"NEWSOF THE WEEK.
—John Barrett, 1%
shot and dangerously wounded 1n
New York on the evening of the 16th
by Leonggard Gilusepyu, while defend-
ing his sisters’ honor.
along the street with his two
when the younger was msulted by Gi-
usepyu, and when the clder sister re-
pulsed the man, she was kicked in
the side. The brother went to their
assistance but was seized around the
years old, was
a revolver to kis breast and fired. Gi-
usepyu is but 18 years oid,
—M. 8. Hudgins, assistant principal
of the Norfolk Academy, at Norfolk,
Virginia, accidentally shot himself
with a fowling piece on the 16th, and
died on the morning of the 17th of
the wound. Charles Wilcox, a boy,
keeper of a toll-gate near Wilkesbarre,
Penna., on the 17th, shot and Killed
another boy, named George Brooks.
Wilcox said they were playing with a
revolver and it accidentally went off.
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the
15th, two boys were trying to clean a
shotgun, which was loaded. One boy
held a lighted candle over the tube
while the other blew down the barrel,
The charge exploded, and Roman Mar.
tinez was instantly killed.
—The tenement occupied by James
O'Connell, at Peabody, Massachusetts,
was burned on the 17th, and two of
O'Conuell’s children, James, aged 4,
and Mary, aged 2 years, were suffoca-
ted. A boarding-house at Lake E
ward, (Quebec, was burned on th
of and three
William Buchan and
st their lives. :
Lakewood,
the 16th,
Thomas Sanders,
George >collon,
Kent House, at I
Chautauqua Lake, New York,
was destroyed by fire on 17th. The
loss is placed at $125,000, on which
there is an Insurance of $36,000, The
fire was caused by ex of a
lamp in the laundry. AbD a dozen
cottages on Lake View avenve were
damaged, being saved from total de-
struction by bucket brigades.
i0
the
Lid
the plosion
iy
—A four-story building ip course of
srection on East One hundred-and-
fifteenth street, New York, tol
as a parochial school for the paris]
the Church of Our Lady of Mt, Car-
mel, collapsed on the afternoon of the
17th and buried over twenty men who
were working upon it. Four men were
killed, namely: John Dunkin, Henry
Remitz, Paolo Gillibreth and Girolamo
Laurea; and there are missing James
McCarthy and Michael Lannan, aud a
boy named Brown. Nine men were
severely injured, among them Rev,
Father Kirner, in (« ft}
nea
harge of the
shot Raws«
porch in
, Was arraigned
ball to
in. the
iy WAAR
ung Lee, who
un a church
16th
held without
of the ng. The physicians
; think Rawson may recover, Colo-
nel William McWilliams, a *‘political
orator,” was dead by
Bangs in front of a saloon in Jackson.
ville, rida, on 1 evening of the
17th. The
of an old quarrel, In Warsaw, Indiana,
on the 18th, Joseph W. Plow was con-
victed of killing Henry Dunbam and
baby in February last. He was sen-
tenced to imprisonment for life, The
train robbers killed by Express
genger Smith have
“Jack?” Smith and “Dick”
Smith killed Jules Boisiili
del Norte, Texas, year
shot Policeman Chapman ir
last spring. Oflicers
‘Hie s
{ ICAO,
on the 18th
await the re-
shooti
shot George
3
been ified as
two
ars
}
Salad
reson
of the dead robbers, Mrs,
Pruden, inmate of
Pittsburg, was shot d
the house on
Joseph Evans,
woman, who
husband and
the 18th
driver.
had separated from
was living with
Hence the murder.
— Daniel Cunningham, a deteclive
of Eureka, West Virginia, who
leged to have instigated the robbery of
Rev. Mr. Ryan and others in Roane
and Jackson counties, 13 reported to
have been captured the 17th and
lynched on the evening of the 17th
Seven men were engaged in the murder
and robbery of Mr. Ryan. Of tise
the vigilantes have lynched Coon,
George Daff, Jr., Robert Duff and
Drake. ‘The Duffs and Drake made a
confession, and said that Cunningham
and his nephew were the only on
not caught. It appears ihat *‘all the
arrests vigilantes were
he abused her,
.
on
es
ue
’
made by t ig
upon warrants,’
Russel
at Montreal
tell a pa nful
They
—Two families, named
Rumboldt, have arrived
rom Labrador. They
tory of life in that provinge.
say the people are in a condition of
gemistarvation; that they are the
slaves of dealers, who never give them
any money for fear they will leave the
country; that fishing bas fallen
away, and that there is barely enough
to Keep them during the summer, The
Government gives a little assistance,
the
~Near Panxsutawney, Penna., on
the evening of the 17th, four masked
robbers entered the house of Philip
Kupple, an aged farmer, beat him
nearly senseiess with a club and bound
nis hands and neck. They also Lied his
wife. The ruflians then ransacked the
house, taking $700 in money, two gold
watches, two guns, a revolver and
some articles of smaller value, One of
the robbers brought ple and milk into
the room and they had a feast to-
gether. After three hours they went
off, one at a time, until only one was
left. This one untied the old couple,
and saying it was time for honest peo-
ple to be in bed, left the house,
Mrs. Smith, wife of a farmer, near
Sunbury, Penna., was bitten by a dog,
owned by John P, Haas, a neighbor,
some monthsago, The bite was not
severe, and soon healed up. On the
18th, a jury gave her £400 damages,
—A despatch from Chamberlain,
Dakota, says Major Anderson, Indian
Agent at Lower Brule Agency, has ar-
rested Chief Little Pheasant and the
other ringleaders of the band who
drove the surveyors from the reserva
tion. The surveyors have resumed
work and everything 1s now quiet,
— Frederick Sturtevant, convicted of
horse stealing, in Lawrence, Massachu-
setts, was, on the 18th, sentenced to 25
years’ imprisonment. He had served
two terms of imprisonment of five years
each. His was the first case Lo come
under the criminal law passed by the
last Legislature, which provides that
any criminal convicted of a State prison
offence, who had served two terms over
three years each, must be sentenced to
20 years,
—A despatch from Greenwood, Mis-
sissippl, says, the wife of Harry Tay lor,
who was supposed to have been mur-
dered, with her husband, by Dry Bayou
Masons (colored), has reappeared. She
gaye her husband and herself left there
for fear something would be done to
them by brother Masons, She says her
husband is alive, and left about two
weeks ago to find employment. ‘The
question is, who is the man found ip
the river, and who killed him?”
—AnD express train on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad struck a team at
Steele's Crossing, near Lancaster, on
the afternoon of the 18th, killing Mrs,
Jacob Steltzfus and Mrs, Barbara
Steltzfus. The wagon was demolished
and the horse killed. Samuel! Volrath,
aged 25 years, was killed by jumping
frem a moving freight train at Lea-
man Place, Penna,, on the morning of
the 15th,
~The body of John Johnson, car-
penter, was discovered in the ruins of
the coliapsed school house In Harlem,
New York, on the afternoon of the
Four men employed at the mines
n Iron
Massachi
the Huds
tockbridge,
feet d
rope a
they
slipped
hem will
tract
t
t
junes sustained,
-bk. 4. Wilber, a
clan and of Winfield,
sas, has been arrested on the charge of
Some time agd a man named
was wurdered, and Wil-
1
the strength
were
around the
probably di
¥ front 1
prominent pe
capitalist
murder,
Van
beyr’s arrest was
a confession by a colored man, who
says Wilber hired him to commit the
murder. 1t is said Wilber was
mate with Mrs. Van Cleve,
Stanley, went
boroug!
and
up a
use
lle, On the
Ienry Shaffoer,
and kill his wife, aged 57, and the:
committed suicide, The couple wer
] ] being
Cleve
made on
of
home
lI, TIGA
abused
shot
and
dead,
the 19th
narried : :
widower and she a
was well-to-do, but
rious |
were Con
year ago, he
WIAOwW,
100),
ily of adult
woman from Bound
Rahway, New Jersey, wi
on the iPth, and examin
of the girl who was mu
March last, The woman ident
clothing as that of Annie
English girl, who hved
a family at Bound
. after being married, disappeared,
wnized the knife found
and sal that she had made
which the
as 5 domesti
y
Brook, and
Tec
Neal
the body,
’
: f the P y
AALALTES ’" 4 3 Elie 4
* Q 1
mpany's gas while
a connection
rkmen
the basement
sblishment of
artificial
building
persons were
is feared, fatally: Jacob Dinger,
Scanlan, Michael Mabranzi,
Henry Jake, colored, and H. T.
Feick. The damage Ly the explosion
will reach $50,000. Fully $3000 worth
of plate glass was broken by the con
cussion. The guests in the Hotel Al-
bemarle became panic stricken, and
several were slightly injured in making
their escape. A number of persons
confined to their beds with typhoid fever
were carried from the hotel, and it is
feared the exposure may retard thelr
recovery.
een
Bae ih
— James Heese, ( Shiffert and
Oswin Griess were arrested at Seitholtz-
Penna., on the
on the charge of
1 William Durns, near
Emaus, e night of the Bth inst,
“*A Coroner's jury has declared that
Burns® death was accidental, and the
only evidence against Lhe prisoners
careless expressions of their
They were committed for a hearing,
re OTE
afternoon of the 19th,
ted]
on th
are
Advices from the Indian Territc
pay that a few daysago Bud” Trainor,
John Leech, **Joe’’ Miller and *‘DBHIV
Chuet, outlaws, took possession of Mr,
Duckworth’s store, 22 miles from Tah-
lequab, and held it for three days, sell-
ing goods to those who would buy,
feeding horses in the store on the couns
ter. and running things their own way,
They then set the store on fire, burning
it down at a late hour in the night,
They then fired into a residence ac ja-
cent to the store, and as the women
and ebildren fled from the house shot
at them, after which they tired the
dwelling. stable and corn-crib,
—A telegram from Ishpening,
Michigan, says of the epidemic of
typhoid fever in the Iron Mountain
village, on the Menominee River Rall-
way, 100 miles south of there, that
there were 200 cases on the 18th, and
new cases were reported every few
minutes, The deaths are numerous,
The physicians are working night and
day. Poor water and defective sew
erage are generally blamed for the
epidemic. A panic prevails, and
many persons are leaving the place,
—Simon Hovey, 83 years of age,
was attacked near his home in East
Sullivan, Malue, on the evening of
the 17th, by a bear, which had been
wounded by a gun set in a corn fleld,
and the old man died on the 10th o
was
4030
The bear, which
killed, weighed
his ipjurles.
captured and
pounds,
—Miss Studdiford, 23 years old, com-
mitted suicide in Chicago on the 19th
by taking poison. She had been en-
Boothman, and they were to have
been married this month. A few
weeks ago the engagement was broken
ofl.
— A severe storm began at New Or-
leans at midnight on the 18th, At9
o'clock on the morning of the 1Uth the
rainfall had reached two
barometer stood at 20,16, and the wind
velocity was 48 miles an hour, The
rear portion of the city west of Clal-
and fences were levelled, the
of a floating grain elevalor was
Trees
tower
of erection was partially demolished.
Almost all the sugar cane from Morgan
City to New Orleans was blown down
in the fields.
—It is reported from Cincinnati
that the U. b>. Grand Jury there has
found seventy indictments againsi
Ex-president ITarper, of the Fidelity
against Benjamin E., Hopkins, and “as
many’ against Annie Baldwin; also
seven against Miss Josie Holmes, Har-
per’s private secretary in the bank.
18 also reported that Joseph Wilshire
and two other bankers are indicted,
which was being used
fire in the Fulton Iron
co, on Lhe even
destroyed the
machine
Lean Ci
Petroleum
much
ging to the
her whart
na, on UU
wed,
930 bales
nd lumber, valued
i wera
Ol
Both vessel a CAIRO
Three blocks In
Mariette, Wisconsin,
he morning of U
Incendiarism i
serio
bead cheese,
cian believes Lhe
r cholera, of
rl
Bniy
resembles it, 3
of Warren
y
» Upper part
~ Thomas H. Davis
New York Central
vier 81
ling $1
And Was arr
ey was le
New York, ot
is ©
to the woods, Two Ln:
Ha Ii collided
the 20th, one miie east of a "alle
. New. Yi
both trains and several
molished., J. J. Cooney,
W. Hawkins, GOreman, nd J. CC
McFarland, brakesman, were, it is
thought, fatally injured, Three
cars of a fast express train
on the Chesapeaze and Ohio
Railroad were thrown
on
wie %
Stat tk. - Th ngines of
Were
de.
oi»
0
bd
from the track
and overturned on the 20th by a de-
fective switch, twelve
Charleston, West Virgina. The en-
gine, baggage, express and mail cars
passed the switch safely, bat the three
middle coaches left the track, and two
of them were turned completely over,
one turning twice, No person was
killed, The following were injured,
quite a number seriously: W. F. Sum-
mon, New York; Lewis Daker, colored,
Columbus, Ohio; OQ. 1°,
lorsville, Kentucky;
anapolis, Indi
Miller, New York city
Charis
We
BD, i
1 pnt
miies
n Kelly, Indi
atharine
Hiscock,
colored,
rlestor Virginia; Dr. Wil
| lin Fowler and wife, New York city:
{ Otto Levi, New York city;
Robinson,
MIA I'S {
1
and two passengers whose names were
not learned, Fortunately
the stoves had gone out,
~ A heavy snow storm set In at Wa-
te: town, Dakota, on the evening of the
20th. :
Mrs. Levi Stone was feeding her
pigs In Pickens county, South Caro-
lina, on the 19th, when a sudden move»
ment on her part as she leaned over
the side of the pen, drove a needle
which was sticking in the front of her
dress into her breast, near the heart,
causing almost instant death.
—A telegram from Chihuahua,
Mexico, reports the murder, by Mexi-~
can bandits, of John Dickerson, a cap-
italist and speculator, well known on
the Pacific coast. He was engaged at
Chihuahua as mafager of several
mines, in which he had a large interest,
Daniel Diamond shot and instantly
killed Willlam Crane, near Helena,
Arkansas, on the evening of the 20th,
They quarrelled about the possession of
a fishing net, which was the property of
Diamond, Willlam R. McCullough,
Chief Engineer of the steamship Co-
mal, who was arrested at Galveston,
Texas, upon the charge of murdering
John ‘1’. Graliam, a coal handler, while
en route
21st, placed under $5000 ball for trial
at the Novembel
States Court,
a cabinetmaker, and
kee, Wisconsin,
20th, about
for a small
knife
the
body
the to
Lil
job
into
price be
Jacques
Pathe’ 3
weapon
athe
several
houses and
He will
charged
plunged
abdomen,
pursued his
blocks, re.
pulled the
die, Jacques
to his
out,
turned
weapon
suicide, Martin Stenson,
Frackville, Penna., was arrested on
death, The couple were seen
fighting in their yard on the evening of
into the
Sub-
on a picket fence, Bhe died
who was shot in New York by the
evening of the 16th, died on the 21st,
Dr. J. A. Hopkins, a well-known phy-
hot
Day,
Bad feeling has
parties for
sparalion
and killed the 21st by H, 8S.
Mayor of Parkerville,
sted 1
lithe, growing
Hi PRIS 110
f h
1J4Y 8,
on
ex wiween Lhe
4006
says tl
Again:
of part
aescendan
whom
Girard le
ts of .
live in France, f
ft 1 worth §14
ew of whom received any
it, and it now worth $70
asserts that her father, J
est brother of Stephen,
portion,
iy8 tha
roperty
reialives,
the young-
receive
thet
ovel
*
and that
quest, was takes the
his
college,
Ti © iL, ttle Rock ; p 1h
hes
:
a Vigilance Committe and a gang of
A WONDERFUL BABY.
Three Days Old it
“Pall Off the Quilt)’
When Shouted
There isa bigger attraction in Little |
Roek now than Showman DBar- |
pum ever possessed,
This wonderful phenomenon
ii
15 at
a colored baby, not yet
Like a |
grown person, it is irue, but at the
same time as well as any child of three
not
The parents of the ‘child area Mr. ,
and Mrs, who reside 12th |
street, between Centre and Bpring
and are hard-working, respect- |
Mrs, Scott is the mother |
Scott, on
¥
able people.
from others of the same age, and
far shown no remarkable pe-
When three days old this
his mother and several
i
“pull off the
a sensation for
the next day
where 18
those present to
quilt.” This caused
the time being, and on
the baby called out: “Say,
mamma?’
When visitors were told of this un-
heard-of proceeding on the part of a
} i
by several youn
wanted
» 1t is
result is
g ladies and gentlemen,
to hear the child talk.
that they were finally
§
who
I'he
convinced
rts circulated |
He Dany
STUTTERERS SCHOO
How Habit
aften
the of Hi
Acquired
Aritn es
“Young man
the habit of stultering?” *
to m-m-mock a
died I took his
man.
Whe
place, .
"
and the answer Ly a young
had just announced his Intent
taking a series of less
present, and
were several
men, the mo
roo
young
clared that they had
been most inveterate sli
stammerers. The doetor’s question sug
gested an interesting train of thought,
The reporter put the same question
Wher
' said nu.
commenced to stulter a Lit
I was about ©) years of age,
ber one, “1
tle. Then we moved to a strange place
and I went to school. I was very diffi-
dent. and the teacher attempted 1
force me to read and recite. The
scholars laughed at me, I became more
diffident, and soon the habit was fOxe
£
“] am his bre
two. *‘l learned i
“When 1 was
“I used to play all
DOY WHO
thir
Liiree,
another
a Wi
ane
goes Lhe round t
ous vocal exercises for
r
kansas river in the Indian Terntory on
Che fight lasted a
the outlaws were Killed, eig
wounded. I'he Vigilants
Killed
1 day, and
$
f hit
eight of
thers being
had three
wounded,
. 1
men ana
————
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visible to the naked eye, is the
1000 or more fine and delicate
of hese primary
and united by the hind
of the spider,
threads
BlIK.
leg
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American cit
A]
A Thrifty soul in Rassian Uniform.
General Skobeleff was working in his
tent one evening near the Danube, or |
near a pond, when a Turkish bomb
dropped at the threshold of his tent,
The General bad just lime see the
sentry outside stoop down and throw
the shell into the water, Skobeleff ap-
proached the soldier and said: “Io
you know you have saved my life?” *‘d
have done by best, General,” was the
reply. “Very well, Which would
vou rather have, the St. George's Cross
or ope hundred roubles?’ The senti-
nel hesitated a moment and then said:
“What is the value of the St George's
Cross, my General?’ “What do you
mean? The cross itself is of no value;
it may be worth five roubles, perhaps,
but it is an honor to possess it"
“Well, my General,” said the soldier,
“if it is like that, give me ninety-ive
roubles and the Cross of St, George!”
The sentry, it should be noted, was a
Jew, with a fine Semitic profile.
Much as we dislike to admit our de-
fects, we find it better to know and
to
guard against than to ignore them,
SOME OF THE E
Here are a
some ministers and
well to practice them
“Amos Ames, the
few ol
actors
amiable ae:
terprise al
of 88."
“Obtain all opportunities of
ating obnoxious ostentations,
“Henry Hingham has hung
on the hook where be hitherto hung
What a nut for a Cock:
crack.
“I like white vineg
well."
with
She sells sea shells, Shall ie
wl A 4
is the ques
ixite quizzed?’
W hen the pupils can recile these sen-
and a hundred or similar
ones fluently they are gradu .
A clear cut, elegant and fue utier-
the greatest graces with
which a person can be gifted. It tells
almost the whole story of one's birth,
The
MQ UIXoL
WX.
e Juixile quizz
Where
80
ance 1s one o
sound and improper articulation. Many
people fall under so complete a list as
this, who in some instances could im-
prove their utterance by a little private
practice and attention to the matter.
A stutterer has the most difficulty in
uttering lingual sounds such ss words
beginning with L., while the stammwarer
stumbles over the labial sounds of
which words beginning with B are an
example. Both habits are accompan-
fed with facial distortion, and sove-
times with a writhing or twitching of
the whole hoy. That these are neiv-
ous affections is shown by the Jevins
resorted to to get over some diffiow
letter or sound, as snapping the fnge
or stamping the foot. *‘I shut m-ur
my fst tight,” sald a stammerer, “and
the electricity runs up my arm and lets
the sound c-c-come out.” At the letter
C he drove the finger nails clear into
the palm of his hands,
ans thought lasts longer than man's