NEWS OF THE WE EK ~— Three Finlandors were drowned on | the 23th, near Minneapolis, by the up- ettine of a sail boat, The heaviest rain of the season at gh, North Carolina, fell there on | the morning of the 27th. From three | K the rainfall was 4} mches. Great damage was done to all the crops on the low grounds, and washouts occurred on the North Caro- lina and Raleigh and Augusta Rail roads. — Two earthquake shocks were feit at Columbia, South Carolina, on the | morning of the 27th, the first shortly after 12 o'clock, and the second at 50 | minutes past 4. They were accom- panied by the usual sound, lasted sev eral seconds, and the second shock was heavier than the first. The motion was undulatory. Similar shocks, but much | lighter, were felt at Somerville and | Charleston, A slight tremor was felt | at Augusta, Georgia, about midnight, and a more distinct shock at o'clock in the morning. Ralel Set lO ning O'CloCK four | Samuel Sparks, once wealthy, mitted suicide in Indianapolis, on 26th, by swallowing poison, because of | his loss of fortune, His wife tried to! iceéal the fact of the suicide, but the | oner, hearing of it, stopped the } 3 at the grave, i fore the } wv re Lhe DOUYN dof lumbe r ya isdorf, Berks counly ught a nami it Buffalo, and armers at Head 3 showed Symp [ns i at { the steer and on the morning of them were found OL tain Veterinarian, Texas fever, Tha i in hers were driven to the S io die, official repor tween Colorado Militi Indiars, received at th through 11 SiGe General of the “one child ment that on the were surprised) and one man and on slightly wounded.’ turned woundin wou be ties that the trou nay be rene State authorit wood Sp ler has just Colorow or lirst one ub wed Glen eartl was |i seconds was si where I'he earthq iT, at 1 of the State arcade re were thrown down. As a freigl Marietta R trestle wresiie, 2 Lime it oul te ped Apuiiel . art ¥Y/ President ake was f various points, and of Guerrero 4 +3 1 the in the main 3 i and it train on the Clevel allroad app Toac ed Old. bam ear Cambridge, Ohio, on | the morning of the 29th ult. the bridge was seen to He on fire, Several train men jumped off and were severely injured, one of them, a fireman named | Adams, perhaps fatally. All the train passed over safely except Lhe last three cars, which dropped with the bridge. and Of the — Robert Martin was killed and five other miners were badly injured by an exp of dualin at the bottom of the Draper colliery slope, at Gllberton, i Penna,, on the 20th ult. The dualin was ignited by a spark from a lamp. One of the injured, George Lawson, not expected to recover, losiaon ie | - Albert Howell, 20 years of age, a | letter earner, was held in 81500 bail in Boston on the 29th ult, on the charge of stealing lelters. It is al- leged that he took letters from the boxes of other carners before they had been put In the pouches, and he is be- lieved to have been stealing for six months, Ye was ostentatiously pious, keeping a Bible in lus desk and read- ing it at noontime. The safe of I.o- renz & Eck, jewellers, in Milwaukee, was robbed of $1200 In valuables on the evening of the 20th ult, The burg- lars first got into Mr. Eck’s house and stole his clothes, thus securing the key of the store, —John Golden, aged 44 years, was killed on the morning of the 20th uit, , in Dayton’s nut and bolt works, at Newport Kentucky, His arm caught in a belt and dashed a heavy pair of shears, which he held in his hand, against his head, causing lustant death. During a race at Saratogo on the 20th ult., four horses came into collision at the head of the stretch and all fell. A jockey named Penny and another named West were injured, the latter so ! badly that his recovery waa considered | doubtful. —It 1s cflicially reported that Colo. row and all his followers are at Ouray Agency, and show a disposition to re- main on their reservation. Agent Byrnes reports that “Major Lesley, who fired on these Indians on the border of the reservation, took posses. sion and run off about 300 head of the Indian horses that were grazing on the public lands near the reservation line,’ The Indians, when pursued by Sheriff Kendall, were compelled to abandon 2000 sheep, besides large herds of ! goats, which should also { with the horses, **These indians wh Colorado were on a peace- ful hunting expedition, and they be- under the as understood with and the Commission, to hunt upon these lands in Colorado.’ Orders were on the 30th ult, , sent from Wash- ton, by direction of the President Agent Byrnes, Lo prevent encroachments upon the tion, and to recover the | other animals for the Indians, promised military carry out the ~Joseph Mclaughlin and Patrick arrested in Brockton, Mas sachusetts, on the 27th ult.,, on the charge of conspiring to 1njure the business of Douglass’ shoe factory, by inducing lasters to stay away, were held on the 30th ult, in $1000 ball each for their appearance at court, It is reported from Cincinnati that Receiver Armstrong, of the Fi- lity National Bank, has prepared a petition against tl late directors of that bank, Rmugene Zupmerman, Pogue, W. H. Chatfield and for a sum rating two and three million dollars, will be charged with having their trusts as directors, and having become indi vie lually liable for of i Directors Harper a { treaty of '74, and ’ all unlaw- re: 10185¢8 ervi- and and he assistance, if needed, to instructions. 1e or agures They losses Ors, Gahr and wclared against Bremer racted to La t ir ge In * + DOYC oll was he must re Ran and COnsSp.I y Hern f 107 nswer favorable vitont CALL wealth iarge will to the many CO GeCTeass Tease iew exc 10 de 1 acreage will due § i : very good, - Frank age, who Sear in in Institution Oh { 121d nad 3 Hil, ANG WOOK ales registers 1907, and railroad, muni a8 near 4 it S01 about U1, anu A8 Can (RNS cip al nting determined to ley had the utmost confidence all the officers of the he knew the combinatic in the bank vaults, Ie to rob the bank in charge for a short time by The resident of the bank says ‘the loss is so much less than the be perfectly amount taken by the is never recovered.” in United States regis- bonds cannot be used by the The State Bank Examiner also says that, *‘if the statement given of the amount stolen from the safe is cor- rect, the bank will still be able to pay all its depositors and creditors, and then have a surplusof about $400,000." ~A telegram from Pittsburg says W. Wilkins, the lumber dealer and boat builder of Kittanning, who recently made an assignment, has fled to Canada, He writes **tbat he 1s now in Toronto, and will not return unless a proposition for a compromise which he has made to his creditors 1s ac- cepted.” His liabilities are said to be about $100,000, It is supposed that he has $50,000 in cash with him, and one of the creditors on the morning of the 31st ult. “announced that he was going to Canada to compel him to disgorge.”’ ~The Democratic State Convention in session at Allentown, Pennsylvania, 31st ult., and adjourned sine die. J. Ross Thompson, of Erie, was nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court, and B, J. McGrann, of Lancaster, for State Treasurer. The platform, which was unanimously adopled, endorses Presi. dent Cleveland's administration and contains the tanfl plank desired by the Randall section, ~Documents were filed on the 31st nit., in the Recorder's oflice at San Francisco, mortgaging the entire pro- perty of the Central acide Railroad Company, Including land grants, rail. roads, rolling stock, piers, water front, be Me Neil ] bank, and lock safe, even if the issue of payable e.. 10 SIX pel years ~ secure an cent. bonds, from October main fact revealed 18 that $10,000,000 of bonds were au thorized to be wsued in January. 1885 £0 pay floating debts of the company. A shght fire occurred in a drug store in Brooklyn, on the evening of the 30th ult,, and George F. Ringler, a clegk, suffering from heart disease, dropped dead from (he excitement. —lgrael Lucas, Treasurer of Au- glaize county, Obhlo, left Wapokettia the county seat, on the evening of Lh 27th ult., with his wife, and has not yet returned, Meantime, it has been discoverad that money to the amount of $31,000 is missing from the treasury. -A scaffold at the nsw Catholic Church of the Annunciation, in Wil lamsport, fell to the ground, sixty feel below, on the morning of the 31st ult, Raphael Boka and Charles Norbert were killed. Jobn Winner and Thos Raibley were mortally injured, and died in the afternoon, -~The 1st, £16,000,000 in fifty 1st, 1886. The by the transaction day of illiams’ was the great the Grangers' Plenle, at W Grove, 'enna., the attendance being Sn wted at 40.000. In the morning, W. A. King, of the Agricultural De- Brtoest at Washington, explained the system of seed distributio and Col- onel Yictor E. Piolett i dress, The speakers in the afternoon H. This Mais made an a« D were nin tu BOTY &W were not | hi bile ET wmrged him with cruelly Depauw Lhey selling lic wi F107. 1 POW, $ ¥ » + LA LL she is yizad whom have engaged Her f{riends for proteclion. Orga ner ~The Age says it now seems probable that the number of m, new road constructed In the United States during 1387 will be about 12,000, These figures have never been approached, except in 1582 when the total was 11.0 miles, Kansas still leads the other States in work railway construction. Thomas Joyce on Lhe 1st fatally shot his wife and dangerously wounded his eighteen-year-old daughter, in Pittsburg. He was a vegetable peddier, and had been drinking hard for a long time, When arrested he said that ‘as he could not sell bis horse and wagon he had determined to exterminate his family and then kill himself.” Chow Lam quarrelied with two white men in his laundry, in Chicago, on the even- ing of the Jlst ult,, and threatened them with a revolver, Ile was chased down the street, Policeman Foote join. ing in the pursuit, and firing a shot or two at the Chinaman, Suddenly Chow Lam wheeled round and returned the fire, fatally shooting the Policeman through the Ureast and abdomen. Chow Lam, unhurt, was captured by a patrol wagon. A despatch received from Flag Staff says that Shenff Mul- vernon, who left Prescott, Arizona, recently, with a posse to arrest the parties implicated in the fight in the Tewksbury feud, was killed by the Tonts Basin i8 an isolated district, and all news must be sent to Holbrook, 70 miles distant, by courier, before it ean be telegraphed. Four deaths had already occurred, growing out of the feud, -A despatch from Morgan, Texas, says that a heavy rain, which began to fall on the evening of the 30th ult,, has caused the farmers In the low valley lands in every portion of the county to suffer damage estimated at thousands of dollars, The Texas Central and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railways are badly damaged, and will be unable to move trains for some days. A num- ber of business houses and dwellings, ies of Hs ’ the of { down number of iron ones, were swe A three heir contents, Dosque river, including Henry chant tally King, a prominent mer- of Georgetown, Olhlo, was fa- Injured by falling from a second story window of his brother n-law’s house in Cincinnati on the evening the 31st ult. Henry Pietcher, 23 years of age, was blowh to pieces by an of dynamite, while blasting stumps, near Logansport, Indiana, the 31st ult, Three boys, whose range from 9 to 14 years, were drowned near Wood Island, New Hampshire, on the afternoon of the Ist, Oak Grove Seminary at Vassalboro’, Malue, was burned on the 1st, A son of Stephen Jones, aged 16 years, perished in the flames. A despatch from Mer- cer, Peuna,, says that, while cultiag timber on the 1st, Frederick Bmith was crushed to death by a falling tree, and Hutchinson Singledecker seriously lujured. -— An excursion City and Pacific Rallroad into a diteh, near Moran, the lst, A number of persons injured, one, it is thought, f; ly. we JA orl , Bays terrible ial vicinity. 3 fF Oi explosion on uges on the Kansas was thrown Kansas, on Were train from forest reg ihe} are reging Hh gE dd TOUuL ts a pound. - A de Si ale h {r ma Tues a heavy earthquake shock was 9 perlent. on ue mornit L laste lations were ahs - An epidemic raging at Lo about 200 mhabi tiere 1 seven northwe seoun * of black dip kport, Penna. a tants, Of occurred within the past five days, The victims are seized with black vomit and usually die w.thin two or three days, Recently an old viaduct which formed. part of the Siate Canal was destroyed by dynamite at that point, leaving staguant pools of water which, it is believ ed, causad the epidemic, A typhoid fever epidemic prevails at Hobertsdale, Huntingdon county, Penna, There are about fifty cases, and there have been nine deaths. The physicians attribute the disease to un- ciean wells, — Richard Emerson, 10 years of age, died at Kenosha, Wiseonsin, on the evening of the 1st, of hydrophobia. He was bitten about two months azo by a pet dog, and the wound was cauterized, “Before death came to his relief the mattress and bedding wera literaily torn up and scattered about the room.’ A telegram from Duffalo says: “A tall, well dressed young woman, with face veiled, arrived here on the train from the East on the evening of the 30th ult., and left on the first Michigan Central train for Canada. While at the depot she attracted attention by smoking a pipe. The party is believed to have been a man in disguise, and is now thought by some to have been the missing Saco bank robber,’ ~On the morning of the 24 as a train of eleven cars, with 500 passengers, from Cincinnati, reached a point about a mile from Lebanon, an obstruction, made of railroad ties and fence rails, was encountefed. Fortu- nately the train had stopped only a short distance before it to allow some passengers to get off, and had not ob- tained sufficient speed to be seriously damaged, wo UNITED BY How Colonel Desmond Won His Wile the envy of the VETe of Mrs, Itavynor was i Her dresses w fortunate neighbors, and her country place was a dream of pastoral beauty, About her past little was known, except that she had been an old man’s darling who had died and left her In possession of ¢ estate, She was cold as and It was said by she had no more hes guest at the Hall was Colonel Desmond, her athe! 8, Ie wan, but he had a fine liked him le lad he was and congenial, Colonel Desmond was 18 young wi but chied at the wistful Ie 5 and his lameness, it her to think of resigning hood. There lay the pretly woman's characts him well and would glad of his gentle attent marry him was country. pied by ber less was bea itiful, admirers that 1an a stone, A the summer old friend of was not a face, and she Young very while nelin was hard hier | y % low, he tou £88 in eve for 4 contradict 1 have l On enongh wire Hor- i men J paying the water oa to the itiding 1p vain, . rieked Mrs, im, with @ her! Edith Raynor were Col anel Desm Mert on, coming ghastly face, ‘‘save t ame ng the anes!” A ladder been pla i against the burning building, ar 1d ¢ olonel "Desmond spraug up the rounds with a lightness tuat was miraculous, in view of his lameness, Those below saw his® tall figure outlined darkly the flames, saw it disappelr in the burning room, reappear with a white shape in his arms, “Edith!” groaned Mrs. Merton, Then there was a fearful burst of smoke from within, and when it cleared away the two figures were gone, That was the turning-point of the fire, which was soon under control and extinguished in the course of an hour. In the morning Gay Desmond was found claspiog in his arms the woman he loved. They had died of suffocation. And to-day they sleep in the same grave. Young Mrs Merton would have 80, “Parted in life, in dying they are side by side,” said good Laura Merton, months afterward, **An, well, perhaps they are happier than if they had lived, and marred and quarreled, like other people. There are things In life bar- der to bear than death!” ere had BOE against Ans———— A Ws — OMAHA MAN. —~"“Tou New York hotel Keepers must be positively in human, [ hear you are all opposed to the idea of giving guests any chance to escape in case of (ire,” Hotel keeper—* Nonsence." “But the papers say the suggestion that there should be a rope in every bedroom has met with nothing but opposition, ~ An Arkansas lad, 10 years of age, who sought to spite his mother fora “dreadful wrong'’ she had done ham, climbed a tree and declared his inten- tion of remaining there during the night, After an heur’s wvainful at- tempt on the part of the mether to persuade the lad to descend, she called on the town marshal, who lowered the refractory youngster’ to terra fra with a rope. CA — FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Economy is of itself a great Chere must ever be a place The more you member, An thought A ma est say the le open secret, 1 vy Liat A ore A good man | men 1 it 18 easier to for ourselves, Our sorrow ir nobleness highway sl tations, i 1 ide dul is tho IHL; ssi pates it, Admiration, when : Te greatest business nal “men iad - m mmoniy lay v Gaur 4 Ay 10 and maid is b \ 3 Ia ap ov Lhe precipic an You are dashed to pieces, sre is no mercy in the electric cloud, in “the ocean or the land. Everywhere you see wisdom and power in creation and providence, but uot mercy. Difficulty is a nstructor, set over us by the supreme ordinane of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know selves, And he loves us bLelter He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill, Our antagonist is our helper. Thisamiable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. 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