- ARERR NEWS OF THE WEEK -The military investigation as to the cause of the fire in the Citadel at Quebec has just been finished, only thing known of its origin is that it started in a quantity of straw just inside the stable door, which was open on aecount of the hot weather, All the officers examined said they considered the powder magazine both fire and bomb proof, and the panic caused by fears of an explosion entirely uncalled for, consist of masonry six feet thick, fire in Memphis, Tennessee, on afternoon of the 11th, upper portion of the stores of I Ozanne & Co, and an adjoining build- ing, causing a loss of $80,000, broke out on the evening of the 11th in the Otto Colliery of the Readi Company at ville, and spread mules perished, It if the fire be extinguished the colliery cannot be again worked iS year, About hands are thrown out of work, rapidly, bodies of the six walning imprisoned in the Best & Bel- her mines at Virginia City, Nevada, of tl 10th Lig ~The orning y surface, fourth race New York, on coming by the stand the fell. Wanderment we over her and Thomasia rolled over the two. Chandler, who rode Wanderment, es- caped unhurt, Koerber, on Jessle, broke left arm, and Harris Thomasia’s jockey, bit his tongue in twain, fractured his skull, had his jaw broken, and sustained internal injur- ies. He is not expected to survive. —Miss Viola Meets cide at her ho in North Carolina, on t 0 T TOAr LO - Dur ton Beach Jessie his ’ committed Graham c¢ he 3d 3 riage, bees kill she was engaged on the premises. "ourteen bodies have recovered from the n zar Ti I t Hurley, Three re fatally jumpin building, talities by the now estimated a surance about 1ing 11108 O ~ r » iit tricte aronand Que reported at Lev a farmer named children, the past fortnigh i 111ien - Poulin has the oldest 15 years o Missi — A heavy win Highmore, Dak the 10th, ine : - is Jkegom Jal asSOn, 2 # rev cestrove Will TecCs a “conduct des pline’ and sen prisonment, n break for liverty Henry's Ohio, Link, a clock sergeant tried y military « to two years’ 11th h a stealing 1 was t« t im- e made a Atl St. im out on them over the hes in skull ¢ 3 He then str erger, knocking uries Brock is ng iuj whi pore gre; tain ¢ 3 away, and wagons and been caught age {0 mining and there ears that a lives have been lost, hail storm passed Hughes and Sully counties, Dakota, on the evening of the 11th, Hall- stcnes *‘as large as hens’ eggs” ruined the crops, while the wind blew down a number of buildings, of the towns of York have been it is feared that teams on the roads in the tesr rant Ty. worrent, 1 hie a e came roperty has been great, number of A tornado and over portions of 1 i 0 ¢ ale i ~James Martin, a drug elerk in Bridgeport, Coonecticut, was charg. ing a soda fountain on the morning of the 12th, when it burst, and a large fragment struck him, causing a com- pound fracture of both legs below the Knees, ~Joseph B. Lincoln was awakened in his Commonwealth avenue residence in Boston on the evening of the 11th he refused to give up his valuables, Mr. Lincoln, who wus alone in the house, handed. over nearly £400 in cash and his gold wateh to the burglar, who escaped. On the 12th Edward W, Skiff, a Herdic driver, who took Mr, Lincoln home at midnight, was arres.- ted and confessed that hegota ‘chum?’ to eo to the housa with him and com. mit the robbery. The watch, but not . the cash was recovered, | — At Royal Centre, Indiana, on the { morning of the 12th, W. A. Garner saw a figure “'groping around the { room,” Thinking it a burglar, he | fired and shot his wife dead. — A the Hull Club Boston on Yacht the 12th member of reported at his yacht was anchored between Deer { and Loug Islands, he saw a boat con- taining five men capsize a mile away. He put oat ic a small boat for the place, but found nothing. —The fire in the Otter Colllery { Pottsville, is still raging, and the n il. ifternoon of tLe of | i8 caving Jn the { 12th, young Eddie Ferguson, zon the outside boss (the boy who [first « covered the fire), was crossing the floor of the engine with dinner, when the charred way and he aisappeared in mine, amid by the | house floor "OO 13 4 ta 100m father's bi ards an outbt fing 4] 1088 coused | i collapse ol - hile | from their bama, on head : by lightning were Killed, the mothe —~= Mrs, vere caught on a i Cre i the morning of the Josep! and real e Q Cl parent 1 Ars ago, and Mr. yland family, and in Commi x 1 i Pa. slonel (xe0 a SA savannah, i throat c¢ land Thomas C ] ave bev il rune ib on the mor 453 ly arrested « and a w ivery stable, Sontag's t shouse, and part of Meiley's $25,000, Incendiansm The soap factor N. K. pected, nouse of and oil on the 000, vie, remap, was killed Hg ot » three days in ’ fh » it ranged bel resemb- lug millers, so dense that lights 0 1 I'he pests covered { everything, business was su spended for a Lime, and bonfires were built, which drew thie inseéts, and their bodies were piled heaps around " wr Hghted, SOOT up in great { each fire, -A special the New | York World reports that during a col. jored funeral at Mount Pleasant, Ten- | nessee, on the 12th, nine of the partici- | pants, who took shelter from a violent thunder storm under a tree in the t graveyard, were killed by a single flash fof lightming, The vietims included {the minister and his wife, and the | mother and two sisters of the deceased, despatch to —The total value of our exports of domestic breadstufls during the twelve month which ended on June 30th was $102.420,194, against $122 810.870 dur. | ing tbe preceding twelve months, -In Richmond, Virgima, during [the las. three days, the temperature, between nine o'clock In the morning and sunse', has ranged from 94 to 100 degrees in the shade. The hotest place in the United States on the 14th was Fort Bully, Dakota, with the thermometer at 102 degrees. Huron, Dakota, and Atlanta, Georgia, fol 1 | A NEE A. lnwed with 98 degrees; Nocth Platte, Neb, Dubuque, Towa, Indianapolis, led,, Lynchburg and Forfolk, Vir- ginia, with 90 degrees; and Columbus, Ohio; Lowsville, Kentucky, and Dodge City, Kansas, with 94 degrees. In Washington the maximum tempera- ture was 03. During the past 24 hours the temperature has fallen from 6 to 12 and Colorado. A cool wave 3 also made itself felt in Northern Texas, the Iudian Territory, Arkansas and Louisiana, where a drop of from 4 to 20 degrees has occurred, although the thermometer still hovers around the eighties. The warm weather has in the Lake Superior region, Pennsylvania, New York and the New England States by a reduc- tion of from four to eighteen degrees the temperature. The heat tinues unabated in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Eas‘ern Dakota aad the South Atlantic States, At Wiliborn, Texas, on the even- of the 13th, while W. E. Farqu- and Dr. J. F. E were jointly g the prohibition amendment, ‘Farquhar, who had concluded his argument against the amendment, be. came enraged at the remarks of Dr, Eves, who favored it, and fired at him with a Ballard rifle The b missed its mark and lodgea | he i 2 gril ers Ie BPEdn el Montana in con. no il Yes PS JUBSIN just th Eves Was not disconce attempt t his sj Atl Lexing noon ot 0 lake , by the giving way of a worge Caldwall was killed 1 CArs we ion ch the Frank pers who were several # ML WAS Csrand 1K excur- wn Central attached, sion train ! freight train ca The oil caught fire and h trains and a warehou several sheds were consumed, The first car of the excursion train was crowded with peo- ple, and it is feared there was terrible loss of life, An hour after the erash, while a crowd of people were looking at the blazing pile, one of the oil tanks suddenly exploded, throwing hundreds reds to the ground and seriously if not fatally burning many, At last ac- counts nine bodies had been recovered from the train wreck. A freigt train and a stock tra'n on the Burlington and Missouri Railroad collided on the morning of the 15th on a small bridge near Lincoln, Nebraska, The bridge caught fire, and two en- gines and thirteen loaded cars were destroyed, including two cars full of cattle, The loss is estimated at nearly $200,000, The train men saved them- selves by jumping off before the colli. sion, «An unknown highwayman entered the store of Join D. Langworthy, at Ashway, BEhode Island, near the Con- necticut border, on the 14th, and at the point of the pistol, forced Lang- worthy, who was alone in the shop, to , " rs b ‘ "n - contents T hand over his wateh and the of the money drawer, about §20, robber escaped into Connecticut, ue sale dealer in fruits and vegetables in Springfield, Ohjo, was arrested on the 156th, on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretences. It 18 alleged that he created a corner in blackberries by purchasing almost the entire in Central Ohio, and, losing heavily, then transferred hisstore to a preferred creditor, ~The largest goods ever held in B made by the U, 8, Marshall, on the 14th. It consisted of merchandise seized from Chinese steamers, includ- ing $46,500 worth of opium, —Thomas Williams, 30 met Maggie Catlin, Crop of conflacated vn Francisco was sale years old ’ West Newton, Penna., on the evening of the 15th, and asked her hands. She refused, whereupon llams drew a revolver. The girl star- ted Lo run. Williams pursued her, and fired once, and seeing her fall thought he had killed her. He then blew out his brains, The girl escaped, as her fall was from fright. Both parties are colored, and Wiillams' action buted to jealousy. — A telegram from Tucson reports that Southern Arizona has been visited by very severe ralpn-storms and cloud- bursts during the past eight days, Th Santa Cruz river 18 more than a m wide, and washouts on rallroad frequent and numerous. A itity of stock has been On the 13th a loaded freight el away by a cloud- ire. fq zit i3 adil * le the qua i ’ drowned, De ature of 100 in the shade by the therm i the YT 6 ¢ meLer § b 1 operations, and a large: nstrokes were ago. 21,000 ily was persuaded by | hi to Shelbyville an in Was ‘1 Were Ie » wagon, L068 ( julre Mansell oe —- ng Mexican AUIS even aK Dakota moo maiden, lovely ritorial “Don or almost as : see it last 't seem to met : here”! um of LO Boe wom struck per cent brighter.” - Ti eo chat is a delicale maller Ww ge from dry to foods with ere the value of roots is green sheep. 18 a — THE MARKETS. HOVISIONS. Beef city fam! 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Mrs. Nelly Archer prettiest little widows that ever looked | fascinating in the flutter of black rib- | bons and transparent crapes; vet. some- | how, no one was ever jealous of the | affectionate, warm-hearted, beautful | young widow. For was she not ready helpless, care for the careless, { think for the thoughtless? i You couldn't help wondering what | people did in the} ed times be- was one of the 0 help the and 1) ser bit Wenig } | stage of life, so indispensable did seem Lo human comfort, ! So, of course, the very the day that | came engaged Henry Forrest, | came up through the eyeri=zg twilight, with incense flowers scattered her path, to tell Nelly about it, | Just as natural as thinking aloud, *1n you dear foolish sald Mrs, Nelly, laughingly, Ing both of Mildred’s flutterin and looking archly under BWeepIing her timid “Well, every young glri must come, sooner or later, to the place some some happy youth becomes gi fied in id his words t May evening to of on Ove, imprison= foi ’ 4 iringes sight, ar [hil are 1K her he law an Hever ay I He jis nged, somehow! sh had been a1 Ha Forr ito ITy . is { an when he lo such a pitying glance “And two or spoken 1 #4 0 im. Nell wolves were all he would rel , though her own shie would never see Case from heart-strings Nelly ted-—Dbut cher more. uspected this m nt Seen Al away the hand tear-stained eyes into “Why, wi en cry i . SU Pp n' ns, I came, dearest ia would allow 1 1 for our wedding ’ me 4 must - ir ask if vy ee UU Thursday week £y ong effort LE ve . sv ¢ TF engagement do mean?’ ej you ) we? But 1 Henry? “Release | be released!” “io view,” not let us prolong this sald Mildred, tremuiously. *‘l | was accidentally in the river path last night, and witnessed the parting be- tween you und Helen Archer.” “Well, what of it?” said Henry, | stsill in a state of bewilderment. i “Nothing,” faltered Mildred, al- most inaudibly; “only if 1 had sooner known that your affections were trans. ferred from me to Mere. Archer, I should sooner have set you free from all allegiance towards me." She broke down here, the poor little heroine, and burst into a passion of tears, “My darling Milly,” said Henry, as if a sudden light had broken in on his perplexity, “will you hear my explana- ation? Nelly made me promise se. erecy, but she never could have fore. seen these circumstances, “My affections have been securely placed beyond my keeping ever since I saw one Miss Mildred Wilton, “1 never dreamt of transferring them, and couldn't if I were to try. But dearest Milly, since our engage- ment I have become a comparatively poor man through the fallure of busi- i ness men with whom I was indirectly Ig { involved, and I trembled lest it be my duty to ask vou to wait for me, or even to give me Milly, I could not as ( beggar!” “But Mrs, Archer ired the marriage to | has nobly placed a large wealth my hands--as an. of | course—10 enable me # the world once more, “The sun of forture. {| Nelly, 13 begioning to | once again, and I cor as my bride!” “Then Nelly murmured Mildr sparkling bow. “wl, { but { love should years For, arry a de- , she in Le ed They over | shouldn't wonder { dings cne of these And Mildred lover's Were no lr are - Natural Min wand and nless on the Jd him to be not always as hs known { ! ball in his ¥ OC aly 1 { coming to ilse man. He fired The next moment jaws, with his right hand pinned { across his breast, 1 powerless, | and being carried into the jungle. In a minute or two, the tiger, in order to carry its burden with grealex ease, chucked the officer up in the air and caught him by the thigh as be fell, The cool, self-controiled officer, though suffering agony, drew another pistol, Introduced its muzzie into the tiger's ear, and pulled the trigger. OQ a Sb beast, 1 ' i, It a0 tiers I + } ud wii The brute fell dead without a struggle. Lord Hastings promoted the officer on the spot for his courage and calme ness, But the snap of the tiger's teeth 1m re