we
Sr —————
—Michael Kelsey, a moulder in a
fatally injured, and Edward O'Brien
and John McCarthy severely burned,
by the explosion of a brass roll on the
234,
was killed on the 234 at Nanticoke,
Penna., by a fall of rock in the col-
fiery of the Susquehanna Coal Com-
pany, A party of log drivers in Bar-
aga county, Michigan, attempted to
thaw some dynamite over a cook stove
224. An explosion followed, which
killed Patrick Ratigan, William Mor-
rison and Peter Somerville, and se-
verely injured two others, John Par-
gons, wife and child, were killed by
lightning on the evening of the 22d at
their home in Centreville, Kentucky.
There was a wreck on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad' at Calera on
the morning of the 22d. A brakeman
was killed.
—The collector for the Methodist
Book Concern in Boston on the 22d
laid upon a counter while he went
stairs a pocketbook containing $2560
Texas, on the afternoon of the 23d,
and then committed suicide, The cou-
ple were engaged to be married. The
knot was to have been tied on the
In the Dis.
trict Court in Malden, Massachusetts,
on the 24th, Mrs. Abby II. Conner
|
|
collected. During his
pocketbook
just
the
he had
absence
Falls Savings Bank, in Albany, New
York, was arrested on the 22d, charged
with being a defaulter. The amount is
thought to be under $12,000, Herbert
DD). Wells, charged with having em-
bezzled $1000 belonging to the Keystone
Watch Club Company, of Philadelphia,
was arrested in Baltimore on the
John Meyer, City Clerk of East St,
Louis, disappeared several days ago,
and a “shortage” nf $263 has been dis-
covered in his accounts, Ie received
234d.
the death of her daughter, Mrs, Loitle
jan science affair at Medford on the
19th.” William Train, a thief and
“bunco steerer,’”” has been arrested in
New York for causing the death of his
pal, “Red” Leary, the notorious bank
burglar, by hurling a brick at his
head on the evening of the 21st. He
claims that the affair was accidental.
—~—A revolving saw in Kent & Co's,
burst on the evening of the 24th, kili-
ing Embert L, Biship and dangerously
injuring Lynn Perkins. A fire oc-
curred in a tenement house in East
Twenty-eighth street, New York, on
the evening of the 24th. A woman,
burned todeath. Michael Cook, James
and Catherine Maloney were
injured ir jumping from the windows,
the first named, it is thought, fatally.
—A despatch from Jacksonville,
Florida, says the reports of yellow fever
at Plant City, twenty miles north of
Tampa, prove to be exaggerated, The
lage has a population of 300. Since
last October there have been 90 cases
All the
moved
persons have
the absence of the City Treasurer.
—Depuiy United Slates
Burns has returned to San
from Arizona, where he went to hunt
down the Stein Pass train robbers,
and some Mexican soldiers, A
souri, on the 234 killed bis twochildren,
a boy and girl,
own throat with a knife.
a dissolute character in
Indiauva, stabbed and killed
Eunghsh on the 22d.
—The steamer City of New York,
which has arrived at dan Francisco
from China, brings details of an earth-
quake in Yunnan, From the second
day of the twelfth month of the
South Bend,
1
iast
being adopted to stamp out the disease,
—1t is thought at Dabuque, Iowa,
its height,
The levee is wholly covered by water
of the buildings,
The low northwestern portion of the
city is quite inundated, but the worst
is over. The freshet in the Galena
in considerable damage thus far, and it
It has flooded the
yard on the west
bank of the river, inundated the freight
depot of the Chicago, Burlington and
up
surround
Honse, as
to
the Post Office and Custom
were over ten shocks. In the town and
suburbs over 4000 people were either
uses were knocked down.
—A hailstorm of remarkable severity
passed over Mobile, Alabama, and the
surrounding country on the afternoon
rain.
ng the ground,
age to vegetation, as well as smashing
skylights in buildings. The
was 2.74 inches, and streets were
flooded, Many stores and
were damaged by the water, owing to
the stoppage of the pipes by the hail.
stones. In the Battle House, the pipes
being in the walls, burst and many of
the handsomest rooms were flcoded.
~The river at Dubuque,
the 25d marked
20 feet 2
low water mark. The lower part of
$
the
the levee was covered,
of many factories and buildings on the
low grounds near the river are filled
with water.
At Yonkers, New York, on the
while a number
were working in a sewer
trench, 10 feel deep, a water-p pe burst,
causing the sides of the dit to cave
in and filing the trench with earth and
water, Six men were
were taken oul alive,
Kennedy, Reuben
M. Flynn apd ‘ichael Vail
were taken out dead, K
M .. .a#l Kennedy
The
a slack
Alr ex
Mlle. Deaco,
gave an
re perfor
open Litton In
ville, Ohio, on the evening of the
t
18+)
“til
r ‘ $ ant
ATO i LOWE
of the street, a distance oi
with a fall one foot in
100 feet,
When
+ fe 5
i LN,
the woman fell
Her real name is
Philadelphia.
~—A horse Miss Etta Pinney was
barn of Frank Nace, near Norristown,
two weeks ago, whereby 59 animals
perished, has Leen arrested.
a confession, saying he went to
match to find a halter he accidentally
set fire to some straw and was unable
to extinguish the flames, After selling
the horse and spending the money he
went back to the same neighborhood
aad stole a horse and buggy, which he
also sold.
—Mrs. Honora Judge, aged 50 years,
of Pittston, Peona., was burned to
death on the 23d. Her clothes caught
fire from the kitchen range, John
Shay and William Williams were
drowned on the evening of the 23d, In
an attempt to run the rapids at Chip-
pewa Falls, Wisconsin. Each leaves a
wife and seven children.
~The mangied body of a well-
dressed man was found on the after-
noon of the 24th on the Pennsylvania
Rallroad track al the mouth of the
tunnel near the eastern limits of Balti.
more. From letters and tickets found
on his person it was believed to be the
body of Arthur Exley, a Philadelphia
manufacturer of water sprinklers, and
that he had been a passenger on the
“limited,” and was on his way to
Washington. A coroner’s inquest was
held, but no facts were adduced to
show how he came to his death, Wil
liam Stringer, of Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, keeps half-a-dozen game cocks in
his back yard. On the 234 his four
year-old son was chasing one of the
birds, when it turned and attacked the
little fellow, knocking him down and
gafing him about the head. The boy
was cut and pecked In a horrible man-
ner before he was rescued, and died of
convulsions in a short time,
~The report of the Commissioners
appointed to investigate absconding
Treasurer Tate's office was submitted
to the Kentucky ure on the
on the 24th, The t is placed at
$280,000. This may be reduced to
Jess than $200,000, if certain papers
‘gross
urer’s office during Tate's r
years, Bamuel hitney,
Spurgeon, arrested in 8 feld,} Mo.,
on complaint of the more authori-
gies, who accused him of embezzling
$150,000 several years has with
Wm.
Lhe
The
suct
a suburb of Columbus, Ohio,
evening of the 24th, ran away.
as thrown eut in
Was
ou
£» Ne
she was dragged about 3) yards, when
It was necessary to remove the wheel
and take it home with the girl, ¢8 her
hair was matted with the oil and dirt
#0 that it could not be unwound. Miss
Pinney was not fatally injured,
~In Lynchburg, Virginia, there was
heavy frost during the evenings of the
23d and 24th. Ice formed in exposed
places, Great anxiety is feit for the
fruit.
-Jogeph B, Evans made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to kill his wife, in
Reading, Penna., on the 25th, but suc-
ceeded 1n taking his own life with a re.
volver, Evans was 26 years old. The
couple had been married but a Yhort
time, and Evans threatened his wife
because she attended balls against his
wishes, William Bullock shot and
killed his wife in Newark, New, Jersey,
on the 25th, and then fatally wounded
himself, Jealousy was the eause, Sam.
uel Dew shot and killed Edward H,
Davis, Assistant Marshal of Nelson.
ville, Ohio, on the night of the 24th, and
then committed suicide. Davis arrest.
ed Dew recently for fast driving.
~The Secretary of the Treasury on
the 25th accepted tenders of bonds to
the amount of $2,840,000. The pay.
ments from the Treasury on account of
the bonds purchased this week aggre-
gate about $4,300,000. The Comp-
troller of the Currency has authorized
the Monongahela National Bank of
Pittsburg to begin business with a
capital of $250,000.
—Deanls Meredith, 12 years of age,
was squeezed to death between two
freight cars while playing with other
boys in the Wilmington and Northern
Rallroad yard at Wilmington, Dela-
ware on the afternoon of the 25th,
~The murder of Dr. W. E. Ash-
ley and Eugene Grove, of Belvidere,
Kansas, in the Indian Terntory, has
been confirmed. They started on a
hunting and prospecting tour. They
were killed by vigilantes. They had
two women companions, but what has
become of them or the Yemains of the
murdered men cannot be ascertained,
During a fight 10 a saloon in Pearsall,
Texas, on the 25th, between Frank
Nolan spd William Jordan, the fo
had his skall fractured with a bill
cue, and the latter was stabbed in the
!
divorced, and a few days since applied '
for a divorce from her last husband,
whom she mawgled five weeks ago.
Marks is 20 years of age, married and
the father of two children, The
wounded couple made ante-mortem
statements, A posse of cilizens is
pursuing Roush, who has fled,
-—{ieneral Abranam Merritt commit-
ted sulelde In the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, on the morning of the 26ih
by taking laudanum, He was 50 years
of age, Samuel Harley, aged 567 years,
died on the 26th, in Norristown, Penna. , |
from the effects of a dose of arsenic, |
taken with suicidal intent. He had
suffered from ill health, Mrs. Eleanor |
Buck committed sulclde at her home, |
|
|
in Oswego, New York, on the 26th, by |
hanging herself to the bedroom door
with a skein of yarn, Nervous trouble |
was the cause,
— A despatch from Staunton, Virgin- |
ia, savas heavy frosts during the week |
have killed the pear, plum and damson |
crops and greatly damaged the peach
crop. Forward wheat on the river bot- |
tom 18 seriously injured. There was a |
heavy frost in Norfolk, Princess Anne |
and Nansemond counties, Virginia, on |
the night of the 25th, and the total
damage to vegetation is estimated at
balf a millon of dollars,
-~In Chicago on the evening of the
26th two workmen for an electric light
company were drilling a hole across the
street for a conduit, and inadvertently
punctured a gas main, The next in- |
stant an explosion occurred, and the
clerks and customers in the
ing store, the plate glass front, and
piles of ready-made clothing were |
mixed in a heap, with broken timbers
and falling plaster. It is not believed
that any person was fatally injured. |
Emma Smith, 16 years of age, was |
burned to death near Dayton, Oblo, on |
the 26th, while trying to light a fire
with coal oil,
~L. L. Dorsey, Jr., a well-known |
trotting horse breeder and turf writer, |
fell dead at his farm near Louisville, |
Kentucky, on the 26th, aged 60. He was
an Englishman and a graduate of Ox-
ford.
~Two empty coal
Bound Brook branch Headin
Railroad collided at Woodbourne Sta-
tion on the morning of the 26th. Charles
Wishman, conductor, and George War-
ren, brakeman, of Philadelphia,
killed. Seventy-five cars were wrecked. |
John Shindell, a well-known
dealer and cigar manufacturer, of Lan.
caster, Penns., was struck by a train
at a street crossing in that city the
evening the 26th, A carriage was
struck by araliroad train atl a street
crossing in Brooklyn on the 20th. Mrs,
Raynot was killed and two other per-
were injured. A freight train
ided with a work train at DBirnam-
the morning
the 26th, and both were wrecked.
were injured,
Dall cloth |
fra ing
rains
of the
were
tobacco
on
sSOns
of
Ten
Or eleven men several
dangerously,
—The bank
was robbed
airy
1840,
ernoon
INKDov
the 20th by some 1 nl person,
at dian
Delan
in C
¥l or
1 .
—~John 8S
refused fo
of crack
£1 Bl WN
is in an enfee pled cond i and wili die
if nourisl cannot be foreed upon
him, George W. Vaulear has
Urbana, Ohio, charged with
arping the McKelvy
emptiong to murder his wife
hildren, who were in the
ime, t is sald he
id of
i-law of Mrs. Mchkelvy.
— A notorious outlaw and train rob.
ber named Whitley was captured near
Libertyville, Texas, on the 26th. He
saw the two Deputy Bdherifls, and,
dropping on the side of his horse, fireqa |
at them from under its neck, The ite
was returned, Whitley's horse being
killed and Whitley badly wound.
There is a reward of $1500 for his cap-
ture
— A tram on the
Missouri Rallroad was wrecked near
Alma, Nebraska, on the 27th, by the
breaking of a bridge. I. A. Town, of |
Grand Brapids, Michagan, was Killed
and another passenger severely injured, |
The mail and express cars were burned, !
with their contents, A sleeping car on
a train on the Burlington road jumped
the track near Orleans, Nebraska, on
the morning of the 27th. One man was
killed and five injured. On the even-
ing of the 27th Frederick Witt touched
an electric light wire banging from a
lamp of the United States Electrie
Loght Company, in the Bowery, New
Y ork, and was instantly killed. George
Mooney accidently shot and killed his
friend George Hammersmith, in Bir.
mingham, Alabama, on the 27th, while
playing with a revolver which he
thought had no cartridge in it,
— While the gas chamber in a pas-
senger car was being filled at the Phil-
adelphia and Reading Railroad Depot,
in Reading, Pa., on the morning of the
27th, the hose through which the gas
passed exploded. Theodore Acker,
Theodore Davis, John Rickert and
others were severely burned. The
passengers were thrown into 4 panic as
the flames shot around the ear, but
the fire was soon extinguished,
~A cyclone struck ihe east edge of |
Pratt, Kausas, on the afternoon of the
20th, demolishing several houses and
killing Mrs, Wilbam Fisher, Many
other persons were severely hurt by
flying debris,
~Near O'Fallen, Missouri, on the
27th, Ernest Cleschulte shot and killed
his wife and eldest son, and beat his
youngest son with the butt end of a
revolver until he was insensible.
Cleschulte then took his own life. He
from his wife about two
snd threatened to kill her be-
vid
meu
been ar-
and three
at
was endeavoring to
. he being
a}
house the
tiie esinte
A BO
Barlington and |
~ Anton Wildvogel and Emil Schuler
were found dead on the evening of the
, In a cistern in St, Louls, where
by foul alr,
wo"
~** Jack? stancliff was shot by Mrs,
Nero in Chillicothe, Missour!, on the
evening of the 20th, and dled en the
27th. Stanecliffe was employedby Mrs,
Nero's husband, and they quarreled
about his going to a Salvation Army
meeting, It is believed that Mrs,
Nero 18 “insane. Near Shamokin,
Penna,, on the evening of the 206th,
Anthony Reddy plunged a knife into
the abdomen of Michael Armstrong,
because the latter reproached him for
not paying his board blll, Armstrong
iat
BENATE,
In the U. 8. Senate on the 23d,
diers of the late war the difference be-
tween gold and the gold value of the
greenbacks In which they were paid.”
on the joint resolution accepting the
invitation of the French Republic to
take part in the Paris Exposition of
1889, The bill to forfeit certain lands
and the Animal
The International
After an
In the United States Senate on the
an
prayer by Rev, H.
Paraina Mendez, Ilabbi of the Spanish
and Portuguese congregation of New
York. A bill was reported to provide
for the erection of public buildings for
towns and cities where
the post-office receipts for three years
preceding have weded $3000 annu-
ally. The Hon appropriating
$200,000 for an wal at Columbia,
was passed, The Animal
Industry bill was also considered, but
not acted upon, An éxeculive gession
was held, after which bills were passed
{
Pr.
ings at Portsmouth, Ohio ($60,000),
New London, Connecticut
and Allentown, Penna. (§100,000); ap-
propr $25,000 for a Lgl
Nt. Joseph's Point, Fiat: $25.-
lighthouse at Hol
land's Island Bar, Chesapeake bay,
and £50,000 for a lighthouse a1 Newport
News, Virginia, and to amend
mineral
($75,000),
isting ithouse
al
OU) for a
the
4 3 x
to lands and
mining resources,
In the U. 5S.
were reported to relieve cerlain en
listed men of the navy and
corps of the charge of
enlarge powers i
Department Agriruliure.
ference commitlee was
the bill giving a pension
of Geperal
marine
digert
8 % 1 fs 4
thie AnG quiie
of
sp she at le
of the day
earned land
Messrs, Hoar an
lesignated
nation at West 1’
Paddock and Waithall
ation at An
APPproj
gi ¥
Ho
ap
{ASR i
xiend the
Arthut
paced
fn of the
potted and
Mr. Ingalls gave not
‘uesday next he would submil some fur.
“*on the President
sage.’ A conference report on the joint
resolu participation iu the Paris
Exposition of 1880 was agreed to, It
fixes Lhe appropriation at $250,000,
The Railroad Land Forfeiture bill was
considered and went over. Dills were
passed appropriating $100,000 addi-
tional for the completion of a public
building in Wichita, Kansas; relating
ther remarks § Dies.
fans F
00 Or
of New York, and appropriating $150, -
in Norfolk,
Virginia. Mr. Hale wished to call up
the bill for the appointment: and re-
Fremont as a
Major General in the army, but Mr,
Reagan objected, as he desired to speak
pared to do so, The Senzte adjourned
Inthe U, 8S, House of Representa-
tives on the 27th, the discussion of the
Tariff bill was resumed in Committee
of the Whole, The speakers were
Messrs, Brewer, of Michigan; Ford, of
Michigan; Goff, of West Virginia, and
Landis, of lliinols, A recess was then
taken, The evening session was de-
voted to the consideration of private
pension bills, Adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House on the 23d, the Speaker
presented an invitation to Cougress,
which was referred, to participate in
the celebration of the centennial an-
piversary of the inauguration of
(George Washington, to be held In New
York on April 80, 1886, A bill from
the Senate granting =a pension of §100
a month to the widow of General
James B. Ricketts was passed, with an
amendment reducing the amount to
$75. A numberof billrand resolutions
were introduced under the eall of
Sta'es and referred. Mr. Hemphill,
of South Carolina, moved to go into
Committee of the Whole on District of
Columbia bills, Lost-yeas 55, nays
166, The ITouse then went into com-
mittee on the River and Harbor bill,
Pending action the House adjourned.
In the House on the 24th, the report
of the Election Committee was presen.
ted in the case of Frank va, Glover,
from the Ninth District of Mssourl,
It sustains the right of Mr. Glover to
his seat. It was placed on the calen-
The Senats joint resolution ap.
propriating $30.000 for our representa-
tion at the Brussels Kxposition; the
Anderson resolution for an investiga
tion of the Chicago, Quiney and Bur.
lington strike, snd the bill to regulate
course at the Naval
and placed
House
g
:
g
g
ITE
2g
fH
but no quorum voted, and the House
adjourned,
In the House, on the
sideration of the Tariff bill
sumed in Committee of the Whole,and
of a revision of the tariff, Mr,
of Indiana, spoke in opposil
Mills bill, Mr, Dockery, of Missouri,
spoke in favor of tariff reduction. The
committee then rose, and Mir, Me-
Millan submitted a resolution agreed
to in the Ways and Means Committee
relative to the limit of genoral debate
on the Tariff bill, and to night sessions,
Twenty days is the limit, the time to
irawne,
the resolution was adopted. A bill
mittee of the Whole, appropriating
$150,250 for the representation of the
Government at the Centennial Exhibi-
tion to be held in Cincmnati, The
House then took a recess. In the
evening session Messrs, Shaw, of
Maryland, and Glass of
spoke in support of the Mills bill,
-
Her Own
True Love,
Frank Bayard wasa young Awerican
to % iperint
mine, It was
he in |
| Bpanish girl, D
the daughter of
justice of
sw Mexico £111
Rita goid
here that
thie
fell
| a8 any
, and fron
swlors shu
and ir ;
Coupue ana
be married
were betrothed,
in September
One day a boy who
javard up in great has
of Don Fonseca and
him that a band of robbers,
redoubtable Jaquin Alvaros,
bed the office of the ms
Frank Bayard away as
Francesca di
rev irl
WOoTE®
role
Pp
d not weep ane
bill was. passed for the relief of the
Omaha Indians in Nebraska and to ex-
tend the time of payment to pur
chasers of the land of sald Indians,
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, from
ported a resolution, which was adopted,
calling on the SBecretary of the Treasury
for information as to
persons in the United
in manufacturing and agricultural pur-
suits who dre competition
from foreign T
then went
ii
the
LO
countries,
Committee of
Whole on the Tarif Messrs,
Buchanan, of New Jersey,
borne, of Pennsylvania, opposed
bill, and Messrs. Hemphill, of South
Carolina, and Hudd, of Wisconsin,
supported it, A recess was then taken
until evening. In the evening session
subject
into iif
bill,
diourned,
accel isc —
Old People.
Beginning his ei y-third year, M.
Ferdinando de Lessors
sass the London
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historian, are
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passed wie Of ii
life, Of sover-
seventy-seven, and
of the Netherlands
year. Of
Gladstone will
month, Mr. Di
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enty-two, M. Jules Grevy is seventy-
four, M. leon Say and M., Leroy are
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Strategy of a Composer,
The renowned Brahms
Lnds it
absoluwely quiet surroundings,
cannot endure the least noise
above, under or at the sides of the
room in which be studies,
assure himself of the stiliness of a lodg-
ing it is Lis custom
cathechise the portier of the house in
which he thinks of taking up his abode.
As it i8 not much use to inquire in plain
terms whether the house is perfectly
quiet, Brahms resorts 10 a piece of
strategy, the character of which
shown in the following dialogue: Herr
Brahms to the porter: **You must
Composer
and like plenty of music Tell me, now,
is there any playing or singing in this
house?” The portier to Brahms:
“Jots of it, 1 assure you. There is a
pane in the room on this side, and
another on,that side, and the lady un-
derneath is singing all day and half of
the night.’”” Brahms to the porter: *‘I
am so glad you have told me this; I
must call again.” Bat the maestro
forgets to pay his second visit,
Every time I pay rent I am faking so
much away from a home of my own,
Every time I spend a dollar foolishly
I am opening a pauper’s grave.
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repeating niles, and only Wo
! reached the wall, One Fra
| with his fist and knocked Lim out 1
| the edge of the cliff, where he made a
| desperate attemj recov.r himself,
| failed, and feil witha yell. The other
the girl shot,
In that narrow space, and among that
{ compact body of men, it was impossi-
ble to The attacking party
wavered, ote turned, and then another,
while the ledge was strewn with dead
and wounded men,
| Suddenly Francesca heard
| behind them and turned pale.
| “If these are more of those b
| she said fiercely, **1 must not {all aliv
into their hands. ”’
Ang Frank promised with a
In intense anxiety they waited for
five or six minutes, which seemed an
age, and then around a turn in the trail
they saw Don Ramon coming.
For the first time Francesca gave
way and fainted.
The only Mexican lady with short
hair I ever saw in my life was Senora
Francesca Bayard, for her husband
{| would never allow her to grow it long
again,
He used to say, as they told the story
in their pleasant home, that beautiful
as it had been in his eyes before it was
cut, it was more beautiful now
iss,
yok.
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The Sport of Seal Killing.
A gentleman stood in front of a fur-
rier’s store contemplating the seal gar.
ments that filled the windows
“I never sce a seal coal,’ he said,
“that I am not reminded of a heart-
breaking day I passed among the seal
killers.”
Then he told of joining an expedition,
when be was a young man, and going
out for the sport of seal killing. They
knocked the pretty creatures on the
head. The seals are 86 tame, affection.
ate and fearless, that when the hunters
landed and came among them they
crowded round them like dogs, making
their little, friendly bark and fawning
hands proceed-
the m
to stretch them bloody corpses upon
the beach, The man related how sick
at heart he 3 how he tried to get
away from massacre of the inno-
a sealskin coat
cent, and to this
Sunt, nd bo Tid ag as a
murdering criminal among the seals