- 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
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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
,
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rs
b
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"n
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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
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¢
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b
1 operations, and a large:
nstrokes were
ago.
21,000
ily was persuaded by |
hi to Shelbyville an
in Was
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L068 (
julre
Mansell
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ng Mexican
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aK
Dakota moo
maiden,
lovely
ritorial
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or
almost as
: see it last
't seem to met
: here”!
um of
LO Boe
wom struck
per cent brighter.”
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is a delicale maller
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with
ere the value of roots is
green
sheep.
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32
ah
he Widow's Mystery.
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<catching him as he fell, inflicted
80 severe a wound upon the sinews or
the thizh that he was lamed for life,
—-—-— -
~The finding of the remains of a
mastodon of Lhe largest size, with a
portion of seull over two inches in
thickness, is reported from San An-
tonio, Texas,
~Prince Mootleart, who died the
other day, is reported to have lett the
whole of his fortune, estimated at two
and a half millions sterliog, to the
Queen of Italy.