NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—The boiler in the Caro wooden
works, at Caro, Michigan, exploded on
the morning of the 14th, killing one
man and severely injuring four others,
The boiler was **old and patched,” and
—A train on the Santa I'e Railway
reached Fountain, Colorado, on the
morning of the 14th, and had
standing but a few minutes when a
freight train, the Lirakes of which had
got louse, ran down from a side track,
aud a collision occured, One cur was
setting the train on fire, The
men shoved the uninjured cars back
from the wreck, and were trying to
gave the depot, when the flames reached
demolishing the depot, several dwell-
ings and a number of cars, Three per-
killed, and 1x injured. The
phia and Reading Railroad was de-
ratled and thrown down an embank-
ment at Lost Creek, Schuylkill county,
Peuna., on the morning of the
Francis McCann were severely injured.
A stone was wedged in the frog in such
& manner as to lead to the belief that it
was placed there by some person with
he design of wrecking the train.
Indian Territory, says that on the 10th
John Smith ana Mrs, Allen eloped.
Mr. Allen gave chase and when he
overtook the couple shot them
dead. Frank Burns was killed
John MceNiff, a saloon keeper, in Dan-
bury, Connecticut, on the morning of
the 14th. Burns bad some beer bottles
in his possession that McNi{f supposed
belonged to him. In a struggle for
their possession MeNiff struck
on the head with his
effects of which Burns died
hours,
in
— Frank Jay, working av
mill near Tort Republic,
ginia, was on the 12th, caught by the
saw, which cut off lus left leg at the
thigh, entered his side and cut
bowels, liver and lungs and forced the
heart from the left to the right side,
He lived 14 hours and suffered intense
thirst, The doctors consider it most
remarkable that death did occur
immediately,
—A ‘‘regular January blizzard”
raged on the 14th at Marquette, Michi.
gan, but the
fell. Snow also fell on the morning
of the 14th at Gladstone, Grand Haven,
East Tawas and Alpena, and cold
weather prevailed in the frait* belt,
At Galesburg, and Monmouth, Illi
nois, the cold was so severe on the
evening of the 12th that ice formed.
Garden vegetables and small fruits
were killed,
storm on the afternoon of the
lightning struck the tower of the
school house at Parsonsborough, three
miles from Wilkesbarre, Penna. It
passed down through f
a
14
Dos
one of the school
rooms to the cellar, completely demol-
ishing the heating apparatus. Many of
the children were stunned, and a panic
was created, but none of the scholars
were seriously hurt.
nil
~The Democratic State Convention
of New York, was held on the 1
New York City.
dert was chosen Chairman.
Chapin, Edward Cooper, George
laines and Roswell PP. Flower were
chosen delegates-at-large to the Na-
tional Convention. Oswald Ottender.
fer and Wilson 8, pissell were nomina-
ted for Electors-at-l.a The plat-
form adopted approves President Cleve-
land's Message on the tariff, and
structs the
name of Grover Cleve!
tional Convention as
for President. The
structed to act as a unit,
“rhs 1m
dl iN
rroderio) Ya
Frederick x. Lou
f
i
Alfred C,
in
1 $ oar
delegates
Dun.
wed on
—The Portage Iron Works, at
cansville, Pennsylvania, were cl
the 15th, for an 1ndefinite period, and
the employes, 20, were
discharged. The her mills of the
firm will probably xl in a day or
two, when 700 men will be thrown out
of employment,
-—A Hungarian pamed Pokatzeky
was arrested at Penn Haven Junction,
near Mauch Chunk, on the 15th, for
having murdered the two Hungarian
women near New Philadelphia a few
days ago. He confessed his guilt, say-
ing that he had cutoff the old woman's
head with an axe and then shot the
young one with a gun. He says he
got only $180 in cash. The
18 young and was well dressed,
two children of Col. John R
The
William
killed the younger.
he admitted the Killing, but said,
laughingly: “What's the good
brother, anyway?’ In June,
“Billy” Hutchinson killed his
tress, in Chicago, and was sent to Jo-
let prison for 17 years. He became
insane soon after, and was taken to the
asylum at Kankakee, from which place
he escaped on the l4ih. He is sub.
ject to epilepsy, and while in his fits
will commit murder. Ile is codsid-
ered one of the worst desperadoes and
criminals that ever lived in Chicago,
and every effort is being made for his
recapture,
~The Grand Lodge of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows of Pen
nsylvania met on the 15th, in Allentown,
The reports show that the number of
new members initiated during the past
year was 7004; admitted by card, 939;
reinstated, 668; died, 1108; withdrawn
by card, 676; suspended, 4138; expelled,
50; present membership, 84 810; net
increase In membership, 3330; applicants
rejected, 449; number of working
ioages, P41, Relief was extended to
12,702 brothers, ‘and 053 widowed
iamilicn, She former receivin
of $326,253.89, and the latter $0257.75.
here was paid for the education of
wphans, $2766; for borying the dead,
$104,345, and for special relief, $10,
#70. The increase in the amount for
relief was $43,354, and the total amount
1885,
expended for relief and working ex-
renses was $005,030.
~The Great Council of Pennsylvania,
Improved Order of Red Men, met in
Peuna., on the 15th,
Senior Sagamore Thomas DD. Tanner
oflicer,
a secret
to the illness of that
After the address of welcome
vas held,
in the order. About 125
members received the Great
Council Degree. Petitions for 19 new
tribes, two chieftain’s
three Courts of Pocahontas were
The order now have 20,000
members in the State,
-—The river at
16th, reached a height of 17 feet 5
inches above low water mark, one inch
The levees
leagues
graphed for to prevent breaks,
water is steadlly falling at Winona,
Minnesota, and all the lumber and
There
were heavy bail stones in the country
weather.
~A Northern Pacific freight tran
was wrecked near Superior, Wisconsin,
the Afternoon of the 156th. An ene
gine and ten freight cars were wrecked,
and a large quantity of gram was
ruined. The cause was a misplaced
Pennsylvania Railroad at Menlo Park,
New Jersey, on the evening of the
14th. Both were well dressed and re-
spectable looking.
—Lindley T. Brown, an aged and
prominent farmer living pear Gap Sta-
tion, Lancaster county, Pa., was gored
to death by a bull on farm on the
evoning of the 14th.
—A gang of burglars and thieves
have been operating of late in Wilkes.
barre and other parts of the Wyoming
Valley. On the morning of the 15th
the robbers went the residence of
Councilman John Mahoney, a wealthy
iquor dealer, and, as Le lay asleep on a
lounge, dressed, they took from his per-
his watch and the keys to hn
his
to
8 liquor
i
from under his pillow, without disturb-
ing him, They went toh
They were about
taining nearly
ye in the store
iF.
» 1% 8 and
ire
t
to rob the safe, con
$2000, when an empl
awoke and frightenec
went
William Dlase,
away, and entered
where his two boys were
They aroused the elder |
reachad for a revolver
g
i ti “10
A Liat }
from the
house of
seeping.
. Ys Who
ying beside
The robber
nee of cCoOn-
as yel not
burglars wounding him,
escaped with the assis
federates, and they |
been discovered,
—Sergeant Porter Wel of Com-
pany A, 24th Infantry, w shot and
killed by private David Simous, of the
at Fort Reno, on the
16th. Simons bad threatened the life
of a woman with whom he had trouble,
and while attempting to arrest him
Webster was shot, Willlam Hetmer,
a well-known nursery gardener, was
killed and robbed at Evanston, lil
nois, on the evening of
There is no clae to
Marshal Bowen, of
shot and killed
evening of the
¥T{
the
had re-
HO Owe i
follow d,
owen
I man
Phillips $10.5 ot words
and the Ma
-— A telegram
says the
Ie 1 . 2
fused to Ww
from
gap ini
which the MIlssis
pouring, has widened
yards, It is estimated
acres of farming land will be |
submerged land,
and the majority io
Iilinois, on the
grew worse, and it
almost certain that
District will
come. People
he en.
The
1
aL
river
almost 300
that 75,000
nunda-
aU (KK)
acres are
wheat,
16th, the s
13 now
the Indian Grove
abvanaoued for years to
treated to the }
100 18 Coverex
have rv
tie
Wire
UGS,
1 with water,
to ly is estimate
A telegram fr«
! says Lhe water
now an unbroken sheet from blaff to
bluff. Business on the Keokuk |
wholly suspended, as an of
water reaches from St, Peler to beyond
old Monroe, last fall there was a
large acreage of wheat sown on these
lowlands, and, owing to the favorable
for corn planting, a large
acreage of corn was planted, All of
these crops will Le destroyed if the rise
does not abate,
reg
about nn
Miss ii,
no is
en lake of
Seuson
—Thomas Rowan, aged 48, head
man at the South Wilkesbarre shaft of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com.
pany, was leaning against a gate placed
around the shalt to guard the opening,
at a late hour oa the evening of the
15th,
it gave way Rowan fell headlong down
His body bas not yet been recovered,
yw
a
-— William Hughes,
cartridge on the 16th, when his lamp
fell into a keg of powder, eausing an
explosion which killed him. About
the same time, in Murray shaft,
ward Roderick bad his skull fractured
by being struck by a “‘sprig.”” It
as it cawe from a window at the top of
the breaker.
~The New York Republican State
Convention met on the 16th in Buffalo.
Edmund IL. Pitts, of Orleans, was
made permanent chairman, Resolu-
tions were adopted approving the ac.
tion of the Republican Congressmen in
opposing the Mills Tariff bill, and
deploring the death of Roscoe Conk-
ling. . Chauncey M. Depew, Frank
Hiscock, Warner Miller and Thomas
C. Platt were chosen delegates-at-large
to the Chicago Convention,
-Information trom the tobaceo-
growing counties of western North
Carolina is to the effect that two-thirds
or more of the young plants were killed
by recent frosts, Vegetables and wheat
were greatly damaged at many pots
in the mountains, The frost on the
| evening of the 13th, almost destroyed
{ the small fruit in Adams County, Ili
| nots, The vines are also seriously in-
jured. Tomato plants and early pota-
toes are killed, Ice formed on the
t morning of the 17h,
Virginia, and tender vegetation was
| damaged. A heavy black frost visited
| Western Pennsylvania on the night of
the 16th. In places ice one-
eighth to one-quarter of an inch thick
| was formed, Early fruits veg-
| etables were ruined,
atl
S0Mme
and
Chere are now five bad Lreaks in
| the Suy levee, and all of the Sny bot-
Missouri, to Hanmbail, in
State are inudated, The area
wide, and 200,000 acres of crops will be
or destroyed. A telegram
from Quincy, Illinois, says the situa-
tion there 18 appalling.
sel in on the morning of the 17th and
the water gauge in the evening showed
the flood of IBS1,
and other small build.
floted down the river. Rall
road travel is suspended and telegraph
lines are down. Hundreds of far-
mers are camped on the bluffs, with
no shelter from the rains except impro-
vised tents made of
The Mayor has called a rollef
No loss of human life is
there has been considerable
[he depth of the water ranges
A very heavy rain
at Keokuk, lowa, furthe;
river, and the overflow there
causes serious apprehension, At Alex-
andria the swifl sweeping
through the town threatens the founda-
fi \ ¥ v f than
tions of many of the hou
meeting.
loss
stock
from 11
gel In
O SU feel,
has t
up the
current
eH,
— Professor MeCa and
§ igh School
seven
él
On
pupils Boys’
Lancaster, 'enpa., went botaniz'ng
afternoon of the Whi
ssing the Conestoga creek on a raft
, throwing the party into
All were saved except
mith, aged 17 years, who
Jawes Cushman and
led, and Michael
were Killed
L, was fatally in-
skev
of the H
‘
: 4
iith, le
water,
ililam S
wi } Ww ned,
IVEY
Golden, i
jured by a fa
Swamp slope
tha
Lilt
' ry Yuetic lyn
uperiniencen
1
if coal in
i «
al
The
S54 the
Fessenden, near VP
explode d on the 17 .
was killed and four
severely injured.
shau
17th. boil of
farm Benjamin
ort Penn, Delaware,
Fessenden
men were
i
Lo on of
Mi
other
which
the 18th
(2 4)
~A train on the Shore Line
left Boston on the evening of
for New York was derailed
Norwalk drawbri The baggage
car, mall ear, passenger coach and
three sleeplers Jeft the track. ‘The
passengers were panic stricken, They
were thrown out of their berths by
concussion sleepers with
ties, and jumped
water from they were
on
top
ge.
TT thin
i080 iif
which rescued,
— By an explosion of dynamite at the
Palmer mine near Negaunee, Mich
gan,
£4
on the 18th, Frederick Ham
and Charles Sanberg were killed,
is stated that
prevails along the
has only been equaled by
Thousands of acres «
and w Quincy, lilinols,
ler water, In many
y were obliged to leave everyibing and
biuffs or seek safety
above
thn
wilt
flood whieh
A WHE yf
M ssi8sippl
that of
{ farming
alove based
CASES DEO.
in boats,
and Lelow East
fifteen miles broad,
arms on both sides and
bluffs on the lHii-
in Missouri,
women and children
the biuffs in
ndre
gat! a i
groups pany of tterly desti-
tute, rained
gteadils Je Ling id {
£)
t
il the ¥it
ling from the
: $ tex fT a
HOR RiGee Lil gh blufls
are
3 *
them
has
Leokuk say
of wales
gat served to
The ratiroa
will not be able
even should the
be over. A tele.
Keep it
. 11
are all
0 re.
ds
and
gume for some davs.
worst of the flood
gram from Alma,
hardest rains for many years have been
falling in that in last two
days and the streams are all over.
flowed, Immense cotton fields and
corn bottoms are submerged. So sud.
den was the rise In some places that
were compelled to swim for
their live, Many women and children
are ou the house tops, with water ten
{eet deep around them and still rising.
State the
people
— Atl Fountain Green, Illinois, Ida
wife of Silas M,
Wright, was found hanging in a smoke
house by ber husband on the evening
of the 18th, on his return from a four
days’ absence from home. On seeing
the body the hasband fainted and lay
in a stnpor for several hours, A letter
written by her was found, in which she
she would hang herself, because she be-
It appears
hat Wright had gone home intoxicated
once or twice since the'r marriage, CO,
W. Inglefreetz, a telegraph operator in
Winnemucca, Nevada, committed
suicide on the evening of the 17th, He
bad just fallen heirto a fortune in Ger.
many. It is supposed that unrequited
love was the cause of the act,
~Thomas Jones shot his wife in the
head, in Dunlap, Iowa, on the evening
of the 17th, and then fatally wounded
himself, The woman may recover,
The couple separated a few weeks ago
on account of Jones's worthlessness,
andsince he has been following his wife
about, abusing her, .About a year ago
John Sbay, a half-breed Indian, killed
another Indian at Carson, Nevada,and
escaped. A short time ago he returned,
when a brother of his victim shot him
dead. Four of Sbhay's friends pursued
him to Folsom’s wood when he opened
fire aud killed twoof them, A posse has
been organized to pursue him,
| SENATE,
In the United States
14th, bills were introduced
ferred, by Mr. Spooner request),
for the issue of Z§ per HlU-year
bonds, and by Mr, Paddock to provide
in certain cases, for the {
railroad companies chartered thie
United States, Mr. Stewart offered a
jolnt resolution proposing an amend.
ment to the Constitution,
Henate
the
Fee
on
and
{bso
{OY
cent
iy
in each House necessary to override
Presidental vetoes, The House Uill in
regard to the Cinelnnati Exposition
| was passed, with amendments striking
{out the provision for a commitiee of
Congress to act as advigory board, and
striking out the appropriation of §5000
{ for such board, Mr, Farwell
to take up the Senate bill
i the
to authorize
Baltimore and Potomac
District
discussion
| for ratllway purposes in the
Columbja, ending
{but the presiding officer ordered the
| galleries cleared and the Senate
Inter adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate on the
the Finance Commitee was authonzed
to sit during the sessions
ate, *“ testimony, collect
| formation and employ a stenographer.’
0 lake fpi-
’
to amend the Constitution ax to nl-
low the District of Columbia represen
tation in both Houses of Congress, It
wis referred to the Commities
Privileges and glections, The
of the committee in the case of
: Indiana, was 1
Hrming Sir, Turpie's right
and th was
from fu
ject,
toto
ington
80
NT ¢
1A
i urpie, ol Aen up, a
to his seat,
jarged
the sub-
‘he bills for adm ss Waslh-
Territory, North and
Montana as States into the Union were
made the special order for the 24th,
House bills appropriat 0,000 for a
public bu Columbus, Georgia,
©" «© i i!
riher
mmittee
consideration of
aon of
Pakola
ing $1
limit of cost for the
public 1iding at «
Carolina,
i
House
of 1
bate
i ! 4 ’
UALIEsSIOon, » i
to $0 000 were passed, The
Oo establish artment
taken ling de-
wen into itive
A re.
ADO Was
Senate
Mi when
irned,
S, Senate on the 16h, Mr.
ids offered a resolution to amend
rules, which was referred so as to
| make 1t the doty of the presiding offi-
| cer of the Senate, whenever any gen-
eral legislation appears in a general ap-
propriation bill coming from the
House, to direct the same to be struck
subject to an appeal to the Senate,
Senate bills were passed appropriating
£500,000 for the commencement of a
railway around
of the Columbia river at the
Celilo Falls, changing the ©
port of Lamberiqp, New
Trenton; fixing the pension 3
of one eve, or the sight thereof, a
month, and proportior 3
eves: 3. Stale
the
iene
1h
Oui,
boat the obstiucti
ali
warfare,
crimes against the
ment, as to postal
mail matter, obscen
cards and envel
with amendments.
SORE
In the U. 8S, Senat
House ll for the
iin severally to th
Miamis in the It
ported and placed or dar,
report the Cincinnati
nial Exposition bill was agreed
The Peusion Appropriation
was passed with some amend:
After an execulive 101
of bills were
ind passed, among
abeih River,
ill appropriating 3 J
¢ building at Dieg
a. The Senate adioarned
i. House of 1
the Tarill
ined in, Comin f the
Whole, Messrs, Randall, of Peunsyl-
vanla, and McKinley, of Ohio, op
posed the Mills blll, and Mr. Br
ridge, of Kentucky supported it, Ad.
journed,
a a ou
Ma Lhe Senate a
@
the caler
conference
| Center
to.
Bei
taken from
thet
ad
$
el
oan
In the epresentia-
fara
tives
3
on isth, the iebale
was cont ties ©
HOUSE
14th, Mr.
on
providing that
on the Tariff bill
The resolu
In the House, on the
| Mills from the Committee
reported a resolution
the general debate
shall close on the 16th,
division. Several bills and resolutions
| were introduced and referred under
| the call of States, among them one by
| Mr. Lawler, of Illinois, repealing cer-
| liquors, tobacco and cigars. The
| Committee of the Whole, Messrs,
Haton, of Missouri; O'Neall, of in-
Messrs. Symes, of Colorado; Funston,
of Kansas; Thompson, of Ohlo; Sher-
man, of New York, and Struble. of
lowa, supported protection. The
committee then rose and the House
adjourned.
debate was continued in Committee of
the Whole, Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio,
speaking against the Mills bill, and Mr,
Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, in support
of it. After further debate the com-
mittee rose, and it was resolved that
during the remainder of the present
week the House shall meet at 10 A, M.
Adjourned.
in the House, on the 10th, a bill
was passed appropriating $200,000 for
a branch home for volunteer disabled
soldiers In Grant county, Indiana.
The Tariff debate was resumed In
Committee of the Whole.
In the House, on the 17th, the con-
ference report on the Cincinnati Ex-
on bill wis agreed to, The
riff debate was resumed in Commits
tee of the Whole. The principal
" ers were Messrs, Breckinridge
of Arkansas: Cox, of New York, and
Mason, of 1inols, Adjourned,
BETROTHAL TOKENS.
gagement in Precious Stones
notoriously a favorite
with
no wonder, }
heart!
1h
Are
WW
oriftn
: »
he dealers
His stones,
accepled
ba
the purcha
. every con
bank accounts,’ but it
vie for a man
$
conten
ii
: ieratl
Young
¢
UL or pawn his
his de
overcoi
Fortunat
to the ¢
tantly increa
such unfortunate expe
ne
vigh indispensable, however, TI
of the ring be
101 One #61
¢
Ol
aivl
girl
1 i
tude in respect
has Leen
and
afite
jute
CO
condition
HONeCessary,
4 solitaire,
two Of
nus
1
jails sees a ol
a cluster
but
oid blocks
Its cost
without
®
iy for this
those who have
Wing engagement rings, it
reguiation wed-
Nn
bi
Ii costl-
irgest that Un
y JU-Karat
$10,
¥
“
A —
x and a Half Tons of Diamonds,
= Sindbad the never
his by
the ton, Sixand a balf wns of dia-
monds, valued at about
are reported to have been
ireily even Sala
compute diamonds
extracted
The other
great diamond field of the world is In-
Every
this, as in London, atleast the industry
was extinet, But everybody probably
fort has been successfully made to re-
introduce diamond cutting in England
and thal English cutters have beaten
the Dutch in several recent prize coms
petitions. Considering the enormous
value of the trade—the United States
alone, it is caleulated, requires $3,000,
000 worth of cut diamonds per annum
~gare should be taken that English
diamonds should be cut in England, and
not be sent either to Amsterdam or to
Paris, which have lately endeavored to
secure a portion of the Du'ch trade,
Ata u———
Warr until the ground 1s dry and
warm before attempting to put the
garden seeds in, A wet soll is cold and
the seeds may decay for lack of warmth
to germinate them,
FEL IE
How a Husband and Wife
Maved
trie 1 es
ABA i i
£ iy
ire
f
reser
alarming.
4 bod X Tig 1
a neighbor LO dived
he
rescue
i t
£1 id i
Mmiieg § Aili »"
roles
fire wo
before
perty.
household
oi
The Country
dito
Cant
except
i ali]
The position of a cou
not held in the
Country papers are not
they ought to be. If a family eas
| only one paper, let ome
paper, for it concerns a family more to
know what is being done in its own
county than it does to know the news
of distant places,
Fhe city paper cannot give, and does
not pretend to give, the local news that
its country readers must have; but the
| good country paper does give a fair epi-
tome of the world’s news.
No other publication can supp
place of a good local paper. If both
cannot be retained—if either the city
Jusarnal or country newspaper m
{let it be the former; for nothing
supply the place of the local paper.
ILrY eit
esteem it shot h
respected as
afford
flint
Liana
iv the
‘ERE
SL RO,
CAD
Book and Pablisher.,
There are tricks in all trades, but 1
do not think an author, who has a first
class publisher, often suffers from them
and if his book has in it anything
which touches the pulse of the people
it is sure to sell more or Jess and make
itself felt in time, A book may be
better written and have in it more
thought and care than asother, and
not sell half as well because it lacks
that vitality which takes hold of the
great heart of public. But for this
the publisher is not to blame. Iie has
pushed it just as hard, and harder, too,
it may be, than he has the other one,
but if it does not sell, it won't, and If
the other will, it will, and the pub.
lisher should not be charged with fa-
voritism, as he sometimes is, or with a
false statement when the day of reck-
ouing comes,