— The Metropolitan Storage Ware-
house, on Thirty-eighth street, between
Broadway and Sixth avenue, New
York, was destroyed by flre before
daylight on the morning of the 16th.
The loss on the building and its con-
tents is estimated at $300,000. Dur.
ing the fire an explosion occurred, by
which seven firemen were severely in-
jured. Hill's block, in Springfield,
Massachusetts, was burned on the
16th, Loss, $25,000. Several firemen
were injured, one, Frank Miller, per-
haps fatally, A fire at Manteno, 1lli-
nois, on the 16th, destroyed an eleva.
tor, grist-mill and two barns. Loss,
$00,000; insurance, $12,000. A fire
at Saco, Maine, on the 16th, destroyed
the Thornton block and adjoining
building, causing a loss of about £25,-
000. The Coldwater Road Cart Com-
pany’s chair factory and some adjoin-
ing buildings, at Cold Water, Michigan,
were burned on the 16th, Loss, $20,-
000. G. W. Shaver’s store and adjoin-
ing buildings, at Cedar Springs, Michi-
gan, were burned on the 15th. Loss,
$44,000. The loss by the forest fires in
the neighborhood of Brockwayville, in
the lumber regions of this State, is
estimated at 825 000 thus far.
—A violent storm of wind, rain and
hail raged at Carlisle, Penna., on the
afternoon of the 17th, At the Indian
Training School trees were levelled
and several of the buildings unroofed,
and at the county almshouse 500
paces of glass were smashed. In the
town thousands of window panes
were smashed, one house was struck
by lightning, trees were uprooted,
and a number of buildings were par-
tially unroofed, A tornado at Wau-
paca, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of
the 16th, wrecked the opera house, un-
roofed two hotels, blew down the Ep!s-
copal Church steeple, and did other
damage. The Carran House was
struck by lightning but no one was in-
jured. The farmers the vicinity
suffered heavy losses,
— While Mrs. John A. Logan was
riding with a lady friend in Carbon-
dale, Illinois, on the 15th, the horse be-
came frightened and backed the wagon
over an embankment. Mrs, Logan, in
attempting to jump out, caught her
foot in a wheel and was thrown under
Le horse's feet, sustaining a
scalp wound, aud her left arm an
were badly bruised,
—A terrible storm visit
Penna., and the surrounding
between 6 and 7 o'clock on
of the 16th, doing damage estimated at
$30,000. In Philipsburg, the Delaware
Rolling Mill was damaged and
Judd carriage factory destroyed
lightning, barn containing
horse was blown down, several
were unroofed and many
rooted.
in
in
severe
1 side
AX
trees were ug
while maki
1 Steel Works, in Chic
mort r of the 16th,
were blastin
en
the
the
rockmen
Valley C«
the Hazlet
leret cities
as follows:
shade, 6 deat
~—Telegraph and
having been repaired, news was
*¢ived on the 18th of the details of the
lamage done in the country around
Reading, Penna., by the storm on the
afternoon of the 17th. At Temple
Berks county, Edward Medlar’s barn
was destroyed by lightning; loss, 83000,
At Yocum’s Forge, David Herzog's
barn and the crops of a 150-acre farm
were destroyed; loss, $4000, At Penns-
burg Michael Goettle’s team was
struck by lightning, and Goettle and
horse killed. Henry Foxe's barn,
it the same place, was consumed; joss,
HMOUO, The houses of County Com-
nissioners Frank and Jacob Richards
were damaged by lightning, The
Macungie Iron Company’s casting
wouse was flooded, and N., W. Weav-
or’s barn at Macungie was struck and
consumed: loss, $4000, Mauny flelde
were washed out, The total loss in
the district is estimated at $30,000,
— Herbert Pepplird, William TILind-
lay and Oliver Morrison were drowned
n Cobequid Bay, Nova Scotia, on the
16th, by the swamping of a boat. D,
A. Monnees, of Brooklyn, and Charles
A. Straub,of New York, were drowned
in Gardiner's Bay, Long Island, on
ihe evening of the 16th, by the up-
setting of a row-boat by swells from
i steamer. Moritz Ballona, a flour
merchant of New York city, was
drowned while trying to save his two
sons from being drowned near New-
burg on the morning of the 17th. All
went in bathing, and the boys getting
beyond their depth, he went to their
rescue. He was seized with cramps
and perished, while the boys were saved
by a gentleman who extended a fishing
pole to them from the bank,
~-An mhuman wretch, near River.
side, Arkansas, had a five-year-old
stepson, whom he greatly disliked and
treated with savage cruelty, recently
putting out one of his eyes while beat.
ing him. A few days ago after hor.
sbly beating the little fellow, he tied
Ii
iid
iis
BRN Cn
the bo
sun, and left hi there uutil he died.
The murderer then armed himself and
fled to the woods, “The child’s mother
seems indifferent over the affair.” Max
and lynched by a mob of one hundred
men. Sallen’s wife died from
shock of her husband’s death,
~At Four Mlle Run, near Pittsburg,
on the evening of the 17th, Mrs. James
apd sister-in-law were severely
injured by the explosion of a can of
coal oil with which Mr. Smith was
starting a fire in the stove.
~The plate department of Hammond
& Sons’ iron works, at Pittsburg, was
band
The loss 1s estima-
insurance, $75,000,
men are thrown out of
cept the puddlery,
ted at $150.000;
Two hundred
work.
on the evening of the 17th, with the
exception of the foundry department.
Loss, $100,000; insurance, $60,000
Seven hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of work. The woolen and
cording mills and the Royal
Light Company’s buildings,
Hyacinthe, Quebec, were burned
18th. Loss, $75,000; partly insured.
—A severe thunder storm,
panied by rain and hail, passed
Baltimore on the afternoon of the 18th.
5 “tr
ui Ve
accom
the wind, Miss Ida Andrews
killed, and her sister
jured by the blowing down of a tree at
Emory Grove, about twenty
from Baltimore,
— Captain William Burgess accident-
was
vania on the 18th,
distinction through the war,
Commander o. Hausum Post, GG. A. R.
in represented Franklin
county in the State Legisiature. Wil-
liam Glenn, a prominent business man
of Cincinnati, and one of the principal
of the Com
1877-78 he
stockholders mercial GG
died on the evening of the 17th.
wit
file
“iL,
-—TwoO 8}
g Railroad collided on the 18th
eading and were wrecked,
f cars. William
ineer, and Charles Upp, brakeman,
severely ured. Solomon
'r, a watchman in a Lake George
hotel, was killed while trying to board
a moving train at Saratoga, on the
the evening of the 17th.
oe
with a
mber « Gordon,
en-
rere in Ba
dl.
‘The storm on the afternoon of the
18th, in Baltimore, was followed by an-
neariy equal violence about 3
‘eo lael n f 3 } ni f 164}
velock on the morning of the 19th.
Harlem
wounding him
unmarried woman,
LtUsY, uller
ick. An
FB 1
New Brunswick, for infanticide, It is
{ charged that she murdered
children, who died a short time ago.
William 1. Laden on the 20th
law, and then fatally shot himself, in
New York. Both women are badly
| wounded. Jacob Simon, a storekeeper
{ at Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, was
murdered in bed on the evening of the
19th by burglars,
~—A building in Cincinnati, occupied
by the Gooch ice cream freezer factory,
| Wrigley Drothers, manufacturers of |
| paper boxes, and the White Star Laun- |
| dry, was burned on the morning of the
{ 20th, The losses aggregate $145,000; |
insurances, $70,000, There were 300 |
{ employes in the building when the fire
| broke out, but are believed to have es-
| caped. The fire in the Standard Oil |
Company’s Works, at Constable Hook,
New Jersey, the morning of the
| 20th, destroyed two tanks of oil, a large |
| #hed, a number of empty barrels and a
dock. The loss is estimated at $100,- |
{ 000, The company does its own insur-
fing. A fire in Ipswich, Dakota, on the
19th, destroyed two hotels, three stores,
| and several dwellings, causing a loss of
$25,000. For the past week large forest |
| fires have been raging at Harbor Grace |
| Junction and other points near St
John's, Newfoundland. The head-
| quarters the Placentia
Branch were burned, and
{ of money was lost,
on
¢
Of
—The temperature at Pittsburg on
rain storm set in at six o'clock in the
| evening, which soon reduced the temp-
erature twenty-five degrees. In two
hours 24 inches of rain fell, and in the
hill streets, cellars were flooded, and |
many houses rendered unsafe by the |
washing away of portions of their
| foundations, The damage to property |
| 1s estimated at $100,000, Durning the |
| day, five deaths from sunstroke were
| reported. The temperature at Charles- |
ton, on the 20th, was four
| grees lower than on the when it
| was 100 to 104. Two deaths from heat
were reported,
-A ‘‘genu
over the
county, Indiana,
vegetation in a
about de-
19th,
ine hail cyelone' passed
f Wabash
destroy-
northern part «
03 the
Lrack
The
hens’
log nearly all
{ from two to
hailstones
} sy mil
three n
+
eggs.
destroyes uml
kK by lightning
1. Severa
were stn
and thei
entirely
nroofed, cor
:
ra
}
be seen
of
insurar
A fire
the evening
ne buildings, Twelve
xd to death in a stable,
13 estimated at $50 000:
nsurance, $20.1 ‘The stor
Burlit
Railway at
burned on the
Loss, $64 L, OOO; i
} 114
eho
evening t
nsured. The .
thony elevator, near Minneapolis,
burned on the evening of the 10
was a triple str , and had a
City of 2.700.000 bus els, 1
estimated at 8575, 000,
A ternific storm swept over Wheel.
ing, West and the surround
ing country on the evening of the 18th.
ucture
8 1
il
irginia,
an hour there was scarcely any inter-
m ssion between the hghtning flashes,
Wheeling shade trees and fences
were blown down, and one wall of a
brick house wa: demolished, At Graf-
ton Mrs. W, T., Carr was killed and
her three children were injured by an
electric bolt which struck their dwel-
ling. Another dwelling “had a large
hole knocked In it» by the hightning.
Six stables and barns at other points
were destroyed by lightning, causing
losses aggregating over $12,000,
— Professor Forbes, State Entomol-
ogist of Illinois, says that **chinch bugs
have obtained a foothold in the nore
them next year, unless woather un-
intervene,’
from this source threatens to damage
the wheat crop ol 1888 to an extent in
comparison with which the pleuro-
pneumonia and other recent outbreaks
of contagious diseases among domestic
animals will be insignificant,”
~At Oil City, Penna., on the even.
ing of the 19th, John McNierney, be-
ing drunk, beat his wire to death,
fatally shot his son John, aged 21
years, for interfering in behalf of his
mother, and fatally wounded a police.
man named James. who tried to ar.
rest the murderer, T'wo other police-
men succeeded in ecavturing Me-
jured, by ; © falling their wagon
were unera;,
Ziegele's and the Buffalo
sireet Car Railway Company's ear
barns, in Buffalo. were burned on the
afternoon of the 21st. The he
brewery is covered by an in ance of
$75,000. The loss on the car barns i
estimated at $35,000; fully insured.
A fire at Constableville, New York.
the evening of the 20th, destroyed
Eames & Bridgeman’s tub fac tory, the
Baptist and Catholic churches, Public
of PP. C. Woods and
a number of small
Loss, $40,000, insurance,
The underwear factory of
the Standard Manufacturing Com-
pany, at Jackson, Michigan, was
| damaged by fire on the evening of the
20th to the extent of $80,000: covered
| by insurance,
house of Gerbard Lang, in
were burned on the evening
20th, Loss, $75.00, Two
a4 they
brewer
#% on {
1181
on
buildings,
$15,000,
of
firemen
to jump from a great height
| their lives. The bark extract works of
J. 8. Young & Co., in Baltimore, were
i by insurance,
pany, at Streator, lllinois,
up by lightning, on the morning of the
21st, with nearly 10,060 pounds of pow-
der. ‘Where the powder house stoon is
a cavity 60 feet long, 40 wide and 20
deep. Fagy-two dwellings on the
south and west sides of the building
were almost entirely demolished, and
not a plate-giass window was left in the
business part of the town. The loss
on property Is estimated at $75.000,
Strangely enough, no person was killed,
though about 100 were injured, five
women and one man severely. The
only person believed to be mortally in
Jured is a trawnp, who was sleeping in a
car near the powder house. A special
+ meeting of the City Council was held
De
' \
to Cetermine who is
¥
large an ameunt of
powdor being stored in the city limits.
—HB, B. Johnson and Charles B.
Smith, colored, accompanied by sey-
eral colored women, entered Houston's
few nights
They were told that colored peo-
in the place, and
in the aflernoon
responsible for so
ago.
ple were not served
£3
2300 bonds
for violating the State act of 1835, ¢
The
sry
JH). or
civil and legal rights.”
i}
Lilie
Penna,, on
Peter Burkard,
~~ Near Petersburg,
20th,
wife in presence of thelr four-year-old
suicide,
ousy was Lhe cause,
~—An express train on the Erie Rail-
a gang of Italian
TE
Many of the Villages Existing on
Sufferance,
Many of
almost on
lanche of snow
earth may at ¢
upon the unfortunate
The fly-wheel of an engine in the
Iron Company's steel mill at
the 21st, and tore up the roof of
mill. The debris fell on a shed, under
Engineer Hord and
were sleeping. Hord
— Charles Saunders, a young
imprisoned in a flooded mines at
Junction, lowa, on the morning
18th, was rescued, “‘alive and
the afternoon of the 21st,
caped from the water
chamber, ten
ar
man,
of the
well,
on He ©h-
feet
hundred and ten hours.
Ontario, on the even-
WwW. B.
—N ear Arden,
ing of the 20th, Mrs,
to bathe, One of the
beyond her depth
The
younger
the lake
was that all except the
daughter was drowned,
-—Dr. E, G.
age was arrested
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evens,
of
charged with
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ihe
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- While wen were diggi
Howell, Michigan, on the
the 224, natural gas was
the flow becoming
large as a barrel ascended to the height
of thirty feet.”
Ty
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moMming
struck, and
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or any othe
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closed carriages, one may catch glimp-
ses of bright eyes and beautiful faces
for the fair occupants are not averse to
admiration, despite their rigid adher.
ence to etiguette, and are generally
about the easiest creatures in the world
to flirt with,
Many of the handsomest carriages of
the wealthiest people are drawn by
mules, for “blooded stock®’ of that de-
scription brings fabulous prices Lere,
In truth a pair of snow-white mules,
closely clipped and carefully groomed,
decornted with gold-mounted harness
and bunches of red roses at the base of
their ears, make a turnout by no means
to be despised,
a cart;
though he tically sealed up In
ring
Fove of thie Anglo-Sagon
for Sturdy Out-Door Exercises,
Wn part,
ev-box and
ite to the
Ling!
pay cheerfully her little
outraged proprieties,
~The severest thunder storm for
many years in Richwond, Virginia,
prevailed there on the evening of the
221, between six and seven o'clock.
The electrical discharges were almost
continuous, and the lightning struck in
several places. In the lower part of
the city much damage was done by the
flooding of cellars,
--A tornado passed through the
woods In Cheboygan aud Presque Iple
Counties, Michigan, on the 21st, which
did great damage to timber. On one
forty-acre tract not a tree was left
sanding.
Never do evil Liat good may come of
it