SERS a we
er
—The Groff, in
entered
house of Dr. De
Hoboken, New Jersey, was
by burglars on the evening of the
28th and robbed of $700 in money,
$2700 in Adams Express bonds and
$1500 in silverware.
—A fire in Brooklyn, on the evening
of the 28th, destroyed the cooperage
works of I. M. Palmer, a freight
house of the Erie Railroad, and some
smaller buildings. The losses are $200,-
000, of which $130,000 falls on the
cooperage. A fireman had three ribs
broken by a falling wall.
—Celestin Vezeau, lis son Charles,
Joseph RRobindoux, Wilfred Herrieux,
Phileas Vanier and Nelson Montreauil,
went in a row boat from Montreal to
Nun's Island on the evening of the
38th, They spent the night in drink-
ng, and, cn trying to get back to the
2ity early 01 the morning of the 20th,
the boat capsized and all except Mon-
treauil were drowned.
of the
Ivania Railroad,
tha 27tl hows
— The official list of victims
lisaster on the Pennsy
it Horseshoe Bend on
3 x Killed
lisaster on
road, on the 2
was killed, and
30 badly injured t
8 24th, 8
the
and eight injured, }y
1
the Lake Campiain Rail-
1, the fireman, Tatrow,
he engineer, Chappell,
hat he died in a few
ours, Another train band had an
wnkie fractured. Mathias Schultz,
aged 30 years, a brakeman on the Read-
ny Ratlroad, was run over at l.ocust-
lule on the 28th and so badly injured
that he died a few hours later.
Williams attempted to
passenger train while
the railroad bridge over
Richmond, Vir-
He missed his
the falls, 60 feet
walter feel first,
broken collar!
1}
Li
t
f
v
— Richard
on a
struck the
with a
severe
id escaped
i Several
e lar
e. Jol
A man
structure
and, overta
farm, sho!
that he die
H. Carn
resort in Wiln
as the
be had a gru
— A severe earthquak
gales, Anz ma, at 1
the 30th
is
ternoon of
min
felt
ites allerwards alighter sl!
Was
‘he ult...
visited Nogales, demolishing
many buts and unroofing larger Luild-
fuga, Up to 10 o'clock on the morn-
ing the S0th ult., no more earth-
quake shocks were experienced in the
City of Mexico. Dunng the night a
heavy .ain fell, cooling the weather,
Some of the more lightly constructed
modern buildings are badly cracked,
and it is feared the roofs of many of the
ylder ones are in a dangerous condition.
~There was another death from yel-
low fever in Key West on the morning
of the 20th ult, The disease is of a
most malignant type, and, in anticipa-
tion of an epidemic, the Health Board
has applied for the use of the hospital
at the United States barracks,
The 4-year-old daughter of Green-
berry Davis died on the 20th ult,, of
hydrophobia, at Wood's Run, near
Pittsburg. She was bitten by a dog
about seventeen months ago.
— William Showers, 59 years of age,
was arrested at Annville, Lebanon
county, Penna., at midnight on the
30th ult., on the charge of murdering
his grandchildren, William and Samuel,
aged respectively 3 and 5 years. They
were the illegitimate offspring of Show.
ers’ deceased daughter, and it is sup.
posed the object of the crime was to
enable the grandfather to marry a
woman who did not want to be burd-
ened with the boys, and who wished to
have them cared for by some other
persons. The children disappeared
about two weeks ago. Their bodies
have been found buried in Showers’
yard, with ropes around the necks and
the skulls crushed in, The murderer
has confessed his crime. Samuel
Prinkey fatally stabbed his wife with
a penknife near Conrellsville, Penna...
done, On
a violent **d
No damage
wwvening of 29th
£
eycione'’
of
had been separated for several weeks,
John Matz, aged years, shot and
severely wounded Annie Gring, and
then committed suicide, In Reading,
Penna., on the evening of the 30th ult,
The woman was the divorced wife of a
man named Fox, and jealousy caused
the tragedy, CC, R, Jackson shot and
killed t’eter Fraser, at Albuquerque,
New Mexico, on the 28th ult,, in a
fight arising out of an old grudge.
Policeman Thomas Tyrrell shot and
killed James Carroll, “a pugnacious
prisoner,” at Wankegan, lllinois, on
the 31st ult. In Detroit, on the 30th
ult., William B. Dolan interfered with
Policeman John Klebs, whe was try-
ing to quell a disturbance, and was
shot dead by Klebs, Mrs, Conner,
grandmother of Dolan, dled during the
night from the effects of the shock.
26
-—There was a cave-in, caused LY
melting snow, at the Mullen tun-
nel of the Northern Pacific Rallroad,
near Butte, Montana, on the 28th ult,
which may stop the transfer of heavy
freight for some time, The break is
about 75 feet in depth and 100 in
length,
— Reports + received in Reading,
I’enna., oun Lhe ist ult., from various
points in Berks, Lebanon, Lehigh and
neighboring counties, which show that
*‘this vear’s wheat will realize only
about half a crop. The destructive
Hessian fly, which had entirely disap-
appeared for the past two years, Is
aga/n ravaging the wheat flelds, and
acres of it are dying in consequence.
The Colorado beetle, which has 1ab-
ited these counties for the past thir-
teen years, is
yo 1?
inl
also doing considerable
usiliag
An
seemed
¥
i Of
which
expio-
felt
OO COCK
earthquake shock
like an underground
great severity,” was
at
8101 al
lan at 10}
Jamestown, LU
*
New York, at
the morning 3 it. Many
i alarm
felt
uses in
the mornl
r of Wi
was fo the ro
(ip id. Charles
arrested
said t
been
andal is
teen -year-oid
county,
Un Lhe
and lvoe
Kentucks
20th 1
hed 1
11 HN
yan
(reorge H. Disque, convicted of tl
murder of his wife, at Hoboken, New
Jersey, was i i! 1st. lle
©
hanged on the 1
confessed his gv
— A Judge of Probate named Follett
has disappeared from Grand Rapids,
Michigan, after stealing and forging to
the amount of $350,000. He was rained
by speculation. John J. Geodman, 18
years: of age, was arrested in New
York on the morning of the 24. for
stealing $2000 from the Butterick Pub-
lishing Company. He carried the mul
of the company to the post office each
day and it was his custom to steal let-
ters containing money or checks, The
money was spent in gambling. J, J.
Hartigan, of Tracey, Minnesota, was
recently induced by a stranger named
Powell to start a bank. Powell *“‘put
in no capital to speak of.” He issued
a certificate of deposit to an alleged
brother for 811.000. The brother went
east and had the certificate cashed by a
bank in New York. Before cashing the
certificate the New York parties tele.
graphed to Powell at Tracey, and re.
ceived the reply that the money was on
deposit. Powell left Tracey as soon as
he had assisted his confederate to have
the certificate cashed,
--On the evening of the 1st, about
fifty men left Annville for Lebanon,
Peuna,, to lynch William Showers, in
jail there for the murder of his two
grand-children, The would be lynchers
were joined by one hundred and fifty
others ln Labavon, but they were met
by seme officials and Induced to dis
perse on the promise that Showers
“should receive full justice,” Showers
insists that the children were mur.
dered by a man named Hoffnagle, who
was married to Showers’ daughter,
five illegitimate children with as many
different fathers, Showers claims that
Hoffnagle kidnapped and murdered the |
children, and buried them in the ditch |
In Showers’ garden.
~The house of Gi,
Vincennes, Indiana, was struck by
lightning on the 1st, All the family
were kpocked senseless and two chil-
dren were dangerously injured,
-A panic occurred in the cathedral
al Chihuahua, Mexico, on tie afler-
noon of the 1st, caused by the falling
of a candle, which ret fire to one of
the altars. A rush was made for the
door, and in the panic several children
were Killed and a number of women
were injured,
~—An express train on the Pittsburg
and Western Railroad ran into a lume
ber car on the evening of the 1st and
the engine was wrecked.
W. Joehnson,
fireman severely injured, The collision
was caused by the lumber car sliding
from asiding to the main track,
— Benjamin Courtright, 30 years of
accidentally shot himself dead
while examining a shot at his
house In Scranton, enna., on the 2d.
He leaves a widow and two children.
*“*A fatal epidemic of 8
i8 reported in Goodhope,
county, South Carolina, M
have occurred, and bolh the
sicians are prostrated.
—W. TT. Ric
zen, was wayviald nea:
Kentucky, on the evening of
ult,, by his son-in-law, Vernor
beaten senseless and
juries are fatal. There was a grudge be- |
tween men, Robert Gravatt, 45
Years age, savagely 1 t and Jo |
ulted his brother's widow
rint
age,
gun
1
o
ms kind’
deaths
l phy
any
i
QCA
ketts, a prominent citi-
a or
the
Of
the
aon
of cases of yellow
of
SX
vale
IVR IE.
st, on the 3d, is 13
resulted fat
114
Aiiy.,
liree Cot
~The latest particulars of the panic
in the Cathedral at Chihuahua, Mexico,
onthe Ist, show that three children
aud two women were Killed, and sixty
persons injured, The building is abso- |
lutely fireproof, the only inflammable |
materials being some adjuncis of the |
altar, and Lhe exits are ample, Some
of the witnesses assert that the loss of |
Ife was caused by the stupidity of sev- |
eral policemen who closed the doors as
soon as they heard cries from inside,
—A train onthe New York and New
Haven Railroad, on the 3d, ran into a
number of Italian laborers, near Ma-
maroneck, killing one of them and
severely injuring two others,
~The trouble between the full-
blooded and haif-breed Choctaws, in
the Indian Territory, is reported to be
growing. Several encounters have re-
sulted in bloodshed, Oa the 30th uit,,
a party cf whites and half-breeds were
attacked on Duffalo Creek by a party
of full-bloods, and several were woun.-
ded on bouvh sides, two fatally. It is
sald that “many of the full-bloods urge
the expulsion of every white man in
Choctaw territory, giving as a reason
that they are dangerous in stirring up
strife between full-bloods and half-
breeds, and are constantly eneroaching
on Indian rights,”
RAVING CRAZY.
Crazey
What
Crazy That, and
Woman do Next?
This and
Will the
As a reporter was interviewing a
prominent gents’ furnishing goods
dealer in regards to the spring styles in
hats yesterday, he overheard the fol-
lowing confab between two lately mar.
ried men:
“Neat looking silk hats, those, eh,
Smith?”
“Yes, and that reminds
got to get me another,”
“What! another one. Why, it was
only three weeks ago that you bought
one, Wkthat has become of that?”
Heard
me, I've
“Gone,
thing
Jones, gone,
about those crazy
women are going insane over?
eh?”
“No, but what
hats?”
“Well. lI ¢
last
that got to do with
ell you,
one, I carried it home and
intended to go
, but when I went
there. 1 asked Mrs.
gal it
tog it itw
Smith
Hoi)
Jol
ark a 1 Ya » ur
SUCH & I0YelY Cra?
, John, was that
nme in i
16 arm and pil
the crazy px
room, and I
—~
HE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH.
Visit to
teristics
Hudson's Bay—~-Charac-
of the Mixed acos
fn (lawa of
would be
x yal
IV LIZA
SAVAZes, as
| grandeur of tl
aspect of
ininbavitable re
America
waste than between U
fT the coast of
and Fort Churehill on
uthern part ot H
Although little is known
regarding this weird and frozen region,
growth within
nNEAva
Labrador on the
the west
udson
Sas :
east,
and Bay
yet
the
it has had a
and having been mea-
but the extent of land back from the
coast on either side, 18 thickly popala-
in a region of perpetual frost and snow
must bring. Hudson's Bay itself is
really an inland sea, extending between
Jatitude 61 and Gi north, and longi-
tude 77° and 95° west, and while about
1,000 miles long at its greatest distance,
is only about 600 miles in breadth, cov-
ering an area of over 500,000 square
miles, It is navigable only for about
three mouths in the year—from the
middle of June to the middle of Sep-
tember—and for the remainder of the
year is filled with drift ice, which
renders navigation, even for a short dis-
tance, an absolute Impossibility, The
eastern coasts of the bay are sights to
be admired, cliffs rising In many cases
to the height of from 200 to 400 [feet
abruptly from the
being composed of
| ice and frozen snow, shine
light until it is almost
The residents of this section are
properly Esquimaux, but a cross be-
who have come in for the
hunting and fishing, and Onally settied
purpose
ith them
other life
in the priva-
| tions which no affords,
| an average, in the summer months, the
above,
{ do and share
thermometer stands ut about 45
while the the
{ runs as low as 60
temperature in
Fish
in
are
the
25 below,
about
| scarce and ean be caught
average
only
i river,
| the Whale, while
there is the Ilayes, Nelson, Churchill
Great on the
fl 'l
] i
Weeknisk, Mair
in plenty,
Moore, Albany
Abbltit be,
ut are extremely shy and hard f
tives to at, while porpoise
equally difficult ret hol
for
. s ant
Seal abound
Or Lhe
and
apt +
He ik
art ad
the ma
are about
is §
is
that
mt Lhe
3 3 aa}
sider himself a
search of
kind the priest of 1
and it
le parish has great
has been whispered
that. these good men 1d
articles in the way of
“
'
manage to he
less desir
floated, thus pre-
market,
However this may be, marriages
enjoyment and everybody seems happy.
--—-
Chipping Irving's Tombstone,
hunters so
clip aud hammer the stone that marks
It did not seem to
me 4 grievous wrong, nor in any true
sense a profanation of the grave, but
rather a testimony to the lovableness of
Irving's character, and an evidence of
the wide extent of his fame, that, from
filling the cucle of the educated and
refined among his conntrymen, has now
come to include that lower stratum of
onr commen humanity which has only
instinctive and, so to speak mechanical
ways of expressing its feelings,
im
sb
We are sowing seeds of truth or
error, of dishouesty or integrity, every-
where we go that will take root mn
somebody's life,
It is what a man does, not the esti
mate which is put on a man's doing,
that is & man’s real measure of attain.
ment in the world,
| FOOD FOR THOUGH
Unstained honor is
ment,
Trifles make perfection,
tion 18 no trifle,
It is better to fight for
to rall at the evil,
A sunny temper glids
i life's blackest cloud.
The world deals good
| good natured people.
mon
ana periec
Lian
thie ere
navurediy
Charity 1s a first mortgage
| human being’s posses
Every duty we omit obscures
{ truth we should have known.
(reat hearts alone
much glory there is in being good
merit is like a
is, the less noise
i
S108,
. 1 at caw ¥
nGersiand
True
deeper it
If keep pegging away
| chances are you won't go barefoot,
Ver
take
You
The first and last thing wi
ig HCH A
% the
F re
im Lrulhs,
16.
quired of genius } VE
Hidden virtue 1s often
hing extos
jaspised, inas-
eyes,
much as no
To he another
ur renown and our sweet (
Our
ip one
$ 3
as Lil
icked o
To be |
+ nan |
ones 3 3
i
than
fF AIWAVS |]
: pannil
pupil to
{ endure to be t
maintain his
and time
life, and
all tals are th
tmp 1) tive resent
either than they know
mney
mirdens of
th
here some
have a cheering word {or
They make Ii
for all who are
are
LI ugg ier.
possible
’ gl ®
aL.
{ make ils prac-
Teach se {denial and 8
| tice pleasurable, and you create for the
| world a destiny me than ever
issued from the bral: f §) wildest
ireamer.
more sul
[14]
There 18 no death,
| stale, We die, ye!
| wondrous love,
We carry ourselves t
i
’
| otherwise we go not
Oh,
Y ou say you bave doubts, yo this
| eymling-head! No wonder. Now, if
{ you will pull up one of your doubls by
{the roots, you will lind something on
| the tap root, and th ame of that
something is sin
The whole Jaw tor a noble and devout
{ life is not altered by resson of any new
{ circumstance, It still remains true
{ that a mind silently wailing before God
| is the condition without which such a
life is impossible. As the Gowers fol-
low the sun, and silently hold up their
petals to be tinted and enlarged by his
shining, so must we, if we would know
the joy of God, hold our souls, will,
heatls and minds, still before Him
whose voice commands, whose love
warms, whose truth make fair our
whole being. God speaks for the most
part in such silonce only, 1{ the soul
be full of tumult and jangling noisas,
his voice is little likely to be heard. As
in some Kinds of deafoess a perpetual
noise in the head prevents hearing any
other sounds, the rush of our own
fevered blood and the throbbing of our
own nerves hinder us from oatehing
His topes. It is the calm luke which
mirrors the sun, the least cat's paw
wrinkling the surface wipes ont all the
reflected glories of the heaven. 11 we
would Lear God our souls must be in
Callan a
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