tr messenger in ment at Washington was on seized with of 60 years of age, a Treasury Depart the morn- ain, the dizziness Treasury on the fourth fl building and feil over a balustrade into one of the sand piles sixty feet below, He was instantly killed, —The house of William bell, at Shickshinny, Penna. tered by a burglar the m the 24th. The robber was speedily captured by Mr. Campbell, who cov- ered him with a revolver and kept him in the room until the police arrived. He was taken before an alderman and com- mitted. The prisoner, who is described as a well-dressed and good looking young man, gives his name as Charles Spencer, of Philadelphia. — While returning from a prayer meeting pear Leora, Missouri, on the evening of the 224, James 1... Butler was killed by lightning, and Robert dangerously injured, Four others were shocked, Welch was killed by light g a base ball game at 224. hn Thompson, ren and sister-in-law m the arow ont a tha ¥OT Lie A. ¢ was ning en On ning while Whitehall, on the his wife, three left evening of th bay in a skiff, in a squall, and on 25th the body of yn was washed ashore ¥ wile 3 vii bt gol [ the " McDonald, r hichinting HgNLnng e, at on the | —"Thers 18 now reason to believe that John Vanderburg, who was shot dead in the court room gt Rockville, Mis- souri, on the 25th, at the conclusion of a hearing on the charge of felonious assault, was guiltless of the crime, and that the complainant was mistaken in her identification of him. A verdict of murder has: been brought against Lint Anderson and “Ed.” Evans, who fired the fatal shots, Amos Rhodes shot and killed Louis Michaelson near Manistee, Michigan, on the evening of the 25th, Jealousy was the cause, dynamite bomb was thrown the house of Mrs. Frances A. Rickey at Vincennes, Indiana, on the morning of the 25th, The explosion blew a large hole in the side of the building, smashed all the window glass, blew Mrs. Rickey out of her bed, and knocked her 17-year-old son senseless on the floor. Mrs. Rickey has received sev- eral anonymous threatening letters, and about three weeks ago some one battered in the front of her house with a coupling pin, On the evening of the 22d her son heard something strike the bouse, and running out found a lighted dynamite cartridge, and extinguished the fuse, The motive of the villainy 18 unknown. Diaz Cutler, a farmer of Grant Station, Indiana, was murdered by some unknown person on the 25th, and his body was placed on the rail road, where it was run over by a train. -—A gas company has been laving mains in New Cumberland, West Vir- ginia, work was finished, were made to test “Before testing it and preparations the large mains, WAS Necessary curve leading to the river. While this one accidentally When the white heat, some turned on the gas reached the spot, occurred, scattergd mains in all directions, large hole in the ground. which was let into the pipe at a ‘ sure of 190 pounds, immediately fire and burned to the height of { feel.’ Eight workmen and two dren were terribly burned by the ex- The boller of a portable saw noded near Leinsenring, Penna, , , killing James Naylor an other men. With the huge Iron took Hii Clili- | plosion. mill srs £14 i el it ie L h | seriously injuring two | gus Xplosion Lt i NO. 2 of the SHEq eha | Company, at Nanticoke, Penn | Cosgrove, James Sheehan and | Zolofaki were badly bun i there is no hope of thei iis the mine in which twenty-eight | were entombed in December, 1885, —"The California Sugar San Francisco, | the price of a py $ gh y % ighth cent., and OK place on the 3) recovery. refinery, al nn the CY Wid - i O 1 i i sugar one- Can : “ grades of nd the Amer met t advance the same Bald John —"Three of the nine f whipping convicted the 25th, and Swearin- at Ozark, Mis- fined each a change of were on 1'he other six took sour, 8100, venue, John Fall and his wife were {« their houses near Oska- loosa, lowa, on the 25th. The house had been fired to conceal the crime, ~A father and two | Crilea, at Falls Village, n have for some | from symptoms of polsoni of the sons the other { 3 oy SONS, named time ng. died On are 3 edd father and & ailing. n analysis of ¥ them discovered arsenic, but one how yp ep or Lilie sth the 2 daught dig a well, below the sur. and she was ph Ady i Indiana, on the he murdered body of Chang, a Chinaman, was found in his loundry, with a bloody hatchet As he and his partner, Ben Hong, had been quarreiling, the latter was suspected. A search resalted in finding Den Hong's body in another room, where he had committed suicide by cutting his throat. John Vander- burg, accused of having chloroformed and assulted Jennie Anderson, at drookville, Missouri, was shot dead at a preliminary examination in the court room, on the 24th, just as the Judge announced that he would be held mn $10,000 ball. Three shots were fired. Who fired them is vot known, but two brothers of the girl, who were present, were placed under arrest, -A four-year-old son otf Samuel Robbins died in Norristown, Penna, on the evening of the 24th, from the effects of carbolic acid swallowed on the afternoon of the 23d. The little fellow swallowed the poison unnoticed by his mother, who was using it in packing away woollen clothes for the summer, ~ A violent storm of wind and rain visited San Angelo, Texas, on the evening of the 24th, causing damage estimated at $30,000, The cupola of the court house was blown down, and the east wing was damaged. All the churches in the town were damaged, and about twelve dwellings were un- roofed and nvartly demolished ~In Coxe Lrotbers & CLompany’s mines, at Beaver Meadow, Penna., on the evening of the 24ch, Willlam Gal- lagher and Patrick Conoghan prepared a blast, and, on lighting the fuse, ran for places of safety, Gallagher reached a safe place, but Conoghan fell in the manway across a drill, from which position he was unable extricate himself. Taking in the situation at a glance, Gullagher, at the risk of hus own life, ran back, and, seizing the burning fuse, extinguished it. An in- stant later the fuse would have burned to the powder and the explosion would have thrown Conoghan a distance of 130 feet below. Ros | Kine ¥. each abou were arrested ia Chics | for robbery. Rose's boarding house Massachusetts, and natned ¢ rocker, w hi | Young Rose broke in by young Kinney, went to | When arrested they had $500 and jewelry worth about as more. in cas’ much 18 announced that the dian Pacific Railway rate on greased wool to $1 per 100. The Southern Pacific rate is $4. — The first train the Canadian Pacific Railroad for the Vancouver ocean terminus reached that point on the 24th. [Hitherto trains stopped at New Westminster, on morning of the 27th destroyed the Belt I.ine Railroad stables, on Tenth ave. nue between Fifty-third and Fifty- fourth streets, with 1200 horses; one wing of Jacob New's silk factory, five brick tenements, a row of frame rook- eries on Tenth avenue, opposite the stables, and all the shanty settlement on Fifty-third street, from Tenth ave. nue to within three hundred feet of Eleventh avenue, The losses of the railroad company are estimated at §440,- 000, and it is thought the total loss will be $750,000, More than one hundred families, mostly poor people, were made homeless, and an aged woman, Elizabeth Walsh, aged 76, who was sick in bed when the fire broke out, died of fright on being carried to the sidewalk, A number of goats, dogs and pigs in the shanty settlement were burned. The railway company’s in- surances afb estimated at $300,000; those of Jacob New at £75,000; and the risks on the tenements at aboul an equal amount, A train wreck is reported on the Houston and Texas allroad, near Garrett, Texas, in which the engineer and fireman were killed. An express train which left Troy, New York, for Montreal, on the evening of the 27th, was thrown from the track, near Ad- dison Junction, by a landslide early on the morning of the 27th, and four cars tumbled into Lake Champlain, Two train hands were slightly injured, ~While Joseph Porter and wife were driving down a hill pear their * | home in Sullivan county. New York, {on the 27th, the harness broke, and the | horse, taking fright, ran the wagon against a stone wall, Mrs, Porter was {| killed and her nusband severely in- ! jured. The Government receipts and ex- penditures for the month indicate a surplus of over $10,000,000, and & cor- responding reduction in the public debt. ——————— A — DISASTER ON THE FPENNSYLVA. NIA RAILIVOAD, Four Persons Killed and Eight In- jured, Two § atally. ALTOONA, Pu, May 2] *To-night as the fast line West was nearing Kittaning Point the wheel of a car on a freight train east burst, and the car crashed into two passenger coaches with terrific effect, killing in- stantly four men and iojuring many others, Telegrams were immediately sent to this eity for physicians, and all that could bo procured were detailed to the wreck, KILLED AND INJURED. The killed are as follows: Dal Gra- ham, son of ex Speaker Graham. Alle- gheny, Pa.; J. H. Stauffer, of lLawis- ville, Ohio; Wymer Snyder, a one- legged man, of Shamokin, Pa.; John | Davis, a newsboy, of East Liberty, Pa. Frank McCue of 756 East Thirty- { third street, New York City will die, { Charles Beldelman, of Brinfield, Noble county, Indiana, is dying. The injured are: A. Agen, | ville, N. X., head and side, not seri. jous; Clara Albert, of Flint, Mich., | slightly injured; Rev. John Alford, of | Beaver Falls, slight Injuries; Hattie Luckett, colored, of Alexandria, | not seriously; Rev. R. H. { ored), of Detroit, Mich. ; aged 11 years, traveling mother, was prostrated by | but was not injured to any extent, passengers occupying sieeping | Cars were Inj HOCH Favelte. Va., 01 red, The one, and the w for years on the road [he ent unavoldable Was ap rst tl Pent injure ere 1 ¥ } issiliie } hii prize AIWan dearest, { Lo know how to 1 the te | nents of life, WAT Go wi i reed ng i everybody satistiea and pleased with Most people when they come { advice come to have own i # atl » » Pr v 2 i strengthened, not corrected. their ly good natured, an imposed upon, Haracter. irsed by fate, no one yes } ih 0 HEAT hia < LO [118 OW { “°, i destroys ther ETN Ho give fis a piece We should count ft throbs; he most lives wl tl eat aryl ) alii ad power of fortune Tr I the miserable, | impute all their success to | ment, Good nature, like a 1 its | honey from every herb, 1ll nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest lowers, Too many ns Hand , COLSCLS iy i y believe that the world {owes every man a lhiving.'’ and that it requires no personal effort to hake the collection, AS we grow in years and experience, we become more tolerant; for it is rare to see a fault we have not ourselves committed, The reason why 50 few marriages are happy is because young lzdies spend their time in making nets, not making cages, ST ————— MARKETS, THE PROVISIONS. 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Discoveries in N. Y.--An An Village Site Interesting County, A very remarkable discover was brought to light a short he well known Blade flats at the tion Charlotte with the Busq hanna, ou the south side of 1 latter stream, at a point some two miles above time ago upon LC of 165m “rit ll recen igh this village. During the water a broad current was in some diverted from the main channel a a bench of aliuvia three feet above general level the neighboring bank. The field ing been plowed last fall and 1 the depth of two feet « ing mainly of a fine aliuv! two or three rods wid feet deep, to the clay clear across the field a ““binnacle’’ or from the main stream al some below. The current does not to have been very swift, a: quence objects of tained in the soil were the latter filtered away. For plowed way 4 land rising wo 1 the NAY ~ he soil to OVeriow ten days or flood subsid —— A Gypsy Ba Lut y antic license wh In Mangr abin as d with a grati ion to its value, I the Romany i Ail And with women there ited fell often resulted h therefore when men in love those instances of intense passion stecdy faith, which at the becoming mythical. and present day he has are really gypsy in this, as in everything else, been a continuation of the middie ages, Ol of the “Sach a passion than half a century ago by Jack Cooper, the Rom, or Fighting Gypsy, in a girl of his own tribe. Hex name was Charlotte Lee, and it was about 1830 that Leslie, the Royal Academician, led by the fame of her beauty, painted the picture, now in New York in the possession of his sister Miss Emma Leslie, from which numerous engravings were taken, The fame of her charms still survives among her people, and when a few days ago as I write, 1 was talking of Charlotte to some gypsies of her Kin near Philadelphia, I was asked if 1 meant the Rinkeni; that is, the Beauti. ful one,” . AI To live in hearts we leave not to die. romance era, was inspired more I wruomu nyo behind, is new made SREY ial 1 3 t +3 § Lae LOO of an aboriginal thi ira 4 » vilh el] 1, and cu the prevailing being the shable } ortions, ges, f made, ¥ 3 ald remarked subject mound” far belt age site; that there mouth of Sidne Y AlQ a YW the Otsego fourth valley, ———— = st. Petersburg inp S800 3214 18 oO ivi {8 vast- centraliza~ hands of the Emperor, This impression is, pere haps, increased by the nature of the town of St. Petersburg. 1l.ong, broad streets, lit at night by the eclecine light; huge buildings, public and pri- vate; large and almost deserted places or squares, all tend to produce the reflection that the Russian nation is emerging from the long ages of Cim- merian darkness Into which the re- peated invasions of Asiatic hordes had plunged it, and that it is fuil of the energy and aspirations belonging to a people conscious of a great future in the history of mankind, It 8 too sanguine to bope that, as this develop- ment proceeds, the Russian Govern ment may learn to perceive that a real and enduring peace with England would give the commercial weallh and prosperity so much coverted? A frm, decided and unflinching policy on England's part, with a determination to protect her interests at whatever cost, may perhaps bring Bassa to con sider the advantages of this aspect of the question. $ +3 aL Loe vw th oe It wouid be no unworthy hing to live for to make the power which we have within us the breath of other men's joys, to Oli the atwnesphers which they must stand mn with a brightness which they cannot create for them. an lves,
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