NWS OF THE WEEK -— An accommodation train on the timore and Ohio Railroad ran into an open switch, just after leaving the Lion at Pittsburg, on the afternoon of the 24th, and was thrown down a twelve-foot embankment. The engine, combination baggage and smoking car and one passenger car were wrecked, and eight persons, including the en- gineer and fireman, were injured. The ngineer, J. J. Moore, was terribly scalded and is not expected to recover. All the passengers Injured were six, who jumped from the train when it left the Only two of them are dan- gerously ured. A young girl named Kate Gilhooly was rendered uncon- scious and, it is feared, sustained a concussion of the spine, Her sister Maggie broke a leg, and, it is feared, was injused internally, It Is beheved the switch was opened by some mal- icilous scoundrels. Moore, the en- gineer, died at midnight, -The fire in St, Paul, Mianneapolls, on the evening of the 224, was confined +0 Burbank'’s wholesale clothing house. The Minnesota Spice Company’s stock ieavily damaged by smoke. Dur- of tracks. in itl the $00,000, and on are covered by Matthew's German Chicago, was Loss, $35,000, Nut Rochester, New on the 23d. l.oss, 08868 warned or The Fosterville I's work's “ork, were burned S30 (i) ol), e — Anthony ge Pl and Elward were f burned by an explosion fire in slope No. 1 of the ‘'oal Company, at Nanticoke, Penn- sylvania, on the morning of the 2: Broski died in about an hour after Ing taken to his home, and the ot were not & pected to recover. f the T.orber's brothers perished in tl disaste the same mine ber, 0, and among the twent entombed in the fatal chamber has never been reached. "he men jured used safety lamps, and the was fired by tbe explosion of a blast, The Warren Powder Mill, near Thomaston, Maine, blew up on the morning of the 25th, pard, aged 30 years, was killed, Wh workmen were grinding bark | Lowell Tannery, at Lowell, Massa setts, on the fell among Lhe 1 Broskl, Geo: Lorber tall + il. be T ii r it i iid 18% fn- in » Bon and caused an ex » chemicals. Herbert T. land and Daniel O'Hearn were terribly burned, and O’Hearn is not expected to recover. lantern ger train was wrecked by near Hudson, Wiscon 25th. Jobkn Donohoe, engi neer, and the fireman, named Webster, were killed, and another train hand Was injured, — Frederick K. Deoerne, 18 of age, was arrested in Chlcago, on the 24th, for a robbery committed at Sara- toga, New York. It appears Dorne was of the attendants who drew water from the Congress spring, and that a young widow sojourning al Saratoga took a great fancy to him, On the 28th of June, while they were in a secluded spot, Dorne the woman, and robbed cash aggregating The safe of the »mer, Michigan, the Years bra LidaAL one evening gaining ad- indow, The $30,000 was i striate be he — Manuela Vela CO. A . Mexican gir Was hot dead by ( years of age, 10 Gutier bammer cau wea] charged. on ~A telegram from Ut! gays Giles Smith three cows on the 20th by bl ¥ mur rain. He had ied near a run- ning stream, which infected the water. Three cows belonging to William Bud- long, Jr., a neighbor, died of the dis- ease, DBudiong and John Raymen, while looking for the cause, were stun by mosquitces, and are now seriously ill, having been inoculated with the murrain virus, ~— While Governor Seay, ot Alabama, and his private secretary were riding down the main street in Montgomery, on the afternoon of the 25th, one of the guy wires which supported the over- head cable of the electric street railway broke and fell to the ground, striking the Governor's horse, The wire was heavily charged with electricity and the horse becoming entangled was shocked and burned to death in a few minutes, A second later the wire would have struck the Governor and tils secretary instead of the horse, ~Oscar D, Brett, a builder and con- tractor of Malden, Massachusetts, left that eity suddenly, a week ago, and, it is alleged, he took away $3100 in cash, and left debts to the amount of $10. 000. Richard H. Payne, clerk under Paymaster Putnam at the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was arrested on the evening of the 25th, on the charge of embezzling 83000 of the paymaster’s funds. Payne is about 45 years old and hal been paymaster’s clerk for twenty years. The embezzie- ments are sald to have occurred with in the Jast six months and to have been caused by false entries, Iayne went into business about two years ago, and is supposed to have stolen to cover his logses, ti { thor n Lei u } i -A fire in the *'Chinatown"’ portion of Los Angeles, California, on the morning of the 24th, destroyed 25 bulldings, causing a loss estimated at £100,000, The burned buildings had been inhabited by about a thousand Chinamen, Fleischman & Co.’s stable and Vienna bakery, on West Thir- teenth street, New York, were de- stroyed by fire on the morning of the 20th, with a number of horses. The loss Is estimated at $40,000, The light- touse on West Lasares Island, Mahon Ba, Nova Scotia, has been destroyed by fire, . .~Charles Richardson, three years old, was scalded to death at Hunting. of the of hot don, l'enna., on the evening 24th, by falling into a tub water, --A storm on the afternoon of the 26th did much damage near Shamrock, on the East Vennsylvania branch of the Reading Rallroad., Several bad washouts occurred railroad which it will take several days to pair, Many dwellings were flooded, and the barns of Joel Reichert and James B. Stauffer, near Boyertown, were destroyed by lightning, Several horses perished in Reichert’s barn, A washout several hundred feet long is reported at Macungie, on the railroad, ‘he Methodist Church at Litlz was badly damaged by lightning. Thirty families were flooded of their houses in the lower part of Readirg by the breaking of a culvert, During a thunder storm at Lock Haven, Penna, , on the 20th, lightning struck t rails road track leading into the fire-clay mine at Farrandsville. All the men in the mine were stunned and two of them were severely injured. A tele. gram from Susquebanna, Per the rainstorm tl **was the destructive experienced’ track of the Erie Road for and feet has been washed into ti quehanna river at Red Roel impeding traflie. Il branch is abandoned or count of landsiid washed away destroyed. wd down th immediate vie $10,000, Tr » Erie was resummed on the afternoon of the 26th on the * out he liere ever ferson have | vi iit Kar i mort 1, moru Oy from the 2 iy th i Wi, LHe gird use, and, upon Mrs. Bennett to the door, twenty face and a cold red, age 1 the ail at times ii Crawford Benson 18 years, was taken fro Kaufman, Texas, on the ever the assaulted a ni anon, Tennessee, on the morn- the 26th, N. B. Lester shot and J. T. Lane nent citizen. The cold-t of Ins, ne-vear-old girl. murder looded, 1.0% Lane, and had 3 OWI iberate an ter very jealous x n that account. of -A renewel SAEWwWers th safety of the city should overflow reported ont risen a in case Lake T to the level of the s Warner Block 11 was damaged by fire on the morning « the 26th, to the extent of $30 000, Several firemen were injured. Oliver A. Burns is believed to have been tally injured by a falling The Commercial Hotel and stores in Kank Wisconsin, burned on Several were 25th. Loss, $25 000, anna, ‘i wae barn. —John Thomas, and Walter Hobbie gelling into a whirip at Smith's Ferry iJ ¥ re A Workman he new bridge mature explos — Edward I), Fox, p to Governor Gr . Of y, was drugged in a barroom at Newark, on the evening of the 25th, and robbed of a valuable gold watch which had been presented to him by six ex-Gove- ernors of the State, tar CELT rivale sai New Jersey erne ~S0me unknown on the evening of the 25th. entered the weaver room of the Manville Company's cotton mill, at Manvilie, Rhode Island, and, by running a knife along tops of the rolls, ruined five thousand yards of fancy goods on the looms. The mill was recently the scene of a weavers’ strike, ~~ At Grand the moming ot Weiner, of Paterson, quarrelled with Mrs, Boufaly about an unpaid board bill, He drew a revolver and shot the woman dead, then committed suicide, George Evans and Bud Harris, both colored, fought a duel with double-barrelled shotguur, only two paces apart, near Greenwood, Mississippi, on the evening of the 26th. Evans fell dead and Haris was mort. ally wounded. A wedding among the miners at Carbon, Indiana, on the evening of the 24th, was attended by a dance and a drunken ecarouse, which resulted finally in a general fight. John Ross, after being terribly beaten, was shot dead, and four others were wounded. At daybreak on the morn- ing of the 20th, Dr, J. E. Nutt was found on the street with his skull crushed by a coupling-pin. He is not expected to recover, Josephh Neave, a farmer near Falmouth, Kentucky, on the 27th, went to his farm, on which his son John is living, to get his share of the wheat crop, and was ghot dead by the son. The latter barri- caded himself in the house, and *‘de- fied arrest.” A mob was being organ- ized to lyneh him, Reuben Johnson, colored, was lynched on the 27th at Redan, Georgia, for having assaulted a white woman. Reuben Cole, colored, arrested for an assault upon a white woman in Surrey county, Virginia, was taken from jail by a mob and lynched on the evening of the 20th, ~(ireat damage was done by a vio- lent thunderstorm at Fargo, Dakota, on the evening of the 256th, The wind reached a velocity of BO miles an hour, Outside the city, Mrs, Eckelson Thomp. persons [3 Lue Michigan, on 27th, Charles J. New Jersey, Susan Rapids, the son, who took refuge in a ‘cyclone cellar,” was killed by lightning, A tor- nado at Moland blew down four dwell ings and several barns. Five persons were injured, one, Mra. 8, O. lee, mor- tally. ‘I'he latest acccounts of the storm at Reading, Penna., on the even- ing of the 26th, indicate that it was the severest ever known in that viein- ity. The damage to railroad and pri- vale properly within a radius of twenty- flve miles of Reading 1s estimated at +1560,009, of which $15,000 falls on the railroad company. The storm did great damage in the northern part of Lancaster county. The barns of Rav, Christian Risser, near Clay, and Rich- ard Rickert, near Lexington, were de- stroyed by lightning. The losses res- pectively are $4000 and $3000. ~The Coroner's investigating the Moore, who was killed on the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad the 24th, by the train running through an open switch and being trown down an em- bankment, have finished their work They found that the disaster was caused by the eriminal of mductor August Bushman. They the Baltimore and Oilo Hroad Company for neglecting to re- awiteh jury at death ol Pittsburg, Engineer O11 neghgence’’ e gross I AiS0 censured the sig 3 two ol Moore “i severely, sylvan Laladeipiiaa on £ Wagon ire party and kille dgewood Station, t Jolin Wun 2 fis IWeading, WOT Was ing COvere i, é approaching train. f Ellas Fritz, Sr. Camra Fritz, 1 «4 townsh — Nearly all the houses in Haske! Texas, were destroyed by a tornado the 27th. Several persons were in- jured, but no one is reported killed. 1 i -10a eon of on the recent storm he morning of the its banks, and the to a large number of Long Swamp towne ity. Some of the shafts All are filled with and 15 acres of ground occupied by the mines is covered by a lake, Two hundred men ; thrown ei ployment, perhaps for several months, At Chicago, on the 28th, Anton C. J. Rudolph, bookkeeper of the Conti- nental National Bank, who forged a check and collected £3000, was sen. tenced to three years' hard labor in the penitentiary. A telegram bas been received in Harrisburg from the City Marshal of Windsor, Ohio, saying that he had ar- rested a man who is believed to be N.cCabe, the escaped Wayne county murderer, A description of McCabe has been forwarded. -1. R, Anthony, brother of Susan B. Anthony. and editor of the Times newspaper of Msavenworth, Kansas, was cowhided on the street In that city on the 27th by a Councilman named Bond for the publication of alleged scurrilous articles, ~The Comptroller of the Currency on the 28th authorized the following banks to begin business: The First National Bank of Greenville, Missis- sippl, capital $100,000; the Plsno Na- tional Bank of Plano, Texas, capital $50,000; and the First National Bank of Renovo, Pennsylvania, capital $50, 000. a -D, D, Bell, a colored boy of eight years, has*confessed that he set fire to a number of buildings recently burned in Lexington, Kentucky. “He says he knows he cannot be punished for it by law, on account of his age, and plays the incendiary for his own amusement. He 13 in custody and the authorities, being afraid to turn him Jose, afe puzzled to know what to do with him,’ sequence the Lahigh river ont ) thy fa a] overflowed walter poured in iron ore mines in Dierks cou ship, ATH out of 1 hanna river at Wilkesbarre, tle work of the bridge there was washed away during the night of the 26th, in a New York tenement the 25th, from the effects of & beating inflicted by two colored boys, They attempted to assault her, and when she screamed kicked and beat her so savagely as to cause the in- juries which resulted in her death. girl, died house on An express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, due in Pittsburg at half-past six o'clock on the morning of the 20th ult., dashed into a section of a west bound freight train standing on the main track at West Newton, miles east of Pittsburg. Th Orbin, of the freight train, was Killed, and engineer Gilland was fatally jured, The engine connected with the freight had broken down. and both the engineer and were under the engine when the collision occurred, f the pas. wi seri- “9 Jr in- All y PAS. ure i Wra : wel iii) ¥ 4 Lit ‘ald that f i » wr 1 ry v EW ifamjg Sidi ms oO venis Fletcher 1 her husband violent stormn passed New Jersey, on the evening Much damage was done in the surrounding co v I paralyzed. over Pate ound Mason City won of the 20.h dwellings and blowing down barns, — Kate Callaghan, Delia Welch, Mat- tie Keating and Maggie Toomey. whose ages ranged from 12 to 14 years, were drowned while bathing in the Concord river at North Billerica, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the 20th ult, While the tug Keyser was on the way from Tampa to Mobile, ber captain, William Collings, was washed overboard and lost on the evening of the ] Tq 1 3 vy ¢ unrooung i : sly » y wi Lil Wis ————_———— THE MARKETS. 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How the Beaatiful Slavonio Girls are Wooed and Won. I will tell you a story of lovemaking I will endeavor to draw a pen picture and show my Ameri. can readers that the young men and maidens of my country no w different from those and more climes, are, perhaps, a Httle more demon eas given to concealing the the and less i necessary consideration ment of heart affair When a Russian girl loves, it whole heart her le surmounts all stacies, 1 speak from experience, It is the custom of the Russian young folks to meet together by appointment winter ing the house of each one in Boys and } are her ill feelings of in tae settle. ve Select girls come gayly ire, the latter carrying their wh iiday att and linen thread ronvert These hours approaches } Nien 1001s . into pretuy fy rire in die go the ‘rrer sex, ihe moth usually reads aciure ot =~ Bo Sa a a ly to language, p ti ght all he says, lo ccasionally at the presents her, which, I much fear, are the key’s which unloc the door of be » ] i (a rather un | proviso if th i3 a needless { for, as a rule, th willing to ease h a daughter's support. But you will naturally ask poor victim is all this time, the next room of course, where ever y her lover falls word uttered by sweet music on her ears, She nds her mother’s tactics, and yet must be with trembling heart that she awaits the sealing of her fate. All preliminaries arranged between mother and lover, the daughter is called into the room to receive the parental bles- | sing, instead of which she kneels to her | mother, praying not to be taken from her. She deséribes the beauties of her virgin life and declares she has no wish to change it, prefers her freedom to all else, and begs that her mother will make for her the hated red | petticoat, which constitutes the princi | pal portion of the wardrobe of every | peasant bride. The daughter pleads, the mother caresses and seeks to per- | suade her to accept the lover to whom | but a short time before she refused to give her. The mother, while gently | stroking the glossy hair of her child, {tries to persuade her that after alla | virgin life 3s not the most desirable; that God has placed her in this world with a mission which she must seek to fuilili; that she cannot always remain at her mother’s side; she must go out from the parental roof and make a home for herself, All these things and many more are said in vindication of the life apparently forced upon her, The mother concludes by repeating to the daughter all the lover has told her of lus bright hopes for the future, and the sacrifices he is willing to make for her happiness, The daughter finally yields under such persuasive words, and who would not unless it were a heart of adamant? The young people then kneel to re- parently welghin ou King presented to nself of the like 3 un ay Hue» it int Hot celve the parental blessing, given with a great deal of cer Then the priest is called upon stow his blessing, which very beau- tiful and impressive, At its conclu- sion he places aring on t and of each, This ceremony is seechiny and Is considered sacred than marriage itself. ents of the engaged girl tables, on which they over and sumnin ti share in their pares tea, the firs ony. to be. even more The par- or és ¥ > EAL ~ iON Jil reo; e588, and 4 4 o“ accepls ana wl Hi I io she has made, He wWorid none Bie AVIS! young hea § tirt ¥ iil -— FAMOL = SONGS Their hey Authors We Received | oR a ¥ Mary- 8 name is a mod- 1 man of when he His ideas is James R, est-looking, dar } forty. He was very young wrote that Ix ] are bro A~Camp aut vier now was written mer of 17 President’s g when fi ily alle, and 1 4 3 was Ui { among of the new -—— An Expensive Luxury. A eran, now visiting in this coun. try, writes to his home pape: follows concerning our colleges: “Is a, in this land of the free, it isthe sad fact that university culture is a prize which is only accessible to the sons of rich His inquiries were y exact. “Among the 140 students who had completed their studies at Y ale College this year (1886) 1 obtained answers from 109, According to their reports the average cost for four years’ course amounted to $060. There were great differences in individual cases: one had succeeding in ‘getiing through’ al the cost of $150 a year; another needed no less than $3,500 annually, I know a German porter in the States whose eldest son passed a brilliant ex- amination at Princeton; but father and son agreed that it was impossible to pursue his studies there on account of the frightful costliness. Study at an American university is a most expen- sive luxuiy.” “as ~-James McTighe and James Dalton, of Binghampton, New York, drove into a creek nine miles from that city on the evening of the 28th ult, The bed of the creek is fifteen feet below the road, MecTighe was killed and Dalton aangerdusly injured. The bricge spanning stream had been washed away, and the men did not know it. III 05s. Honors come by diligence; riche suring from economy.
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