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. It will not suffer us to be
superficia
severe |
our-
too.
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